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V. Hammond

@hammond-v33.bsky.social
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A vestige of the vox populi. It is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.” That’s what the President of the United States is saying to the American people. He won’t be hurt by a retaliatory attack or high gas prices. But you will — and that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make.
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Media ecosystems fragment under volume. One constituency tracks immigration. Another tracks tariffs. Another tracks strikes abroad. Shared narrative space shrinks. Division dilutes attention.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 05/03/2026
Saying goodbye to the bird-legged hoe. #SheShed
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John Lawter @johnlawter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Maybe a president shouldn’t have pardon power.
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Lounge Lizards 🇨🇦 🍁 @colin-dawny.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Bahahaha. 😁😏 #DJT #DJ6T #FDJ6T #PantsOnFireDJ6T
Tweets about people asking Grok which president told the most lies.
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
War without sustained debate changes civic expectations. It normalizes urgency as governance. Urgency is useful in crisis. Urgency prolonged is corrosive.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
NOEM: I would disagree with the judge CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree? NOEM: A what? CROCKETT: A law degree NOEM: No I do no- CROCKETT: Okay
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Trump regime has abandoned the constitution: - declared war without Congressional authorization - ignoring multiple court orders - impounding Congressional authorized funds - ignoring the freedom of speech and assembly It’s a lawless regime that has no legitimacy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare COMER: We believe that's your fault WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The portrait is out of the attic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them.
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A republic is not defeated only by ideology. It can be strained by velocity. When speed, volume, and spectacle outpace deliberation, the constitutional floor weakens. United we stand applies not just to people, but to attention itself.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Eboneezer Goode - FDT - Trump Broke America. @egoode.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Dear MAGA: Remember when Qanon was going to work with Trump to arrest all those pedophiles in Epstein's files? So... ... What happened there?
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Debra Guckenheimer, PhD @debraguckenheimer.com · 03/03/2026
ICE is trafficking pregnant girls to Texas to prevent them from having choice including in cases of rape. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say
Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation
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Kathleen @kparent.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The thing people should be voting for isn't party, isn't religious beliefs, people should be fighting againist corruptions.
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Allen Anderson @able1954.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I think we should have the right to vote out a president that doesn't follow the laws or rules.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Justice Department slashes funding for child sex trafficking
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‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking
Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justice
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
😳😳😳😳
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
BLUMENTHAL: Wouldn't you agree no citizen working lawfully should be arrested? NOEM: There are times when they may be arrested or detained until identity is confirmed B: Would you agree citizens should not be arrested? N: When there's probable cause ... B: They said, 'Get him. He's Mexican'
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/03/2026
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Your data will be used against you.
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Blake @splashgod41.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I voted in Dallas County today. The texas.gov site wouldn't tell me where to go, so I went to where I voted in the '24 presidential election. They said I was at the wrong place, and gave me the address I needed to go to. That place then informed me I had to go somewhere else.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test... McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I have absolutely no idea what Trump is trying to accomplish in Iran, or how he plans to accomplish it, and the fun thing is that neither does he! That's why the constitution does not give the President the authority to launch wars without Congressional approval.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news*
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Priorities.
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Transparency battles are not only about documents. They’re about who controls the storyline. Control the release cadence, and you influence what stays in public memory.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.
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roncrawford.bsky.social @roncrawford.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We need to amend the constitution and remove POTUS as commander and chief of the military!!! All war powers go to congress and congress alone!!
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Power expands most easily when citizens are busy reacting. The republic endures when citizens can focus long enough to evaluate structure, not just spectacle.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Cartoon by Tommy Siegel
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
maybe it's just me, but peace seems a lot like war.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Not only *did* they start this war, they have no idea how to finish it.
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Speed is not strength. Volume is not reform. When executive power moves across immigration, war, tariffs, AI, and civil service all at once, scrutiny fragments. Attention divides. Oversight weakens. A republic can survive disagreement. It struggles when focus itself collapses.
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Policies should solve real problems. Using nostalgia to prop up a shrinking manufacturing sector misallocates resources and raises living costs for consumers. We need forward-looking economic solutions, not nostalgic dreams.
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
News isn’t just what happened. It’s what gets amplified. Continuous cycles, consolidated ownership, and algorithmic distribution reward activation over orientation. We’re informed in real time, but understanding lags behind velocity. Incentives shape reality.
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Continuous News, Consolidated Incentives, and the Profit Turn
How Media’s Economic Evolution Reshaped Public Reality
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Russell @immortalsofar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Trump seems to think everyone is like him. So his accusations are always what he would/did do.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You don’t beat the far right with moderation. You have to confront it. Career politicians are unequipped to handle this moment. It’s time for them to step aside.
Excerpt from The Guardian story, featuring midterm candidates looking to change the Democratic party. Copy on excerpt reads: 

THE GUARDIAN: US NEWS
HEADLINE: "'Are you willing to fight back?: Democrats ready to take on party's old guard ahead of midterms"

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"Another test case is Illinois' deep blue 9th District, where Kat Abughazaleh, 26, a progressive Palestinian American, is taking on a Democratic establishment she accuses of complacency and cowardice."
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"Abughazaleh believes that Democrats have long failed to meet the moment of taking on the far right. For her and many progressive challengers across the country, countering the Trump administration is inextricably linked to combating the influence of groups such as Aipac and challenging the corporate status quo.

Abughazaleh said: "I even see it in my own campaign where there are local leaders and elected officials that call me before endorsing one of my opponents, apologetically saying, I love what you're doing but I'm feeling a lot of pressure to endorse this way or the other. They feel that pressure in the first place instead of being able to stick to their values and it's a shame that we have a party that makes people feel like that."

"I don't know how many times we have to keep doing the same thing over and over and over again of insisting that we have to be more moderate, that we have to move to the right," Abughazaleh added, arguing that policies ensuring affordable housing, groceries and healthcare should represent the political centre."
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
When Nihilistic-Narcissistic Nationalism says opponents have “no morals,” it’s rarely theology. “Moral” means loyal. “Immoral” means dissenting. That’s not ethics. That’s tribal enforcement dressed as virtue.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/02/2026
Rep. Wesley Hunt: "What I trust is that if we behave precisely and act in a way that has a strong destructive impact on these countries, that we don't have to get involved in these long wars. You have to trust the process."
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onion person @junlper.beer · 28/02/2026
this is horrifying. this is why they say death to america. because all we bring is death to their children and people
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
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V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
One group asks, “What preserves legitimacy?” The other asks, “What protects our side?” That’s the difference.
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