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HoopyDawn🌱 @hoopydawn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is starting to remind me of the lies that got us into Iraq www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Iraq invasion 20 years later: It was indeed a Big Lie that launched the catastrophic war
Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they were promoting false information.
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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 17/06/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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America's Radioactive Secret
Investigation shows oil-and-gas wells' toxic waste could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.
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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 17/06/2025
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Radioactive Wastewater From Fracking Is Found in a Pennsylvania Stream
New testing shows that high levels of radium are being released into the watershed that supplies Pittsburgh's drinking water
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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This bill will crash our economy....make the Dollars worthless and murder millions of Americans...call or Email your Senators today.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"But don’t get the impression that Texas is the only state where this is happening. The Center for Food Safety says reclaimed fracking water is routinely used to irrigate crops in the San Joaquin valley of California, where much of the fruits and vegetables for US consumers are grown."
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This is a bad thing because there's no way to ensure that whatever treatment process they use on the fracking fluid will be effective, because the fluid itself contains proprietary chemical compounds. It amounts to petrochemical corporations saying "Trust us."
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Never forget.
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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater. (It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 17/06/2025
These ghouls have been foaming at the mouth to eliminate Medicaid for decades. Setting aside the intrinsic value of caring for people who need a little help, whether you personally receive Medicaid or not, you absolutely benefit from it and you will absolutely be harmed by these proposed cuts.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
On the Zoom for the post-No Kings analysis. The leaders shared the Go Fund Me for Afa's family, after his life was taken on Saturday. I wanted to reshare it here. Please donate if you're able. #nokings
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Donate to Help Laura, Vera, and Isaac After Afa's Passing, organized by Lindsey Olson
On June 14th, our sweet friend Laura lost her beloved husband Arthur Fol… Lindsey Olson needs your support for Help Laura, Vera, and Isaac After Afa's Passing
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Remember, we *had* a diplomatic resolution to the Iran nuclear issue, thanks to the JCPOA that Obama put in place after years of hard work, but then President Spiteful Shithead withdrew the U.S. from the pact in 2018 and everything fell apart. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/06/2025
"Here is how bad things are: We look at the last 48 hours and feel relief. But at any other point in American history, the events of this weekend would be understood as a sign that the country was falling apart." www.thebulwark.com/p/it-was-wor...
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It Was Worse Than You Think
We had a best-case scenario weekend and it was still terrible.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/06/2025
As much as I covered Biden, we never had such blatant disregard of basic truth presented on the global stage with NO follow up from the US media The int media is LAUGHING. Really, laughing.. all of them. Gov officials too
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/06/2025
I’ve been asked about our lack of education since how the heck we elected him.. again. Germans, Italians, Japanese, Canadians, Brits.. all are laughing, pointing fingers and then asking if I feel safe going home. It’s so messed up. Ok, rant end. Back to work.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Good overview of the fun house mirror reality in which a huge swath of the GOP rank and file lives. The function of right wing conspiracy theories is to hive off a big chunk of the population into an imaginary world that is impervious to facts and other perspectives. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rights...
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The Right's Conspiracy Theory Machine Goes Into Overdrive After Minnesota Shooting
How conservatives immediately spun a tragic assassination into anti-left propaganda, despite all evidence pointing in the opposite direction.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
One thing is not debatable: Netanyahu has said these things to us before.
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Here are the recent violations. 4 speeding tix in school zones. The man is a menace to women AND children
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Josie Stratman @josiestratman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Cuomo’s car parked (illegally) outside union HQ. I asked a cop nearby if it was parked illegally. He said “yes.” Why? “Because it got two tickets already”
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l’enfant de marx et coca-cola @countrymarxist.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Page 20 had “thousands”
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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
@qantas-official.bsky.social held onto the phone for the duration of the flight at the request of the Trump administration
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
“God is reaching out to you [to] find[] the ways that we may be able to do something with our own lives to serve others. “And in that service to others we may find that coming together in friendship, building up community, we too can find true meaning in our lives.” www.osvnews.com/full-text-ad...
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Full text: Address of Pope Leo XIV to Young People of Chicago and the Whole World
The following is the full text of a video address given at Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox, June 14, 2025. My dear friends, It’s a pleasure for…
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Thinking & Thankful 💪💙🤗🏳️‍🌈 @thinking-thankful.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Here was the rally prior to the impromptu march down our main street Palm Canyon Drive. Official count of over 5000 protesters, 10% of our population!
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
As we were just arriving at the NO KINGS protest in Thousand Oaks, CA, Ventura Co.: These were the early birds, arriving before the protest was even scheduled to start. The video only captures a small fraction of those in attendance. By the time we left protesters lined both sides of the street. 1/6
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/06/2025
LAPD and LA Sheriffs tried to prevent two large protests from joining together in downtown and both departments ended up hitting EACH OTHER with impact munitions from across the same interesection.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
MSNBC reporter on ground in LA right now saying that from what he has seen the protestors have been peaceful but the LA Sheriff’s Dept in particular has been off the chain, quick to use tear gas and rubber bullets in an exceedingly aggressive manner
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
No worries, guys, they moved coverage of 5 million people marching in every American city down even further to make room for the president's birthday parade that nobody went to.
New York Times front page
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
He did not work for Walz, he was reappointed to a bipartisan commission. He had a hit list of 70, including Demoractic lawmakers, abortion providers, and pro-abortion activists. Spin all you want then delete your account.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Being a historian doesn’t give me the mantle of authority to say definitively what’s happening here or how anyone should respond, but I feel qualified to say this: If you were writing an account of how the United States devolved into violence and fragmentation, all this would be chapter 1 or 2.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Which centrist columnists will publish the first “both sides need to tone down the rhetoric or more Democratic leaders will be shot” opinion piece?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Trump demonizes ordinary immigrants as MS-13 gang members - in reality he is funding the guy who is protecting MS-13 leaders
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025
"In a previously unreported development, federal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted US aid funds to the gang." Read the whole investigation, republished from @propublica.org ⬇️
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How El Salvador's government impeded a probe of MS-13
ProPublica uncovered a previously unreported request where federal agents spelled out their suspicions that Bukele might have diverted USAID funds to MS-13 as part of the secret deal.
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I Resist Fascist Trump @harrypotterresists.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Protest actions like ‘Hands Off’ and ‘No Kings’ are sweeping across the US. And the media are barely paying attention !! But if protests grow large enough, and sustained enough, even the most reluctant media will have little choice but to pay attention. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump? | Margaret Sullivan
Protest actions like ‘Hands Off’ and ‘No Kings’ are sweeping across the US. But the media is barely paying attention
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This aged poorly.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Crucial from immigration advocate Tori Gavito: Trump's stunning admission that deportations are hurting farmers and the economy suggests he's hearing major blowback from businesses who want them to stop. On the pod, Tori is good on why this is such a big moment: newrepublic.com/article/1967...
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Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Stephen Miller’s Ugly, Hateful Aims
As Trump reveals too much about his mass deportations, badly undermining Stephen Miller’s goals, a progressive strategist discusses new data showing the MAGA coalition coming under serious strain.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
In over 99.5 percent of protest events in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Bri415an 🇺🇸💙🏳️‍🌈 @bri415an.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge says Trump illegally deployed the National Guard to help with LA protests and must return control to California.
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Judge says Trump illegally deployed National Guard to help with LA protests, must return control
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California.
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