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Pat Var aka Ptdev

@ptdevvar.bsky.social
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Unapologetic Dem, filker, geek, retired Asst Director for DragonCon Filk, occasional writer, dilettante amateur musician & photographer, armchair philosopher, animal lover, SF&F fan. I vet & f/b but it may take me a few days.🚫DMs,🚫OF ,🚫Porn, 💙🇺🇦🖖🇨🇦

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Imagine a future where we advance and elect leaders who are healthy.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 06/07/2026
Healthcare decisions belong in the exam room not the courtroom! Kaitlyn Kash survived life threatening pregnancy complications & is speaking out so others don’t have to face the same fear! Her courage reminds us why these conversations matter! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance #ReproductiveRights
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 08/11/2025
“…to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda” of starving millions of Americans. Got it.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 08/11/2025
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 08/11/2025
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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Pat Var aka Ptdev @ptdevvar.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Yes!
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The ammo used was stamped “TRN” because it was manufactured by the bullet manufacture Turan. And a MAGAt saw the “TRN” stamp, and apparently thinks about trans people all day every day, and so that’s what they ran with for half a day. It’s literally that dumb.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
So after days of Republicans blaming and vilifying Democrats and trans people for Kirk’s murder despite having no clue who the person was, we find out it’s a white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loved guns.
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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We give Israel 10.4 million dollars every day. They have free healthcare and college. But we don't because we can't afford it!
We give Israel 10.4 million dollars every day. They have free healthcare and
college. But we don't because we can't afford it!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/08/2025
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
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Mostly True News @mostlytruenews.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Thanks to Elizabeth for this one
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Pat Var aka Ptdev @ptdevvar.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
open.substack.com/pub/tsimpson...
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Who is now eligible for the Covid vaccine?
RFK Jr. fires scientists, installs ideologues
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Belly laughing!! LOL!😂
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Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
WOW, must see TV!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/08/2025
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.  But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/07/2025
Hours after Putin spoke to Trump And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Governor Tim Walz, "The way our nation moves forward is not through hate. It is not through violence. It is through humility, and grace, and compassion.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
As long as they’re hiding their faces, badges and names we should stop calling them “federal agents.” Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Is the floor so low we’re only half-expecting an apology from a Senator who mocked the assasination of politicians he didn’t like? Or is there just no floor at all anymore? Mike Lee should resign. Today.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/06/2025
When Teslas matter more than lives.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In case you still had any doubts about those claims of racism.
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Pat Var aka Ptdev @ptdevvar.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Best image of the day:
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We weren’t protesting the Army.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/06/2025
And just like that, Trump voters went from ‘no foreign entanglements’ to bloodthirsty warmongers cheering on another war in the Middle East
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Trump Fundraises Off Deploying Military to L.A., Attacks Gavin Newsom Campaign email: “I said send in the troops” meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...
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Trump Fundraises Off Deploying Military to L.A., Attacks Gavin Newsom
Campaign email: “I said send in the troops”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/06/2025
And just like that, U.S. forces are involved.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/06/2025
The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Trumpism proceeds by the successive breaking of taboos. Each time a new one is broken, the previous one is normalized, made to look not so bad by comparison. The manhandling and cuffing of Sen. Alex Padilla was a red-line moment.
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The Manhandling of Alex Padilla Was a Red-Line Moment for America
This is the essence of Trumpism: Go intentionally overboard, and then lie about it and try to reverse reality.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2025
HEGSETH: The challenge is our department under the previous administration squandered--- DeLAURO: Please! I want your plan! What is your plan for the future? We have zip! Nada!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/06/2025
CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/06/2025
When they think no one is looking. *Cops damaging their own cars?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Pat Var aka Ptdev @ptdevvar.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
For those of you who don't know what tarring and feathering is, look up black and white photos of the practice. Disgusting that the SPEAKER of the House thinks it's an appropriate remark.
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