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A friend in need…

New Lines Magazine@newlinesmag.bsky.social

NEW: The Nordic and Baltic states are driving a more robust European engagement on Ukraine amid apprehension over Trump’s dance with Putin, writes @michaeldweiss.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

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Replying to @lincolnproject.us

The Republican Party has become the party of grifters, cheaters, liars, fraudsters, & pedophiles. They want to keep folks divided so we won’t see them for who they really are. Many are hiding behind a cross, too. It’s coming for them.

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The Big Ugly Bill gives Trump $170B for mass deportations—a budget larger than most militaries. It gives masked ICE agents $40K bonuses for rounding up immigrants who are here legally. We must hold this administration accountable.

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Trump has no idea who stopped supplies to Ukraine... meanwhile in the past month he's redecorated the cabinet room, picked out where to put in a new flag pole, and is designing a new area for the rose garden to throw parties. Who's president while he's playing first lady?

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Raskin: "I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. 'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity ... '"

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“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

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Phang: If you were scrolling on social media and saw a dog locked up in the middle of the Everglades—in the sun, in the heat, in the humidity—the outrage would be wild, wouldn’t it? But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?

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There are exactly 500 days until the midterm elections on November 3, 2026. Assuming we can prevent their cancellation by a lawless president invoking the Insurrection Act . . .

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Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

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Newsom: Trump, he's not opposed to lawlessness and violence as long as it serves him. What more evidence do we need than January 6th?

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This is a pretty important point!

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

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Did you read the book about Joe’s decline? Big Bill: No because he’s not the president anymore and he did a good job when he was the president.

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They are all low-t(rump)

The Lincoln Project@lincolnproject.us

Trump gets bullied by Wall st, Elon ran for the hills, Stephen Miller’s wife ditched the White House, Bongino is a shell of himself, and Hegseth is anxiously wiretapping his own office. All while Putin and Xi eat our lunch. MAGA’s “Alpha Men” are nothing more than a pack of cowardly sissies.

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We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding. Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

cbsnews.comHundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical careHospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.

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Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

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Just listened to the Hur interview tape and I’m utterly appalled at all the incoherent and crazy things Biden said about Revolutionary War airports, injecting bleach, people eating cats and dogs, Hannibal Lecter, and Arnold Palmer’s penis. Simply unbelievable that he ran for president again.

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Ice needs to be abolished

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

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Faced with the threat of arrest for offering Wisconsin state employees guidance on how to respond to potential abuses of power by the Trump administration, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says: “I’m not afraid. I’ve never once been discouraged from doing the right thing and I will not start today.”

thenation.comTrump Will Regret Messing With Wisconsin Gov. Tony EversThe president's bully politics are blowing up on him internationally, and threats to arrest a midwestern governor will produce domestic blowback.