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    Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:

    “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

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    Aug 19, 2025
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    George was just trying to get to work.

    ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

    This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

    14,331 7,172
    Oct 10, 2025
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    Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

    24,034 6,879
    May 7, 2026
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    Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

    22,319 6,782
    Jun 11, 2025
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    "She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power."

    New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

    19,473 6,256
    Aug 30, 2025
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    Rep. Lieu: “The Supreme Court is out of control, out of touch with the American people…This is the most corrupt Supreme Court we’ve seen in our history, and reform is going to come next year."

    22,859 5,954
    Jun 3, 2026
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    Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

    19,542 5,894
    Feb 24, 2026
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    Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

    13,342 5,876
    Feb 23, 2026
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    Epstein victims lawyer Spencer Kuvin: "We now know from the words of the President himself that Virginia was right all along, and that she was trafficked out of Mar-a-Lago.”

    14,003 4,991
    Jul 31, 2025
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    Rep. Robert Garcia: "We should not be scared of what's in those files. We don't care who you are, how powerful you are, if you're in politics, what party you are, the amount of money you have — if you've committed these horrific crimes, it should be out to the American public."

    19,384 4,865
    Jul 25, 2025
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    Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."

    16,312 4,470
    Sep 10, 2025
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    Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

    14,072 4,430
    Sep 17, 2025
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    Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"

    Mark Kelly: "It seems to."

    Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"

    Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."

    13,154 3,678
    Nov 30, 2025
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    Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”

    11,193 3,652
    Feb 3, 2026
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    Pence: "Individuals who broke into the Capitol, who assaulted police officers...should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law...The heroes on January 6 were all wearing uniforms...To have pardoned the people who assaulted police officers that day, was wrong."

    13,761 3,536
    May 18, 2025
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    Gov. Pritzker: “It's wrong to deploy the National Guard and active duty Marines into an American city over the objection of local law enforcement, just to inflame a situation and create a crisis.”

    11,948 3,399
    Jun 12, 2025
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    Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

    9,400 3,316
    Sep 29, 2025
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    "If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?"

    @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:

    9,041 3,308
    Aug 22, 2025
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    Sen. Rosen to Rubio: "I'm not even mad anymore about your complicity in this administration's destruction of U.S. global leadership. I'm simply disappointed. I wonder if you're proud of yourself in this moment when you go home to your family?"

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    May 20, 2025
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    Rep. Jim Himes: "Having the Defense Department kill alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is illegal...These folks are committing murder — murder defined as killing without a legal basis. I am mystified over why the rest of the chain of command is quite comfortable with it."

    9,615 3,198
    Sep 21, 2025
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    Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."

    8,549 3,132
    Oct 5, 2025
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    Sen. Tim Kaine: "Brian Kilmeade 10 days ago suggested that homeless, mentally ill people should be lethally injected. He apologized...He didn't get pulled off the air."

    9,135 3,062
    Sep 21, 2025
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    Rep. Lieu: “Howard Lutnick must resign… The Epstein Files new release shows that not only did Howard Lutnick lie to the American people, he went into business with Jeffrey Epstein, he visited Epstein Island, and Howard Lutnick did this knowing how evil Epstein was.”

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    Feb 10, 2026
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    Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon on Chicago: "[Greg Bovino] was filmed lobbing a tear gas canister into a crowd...deliberately trying to provoke a confrontation."

    6,304 2,737
    Oct 26, 2025
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    Rep. Eugene Vindman: " I want to start by condemning the president for calling for six Democratic members of Congress, all of whom are patriots who served our country to be hanged. It is the kind of thing we expect from a Saudi Crown Prince, not an American President."

    8,165 2,733
    Nov 21, 2025