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@maureenlaf.bsky.social
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Proud CANADIAN 🇨🇦! I love the outdoors, nature, gardening, travel, science, painting with water colours and photography! Believer in democracy and justice. Retired Assistive Technology Consultant. No DMs!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/11/2025
Houlahan: "I'm just continually stunned by the fact the commander in chief, the president, has called for my death. And that's something that should be chilling for everybody, and everybody should be worried about their safety in this nation when the president can yield that sort of statement."
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This is fucking amazing
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/10/2025
people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“They’re literally putting 🇺🇸 in reverse”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/10/2025
How fashy do you have to be for the Washington Post to refuse to sign your pre-clearance policy? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/10/2025
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2025
This is all they want. They don’t care about a trial or a conviction.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Thugs.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 04/10/2025
We can fund health care and keep the government running, or we can shut everything down to raise prices on people. To me, that’s a pretty easy choice.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
BREAKING: An FBI agent has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. HERO.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The largest group in ICE detention is now immigrants with no criminal record, with more than 16,500 currently being held. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about going after the “worst of the worst.” This was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Donald Trump is trying to destroy dissent and protest and build a censorship state. But he won’t win. The people have enough political and commercial power to stop him.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
'Vindictive prosecution': Former DOJ official reveals how Comey can get charges thrown out
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'Vindictive prosecution': Former DOJ official reveals how Comey can get charges thrown out
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2025
This is terrifying. Hegseth is summoning all flag officers from around the globe to Quantico the night before republicans shut down the government. Is this a final purge of dissidents? Are they going to use a government shutdown as pretext for massive domestic military mobilization?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2025
Didn’t the Soviets build Bagram?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2025
BREAKING: Trump's border czar Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Oof!
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension Disney faces a wave of cancellations after pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with subscribers reporting that the Disney+ cancellation page keeps crashing. 🤭 creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
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Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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HoundLyfe @houndlyfe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Finally got two hummingbirds on the feeder #birds #birding
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2025
Incase you thought Charlie Kirk’s influence was contained within our own borders… This is nuts. Thankfully, the EU Parliament had the good sense to reject this inappropriate nonsense.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/09/2025
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I have no words for this.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 09/09/2025
A lawyer for several workers detained at a Hyundai factory in Georgia says many of the South Koreans rounded up in the immigration raid are engineers and equipment installers brought in for the highly specialized work of getting an electric battery plant online. apnews.com/article/sout...
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Attorney says detained Korean Hyundai workers had special skills for short-term jobs
An immigration attorney says many South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia were brought in for highly specialized work that Americans aren't trained to pe...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/09/2025
Shit! 🚨 NATO formally invokes Article 4 following 19 Russian drones entering Poland.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/09/2025
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
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Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My God. Chills.
“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a lot wage job. Rather than stand idly by while out constitutional freedoms are lost, i dissent.”
—Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/09/2025
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Yup, they’re definitely predators.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Odd, how we live in the Age of Information, but still live in the most ignorant time in American history.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/09/2025
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2025
“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
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The Twinning Husbands @twinninghusbands.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New California! Gavin has it together! #twinninghusbands
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