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The Scot 💙🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @thescot.bsky.social · 15h
“DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.” www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Mike NC @mike1545.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Hegseth has infused his evangelical Christianity into his leadership of the Pentagon, hosting Christian worship services for employees and often speaking of the U.S. as a Christian nation. #1A apnews.com/article/pete...
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Pete Hegseth creates a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs reporting directly to him
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching an office of religious affairs at the Pentagon. He announced Wednesday that the office will provide “first-class religious support” and report directly to h...
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FG Fitzer @fgfitzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ross Douthat says that he'll prove that it's rational to believe in religion, but in his very first page of his book Believe, he tells his readers that wisdom begins with being afraid of the Christian god. Fear is not rationality. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/can-...
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Can Reason Ever Begin In Fear? — Stop Christian Nationalism
Ross Douthat, in the book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, claims that he will make a rational argument, but even in the acknowledgements, he tells his readers that they should BEGIN by bein...
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FG Fitzer @fgfitzer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EFT Tapping is a MANIFESTATION of mental illness, not a treatment for it. Obsessively tapping your face and muttering is not a reliable pathway to mental health. Buyer beware: Emotional Freedom "Therapy" is a New Age gimmick, not a science-based practice.
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The Ohm @ohmtheohm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
EFT Tapping is snake oil. You don’t create mental health and happiness by obsessively tapping your face. So-called Emotional Freedom Therapy is just a rehashed kind of faith healing. Don’t fall for the gimmick. Say no to EFT Tapping scammers.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The US government has jumped headfirst into insanity. Under Pete Hegseth, the US military will now subject soldiers to religious tests of their "spiritual fitness". This comes from a military that insists that bombing a school full of children was perfectly fine. ffrf.org/news/release...
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FFRF investigates Hegseth’s new religious office at Pentagon
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is launching an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s alarming creation of a powerful new Office of Religious Affairs.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lansing, New York says no to Terawulf's data center. This is the start of a downward spiral for Terawulf. The bitcoin mining, AI corporation is a house of cards. ithacavoice.org/2026/09/lans...
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‘We just need to rip off the bandage and say no’: Lansing Town Board in favor of banning data centers - The Ithaca Voice
About a year after a proposal to construct a data center on the shores of Cayuga Lake upended local politics in the Town of Lansing, local officials took a step […]
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The Audacity! Creative Action Together in Midcoast Maine @theaudacitymaine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The article ends with a neighbor of John Roberts: “…she left the picnic. The next morning, she protested her neighbor for the first time, grabbing a sign that said ‘Justice for All’ and paddling back and forth in front of his home, hoping he would see.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... #MEPolitics
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Maine People's Alliance @mainepeople.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you want to show Sen. Susan Collins that we are not going to sit back while she does nothing to protect Mainers? Join us as we spend Oct. 5-9 marching from her office in Biddeford up to her office in Augusta to demand that she stop giving money to ICE and stop making cuts to our health care!
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March to Hold Collins accountable
Join MPA and our coalition partners as we march from Biddeford to Augusta to highlight Collins's complicity in the attacks on our freedoms, the kidnapping of our neighbors and her vote to fund ICE whi...
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth announced a new military project today, to create a force of thousands of robot soldiers. It’s named Project Agincourt. The Battle of Agincourt was infamous, even in medieval times, when King Henry slaughtered French prisoners, an atrocity. So, you trust those robot soldiers?
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The Ithaca Voice @ithacavoice.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Tompkins County clerks have been instructed to halt all local naturalization ceremonies for immigrants by the federal government, canceling three scheduled for next year. At least seven other counties in New York received similar instructions.
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Feds tell county to cease naturalization ceremonies - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials received a directive from federal immigration officials to cease all local naturalization ceremonies. Naturalization ceremonies are typically held throughout t...
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14850 Magazine @14850.com · 26/09/2026
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez visiting Ithaca as part of "upstate" voter outreach swing. @aoc.bsky.social's talk is aimed at students, but is open to the public. www.14850.com/092647144-oc...
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez visiting Ithaca as part of "upstate" voter outreach swing • 14850
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez kicked off a campaign tour through "Upstate" New York this week ahead of the midterm elections, and she'll be visiting Ithaca as well as Buffalo and Syracu...
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"EFT research is decidedly dodgy, and any evidence for what looks like efficacy can be explained by the placebo effect, or by the confounding presence of techniques stolen from other theoretical models, such as relaxation techniques..." untrapped.com.au/the-truth-ab...
