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Kristin P

@merdeka7.bsky.social
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Hiker, search and rescue dweeb, proud sister, love training dogs, F1 & challenge me on Duolingo sometime 🌺

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The thing to remember about Mike Pompeo is that he is an untruthful, fundamentally unserious person, with terrible ideas about foreign policy & everything else, who weakened & embarrassed the State Dept & was the worst Secretary of State in 🇺🇸 history. This is embarrassing & shameful from SIPA.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law" A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it's too late. @kimwehle.bsky.social for Zeteo:
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Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law
A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it’s too late.
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timkawakami.bsky.social @timkawakami.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Giants will not lose 100 games this year. Champagne is optional.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In reply to some comments: Of course it's not just DC But the devastation is tangible and inescapable here, even more than elsewhere (From Kennedy Center to Reflecting Pool to stupid 'Arch' to National Guard troops to Cage Fight to cut-down cherry trees to NIH/USAID/Voice of America and much more)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think tearing down Trump's monstrosities, and scraping all that gold crap off the walls, would be healthy symbolism about recovering the country. In addition, fire all his appointees. He's the guy who wanted Schedule F - the next Dem POTUS should use it, then cancel Schedule F. But use it first.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
funny thing about this podcast of course is it might get like 200 views, tops
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 09/09/2026
Seems legit
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/09/2026
When someone causes damage and claims it is "for your own good," it is most accurately called toxic justification or abusive rationalization. People use this tactic to avoid guilt and control others.
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I do this for our Country, not myself. I've made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is what happens when you send a couple of witless real estate guys out to do serious work. 2/2
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Kristin P @merdeka7.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This should be a fun watch apple.news/AiF7Ib_S9QC2...
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A plane full of weed crashed in Yosemite. A new documentary retells the wild legend — San Francisco Chronicle
It’s a classic bit of Yosemite campfire lore. Back in the 1970s, a smugglers’ airplane loaded with Mexican marijuana crashed in a backcountry alpine lake deep inside the national park. The dirtbag roc...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fresh off failing to end the Iran war, secure any concessions, or even make US surrender stick, and riding on the apparent, deepening failure of their Gaza plan, Jared and Steve head to Moscow to resume their failing effort to get Ukraine to bow down to Putin and reward Russia for its aggression.
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Trump envoys arrive in Moscow ahead of Ukraine talks
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due to hold talks with Russia before travelling to Ukraine on Sunday.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
20% growth isn't optimistic, it's fiction. Growth in 2025 was slower than 2024. So far in 2026, slower still. At some point you have to just call it what it is: a lie. Let's stop debating the number and talk about the actual economy. Full video: youtu.be/GWMlhf2eSRQ
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
I don’t know what ESPN is saying about the Clippers because it’s the most expensive single channel in the universe & it’s like six hours straight of a guy in a tank top that would make me put my headphones on if I was in line behind him at a Costco.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not when he’s got his prescription pad out
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 03/09/2026
Driscoll’s departure is the latest in a steady purge of our top military leaders, coming six months into an unauthorized war that commanders have warned is unsustainable. Why does Hegseth still have the job? www.militarytimes.com/breaking-new...
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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns on short notice amid reported friction with Hegseth
Dan Driscoll, who has served as the Army’s civilian leader since February 2025, tendered his resignation Monday.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They called him “Mayor 1%” in Chicago because he catered to the moneyed crowd.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 31/08/2026
The Trump Administration is trying to dismantle some of our most cherished public lands. Our National Parks are for every American. They aren’t for sale.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Put simply -- either Democrats hold Republicans accountable for this mess when they retake Congress, or voters will blame Democrats for it down the line.
