OrangeBirdTXAZ

OrangeBirdTXAZ

@orangebirdtx.bsky.social

Progressive intersectional feminist focused on Arizona, Texas, and national politics. #BlueCrew

11.8K followers14.1K following321 posts

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IF Donald drops the $1.8B slush fund as Axios reports he's going to do, I don't think that stops the court's investigation into whether his lawsuit against the IRS was a fraud on the court. But we'll see what happens.

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The anthem we need

Bruce Springsteen@brucespringsteen.net

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

MAGA online are sharing AI-generated images of Alex Pretti in a wig, makeup, and womens’ clothing. They are once again trying to demonize the trans community, painting Alex as a violent trans leftist. Please protect the trans community.

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I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.

I have this fear that the president will use MLK Day to launch a massive ICE surge across multiple cities simultaneously, because that’s exactly what a deranged psychopath would do - turn a day of remembrance for a civil rights icon into a day of violence against black and brown people.

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Replying to @corrina.sheshed.rocks

This is a war on women. Our bodies turned into battlegrounds. Our autonomy criminalized. Our pain dismissed. Our deaths acceptable collateral. If you still call this “politics,” you’re helping wage the war. They want women obedient. We are not going quietly. We’re still here. And we will fight.

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The best defence is a good offence. If Trump wants to play regime change games then other countries should participate. Mexico, Canada, and Denmark must push their intelligence agencies to undermine Trump, disrupt its crypto money laundering flow, release blackmail, and overthrow it.

She strikes me as the type to go scorched earth when she is done wrong… This could get interesting. Marjorie, spill what you know!

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Breaking: Donald Trump announces he no longer supports Marjorie Taylor Greene after she signed on to the release of the Epstein Files.

This breaks my heart. What is being done to our immigrant communities is barbaric.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

Remember Nory and her mom Estela? Here’s the devastating update. ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting. She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.

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What Congressional Democrats can do as the minority is limited, but governors can run states very differently. They can stop cooperating with the feds. Red states ban abortion, blue states provide it. Texas deploys its National Guard to the border, but blue ones refuse. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

open.substack.comIt’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

Why?! This is just cruelty for sport.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

THE CRUELTY… ICE snatched a high school student while he was walking his dog. Agents tied his dog to a tree and, and for extra fuckery, unclipped the collar—letting him run loose on a busy street. According to family, agents joked during his arrest, laughing about the $2,500 they just secured.

HEB is the one thing Texans on the left and the right are united on. I have been fully indoctrinated into the HEB cult, and all other grocery stores now pale in comparison. If only more companies behaved like HEB does…

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

Shout out to H‑E‑B for stepping up once again to help Texas in a time of need. From delivering food and water to deploying mobile kitchens. Some in our coalition have signed up to volunteer on the ground, while others are donating to support the recovery from afar.

This is the first sliver of hope I’ve felt in a long while. Thank you, Zohran Mamdani, and thank you, New York City.

Protect Kamala Harris ✊@disavowtrump20.bsky.social

🚨NEW: Zohran Mamdani has won the democratic primary for Mayor of New York, beating Andrew Cuomo and stunning the nation with this victory. REPOST to congratulate Mamdani on making history!

MAGA online are claiming that either A) the president will pay to complete the unfinished Texas border wall or B) Mexico will pay to complete it. Both A and B are delusional.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

“Build the wall!” “Build the wall!” “Build the wall!” Ah.. the hell with it.

The cruelty is the point. Everyone in this administration bears responsibility for these deaths.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

wow -- @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com chokes up while talking about how the Trump administration is killing kids who relied on USAID to get life-saving medicine

Trump voters are sinking to new lows, openly celebrating children going hungry due to SNAP reductions. Direct quote: Why is it my responsibility to help feed someone else’s brats? Let them provide for their own brood.

It’s necropolitics, and it’s disgusting.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

It's called autogenocide, the goal is to get a population to kill themselves and/ or die by design. When MAGA / Trump strips people of their health care or safety nets, they aren't thinking about saving money they're thinking about how many of us they can exterminate. #3E #StopTheBillionaireBailout

I would make one adjustment here… The wealthy in this country WILL poison us for the sake of profit. They did it before regulations existed and will do it again now that regulations are being lifted.

Rick@rickylongthread.bsky.social

The Wealthy In This Country Would Poison Us For The Sake Of Profit!!!

THIS!!!!!!!

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

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HANES is exporting their products from their 350,000-square-foot El Salvador textile plant to the US. — you do not get to stand by and watch human rights violations. What’s next? Hanes using prisoners as their labor force? Return Garcia to America! #BOYCOTTHANES !

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This was one of the potential outcomes discussed at length in my pinned report. The Court is demanding signs of effort but not a specific result, which is a huge win for the Trump administration, as it appears to confirm its theory that El Salvador has control over anyone on its soil. This is bad.

cnn.comSupreme Court says Trump must ‘facilitate’ return of man mistakenly deported to El Salvador | CNN PoliticsThe Supreme Court on Thursday required President Donald Trump’s administration to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador but stopped short of requiring the govern...

This must be a top priority.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. We must overturn Citizens United. Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.

This is the type of job the regime would like most of us to work:

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social

🧵I worked at a garment factory in the 90s. It was called Garan. We made Garananimals clothing for children. The plant moved to Mexico in the early 2000s. 99% of the workers were women. The women who climbed up on top of tables and cut patterns out all day made $6.40/hour. The girls turning shirts