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Armchair Freedom Fighter. Sorry ladies; not looking for a hook-up. Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.

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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 4h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...
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Katie Zacharia Admits Failing Bar, but Defends Calling Herself a Lawyer (Gift Article)
In an interview with a right-wing influencer, the new White House press secretary also described the harried process that led to her hiring.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 10h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...
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The Trump Administration and the Shrinking Number of Women in Top Roles (Gift Article)
In President Trump’s second term, those heading for the exits, voluntarily or involuntarily, are female officials.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 10h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u... It could be that JD is just projecting his own secret desires.
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Vance’s Talarico Attacks Show His Penchant for Personal Broadsides (Gift Article)
At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 11h
New Mexico and El Paso Spent Millions on Climate Plans. Three New Data Centers Could Undo Them. www.propublica.org/article/data...
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New Mexico and El Paso Spent Millions on Climate Plans. Three New Data Centers Could Undo Them.
Officials in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, made plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Neither plan took into account how the construction of three new data centers could upend climate goals in both ...
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Melvin Cox (@alapete)
Americans of every political persuasion, it is time to wake up, get off your knees, and prepare yourselves for what is coming. It is time to decide when enough has become too much and if the future of...
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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One step forward, two steps back; America's drift between dream and nightmare.
I guess this guy was born a rapist or murderer when his parents brought him to the US at 18 months of age.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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AT&T bends a Knee.
The capitulation of a company like AT&T is much worse than that of Target.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Land of Opportunity. Will America still be America after Trump?
This is an open letter written by the President for life of China, Xi, to the Russian people and to the rest of the world.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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IT IS NOT ANTISEMETIC TO CRITICISE ISRAEL.
IT IS NOT SUPPORTING HAMAS TO DEMAND ISRAEL STOP KILLING CHILDREN IN GAZA.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Birthright Citizenship
Who really qualifies to be an American?
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Tommy Tuberville For Governor
Just what Alabama needs a racist carpet bagger from Arkansas for Governor.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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The lesson we forgot.
The weaponization of the justice system.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Can America ever make itself a White country?
White Americans have been committing genocide on minorities in this country for a long time.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Are the Palestinians the next Cherokee Nation?
How Israel is taking their cues from Americas past to deal with the Palestinians.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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We the People...
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Democrats and Republicans often sing from the same hymnal.
American Democracy is under threat, again.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Choices We Make.
Life is all about the choices we make.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Our Divided House is crumbling.
How a Trump-like figure stole America’s chance at redemption.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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The Choice Saudi Arabia Faces
It is not a Hobson’s Choice or a Sophie’s Choice, but it is a Complex choice.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Israeli Democracy
The melting pot has a hole in it.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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She’s Been to Gaza. She Met With the Iranians. Now She Has a Warning.
As the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric goes to both sides of conflicts. She’s worried that our warring world is spiraling out of control.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
SCOTUS gave him immunity for stuff like this. Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. Corruption in the open.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Democrats and Republicans often sing from the same hymnal. open.substack.com/pub/melvinc/...
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Democrats and Republicans often sing from the same hymnal.
American Democracy is under threat, again.
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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The Next One Might Be You
YouTube video by Joel Horwitz
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We the People... open.substack.com/pub/melvinc/...
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We the People...
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
"Netflix didn’t kill movie theaters. $25 popcorn did. And $12 water sealed the coffin." Do you agree?
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
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Greed - 30s (ME)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
That 77% is worrisome.
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
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Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
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Politico @politico.com · 19/08/2025
Meet the Maine oyster farmer looking to challenge Sen. Susan Collins.
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Maine oyster farmer wants to upend Democratic politics with Senate bid
Graham Platner wants to oust Sen. Susan Collins — and disrupt national Dems’ plans to unite around Gov. Janet Mills.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
These dedicated FBI agents, fired before they were pension eligible, including a father of young children who lost his wife to cancer last month, are worthy of our support. Please take a minute to read: www.supporttheirservice.com
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Support Their Service
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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alapete.bsky.social @alapete.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Summer of Our Discontent open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Summer of Our Discontent
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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