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Mike Smoolca

@msmoolca.bsky.social
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Contemplative and an Advocate for a strong Democracy. Attracted to a Social Media platform not controlled by Oligarchy.

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bobbytoo @bobbytoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Looking for waste, fraud and abuse?
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
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Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean
The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
ICE is really going all-out to attract its core demographic of potential recruits.
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Remember ,Trump did nothing to protect the Capitol police . He watched on TV as they were beaten, bear sprayed and tased. ⬇️
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
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Mike Smoolca @msmoolca.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 09/06/2025
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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mcp2028.bsky.social @mcp2028.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Unlawful 'orders' are just _*that*_: UNLAWFUL. To any and all National Guard, Reservists, and/or Active Duty military men & women: If you have questions, if you seek support, if you're concerned about whether something is lawful or not: Call the GI Rights hotline: (877) 447-4487.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Donnie, be Van Gone.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We’re gonna need some new nicknames for Donald. Any suggestions? #TACOTrump
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Why is this an either/or and not like average voter imbues these positions with the same/depth of significance that 100 podcasters do
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/05/2025
While Trump is slashing Medicare, garnishing wages for student loans, and denying FEMA aid to states that voted for him… He’s also: • Charging $1M to join Mar-a-Lago • Hosting $1M-a-plate crypto dinners • Pocketing $394M from his meme coin • Turning his golf clubs into luxury pay-to-play scams
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”
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Palmer Report @palmerreport.com · 17/05/2025
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This is a game changer
Disapprove. Disapprove. Minus 32. Minus 17. Minus 15. Minus 16. These shiny new numbers represent the American people’s feelings on one Felon J. Trump, as seen in a brand new poll from Verasight. This new poll contains not even a smidgeon of good news for him. Let’s crunch the numbers, shall we? In this poll,…
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Trump wants to run the USA like a corporation? Let’s add a corporate mechanism, a vote of no confidence, used to oust poor-performing CEOs. Trump’s approval rating is at an all-time low. He deserves to be removed. It won’t happen because our system is effed up www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump’s Approval Rating Plummets in Just About Every Category
America is fed up with Donald Trump.
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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Using a chainsaw to chop a program that Americans pay into from their 1st job to their last is turning out like a reckless teen prank. What DOGE did do is create chaos, fear, delay, and an irreversible brain drain that will prove EXPENSIVE! No one is laughing. #SocialSecurity 🎁 wapo.st/4ksrPxM
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How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring
The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s disruptive cost-cutting team.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 17/05/2025
“We’re like passengers on the Titanic insisting our ship can’t sink,” says Yale historian Marci Shore. She, Timothy Snyder & Jason Stanley—experts on fascism & authoritarianism—are fleeing to Canada. When they say democracy’s in danger, believe them. America is not unsinkable.
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rds-level-10.bsky.social @rds-level-10.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This is the best description I’ve seen:
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Masshole57✌🏼 @masshole55.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Are you aware of this? I sure wasn’t 🤔
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Conspiranon @conspiranon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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The UK Just HUMILIATED TRUMP Without Him Realizing It!
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound up) #MomSky DAY 7MAY 2025 Tonight HONORING 2 Great Friends Speaking to you is Isaiah Martin, running for Congress TX18, Houston he is amazing Follow him @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social Friend @dworkin.bsky.social Scott Dworkin sent this great meme Resign Trump !
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Why are jets falling off aircraft carriers? Did the DEI personnel take all the brakes with them? www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
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Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier | CNN Politics
Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, four people familiar with ...
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
At a Hands Off rally on Capitol Hill, former Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley slams the Trump regime for their gargantuan lies about Social Security: "We have to put the brakes on Elon Musk and Donald Trump trying to wreck its reputation and wreck its customer service so they can…
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
'Be ashamed!' Trump's spy chief blasts WSJ over report on major new espionage effort twp.ai/4inISV
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'Be ashamed!' Trump's spy chief blasts WSJ over report on major new espionage effort
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
RFK Jr. is doing a bang up job isn’t he. (Massive Sarcasm)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Yesterday, DoD released an AI-generated image venerating the leadership and strength of Pete Hegseth. Of course, there were problems, including the three fingers on one hand, but it doesn’t really matter how many fingers there are because the Party will tell you how many there are.
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Pure fascist propaganda
Yesterday, the United States Department of Defense released an AI-generated image venerating the leadership and strength of Pete Hegseth.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Steve Witkoff is the leading candidate for National Security Advisor. Who is he? If you've seen the movie "Molly's Game"—about Russian money laundering and gambling in Trump Tower—then you know. He's the figure behind the Russian mobsters who operated that entire venture.
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Putin’s Point Man: What’s Behind Steve Witkoff’s Ties to the Russian Mafia? - WhoWhatWhy
And who is the mysterious “mutual friend” who got Witkoff to do a favor for a Russian mobster?
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
No one wants him
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Looking forward to Chief Justice Roberts saying absolutely nothing about the Secretary of State, at a Cabinet meeting with the President next to him, remarking—unprompted—that the federal judiciary is beneath him and he will not comply with their rulings.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Trump on Day 101: Insecure, Unpopular, Dejected Patriots like you and me will need to help each other in our nation's darkest hours.
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Trump on Day 101: Insecure, Unpopular, Dejected
Patriots like you and me will need to help each other in our nation's darkest hours.
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Honest and Unfiltered @momazonrises.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#ProudBlue #MomSky I am hearing stories left & right about the huge reduction in cargo coming into our country. Here is a video from a truck driver talking about how bad it is in the trucking industry right now. Buckle up everyone! Things are getting bad.
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Marlena (#felon47 is NOT my President) ❌👑 @ohpleeznotagain.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#ProudBlue Congratulations, Canada 🇨🇦🍁
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 30/04/2025
Rachel Maddow is right: Trump’s first 100 days have been so toxic, his approval’s in freefall—so now he’s flailing with outrage stunts like “deporting” U.S. citizens. Expect more chaos. But we the people see through it—and we’re ready to fight back. #TheCostOfTrump @maddow.msnbc.com
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory It's mesmerizing to me that preventable disease could become a partisan issue. However, many Repubs believe the propaganda being fed to them to the point that they no longer trust their own government scientists. It's a mind-bending level of cognitive dissonance.
Graph showing the divide between Democratic and Republican trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Image credit: Amanda Montanez / Scientific American. Data source: KFF.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/05/2025
Swalwell says the House Judiciary republicans just voted to allow Trump to deport US Citizens. From IG:
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 01/05/2025
Fascinating, yet a real disgrace you have to go to a British news outlet to get real journalism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Trump 100 days: tariffs, egg prices, Ice arrests and approval rating – in charts
The first few months have seen record-breaking use of executive powers – here are some of the outlying trends
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