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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, attending university, visiting relatives, or conducting business." Trump stops severely injured Palestinian children from seeking medical help here. Please, Palestinian Americans, help us with your votes! He's a liar!
nytimes.com
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
GOP these days: “A noun, a verb, and TRANS!”
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Trump sent the National Guard armed into D.C. WHAT could go wrong? Kent State, anyone??? In 1970, students peacefully protested the Vietnam War. They were carrying flowers, and the Guard was carrying M-1 military rifles. Four young people were killed exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
washingtonpost.com
The girl in the Kent State photo and the lifelong burden of being a national symbol
In 1970, an image of a dead protester at Kent State became iconic. But what happened to the 14-year-old kneeling next to him?
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Putin mocks Trump by contradicting him on a "peace deal." The other finger in Trump's eye was 2 days ago when Putin deliberately bombed an Amer. company in Ukraine! Trump's response to this attack against America? 💤 What if Obama let Russia bomb an American company? He doesn't love America!
open.substack.com
Putin Tanks Trump’s Supposed Peace Effort
But don’t expect actual tough measures to penalize the Russian dictator’s obstructionism.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
See this? Will the people rise? Maybe? We need our protest singers. This is a start!
threads.com
Waylon Lewis (@waylonlewis) on Threads
Best thing I've heard all day.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I'm throwing a queerie out into the void: Anyone understand the thinking & strategy behind Project 2025? It seems illogical to me to cruelly cut off aid to people in Africa, which leaves China in a position to step up & gain their loyalty. ETC. It just all seems so illogical and self-defeating.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Ruh Roh... it appears DJT is claiming squatter's rights to the nation's White House. Seems that he has NO intention of departing! Trump plans $200M overhaul of East Wing in significant change to White House, which he seems to think is now HIS. More tacky "bordello" gold. TALK ABOUT ELITESTS!
ca.news.yahoo.com
Trump reveals $200 million golden ballroom in ‘modernized’ White House East Wing
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt unveiled renderings for the president’s complete home makeover that bring a whole new meaning to the term Golden Arches
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The Trump Administration gives this pedophile limited immunity. Ghislaine Maxwell is, at the very least, a "groomer..." ... Anyone else remember when TRUMPERS were screaming about GROOMERS?!? Are they now going to support Trump if he pardons her or lessens her incarceration? GOP HYPOCRISY!
abcnews.go.com
Ghislaine Maxwell received limited immunity during meetings with deputy attorney general: Sources
A second meeting between Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche took place on Friday for about three hours.
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We have an exclusive piece from Bernice King as the government releases MLK assassination files www.vanityfair.com/news/story/b...
vanityfair.com
Bernice King Speaks Out as the Government Releases Files About Her Father, Martin Luther King Jr.
The declassification of a new round of MLK records conjures her mother Coretta’s words: “They keep trying to assassinate your father over and over again.”
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
For all those minorities who voted for Trump & are NOW worried about their longterm status as Americans... ... I just don't know what to say. "You trusted the wrong sources," springs to mind first. We DID ring the alarms and spelled out the dangers of a 2nd Trump presidency. No one is safe now!
theatlantic.com
Naturalized Citizens Are Scared
To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts our status at risk?
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
ICE is Trump's Gestapo! He's super charged ICE into the largest police force in the country with a $75B ICE expansion. They were not created to just deport people, but to do Trump's bidding without question. America is now a police state.
theconversation.com
How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We all know Trump will do whatever he can to keep  Gullaine Maxwell quiet... ... sure makes you wonder about Epstein's sudden death! It's possible that Trump's Supreme buddies will bail him out again and overturn her conviction in the case she's bringing to them. She won't be allowed to talk.
al.com
Trump considered pardoning Epstein accomplice, feared what she could reveal, biographer claims
"Everybody around him was kind of like, ‘oh God, we hope she won’t say anything but we really hope he doesn’t pardon her.'"
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A little boost for all of us who sometimes think that Trump always gets his way... ... share what he wants hidden!!!
