Jan Eckley Urtel

Jan Eckley Urtel

@simplyteach.bsky.social

Retired teacher: high school English and communication. Interested in human communication, well told stories of all sorts, music, photography, outdoor activities, animal pics, and politics.

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I remember Trump's motorcade rolling through the newly coated reflecting pool and wondering how wise is that. Well, now we know from the demented world of Donald, where he never does anything wrong: The problem is really some anonymous vandal with a knife who cut a massive gash.

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Well this should scare the shit out of everyone, 6 weeks ago the justice department adopted a new policy to allow the attorney general the power to send any federal prisoner to any federal prison in the country. Listen to Liz Oyer former pardon attorney for the DOJ explain.👇👇

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It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

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GET HIM!!!!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. We must not fund ICE. The Constitution gave Congress the power of the purse. Congress must use that power aggressively and fearlessly if our country is to survive.

#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

The left rages at Democrats over "surrender" on ICE: "Absolutely pathetic"

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Bessent selected option three: Endure righteous wrath.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Beatty to Bessent after he refuses to answer a question about affordable housing: "No no. We're not gonna to do that with me. You get to hear my wrath that you refuse to answer a question under your authority, and yet you've talked about the value of housing and you're not releasing the funds."

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If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

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Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

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A must read👇 After a sweeping, Republican-led review of more than 2 million voter registrations, Utah election officials identified just one apparent noncitizen in their voter rolls — who never voted. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comUtah reviewed its voter rolls for noncitizens. It found one. Who never votedThe results sharply undercut the narrative of widespread noncitizen voting Republicans are using to promote new nationwide restrictions on voting.

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The US is being terrorized by a domestic terror organization called ICE. They are going door-to-door. They are stealing and kidnapping people. They have killed over 30 people so far. We are being terrorized by the US government and what you have to do first is acknowledge it.

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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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I've seen worlds succumb to the whisper: "Why bother?" That radical nihilism is a poison. It paves the way for strongmen. My mission is radical optimism. Not naivety. The stubborn, rigorous work of believing in our better angels, then proving it. #RadicalOptimism #Humanism

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This clap-back is 🔥 “You think my self-worth is determined by your opinion of me when in reality I know for a fact that I was better than you the day I was born.” "Your grandparents were born on third base, mine were born in the parking lot but still managed to score before you.” Holy shit!

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📌STOP spreading this garbage the 2024 election was stolen. -Not because it makes look stupid (it does). -Not because you sound like Trump (you do). -But because, aside from being grifted of your time and treasure, you are further eroding trust in a Democracy the rest of us are fighting to protect.

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SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

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If the four senators who voted to end the Canada tariffs threatened to block the reconciliation bill unless the tariffs were rescinded, I think they’d have leverage to force Trump’s hand. Not that they would, but they could.

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Replying to @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

I want someone with reach to point out that -- as great as some of the ideas to pad his speech with silly readings (a la Cruz w/Green Eggs and Ham) were -- he did the one thing that crushes them all: he spoke clearly and articulately about actual issues. No fluff. All substance and grit.

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Abraham Lincoln is often quoted for saying: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one. (don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)