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Marty

@brighterdaze.bsky.social
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Sister/Wife/Mother/🩷Nana💙, Retired Bean Counter, travel and volunteering locally. No time for BS !!! 🚫DM

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Bluesky’s great, great strength is that people click on links here — it one of the last big and wide-open gateways to the rest of the web. That makes it economically worthwhile for people who make link-accessible content (journalists, Youtubers, Substackers, musicians, etc) to congregate here.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 29/05/2025
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Viceroy butterfly on purple flowers.
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Marty @brighterdaze.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Trying to get T’s sales back up! He’s stole the data - all of it for his own business use. It was never about cost savings or efficiency. Now he’s trying to fix his image - only the stupid will cobble up his BS.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Another win!!! Now release him. A federal judge just ruled that the law used to detain Mr. Khalil is likely unconstitutional. Why? Because it’s too vague and was never meant to apply to someone like him a U.S. resident who never left the country.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 21/05/2025
Rep McGovern on🔥🔥🔥 "This is not a governing philosophy. it is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash like this. " #StopTheBillionaireBailout
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Marty @brighterdaze.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This must be repeatedly read and shared! johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/americans-...
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Americans, Stop Waiting for America to Look Like What You Think Fascism Will Look Like
America is tragically deceptive right now.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
America is tragically deceptive right now. You can go out in your local community, and everything looks perfectly normal. It doesn’t look like a fascist dictatorship, it doesn’t feel like a failing democracy, which is why we’re in such trouble. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/americans-...
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Americans, Stop Waiting for America to Look Like What You Think Fascism Will Look Like
America is tragically deceptive right now.
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Hannibal Chau @hannibal-chau.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Cutting medicaid means millions of people will be taking to the streets off their meds. They really didn’t think this through.
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
AOC responds to Republicans who criticized her for speaking directly to Americans at their hearing: “I will not yield to disrespectful men” 🔥🔥🔥
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
WAIT …YOU MEAN TRUMP LIED? Duh 🙄
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Aaaand there it is.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Like Pritzker's approach to this more and more!
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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Massive huge bellwether flip!! Congratulations John Ewing Jr, soon to be Mayor Ewing #MomSky
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/05/2025
We did it—together. Because of your support, the MeidasTouch Podcast has officially won Podcast of the Year at the Webby Awards. This honor belongs to you—the Meidas Mighty community that powers everything we do. Thank you.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“Trump’s Qatari jet gift sparks rare Jewish MAGA backlash *** The rare pushback…came as Trump began his first international trip,” visiting “several Gulf states — including Qatar, reviled in the pro-Israel community for its close ties with Hamas — while notably skipping Israel.” 5/13/25
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Trump’s Qatari jet gift sparks rare Jewish MAGA backlash
Qatar gifting luxury jet to Donald Trump prompted rare rebukes from his MAGA Jewish base like Laura Loomer, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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Save Medicaid
Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.
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Marty @brighterdaze.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“Would Hope” ????
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a young man in a white hoodie is standing in front of a white wall with his hands in his fists .
ALT: a young man in a white hoodie is standing in front of a white wall with his hands in his fists .
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
9/ To fight back: 🧠 Learn to spot pink slime (no bylines, vague “About” pages, identical stories) 📰 Subscribe to real local journalism 📣 Share this thread Disinformation isn’t coming. It’s already publishing in your town, and it’s wearing a friendly, local disguise.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
8/ Real local journalism is collapsing. These pink slime sites fill the void, cheap, automated, and partisan. They don’t inform; they deceive. And they’re helping quietly tip elections while discrediting real news. It’s an attack on civic trust, not just information.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
7/ The architect? Brian Timpone, known for fake bylines at Journatic, now mass-produces pink slime for GOP-aligned donors. His shell companies, Franklin Archer, Locality Labs—hide the money trail. He’s not reporting news. He’s running a political influence factory.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
6/ The same “local” story is copy-pasted across dozens of sites to simulate consensus. One concern becomes 30 headlines. It looks like everyone’s talking about it, but they’re not. It’s message laundering designed to hack trust in community news to influence real-world decisions.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
5/ It’s all microtargeted. In Wisconsin: stories inflaming school board outrage. In Arizona: inflation panic. In Florida: environmental fearmongering. Each narrative is tailored to sway public opinion and voter turnout in key districts. This is electoral engineering.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
4/ Behind the curtain? Dark money groups like Leonard Leo’s DonorsTrust, which funneled $1.27M to Metric Media in 2020. CatholicVote launched a $9.7M anti-Biden campaign through this system. These aren’t newsrooms. They’re voter manipulation machines. 🔗 www.cjr.org/tow_center_r...