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
MAGA supporters, suffering from Stockholm syndrome, swarm back to support Trump, ONE DAY after he called them "stupid people, foolish and dupes." THEN they prove him right by crawling back with slobbering loyalty, like beaten dogs whining for a pat on the head! Stupid people, foolish and dupes.
abcnews.go.com
'We are so back': MAGA supporters rally around Trump following WSJ article
Some leading voices in President Trump’s MAGA base who criticized his handling of the Epstein files are now rallying to his defense after a Wall Street Journal story.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Occam’s Razor: "What’s the simplest explanation for Trump’s refusal to release any information about the Epstein files? What’s the most straightforward explanation for Trump’s far-fetched attempts at deflection, OR for his lashing out at supporters who aren’t obeying his instructions to shut up?"
thebulwark.com
A Crisis of MAGA Faith
Trump’s knee-jerk antagonism of some of his most faithful supporters over the Epstein Affair could come at a real price.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"Israeli involvement in Syria’s sectarian clashes" reads a comment from Foreign Policy. Sectarian clashes??? You thought there was a little skirmish between sectarian groups? Israel f-ing bombed Damascus, the capital of Syria. Netanyahu is out of control!
nytimes.com
Israel Strikes Syrian Capital, Sending Warning to Government
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Consumer prices rose 2.7% in June from a year ago." I posted last month that we'd soon see if inflation was the reason Dems lost in the last election. If not inflation, then what? DJT is not losing support among half the voters... they LIKE the racism and cruelty. That's the only conclusion!
fortune.com
Inflation hits highest level since February as toll of tariffs begins to appear
Consumer prices rose 2.7% in June from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Tuesday, up from an annual increase of 2.4% in May.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
WHAT could go wrong???
bbc.com
Musk's Grok signs $200m deal with Pentagon just days after antisemitism row
The deal is part of the Trump administration's push for more aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence in the government.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The ‘Parasites’ and the ‘Good Immigrants’
open.substack.com
The ‘Parasites’ and the ‘Good Immigrants’
Meet more of the worst people in the world.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/07/2025
Bishop Alberto Rojas of San Bernardino took the extraordinary step of formally excusing parishioners in his diocese from the obligation of attending mass weekly - because of the possibility immigration officers would seize people coming to or from church.
thebulwark.com
A Religious Rebellion Against Mass Deportation
American Christians are showing increasing discomfort with Trump’s signature policy.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Is Trump's Gestapo only for deporting illegal immigrants? ICE is his secret police to threaten: Political opponents, peaceful protestors, & minorities. Remember: "First they came for the masons..." Then, people are hauled off to the concentration camps he's building. THIS is our biggest danger!
the.ink
WATCH: Trump’s secret police and the force multiplier of fear
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on how ICE’s low-level buzz of terror recalls the methods of autocrats and colonial powers, how to reclaim patriotism, and why Americans are still what they eat
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/07/2025
"The list of countries receiving the posted letters is a bit of a jumble....It could be that Trump had Scott Bessent spin a globe while his son Barron shot a paintball gun at it."
thebulwark.com
How the GOP Brought Trump Back from the Dead
A new book reveals his surprise that his supposed opponents defended him at a low point in his post-presidency.
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GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If your “leader” enjoys showing off concentration camps -you’re in a fascist cult. “We’d like to see them in many states,” Trump said. “And at some point, they might morph into a system where you’re going to keep it for a long time.”
newrepublic.com
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
THE SUPREME COURT is a rogue court, making rulings that predictors never thought our High Court would do: Overturn Roe, Rule the president IS above the law, Determine Trump CAN deport immigrants to countries they have no connection to... ... think they won't rule against Birthright Citizenship?
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Trump hosted supposed moderate House Republicans trying to convince them to support his tax cuts for the rich, but multiple people said that the president appeared not to know what's in the bill. -JASON EASLEY open.substack.com/pub/politicu...
open.substack.com
This Should Be A Scandal: Declining Trump Met With Congress And Didn't Know What Was In BBB
Trump hosted supposed moderate House Republicans trying to convince them to support his tax cuts for the rich, but multiple people said that the president appeared not to know what's in the bill.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
WATCH: “If Biden answered any Q like this can you imagine how long @jaketapper’s book would be?” Asked how long detainees will stay at “Alligator Alcatraz”, Trump spent 3 mins on how much time he plans to stay in Florida. The media didn’t even cover it. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DLoIPar...
