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@papawrs.bsky.social
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Retired Army civilian researcher. Proud husband of an angel. Liberal as heck. Tennis, acoustic guitar. Outraged and horrified. Democratic socialism (clarification: not the DSA platform) is where it's at.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h
MAGA: But, but, Talarico had the flu
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Stephanie Mathis, MLS(ASCP) 😷💜 @stephmu00mls.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🇺🇸💪☮️🎉❤️‼️ kennedyhumanrights.org/press/stephe...
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Stephen Colbert to Receive 2025 Ripple of Hope Award from RFK Human Rights - Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center
Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights, today announced that Stephen Colbert, Host, Executive Producer, and Writer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, has been named a 2025...
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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 8h
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 42m
Elon Musk has spent at least $276 million since July to boost Republican candidates, a record-breaking sum. That’s just 0.028% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
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papawrs.bsky.social @papawrs.bsky.social · 25m
No chance of getting 67 Senators for removal, unfortunately. :(
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h
🚨Holy crap! Ken Paxton partied on New Year’s Eve 2024 in Dubai with his girlfriend and two U.S. fugitives (Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail) charged in healthcare fraud/embezzlement schemes. Ahmed, a major donor, gave about $190,000 to Paxton’s campaign — including after his indictment.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16h
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h
AIPAC's Super PAC spent a record-setting $30 MILLION in Michigan's Senate primary to try to stop Abdul El-Sayed. Now they're spending AGAIN to boost his GOP opponent. We must show them that organized people will always beat organized money.
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Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23h
Abolish ICE.
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 22h
💪Demonstration against Palestinian genocide in Tokyo, Japan - Humanitarians demanding sanctions against Israel🇵🇸😢🇱🇧
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 18h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Katie Zacharia makes Karoline Leavitt seem like Winston Churchill
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Yard Sale Toys @yardsaletoys.bsky.social · 2h
If you live in #NewJersey today os the last day to register to #vote Check your status. Tell a friend. Then #voteblue on Nov 3rd.
NJ voter registration deadline is October 13 2026
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3h
We discuss why the diesel deal would legally implicate the U.S. in supporting Russia's aggression in Ukraine. We also draw from USG statements on how oil purchases support Russia's war machine. Statements by the U.S. intelligence community, Secretary Rubio and more.
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Fueling Russia’s War: The Russian Diesel Deal and International Law
By lifting export restrictions on Russian diesel, the United States arguably bears responsibility for aiding Russia's unlawful use of force.
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 14h
Keep up the great work America! #WokeAF #VoteBlue
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2h
This is a great piece (as per usual) from @adamserwer.bsky.social, on a topic near and dear to my heart. Yes, it's easy to say "Republicans are hypocrites," but this is far, far worse. Texas is the laboratory for the authoritarian Right's attempts ("onerous and clumsy" as they are) to remake high ed
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Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑 @lafayetteindivisible.com · 09/10/2026
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034. #Abolish🧊 #Vote4Change #YesWeCan #RejectFascism #ProtectDemocracy #LoveThyNeighbors #WelcomeTheStranger www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h
Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Over the past decade, some conservatives have invoked principles of academic freedom and free speech in order to subvert both. These conservatives mocked “snowflakes” and “trigger warnings,” and then passed legislation making it illegal to hurt white students’ feelings by discussing historical or contemporary events. They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against “indoctrination,” and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2h
The fascist right is intent on destroying US higher ed, and replacing it with an army of hillsdales and liberty universities (segregated, of course). They're not being subtle about it. @adamserwer.bsky.social's essay is not fun reading, but it's vital for understanding the direction we're heading.
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 2h
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 23h
#IStandWithIlhanOmar
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⚖️🥷🕊️💟🌹 @justbeingme365.bsky.social · 2h
Texas’ highest lawman in the land is known to be as corrupt as they come, and that was ok for Texas Republicans for a long time. TIME FOR CHANGE Y’ALL #VoteBlue
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h
Again, imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h
"The Israeli military is carrying out a major operation in the occupied West Bank. Soldiers are raiding several Palestinian NGO's in Ramallah. They stormed the offices of the Union of Palestinian Womens Committee & the Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association"
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 5h
We were once known as the 'land of opportunity,' and people came looking for the American Dream, but that no longer applies. If we can't stop this madness in November, I'm not sure there will be anything left to save." freopp.org/oppblog/half...
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papawrs.bsky.social @papawrs.bsky.social · 2h
Gas was about 2/3 current prices, not 1/2, but otherwise, yep. :(
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💙🦋 @humanity101.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h
Donald Trump made a deal with Putin for 36 million barrels of Russian diesel, but that amount won’t move US fuel prices lower. It’ll only fund Putin’s bloody war machine in Ukraine. Putin continues to play Trump like a fiddle.
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Taryn T, Duchess of the Blue Sea @tarynt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When their priority is to make an execution public and not the Epstein files, it tells you everything you need to know.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 12h
The MAGA regime’s illegal corrupt raid on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home is just another step in their continued white supremacist attack on Somali Americans. There can be no doubt that orange felon is not only a traitor but a terrorist and so is his KKK cult.
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 12h
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/vote-the-r... To stop Trump from continuing to destroy our democracy, the Republicans must lose control of the House and Senate.
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Vote the Republicans out
Never forget this is the party who sold their souls and enabled Trump
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h
Holy shit. Rick Jackson didn’t just duck a debate with Keisha Lance Bottoms. He left her debating an empty podium. And the moderator made damn sure everyone knew it. Moderator Jeff Hullinger: “Mayor Bottoms, you may now ask a question to your opponent represented by the empty podium.”
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15h
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 20h
Ukranian Drone customer service for Russia's Google
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Paul... @pabl025.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Meidas Rick ❌🚫🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 20h
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha
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papawrs.bsky.social @papawrs.bsky.social · 13h
Absolutely DO NOT TAKE THESE POLLS FOR GRANTED. Make sure you're [still] registered and VOTE!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 18h
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