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The Truth About Tapping | UNTRAPPED Academy
In a recent episode of the All Fired Up! Podcast, I was was ranting with Fiona Willer, advanced accredited practising dietitian and a regular guest on the show. We were […]
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"When scientists test EFT by having subjects tap on completely random points or on a doll, the results are identical. Tapping the specific "meridians" is irrelevant." EFT tapping / Emotional Freedom Therapy is based on pseudoscience and New Age religious faith. EFT is not trustworthy.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026
Peter Thiel says the "Antichrist" will preach "peace." Now his cronies in the Trump regime are pushing "Pax Silica" ("Silicon Peace"). It's a grandiose name for AI colonialism and imperialism. 1st target: The Philippines. More from @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The planet is telling us, in every region at once, that it is out of balance" theguardian.com/environment/... Time for PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF ENERGY - relying on a profit-driven system is driving up costs and jeopardising climate targets @tuedglobal.bsky.social tuedglobal.org/working-pape...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An ICE officer in Austin, Texas rammed a man’s car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times. When are we going to demand this sort of thing stop?
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car ...
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 16/09/2026
100% correct. So is biblical law. That’s the whole point of our secular government: Christians, Muslims, atheists and everyone else live under the Constitution, not somebody else’s religion.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 17/09/2026
The time has come for politicians to stop imposing their religious beliefs on everyone else. Medical decisions belong to patients and their doctors, not politicians enforcing religious doctrine.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An SUV slammed into a 30 year-old woman in Framingham, Massachusetts and killed her. The local newspaper reported it as a "pedestrian crash", as if it was the pedestrian who was traveling at high speeds and ran into the vulnerable SUV. The SUV killed the pedestrian. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
boston.com
30-year-old woman killed in Framingham pedestrian crash
The crash remains under investigation.
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The Audacity! Creative Action Together in Midcoast Maine @theaudacitymaine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Voices of AudacityCAT #Podcast Episode 12 - The Power of Organized Protest in an Age of Fascism: youtu.be/7x6XGCYpUCo Former State Rep. addresses the current dark state of our politics, lessons to be drawn from protests in Minnesota & #Maine, & why he remains hopeful about the future. #MEPolitics
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Episode 12 - The Power of Organized Protest in an age of Fascism and the lessons to be learned.
YouTube video by The Audacity: Creative Action Together in Maine
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Once we open our eyes to the damage done by the #WarOnWalking, it’s impossible NOT to see it. At every scale, in every detail & decision, affecting every constituency, and influencing every element of culture. And when we try to improve things, they have the audacity to claim there’s a #WarOnCars.
“The Road Lobby claims that there’s a war going on in our cities. There is, but it’s not the war they’ve been lying about. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.“ Text on white background, via the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bicyclists are heroes who put their lives on the line to get where they need to go without spewing filth into the air. Bikes rock. Cars kill. #waroncars www.wfla.com/news/polk-co...
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Man arrested after bicyclist killed in Lakeland hit-and-run, sheriff says
A man was arrested after fatally hitting a bicyclist with his car and fleeing the scene of the crash, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cars are killing people in gruesome ways across America day after day. They do this while polluting the planet and dragging the climate into disaster, and funding fascism through corrupt fossil fuels corporations. Cars suck. www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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Pedestrian in crosswalk is struck, dragged, killed in San Antonio hit-and-run
Police said the man was walking in a crosswalk when a driver accelerated into the intersection, hitting him and dragging him several feet before driving off.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 4th amendment to the Constitution’s guarantee of judicial warrants for search has been replaced by a Flock camera software data field in which police officers can enter babble to be granted search power. www.404media.co/cops-search-...
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The United States of America is now home to concentration camps. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in cages the size of phone booths, DHS watchdog says
Office of inspector general’s report says practice at Florida immigration jail is not aligned with ‘humane treatment’
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
James Carville has always worked to make the Democratic Party the servile toady of corporations and wealthy donors. The problems the Democrats are having today are due to blue dogs like him.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why do people detest generative AI? While digital tycoons get rich, huge numbers of people struggle for simple food to eat.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am canceling my subscription to Apple Creative Studio software because Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario, and Apple is fascist.
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The Audacity! Creative Action Together in Midcoast Maine @theaudacitymaine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Audacity #Podcast Episode 11 - Inclusivity, Local School Boards, and LGBTQ+ representation in #Maine #education Diversity takes center stage as two local educators detail their fight for inclusivity and LGBTQ+ representation. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/3oiN...
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Inclusivity, Local School Boards, and Controversy
The Audacity CAT · Episode
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An iPhone that folds. Wow. Do you realize what you can do with that? You can… well… you can fold it.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's a good time for the people of Ithaca, New York to rediscover the pleasure of walking and bicycling. abcnews.com/Business/oil...
