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Julie Peterson

@iconoclast1919.bsky.social
336 followers 330 following 113 posts

Iconoclast, autodidact, polymath. I seek as much knowledge as possible get as close to the truth in order to see as much of the big picture as possible.

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Their cruelty knows no bounds. Now they’re making people visit a Social Security field office in person to complete the verification process. They know damn well that most seniors no longer drive & it would be a hardship for them. www.yahoo.com/news/social-...
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Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients
In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency fi...
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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Guarding a concentration camp isn't the kind of thing most people want to sign up for. Along with a racist effort to purge officers who aren’t white, military recruiting is going to tank and the ensuing national security crisis will be entirely self-inflicted www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
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Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Country to Detain Undocumented Immigrants
The move would be a drastic escalation by the White House to militarize immigration enforcement.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 22/02/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Join our DIGITAL RALLY now! The Republican war on health care is alive and well. Republicans have one goal in mind: rip away coverage for millions in order to provide tax breaks for their billionaire friends. Don't Cut My Medicaid.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 22/02/2025
Toolkit for sharing posts for the "Don't Cut My Medicaid" Digital Rally! Click here social.demcast.com/toolkit/medi...
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 05/02/2025
So Elon Musk has the same ethics rules as the Supreme Court: none.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We're in the midst of a constitutional crisis. The world's richest man is effectively orchestrating a coup. At the very least, Senate Dems should not be confirming any of Trump’s nominees for any agency while this power grab continues. Nothing should be "business as usual."
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that. The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct. What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 05/02/2025
Don’t forget: the torrent of chaos is a tactic by Trump and Musk. If everyone is scattered and outraged about every single thing, we can't see as clearly and therefore can't act most effectively. Stay focused!
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Tiny and a Little Bit Feral @aferalgremlin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
bsky.app/profile/bkin... - Mitch McConnell did a lot as a minority leader. Schumer does almost nothing but tweet about grocery prices.
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retiredrn2024.bsky.social @retiredrn2024.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025
Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.
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Choco Harvey Milk @chocoharveymilk.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Welcome and repeat after me #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax #TrumpTariffs = #TrumpTax
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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I remember not that long ago when the audio went out during the Star Spangled Banner at an NHL game in Toronto, the Mapple Leafs fans in the stands stood up and finished it for our players. That depth of friendship and mutual respect, Trump has killed in less than two weeks.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fvck these people. They should have opened their mouths and said something BEFORE THE ELECTION 🤷🏾‍♀️ Everything was fun and games until the demon took office. We literally told them this would happen. Also…lumber AND labor prices will increase because there’s a shortage of workers.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is a national emergency:
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Media purges have begun — you read that Reich Holy hell
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I agree, three hundred and sixty billion percent.
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Anthony Turriff @anthonyturriff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Liberal Indoctrination at Schools includes: - Tolerance for a person’s differences. - Respect for an individual’s choices. - Awareness of climate change. - Analysis of historic atrocities and those responsible. - Exposure to concepts and ideas that contradict values taught at home.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 08/12/2024
Some Democrats need to grow a backbone. Stop blaming Joe for everything. We’re fine with pardoning Hunter. Even begged him to do so. YOU turned your back on him. YOU forced him out of the race. YOU are the problem, not Joe Biden. Never forget, YOU work for US. www.axios.com/2024/12/08/b...
axios.com
"People are really angry": Biden hits low point with House Democrats after Hunter pardon
One House Democrat told Axios: "The feeling is: Why do you have to go out like this?"
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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Invictus @tbpinvictus.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
So, friends, with the invaluable assistance of @hiltzikm.bsky.social at the LA Times, whose article appears today (paywalled), the Hoover Institution has retracted its story about the CA labor market that I had flagged as fatally flawed last week.👏
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
All of this. Every word of this.
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Maddow: Trump's shameless abuse of pardons, nepotism disqualifies him from criticizing Biden pardon
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Maga-morons are dumb.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Just realized I could add accounts to lists without also following them. Great for my breaking news list. I can include everything and not have some of the accounts I was unsure about filling up my primary feed !
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MAGA=Terrorist @savedemocracy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
There is only one story happening that isn't being covered by any news stations or media and it is this: A man who should be spending the rest of his life in prison for crimes against the US, is instead being rewarded for doing so and given more powers to commit more crimes against all her people.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 01/12/2024
Internalize the fact that FDR was a master propagandist and budgeted messaging into every New Deal project. Despite how it should work, great things do not sell themselves.
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Here’s the full police report on Pete Hegseth.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Putin threatens again and American right-wingers say we should change US foreign policy to give him exactly what he wants because Putin is threatening again.
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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I'm seeing more MAGA trolls pop up on here now For new ppl here is how we deal with them in the Sky: 1. DO NOT ENGAGE 2. BLOCK 3. REPORT If you engage with them, with this algorithm, they are like roaches & we will get more So Block & move on. If u want to fuck with them, there's always twitter
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
So let me get this straight. You need a background check to rent an apartment but not to be Director of National Intelligence? Got it.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’ve noticed this, too. (Post by @mmpadellan.bsky.social)
Post from Brooklyn Dad_Defiant

Did you know? If you treat Trump Supporters the way they treat everyone else, they get very upset.
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Wayne Gauthier🇨🇦🇰🇷 @wayneinseoul.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Bannon famously said their goal is the deconstruction of the state. When you look at everything through this lens, it makes perfect sense.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Putting foxes in charge of the henhouse is perfectly logical — if your goal is to watch the chickens get ripped to shreds.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2024
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is one of the better articles I've found on book bans/challenges. Please read and share. #BookSky
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Book Banners Don't Know What a Book Ban Is
People trying to remove books from libraries insist it's not a book ban. Everyone wants to ban a book, but no one wants to be a book banner.
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FieldsOfGold @fieldsofgold.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Voters were told repeatedly that Democrats were paying for transgender surgery for prisoners, inviting dog-eating immigrants to invade our towns and that the economy was in free fall. Until Dems match the right wing message machine, voters will continue to vote against their own interests.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just in time for Thanksgiving. NEW VIDEO: “The Puritans Are Back!” From Project 1631 to Project 2025, History is Like Shampoo: The last step is always REPEAT. youtu.be/_y6ImZhz41g
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The Puritans Are Back!
YouTube video by Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A running list: www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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The Trump administration personnel with ties to Project 2025
Though President-elect Donald Trump tried throughout the 2024 campaign to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation-led initiative Project 2025 -- a sprawling right-wing plan to remake the federal...
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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Funny U.S. already did this under Clinton,when U.S. trained "special forces" to take down drug lords in Mexico. The forces returned to mexico and used that learning to become super drug lords, the Zetas. US citizens have no idea what they do to other countries. www.aljazeera.com/features/201...
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Drug gang’s US roots
Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If you liked the drone-and-special-ops war in Pakistan, you're gonna love the new one, right next door
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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a man with glasses and a beard is talking on a cell phone with the words smash it netflix behind him
ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is talking on a cell phone with the words smash it netflix behind him
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/11/2024
Lots of reasons why the election turned out the way it did, but the corporate media spending more time investigating Joe Biden’s choice of footwear than it spent confirming that Project 2025 is the Trump agenda is definitely one of them.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 29/11/2024
“Post-Constitutional” means the end of America as we know it. Why won’t the corporate media just say that?
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Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-Constitutional’ vision for second term
Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Veronica Danie @veronicadanie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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