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Looking to defeat Project 2025. 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌴🥥Pro: choice, science, critical thinking, compassion. Anti: MAGA, conspiracy theories, Qanon nonsense

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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
RFK Jr. Wants to Change a Program That Stopped Vaccine Makers From Leaving the U.S. Market. They Could Flee Again. www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
32 Palestinians shot dead trying to reach U.S. group's food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say Amid widespread hunger and a collapsing aid system, Palestinians continue to risk their lives for food. www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/p...
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32 Palestinians shot dead trying to reach U.S. group's food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say
Amid widespread hunger and a collapsing aid system, Palestinians continue to risk their lives for food.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 19/07/2025
Under Trump, law enforcement agencies have become the free speech police—especially when it comes to suppressing pro-Palestinian views. This is the new McCarthyism. From James Baratta:
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Free Speech Police
Under the Trump administration, every law enforcement agency is an immigration agency. And that often means attempting to deport people for their political beliefs, particularly about Israel.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/07/2025
The RNC is backing Indiana’s law that bans student IDs as valid forms to vote, arguing it’s not age discrimination, just “election integrity.” Voting rights groups say this is a direct attack on young voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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RNC Defends Indiana’s Student ID Voting Ban
Read more here.
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
82 Year Old Green Card Holder Disappeared And Deported By ICE www.dailykos.com/story/2025/7...
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82 Year Old Green Card Holder Disappeared And Deported By ICE
Here's another ICE story the MAGA world can be proud of. Luis Leon is an 82 year legal immigrant (green card holder) who has lived in the United States for nearly 40 years. He doesn't have so much as ...
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2025
Postmaster General David Steiner told USPS workers he doesn't believe in privatizing the agency. President Trump has expressed support for such a move, which would likely hurt services in rural areas.
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New U.S. Postal Service head says he doesn't believe in privatizing the mail agency
Postmaster General David Steiner told USPS workers he doesn't believe in privatizing the agency. President Trump has expressed support for such a move, which would likely hurt services in rural areas.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/07/2025
The Late Show isn’t dying because people stopped watching late-night TV. It’s being murdered because Stephen Colbert spent the last decade being one of Trump’s most persistent critics on network television. trib.al/Mi7ISuK
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Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like
Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show’s death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 18/07/2025
In parts of rural Kansas, PBS is more than TV. Families rely on it for children's shows, farm and weather updates, and local high school sports not shown elsewhere. Now that access is in jeopardy. Congress passed a bill cutting $1.1 billion in federal funding for public media. Read: bit.ly/44G61cM
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/07/2025
Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so.
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/07/2025
Breaking news: The Interior Department said it would add additional layers of review for wind and solar energy projects, following President Trump’s executive order aimed at ending any “preferential treatment” for renewable energy.
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Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects
The new requirement threatens to slow the approval process for renewable energy projects as they race to begin construction before the deadline for tax credits.
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/07/2025
JUST IN: The Trump administration has ended the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline's specialized service for LGBTQ+ youth. cnn.it/3UhuqPJ
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/07/2025
NEW: The right-leaning Florida Supreme Court affirms a 2022 congressional map drafted by Gov. Ron DeSantis, despite acknowledging that the map weakens Black electoral power in the state. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
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Florida Supreme Court Greenlights DeSantis’ Congressional Map that Eliminates Black Representation
Read more here.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17/07/2025
MAGA won’t let up on the Epstein files, and Trump is going full messy bitch on them
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/07/2025
Across the country, tens of thousands of protesters are expected to rally on Thursday under a shared refrain inspired by former U.S. congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis: “Good trouble lives on.”
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‘Good Trouble’ protests nationwide mark 5 years since John Lewis’s death
Tens of thousands of people pledged to take to the streets in what organizers have cast as a national day of action.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a birthday letter with a drawing of a naked woman on it and a note reading, "may every day be another wonderful secret," the Wall Street Journal just reported. Trump denies this ever happened, saying: "I never wrote a picture in my life."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/07/2025
Trump's HUD time limits proposal could put 1.4 million households at risk of losing housing subsidies — primarily families with children in public housing and Section 8, according to new research from New York University obtained by the AP.
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1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit
A Trump administration proposal could put more than a million low-income households at risk of losing their government-subsidized housing.
