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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I would never draw the conclusion that most of those dropped are in blue areas, but regardless Texans, check your registration status ASAP. It's easy and only takes a minute.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It not just how much this administration lies, it’s how they always manage to sound like petulant assholes while doing it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm glad that Graham Platner is out. But it is so disturbing to contemplate that the man who was *twice* elected president makes Platner look like an amateur when it comes to serial sexual assaults.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The allegations against Platner were disqualifying. He had to drop out. The difference between Platner and Trump is Platner was credibly accused by a victim — Trump was credibly accused by a victim AND found liable by a jury.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Sums up his presidency nicely
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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
One of the most cynical things about our time is how easily people are willing to sell out, if they think doing so can put them in a more favorable economic, political or populist situation. This is a sickness that lives in many, not just politicians.
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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
One of the things I hate most about Trump is that he’s the ultimate thief of joy. Everything has to be about Trump or opposition to Trump. He or his followers inject him into absolutely everything. It sucks. Honestly you don’t realize how pervasive it is until you go abroad and get respite from it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/07/2026
Our new analysis found that the Supreme Court is deciding more cases through largely unsigned orders (the “shadow docket”) than through its standard procedure. Many have allowed the Trump administration to enact some of its most controversial policies. Read more: propub.li/44KNj2O
A line chart shows the number of Supreme Court decisions on the merits docket versus the shadow docket from the 2003-04 term to the 2024-25 term. The merits docket decisions trend downward over time, ending at 56 decisions, while the shadow docket decisions rise sharply in the 2018-19 term and surpass the merits docket in the last term at 63 decisions.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Viva HEB!
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Find a good tortilleria - or make them yourself, fresh. So much better than the commercial ones made who knows when.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of the divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Congress, JOHN HANCOCK, President. Attest. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Nor have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever:
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule in these Colonies:
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World: For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance. He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People; unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The History of the Present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are
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seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect
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Respice @respice.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. A DECLARATION By the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, In GENERAL CONGRESS assembled.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
There likely will be a time in the not too distant future when Zohran Mamdani, who struggled to get endorsements from prominent Democrats even after winning the nomination, will be one of the most sought after endorsements for Dem candidates across the country.
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Huber @huber.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Yep, the little fellow there was printed on the margins of stamps for years to remind people to use the new zip codes.
Image of vintage, 1960s and 70s US postage stamps. They are celebrating Nebraska statehood in 1967 with an image of a cow superimposed over corn and Women’s Suffrage 50th anniversary with a blue colored graphic of a woman voting and a car of suffragettes. The Nebraska stamps also show Mr. Zip aka Zippy reminding people to “use zip code.”
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