Patty K O 🦋
@pattyko.bsky.social
Democracy please!💙💙💙💙💙
I am proud to have voted for Harris/ Walz for a better future for all!
Retired teacher! Book lover!
Grandkids are the best gift🩷
Go 🦅 💚
I am proud to have voted for Harris/ Walz for a better future for all!
Retired teacher! Book lover!
Grandkids are the best gift🩷
Go 🦅 💚
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“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."
Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.
Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.
June 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."
Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.
Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.
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"They are not helpful! There was no reason for them to be here in the first place. If anything, it was a provocation." L.A. Mayor Karen Bass @mayor.lacity.gov makes clear that the presence of the National Guard in her city is not a helpful thing.
June 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"They are not helpful! There was no reason for them to be here in the first place. If anything, it was a provocation." L.A. Mayor Karen Bass @mayor.lacity.gov makes clear that the presence of the National Guard in her city is not a helpful thing.
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Tim Miller: "The ICE raids are not happening at Donald Trump's golf courses or in deep red parts of the country. These raids are happening in blue cities... That shows just how much they want this fight."
June 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tim Miller: "The ICE raids are not happening at Donald Trump's golf courses or in deep red parts of the country. These raids are happening in blue cities... That shows just how much they want this fight."
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Deranged Trump fully believed a badly photoshopped picture of Abrego Garcia’s knuckles displaying “MS13” was real and got very angry at an interviewer for exposing the lie.
@realDonaldTrump is very dumb
@realDonaldTrump is very dumb
April 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Deranged Trump fully believed a badly photoshopped picture of Abrego Garcia’s knuckles displaying “MS13” was real and got very angry at an interviewer for exposing the lie.
@realDonaldTrump is very dumb
@realDonaldTrump is very dumb
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You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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According to MAGA, if you hit a car with a baseball bat because you don’t like the company’s owner you’re a “terrorist”, but if you hit a Capitol police officer with a baseball bat because you don’t like the results of an election, you’re a “patriot.”
Do I have that just about right?
Do I have that just about right?
March 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
According to MAGA, if you hit a car with a baseball bat because you don’t like the company’s owner you’re a “terrorist”, but if you hit a Capitol police officer with a baseball bat because you don’t like the results of an election, you’re a “patriot.”
Do I have that just about right?
Do I have that just about right?
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Posting this photo for no particular reason
March 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Posting this photo for no particular reason
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This White House has now crossed the Rubicon that for centuries has kept the Attorney General from becoming a Consigliere for the American President as Mob Boss Extraordinaire. Read this directive and weep:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
032125-TrumpMemo-Lawyers
www.documentcloud.org
March 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This White House has now crossed the Rubicon that for centuries has kept the Attorney General from becoming a Consigliere for the American President as Mob Boss Extraordinaire. Read this directive and weep:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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Trump’s losing battle with a top federal judge, the judiciary striking back, a major law firm selling out in the most sickening way, and more on Legal AF. Watch live now!
LIVE: Trump faces MAJOR COURT LOSSES and FAILS | Legal AF
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
www.youtube.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Trump’s losing battle with a top federal judge, the judiciary striking back, a major law firm selling out in the most sickening way, and more on Legal AF. Watch live now!
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Department is spelled wrong.
March 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Department is spelled wrong.
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State-sponsored kidnapping
The Trump admin took people by force, based on flimsy accusations & sent them not to their home country but to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador—in defiance of a court order.
Holding people against their will through deception and threat is by definition—kidnapping.
The Trump admin took people by force, based on flimsy accusations & sent them not to their home country but to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador—in defiance of a court order.
Holding people against their will through deception and threat is by definition—kidnapping.
March 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
State-sponsored kidnapping
The Trump admin took people by force, based on flimsy accusations & sent them not to their home country but to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador—in defiance of a court order.
Holding people against their will through deception and threat is by definition—kidnapping.
The Trump admin took people by force, based on flimsy accusations & sent them not to their home country but to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador—in defiance of a court order.
Holding people against their will through deception and threat is by definition—kidnapping.
