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Brandi Vannoy

@brandisvannoy.bsky.social
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Somewhere reading. Retired veteran, married, autism/bonus mom, animal lover, mental health advocate. #BLM

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Benefits of Being a U. S. State: 1) No universal healthcare. 2) Your kids get shot at in school. 3) You get no disaster relief if you didn’t vote for the malignant crazy person in the Oval Office. 4) Get diarrhea from your food. Think long and hard before saying “no” to such a utopia, Canada!
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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The President of the United States is a liar.
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The Opinionated Lab 𓅄 @opinionatedlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There’s no way to reform this. Abolish ICE completely.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay. I'm feeling the 09:29:526 skepticism already. Are you going to be able to7 listen with an open mind? Tell me the truth.8 GRAND JUROR: I -- no.9 MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay. Then you have to10 go -- 09:30:0411 GRAND JUROR: I heard this case like last12 week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I13 still think it is.14 MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay. Thank you for your15 opinion for everybody.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Wow. A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter has been hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information. Elias Irizarry was hired to work in the DOD’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and internal alarms are going off. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
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Jan 6 Capitol Rioter Elias Irizarry Hired at Pentagon: Rpt
A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter is raising concerns after reportedly being hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information.
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🐈‍⬛ Emmaline, Segrentarri of Snakkies & 👵🏼Jean, her human @jeanchimera.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Sorry, not sorry, but I just had to post this. It's so hilarious all the contradictions and flailings in it.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
HOWLING
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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer
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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The President of the United States is a liar.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Finally, Ronald Reagan can rest in peace, knowing that children will no longer have to learn that some white people were the bad guys in that whole slavery thing.
The millions of admirers of the TV presentation of ‘Roots’ didn’t include Ronald Reagan, who said, ‘Very frankly, I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.’ He added that he was impressed by the huge audience the series attained, but ‘I didn’t know there was anyone who could stay home eight nights in a row.’
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump posted over 55 times in 3 hours, calling on the DOJ to arrest Obama, Clinton, Comey and others. This man is clearly unwell…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026
as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
very funny that this guy is literally like “tax the rich? that is the n word to me, personally” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...
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In Attack on Mamdani, Vornado Chief Likens ‘Tax the Rich’ to Hate Speech
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The GOP doesn’t think he requires additional care for that. They voted against it for first responders several times.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Page One. @wsj.com
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
L - North Korea R - Miami
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yes, it does.
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Bensmummy33 🤕 @bensmom33.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I have to say I am reassessing how good a friend I am based upon this story.
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lukeflyswatter.bsky.social @lukeflyswatter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Well, at least the seashells weren't arranged to spell: "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again"!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/04/2026
Ruck Fussia
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
this would fix the website
a dialog box reads:

Post reply?
You could probably just stay out of it.

The two buttons are:
- Mind my own business (default)
- Reply anyway
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
An article from The Guardian:

‘She’s opening the bees!’ US beekeeper jailed for trying to save friend from eviction

Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer

A beekeeper has been jailed for six months after she set swarms of her insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to carry out an eviction at a friend’s house.

Rebecca Woods insisted she only released her truckload of hives to allow the bees to enjoy the “lovely, flowering landscape” near the home of an elderly friend and cancer patient.

But a district court in Springfield, Massachusetts, heard that Woods, 59, admitted under questioning that she was trying to save him from eviction by freeing the bees in the presence of the deputies who had shown up to serve papers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2026
i also remain amazed at how, all these years later, conservatives are still angry and aggrieved that barack obama extended empathy to a black teenager who was killed for no reason. shows you what is in their hearts.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Judge Jesse Furman's order that Maurene Comey can sue in Federal court is rife with footnotes accusing DOJ of getting the law wrong. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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 Troublingly, Defendants elide this point by asserting that “Section 7513 of the CSRA
gives jurisdiction to the MSPB to hear appeals of any adverse action ‘covered by this
subchapter.’” ECF No. 48 (“Gov’t Reply”), at 3 (citing 5 U.S.C. § 7513(a), (d)). Although
Defendants cite both Subsections (a) and (d) for this proposition, the quoted language appears
only in Subsection (a).

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 In arguing that Subchapter II casts a wider net, Defendants assert that, “in exhaustively
cataloguing the CSRA’s preclusive structure, Elgin and Fausto do not even mention the ‘for
cause’ removal restrictions.” Gov’t Reply 4. But that is flat wrong. In point of fact, the
Supreme Court wrote in Fausto that “Chapter 75 of the Act governs adverse action taken against
employees for the ‘efficiency of the service,’” 484 U.S. at 446 (emphasis added), and observed in
Elgin that “Subchapter II of Chapter 75 governs review of major adverse actions taken against
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A former University of Alabama football player pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of millions of dollars by putting on makeup and wigs to impersonate NFL players
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Former Alabama Player Impersonated NFL Players To Defraud Investors
Luther Davis, a former defensive tackle at the University of Alabama, has pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of millions of dollars by putting on makeup and wigs to impersonate NFL players.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/04/2026
In 1994, a man crashed his small plane into the White House. Clinton did not build a ballroom because of it. In fact he barely mentioned it. And he definitely did not say that no one can criticize him anymore.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
February 5, 2025. Trump announces he is going to build a new ballroom at the WH and pay for it with his own money: “It’s going to cost nothing. I will spend the whole thing myself.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Mexico didn’t pay for the wall, Trump gold cards didn’t balance the budget, there are no $2,000 DOGE or tariff refund checks, and donors aren’t paying for the ballroom.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
People who have described President Trump as "fascist" include individuals who served in his first term as his White House chief of staff, defense secretary (x2), and chairman of the joint chiefs. It's not name-calling -- it's a warning. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...
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How the Fox bubble is reacting to John Kelly calling Trump a fascist
John Kelly, who once served as Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, believes that the former president is a “fascist” and would seek to rule as a dictator if he returns to office in November, Th...
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
yes @jd-vance-1.bsky.social is notoriously a democrat
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I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler."
J.D. Vance in a 2016 Facebook message
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/04/2026
Once you start to understand that there is a powerful and influential minority of Americans who think democracy is a bad idea, you start to understand the fight we are in
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Didn't Melania's husband mock the Pope, post blasphemous content, threaten genocide, ridicule and threaten the press, and engage in an illegal, unwinnable war with Iran -- all of that in the past month? Very offensive, divisive, and hateful.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This article about a random agent at the White House thing who kept on eating his salad amidst the hullabaloo is quite funny www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...
"A lot of people said, 'Why didn't you get on the floor? Everybody else at your table and in the room was on the floor, " Mr. Glantz said.
He was happy to explain: "First of all, I have a bad back. I couldn't get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they'd have to bring in people to get me off the floor. And No. 2, I'm a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting in my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening.
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Taryn T, Duchess of the Blue Sea @tarynt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I prefer a president who doesn’t have to go on national television and tell people that he’s not a pedophile.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
having the opportunity to feign surprise and drop this line would give me a kind of high no drug could reproduce
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2026
I wish they cared this much about shootings when it happens to children at school.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
He should probably blow up another girls' school to prove how peaceful he is.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Is this real?
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robertholzer.bsky.social @robertholzer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What’s all the fuss about? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/04/2026
I wish I could like this 100 times
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump is NOT nor has he ever been a man of God. He couldn’t cite the Ten Commandments & this despicable meme is a blatant violation of Commandment #1: "I am the LORD your God: You shall have no other gods before me." Catholics who voted for Trump should be deeply ashamed. Signed, ex-Catholic
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