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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
$400,000! The Bulwark community stepping up. An honor to be a part of it.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Hillbillies from Outerspace
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Krisi 🏳️‍⚧️ @primaryradical.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ask my dad what he's up to this weekend and he's like, "Got a 50s Dodge truck cab to attach to the chasis of the junked Mini Cooper so I can turn it into a rat rod." I laughed, so he sends me pics. Oh you're serious. Just out there running around, undiagnosed.
Frankenstein car mash up in a garage. Frankenstein car mash up in a garage.
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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Did you know that the traditional deck of playing cards are a veritable and most ingenious form of calendar?
* There are 52 weeks in the year and 52 playing cards
* There are 13 weeks in each season and there are also 13 cards in each suit.
* There are 4 seasons and 4 suits
* There are 12 months of the year and 12 Court cards (those which have faces)
* The Red cards represent the Day, the Black cards the Night
* If you let the Jacks = 11, the Queens = 12, and the Kings = 13,
then add up all the sums of 1 + 2 + 3 + …to 13 = 91
Multiply this by 4, for the 4 suits;
91 x 4 = 364 then add 1 that is the Joker and you will arrive at the
number of days in the year.
Is that mere coincidence? or a greater intelligence
* Of interest is the sum of the letters in all the names of the cards;
eg : add up the letters in "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack, Queen, King" = 52 !

Excerpt from The BOOK of PHI, Vol 1,
The Living Mathematics Of Nature
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/09/2026
One last post (for now) on this wee entry about writerly dishonesty (mine), then back in its box it goes.
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To Tell the Truth
[a confession]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"In the end, we all die anyway, so it doesn't matter." Reportedly said by the President of the United States, days before a war. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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dragonguitart.bsky.social @dragonguitart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just don’t understand why people think Sports Illustrated is going to end civilization.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Monumental Obsession
The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026
There's lots of reasons to believe AI "hyperscalers" can never be profitable, and not just the gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money on new customers and every use, and they lose more with each generation of their products): pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Tenniel's 'Red Queen's Race' engraving from Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass.' It has been altered so that the Red Queen and Alice now have the heads of 1940s pulp robots. The image has been hand-tinted.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
Fiorinamarietta on Threads writes: "The death of department stores as an EXPERIENCE needs to be studied. You used to be able to buy a dress, have lunch, get your hair done, smell every perfume in existence and leave carrying beautifully wrapped boxes. Shopping used to be an event."
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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dragonguitart.bsky.social @dragonguitart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is horrible. “Even now, six months later, well over a thousand evacuated troops and their families are still in limbo, with many separated from pets and belongings due to the devastation. The potential loss of NSA Bahrain is effectively the equivalent of losing an aircraft carrier.”
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
𝟔𝟎+ 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐂 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟐. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 30/08/2026
This week the FDA approved a new pill for pancreatic cancer, which nearly doubled the survival rate for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. For one of the deadliest cancers, it’s the biggest step forward in decades and a reminder of the power of medical innovation.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
While Joshua Aviles works 12+ hour shifts on the USS Lincoln on a deployment of more than 250 days for Trump‘s illegal war of choice against Iran, his father, Luis Manuel Aviles, has now been arrested by Border Patrol and faces deportation courtesy of the Trump Regime:
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
nytimes.com
Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026
Any frank assessment of your achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces that attended those achievements. For example, I often tell people who want to get into tech, "If you lack the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can't really help you." 1/
An old-timey baseball player sliding into base in a great dust-cloud. The background is a high-magnification multicore CPU.
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dragonguitart.bsky.social @dragonguitart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The reason Vance and Rubio hate Zelenskyy is that, despite the highest of stakes and the biggest of power imbalances, Zelenskyy stood up like a BALLER and told Trump “NO!” Yet those two toadies did not, even with comparatively little to lose. They look like little babies compared to Z.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 14/08/2026
Donald Trump refused to extend the health insurance premium tax credits, and now Americans are paying the price. Out-of-pocket premiums on the individual market jumped 58% last year nationally.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
People dying in American concentration camps
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Took=Kidnapped
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s crazy how much attention my open letter to David Ellison has garnered.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
“The new gas-burning plant, if built to specifications, would be permitted to release more planet-warming gases than any other power plant in the country.”
nytimes.com
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026
It won't end well. Zuck and people like him call themselves "high agency," a disgusting bit of jargon meant to denote someone who has real interiority, wishes and desires (as opposed to the rest of us, who do as we're told and stay where we're put). 44/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026
For the Facebook and Instagram users who are about to be buried in an endless botshit avalanche, this is the beginning of the "Eternal Sloptember." From here on in, the slop only gets worse and thicker and harder to avoid. 42/
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 04/08/2026
Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.

