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Doggedly Optimistic 🗽⚖️ 🐕 @doggedlyoptimistic.bsky.social · Feb 3
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
I got animated. (For a reason.)
April 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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tiffanymuller.bsky.social
The so-called SAVE Act is anything but safe. This Republican driven, anti-voter bill has the potential to disenfranchise millions of Americans. The Senate must vote no on this dangerous bill. #HandsOffOurVote
SAVE Act: House Passes GOP Voting Bill That Could Disenfranchise Millions
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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shopgirl24.bsky.social
That’s what the Nazi party told the people of Germany to do in the beginning too.
April 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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wordswithsteph.bsky.social
Donald Trump was recorded in the Oval Office happily bragging about how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his shady tariff scheme. (Insider trading amuses and delights this group.)

“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…
April 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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April 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
While noting I have not read the EO yet for myself (I’m single parenting rn cut me a quick break lol), this is the description of straight up banana republic behavior.
I’m putting it mildly
April 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
NEW: Here's a photo posted in 2018 apparently of Joe Kent, Trump's pick to head the National Counterterrorism Center, from the Instagram feed of a family member, showing he had the word "PANZER" tattooed on his arm. Why? I asked him, the NCTC, and the ODNI, and, so far, no response.
April 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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peterbakernyt.bsky.social
The world economy is gyrating wildly, war rages in Ukraine and Gaza and the president of the United States just signed an executive ordered titled: "MAINTAINING ACCEPTABLE WATER PRESSURE IN SHOWERHEADS."
April 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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adelpreore.bsky.social
#Protips
rogerzenaf.bsky.social Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · Apr 9
Once again, if your lockscreen is deactivated by your fingerprint or facial recognition they can open your phone.
If you use a passcode or phrase it requires a warrant.
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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purelyrick.bsky.social
PAB defined.
April 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
This is a reference to GOP Rep. Steube reportedly telling Johnson yesterday “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus”

www.notus.org/congress/tru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 9
Jeffries challenges Mike Johnson to a debate and says, "I promise not to rebuke you in the name of Jesus"
April 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
doggedlyoptimistic.bsky.social
ARIZONA!
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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wehearvoices.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDsE...

#Voices4Victory
#DemVoice1
“Trump’s golfing has cost us approximately $26 million."
Tell me again why the Republican Party needs our Medicaid/Medicare?
Just stop the Felon from playing golf.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX): "Trump’s golfing has cost us approximately $26 million."
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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April 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
doggedlyoptimistic.bsky.social
Hello Neighbors! 👋
#Arizona! It's Townhall Night!

🚨AND WE HAVE SOME QUESTIONS🚨

GOP Representative Eli Crane will be holding a Tele-Town Hall live from Washington, DC at 5pm AZ Time. ☎️

To listen in and have the opportunity to ask a question, dial: (888) 886-6602 ☎️
a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster
ALT: a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster
media.tenor.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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patti3333.bsky.social
Good morning everyone

This sure is the truth
So grateful for all of you fighting, never giving up.
April 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Mr. Ríos's wife says that her husband has no criminal record nor any ties to Tren de Aragua. She believes he was falsely labeled a gang member by ICE because he has a tattoo of a rose on his neck -- a symbol ICE claims is linked to the gang.

Experts say TdA doesn't even use tattoos as identifiers.
González told El Faro that her husband also has no criminal record, but she believes he was targeted by authorities because of a rose tattoo on his neck. U.S. authorities have used tattoos as evidence of gang membership. But experts such as journalist Ronna Rísquez, author of a book on the Tren de Aragua, maintain that these gang members do not have identifying tattoos, unlike Central American gangs.
April 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Despite sending her Venezuelan husband to rot in a prison in El Salvador, the U.S. government has never once told Ms. González what they did with her husband -- even though they knew she was married to him.

"I am an American. I have the right to be told where my husband is."
She confirmed he was in El Salvador only upon reading his name on the list published by CBS. “I’m an American. I have the right to be told where my husband is,” says González. “How can they have a citizen, who has done things the right way here in the U.S., suffering for the man she fell in love with?” “I say to my government: Okay, deport them, but to their country. This is a monstrous thing, a thing of the devil. I have nightmares. Sometimes I think he’s dead,” she added.
April 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
doggedlyoptimistic.bsky.social
"Zelensky emphasized the apparent recruitment of Chinese nationals — whether direct or indirect — highlights the Kremlin's commitment to continuing its aggression.

"We definitely need a reaction to this. A reaction from the United States, Europe and everyone in the world who wants peace," he said"
April 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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thedemcoalition.bsky.social
They are snatching people off the street and sending them away to brutal prisons in foreign lands with zero due process - and they won't even bring them back when they realize a mistake was made.

That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country.

#StopTrumpsTerror
April 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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April 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks
A subtle reminder.

We are probably about to bomb the shit out of Iran.

I do know we have a lot going on.

Garcia v. Team evil.

Also, losing our ass's financially.

But yea, we should become intentionally aware of this Iran situation.

#SheShed #MomSky #Voices4Victory
Image discussing 300,000 U.S. Soldiers bombers and aircraft carriers at Diego Garcia base.
April 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia "sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake," his attorneys write in their brief to the US Supreme Court. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
STATEMENT This case is one of one. It presents the "extraordinary circumstances" of the Government conceding that it erred in removing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia "to a foreign country for which he was not eligible for removal." Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 25-1345, 2025 WL 1021113, at *6 (4th Cir. Apr. 7, 2025) (Wilkinson, J. concurring). The Government knew about the court order prohibiting Abrego Garcia's removal to El Salvador, and admits that removing him in violation of that order was an "administrative error." Id. at *1 (Thacker, J., with King, J., concurring). Abrego Garcia has never been charged with a crime, in any country. He is not wanted by the Government of El Salvador. He sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake. The Government "can—and does-return wrongfully removed migrants as a matter of course," id. at *4 (citing Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 435 (2009) (noting that removed individuals "can be afforded effective relief by facilitation of their return")). The district court's order instructing the Government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return is routine. See Abrego Garcia, 2025 WL 1021113, at *4 n. 7 (Thacker, J., with King, J., concurring) (collecting cases). It does not implicate foreign policy or even domestic immigration policy in any case. The United States has never claimed that it is powerless to correct its error and before today, it did not contend that doing so would cause it any harm. That is because the only one harmed by the current state of affairs is Abrego Garcia. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of the case. Its application to this Court is built on a series of strawmen: first, that ordering the Government to
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
On left:

New Solicitor General Sauer tells US Supreme Court shouldn't have to return Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador because he's "a verified member of MS-13."

On right:

Fourth Circuit explains DOJ presented no evidence below of MS-13 membership and abandoned claim he's a danger.
April 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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softtail65.bsky.social
The bills have got to be paid, JS...😅🤣😂
April 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
From last year’s $DJT 8-K:
April 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM