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Peg Valentino

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The beach is my happy place. Experienced knitter & quilter; newbie crocheter. Music makes my heart sing. Former EA to CEO & COB at XM. Retired, active, & never bored.

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Defend The Vote @wedefendthevote.org · 12/02/2025
Congress will soon vote on a MAGA bill that could prevent millions of eligible American citizens from voting It includes a marriage penalty that prevents married women who changed their names from using their birth certificate or driver’s license as documents to register blavity.com/what-is-the-...
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What Is The SAVE Act? Here's What To Know, Including How It Relates To Your Right To Vote - Blavity
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Sorry, 63 million Medicaid recipients, Elon Musk needs another rocket and Peter Thiel needs a seventh yacht. Priorities, amirite? Ps: Don't get sick. Be best, Republicans
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
No shit. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...
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Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government
Former followers of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ say a planned 'neo-reactionary' hollowing out of government is happening in real time
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Elon is big mad about the co-equal branches of government thingie in the Constitution.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A century later, it's Germany sounding the alarm about a dark malevolence spreading across the world. The harbinger of darkness this time...is us. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Zelenskyy calls for European army as Germany hits back at US over Vance tirade – Europe live
Olaf Scholz says Germany ‘will not accept’ people who ‘intervene in our democracy’ after US vice-president’s speech in Munich
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025
This is the dumbest timeline. Trump fired a bunch of people that oversee our nukes because he had no idea what they did, so he had to hire them back. More proof this is a hatchet job www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Yes, making Trump unimportant means making America unimportant to the world. A hefty price but it must be paid to stop the spread of our cancer.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Welcome to Finding Out, Part 628: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Trump’s cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback
GOP lawmakers try to intervene with the Trump administration as local fallout grows.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If getting drunk and throwing darts in the dark was a plan for governance... www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Dictator for a day has gone full Napoleon.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
They voted to lose their jobs They voted for a laughingstock They voted for corporate welfare They voted to cut Social Security They voted to raise their own taxes They voted to deport their neighbor They voted to defund public schools They voted to lose their food assistance
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This is a classic example. They will decimate NASA. Their companies will take over, forcing us to fund all their space exploration vanity projects, pocketing billions in the process. Apply this scam to most federal agencies...FAA, TSA, FEMA, the Dept of Education, Defense, infrastructure etc.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The guy who racked up almost $8T in debt during his first term has no interest in paying it down. The federal purge underway is to allow for oligarchs to make trillions in privatization and run roughshod in a deregulated landscape. Remember that in an oligarchy, everything is run by the oligarchs.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If anyone defends what DOGE is doing ask them why we're still spending $400 million on these Nazi lemons.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4
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A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
Staff shortages are about to get even worse.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It's really this simple, folks.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.
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TheGoodCook @thegoodcook.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
And demanding 50% minerals - trying to rape and blackmail them. Shame on Trump and his corrupt regime!
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bunnyjenkins.bsky.social @bunnyjenkins.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
... the way abusers blame their victim after they abuse them. "You made me angry - ...that's why I hit you. ...that's why I called you stupid ...that's why I won't let you see your friends ...that's why I have to control everything He is an abuser no matter the type.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The guys telling you DEI is dropping our military standards... ...can't even spell military.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This. 👇
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thoughts and prayers are back on the menu.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reminder: some of Psycho Bob's conspiracy hits - vaccines cause autism (debunked a million times) - the polio vaccine killed more than it saved (yikes) - COVID was engineered to attack certain people (batshit bananas) - AIDS not caused by HIV (clinically insane)
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is fine. We’re fine. Everything is fine.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“Inspectors general are charged with rooting out government waste, fraud, abuse and preventing misconduct,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, said in a statement. “President Trump is dismantling checks on his power and paving the way for widespread corruption.”
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Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge
The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.
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Derrick ♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🏳️‍🌈 @spawn03.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Zee207702🇨🇦🍁🍃🎃🐈‍⬛ @zee207702.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💯‼️
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Fake Christianity exposed...
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Think While You Can @tiffeloyx.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One of the people arrested by ICE, was a Citizen, US Military Veteran. Even when He produced PROOF that he IS A US CITIZEN and his Military Record they arrested him anyway. It’s just like the Casual ☠️ and Slave Papers— history is repeating itself.
Baraka said agents detained undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant.
"One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned," Baraka said. "This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees 'the right of the people be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...'"Document E: October, 1669. Act I: An act about the casual killing of slaves.
Whereas the only law in force for the punishment of refractory servants resisting their master, mistress or overseer cannot be inflicted upon negroes, nor the obstinacy of many of them by other than violent means suppressed, Be it enacted and declared by this grand assembly, if any slave resist his master (or others by his masters order correcting him) and by the extremity of the correction should chance to die, that his death shall not be considered a felony, but the master (or that other person appointed by the master to punish him) be acquit from molestation, since it cannot be presumed that malice existed (which alone makes murder a felony) [or that anything] should induce any man to destroy his own estate.What is in the slave papers?
Outright manumissions are rare here, but freedom in these papers sometimes comes in other forms. For instance, Peter Cosco was set free in 1790 by his slaveholder John McKee, but only by self-purchase-that is, he paid Mckee £100 to buy his own freedom.
Other manumissions are not quite what they seem. In many cases, the child of a slave is manumitted by a slaveholder.
Minutes later the young person is indentured, sometimes to a different slaveholder, until the age of 28. Some indenture documents stipulate that the servant should get limited instruction. Other rules: the servant must be taught a skill, must follow the master's wishes, and must not marry or beget children during indenture.
Free Black people still faced danger.
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Many appeared in court to ask for a Certificate of Freedom. The claimant had to prove that he/she was born free had been previously freed. If the court was satisfied, it would issue a certificate
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with a minute description of the person including skin shades, hair texture, and body scars. Freedom papers were
essential for freedmen who wanted to travel, particularly those working on the rivers.
Almost half of the 55 records in these papers originated in states south of the Mason-Dixon Line, especially Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland. Pennsylvania, as a border state, was a battleground in the fight between slavery and freedom. For an escaped slave, crossing the Mason- Dixon Line into Pennsylvania seemed to be liberating. But it would be many decades after the first of the 55 records was filed before slavery disappeared from Western Pennsylvania.
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Francesca Bonanno @runningwiththedogs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Good for him ! Fuck Bruce Fischer ! Fucking racist piece of shit !
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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
DEAR TRUMP CULT........
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If only we had access to any historical information to better understand what he's getting at...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities
YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK
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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
ALREADY MISSING PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN LIKE CRAZY.........
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Hey so any of the folks who claimed — without evidence — that Biden was profiting off of the Presidency: Any comment about Trump and his wife dropping new shitcoins on inauguration weekend?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"What’s the point of being worth $209 billion if you can’t play offense against politicians who might target you and your business?"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Trump: - said its going to be hard to lower grocery prices - is talking about joining multiple foreign conflicts - is already walking back his “largest mass deportation ever!!” plan - is nominating the most hawkish Cabinet I’ve seen MAGA, yall feel played? Or just happy the Black lady lost?
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The incoming Trump Administration is stacked with billionaires. His cabinet’s net worth is greater than the GDP of 169 different countries. Their top priority is a tax cut and they plan to pay for it by gutting Medicare, Medicaid, and privatizing Social Security. Let that sink in for a minute…
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/01/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/01/2025
Dear Joe, I know it feels really wrong to order your AG to release a Special Counsel report because that’s been a bad thing to do for so long. But the Supreme Court says it’s okay now. It’s legal. It’s an official act. So go ahead, Mr. President. It’s normal now. ~ Everyone
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I just saw a sound bite of TFG declaring he intends to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America since we do "all the work." You guys ready for years of dumb sh*t and a massive waste of resources? Everything that isn't broken will likely get smashed.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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