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Darian
@darianr.bsky.social
SLC to Boston transplant. Lawyer. Political junkie. 🏳️‍🌈
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Longer video of the forcible removal, detainment, and arrest of Sen. Alex Padilla by the Trump regime during a DHS press conference. Footage provided by Sen. Padilla's team.
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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This is so stupid
March 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.

My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.

I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
 
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell
March 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Cartoon by successpictures.
March 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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It feels like people are waking up
February 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.

Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
February 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes

thehill.com/homenews/cam...
GOP pollster says Trump voters ‘tired’ of being accused of racism
Republican pollster Frank Luntz said on Friday that President Trump’s voters are “tired” of being accused of being sexist and racist. In a discussion about Trump’s remarks linking diversity, equity…
thehill.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.
February 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual.

We do not consent to this lawless power grab.
January 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Article I says Congress makes laws and has power of the purse.

Article II requires POTUS to faithfully execute laws.

Refusing to execute laws so he can usurp Congress’s budgetary authority is unconstitutional.

A self-respecting Congress would do a veto-proof resolution, and if necessary, impeach.
January 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Far-right pundit rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’
‘If we’re being honest, female cops are absurd. It’s an absurdity. I’m sorry. It’s just ridiculous. It’s cartoonish,’ Matt Walsh ranted on his podcast this week
www.independent.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Look, we tried to warn people. At this point, the only way out is through. Trump will precipitate a collapse and only then can we rebuild towards a better future. Our goal is to minimize the number of people we lose along the way. Build community, help others. Resilience is all we have.
January 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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If she can do it, we can all do it.
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Best thing our allies can remember: if you stand up to Trump you intimidate him and he will back down. If you crawl to him (like his sycophantic politicians) he will not respect you and will eventually throw you under the bus.
January 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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@repjasmine.bsky.social: Nancy Mace "is not a champion for women. She is someone that likes to say it, but when it comes down to walking the walk, she's not doing it."

Watch the full interview: youtu.be/WBg_t7ZFsLo
January 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity
January 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.
January 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!
January 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I don't where this all ends up, but I don't think a democracy in which only one of the two major parties is committed to peaceful transition of power is particularly sustainable!
January 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM