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rayherrondrums

@rayherrondrums.bsky.social
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Left Coast twitter refugee, thankful for a Bluesky. Have drums, will travel. Rx to relieve symptoms of orange pestilence. Use daily: Sustained Civil Resistance in the form of Massive Nonviolent Noncompliance.

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 3h
The biggest threat to Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign is Ken Paxton. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Ken Paxton defends sweetheart deal he gave to a pedophile
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton once again proved on Monday that he is a generationally bad candidate when he defended a sweetheart deal he gave to a pedophile charged…
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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 3h
‘It Has to Stop’: Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids “It doesn’t have to be this way. ICE doesn’t have to traumatize children, tear families apart & treat people like this,” said one Austin, Texas official. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-rai...
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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 Pennsylvania and Austin. Children left abandoned as parents are detained. Is this the Am...
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 3h
High school senior Elder Chavez Carranza is an immigrant living in the US legally under a program for abused or neglected children One day he went to buy food when a cop asked for his papers-which he didn’t have that day. So ICE put him in detention He has been incarcerated for more than 200 days
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heavenbear.bsky.social @heavenbear.bsky.social · 3h
A Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children. Derek Seidman | Truthout truthout.org/articles/a-g...
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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 4h
April 25, 2026 England Airpark is a former military facility in Louisiana where Pfas levels in the groundwater have been found at at least 41m parts per trillion (ppt) Federal drinking water limits for Pfas compounds range from 4 to 10ppt, meaning the levels are 575,000 times higher than the lim
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ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site
High concentration of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in groundwater at former military facility in Louisiana
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 5h
"Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at the airpark site where the Trump Administration is preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold children..." religionnews.com/2026/10/02/a...
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As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil
ALEXANDRIA, La. (RNS and Verite News) — Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations, the facility — which will hold unaccompanied minors and families — is situated beside an air...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h
For millions of voters, Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday is less about who inspires them most than who scares them least. The front-runners are the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the oldest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
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Four fears and frustrations that are shaping Brazil’s election. One is Trump.
Officials in Brazil have grown increasingly concerned about the possibility of U.S. interference in the presidential vote on Sunday.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 10h
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 6h
Bush's Park Service said no to a private road through Yosemite. So did Obama's. Then the developer's CEO donated to Trump, and now it's in Trump's budget papers. Tell Congress the answer is still no: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“They left the children inside the truck.” Fucking ICE agents. 😡
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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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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turnabout is fair play... grab 'em by the paycheck.
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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 9h
STOP HUNTING US! Vote November 3rd
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 9h
Corporations Are Dodging Accountability for PFAS Contamination Around the Globe #TruthOut
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Corporations Are Dodging Accountability for PFAS Contamination Around the Globe
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 9h
From accelerating Epstein file disclosures to reinstating illegally fired U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff, DDF & DDA scored 5 major court wins this week A microcosm of how we're holding this administration accountable Full list in my weekly column @ContrarianNews.org 👇 -TN
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We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on our Heroic Federal Judges
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 9h
This week, the most powerful AI companies on Earth signed a pledge with Trump to regulate themselves. It's one page. It's voluntary. It has no penalties. @sanders.senate.gov and I have a bill that is binding, to put a real watchdog on AI. Not a pinky promise.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 03/10/2026
Alabama's legislature passed a bill requiring all state and local entities to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America." Now a local public radio station has told its listeners that the University of Alabama is forcing it to use the legislature’s preferred language. buff.ly/riNNX1o
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 02/10/2026
Have you ever called 911? Been a witness or victim of a crime? Your local PD may be among the 2,400+ agencies sharing data with LexisNexis, whose partnership with ICE is key to DHS's mass surveillance, detention, and deportation efforts. And your local officials may not even realize it. 🚨
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Accurint Files: Which U.S. police departments upload your data to LexisNexis
A documented, searchable record of the U.S. law enforcement agencies uploading police data to LexisNexis PSDEX via the Accurint Virtual Crime Center.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Colorado, you can do better than this... apnews.com/article/elec...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Donald Trump is using the U.S. treasury and our tax dollars like it’s his personal piggy bank. And just like he squandered hundreds of millions given to him by dear old dad, he’s squandering our money now.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Undocumented immigrants contribute $97 billion yearly in federal, state, and local taxes. They paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022. Bessent is galactically stupid. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/b...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration expects banks to comply in collecting citizenship information from customers.
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hunter Biden Burning Maga 🔥🔥
Aaron James

@aaronjames619

You're whole family is a disgrace

Hunter Biden

@HunterBiden

I see your profile picture. That's Johnny Cash.

