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Playa N Soul

@playansoul.bsky.social
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A realist with just enough optimism to keep things interesting—think grounded solutions with a touch of “what if we just went for it?”

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Meg @meganroseruiz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My thoughts on Generative AI
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ossoff makes an important point here that accurately frames Trump’s election fraud lies as racist. Trump’s 2020 election lies and efforts to overturn its results always target Black voters as illegitimate. The localities Trump challenged were disproportionately majority-Black.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/07/2026
Read the latest edition of Huddled Masses:
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ICE’s New Permanent Family Separation: Killing Latino Fathers
Another week, another ICE killing, another family torn apart.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/07/2026
Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about the shift in the billionaire’s personal charity plans after revelations about the Microsoft co-founder’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. ft.trib.al/BmaqCNN
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Arub M, MBA @arubamas.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Exactly this. After a certain point, wealth is useless. No person/family can spend that ungodly amount of wealth in a generation or 2 or 10. They simply hoard it after stealing it from the people who actually created the wealth for them. It's dystopian and points to a dysfunctional society.
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Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Friends, as you wade through the river of shit that the Celtics organization and the analytics bros pump out, today, trying to justify one of the worst trades in NBA history, just remember: You were right to love Jaylen Brown, he was as good as you thought he was on the court, and better off it.
Screen cap of a reply from Jaylen Brown's instagram (@fchwpo) reading

it's okay lil bro (heart emoji) we will always be friends
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/05/2026
I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man —because some folks didn’t want us to. 2021: Memorial Day organizers cut the mic of retired Lt Col Kemter as he discussed how formerly enslaved Americans exhumed remains of soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵
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Kati Knitt @katiknitt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
When we talk about people murdered by ICE, we shouldn't forget Keith Porter, a black man who was shot by ICE on new years eve
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Frost: Any person who sees the president in his speeches blabbering incoherently knows that there is something bigger going on there.
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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
All the evidence one would need to impeach both Rubio and Noem was just posted to the AAUP v. Rubio docket. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
NYT video analysis is pretty definitive. He was out of the path of the vehicle when he fired, the tires were clearly turned to the right, and the President and others are relying on the poorest quality clip to argue he was struck by the vehicle. He wasn’t
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The foreign policy spokesman for Germany's largest parliamentary group has raised the possibility of a boycott of the FIFA World Cup in the USA in connection with the US threats against Greenland. #Boycott #WorldCup #Greenland www.stern.de/news/groenla...
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Grönland-Krise: CDU-Politiker bringt Boykott der Fußball-WM ins Spiel
Der außenpolitische Sprecher der Unionsfraktion, Jürgen Hardt (CDU), hat in Zusammenhang mit den US-Drohungen gegenüber Grönland einen Boykott der Fußball-WM
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GOLDIE. @goldietaylor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
N'oubliez pas qui a défendu l'indéfendable.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening, even though new government statistics show the nation’s unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of 4.6%. www.democracynow.org/2025/12/18/t...
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“Divorced from Reality”: Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech on the Economy
President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening, even though new government statistics show the nation’s unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of ...
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
What did I just watch?! And, no, “God bless America??” Whoa.
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Yay! 🥳Today is my birthday! 🎊
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They’re not hiding the brutality anymore. They want you to see it. They want you to get used to it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Watching CNN Español right now!!!
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
So, did MTG hire new PR, or something? She speaks like a more serious politician. Is she planning to run for president? 🧐
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Mark L. Wolf has resigned as a federal judge in Massachusetts, a position he's held since 1985:   "My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. Pres. Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes."
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Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We, too, are offended.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Trump and Netanyahu force Qatar to purge Al Jazeera
Change at Al Jazeera, and a sober reflection on Israeli society two years after the October 7 massacre.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"I'm not going to be conscripted into saying... how sorry I am for him and his family" - Hitchens on Falwell on Fox I'm reminded of how the late Christopher Hitchens reacted to Jerry Falwell's death, by lambasting his political legacy, with Sean Hannity on Fox at the time.
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Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's Death
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The plot has been completely lost. It feels parodic at this point. Like someone is trying to force a mass delusion. No thank you.
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Question: Is it time for the 💙🧢💙 to get serious about relocating to the 💙🇺🇸💙??
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
TX, FL, et al. pay attention.
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Please pray for peace and strength for Mahmoud and the people of Gaza. Like him, so many need help to buy food, water, and medicine for their families and selves. Help me spread his message far and wide. Thank you!
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Please pray for peace and strength for Anas and the people of Gaza. Help me spread Anas’s message far and wide. Thank you!
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Totally 👇🏽💯! I hope more of us recognize how unjust & cruel this gov’s policies & actions are. Folks just came to the U.S. to live The American Dream & now they are disappeared, detained, trafficked, & abandoned. I solemnly pray they connect with only good & helpful ppl. Then, reunite w loved ones.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
July 4 1776 - July 3 2026, RIP
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🤲🏽May Egypt help save lives and bring peace.🙏🏽
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
During these upsetting times, watching President Biden demonstrate such tenderness—paying respects and praying earnestly for another person’s journey Home to their Maker—brings me hope.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 27/06/2025
Sotomayor: Trump knew his birthright citizenship order was unconstitutional, so he went after the universal injunctions. "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The Government does not ask for complete stays of the injunctions, as it ordinarily does before this Court. Why? The answer is obvious: To get such relief, the Government would have to show that the Order is likely constitutional, an impossible task in light of the Constitution’s text, history, this Court’s precedents, federal law, and Executive Branch practice. ...
The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. A majority of this Court decides that these applications, of all cases, provide the appropriate occasion to resolve the question of universal injunctions and end the centuries-old practice once and for all. In its rush to do so the Court disregards basic principles of equity as well as the long history of injunctive relief granted to non-parties.
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
North Korea reported on Trump’s birthday parade and they are brutal with their descriptions. ‘The inferior leader pictured here looking old, confused and tired sat next to an expensive prostitute and a drunk television host for the duration of the parade.’ 😭
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Playa N Soul @playansoul.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
THESE ABDUCTIONS MUST STOP. They are illegal!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
BREAKING: Just spoke with one of the lead organizers of the No Kings Day protests. The final number of protests is 2,169 in 20 countries!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
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