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Ben Thair

@bmichaels.bsky.social
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Retired attorney living in the PNW. Tennis is fun. 🎾 History buff. Books are my friends. Support local bookstores

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 11h
He didn't send agents after a criminal. He sent them after a Congresswoman who talks back. On the eve of an election. That's not law enforcement — that's an abuse of power with a badge. We stand with Ilhan Omar.
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Sharp Dressed Man 🇺🇸💙 @sharpdressedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Dben Andromeda @malin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Since the fake media refuses to report your good news, we will. 😂😂
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How do you defeat a president who’s trying to sabotage the midterms? 1. Use drop boxes. 2. Vote EARLY in person. 3. If mailing in your ballot, put it in the mail AT LEAST two weeks before Election Day. 4. Vote in person on Election Day. 5. Share these instructions with everyone you know.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.
A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The President of the United States is a liar.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Essentially
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 31/08/2026
You've been kicked off the voter rolls, what now? Well, let's fix it and fix it quickly.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Spread the word.👇
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ABSOLUTELY 👇 THIS.......
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Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Trashy revotrashing of the once beautiful White House!!!
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Unless you are at least a multimillionaire, the Republican Party has done nothing in the last 40 years that was designed to benefit you… Absolutely nothing. So… Quit fucking voting for them! Any Questions ?! 😎✨
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
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Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There it is.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026
The ICE raids and cruelty we are seeing inflicted on children are unacceptable.

The federal government has stripped legal representation from hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children. Many will soon face an impossible choice: navigate our immigration system alone or risk detention and deportation.

Our city is stepping up. We've invested $16.9 million in immigration legal services for unaccompanied children, with another $32 million in this year's immigration legal services budget, including rapid-response legal advice and representation for people in detention.

If you need immigration legal support, we're here to help. Our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline is available in your preferred language, regardless of immigration status.
Call 1-800-354-0365
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Shame on you Ted Cruz. This is a bald faced lie. You are lying. You are purposely lying. You are purposely spreading malicious & dangerous disinformation. How the fuck do you live with yourself? Shame on you.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/07/2026
Trump ending the Medicare Part D subsidy program that millions of seniors to rely on is proof that he cares more about privatizing Medicare than he cares about seniors and families. Always money for war. Never money for health care. It's a grift and I'll be fighting back.
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy
Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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The Crow 🐦‍⬛ @ericdravven.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No Lies Detected. The current regime doesn’t want people to know this, especially from one of their own. The president of The United States is a liar
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"I just cannot believe that no journalist stood up to demand that the President stop this outrageous attack on their colleague. What are you doing? What is wrong with you?" - @sifill.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/07/satu...
Sherilyn Ifill: "I just cannot believe that no journalist stood up to demand that the President stop this outrageous attack on their colleague. What are you doing? What is wrong with you?"
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IsThatDonHeath? @donjheath.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Vaccines save lives
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The idiots who need 1.5 trillion to defend our nation, are the greatest threat our nation faces. You idiots don't even ask us before going into a war, & now you're in here begging us for more money to play with. A teenager does shit like this
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Wordstock @wordstock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Voter suppression doesn’t beat organized people. Learn your state’s deadlines. Check your registration, then get your people to check theirs too. Volunteer with groups getting voters registered and trained as poll workers. Fighting back is a to-do list, not a mood. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The President of the United States is currently doing everything he can to fu*k with, sow distrust in, and destroy another American election.Donald Trump is America's enemy. He should be in jail. ~ Joe Walsh
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its 14th and 15th voter roll cases Tuesday, when federal judges dismissed* the government’s lawsuits seeking access to Virginia and New Mexico’s full voter records. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ is 0-15 after GOP-appointed judges toss voter roll lawsuits against Virginia, New Mexico
Still, the fight is far from over. Last week, the DOJ filed a petition challenging its first appellate defeat in the voter roll crusade, asking the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a rulin...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers. They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state. They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Someone who knowingly spreads lies about our elections, someone who knowingly sows distrust in our elections, someone who knowingly goes to war against our elections is our enemy. Is an enemy to this country. That someone is Donald Trump. Donald Trump is America’s enemy.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I think that's a safe assumption.. #crime #politics
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He’s not even in office anymore and he’s still more presidential than the man who is.
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Cathy🟧 @kitterlecathy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In case you haven't seen this today.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“If we ever close the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world will be lost.” Ronald Reagan
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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Why is "lunch debt" a thing that exists?

It's food. They're kids. Just give it to them.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Using the Justice Department to go after his political enemies. Donald Trump is a fascist.
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Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Every word true.
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nathanboy16.bsky.social @nathanboy16.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
May 2026. It just keeps getting worse...
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