My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668

amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did.

Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.
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rayherrondrums @rayherrondrums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“This gibbering idiot is the guy who twice pantsed the Democrats and brought the global order to its knees? It’d be less humiliating if he were some sort of evil genius.”
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#BeastingWithNatalie
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
See what I mean when I say the system is rigged?
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The most notable thing of the last so hours and the Schmitt-Hawkeye screw up of epic proportions, is how Trumpites are primed to pump out any narrative handed to them without thought or reflection. It’s Putinesque.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would you let a company build something it can't turn off? Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar wrote a bill that says no, with prison time for anyone who tries. Tell Congress to pass it: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control
Contact Congress today!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This guy gave the House GOP campaign arm $100,000 in a single day. Then Trump pardoned him.
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Trump Pardoned Abramoff’s Partner. We Found His Money In Eight Republican Senate Campaigns.
Also: a congressman on his way out files 26 impeachment charges against Trump, a carpenter beats ICE in Manhattan, and farm country picks a side.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Steve Cohen called Trump "the most impeachable President our country has ever endured." Then he put it in writing 26 times. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Judge Lewis Kaplan presided over both E. Jean Carroll trials against Trump. Last week he ruled against Trump's ICE. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Markwayne Mullin once challenged a union boss to a fight in a Senate hearing. About 200 people rallied in Dodge City, and within an hour ICE was on its way out. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’re stripping the fire agency. Make your Representative own it.
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's clear that OpenAI does not have the safety protocols in place to protect people from their own technology. Enough corporate recklessness. We're demanding the DOJ & Congress do their job and investigate these serious incidents.
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rayherrondrums @rayherrondrums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where there’s smoke there’s fire. And, there’s smoke all up in the Repugnican party. Thank you ProPublica.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
According to an SEC filing about his departure, the company is going to continue to pay Patrick Swindle his annual salary for another 12 months. After that, he'll get half his annual salary for a further 12 months. His base salary last year was $695,999. W/his bonus etc, he took home ~$3.5 million.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/09/2026
Newt Gingrich: Resigned in shame. Dennis Hastert: Child molester. John Boehner: Chased out by Freedom Caucus. Paul Ryan: Quit in disgust. Kevin McCarthy: Chased out by Freedom Caucus. Mike Johnson: Spineless “Christian.” American politics isn’t broken, just the GOP.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 17/09/2026
“Here’s to another six months of being almost overthrown.” 🥂
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/09/2026
Literally no one except Putin and the Republican Party want Russia to win the war in Ukraine.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
This belongs in the Smithsonian.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian Defenders managed to carry out one of the largest drone operations to deliver food to residents of occupied #Oleshky, where Russia has created a humanitarian catastrophe&continues to hold around 2,000 residents hostage,including nearly 50 children 📹Kherson Regional Military Administration
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DOJ is officially trying to veto the Digital Services Act in Europe, intervening to prevent clear fines on Musk. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...
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United States Files Request to Intervene in Case Brought by X Corp. and Elon Musk Seeking to Annul Decision by European Commission
The United States filed an application to intervene in the captioned cases, X Internet and X Holdings v. Commission, Case No. T-114/26 and Musk v. Commission, Case No. T-121/26, before the General Cou...
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump seeks to label Democrats as communists, but he was the one who rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping and kissed his ass. He is clearly Putin’s comrade and buying government stakes in private companies, so why aren’t more people calling out this bullshit? #ComradeTrump
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born2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In case facts still matter… Receipts: www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
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