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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN

@marilynari.bsky.social
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Liberal, Anti-fascist, Navy Vet, college educated, reader, Lesbian, political junkie, right now, disgusted with Democratic Party, 83 years old and 63 of them working for change; I hope I live long enough to see an end to Trump, his family and enablers.

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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 9h
Lindsey Graham’s sister snaps at journalist who brings up gay rumors about her brother www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/lind... He's dead, it doesn't matter, give it a rest. Let's talk about the living Republicans, that's bad enough.
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Lindsey Graham's sister snaps at journalist who brings up gay rumors about her brother - LGBTQ Nation
"I'm not even gonna entertain that question!"
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Underneath the Skeets @mssporadic.bsky.social · 16h
How much longer do we have before Iran says “Bet!”????
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 19h
AI Battle Between Insurers and Hospitals Jacked Up Patient Prices by Nearly $1 Billion www.commondreams.org/news/ai-in-h...
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AI Battle Between Insurers and Hospitals Jacked Up Patient Prices by Nearly $1 Billion | Common Dreams
"Not exactly the cancer cure we were promised," quipped one critic.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Local newspapers are dying, and I don’t think we’re prepared for a world without them…” tulsaflyer.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Battle in McCurtain County at the center of new Peacock documentary
McCurtain County Sheriff’s officials wanted a family-run newspaper dead — literally. A new Peacock documentary explores the years-long battle and what it means for press freedoms.
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“God was speaking to her”: Christian wins right to adopt kids & reject their LGBTQ+ identity www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/god-... This religious fanatic should not be allowed to foster or adopt any children. What else is she going to demand of them in the name of her God.
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"God was speaking to her": Christian wins right to adopt kids & reject their LGBTQ+ identity - LGBTQ Nation
She said she would force a trans kid to wear clothes they find humiliating because "God gives us our gender/sex."
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
takeaction.greatlakes.org/page/96945/a... Join me in signing. Thanks.
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Tell Your Senators: Great Lakes Restoration Must Continue
I just contacted my U.S. senators. Join me!
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u... It is pretty stupid of our government to be so vulnerable to hacking. Bad security.
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be Reopened www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/n... hmmm
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Cornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be Reopened
After outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members.
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man Killed After Bag Gets Stuck in Subway Doors, Police Say www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n... have been no such accidents in Japan since 1964; in Europe accidents been mainly from people on tracks trespassing. Why is it we Americans cannot learn from whatcountries who are doing what is positive?
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Man Killed In Brooklyn After Bag Gets Stuck in Subway Doors, Police Say
The man, a 47-year-old from Brooklyn, was pulled by the train and found near the tracks at the Utica Avenue station.
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Hands Off Our Vote! Live from NYC: How We Can Protect Our Elections” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... Please join us.
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Hands Off Our Vote! Live from NYC: How We Can Protect Our Elections · Indivisible
On Sunday, October 4th, movement leaders, artists, and issue experts will come together in New York City for a special Hands Off Our Vote live and nationally live-streamed event. It will inspire and m...
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Marcus Henderson @marcushenderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they only plan to rescind more, make sure you vote next month!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"For months, a group of central Louisianans and its growing coalition of allies have come together to thwart the family and child detention facility from taking root in Alexandria..." veritenews.org/2026/09/22/o...
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Opponents of Alexandria ICE detention facility hold community forum - Verite News New Orleans
The England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary. The Communist-ruled nation is considered by most policymakers and legislators of both parties to be the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Step 1: "Tether’s stablecoin has become a primary means of payment for the Iranian regime and a tool for funding terrorist proxy organizations such as Hezbollah..." Step 2: Now google Howard Lutnick and Tether www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Exclusive | Senate Investigation Finds Rampant Use of Tether’s Stablecoin by Iranian Regime
Wallets sanctioned over Iran ties overwhelmingly dealt in Tether’s USDT stablecoin, according to Senate Democrats.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Glendy and Nixon's children are now orphans," the archbishop said... "The family was a beloved member of our community; their children received their first sacraments in our parishes..." "This is not a gray area... What is happening is gravely immoral." www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis Archdiocese wants end to 'mass deportation,' says immigrant treatment 'sinful'
Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski called for a path to legal status for those without documentation.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning...” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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ICE buys $1.3 million in robot dogs from Connecticut company
The agency bought the robots without seeking competing bids, and chose a version built to detect chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards.
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✨🤎 esmeralda grand 🤎✨ @abra-cadouglas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
when men realized beauty shops were where women organized, they stopped being segregated🙃 they now realize social media is where women organize aka having the lid blown off men’s bullshit, so now they want to monitor.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bismarck, North Dakota: bismarcktribune.com/news/local/a...
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ICE surge prompts protest in Bismarck
A weeklong spike in immigration enforcement in the Bismarck area prompted a protest downtown on Friday evening.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A group of pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere... to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men..." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“'You don’t live here,' the crowd shouted like they were in a basketball arena...” kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/u...
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US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because of the Texas state government's error, Texas "counties are now dealing with nearly a year of backlogged voter registration tasks to process. They could include new registrations or simply updates to voters’ existing records, like a change in address..." www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Nissim @nissimss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Concentration camps in the US are real, First they came for....
