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MargieD

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I like to dig in the dirt. Closely following politics.

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MargieD @margied65.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
How Much More Stupidity Will Americans Endure? open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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How Much More Stupidity Will Americans Endure?
Reflecting on the escalating hostility to America values, principles and decency in a 24-hour period
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MargieD @margied65.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A cabinet of dunces open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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A cabinet of dunces
In the Trump regime, incompetence is a job requirement.
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Cecily W. @skeskali.ca · 10/05/2025
So, like, where's the Canadian Underground Railroad Society meeting taking place? I'm not even kidding.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/05/2025
This is the equivalent of a parent absentmindedly scolding a bad ass child. Who gives a fuck? None of them are going to do anything about this
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MargieD @margied65.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump's brain is gone open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Trump's brain is gone
It really should be a bigger story.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All
What began as Trump’s mass deportation scheme has spiraled into a campaign of intimidation against citizens lawfully using their rights.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/04/2025
A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
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Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company
A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Very accurate...
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Can’t argue with this post by the President, can we proceed forth-with please?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/03/2025
Each day of Trump’s second term brings more “outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold,” David Remnick writes.
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Trump’s Disgrace
David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said. “If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Judge releases detained Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status
The judge said the detention of the couple was baseless and unlawful.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/03/2025
Only the best people
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kathzinn.bsky.social @kathzinn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@21stcsuffragettes.bsky.social
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MargieD @margied65.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Dear GOP: You'll Never Wash the Stench of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never. hartmannreport.com/p/dear-gop-y...
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Dear GOP: You'll Never Wash the Stench of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never.
No matter how hard you try, the world won’t forget. The lies, the corruption, and the betrayal are etched into history, a stain that will follow your party for generations…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ossoff: This is what happens when you have Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.
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Jessie Martines 2026 @standas1.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This bitch is unfit to lead
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The annoying concept of due process
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Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy bemoans "hurdle" of having "to somehow prove" those deported to El Salvador mega prison were actually gang members
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MargieD @margied65.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Refusing to Be Complicit
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Refusing to Be Complicit (redux)
In his first week, the newly inaugurated president proved (once again) that he rejects our laws, values and principles. It's a mistake for Democrats to try and work with him.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/03/2025
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/03/2025
Trump’s illegal order to kill the Dept of Ed. Tesla protests erupt. ICE detains legal travelers. Trump wants Ukraine’s power plants. America drops in happiness. It’s all here in today's daily bulletin👇
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 95. 3/20/25
… Trump signed a blatantly illegal executive order today dismantling the Department of Education, which was created by Congress.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A congresswoman who makes, what, $174,000 a year, paid for by taxpayers, spends tens of thousands of dollars buying a Texla, just to suck up to Donald Trump's superdonor. Pathetic.
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Melissa Brownstein RN/Bluewater Psychic, Certified Wound Nurse @melissabrownstein.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Everyday that this POS lives America is one day closer to total destruction. 2 months of his hatred for America seems like 2 years. My 1 prayer every day is Lord let today be his very last day! I'm tired of his lies, contempt for Democracy, and destruction of stability. I want his dirt nap now!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Trump did what Project 2025 said he would do. joycevance.substack.com/p/education-...
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Education: Project 2025 Comes True
“Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” Those are the opening words in the Education Chapter of Project 2025. In other w...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
And that’s on that 😌
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
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Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/03/2025
“We are witnessing a constitutional system on the brink.” Ruth Marcus writes about the Trump Administration’s flagrant violation of a federal judge’s order to stop the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants.
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The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts
In its conflict with a federal judge, the Justice Department claims to be complying with his orders while provoking a constitutional crisis.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/03/2025
Gutting the Department of Education would deliver a terrible blow to public schools, and have an immediate and tangible impact on students with disabilities.
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What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities
The future of the Department of Education may hinge on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste.
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Lucy 🇺🇲🇺🇦🐾♿️💙 @juice2024.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The local smiling idiot, so proud of what he’s just done…
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great decision Judge Hollander! Tell DOGE to keep their slimy little hands and bad intent away from our Social Security, and our most sensitive and personal data…
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Americans thank you for that reminder, hopefully our Congressional Representatives & Senators remind themselves of this as well!
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Goodport (GP) @goodport.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Happy first day of Spring! 🌱 #PNW #photography #photos
Narcissus growing in a clump near the base of a pine tree in the woods.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/03/2025
Bernie Sanders announces AOC will be joining him on his 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour and delivers an important message in a new interview on MeidasTouch.
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Bernie DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump in POWERFUL INTERVIEW
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.
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Melissa Brownstein RN/Bluewater Psychic, Certified Wound Nurse @melissabrownstein.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US department of defense website Source: The Guardian search.app/WGndc I hate you tRump Racist pigs!
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Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Musk doesn't seem worried that he and Trump threaten social and economic collapse. On the contrary, it appears that's his goal. Musk swims in a tech-fascist ideology that believes democracy should be replaced by billionaire dictators — like himself. www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...
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Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people
Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people
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Melissa Brownstein RN/Bluewater Psychic, Certified Wound Nurse @melissabrownstein.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
www.youtube.com/live/D75u1uv... Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho dOnald tRump has gotta go! Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho eLon musk has gotta go!!!
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LIVE From STOP TRUMP'S CUTS March, Wall Street Die-In in NYC
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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MargieD @margied65.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Arlington National Cemetery removed links to webpages about Black, Hispanic and female veterans www.snopes.com/fact-check The racist makes me want to vomit.
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Arlington National Cemetery removed links to webpages about Black, Hispanic and female veterans
Arlington National Cemetery removed the links after the officials ordered a "digital content refresh" of the Department of Defense's websites.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Trump in the Great Hall of Justice, "The case against me was bull shit." There is applause. In The Great Hall of Justice. For that.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I've been at DOJ for so many important speeches & presentations. Today, my heart is filled with sadness for my former colleagues & our country as a convicted felon who doesn't understand justice or the meaning of the rule of law & why both are essential to our democracy stands there.
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MargieD @margied65.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Seven Slivers of Optimism open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Seven Slivers of Optimism
These are dark and heartbreaking times, but let's not miss the bright spots
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Politico @politico.com · 13/03/2025
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani confronted Trump border Czar Tom Homan over ICE's arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. "How many more New Yorkers will you detain? How many more New Yorkers without charge?" he shouted at Homan during a protest Wednesday.
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