But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Omar Navarro, who pleaded guilty to embezzling $250k from his congressional campaign, says he was told he could get a Trump pardon if he paid $2m-$3m to a law firm. He won't say who told him this, because the person "is pretty powerful in the government … so I’m very scared to even say anything.”
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How Trump’s presidential pardons became booming business for law firms: ‘You have to pay $2 million, $3 million’
Pardon-seekers are paying lobbyists millions for “executive relief” under President Trump, but critics warn most are being scammed, and even $600,000 couldn’t get rapper Boosie Ba…
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Tsundoku Artist @kbsutt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
An absolutely epic 🧵 from @doctorow.pluralistic.net today
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/07/2026
It may strike you as weird, but lenders *love* lending to poor people who will have trouble paying them back. Obviously, lenders want to be repaid, and the more money you have, the easier it is to settle your debts, but that means that if you have a lot of money, you pay *less* to borrow. 1/
A 19th century engraving of a family being evicted from their tenement. The family stands, miserable, on the sidewalk, watched over by cops and their curious neighbors, as baliffs carry their worldly goods out of their former home. The image has been altered. It has been tinted sepia. The Apple 'Think Different' wordmark has been matted into the top of the scene. The trunk the baliffs are carrying has been replaced with a blocky Mac SE/30.
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dragonguitart.bsky.social @dragonguitart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
He left us!
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has voided President Donald Trump's controversial settlement with the IRS, ruling that his underlying $10 billion lawsuit was filed for an "improper purpose" to engineer a self-dealing agreement. @anntelnaes.bsky.social
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham may have been a good man; perhaps he could have been a great one; but he chose to be Trump’s man. This morning I’m wondering what John McCain has to say to his old friend, assuming, of course, they are in the same place. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Epic Fury Returns; Lindsey Graham, R.I.P; and A Week in Review
Ahh, but Richard, it profits a man nothing to gain the whole world if he should lose his soul… but for Wales, Richard?” — A Man for All Seasons
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy...
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Dan Haar: Fake news? No, fake media may be the real danger at a Connecticut ICE raid
"This is a reality-TV-show president... And it sounds to me like they were making a reality TV show," Amanda Crawford said.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/07/2026
Lorenzo’s Salgado's brother Victor told his lawyer that the agent who pulled his brother out of the vehicle and cuffed him on the ground as he bled out asked in a mocking tone “Se querían escapar, verdad?” which means. “You wanted to escape, right?” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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dragonguitart.bsky.social @dragonguitart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Does it, though?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/07/2026
A Police Executive Research Forum report from 2014 showed that CBP officers were purposely placing themselves in front of moving vehicles, and then shooting at them. This isn’t something that can be reformed. Abolish ICE. www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Border Patrol Releases New Use-Of-Force Guidelines, Critical Report
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske said the release was a push for more transparency. The agency had previously declined to make changes recommended by the panel.
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Sandy Bruce 🧢 ❤️🤍💙 @sandyatbeach.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you read anything at all today - please make it be this article written by my husband J.C.Bruce. www.jcbruce.com/p/a-victory-...
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A victory for the First Amendment: DeSantis' pet project--the Stop WOKE Act--is shredded
News and commentary for Floridians and other Americans concerned about the future of our democracy
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dragonguitart.bsky.social @dragonguitart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Spoke with my good friend you know who for 20 minutes today.
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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Definite Communist.
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dragonguitart.bsky.social @dragonguitart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m sad about US soccer because people around the world won’t remember the heroic game vs B-H. Instead, they’ll remember that a corrupt US president and a corrupt FIFA colluded, but the USMNT lost in spite of that cheating. So sad. Trump turned the US effort in the World Cup to green goo. #ETTD
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