Connie

Connie

@cms206.bsky.social

Curious, passionate, proudly liberal. Grandma. Married to my BF.

144 followers180 following155 posts

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With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.

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BREAKING: We're urging a federal court to refuse to dismiss our lawsuit challenging the violent detention of hundreds of people at a horse race in Wilder, ID. Law enforcement descended on an event popular with Latine families wielding flashbang grenades, guns, and zipties. We demand accountability.

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I am so excited to not watch Melania's movie that I'm not watching it right now and will be not watching it all weekend!

And now the WSJ must call for the impeachment of Trump and Noem.

Ian Bassin@ianbassin.bsky.social

“Stephen Miller’s mass deportation methods are turning immigration, an issue Mr. Trump owned in 2024, into a political liability for Republicans in 2026. Americans don’t want law enforcement shooting people in the street or arresting five-year-old boys.” - WSJ ed board www.wsj.com/opinion/time...

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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

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Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

While I want #ICEOUT FOR GOOD, at a minimum ICE agents need to disappear for a few days. There needs to a cooling off period. If there isn’t one, I fear what may happen.

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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

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WHY are news stations reading DHS statements out loud as if they have ANY credibility at all? They literally murdered a woman in cold blood LAST WEEK and are still lying about what happened, even though we can see what happened. That any credibility would be given to their statement is insane

And again the NYT shows itself to be out of touch. @nytimes.com

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page. No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.

So today @nytimes doesn’t feature vote by House and Senate to release Epstein files?? Isn’t this important news and damning news for the President? WTF

This is so powerful. These women deserve justice.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows” Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.

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Chris Murphy: "I don't think anybody with ambition right now should be planning on running for president in 2028 because we might not have a free and fair election in 2028. We all have to be in the business of saving our democracy right now."

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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

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ICE detained a Virginia mom while she was driving her 16yo daughter to school bc she couldn’t recall her SS#. “The agent got flustered and lunged at her,” said her daughter. ICE arrested her even after she showed proof of legal status. “I want this video out there because I want my mother home.”

Walking with thousands of people to protest our government gave me such hope. I felt my stress level falling with every step. #NoKings #WeThePeople

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Per CNN, the White House has just issued a two-word response to what may be the largest day of protest in US history—and those two words perfectly encapsulate why No Kings Day exists. The response from would-be King Donald to outrage over his destruction of our traditions and norms is, "Who cares?"

Republican leadership by either outright lying, gaslighting, deflection or claims of “I don’t know about that,” “I haven’t seen that.,” “I haven’t heard that., etc is undermining any possibility of discourse on almost any issue.

Dog whistle. We will not be the reason the Insurrection Act is invoked.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson on CNBC: "I think it has a lot to do with the 'Hate America Rally' that's gonna be on the Mall on Saturday. You're gonna have all the antifa and BLM and pro-Hamas people, all the Marxists will be on the Mall."

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Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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Replying to @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Everyone in government, banking, business, politics, education, law, the arts, the billionaires, the pundits, all of them, should take the exact actions now that they would have taken if Joe Biden had committed these stupid, terrifying, bad for America deeds.

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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq