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@awright922.bsky.social
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— oh.
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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warren.senate.gov
No more business as usual. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are imposing pain on millions of people.

Tonight, we’re taking this fight to the Senate floor.

Russ Vought - author of Project 2025 - is up for a vote, and Democrats are using every second to throw a wrench in their plan.
February 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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emkultra64.com
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
On Sunday, a transgender woman who is currently in prison sued Donald Trump, Acting A.G. McHenry, and the head of the Bureau of Prisons due to her treatment in the wake of the Jan. 20 anti-trans "sex" definition executive order.

Read it all at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trans-woma...
40. On January 21, 2025, BOP officials informed Maria Moe that because of the Order, she would be transferred to a men's facility. They then placed her in the SHU, where she has no contact with others, pending transfer. 41. On January 25, 2025, BOP changed Maria Moe's sex designation on publicly available records. Prior to January 25, the same records identified Maria Moe as "female." Now, solely because of her birth sex, they designate her as "male." 42. Maria Moe has never been housed in a men's facility. If she is transferred to a men's facility, she will face serious risk of victimization and sexual violence. She will not be safe. Evidence, research, case law, and practical experience show that transgender women housed in men's prisons face near constant sexual harassment and extremely high levels of violence and sexual assault. Federal regulations recognize transgender status as a risk factor for sexual assault. See 28 C.F.R. 8§ 115.41(d)(7), 115.42(C) (f). A 2013 study by the Department of Justice estimated that nearly 35% of transgender inmates in state and federal prisons were sexually assaulted between 2007 and 2012. U.S. Dep't of Justice Off. of Justice Programs, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-12, NCJ No. 241399 ...
January 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
Trump's DOJ is reassigning career civil servants in the Environmental and Natural Resources Division - together with lawyers at the civil rights division - to the newly created *sanctuary city task force*
At the Environment and Natural Resources Division, which brings civil and criminal cases to enforce the nation’s environmental protection laws, attorneys have been ordered to freeze all of its efforts, including making no court filings. For the time being, it cannot file new complaints about companies that are breaking environmental laws, lodge or enter consent decrees to wind down such litigation, or move to intervene in other cases. The order has led to early problems because the division was negotiating settlements to existing lawsuits and, in some instances, was required by court order to issue filings, like procedural updates. The changes also targeted some of the career officials who carry the most authority and institutional experience. At least four of the environment division’s section chiefs — nearly half its total — were reassigned last week to a newly created task force focused on going after so-called sanctuary cities that do not cooperate with immigration enforcement as much as the new administration would like.
January 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
The same people having a temper tantrum over DEI just confirmed the least qualified Secretary of Defense in US history because Trump liked him on TV.
January 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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warren.senate.gov
January 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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strandjunker.com
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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wkamaubell.bsky.social
Absolutely no doubt about it. The old “sieg heil”. The old “Hell Hitler!” Don’t let the press, or MAGA, or anyone you know be mealy mouthed about it, or try to both-sides this. This is one of the unequivocal gestures of hate, specifically anti-semitism.
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
awright922.bsky.social
A Guide to Surviving the Trump Presidency
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
A Guide to Surviving the Trump Presidency
Here are tips to staying sane as we embark on yet another four years of Trump
open.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
awright922.bsky.social
It’s the scariest of Sunday scaries because it’s the eve of authoritarian oligarchy surge fest.
January 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Thank goodness for people like former WAPO cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social, American hero. This may only be the rough of the cartoon she planned to run before she was told she couldn't, but it speaks volumes, perhaps, especially in this form.
January 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM