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Betsy Meezna

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 5h
Peter Thiel can't stop talking about the Antichrist. He says evil is "kind of good." He's the billionaire who co-founded Palantir, bankrolled JD Vance, and champions men who want to end democracy. He keeps pointing at everyone else. But here's who he's really describing 👇 #peterthiel #jdvance
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 6h
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Nothing's riding on this except the first amendment of the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country.” ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) I’d have given JASON ROBARDS an Oscar for this scene alone. #AlanJPakula
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Virginia mother was detained by ICE after she was unable to immediately recite her Social Security number during a traffic stop, despite reportedly presenting identification and immigration documents. Her teenage daughter recorded the encounter and said goons became aggressive.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For months Gabriela Soto has relentlessly advocated for her husband Martin, unlawfully detained by ICE while buying diapers for their baby. Martin played a key role in the Delaney Hall hunger strike this summer. Last night we was RELEASED from ICE custody. ALWAYS FIGHT BACK.
Beautiful young family outside a detention center.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sneaky Death Cult
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The pedophilia was an expense Trump paid because he needed constant children to expoit. 4700 payments should alarm you.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
Letitia James AND Sally Yates??? AMAZING.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Chris Frantz @chrisfrantz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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canada-keith.bsky.social @canada-keith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow sadly Canada’s Leader is actually Thanking Donald Trump on behalf of Canada 🇨🇦. Amazing that Mark Carney was talking to the Culprit, and zeroing in on Trump, not our American 🇺🇸 People. On behalf of Americans I Apologize to my Canadian Neighbour. Repost so Canadians realize We Care,Trump Doesnt 🇺🇸🇨🇦
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's what I'm talking about. Dave Grohl recognized Jack Smith as a hero. 🔥
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Guess who I bumped into?" Jack Smith was spotted (with a Springsteen Tee) at the "Power to the People" concert by Joanne Leahy. Who thinks he would be a great AG?
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London Reed🫘🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟No Kings🌟🌟🌟 @londonreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith smiling at a concert. It was said he was congenial and happy to be with the crowd. I have never seen him smile.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welp. Rosie and I are at the Animal Medical Center. Last weekend she was panting strangely. A lot. Then she seemed fine. Yesterday afternoon, tried to regurgitate. For awhile. Stopped moving for a bit. Today, weird droppings. Strike three. We’re at the vet. Wish us luck.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She deserves justice 👇
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 02/10/2026
🚨TRIGGER WARNING🚨 Discussion of rape/sexual violence & strong language. ☑️ Bear ☐ Man This spoken word poem stopped me in my tracks The bear was never really the point. The point is why so many women understood the answer immediately Listen to her words. They matter. —Claire Donohoe🐻💜 #SheShed
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A young woman bravely reported that she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven men at their fraternity. But instead of protecting her, Cornell University protected her abusers, letting them off with a slap on the wrist.
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound up) DAY 01 OCTOBER 2026 33 Day Till Midterms Tonight we Remember & Honor RENEE GOOD🕊 Loving mom, partner, daughter, & friend. At 37 years,mom of 3 beautiful children A poet & a writer "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" Civil suit filed Becca, partner speaks
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
“What a crock of sh*t!” Katie Phang torches Todd Blanche after he declares, “There’s not a prosecutor in this country that should ever, ever violate a court order,” pointing to the Trump DOJ’s documented noncompliance with court orders in her OWN Epstein files lawsuit.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Given that virtually everyone with a high level role in Watergate is dead, I wonder if this is going to turn into another cadaver synod type thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver...
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Cadaver Synod - Wikipedia
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The family of Renée Nicole Good, one of two US citizens brutally killed by mass deportation agents in Minneapolis in January, has sued the Trump regime: www.reuters.com/world/renee-...
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Renee Good's family sues Trump administration over fatal Minneapolis shooting
The family of Renee Good, one of two US citizens fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, sued US President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday over her killing duri...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
The 149-page complaint alleges Good’s killing was not an isolated incident, but the “predictable and intended product” of a coordinated federal operation that plaintiffs say targeted Minnesota’s Somali and Hispanic communities and sought to intimidate people documenting… 5/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reuters: FAMILY OF RENEE GOOD SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER FATAL MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING BY IMMIGRATION AGENT
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Go For It Ladies.......
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2yr old Jeff Bridges with his Dad, Lloyd, in 1951.
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Ray @raymolson22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are not being governed. We are being looted.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly 💯
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Betsy Meezna @betsymeezna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is brilliant! Now do one about Thiel and Musk
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is Jesus Christ far-right?
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