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Fun fact: Donald Trump’s sister was the federal judge who ruled unconstitutional the immigration law the Trump administration is now using to deport a pro-Palestinian protester www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Trump’s Sister Declared The Immigration Law He Used Unconstitutional
As a federal judge, Donald Trump’s sister ruled unconstitutional the immigration law Trump officials have cited to deport protesters.
www.forbes.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Fun fact: Donald Trump’s sister was the federal judge who ruled unconstitutional the immigration law the Trump administration is now using to deport a pro-Palestinian protester www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
March 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
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This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
March 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, rightly blasted Trump’s speech as a “grim landmark in the spreading authoritarianism of this administration.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump visits Justice Department for speech that breaks all norms
Donald Trump railed against the federal prosecutions he once faced during a rare presidential visit to the Justice Department.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, rightly blasted Trump’s speech as a “grim landmark in the spreading authoritarianism of this administration.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Donald Trump has illegally invoked The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority, to detain and deport Venezuelan immigrants he deems to be members of criminal gang Tren de Aragua.
This was last invoked during WWII to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans.
This was last invoked during WWII to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans.
March 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Donald Trump has illegally invoked The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority, to detain and deport Venezuelan immigrants he deems to be members of criminal gang Tren de Aragua.
This was last invoked during WWII to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans.
This was last invoked during WWII to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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I’m amazed how little coverage this story has gotten. They’ve burned well over $16 million to briefly hold 290 immigrants and several photo ops to GITMO. Just a total train wreck and they didn’t even mention it officially. Check out my latest.
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
Smoke and mirrors in Cuba
They are all lying but they got the pictures and that's what matters
open.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I’m amazed how little coverage this story has gotten. They’ve burned well over $16 million to briefly hold 290 immigrants and several photo ops to GITMO. Just a total train wreck and they didn’t even mention it officially. Check out my latest.
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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Yesterday, Trump targeted me at a speech be the Department of Justice. If he thinks it will cause me to back down he is wrong. My law firm is currently litigating 46 pro-democracy cases in 21 states, with more to come.
We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.
We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.
March 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Yesterday, Trump targeted me at a speech be the Department of Justice. If he thinks it will cause me to back down he is wrong. My law firm is currently litigating 46 pro-democracy cases in 21 states, with more to come.
We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.
We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.
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Today Donald Trump attacked me by name in a speech at the Department of Justice. Of course I am worried, but courage comes from acting in spite of being worried. I have made my choice: I will continue to speak out, I will continue to litigate, I will continue to stand tall.
I will never bow down.
I will never bow down.
March 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Today Donald Trump attacked me by name in a speech at the Department of Justice. Of course I am worried, but courage comes from acting in spite of being worried. I have made my choice: I will continue to speak out, I will continue to litigate, I will continue to stand tall.
I will never bow down.
I will never bow down.
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Can you help me get 500 reposts on this post? I am going live on youtube on Friday. I am super pissed off what is happening in our party and want ro discuss Chuck Schumer and more with you. If you are not subscribed to my channel please consider doing so here: m.youtube.com/@adamparkhom...
March 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Can you help me get 500 reposts on this post? I am going live on youtube on Friday. I am super pissed off what is happening in our party and want ro discuss Chuck Schumer and more with you. If you are not subscribed to my channel please consider doing so here: m.youtube.com/@adamparkhom...
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Go ahead and stay silent. Let fear rule you. Watch injustice happen. Just don’t act like you did not know and accept that you are the latest in a long line of cowards who learned nothing from the past. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-c...
We Can’t Give In to Fear
From Marc | No one wants to speak up. Everyone wants to hide or lay low.
www.democracydocket.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Go ahead and stay silent. Let fear rule you. Watch injustice happen. Just don’t act like you did not know and accept that you are the latest in a long line of cowards who learned nothing from the past. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-c...
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NEW: ICE has returned all migrants sent to Guantanamo Back back to stateside facilities
ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities
A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
NEW: ICE has returned all migrants sent to Guantanamo Back back to stateside facilities