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Hal 🦋

@hoobot.bsky.social
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Gen-X dad, husband, humanist, in Texas I swear a lot but it’s for a good cause 💫Trekkie, Reader, Sci Fi is the best fiction 💫

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 22/07/2025
“Americans are mostly paying for the tariffs,” says George Saravelos, global head of FX research at Deutsche Bank: Here’s your Evening Briefing.
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Americans Seem to Be the Ones Paying Trump’s Tariffs
Get caught up.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/07/2025
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)
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A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to…
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Senseless…in a Country Gone Mad @babycakez.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🚨🚨🚨UNDERSTAND THIS: THEY SHUT DOWN CONGRESS for a PEDOFILE‼️🤬🤮 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨💩
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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @shannondrake.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨‼️
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
AND Given Authority by a Complicit Supreme Court........🤔
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Greg RN @gobes78.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Time to start sharpening the pitchforks…
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"We can't ever let this happen again." I mean that with every fiber of my being. Democracy is not self-sustaining. It needs defenders. It needs truth-tellers. It needs people who will stand up — and stay standing — even when it’s hard, even when it's dangerous." open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
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We Will Not Stand Down
This week, I stood on stage at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, looking out at a room full of people who believe in this country as deeply as I do.
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Hal 🦋 @hoobot.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
@sanfrancisco49ers.bsky.social you idiots could have drafted Sanders and you didn’t?? Morons.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/04/2025
As abortion restrictions continue to curtail access to basic reproductive health care, and the largely unregulated crisis pregnancy center industry’s presence has drastically expanded, some lawmakers from Florida to Hawaii are pushing back with legislation.
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Lawmakers are trying to hold crisis pregnancy centers to account
Post-Dobbs the GOP has given them millions in taxpayer dollars.
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love63.bsky.social @love63.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.
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See @bkseaze.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A GOP-controlled state appeals court ruled last week that over 65,000 lawful votes cast in North Carolina's Supreme Court race can be thrown out — potentially handing the race to the Republican candidate. This is what stealing an election actually looks like.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2025
This is absolutely horrifying. People can't afford to file Habeas petitions. And how is anyone going to enforce that this actually happens? And what about the people there that did NOT get due process?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/04/2025
The government is slashing public health jobs, gutting vaccine programs, and fueling a measles comeback. This is not reform—it’s sabotage. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
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Make America Sick Again
RFK Jr.’s War on Public Health Is Putting Lives at Risk
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Hal 🦋 @hoobot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/03/2025
Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
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Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous...
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 30/03/2025
Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The Speaker of the House is living in a house in DC rent free… And guess what? It’s owned by the HERITAGE FOUNDATION! Are you surprised?!
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Infinity pool atop a Bangkok skyscraper during today's earthquake.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 29/03/2025
@syramadad.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/03/2025
Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. (Published Oct. 2024)
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A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/03/2025
In an unprecedented move to funnel more public tax dollars toward groups that oppose abortion, Republican lawmakers in Missouri are advancing a plan to allow residents to donate to pregnancy resource centers instead of paying any state income taxes. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes
Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit — capped at $50,000 per year — for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers.
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Elle Glass @uberbabe.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
That is exactly true.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
We need to bring this back
A photo of FDR next to a heading that says SECOND BILL OF RIGHTS followed by 6 bullet points: 1) A job, 2) An adequate wage and decent living, 3) A decent home, 4) Medical care, 5) Economic protection during sickness, accident, old age, or unemployment, and 6) A good education
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.
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Brian H @harrb2.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Hey how about that 😊👇
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
just inane. "For the farmers in the Central Valley, it was not irrigation season, and this was their precious summer supply..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Army Corps knew Trump order would waste California water, memo shows
The Army Corps colonel responsible for releasing reservoir water at Trump’s direction knew it wouldn’t reach Southern California as he promised, a memo obtained by The Post shows.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In grim contrast to the red carpet, Soheila Golestani faces 74 lashes for her Oscar-nominated film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Watch this film to understand the repression of Iran’s theocratic regime &why the #WomenLifeFreedom movement is so important: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
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The actress facing 74 lashes in Iran for her Oscar-nominated film
Instead of attending the glitzy Hollywood ceremony, Soheila Golestani is on trial by the Revolutionary Court for her part in The Seed of the Sacred Fig
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 06/03/2025
And now that's a thing you know.
Photo of Neil Armstrong next to an alien. 
Caption reads: Neil Armstrong was the first person to land on the moon. Neil Armstrong backward is
"Gnorts, Mr Alien"
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Please listen and share—this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/03/2025
NEW: Trump plans to sign an executive order to overtake the USPS by dissolving its leadership and placing it under his administration. This move would grant them immense power over mail-in ballots, a key target in Republican election fraud rhetoric.
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Trump Bid to Take Over Postal Service Could Threaten Mail Voting
Read more here.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I know. They’re not going to stop. They’re sociopaths. It’ll keep getting worse until the nation collapses. Increasingly I see other historians, biographers, and attorneys coming to the same realization, after years of scoffing at those of us who have long called Trump a clear and present danger.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...
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WTF Seriously @stopbeingaderp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Anyone who tells you you're overreacting is underreacting.
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vilula.bsky.social @vilula.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Hal 🦋 @hoobot.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is not a joke. It’s just another reminder that they are liars, grifters and cruel motherfuckers. Trump to Offer ‘Gold Card’ Visas for $5 Million to the Rich www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump to Offer ‘Gold Card’ Visas for $5 Million to the Rich
President Donald Trump said he is starting a program to offer residency and a path to citizenship to investors who pay $5 million, offering a new avenue for legal immigration even as he carries out a ...
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Noémie Ann @anylu77.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#Magat maggot
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