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Axios @axios.com · 18/07/2025
President Trump tonight threatened to sue the Wall Street Journal over a story describing a "bawdy" happy-birthday letter bearing his name that the outlet says was given to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Trump threatens to sue WSJ, Murdoch for story alleging racy letter to Epstein
Trump said he personally warned the WSJ and owner Rupert Murdoch "that the supposed letter"from 2003 was "a FAKE."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2025
“Historically, when left to their own devices, states don’t necessarily do the right thing for kids with disabilities and their families,” a former director at the federal Office of Special Education Programs said. With @idahostatesman.com (Published May)
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The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.
For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/07/2025
CBS claims that its decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s show is “financial,” but “the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues:
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Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’?
CBS no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 18/07/2025
The GOP-led House gave final approval to the bill just ahead of a Friday midnight deadline otherwise the money under the law must be spent.
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House passes Trump's cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid; next stop president's desk
The GOP-led House gave final approval to the bill just ahead of a Friday midnight deadline otherwise the money under the law must be spent.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 29/06/2025
Republicans proposed an insulting 1.5% fix to keep rural hospitals open. @ddayen.bsky.social on the Senate’s desperate scramble to pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. trib.al/ebsLfvD
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Republicans Propose Fixing 1.5 Percent of Their Rural Hospital Problem
An insulting offer for a rural hospital fund is panned by Senate Republican holdouts. But the leadership is betting they’ll give in soon enough.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/06/2025
The FDA banned an Indian factory run by Intas Pharmaceuticals from exporting to the U.S. but exempted certain drugs, including the transplant medication tacrolimus. Independent testing, solicited by ProPublica, found quality concerns.
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His Kidney Failed. He’ll Never Know if a Transplant Drug From a Banned Factory Was to Blame.
When Joe DeMayo’s donated kidney started to fail earlier than expected, he didn’t know that the drug he was taking could’ve left him vulnerable — and that one of the most formidable drug regulators…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/06/2025
Republicans’ domestic policy bill that is making its way through the Senate would result in deeper cuts and more Americans losing health insurance coverage than the original measure that passed the House last month, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
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Senate Version of Trump’s Policy Bill Would Slash Medicaid Spending Even More
Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans’ new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/06/2025
The DOJ sued Orange County, California, claiming the county's top election official withheld voter registration records. County election officials had offered to cooperate with the DOJ to provide the information while ensuring voter privacy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ Cuts Off Negotiations, Sues Orange County, CA Over Voter Records
Read more here.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 30/06/2025
Flint, Michigan, is still working on replacing all of its lead pipes.
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Flint's still-unfinished lead pipe replacement serves as cautionary tale to other cities
Flint, Michigan, is still working on replacing all of its lead pipes. The effort was supposed to be finished years ago, but slow work, poor record-keeping and residents' mistrust in their local government caused extensive delays.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/06/2025
Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist face beatings, food deprivation or worse. (Published 2022)
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Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming
Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist face beatings, food deprivation or…
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/06/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked vaccine advisory committee has chosen to entertain a classic anti-vaccine talking point; in its first meeting it will show how willing it is to disregard evidence, too. @katherinejwu.com reports:
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The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast
America’s vaccine advisory committee is now taking seriously a baseless anti-vaccine flashpoint.
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Paul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“calls also discussed efforts to coalesce behind Adams and working to keep Cuomo out of the race, the people said. They also discussed trying to get Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, to drop out by getting the White House to offer him a job in the Trump administration” www.wsj.com/us-news/wall...
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Wall Street Panics Over Prospect of a Socialist Running New York City
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning primary win is rattling the financial industry that had backed Andrew Cuomo.
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corbie1972.bsky.social @corbie1972.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
More and more l am thinking cruelty is the point with this regime. I was treated to a bizarre reel of a White House Paula White prayer group thing, eyes closed, swaying soft guitar… And then l guess it’s over and it’s “Fire up the Deportation planes” That’s not mine. That’s a quote. It’s sick.
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
They don’t care if we die: Proposed Medicaid cuts would result in thousands of preventable deaths www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Result in Thousands of Preventable Deaths, Study Finds
Study also shows 1.3 million would forego their medications after losing coverage
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
www.nokings.org/next #NoKings
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What's Next — No Kings
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dungeon crawler karl havoc @krampuslindholm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The reason people hate the Dems is because they spend more time backing a rogue state committing genocide than they do supporting their citizens
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schmidt-ct @jschm2681.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Funny how Trump org uses foreign workers while deporting foreign workers. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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Trump Organization Bringing Foreign Workers Into U.S. For Mar-a-Lago, Golf Clubs, Winery
Since 2008, Trump’s company has filed to bring nearly 1,900 foreign workers into the U.S.—including 31 in 2025, so far—as the president’s policies target many of these workers.
