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ContraryMAF

@contrarymaf.bsky.social
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Abyss gazer, language lover, nature worshipper. Blue dot 🔵 in a red county. Sketchy vibes and DMs get you blocked! And, I guess I have to add this: FFS, No f'n crypto pushers!

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Donald Trump and the Republican party — big tough guys keeping America safe from… the little league world series. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series
The Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2025
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to…
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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Alligator Alcatraz was supposed to be for hardened criminals. Instead they're filling it with people found during minor traffic stops. Highway patrol is stopping people for precisely this reason. www.rawstory.com/alligator-al...
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'DeSantis lied’: Key claim behind 'Alligator Alcatraz' just collapsed
When Florida Republicans unveiled a makeshift detention camp site for migrants in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," they characterized it as a facility for hardened criminals who needed to...
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Just in: parents of dead kids are bad and evil...
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Burnt Bleghk 🎃 @brentalfloss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
our country rn
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Trump is calling a bill that he doesn’t understand the only way to save America, and 50 people who mostly DO understand it - and hate it - just voted for it because the guy who doesn’t know what’s in it told them to. What a clusterfuck.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
"No more secrecy. No more lies. No more empty promises. Spread this post far and wide so people understand what’s at stake. Call US Senators at (202) 224-3121. Flood their feeds and let them know how angry you are and tell them to vote 'NO' on the BBB. They are trying to silence our opposition."
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Blue In A Red State @bluenredstate.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.” In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Freedom Riders faced a mob at this bus station. DOGE wanted to sell it. (GIFT) wapo.st/4j8mOdj
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Freedom Riders faced a mob at this bus station. DOGE wanted to sell it.
The landmark site in Montgomery, Alabama, was deemed “not core to government operations,” and other stops in U.S. civil rights history could also be at risk.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/03/2025
Timeline: Trump schedules deportation of Venezuelans without due process ACLU sues Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act Hours later, Boasberg grants TRO in emergency hearing and orders planes in the air to return Trump ignores the order while Rubio and Bukele high five on Twitter
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/03/2025
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
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realGuyFawkes. @realguyfawkes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
They must go.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Old, soiled couch sitting on the curb with a trashcan.
text: You didn't say "Thank you.  -J. D. Vance
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 19/02/2025
look familiar
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
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Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/02/2025
If you can afford $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, you can afford to pay your fair share of taxes.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Great point.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/02/2025
"Silicon Valley types like to move fast and break things. I guess that’s fine if the only thing you break is your own bank account, but applying that spirit to foreign assistance (again, without a shred of legal authority) means breaking human beings."
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Trump and Musk Take a Hammer to America’s Reputation
Their version of America is selfish, wasteful, and cruel.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🫤🇺🇸
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hmmm 🤔
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
For 80 years the international organizations we created after World War II have prevented what would likely be a catastrophic global war if it was ever to happen again. They are destroying global security that has worked for the entire nuclear age.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms and businesses. U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is a national emergency:
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Dede Bell, NBCT @dedebellnbct.bsky.social @dedebellnbct.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is the kind of who we need right now! @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social I hope these stronger, louder, young voices get the platforms they deserve and that we need! @aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov Bernie, help us form a coalition with these voices we need!
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Blue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Remember the Nuremberg Trials! Keep America A Democracy. Don’t violate the rights of citizens. Your pledge is to the Constitution not to a dictator!
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 29/01/2025
Jim Acosta talks about his thoughts after resigning from CNN after 18 years. This is big. By mainstream anchors leaving the studio & becoming independent journalists via Substack & other platforms, they leave behind their corporate overlords. They can be part of THE PEOPLE. We need more of this.
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Jim and Norm
A recording from Jim Acosta's live video
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/01/2025
ICE detained a family—including a toddler—after they were overheard speaking Spanish. They’re US citizens from Puerto Rico. No chance to explain. The mother, grandmother, and child were shopping when ICE agents took them into detention before admitting their “mistake.” This is Trump’s America.
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𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 - 𝐓𝐇𝐌 @tomhicksmedia.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I'm not sure which is scarier: What's currently going on in this country, or the number of people who are perfectly fine with what's going on in this country.
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𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 - 𝐓𝐇𝐌 @tomhicksmedia.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I can't believe he actually pulled it off! He managed to get Christians to hate the church and the teachings of Christ. Un-fucking-believable!!!
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025
REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers? TRUMP: Sure REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon? TRUMP: Well, I don't know
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
And there it is … again. Another irreplaceable shoe dropping from the Riveting Storyteller for All of America (tm). It’s going to be a polar vortex of the very best shoes still to come. How do I know? I know.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Just so folks understand where we are in this thing: The last decade? Only the prelude. If you’re not strong enough, get strong enough.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/01/2025
People are dying and losing their homes while these dipshits blame women and people of color for it. Nothing but contempt for these despicable opportunists.
"Screenshot of a Twitter exchange: The first tweet by 'Libs of TikTok' lists grievances against fire department management and policies, sarcastically attributing them to climate change, including hiring a DEI manager, defunding fire departments, and mismanaging forests. The second tweet, a reply from Elon Musk, questions this perspective, suggesting: 'Wild theory: maybe, just maybe, the root cause wasn’t climate change?'"
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
So, he’s not gonna lower the price of groceries like he said, and he’s not gonna stop immigrants from taking American jobs like he said, and he’s not gonna protect social security like he said, but at least he might go to war with Greenland, Canada and Panama, so there is that.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Elon, Peter Thiel, and a few other TESCREALists who are disciples of fascist madman Curtis Yarvin selected J.D. Vance to be VP (because Vance is also a secret Yarvinist). And you have to read what the Yarvinists want to do to you and your family to believe it. I’m not even going to say it anymore.
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Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.
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MickeyMcMeans @mickeymcmeans.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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