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Connie Buskist

@buskicj.bsky.social
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Proud Colorado Democrat. Happily married. Retired education professor. Would like to continue living in a democracy. Hoping the same for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Support 🇨🇦 also. Correction: No DMs--Hello, how are you is NOT something I want to see! I will block you!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h
If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
Federal ICE agents raided Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home before dawn this morning. The Trump DOJ confirms agents executed a search warrant as part of a criminal investigation reportedly involving immigration paperwork completed by Omar’s late father when she was a CHILD. 1/
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ICE Raids Ilhan Omar’s Home
Homeland Security Investigations searched the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington-area home under a sealed warrant tied to forms her late father filled out when she was a child. No charge has been filed.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 💚 The places we love and fight to protect are Indigenous homelands long before they became national parks. Those connections are still very much alive.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
🔥 damn — MARGE TO TRUMP: “you are the deep state, the Epstein class, and America last, and my mistake was ever supporting you in the first place”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11h
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Reyes is furious. She has repeatedly told the government to inform her before any major demolition work was done on the golf course. The abrupt removal of 500 trees, without notice, "has cost the government all of its credibility" in this case.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy said live on air that this weekend that Ukraine has killed 1 million Russian children during the war and she is still doing her shows with not a word from Fox about it. That’s what Fox is.
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 13h
So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: the court has paused the Trump admin tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links, where we are contesting the dumping of toxic East Wing debris & creating a Trump golf course We raced to court with partners Democracy Forward & Lowell & Assoc, & filed for an emergency hearing--today at 10am!
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 11h
Sometimes I get sent a video or photo of a dog and we have to drop everything. This was such a case. Left behind by his "owners" and in a bad way medically. I'm hopeful we can turn his life around. I called him Frank as I hope he puts on weight one day and becomes Frank the Tank
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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦💙
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today in DC: "Beginning Saturday, crews will start another major round of cutting at the historic public golf course. The first phase contains 169 trees marked for removal. The Trump Administration says as many as 529 could eventually come down..." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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More than 500 trees may be removed from D.C. golf course Trump wants to redesign
Beginning Saturday, National Park Service crews will start another major round of cutting at East Potomac Golf Links, according to a new filing in federal court.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The word for this is racism
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THX•1138 @ithx1138.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We stand with
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
😩😩😩
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
💙💛💯🇺🇦
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Asked and answered 👀
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Josh Turek: We need to have campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics. I want to sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We can have oligarchy or we can have democracy. We can't have both.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Only in a government run by Trump and a State Dept run by Rubio can an unqualified grifter like Kim Guilfoyle remain Ambassador to Greece after all the scandals that have come out just in the last week. But she obviously has A LOT of dirt on the president’s son, so tough to fire.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Heartbreaking 💔 Children scream while masked ICE goons kidnap their families in broad daylight in Harrison, New Jersey.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Colorado’s Kyle Clark reports Tina Peters is out of prison and again trying to help Trump overthrow our democracy and steal the next election. jared polis care to comment?
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is worrying news. But anxiety is not a strategy. Join @indivisible.org's midterm election protection program to help make sure we're ready for whatever tricks Trump tries to hold on to power. indivisible.org/campaigns/ou...
MS NOW: Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This.👇
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Connie Buskist @buskicj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She is the only one I’ve seen pushback against everything that he says. He never wants to blame Trump. And everyone lets Tillis slide on his support for Trump.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As Trump crisscrossed the country last week trying to help his party avoid a blowout in the midterms, two of his top political advisers — James Blair and Chris LaCivita — were in the Balkans helping a pro-Russian government looking to tighten its grip on power.
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
In 2024, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws—a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him as he tries to get people to buy his own book.
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Book-banning GOP governor wants you to buy his book
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is promoting himself as a "peacemaker."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is my honor and privilege to announce that President @barackobama.bsky.social is joining us on the trail in Detroit on Saturday, October 24. Get. Ready.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reckoning is here…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He spent his entire life tangled up on a short chain. That’s why I called him Rusty. To see him now is a thing of beauty. One of the nicest and most gentle dogs you could ever wish to meet
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago, Illinois faced the nation's biggest fiscal challenge — budget turmoil, unpaid debt, and a credit rating downgraded 24 times. Now, we're in the strongest financial position in decades — 8 balanced budgets, 12 credit-rating upgrades, and no overdue bill backlog.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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