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Lifetime news junkie and Democrat. Active on Twitter Fall 2018 due to threats to our National Security. Slava Ukraini. We must defend our Democracy. Kansas City Chiefs fan

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We’re paying for an octogenarian drug addict around to fly around the USA everyday w/his GF instead of working so he can claim MAGA rallies were the reason GOP inexplicably averts a Blue Wave; while Musk & Co will do all they can to steal our democracy. Don’t buy the BS, VOTE.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump is using race-baiting to attempt to instigate violence in Minnesota ahead of midterms so he can send in federal troops with a delusion of declaring martial law across USA and seizing ballots. That’s a dream scenario, reality: Blue Wave. Vote. End MAGA, End the Madness.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is pretzel logic only Trump’s team could come up with. We’ve got war with a lower approval rate than prostate cancer and recent credible stories about how we completely failed our injured warriors? What if we re-ignited it BEFORE people vote? Brilliant. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 08/10/2026
The Fed did the math - Trump did the damage.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Memo to Democrats: you can't win the public's trust if you drink from the same corporate trough as the Republicans. Reject Big AI Money (and all corporate campaign contributions) and regulate AI. www.commondreams.org/news/ai-electi…
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Voters in Key States See AI Campaign Cash as More Politically Toxic Than AIPAC: Poll | Common Dreams
"Candidates should seek support from the AI industry at their own peril."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this shit is beyond parody, man. It truly is the make a wish presidency. now Trump is getting an award!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/10/2026
Imagine being Blake Johnson, an Iowa father of 3, discovering your water has 3X the legal nitrate limit. He goes to Washington for answers, and Rep. Ashley Hinson, who takes agribusiness money, reportedly RUNS AWAY and hides behind a locked door. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The daughter of Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, works for a US lobbying firm with a $35K-a-month contract to represent Republika Srpska. Here she is with its interior minister, a figure aligned with the pro-Russian government. www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨Holy shit, brilliant animators just made a devastating ad against Republican corruption: “A massive flood of money… impacts every part of our democracy.” Trump’s corruption is putting our democracy, our rights, and our future up for sale. VOTE. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Senate Judiciary Democrats are asking Chair Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith on the behalf of his GOP committee members — especially for Republican Eric Schmitt. The letter also demands Grassley turn over the underlying records Schmitt used during the hearing.
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Democrats call on Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith for basketball gaffe
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Republicans violated Senate rules.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "How can a sitting congressman vote to shut down a labor and delivery unit in his own district? Delivering mothers in Mike Collins's district now have to drive an hour to get to a labor and delivery unit while they're in labor while we already a maternal mortality crisis."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“There was a child in the car” Abolish ICE. theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just despicable people. All of them. It’s not just that they’re corrupt and shitty at their jobs - they’re terrible humans.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "on Marco Rubio's watch the world is on fire, we are hemorrhaging our munitions stockpile, the administration appears to be trying to coverup combat casualties ... and he's trying to soft launch his presidential campaign. These people are not focused."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“We’re not going to just put our hands up and say, ‘Oh well, we tried.' When it opens, it’ll be even more important to pressure to close it. At that point, people are being harmed. We’re just going to keep making a stink of it. "We'll never go away until it’s closed." www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 05/10/2026
Stevens: Endorses Abdul Slotkin: Endorses Abdul Nessel: Endorses Abdul Peters: Endorses Abdul Whitmer: Endorses Abdul Harris: Endorses Abdul DSCC: $30M helping Abdul OBAMA: Endorses Abdul Leftists: "WHY DO MODERATES WANT ABDUL TO LOSE???" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit
Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three U.S. citizens arrested and detained by immigration agents are the first Californians to sue federal officers under the No Kings Act, hours after it was signed by Gov. Newsom last week.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And now we find that Russia is cultivating pneumonic plague in test tubes.
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Putin warns West that Russia is ready to use every weapon to protect Kaliningrad
The Russian leader insists Moscow is "not threatening anyone" and is merely responding to statements by Western leaders.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course. The Supreme Court kicked off its new term today by hearing oil companies’ attempt to throw out a lawsuit seeking to make them pay for climate damage they caused. The outcome could determine whether similar lawsuits brought by cities and counties across the country can move forward.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He’s absolutely considering ground troops, and actively laying the ground work to make it possible if he ultimately green lights it. His advisors are urging him to ‘finish the job’ after the midterms. They’re trying not to lose any more votes than they’re already going to.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Schmitt: Did you attend a concert wearing an anti-Trump shirt? Smith: I wore a “No Kings” shirt. It used to be a bipartisan American sentiment.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congressman Robert Garcia speaks on the end of the Trump presidency and coming investigations. #Pinks 🌊
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
I guess it’s just a coincidence that Elon Musk comes out of the woodwork before every major election and gets handed a government position with major consequences for the American people. 🤔
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But Hegseth wants to give troops testosterone injections because that’s what is supposedly needed in our military.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026
Trump inherited an economy The Economist called “The Envy of the World" and ran it into the ground, just like everything else he inherited.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 OCTOBER 5 DEADLINE #BlueWaveIn30Days If you live in one of these states, Monday is the voter registration deadline: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Check your registration. IWillVote.com
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sen Jon Ossoff (D-GA) just gets it, if you’re tired of the high costs, chaos and corruption we can’t allow despair to make us not want to vote. Check your registration, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot to get a #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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LIVE: FBI’s Trump-Epstein Training Videos Finally DISCOVERED…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Memorable Presidential Quotes In History From FDR: "The only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." From JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." From our Vulgarian-In-Chief:
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congress, GOP know he is in end stage degenerate Dementia, yet they are getting so filthy rich, none will stop him.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump has hired Elon Musk to co-direct a new Pentagon initiative on the future of warfare. www.war.gov/News/Release...
Man in suit wearing Trump mask in front of Trump Tower | text: Trump hired Musk to lead a new Pentagon initiative on the future of warfare
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Forbes @forbes.com · 02/10/2026
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Kushner Rejects CNN Report That His Israeli Diplomacy Might Benefit His Private Equity Fund
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael J. Fox receives the Order of Canada 🇨🇦🥰
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The President of the United States is a traitor and a rapist.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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