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Larry J. Simon @larryjsimon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Great thread exploring the roots of just one of Trump’s sadistic fantasies turned reality in Authoritarian US of America.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/07/2025
Instead of raising a principled objection to stop it from happening, Murkowski suggested she would try to work in the future to make the very thing she just allowed to happen less bad. That's...one approach.
thebulwark.com
Senate GOP to Medicaid Recipients: Drop Dead
The haphazard budget is almost over the finish line.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
America is in a fight that will last a generation or more. The speed of Trump's destruction of our free democracy will not be matched by the long slog to restore it. All three branches of gov't are aligned against democracy, and half the voters WANT "a daddy" to wield power over the country.🤨
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My first thought upon hearing that the Supreme Court is allowing states to deny Birthright Citizenship to children born to undocumented residents... ... I thought of all the Latino Trump voters and asked myself: WHEN will they realize Trump doesn't want "your kind" here?
cbsnews.com
Supreme Court, in birthright citizenship case, limits judges' use of nationwide injunctions
The court ruled that universal injunctions issued by lower courts likely exceed the authority Congress has granted them.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Watching Hegseth's performances reminds me of someone else seen on the world stage... ... oh, YEAH--> it's Bagdad Bob who kept repeating & shouting LIES, somehow believing if he said them often enough, & loud enough people would believe him! Nah. Didn't work then, won't work now. Bagdad Pete.
msnbc.com
Nicolle Wallace breaks down Pete Hegseth’s meltdown and tantrum at Pentagon press conference
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the performative press conference staged by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth where he di...
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DawnieFish @dawniefish.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Anyone else stunned when DJT blurted out, at the end of his announcement about the bombing of Iran... ... “I want to just thank everybody &, in particular, God. I want to just say, we love you, God." ??? Ever heard a president talk to God in public, while boasting of a bombing attack? AWKWARD!
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
YEAH... what he said!
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Assassination is a crime under international law, in times of war & peace. Yet, Netanyahu threatens to assassinate Iran's head of state, Ayatollah Khamenei. We just cannot look the other way if he does, just because we loath the Ayatollah. Bibi, like Trump, does not support the rule of law!
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
GOP exile, David Brooks, tells the truth about the Democratic Party! "If you’re thinking the Democrats’ job now is to come up with some new policies that appeal to the working class, you are thinking too small. This is not about policies." BE BOLD, DEMS!!!
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Democrats’ Problems Are Bigger Than You Think
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
America fought to be free from the first Mad King in 1775... and DIDN'T look back... ... and now we fight a Mad King again for our freedom that our Founders gave to us! NO KINGS!
youtu.be
Hamilton - You'll Be Back
YouTube video by Dave Bosse
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
MAGAs, including Elon Musk, are spreading false rumors that the assassinated Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota was killed in a plot hatched by DEMOCRATS and Governor Waltz!!!
youtu.be
MAGA Push INSANE LIES As MN Shooter Revealed To Be Trump Supporter
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
So helpful to see the data on deportations. Being able to see Trump's tactics compared with previous presidents' puts the subject in perspective. Having the data on deportation success allows us to then ask the question... ... WHAT the hell is Trump doing, and WHY? It can't be good!
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If Democrats ever regain the power to reform the Secret Service... ... The Trump-friendly agents MUST be purged!
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Take to the streets. Make your voice heard. Show them how many of us there are. ... they can't arrest ALL of us!
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I realize we're not supposed to say, "Hitler," but...
theatlantic.com
Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator
Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
My first thoughts and sentiments EXACTLY! Same with the accusations of, "these protesters won't be ALLOWED to harm police." How 'bout, "they're INSURRECTIONISTS." OR, "I called in the National Guard." The irony is palpable.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/06/2025
I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
With Trump's Kim Jong Un-style military parade and his deployment of National Guard on the streets of L.A., he's clearly conditioning the American people to accept ... ... the sights of the military in the streets of our country. THIS IS A POLICE STATE!
the.ink
WATCH: Bursting the police state’s trial balloons
Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Jason Stanley on the reaction to the Los Angeles protests, Trump’s weakness, and why a mass movement is the only answer
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
TRUTH!!! Spread the word.
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
OMG, you guys... we are so f-ed! This culmination of right-wing goals, with Trump at the helm today, began decades ago when the GOP demeaned government & glorified "privatization." "The private sector & businessmen are better at running the government, & regulations are bad. Voters bought it.
theatlantic.com
Feudalism Is Our Future
What the next Dark Ages could look like
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dianesikes.bsky.social @dianesikes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
We're toast. When a Conservative Supreme Court rules in favor of an administration that wants to access and collect private citizens' private data ... BIG GOV'T HAS ARRIVED! It can only get worse when Thomas and Alito resign and Trump appoints Aileen Cannon to the High Court!
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