Shamwill

Shamwill

@shamwill.bsky.social

Attorney/Advocate; Crafter/Quilter Always Blue! No DMs.

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This! 👇

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Democrats don’t just need to win, they need to win by margins that make Republican ratfucking ineffective and pundits‘ efforts to downplay a mandate laughable. Pour it on. Do not let up.

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Ken Paxton voted against a bill making animal abusers pay to treat the animals they hurt. Paxton went on to protect a research lab that tortured 400 puppies.

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My name is not the reason we're paying $5/gallon for gas. My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries. My name is not the reason you can't afford your mortgage or rent. My name is not the reason you can't see a doctor. Their policies are the reason.

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1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

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omg😱 What have we become?

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to Rome Statute of the ICC decided that 25th session of the Assembly, scheduled to take place at UN HQ in NYC, will be relocated to The Hague. ..in light of concerns related to elected officials of the Court subject to US sanctions & visa restrictions

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It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

Amazing statement by Jack Smith.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

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Now is the time to get yourself prepared to vote in the upcoming Midterm election, November 3rd. You may need to register. You may need to check and verify your voter registration. Please attend to these matters immediately. It only takes a minute, or two. 👍 *Do it now. Don't forget. #VOTE

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It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)

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Votesafe .org is selling the personal data and psychological tracking profiles of its website visitors to corporate advertisers and political business partners. Operated by Elon Musk's America PAC, it updated its privacy policy to permit collection, sharing and sale of highly specific user data. ☠️

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Ossoff should be he entire midterm campaign: "They made you pay more for everything and took us to war on lies and spent most of last year trying to cover up for the world's most famous pedophile while the crook president and his crook family raked in billions. . . . Enough is enough."

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My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

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NEWS: Former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has endorsed Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for re-election Flake: “I’m still a conservative Republican. But character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution.”

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The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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ICE is still refusing to follow through on its pledge to equip its officers with body cameras. Their goal is without body camera footage, accountability becomes much harder. If you witness an interaction, remember to keep your camera rolling and document what you can safely.

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Do you love Pride and Prejudice? Have you seen all the adaptations and wish you could read the novel fresh again? This commentary is completely great - funny, and a little like experiencing it anew. Yeomen's work below:

Benjamin 🜬 (they/she)@enbyemu.bsky.social

For anyone who ever wants to read (or re-read) @trungles.com's Pride & Prejudice readthrough commentary w/o having to slog through needing to constantly expand the original thread, I put it all together on a google doc! 135 glorious pages! 💙📚 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

You know it's bad when I looked at this NPR post and thought, "Oh, God, Trump's targeting indep bookstores now?! I didn't think it could get worse!" And then I looked at the headline and it's in China. 😳

NPR@npr.org

The police operation marks the third round of arrests targeting independent bookstores in four months. n.pr/4pnYSqd

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An open door is not consent. PAXIS.app confirms: An administrative warrant is just ICE paperwork, not a judge-signed warrant, and it does not give ICE permission to enter your home. Say clearly: “I do not consent to entry. I do not consent to a search.” FIGHT ICE: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS

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Officials state that a permanent structure would eliminate the recurring, compounding costs of constantly erecting and dismantling temporary "anti-riot" barriers for special events. If you run the government in such a way that you fear riots, you're doing something tragically fucking wrong.

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This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

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But the mythical "Antifa" is obviously the more prevalent problem.🙄

Court Watch@courtwatch.bsky.social

Robert Hlovchie, a self-described Nazi in Pennsylvania was arrested for threatening mass shootings against democrats, transgender individuals, Muslims, and Mexicans. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

thebulwark.comHe Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

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ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.

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The fact there were three dissents is appalling.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo: