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Jersey girl. Social justice and Animal Rights activist, Universal Healthcare, Agnostic, 1970 Steinem feminist, clothing optional beaches, love classic rock and blues.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Joy Reid: Real Journalists will never back down to Trump! Trump thought that by arresting a journalist, it would cause others to cower in fear. Instead, we responded by stepping forward to take the fight to Trump even more. Our conversation deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/joy-reid-t...
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Joy Reid: Real Journalists will never back down to Trump!
A recording from Dean Obeidallah's live video
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Friends: While ICE leaves cities reeling and families scarred by their violence, Republicans want to fund trump's gestapo instead of funding healthcare for millions. Let's get 1,000 quick reposts and replies with #FundHealthcareStopICE to make it trend. Please and thank you! 🙏💪
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♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ @pam.sheshed.rocks · 09/01/2026
#sheshed
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Mother of Muggins @mugginmafia.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Friends, authoritarians, like Trump, are sociopaths. When the narcissistic ego of a sociopath is wounded, the degree of retaliation is commensurate with societal norms & decency. The more ICE, for example, gets away executing Americans, the more our decency & democracy fail. DO NOT LET THIS GO!
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Mother of Muggins @mugginmafia.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#TakeAmericaBack #MAGAcult #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Goodbye 2025, and good riddance to you. You truly sucked ass. Give us something good, 2026. 🙏🙏Manifest that.🙏🙏
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
From the oil fields of Venezuela to the streets of Minneapolis, the “Don-roe Doctrine” has arrived. trump’s "Might Makes Right" policy isn't just about annexing Greenland or "running" Venezuela—it’s playing out in our own neighborhoods. LIVE ON MY YOUTUBE at 6:30PM ET!
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
trump doesn’t discover crises. He manufactures them. Fraud, crime, disorder… they’re pretexts, not accidents. My new Substack looks at what happens when leaders refuse to imagine how bad faith power actually works. Check it out here: brooklyndaddefiant.substack.com/p/our-leader...
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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By Their Fruit Ye Shall Know Them—And It Is Rot
I hear it all the time.
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
They already fucking banned me from Facebook again lol
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Civil Rights by Nazis: The Sick Joke of Our Time
Let’s drop the pretense.
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Behold. The festering carcasses of American rot all shoved into ill-fitting suits.
Behold. The festering carcasses of American rot all shoved into ill-fitting suits.
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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The Clarity of Collapse: I Belong to Earth, Not Empire
As often it is with events in our lives that bring chaos and uncertainty, reflection and contemplation—and perhaps clarity—comes with it.
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
So they’ll know when and where I’m taking a massive shit and shitposting memes about Thiel at the same time? Perfect.
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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When the AI Bubble Pops, 2000 Will Look Tame
I came across a post today that jolted me back to a topic I’ve been meaning to write about—one that’s not getting nearly enough attention, yet when it finally breaks into public consciousness, it’s go...
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
These boots are made for walkin', and that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over this festering pumpkin carcass of American rot crammed into an ill-fitting suit. It’s been tweetin’ when it oughta be leadin’, a dumb orange clown shoutin’ greed as substitute.
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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Fuck Off, Fascists
America is not great with Trump in office.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/10/2025
This federal office was meant to ensure America's energy future. Trump aims to kill it.
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This federal office was meant to ensure America's energy future. Trump aims to kill it.
No unit of the hard-hit Energy Department has been singled out quit like the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/09/2025
DHS subpoenaed Meta for information about an account that posts names and images of the ICE agents raiding our communities, but @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and advocates are pushing back. Recording federal agents while on duty in public — and sharing that information — is our First Amendment right.
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The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents
StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Ed Martin’s intimidation tactics against FBI agent who responded to Sandy Hook is too much even for Todd Blanche. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
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Trump DOJ retracts letter that implied Sandy Hook FBI agent was under investigation | CNN Politics
A top Justice Department official has retracted a letter he sent to an FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that suggested the agent was being investigated in relation…
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well. This is insane.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I despise Charlie Kirk and every hateful thing he stands for, but today’s shooting was truly horrific. Violence is NEVER the answer.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/09/2025
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
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Aatif @aaiqbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
An important thread about the racist, collusive "settlement" in the UCLA case (where UCLA simply refused to challenge baseless, racist lies alleged by the plaintiffs). Students and faculty with actual knowledge of the facts tried to intervene, but to no avail A flagrant due process violation
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 27/07/2025
Busted.
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
There are a lot of reliable ways to keep eyes on the current situation in Palestine. www.haaretz.com www.middleeasteye.net www.972mag.com www.aljazeera.com mondoweiss.net www.timesofisrael.com news.un.org/en/ www.palestinechronicle.com And of course Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch.
Photo of Gaza destruction near the sea. Everything to the horizon is a shambles.
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Article referencing the video below is here mondoweiss.net/2025/07/isra...
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Israel and the Trump administration are carrying out their final solution in Gaza
The head of the Mossad spy agency was recently in Washington to coordinate with the White House on plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza. The plan, along with the forced starvation and mass killing of...
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We can thank the Regime for the blueprint they’ve provided on how to muscle change into every nook & cranny of American life. Imagine doing this for good: universal healthcare, UBI, nixing at-will employment, taxing capital gains as wages, climate action, consumer protection, reproductive freedom…
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“As of 2018, all US medical school graduates made some form of public oath but none used the original Hippocratic Oath.”-Wikipedia We’re just making it up as we go along now: “First, do no harm, unless you feel like it”.
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is a big deal in our household.
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Guided Nanoparticles Reconnect Brain Cells, Raising Hopes For Parkinson's Treatment
Broken connections between brain cells play a critical role in multiple neurodegenerative conditions, including Parkinson's disease.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Democrats have got to learn to smack this bullshit down. Tell 'em starving children on purpose is genocide and it's not antisemitism to say so. Tell 'em Israel is our strategic partner and not our boss and Netanyahu gets no more blank checks. And tell AIPAC to fuck off.
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
For all the excuses made by MOR apologists, it’s objectively true that our oppo party is seen by the world as leaderless & impotent. Of course there are a few Dems who fight & are heard. But just because you can intermittently see a hand come out of the waves doesn’t mean someone isn’t drowning.
Paul from Australia writes in comments:

As an Australian, it’s hard to constantly watch and see how your democracy is failing you all. Our democratic structure has its rough spots, but nothing like what you’re experiencing would be possible here. How a man so feckless and venal can rule like an unchecked king. It’s difficult to imagine the mind of a person that thinks he is working in their interest. Then your legal system! Wow. 

We’re all watching the greatest grift in history. A grift that can only occur at this scale through the unregulated tech sectors appalling products and platforms. I think the one upside is that the movement to regulate tech is building globally. Hopefully. 

Fingers crossed the Democratic leadership can get it together in time to fight for the mid terms. It doesn’t look good though.
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
From “The New Redeemers”:
The Redeemers were a political and paramilitary force in the Southern United States who successfully ended Reconstruction, imposed white supremacy with various laws we collectively dub “Jim Crow,” and were more generally an arch-reactionary movement which sought to reassert white supremacy. It is my contention, as a historian of the American South, that it is here at the turn of the 20th century where we can find the most apt comparison to the modern Republican Party.
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Thanks to Toby Buckle… www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-rede...
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The New Redeemers
Ever since Donald Trump first came down that golden escalator, everyone from laymen to various pundits and historians have debated if it is appropriate to speak of him and his Republican Party as fasc...
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Watching this hysterical conspiracy mania ramp up is like watching a ball of shit roll down a shit mountain, getting bigger & bigger till the whole world stinks like a 3-day dead corpse of a blue whale. They want their stench to blind us so badly we can no longer tell where it’s coming from.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.
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Pope Francis focused on climate change as the planet continued to get hotter
Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/04/2025
Trump’s cronies said we “wasted Easter Sunday” in discussing Mr. Abrego Garcia & their violation of his constitutional rights. We were in good company w/ Pope Francis, who on Easter decried “contempt” for immigrants & has called on them to do better. apnews.com/article/pope...
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Pope rebukes Trump administration over immigrant deportations and appears to aim directly at Vance
The U.S. border czar has pushed back against Pope Francis' criticism of the U.S. mass deportation of migrants plan.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025
Trump praised the pope at the start of Francis's papacy, in 2013. But relations soured during the 2016 election, when Francis criticized Trump's proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Canada border.
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A brief history of Trump's feud with Pope Francis
Trump praised the pope at the start of Francis's papacy, in 2013. But relations soured during the 2016 election, when Francis criticized Trump's proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Canada border.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
We lost the only true moral leader on the world stage. It's immense. But Pope Francis led by listening to the grassroots, lifting up the people's demands. He put "ecological debt" in the climate encyclical, a concept that emerged in Ecuador's oil-poisoned jungle. Millions of leaders remain.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
At a time when moral leadership has been in short supply in the world — when authoritarians and neofascists are pushing us into darkness — Pope Francis pointed toward the light. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-cons…
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In Pope Francis’s last public address, he preached care of the marginalized, the vulnerable, and migrants, saying: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves.” May we heed his wish.
Pope Francis: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of God!"
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Cameron Kasky @cameronkasky.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The U.S. constitution is like a religious text- its most aggressive followers just cherry pick the parts of it that they feel like following and pretend they aren’t ignoring the rest
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Cameron Kasky @cameronkasky.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
There are kids from my high school in Parkland, FL who were freshmen during the MSD shooting and are now seniors at FSU during this current mass shooting. Welcome to Florida, welcome to America.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
When Trump and Musk tout how much money they're saving by gutting cancer research and Social Security services, know this: Their IRS cuts will cost $500 billion in tax revenue just this year. That's more than half the Defense budget. None of their destruction is actually about saving money.
Trump and Musk want to shrink the government by fiat without regard to who and what they hurt.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
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Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Absolutely. Spineless Congressional Republicans are 100% abdicating their constitutional role. "The constitution can't enforce itself. It takes people. The House MUST impeach Trump + the Senate MUST convict and prevent Trump from running for office." Lawrence Tribe, Law Prof Deadline WH, MSNBC
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This segment of MSNBC's coverage encapsulates exactly what I think is at stake. FF to 22:45. Listen as Nicolle reads from JVL's shattering piece in the Bulwark. Then listen to Judge Michael Luttig's response. For Luttig, this is a very emotional moment. This is America today. We cannot look away.
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Deadline: White House [4PM] 4/14/2025 | 🅼🆂🅽🅱️🅲 BREAKING NEWS Today April 14, 2025
YouTube video by ايهاب وساندي
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