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A woman leaving the facility 'dropped to her knees. She did the sign of the cross in extreme relief. As if coming out of a nightmare,' he said... “May we never become so accustomed to suffering that we stop seeing the humanity of those experiencing it.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Amid whistleblower claims, advocates ask lawmakers to visit ICE office in Miramar
Community leaders demand Florida lawmakers investigate Miramar ICE facility amid whistleblower allegations of severe overcrowding and filthy facilities
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
new friend in my bathroom sink welcoming me to texas this afternoon!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s up! Our new film “Kill.Bury.Print” is streaming now on Peacock #KillBuryPrint trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg?... and here’s a clip:
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“‘Ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation or promoted voluntary return of non-white immigrants'... This is, of course, beyond alarming...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“In the weeks and months after the war began, Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers spoke in favor of Trump’s decision and called the war 'long overdue.' In April, he said the war had left Iran 'absolutely a toothless wonder'...” www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/p...
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GOP Senate candidate who praised the Iran war now campaigns against the pain it caused | CNN Politics
In 2024, then-Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers stood on camera in a zippered vest in a large grocery store
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Maine Republican Paul LePage **then**: “The enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of color, or people of Hispanic origin.” www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/u... Paul LePage *now*: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Paul LePage, a Trump Ally, Says a Family Member Is Being Deported
The former Maine governor, a Republican running for Congress, said the Trump administration is seeking to wrongly deport his son’s father-in-law, who has a work permit.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The president barred US reporters, while welcoming Chinese reporters who answer to the communist dictatorship in Beijing. This would be the same president who's running government-paid TV advertising vowing to stop the United States from becoming communist..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.
The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I simply do not want to see innocent children being detained. Prisons are not a place for innocent children...” “We need to go to these board meetings... to all our other meetings, our city council. We need to be in all these spaces and insist upon being heard.” veritenews.org/2026/09/22/o...
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Opponents of Alexandria ICE detention facility hold community forum - Verite News New Orleans
The England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Referring to the Chinese president, the host asked “If you were president, would you throw him a big dinner?” “I would not be throwing him a dinner,” Trump declared. “I’d get him a McDonald’s hamburger.” 😂 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jak...
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Jake Tapper Digs Up Clip of Trump Mocking Obama-Xi State Dinner: ‘Get Down To Work’
CNN’s Jake Tapper aired an old clip of President Donald Trump blasting then-President Barack Obama for hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner in 2015.
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
JD Vance implies James Talarico is a pedophile because he supports trans kids www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/jd-v... J D Vance is a despicable human being.
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JD Vance implies James Talarico is a pedophile because he supports trans kids - LGBTQ Nation
Vance is part of an administration that has tried to block and censor files related to a millionaire child sex trafficker.
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Airline pilots are “MEOWING & BARKING”: GOP senator doubles down on furry fearmongering www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/airl... I am thinking it is a waste of time to report on anything this Republican says.
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Airline pilots are "MEOWING & BARKING": GOP senator doubles down on furry fearmongering - LGBTQ Nation
"Ask yourself… would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?" he asked.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
12-16 miles per day, interfaith pilgrimage www.lasacredresistance.org/adelanto-to-...
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why I’m no longer a Democrat www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/why-... You must be crazy. Don't vote for democrats and you will be throwing your vote away or to Republican and destroying our democracy.
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Why I'm no longer a Democrat - LGBTQ Nation
I'm not pushing for a third party or telling people not to vote Democrat at this critical time. But we gotta talk...
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gavin Newsom explains the surprising reason he just vetoed a pro-trans bill www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/gavi... Do not trust Newsom. I am a native San Franciscan, third generation I've seen him up close in San Francisco.
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Gavin Newsom explains the surprising reason he just vetoed a pro-trans bill - LGBTQ Nation
The governor claims it would set an inappropriate precedent.
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New queer mom Lady Gaga used a surrogate to fulfill her dream of motherhood www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/new-... Good person.
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New queer mom Lady Gaga used a surrogate to fulfill her dream of motherhood - LGBTQ Nation
Rose Bean Polansky was born on June 9 after Lady Gaga spent years trying to become a mother.
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pete Buttigieg is more popular than Mr Rogers www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/pete... I am going to say this one more time. DO NOT BE FOOLISH and make Pete our democratic presidential nominee. HE CANNOT WIN. I am a lesbian and 80+ years old and I am hoping he does not run. We can't take this chance.
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Pete Buttigieg is more popular than Mr Rogers - LGBTQ Nation
Barack Obama was the only person asked about in the poll who could beat Pete's favorability rating.
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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Temu #Bongino 🙄
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mother of Renee Good says she voted for Trump to fight “terrorists,” not “innocents” www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/moth... What "terrorist". Shame, she should feel shame and guilt since she contributed to her daughter's death by being stupid.
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Mother of Renee Good says she voted for Trump to fight "terrorists," not "innocents" - LGBTQ Nation
"I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"About five million people in the country have already lost SNAP benefits — the government’s primary anti-hunger tool — because of the Trump/GOP bill... One retiree in Ohio described SNAP benefits as a 'lifeline.' Her benefits dropped in March from $250 to $44" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Is Starting to Bite Before the Midterm Elections
The tax cuts in President Trump’s signature achievement were the Republicans’ answer to voters’ economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance cuts are taking a toll.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Tafoya described herself on her podcast as 'sort of a Florida woman'..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Republican Senate nominee said she was ‘embarrassed’ to be from the state she’s now running to represent | CNN Politics
In a local radio interview earlier this month, Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota and former sports broadcaster was asked about her past criticism of the state and whether she ...
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OLD LIBERAL AMERICAN @marilynari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Texas students cheer as Pete Hegseth calls trans people a slur www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/texa... consider the sources: the alcoholic and Texas students.
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Texas students cheer as Pete Hegseth calls trans people a slur - LGBTQ Nation
The Trump administration is arguing in court that the trans military ban isn't based on hatred, while Hegseth repeatedly uses anti-trans slurs.
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