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This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting

The names of the dead and wounded

Jose Andres Bordones-Molina

Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...
What the Trump regime doesn’t want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting
The Trump regime's refusal to say the names of the Dallas ICE victims exposes the inhumanity of American fascism.
www.inquirer.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
August 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
nejake.bsky.social
I love @petridishes.bsky.social
petridishes.bsky.social Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Aug 13
Stephen Miller is right: crime is rampant in DC www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Instead, the National Guard ought to focus on tackling the major terror on the streets of this city! Why, at any moment you or your neighbor could get yanked into an unmarked van by a masked man, without any regard for habeas corpus. Los Angeles all over again! How can anyone feel safe while this keeps happening? People who are trying to do everything the right way, snatched from hallways after their court hearings. Professors, detained after expressing their views. Americans who just want to work hard and support their families, petrified to go to work every day because of the shameless wrongdoers in D.C. and what they have unleashed. And whoever masterminded the abduction of so many people-seized without due process and whisked away to a foreign gulag-is still at large, and staring back at Stephen every time he looks into a mirror. Not safe, not safe!
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:

700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start

Combined.
August 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
nejake.bsky.social
“Truth is whatever the powerful want it to be, which is one of the fundamentals of authoritarianism. Might is right.”
July 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
nejake.bsky.social
“Things seem a little unstable at the White House.”
July 22, 2025
First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that under Bondi’s direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Ghislaine M...
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July 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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borowitzreport.bsky.social
Maybe CBS could give Trump a late night talk show and Colbert could be president
July 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
nejake.bsky.social
“all that stands between them and crime is means, motive, and opportunity” 💔
petridishes.bsky.social Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Jul 17
irony has been dead a while but I’m still appalled that the DHS had the temerity to suggest that it’s fine they caged more than 250 people with no criminal records because those people were probably secretly “human rights abusers” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Just a Tiny, Minuscule Technicality About the People Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
How to tell if someone is a criminal, according to the Department of Homeland Security
www.theatlantic.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Murkowski votes yes and hopes it doesn’t pass.

Hawley says it’s terrible for his constituents and the middle class … yet votes yes.

It’s pretty simple: words don’t matter. Votes do.
July 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery
June 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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petridishes.bsky.social
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.
June 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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marypezzulo.bsky.social
The federal budget is our money– not my money that was stolen from me and your money that was stolen from you, but OUR money, pooled from a bit of each of our incomes, so that we can fund the country we all share.

Where do you want your money to go?
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
When You Think Of The Budget, Think Of The Children
These children don't understand phrases like "means testing." All they know, is that in the week leading up to the food stamps...
www.patheos.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
nejake.bsky.social
Thanks @altnps.bsky.social.
I need this today.
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 3
We just want to remind you: You’re not alone. We’re all in this together, and we’ll get through it together. We’ve seen so many people sharing their feelings of anxiety and stress—please take a moment for yourself. Your well-being matters. Sending you hugs—you are amazing, and we love you all! 💚
March 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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mishellbaker.bsky.social
Nearly a half century of experience has taught me that any sentence that begins "I'm not a racist, but..." is a racist sentence.
March 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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suenitos.bsky.social
"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." — Toni Morrison
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Nightly votive in the porch garden.
March 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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terre-strial.bsky.social
“We have a need for an enlightened, watchful articulate opposition. We have no need for semi-secret societies who are absolutist, dictatorial and would substitute for a rule of law and reason an indiscriminate assault on the institutions that must be held sacrosanct."

- Rod Serling
February 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
The great Yale historian, Timothy Snyder, expert on fascism and on Ukraine and Russia
February 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
ABA It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform. Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity. We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few. But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong. It is also contrary to the rule of law. The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair. We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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granthor.bsky.social
Know someone in Maine? Mauna Loa? In between? Here's a list to forward it to your sympathetic friends in far away places and ask them to take a FEW MINUTES - to call their reps. List is handy also if you want to start with Alabama and go all the way to Wyoming and call them all. #resist #activate
Senate Contact List
A handy list with names and contact info.
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February 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Egg prices are at a record, now topping $7 a dozen via @michaelmcdonough.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
nejake.bsky.social
Obeying in advance at the University System of Georgia. Will we soon be instructed to remove “liberty and justice for all” from the Pledge of Allegiance?
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM