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ericwalks.bsky.social

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Several people who cast a single mistaken ballot were sent to prison for years. A Georgia Republican official who voted illegally nine times? Just a $5,000 fine. Apparently “election integrity” is a lot more forgiving when the offender has the right party affiliation.

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“Police reported that Johnson, 45, tried to keep the children quiet by telling them he would share millions of dollars in restitution money he expected to receive from the Trump administration in connection with his Jan. 6 case.” www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

npr.orgA Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuseSince receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.

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So many countries reminding the USA of all the things the USA is supposed to be…

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The former leader was found guilty of leading an insurrection in late 2024 that attempted to subvert the constitution and plunged the country into its worst political crisis in decades. ft.trib.al/KKGYgyb

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We REALLY need to stop saying every new heinous act is a distraction. It isn't a distraction, it's another checked box off the list. Each checked box is not a distraction from the last checked box, that's just how the media plays it. It's a list, not a distraction. People need to understand that.

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Senate Democratic leadership essentially played dead today and greenlit the Trump-Musk-Vance coup. What is the point of the Democratic Party if it doesn't actually act like an opposition party? Hello?

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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

U.S. Senator John Fetterman@fetterman.senate.gov

My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR. My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down. I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.   I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.

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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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When the Supreme Court denied Trump's outrageous request for them to revoke the TRO issued by the lower DC Court, the ENTIRE X-sphere came out in a unified manner attacking Amy Coney Barrett. These are the kinds of information networks liberals have to fight against today.

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h/t to Shawn Donovan (I actually read about it in Bloomberg's Supply Lines newsletter, which is terrific and everyone interested in trade should subscribe) bsky.app/profile/sdon...

Shawn Donnan@sdonnan.bsky.social

We dive into the 2019 Fed transcripts and the slowdown in the US economy they saw tariffs causing in today's @bloomberg.com Big Take. Gift link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Abolish Congress. They are abdicating their duties over power of the purse & "regulat[ing] Commerce with foreign Nations" (tariffs) If lawmakers are not going to perform their most basic constitutional functions, what are we paying them for? bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Just the <checks notes> Chair of the House Appropriations Committee going on the record to say that appropriations statutes “are not a law.” The United States Congress, ladies and gentlemen.

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