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Barbara Varinaitis

@booboomer.bsky.social
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Artist, Californian by choice, Democrat, here for the camaraderie.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Barbara Varinaitis @booboomer.bsky.social · 15h
Yes. Angie. Florida Dems you know what to do.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is the message I want to share with you before this Labor Day is over.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what we’re dealing with.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
With today's filing in the Supreme Court, Elias Law Group is now litigating 90 voting and election cases.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community! 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Where's Mitch?
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
from last night: Olivia Rodrigo and Stevie Nicks, "Landslide," from Rodrigo's inaugural Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival which raised $20M for groups including Planned Parenthood, National Network of Abortion Funds, Girls Inc., the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and Indigenous Women Rising.
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Stevie Nicks feat. Olivia Rodrigo — Landslide (Live at Daisy Chain Fields 08.29.26)
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When your three top allies are Russia, China and North Korea, YOU just might be the communist.
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
On a completely serious note, I hope Harp gets the help she clearly needs. Yes, this is weird AF, but it’s also not healthy. Photo credit: @thedailybeast.bsky.social
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/08/2026
THREAD: A couple of thoughts on Natalie Harp. First, I'm so glad that people on our side are concerned about her and her mental health. It's because we have hearts and empathy and we aren't sociopaths. We're good people, and I love that about us. But I think we are also right to be angry. 1/
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I wonder why 90 days. Couldn’t be because the midterms are in… 74 days, right? Right? Apparently communist price controls are fine when you’re trying to get votes. Who knew?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Dead Fish 🔻 @deadfish1965.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"I'm fairly certain I understand".
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Minnesota to provide access to its statewide voter registration data. Another victory for my firm and our clients. DOJ is now 0-23. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/minnes...
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🚨 United States v. Simon
Learn more here.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The American Dream has become an American Nightmare. It’s too expensive to buy a home. It’s too expensive to get married and have kids. It’s too expensive to retire comfortably. The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1. The Pentagon has refused to provide an accurate accounting of the costs of the Iran War, so Popular Information crunched the numbers. The DIRECT COSTS are at least $103 BILLION in the first 120 days. This is $73 billion more than the latest official estimate.
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The real cost of the Iran War: $103 billion in 120 days
Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee last week, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought said the US had spent $30 billion on the Iran War.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
TL;DR of today's newsletter: ICE is shooting people again. It's doing so in service of a mass deportation agenda that is, more than any other policy, the routinization and institutionalization of Trumpian cruelty. So: Oppose mass deportation. And abolish ICE. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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ICE Is Shooting People Again
Routinizing Trumpian cruelty.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social Donald Trump erupts at the NATO summit this morning
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This corrupt, compromised and completely unhinged Supreme Court was 1 vote away from ending birthright citizenship which is clearly in the Constitution.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/05/2026
The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism. It's Jim Crow 2.0.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
KNOXVILLE: “Knox County Schools has banned the 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Roots", credited with raising awareness about Black American history…”😕🤔 Republican censorship continues. (Alex Haley is buried by his boyhood home in Henning, TN) www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump is still painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, racing to finish before a court can stop him. He skipped every legally required environmental and historic preservation review to get here.
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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Oh f*ck off. We would all be a hell of a lot better if we spoke multiple languages. Still pisses me off that my immigrant Italian family was ashamed of speaking Italian outside of the home.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We need to pass a House rule or law that requires them to work a certain number of days to get paid. Since Mike Johnson took over these people hardly ever work. When they finally come back after weeks off they work 2 days and he sends them home for 2 more weeks. It’s ridiculous.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/03/2026
Huge slap in the face to democracy. Democratic Colorado governor, @colorado.gov, just publicly signaled clemency to Tina peters, convicted of election interference. If election crimes have no consequences, why would the next denier stop? Full breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=lTSCC_9-FpY
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New: Dilley detainees said art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail, and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"Women are merely a life support system for a vagina." ~ Jeffrey Epstein “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” ~ donald trump
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
4 Minnesota guys
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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