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Oil prices climb over $100 per barrel as US war in Iran continues
Brent crude oil prices, a benchmark for global trading, climbed on Wednesday.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey kids, if you study hard, some day you can go to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where you can spend your days staring at your phone standing next to other young people staring at their phones. Party on.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Richie Lynch is using AI slop flyers to campaign for IBEW union leadership in Ithaca, New York. He’s using anti-worker tools to campaign for labor union leadership. Gross.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are living now on pages 249 & 250 of All The Light We Cannot See. I am tired of silently buttoning my tunic. I am with Madame Manec.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Josh Riley, Democrat representing Ithaca, Binghamton, and Cortland in the US Congress, voted with the Republican caucus to withhold federal funds from colleges and universities that divest from commercial relationships with Israel. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026295
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Roll Call 295 Roll Call 295, Bill Number: H. R. 4795, 119th Congress, 2nd Session
VOTE QUESTION: On Passage, DESCRIPTION: Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Car kills pedestrian. The headline just says that the pedestrian was "struck", but not by what. The headline should be: Car Kills Person Who Was Just Out For A Walk #CarsKill www.wpbf.com/article/pede...
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Pedestrian struck, killed on Lake Worth Road Thursday morning
The crash happened on Lake Worth Road, east of Military Trail.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Car kills one, injures three. abc7.com/post/multipl...
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Woman killed, 4 injured after car plows into pedestrians outside Trader Joe's in Fairfax District
Multiple pedestrians were struck by a car in the parking lot of a Trader Joe's grocery store in the Fairfax District.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A car killed an MIT professor. The newspaper doesn't mention that a car killed him. It says he "was hit". What was he hit by? It wasn't a water balloon. Even worse, the Harvard Crimson headline called it a "bike crash". No. A car hit him. A car killed him. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/03/m...
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MIT professor hit while riding his bicycle in Cambridge last month has died, university officials say - The Boston Globe
Thomas Rose, 37, joined MIT in January and was set to begin teaching courses this fall.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apple Maps is now defying reality and giving in to Donald Trump's insane fascist fantasy, and renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Fuck Apple. They don't think different. They go along with the crowd. They think fascist.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Google is fascist gizmodo.com/google-caves...
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Google Caves to Trump Again, Renames Lake Ontario
"Lake America" it is.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Today, the Liberated Republic of Ontario declared independence from the United States. Read the Ontarian Declaration of Independence: republicofontario.wordpress.com
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's Lake Ontario. Canadians are our friends. In a time of Orwellian fascism, it's important to speak such simple truths.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The disaster in Nepal was not caused by something that happened over there. We caused it here. Every time we start our cars, we trigger the conditions for more floods, more fires, more storms, more death. The age of climate catastrophe has arrived. We are responsible. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say
Preliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan ice.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As someone who grew up along the shore of Lake Ontario, I have to ask: When Donald Trump renames Lake Ontario to Lake America, will he also rename the Town of Ontario, New York to the Town of America, New York? Will he rename Ontario County, New York to America County?
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Florida Man uses his antisocial SUV as weapon in attempted murder of bicyclists. Why do we set up our society to cater to the deadly whims of automobile drivers? #waroncars www.local10.com/news/local/2...
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Deputies arrest man accused of opening fire on cyclists in Cutler Bay
A 40-year-old Homestead man was arrested Monday by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies after they said he opened fire on cyclists in Cutler Bay this past weekend.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Supreme Court Chief Justice & Trump Toady John Roberts thought that he was beyond criticism as he vacationed on his own private island. Kayaktivists from the mainland showed Roberts was wrong. They paddled into waters around his comfy retreat & held signs of protest against his judicial fascism.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The worst way to make a strong political impact is to send donations to a candidate, party org or PAC. Example: I keep getting mail for a Hudson Valley congressional district that is a 3 hour drive from where I live in Ithaca, New York. It's political malpractice. Support grassroots orgs instead.
Hudson Valley Cost of Living political advertisement sent to the wrong city - Ithaca, New York, which is not in the district. Democratic Party political malpractice
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I hate to criticize a Democrat, but this makes me sick. When Congressman Josh Riley asks you for money for his re-election campaign, you might want to ask him why he needs our money, when he's already taking support from the corporate Stand With Crypto PAC. www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/08/24/s...
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Stand With Crypto Announces New Bipartisan Slate of Endorsements Ahead of Midterm Elections
Stand With Crypto announces 32 new bipartisan endorsements for 2026 midterms and launches a refreshed Voter Hub for crypto voters.
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