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@leonfarqhuar.bsky.social
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I’m a public defender from California’s great redneck interior. I fight the good fight to stand up for people’s constitutional rights when it’s not popular or sexy to do so.

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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Looks the Board of Peace got bored with peace. #Iran #boredofpeace
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It’s disgusting that so many people in this country worship the rich while they disdain the poor. Even worse when you consider the number of so-called “Christians.” And things are going to get worse until we get rid of Trump and shake off the grifters that are taking our $ with nothing in return.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Now that Trump has “saved” Tik Tok from the evil commies in China, he’s going to turn it into the video arm of Truth Social. Irony of ironies that goes from being a tool of the communists to being a tool of the facists. It’s also an ominous sign of the right’s consolidation of power over the media.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 07/10/2025
Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If they win it will be because the Supreme Court rolled over and let Trump do whatever he wants. If the executive can do whatever he wants, there’s no rule of law, only rule by a person, which our Founders wanted to prohibit. They’re letting Trump rewrite our Constitution with every provocation.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I just can’t believe that Trump keeps doing all the stuff that he said he would do.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is the exact problem with the news media in general these days and a major reason we have Trump now. They’ve let the right in this country bully them into refusing to call a spade a spade. NYT would have happily both sides the Holocaust if it had been happening today…
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Mark Davies @markyadavies.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Not enough attention is paid to the fact that the Roberts Court has done more to destroy our democratic republic than any other Supreme Court in the history of the United States.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is the basic problem with the Democratic Party now. The neoliberals want to keep their death grip on party power and $$$$ at any cost. They’d rather loose to Trump than win with the likes of Bernie, Mamdani and AOC. Starting to think the party needs to be crushed and rebuilt from the ground up.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Whether it's Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Trump using the military to attack American citizens, both presidents crossed some dangerous red lines for democracy.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Kinda funny how the Biden dementia scandal was taking the heat off Trump for awhile. If he had just played his cards right, he could’ve had the Senate pass his big beautiful turd bill under the cover darkness nobody probably would have paid attention with all the squabbling over Jake Tapper’s book…
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Trump and Musk went from happily exploiting each other to mutually assured destruction in about 24 hours. It shows that two malignant narcissists can never be friends. They always need someone to dominate, they can never be on equal terms. Elon tired of being the junior partner…
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I don’t like revenge porn but it’s ironic that a man who disclosed state secrets (and the private conversations he had with his one time friend and collaborator, Chelsea Manning, without her permission) is now crying foul over someone posting an embarrassing sex video he made on the internet…
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We are ruled by morons….
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I was taught the U.S. would easily beat any communist country. Now China has thousands of miles of high speed rail and is building an economy based on flying cars and trucks. And we can’t seem to build anything. The jokes on us- we lost, the commies won. urbanland.uli.org/development-...
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Building the Low-Altitude Economy
As drones and electric flying vehicles mature, China imagines a new urban landscape
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I think this explains a lot of what’s wrong with people who support Trump these days: they don’t have anything good to fight for in life because life is pretty good here so they’re going to ruin it for everyone else..
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump is about to do for NPR and PBS what he did for Canadian liberals...
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Oye Rod Dreher🙄. Guess he’s disappointed with Trump because he wanted him to be just 50% Hitler instead of 100%. It’s amazing how a certain breed of white person will always assume Trump has the best of intentions while assuming any Democrat to be an agent of Satan. www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher...
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Rod Dreher: ‘Cry More, Libs’ Is Not a Strategy
These are difficult days for people like me: Americans who back the Trump administration for its determination to fight back against establishment tyrannies, but who are now troubled by its excesses, ...
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💙💙💙💙Blue wave resistance💙💙💙💙 @eliminatethegop.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
America isn't a Christian country. It's a country where Christianity has the freedom to exist. There's a difference.
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis was a master of making emotional connections. He was, at heart, a pastor to wounded souls. Here are some of the most memorable moments of Pope Francis' papacy.
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See some of the most memorable moments from Pope Francis' papacy
Pope Francis was a master of making emotional connections. He was, at heart, a pastor to wounded souls. Here are some of the most memorable moments of Pope Francis' papacy.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
What a shock to hear of Pope Francis’s passing. As Catholics, we get used to the comings and goings of the popes as they are but temporary leaders of an eternal church. But Francis was really someone special. He was the first Pope I can remember who was always smiling or giving a friendly wave…
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter! Just a reminder that Jesus wasn’t a huge fan of the rich, despite what all prosperity gospel Trump preachers try to make you believe. Guess they think an elephant really can pass through the eye of a needle… jacobin.com/2024/03/chri...
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Christianity Was Always for the Poor
From the Sermon on the Mount through the Apostolic Age, the first Christians preached against wealth.
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is a meme with two panels in the first panel Donald Trump is shooting the economy dead and in a second panel asking “why would jerome Powell do this? “
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Coming soon to the United State…
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Best explanation I’ve seen for why Roberts let ICE off the hook for kidnapping people from the U.S. and sending them to a foreign concentration camp. He’s letting a bunch innocent people rot in a foreign prison because he’s too chicken to stand up to der Fuhrer. www.publicnotice.co/p/john-rober...
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John Roberts will save the judiciary if he has to burn it down
Appeasement never works. The chief justice is trying it anyway.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I think Grok knows what its boss has up his sleeve…. #resist
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Depressing but so true…
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Unfortunately I Frank Zappa was predicting our current political situation….
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Elon learned the hard way that Trump has no loyalty and no problem throwing anyone away once their usefulness to him has ended. All this after Elon pretty much made a complete fool out of himself to gain Trump’s favor while tanking his own car company’s stick price in the process. Sucks to be him.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’m glad Cory Booker made this speech and broke Strom Thurman’s record. It energized people on the left. But that being said, the Dems really have fight like this against bills that harm the working people in this country, even when it hurts their big donors. Otherwise it’s just useless posturing.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Good thing that Teen Vogue, of all places, is doing some great reporting on young people and politics because NYTimes, WaPo and the like are not. Hate to break it to this kid but the answer as to why Schumer has fought harder is easy: big donor money $$$$$$$$$$$$. www.teenvogue.com/story/chuck-...
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I Used to Work for Chuck Schumer. He's Pushing Young People Away From the Democratic Party.
I blame my former boss for the party's failures.
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Too bad Merrick Garland and the Biden administration didn’t stick it to Trump when they had the chance. Now it might be too late to stop him from turning the U.S. full facist. This is how you stop a dictator, keep them from power in the first place. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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National Rally president calls for ‘peaceful mobilisation’ after Marine Le Pen convicted of embezzlement – as it happened
Jordan Bardella says in petition there is a ‘dictatorship of judges’ as French far right leader barred from running for public office for five years
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I continue to ask for, but do not see, blue state governors banding together to form a coalition to handle important multi-state fundctions. We need a blue state health coalition, a blue state environment coalition, a blue state education coalition and so on. We must not lose all of the key
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Rosiemarie 🌱🌱 🐸 @rmz1961.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Laying the groundwork for Trump’s inevitable bombing/war with Iran. He needs it so he can declare an emergency in order to cancel what’s left of our civil liberties and to squelch dissent.
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Lucy 🇺🇲🇺🇦🐾♿️💙 @juice2024.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Pete Hegseth has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/03/2025
I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.
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hillary clinton is smiling while speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd .
ALT: hillary clinton is smiling while speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd .
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leonfarqhuar.bsky.social @leonfarqhuar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
But her emails…
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires. There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom. Dems need to learn this.
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