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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” G. Orwell. Despair is useless. *Not* related to Leonard Leo of The Federalist Society.

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Steve Wilke @drwilke.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Iowans for Decency Iowa State Capitol 5/16/2026 iowansfordecency.org
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 17/05/2026
Dozens of former West Des Moines teachers expressed their disappointment with U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson Saturday at the Iowa State Capitol during the launch of a new grassroots organization, Iowans for Decency, Joanna Schroeder reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/05/16/n...
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Newly founded 'Iowans for Decency' cite disappointment with Ashley Hinson • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Dozens of former West Des Moines teachers launched a new grassroots organization, Iowans for Decency, Saturday at the Iowa Capitol.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@mika-brzezinski.bsky.social Mika, calling up the National Guard and Marines in LA is Trump sending a warning signal prior to this Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ nationwide protest. Trump wants to intimidate protestors from coming out to protest with his overreaction in force in LA.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I have yet to see any comments from my GOP friends about how anti-capitalistic this EO is. .@zachnunn.bsky.social .@jenniferkonfrst.bsky.social
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
.@warren.senate.gov Any interest in raising contributions by .5 or .25 percent from both employees and employers? Perhaps it doesn’t wholly solve SS’s fiscal problem, but it would extend solvency for some period.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Not ready for prime time, Tulsi.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Trump is profiting off of the presidency His crypto grift is raking in millions while he slashes Medicaid & guts essential services I’ll discuss tonight with @ericlipton.nytimes.com on AC360 at 8pm ET - TN www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/04.23.25-pr
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Do Iowa’s US Senators really care about Iowans health?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In Oklahoma, children will be taught that the 2020 election was stolen.
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New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories
Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump quote: “I run the country, and the world.” As gatekeeper to America’s economy, is he ‘running the world’ by attempting to grift other countries for access to US markets? His statement doesn’t sound like a man planning to leave office in 2028.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Interesting. German Intelligence have just arrested two suspected Russia spies, they had US Sec Defence Hegseth's private phone number in their mobiles. (Der Speigel)
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
@kamalaharris.com We voted for you, but regrettably, you lost the election because in the debate, you didn’t strongly confront Trump to his face for his lying and corruption, giving him a free pass for his lack of integrity and daily fire hose of lies.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
@peterleoia.bsky.social Peter, is it possible for you to forward this story to me in some format?
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Trump: “You know, the cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office. They are pretty much normally price now” (Fact check: utterly false)
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
.@senjoniernst.bsky.social
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
.@senjoniernst.bsky.social whole-heartedly voted for Hegseth, choosing to ignore his record of buffoonery.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“The last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon,” writes John Ullyot, the former top Defense Department spokesperson who resigned from his position last week: “It's hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Opinion | Former Top Pentagon Spokesperson Details ‘Month From Hell’ Inside the Agency
The total chaos at the Department of Defense is becoming a major distraction for the Trump administration, writes John Ullyot.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
.@senjoniernst.bsky.social supports this. Iowa values??? Shame.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15/04/2025
Colleges around the country are reporting cases of international students suddenly learning their visas have been revoked.
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International students file legal challenges over widespread US visa revocations
Several international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
.@senjoniernst We await your astute insights into this latest Trump outrage.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
NEWS Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a sworn declaration stating that she was a resident of the State of Texas. But then she voted in Hawaii.
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Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii | CNN Politics
Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity ...
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
.@resistrebelrevolt.net Fox and other rightwing propaganda outlets/talking heads, have so damaged the Dem image, their voters just can’t bring themselves to vote D, no matter how corrupt/contemptible the GOP candidate is. How far Ds have fallen.
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Beks @antifaoperative.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
There were 13 church leaders & christian school employees who were arrested, pled guilty and/or were sentenced to prison for child sex crimes this week.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
.@zachnunn.bsky.social Can you please explain why Hegseth has a Russian email address? Or, maybe .@senjoniernst.bsky.social can explain it?
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
.@atrupar.com You left out an important favorite go-to for the Trump crowd: playing the innocent victim.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Democrats need more of this.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
.@zachnunn.bsky.social .@senjoniernst.bsky.social If this doesn’t fit your definition of fascism, please tell us what does?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/03/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk obsessively about rooting out fraud at the Social Security Administration. The agency’s inspector general recently found that less than one per cent of benefits distributed between 2015 and 2022 were improper.
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Inside the DOGE Threat to Social Security
A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@steveboots.bsky.social Dem policies are not good enough for you, so you elect Trump whose policies are so bad, they will destroy democracy, the rule of law, and create a world-wide recession. You really showed those Dems. So smart of you.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Disgusting, but what else is new.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
.@schlottgsarah.bsky.social Different learning styles may also have something to do with it.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
.@senjoniernst.bsky.social Senator Ernst is tight with Elon, so we can assume she is right there with him on his desire to eliminate social security.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
.@Markcuban.bsky.social. Anyone interested in starting up a new national newspaper in our nation’s capital? A lot of Post writers/staff might make the jump.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I wonder if Big Balls and his boss Numb Nuts know that the one of the largest supervolcanic systems on the planet lies beneath the northwest corner of Wyoming and someday will explode with the force of over a million Hiroshima fission bombs and that maybe volcanos are worth studying?
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
U.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs and programs. www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...
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Exclusive: Judges face rise in threats as Musk blasts them over rulings
U.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs and programs, said several judges with knowledge of the warnings.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
.@senjoniernst.bsky.social .@zachnunn.bsky.social So much winning originating from our GOP friends.
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
@fritschner.bsky.social 🤮🤮🤮
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
.@mcuban.bsky.social .@NYTimes.com Nothing new here from Trump, just doing what he has his whole life: leveraging someone else’s misfortune or vulnerability to take advantage for himself. Except today, Zelensky stood tall and wouldn’t be bullied. No more complicated than that. Good on Zelensky.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
.@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com .@Maddow .@PeterAlexander Can someone explain who in the US will distribute Ukrainian rare earth minerals and who will receive profits from this potential US kleptocracy?
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Where is a democracy/free press loving Democratic multi-billionaire who could build a new, fair-minded newspaper/media outlet in WA DC? Michael Bloomberg? TomSteyer? .@steveratner.bsky.socia .@Markcuban.bsky.social
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Pete @pleasantpete.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
.@senjoniernst.bsky.social. So, all that talk about stopping fentanyl from coming across the border was just that, a talking point, nothing Trump is serious about.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Trump Kills Police Misconduct Database, Letting Fired Officers Get Rehired 🚨In this video, we examine how Trump has dismantled a federal police misconduct database, allowing fired officers with misconduct records to be rehired without federal oversight. www.youtube.com/shorts/z4GXu...
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Trump Kills Police Misconduct Database, Letting Fired Officers Get Rehired
YouTube video by The Intellectualist
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Trump's DC reminds @sbg1.bsky.social of Putin's Moscow 25 years ago -- "the sudden, fearful silence of critics who had previously spoken out, the business tycoons rushing to kiss the president’s ring, the lying and reality distortions to fit the official narrative." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Donald Trump’s Putinization of America
It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way.
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