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Molly White @molly.wiki · 24/07/2025

Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

When tacos get serious-- this is an insane show of force from the feds, total overkill in sending agents from SIX federal entities, aided by city police, many of the agents armed as if they're in a war, to arrest people at a taco truck. Good on Minneapolis citizens for RESISTING.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Words matter.

Let’s not call people “strongmen,”
especially when they are obviously insecure,
which is why they covet power
in the first place:
such insecure-men take
all of the unjust, antidemocratic, inhumane,
and sociopathic actions that they do
because they feel insecure in their positions
and their largely illegitimate grips on power.

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True Democracy

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"Now is the time for all good men [sic] to come to the aid of their country." Do your job, Senators and Representatives. Honor, duty, country— not party, not fear of losing your damn job. If you don't honor your oath of office, you don't deserve the office.

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I love that he closed with "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor," words that have always moved me. The Founders put it all on the line and so must we all, now. Booker rose to speak, and rose to the urgency of the moment.

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I have given away so many copies of this book, hoping people will give it the time it deserves. Here it is in just 10 powerful minutes. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

When you're old enough to have witnessed "history"....

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I hadn't thought of that. That's beyond bizarre.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

So true. And then there's creating a few thousand recently fired nat sec and nat sec adjacent civil servants who weren't just fired but basically had a bucket of shit poured over their heads. Cld they be aggrieved? Maybe? So every vector of penetration is basically in smorgasbord mode.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

In addition to everything else that is wrong with this, why aren't these men wearing uniforms? They're dressed like they just came from the skateboard park and half seem to be concealing their faces. These are terror tactics, meant to inspire a penumbra of fear beyond those directly victimized.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is a guy in panic mode, and trying to falsely cry "hoax" when NSC has already confirmed it is a desperate, stupid move that seems guaranteed to backfire.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Bernie and AOC draw huge crowds in Arizona.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Trivia break—If you've ever baked bread or read up on how to, you've probably read about "crumb," which is the density of various types of breads, how big the air spaces are. Well, I think we found the all-time winner for air spaces. How's this for crumb?

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

3. Too many people who believe in government of, by, and for the people are letting the radical right set the rules.

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

2. Following up your action with a huge wave of accurate information about what's really happened would be your next right thing to do. Yes, that information will be denied by many and you will be hit with MAGAmenschen lies. So what?

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

1. Choosing what moves to make on the basis of what DT and his MAGAmenschen might say about what you do is madness. They will lie, distort, and blame everyone but themselves, always, in every instance, no matter what you choose to do. So you might as well do the next right thing, yes?

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It wasn't even close. 62/38 I shall now spend the afternoon organizing a closet here, a place where I CAN stop chaos and make something work well.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

And we're all invited. Here's hoping the turnout is massive.

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Don't say in advance that a resistance effort won't work. That's obeying in advance. We can't concede without trying every damn thing we can.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

And as if we can instantly measure all results. "The tyranny of the quantifiable," an environmentalist said to me long ago, and so much of what matters most is not quantifiable or efficient or profitable in the narrow sense, and that's kind of what all this is about. So thank you Ms Kabas.

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Here's hoping the turnout is massive. The vets are inviting everyone to join them

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Original post: bsky.app/profile/scot...

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

DT now has a white-shoe law firm representing him as he assaults the rule of law, attacking the firms who have represented his opponents. For shame, Sullivan & Cromwell! substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Sullivan & Cromwell: The Tesla of BIGLAW.

March 10, 2025

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Ann Medlock @annmedlock.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

And a nice chunk of that is paying for rooms at the "southern White House" which is owned by the President. So it's not only insanely wasteful, it's a conflict of interest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips

The president, who derided Barack Obama for golfing while in office, even makes money off his Mar-a-Lago weekends

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

We shld view Tesla as the equivalent of a company that held down babies and poured radioactive waste down their throats or probably something worse. I don't support violence. But normal Americans are right to stand agst this company which threatens their liberty. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/b...

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Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla Into a Target

The backlash against the electric vehicle company has turned violent at times, as its billionaire chief executive parlays his support for President Trump into consequential influence over the federal ...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/03/2025

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.