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The Metric Media network runs more than 1,200 local news sites. Here are some of the non-profits funding them.
<p>This is the first part of a two-part investigation. The second piece can be found here. As local news outlets across the US struggle to stay afloat, pop-up newsrooms are filling the void. Organizat...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
3/ There are no reporters. No editors. Just AI regurgitating scraped public records, press releases, and partisan messaging, framed to stir outrage or reinforce conservative narratives. It’s cheap, scalable, and specifically designed to look local and real. It’s not.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
2/ These sites are run by Metric Media, a pink slime network with 1,200+ fake “local” outlets. They publish millions of AI-written stories monthly, wrapped in community branding to earn your trust. See for yourself: 🔗 www.metricmedia.org This isn’t journalism. It’s disinformation at scale.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
1/ You think you're reading local news. Illinois Valley Times. Tucson Standard. Arizona Today. But these aren't newsrooms, they're AI-run disinfo & propaganda machines funded by billionaires to manipulate your vote. Welcome to pink slime media. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue 🧵
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Rep. Dan Goldman calls out Pam Bondi for stonewalling the release of the Epstein files: Was this some sort of directive from Trump or an agent of his to the Attorney General to stop this?
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 12/05/2025
It is BATSHIT CRAZY that I had to introduce an amendment to prohibit ICE from detaining and deporting U.S. citizens. It’s even more insane that Republicans VOTED AGAINST MY AMENDMENT. They’re betraying their own constituents.
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Mr Cairo 🐸 @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
How does she not spontaneously combust??
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/05/2025
House Republicans running the Energy & Commerce committee, the committee with jurisdiction over Medicaid, have just given formal notice that they will hold a markup on Tuesday — that markup will determine how they're slashing Medicaid funding. energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
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Chairman Guthrie Announces Full Committee Markup of Budget Reconciliation Text
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Nothing quite makes you feel your age than finding out for the first time in your life that you’re older than the pope
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Good for Bill Gates
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Marty @brighterdaze.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Boy - did I need a laugh today? 😂😂😂
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🔥 Kimmel on @repstansbury.bsky.social gloriously trolling Marge for using a doctored photo to try to make a witness look bad
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The Trump administration is rushing to bring the first group of white South Africans classified as refugees to the U.S. early next week. Meanwhile, they’re trying to deport other refugees already here. Make it make sense. Oh wait, Elon’s homeland. Got it.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Pope Leo XIV delivered the homily during mass at the Sistine Chapel today after being elected the 267th pope of the Catholic Church. He had two women reading scripture at the service. Cue the incel meltdown. 🍿
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
"with seriousness and respect, your department is out of control," @chrismurphyct.bsky.social tells Puppy Killer Kristi. "you are spending like you don't have a budget; you're on the verge of running out of money; and you are ILLEGALLY refusing to spend funds appropriated by this committee" ⚰️
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
🔥🔥 "you're routinely violating rights of immigrants who may not be citizens, but like it or not, they have statutory rights when residing in America. your agency acts as if laws don't matter; as if the election gave you a mandate to violate laws passed by congress. it did not give you that mandate"
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
in concluding his defenestration of Noem, Senator Murphy referenced WWII (see my 🧵 below): "our asylum law is a bipartisan commitment—an effort to correct our nation's UNCONSCIONABLE decision to deny entry to Jews who were being hunted and killed by the Nazis" bsky.app/profile/will...
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
I could make more clips but u guys get the point. watch and share widely additional thoughts: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social is making the same point I voiced a few months ago inventing "laws" outta thin air is fun for the cult but what matters are laws as-written now. bsky.app/profile/will...
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Wait til they hear about some of the stuff Jesus said
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Kristin Burns @kristinburns25.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
substack.com/@petebuttigi...
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Pete Buttigieg on Substack
To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers filed a motion today and it could lead to a deposition in the White House. Read about it here and be up to date. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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A Subpoena for the White House?
On April 16, I wrote to you about a hearing in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, which is before U.S.
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Nick Walden Poublon @nwpinpdx.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
THAT’S my Senator. Thank you Senator Merkley!
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Marty @brighterdaze.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
THIS!!!
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
What could possibly go wrong? Trump administration has shut down #CDC's #infection control committee. Four members said they were informed of the termination Friday, but it had already taken effect in late March, according to a CDC letter. #Medical #health www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee
Four members said they were informed of the termination Friday, but it had already taken effect in late March, according to a CDC letter.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
They got rid of the entire action plan the last time … this is dystopian stuff.
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YouDontSay @domacrush.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We now have enough data for a Jefferson Griffin Venn Diagram:
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