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 28/08/2026
We’ll all be better off when the red team is out of power and Trumpism is out of our lives. It starts with the midterms just 10 weeks away. Make sure your registration is in order and VOTE THEM OUT.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
He's like a scandal piñata. Every time you shake him, more misdeeds fall out…
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
There are no transgender athletes in South Carolina. They're banned by state law. Taiwan, however, produces most of the semiconductors in the US, and is the lynchpin of US policy in the Western Pacific. Anyone that votes for her is a an even bigger idiot than she is.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19/08/2026
People don't even stop to think about why most Black women aren't MAHA. One day, people will hold adult white Americans accountable for their own actions, and stop trying to find out who tricked them into every bad decision that they made. No one tricked them into making these bad decisions.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The pearls are being clutched so hard they're turning into dust.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 18/08/2026
It's 2026, and white Dem politicians are still moving like all of those Black votes are locked in and automatic. I'm here to tell you that they are not.🤷🏿‍♂️ This isn't a debate. This isn't an opinion poll. This isn't a discussion.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now ... these midterms are the whole ballgame ... I don't know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterms."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A person without any govt position, who has numerous financial conflicts of interest, should not conduct US foreign policy. And that’s before we get to the fact that he uses this role to corruptly solicit money for himself. It’s wrong. Many seem to have accepted it, but I’ll never stop objecting.
nytimes.com
Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan
The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 15/08/2026
If this report is true, Trump official Michael Boren is using the U.S. Forest Service as his personal firefighting force, and is abusing his position. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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Top Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch
Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more resources to contain a seven-acre blaze last month, officials said.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
TBF if you want experts on selling out principles for attention, these are your go-to-guys
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 12/08/2026
Today would be a great day for Trump to fire Pete Hegseth and replace him with someone who is actually competent. Every American and every soldier deployed abroad would be safer for it.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We spend so much time looking for God that we miss God in the person sitting next to us. In the face of a neighbor, we glimpse the face of God. We love God by loving our neighbors.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/08/2026
My Republican colleagues aren’t powerless, they are just refusing to do their jobs. Reining in an out-of-control President is literally in the job description. We are supposed to be a system of checks and balances.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It’s like there’s no one left at the SEC.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
American law abhors wrongful accusations against an innocent person For now our focus is getting Davey Hearn’s case dismissed w/ prejudice—& then all options are on the table We discussed @CNN.com👇
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is the difference between a winner and a loser. “Yeah you wanna try? Go ahead and fucking try. I’m gonna kick your ass anyways, and if I lose, I’m coming back twice as hard. If you’re on my team, we’re gonna smoke em.” vs. “WAAAH WAAAAH WAAAAAH” <fifth place benchwarmer diarrhea noises>
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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Three years ago, the Biden White House attacked me for saying "Democrats should be fighting on every possible front — filing a flurry of lawsuits and exerting public pressure through the media." "The president's team wants to be more selective in picking legal fights." I feel sadly vindicated.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/08/2026
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 28/07/2026
This is a man who still lies that he won in 2020, who sent a mob to the Capitol to overturn an election he lost, and who now floats staying in power past the two terms the Constitution allows. There is no third term. There is the Constitution, and there is the door.
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Insults, potshots and quip about a third term: Trump’s rambling gala address
President mocks opponents and journalists in mostly lighthearted speech at White House correspondents’ dinner
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/07/2026
Worth remembering that Talarico raised so much money he just gave some away to other Texas candidates and Mamdani raised so much money during the primary that he told people to donate to Adrienne Adams. People aren't giving up on Ds. They just don't like the DNC. The DNC should think about that!
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 27/07/2026
In an Appropriations Committee hearing earlier this year, I questioned Energy Secretary Chris Wright about the billions his department canceled in clean energy grants. He looked me in the eye and told me the decisions were made on the merits and had nothing to do with politics. That was a lie.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
NEW-ark or bust!
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Writing code is now cheap but acquiring customers is not. New app submissions to Apple’s App Store are up almost 100% from 600K in 2025 to 560K so far in 2026. However app downloads are only up 2%. AI has led to a lot of new apps but not much more usage. This pattern will repeat across industries.
nytimes.com
A.I. ‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding Apple’s App Store
Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean people are excited to use them.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China
His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Straight-up banana republic loser vibe
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
MacFarlane: Welcome back to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has retained its very swampy, green-like color. It’s still fenced off. It’s still inaccessible. It’s still not in its best shape. It is reflecting again, but it’s almost like it’s quarantined in its green-like state.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
and besides being nothing but lost cause cliches, these are the words of a coward who can’t bring himself to say anything of real substance or conviction for fear of alienating the wrong people.
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