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Jon Pelican

@jonpelican.bsky.social
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Choose passion over indifference and apathy, compassion over cruelty, love over all. Life and the lives of others are gifts. Pronouns: Not Trump / Not Republicans / Not Billiionaires or Wanna-be Billionaires.

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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 10h
America the Unbeautiful, this man's family is getting threatened because a football team is struggling. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
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Titans' Cam Ward on fans' threats to family: 'People are weird'
Titans quarterback Cam Ward on Wednesday addressed fans' threats to his family on social media.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 15h
The Trump Crime Family. @mluckovich.bsky.social
Mike Luckovich
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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · 19h
A Brown Pelican flies by the fishing pier I take a picture That's how it works Crescent City Golden Hour
Flying and turning with the right wing extended down and the left wing foreshortened pointing at the camera
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's one thing to be so incredibly incompetent as Eric Schmitt that your dramatic "GOTCHA" moment falls apart in real time. It is quite another thing to be so incredibly dishonest as Eric Schmitt that you then go on a right-wing show and pretend it didn't happen. "My job is to ask the questions."😜
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 19h
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23h
Typical pattern from ICE and police of claiming to be the true victim after they attack someone newrepublic.com/post/216004/...
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Man Shot by ICE Agent Is Charged With Assault
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by an ICE agent. Now the Justice Department is charging Pérez.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20h
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous such a declaration would be for American democracy. It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution, which empowers states to run elections, in order to prevent his party from losing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Could Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?
Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 22h
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At no point during Senate Republicans speeches & questioning of Jack Smith did a single Republican Senator deny Donald J Trump committed sedition, treason, espionage, breach of national security, conspired to overturn a election, conspired to assault, injure or kill Congress & VP. Think about that
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Derek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution truthout.org/articles/ita...
truthout.org
Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution
Amazon is huge and powerful, but Italian workers have shown it can be forced to negotiate. Could US workers do the same?
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As always, Trump and the usual array of sycophantic morons standing behind him are laser-focused on what Americans are really most concerned about.
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mike Lee is still brownnosing Trump to try to get a sweet grifting non-job in the regime. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval
Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More faked numbers from the US government. "Although Pennsylvania is the hardest-hit state, having reported more than 900 cases and four deaths from measles, the CDC is not including the deaths there in its national data." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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CDC reports second measles death in US while excluding Pennsylvania deaths
Pennsylvania has reported over 900 measles cases and four deaths as governor and health chief RFK Jr spar over data
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the 2020 presidential race was stolen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Election denier Kurt Olsen leaves DOJ after failing to find evidence of stolen election
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the...
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026
No boundaries... "Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let them stay home and sulk. We don't want them to vote anymore; they've done enough damage. We're motivated to vote every time we see or hear about another atrocity, another betrayal, another unhinged moment.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The empathetic folks at Mar-a-Lago react to hearing you lost your healthcare, your child has measles, and you can't afford to gas up your truck:
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Just Asking @mdlicxv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fear-based authority has a quiet business model: keep the threat vivid, keep the remedy vague, keep the public dependent. Security without accountability is obedience wearing a uniform. #Fear #Power
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Vought tells Trump to cut NIH budget by 40% Congress rejects it 2. Vought moves to give political appointees power over grants Congress delays it 3. Vought writes EO to create NIH board that gives him veto power. It is blocked. Now, this. IMPEACH VOUGHT 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: A Dozen Ways Trump Is Rigging the Midterms This isn’t a listicle. It’s an exhaustive, sourced report on the most under-attack election cycle in American history. Whatever the result in November—and we should all vote for the one we want—Trump *has* criminally rigged the system.
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PROOF EXCLUSIVE: A Dozen Ways Trump Is Rigging the Midterms
Everyone should vote. Democrats may do well. But neither of those facts alters the reality of what the 2026 midterms are: a rigged event under assault by a fascist, his regime, and his foreign allies.
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
LOWERS fuel economy standards! Worse mileage = more gas consumption = more money in Trump's pockets, less money in our pockets.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Yes, there are rats fleeing the sinking ship, but Trump’s poisonous influence will still require a major cleanup operation if & when the Democrats regain control in Congress…The only way we truly overcome this dark chapter is by refusing to forgive & forget.” www.americaamerica.news/p/rats-are-f...
americaamerica.news
Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Ship
But they have waited too long and are still too few in number to change the outcome of a likely Democratic tsunami
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
They're also working with the Trump administration to remove AI regulation and obtain military contracts.
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Rest assured: AI companies say they're investigating tens of thousands of rogue bot incidents
They're also working with the Trump administration to remove AI regulation and obtain military contracts.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike.
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to emancipate white people from Black elected officials—but not to help Black people elect officials—signals its fundamentally racist priorities.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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🖌 Myandra sez: 🖍 Impeach the MF'er soon. We're waiting. @myandra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#VoteBlue no matter who.
Ossoff says we will restore checks and balances.
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Gwynplaine @gwynplaine2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MAGA Mike Johnson is promising not to swear in elected Democrats in an illegal bid to retain control of the government. It must be made crystal clear to him the every state that's adversely affected by this will have its AG file a warrant for his arrest and carry through with it. Enough MAGA crime.
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No question that Republicans will use this -- and many more tactics. Democrats had better be planning actions to counter all these attempts.
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The president of the United States can never resist the instinct to respond with infantile insults. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump tells female MS Now reporter to ‘be quiet’ amid questions on press pool ban
US president doubles down on criticism of CNN and MS Now as Akayla Gardner questions attempted White House ban
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And it's the same for every member of this regime. When they aren't doing the exact opposite of what their job requires them to do, they're blathering on TV or lying on other media.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
THE SOUTH CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS You don’t get to profit off Black athletes on Saturday, then spend the rest of the week gerrymandering Black political power out of existence. We know what’s up! Hakeem Jeffries makes the connection perfectly.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s 1970 and ELTON JOHN takes out a crumpled piece of paper and plays “Tiny Dancer” for the first time in front of his lyricist BERNIE TAUPIN and Taupin’s wife Maxine (for whom Taupin wrote the song).
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...
seattletimes.com
Costco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expected
The big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects.
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yet another entirely immaterial matter that the president of the United States is laser-focused on.
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Lt. Gov. Austin Davis @austindavispa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009 — and it’s long past time for that to change. This November, we have the chance to elect a Democratic trifecta in Harrisburg and finally raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage. Join us to help make it happen: mobilize.us/pacoordinated2026
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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · PA Coordinated 2026 on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with PA Coordinated 2026.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Could we finish bumblefucking our way through the war in Iran before we start one with Cuba? Thanks
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
Q: Mr President, did you call on President Xi to stop buying oil from Iran? TRUMP: ... Q: What about guardrails on AI? TRUMP: ... Q: Why are you banning media outlets? TRUMP: ... Q: Should US taxpayers pay for ads about you? TRUMP: *walks away*
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Jon Pelican @jonpelican.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How much like @sparksofficial.bsky.social is this? youtu.be/xkwqiqsfoZw?...
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The Kinks - People Take Pictures of Each Other (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Kinks
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