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Gila Iguana

@gilaiguana.bsky.social
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Retired Grandmother in Chicago 74 yrs old.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/07/2025
New rule: no criticizing the way others choose to resist unless you have a better, actionable idea and kind, constructive feedback. New ideas are good! Performative contrarianism is useless.
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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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E. Jean @ejeancarroll.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I am still in shock. I still can't QUITE believe this miracle! And it is thanks to you! My readers have more oomph and pizzazzzz than any readers on Earth. So that's Champagne I'm shooting out the water pistols. (KIDDING. It's water, but the great photographer, Elinor Carucci got the shot!!)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We are living in precarious times.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
GOP 2021: “The debt is out of control! GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!” GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!” GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
They promised 90 trade deals in 90 days. Today is day 80 and there’s still ZERO. The art of no deal.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump's ex-wife Ivana wasn't an American citizen until 1988.
She gave birth to Don Junior in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984.
Let's cancel their birthright citizenship first.
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The Trump DOJ’s lawsuit against every federal district court judge in Maryland flew under the radar. It’s absolutely bonkers.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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TheSnarkTank @thesnarktank.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
In case anyone thought Trump cared about the Jewish people, and not just his cronies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Oops. 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If Christian Nationalist parents are allowed to have their kids opt-out of any books that dare mention anyone gay, then all the other parents should be allowed to let their kids opt-out from the Ten Commandments.
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/06/2025
Thou shalt not let people be murdered at home for their political beliefs and just “move on.” Thou shalt not let children be murdered at school for trying to learn and just “move on.” Thou shalt never stop fighting to make these horrors end.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.
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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Cartoon by @claybennett.bsky.social. Birthright Citizenship
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/06/2025
A while back, our Good Trouble assignment on the @dailybeanspod.com was to flood the National Parks feedback inbox. It worked. Keep causing #GoodTrouble www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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‘GO **** YOURSELVES’: National park visitors slam feds in leaked park comments
Attempts to root out 'negative' national parks history have backfired.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
@robertgarcia.bsky.social: "We've gotta be talking about Donald Trump's corruption every single day. It is beyond what anyone has ever done. He has essentially turned the White House into an ATM for himself and his family."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/06/2025
Abusive messages, fear of physical violence and violations of privacy are the cost of elected office in the U.S. now, according to nine Gen Z and millennial state lawmakers.
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After Minnesota shootings, young lawmakers ask: Is politics worth it?
In an era where safety precautions and online abuse are often part of the job, young American lawmakers wonder if politics is just too dangerous as a career.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani, moments ago, talking about how he’s going to fix NYC. This guy sounds presidential.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I just did the math, and yes, this checks out.
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Ron Chusid @rchusid.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
RFK Jr. is already responsible for the deaths of children. Now he is trying to kill hundreds of thousand more with cutting of funding for Gavi. #Medsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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RFK Jr will be ‘personally responsible’ for children’s deaths by halting vaccine alliance funding, experts say
US health secretary says US will decline to renew funding for Gavi, a partnership that works to provide vaccines for poorest countries
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SDK_Resists @sdk-resists.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=-swH... Republicans are looking to pass Trump's bill TODAY! What they're not telling you is it includes cuts to Medicare that would close one out of every four nursing homes across the country! Families and seniors will suffer to give billionaires another tax cut!
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BREAKING: MAJOR UPDATE on Republican budget bill
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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MickieMorganfield @mickiedances.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
nytimes.com/interactive/... Trump paid $750 in federal income tax 2016. His 1st year in the WH, he paid another $750. Paid none in 10 of 15 previous years. He reported losing more money than he'd made or borrowed, duplicated losses, took a $72M refund. Obama donated his $1.4M Nobel award to charity.
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Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance (Gift Article)
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
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WHO @who.int · 28/06/2025
- Should kids just “get the disease” instead of being vaccinated? - Can vaccines overwhelm a child’s immune system? - Who decides what vaccines we get & why? In this 2-part episode, WHO’s Dr. Kate O’Brien breaks down the science behind childhood vaccinations & the truth behind common concerns.
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WHO's Science in 5 - Vaccines: Myths, facts and what WHO says - 24 April 2025
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/06/2025
Budapest's streets overflowed with Pride marchers on Saturday, despite the Orban regime's threats of legal consequences. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Hungary banned Pride events. Thousands marched anyway.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said those who attended should face “legal consequences.”
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Someone here recommended that we watch "The Conspiracy" 2001, on HBO Max and I did so. It's about the Wannsee conference where the Nazis decided on the definition of a Jew and a German. Our birthright citizenship "debate" is quite the echo especially with govt. thugs marauding through the streets.
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valentine @dozygay.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Orange Daddy gonna be big mad.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Someone is having a very bad birthday
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/06/2025
But…that’s exactly what you are doing
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I agree. He looks like an old malevolent psychotic bastard with orange makeup and hair transplants. It’s perfect.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
💯 true. Deport her.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
If Congress wants to gut healthcare for millions, then taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for theirs. Those who never have to worry about affording care shouldn’t be the ones deciding to take it away from everyone else.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Next time Democrats say that they want to find someone who excites young voters and gets more people engaged, think about how extraordinarily weird and racist they got when Mamdani won his primary by a landslide.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This should be a constitutional requirement, in addition to not being an insurrectionist.
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/06/2025
They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
@robertgarcia.bsky.social: "The caucus knows that I'm a fighter... Donald Trump has sent his Justice Department after me, Nancy Mace has tried to censure me. I am not a shrinking violet... That's the energy we're gonna bring to [the Oversight] committee."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/06/2025
NEW: John Roberts is oblivious. Again. My latest. www.muellershewrote.com/p/john-rober...
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John Roberts: "I Never Thought the Leopards Would Eat *My* Judiciary"
The chief justice who handed an oligarch a crown is once again surprised by the consequences of his own actions
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/06/2025
Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Between the caskets was an urn containing the ashes of the family’s golden retriever, Gilbert.
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Beloved dog joined Minnesota lawmaker, husband as they lay in state
When Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot this month, their golden retriever was grievously wounded and had to be euthanized.
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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
They treat immigrants as subhuman, demonstrating naked contempt and a desire to do violence. It's just a small jump from this mindset to extermination. We're on a desperately dangerous path.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Baldwin: I remember my cross-examination of Secretary Kennedy from HHS, and he said, “We will have radical transparency.” But what they’ve actually had is radical opaqueness. They never answer a letter. They never answer a question. It’s one of the ways that democracy begins to degrade—
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