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Dave Lastname

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Part-time teacher, full-time student. Space and ancient history enthusiast. The present is depressing and overrated.

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BlueinOhio @sharon43302.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Dave Lastname @halfcaf.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo... Worth remembering that this was all avoidable, until a petulant man-child decided to sabotage an agreement made to prevent a nuclear Iran, all because a black man beat him to it.
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As Trump weighs Iran strikes, his abandonment of the JCPOA looks even worse
If the White House is right and the Iranian nuclear threat is worse, maybe it’s worth talking about how Tehran became more dangerous?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This hits hard.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/05/2025
“No day is the same.” Amid dire conditions at Newark Airport, an airline operations crew has had to figure out how to get more than 600 flights a day to safely take off and land.
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Inside United’s Command Center at Newark Airport
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Trump’s DOJ is targeting political opponents with blatantly false charges. But does it even matter if he loses in court? And while it's tempting to say "the cruelty is the point" when it comes to Trump, it's worth looking closer at his motives behind it. The Big Picture has some incisive deep dives.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
The Big Picture | Substack
The Big Picture provides a deep dive into the cultural, political, and societal issues shaping our world today, from a variety of unique perspectives. Click to read The Big Picture, a Substack…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Here’s wishing you health and full recovery, Piano Man.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/05/2025
A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.
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Record Number of Americans Apply for British Citizenship
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/05/2025
If DOGE was ever truly meant to reduce spending and increase efficiency, it stands as one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the federal government.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
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Fugitive from Phlebotomists. @ryansforbeson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hooray for Norway! I’m completely confident that Obama will come home with good will, not a plane.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Trump fundraising email: “Please open this if you love me!”
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Trump is celebrating police week, but pardoned all the January 6th rioters that attacked Capitol Police officers
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Large Marge (she/her) @margdoosamm.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“As she said after her unnecessary arrest, Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court,” Dugan’s attorney, Craig Mastantuono, said in a statement Tuesday evening.
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Grand jury indicts Milwaukee County judge after prosecutors allege she helped a man evade ICE
Tuesday's indictment means members of that grand jury concluded there was enough evidence to file charges against Judge Hannah Dugan.
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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Carl Ott @bubba687.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Yes! They are.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/04/2025
He knows his economy is only going to get worse
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
10 years ago Rubio was defending BLM and lecturing other Republicans about empathy and compassion. Such a stark contrast to the defiant, soulless authoritarian who defends street snatchings and concentration camps. Even his body language has changed.
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In theory at any rate, I am traveling Greyhound from now on.
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Lisa Lin Doh @lisalindo.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If he cannot carry out his agenda without breaking our laws, violating our Constitution, ignoring the judiciary, alienating our allies and crashing the economy… It’s a criminal agenda.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Trump has been caught making millions pumping a meme coin in exchange for dinner with him and a tour of the White House. This is not only unethical, it’s ILLEGAL.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/04/2025
i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
You broke it, you bought it. t.co/hHXdks6ejw
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Sen. Jon Ossoff
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Sheila @sheilabryan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Vote Carney!🇨🇦
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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Gorsuch regularly lies about facts in his opinions to get to rules he wants, and every professor who teaches his cases should point that out.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Every story is crueler than the last. What do we do?
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
In Dupont Circle…
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
She’s now zero for two trying this case. She lost before a jury, got the judgment against her reversed on appeal because of procedural errors, and now has lost before a second jury.
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Sarah Palin loses defamation retrial against New York Times
The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee had won a retrial over a 2017 editorial.
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Random Man James @jamesds.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Trumpism: isolate America. FYI the rest of the world is going on without us. China is making new relationships with other countries and encouraging them not to deal with Double Agent Orange Turd.Proving the world does not need America like DickHeadTrump proclaimed.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/04/2025
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
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HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is a travesty.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This isn't very "Christian" of you...
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MTG Just Shared A Cryptic Post After Pope Francis's Death—And Everyone Has The Same Thought
Not very "Christian" of you, Marge 🙄
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
theonion.com/historians-q...
From The Onion:

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/04/2025
A federal judge just ordered intensive expedited discovery into Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Garcia. The latest:
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Federal Judge Set to Order Two Weeks of Intensive Expedited Discovery in Abrego Garcia Case
This is another step in a long legal process. But, it's moving fast.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump Watches as American Flag Is Wadded Up and Set Aside A man used a flag as a drape for a Trump tribute sculpture—then crumpled it and tossed it on a chair. Trump said nothing. meidasnews.com/news/trump-w...
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Trump Watches as American Flag Is Wadded Up and Set Aside
A man used a flag as a drape for a Trump tribute sculpture—then crumpled it and tossed it on a chair. Trump said nothing.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“Hank, why are you spending so much time defending the freaking /minecraft movie?/“ Actually, I’m not defending anything, I am attacking the practice of dumping buckets of jaded misery on moments of goofy joy and I will absolutely die on that hill.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
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ronsalas @ronsalas.com · 12/04/2025
Killer sign. A+++ sign
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I will pay any tariff for a framed copy of this
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