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geolsteve.bsky.social @geolsteve.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
'Shoot a couple': MAGA activists call for violence against 'No Kings' protesters www.alternet.org/maga-activis...
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'Shoot a couple': MAGA activists call for violence against 'No Kings' protesters
Members of several far-right MAGA-affiliated groups are now urging members to carry out acts of violence against protesters during Saturday's "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump's admin...
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
As President Donald Trump celebrates his birthday with a military parade in D.C., a broad coalition of opponents is rejecting what it calls the authoritarian excesses of his second administration. www.courthousenews.com/no-kings-mov...
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‘No Kings’ movement to hold nationwide protests June 14
As President Donald Trump celebrates his birthday with a military parade in D.C., a broad coalition of opponents is rejecting what it calls the authoritarian excesses of his second administration.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Ka$h Patel files a lawsuit (in Texas, where he can pick the MAGA judge of his choosing) against a former FBI deputy director who accused him of going to night clubs. (Really, like this is a libel?) Seems he really wants to know who Figliuzzi's sources are so he can fire them.
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FBI Boss Kash Patel Is Suing to Prove He’s Not Nightclubbing
The FBI director is suing Frank Figliuzzi over a claim he made on MSNBC last month.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/06/2025
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
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Avalanche @jake18101.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
They gotta be trolling, they just have to be trolling. If they are not trolling, then MAGA has confirmed that they intend to make him King and they are absolutely insane Beyond all reasonable measure. MAGA is a movement that must be stopped at all costs going forward. We cannot play nice anymore.
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
1,800+ 'No Kings' Rallies Planned Across US as Trump Deploys Military to Crush Protests www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...
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1,800+ 'No Kings' Rallies Planned Across US as Trump Deploys Military to Crush Protests | Common Dreams
Trump deploys National Guard to quell anti-ICE protests in LA. Protests planned to counter military parade on June 14.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 11/06/2025
More Trump & Hegseth lies exposed 🤬 Some National Guard troops who were mobilized to LA are now protecting ICE kidnappers on immigration raids in the area. WTF?! Where are the military officers who should be standing up against this?! @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
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Dianne Rees @joyfulwarrier24.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Ugh--those last minutes of the video--Hegseth smirking over renaming the Harvey Milk ship, during Pride, no less, "We are not interested in naming ships after activists." www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_tI...
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'What Authority?': Baldwin Demands Hegseth Cite Constitutional Provision To Send Troops To L.A.
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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Anna DNP, FNP, BC@ AccessToCareAdvocate @anna1900.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Trump administration is reinstating “Schedule F,” removing job protections for many civil servants and potentially politicizing over 100,000 federal jobs. This action threatens agency independence and expertise by extending political loyalty considerations to the career civil service.
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In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.
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Blue Mouse @remainstoked.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Much respect to Karen Bass for speaking truth to stupid in response to the Trump Administration's bullshit ICE is not going after dangerous criminals they are going after kids, employees, families. ICE is a rogue police force comprised of the worst people imaginable, sick fucks they are #FuckICE
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🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈‍⬛ @screwedjoan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It’s 2031. President JD Vance has staked his entire reputation on a bill that will outlaw sex with strap-ons. His administration’s political strength collapses when he answers press questions about heterosexual use of strap-ons with an extremely puzzling “pegging isn’t straight. trust me.” diatribe
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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NO KINGS PASADENA · Mobilize
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 09/06/2025
State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.
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‘Wildly underprepared’: National Guard troops seen sleeping on floors in exclusive photos
State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/r...
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RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines
It's the latest move by Kennedy – a prominent vaccine skeptic – to change and potentially undermine vaccinations in the U.S. since he took the helm at HHS.
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and 'willful childlessness' The nation's largest Protestant denomination will ask its members to approve a resolution calling for a reversal of the Supreme Court's landmark gay marriage decision. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
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Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and 'willful childlessness'
The nation's largest Protestant denomination will ask its members to approve a resolution calling for a reversal of the Supreme Court's landmark gay marriage decision.
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ekh31.bsky.social @ekh31.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Trump “hell-bent” on “revenge against me and my family” | White House whistleblower Miles Taylor www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPqj...
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Trump “hell-bent” on “revenge against me and my family” | White House whistleblower Miles Taylor
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
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