RobAtl

RobAtl

@scrumrob.bsky.social

Old man with more experience than most.

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There is no return possible. We must build new structures and cleanse the country of MAGA. Step 1 must be reform of the Supreme Court.

Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social

Don't think about a return to Status quo pre Trump. Those days are gone. Works towards transformative change!

RobAtl reposted

Mike Johnson is relying on his faith to hold control of the House. So if he loses control of the House, we can all reasonably conclude that God dislikes Mike Johnson as much as the rest of us.

I voted yesterday. I felt such relief. Now, I think I'll take 4 November off from work so I can stay up all night on the 3rd watching election results.

RobAtl reposted

The people who screamed that children would be emotionally scarred by hearing a drag queen read “Jack and the Beanstalk” are OK with those same children watching Pete Hegseth’s livestream of a man getting his brains blown out by a bunch of guns.

This is very true. But adding seats is only the beginning to reforming this judiciary that's been so polluted by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.

Project 2025 in effect.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

We can throw another $500,000,000,000 at the Pentagon this year and spend $1,000,000,000/day on a wholly useless war, but we can't afford to hire doctors and nurses to take care of our veterans? The United States is such an irresponsible, messed up country right now.

She will be held accountable the same the American justice system has held Epstein's buddies accountable. So, I have my doubts.

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

At least his predecessors were traveling on real business for the FBI rather than visiting their girlfriends/wives, taking trips to the Olympics, or joining the mile high club with their affair partners.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

aged poorly

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Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

I'm closer to 72 than 71, but I feel such intense rage that I want to do something more to Trump's secret police than just yell at them.

Many in the Democratic Party need to support abolishing DHS and replacing ICE with a smaller and less militarised customs and border control organisation.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “ICE is attacking 🇺🇸 citizens, kidnapping 5-year-olds and using them as bait to open doors, and violating constitutional rights by busting into their doors… They deserve to be defunded." (H/T @meidastouch.com )

Although, I don't think this attitude is restricted just Southern evangelicals. I've met some in the North and they are just as bad.

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This can be traced back to the long list of bad decisions from the Roberts Court based on the historically ignorant originalist bullshit of the anti-democracy Federalist Society and the Christian nationalism of The Heritage Foundation.

Nate@nateduty.bsky.social

This IS the result of the Supreme Court of the United States of America giving the most amoral person in America immunity from his crimes. Crimes that stack up daily. Including 115 counts of 1st-degree murder of unarmed civilians suspected of crimes not punishable by the death penalty.

RobAtl reposted

ICE is out of control. They are the source of the violence and can never be its remedy. In the short term, the only answer is for them to cease operations in Minnesota and leave. Immediately. In the slightly longer term, ICE must be dismantled and abolished. They cannot be reformed.

I've been saying this since 2002 when the Shrub was president.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

Simply horrifying. The whole of DHS has got to be disbanded. We did just fine without them before.

It's the only thing we can do along with the entire DHS. FBI and much of DoJ will have to be replaced. Then what do we do with DoD, which is filled with officers quite willing to obey illegal orders?

AnthropoceneMPG 🌊@anthropocenempg.bsky.social

It’s the right think to do! #IceICE 🧊

More than that DHS needs to be abolished and replaced with something less like the FSB or KGB. ICE must absolutely be replaced with something less like the Gestapo and a less military-like budget. They cannot be reformed.

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.

Makes me sort of wish Hell was real. It would be overflowing with MAGAts and the remaining Republicans kissing Trump's flabby, disgusting arse.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

I hate Trump, who is a mentally deranged person ruining our country. But I have greater loathing for the completely rational Republicans who have consciously decided to destroy our democracy in order to line their own pockets. There's not a place in Hell hot enough for them.

DOdGEy was a catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of people put out of work. Destruction of USAid has been linked to the deaths of at 600000 mostly children in the countries receiving aid. Federal spending in 2025 is up more than 460 BILLION dollars.