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Denise Clapsaddle

@revdmc.bsky.social
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End ICE occupation! 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ I stand with Ukraine. Progressive Pastor, Teaching Artist, hiker, New Englander, wife, mom, grandma.

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Denise Clapsaddle @revdmc.bsky.social · 4h
TOE BEANS www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... This is short fiction and well worth the read. Also the cat painting is adorable.
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A Museum of Subversive Actions Story I remember when I was eleven years old and my grandmother took me to the Museum of Subversive Actions. It wasn’t a large museum. Most of the important artifacts…
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 14h
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 13h
Is this public safety?
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Denise Clapsaddle @revdmc.bsky.social · 20h
That would explain the weird poses.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Insanity 😡
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A very happy 34th anniversary to First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama, I love their love. 💙
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Denise Clapsaddle @revdmc.bsky.social · 23h
In case you were wondering, Stephen Stills can still rock. #PowertothePeople
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Denise Clapsaddle @revdmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now Jack Black has joined Chuck D, DMC and Tom Morello on "Walk this Way." It's kind of like the band in Gen X heaven.
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Denise Clapsaddle @revdmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Virtual hugs to you in your time of grief. May you find comfort in your memories.
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Scott Easterly @scotteasterly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FACTS:
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Libby Weber @libbyweber.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spouse: [opens YouTube] Me: …were the dogs good this week? WeRateDogs: The dogs were good again this week. Me: THANK GOD.
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Sealdog Black Dog Wagging Tail
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Denise Clapsaddle @revdmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLnT... Chuck D and DMC are on stage right now.
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LIVE EXCLUSIVE: "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" with Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, and more!
YouTube video by MS NOW
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it
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Agatha Frame @agathaframe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Susan Collins' out-of-state PAC is spending big bucks to buy her another six years to do the oligarchs' bidding. Posting this convo between @troyjackson207.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social, with the good people here at Bluesky at my big sis's request. www.youtube.com/live/UUPCTaN...
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Community Conversation w/ Troy Jackson and Heather Cox Richardson | Solidarity Forever Tour
YouTube video by Troy Jackson for Maine
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who else would like to see this happen?! 🤚 Now, go VOTE! 😎🇺🇸✨
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ArleneMach @arlenemach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why?
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Alternative View, Pacific Northwest @alt-pnw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It‘d be nice if the guys in charge of our wellbeing paid more attention to what pets are eating rather than mythical statements about who might be eating the pets.
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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Someone should tell Hegseth...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 01/10/2026
www.latimes.com/politics/sto... #SheShed
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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🌸Juls🌸⚖️ @jmeyer24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
youtube.com/shorts/Xv-I0... #Blues. Enough!!!!!! Arrest his ass!
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ICE AGENT THREATENS U.S. CITIZEN’S LIFE WHILE HE FILMS AGENTS IN PUBLIC, VIDEO SHOWS
YouTube video by Devin
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An evergreen concept
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Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“This is a…um…fact finding mission, yeah. We need to conduct a thorough investigation delving deeply into fermented, bottled French agricultural products and rapid modes of Italian transportation. For the people.” —Mike Johnson politicalwire.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Congressional Staff Planned Official Trip with Luxury Stops
NBC News: "A Ferrari factory outside of Bologna, Italy. Luxury brand companies in 'Milan or Florence.' Day trips to the Champagne region of France."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is Josh Hawley nervous about being dethroned as "Missouri's Most Incompetent Senator"?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love her also !! FLORIDA VOTE FOR ANGIE NIXON WOW , SHE'S GREAT @angieforfl.bsky.social
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Pamela in CA @pamica.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Monstrous.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
$1,000 to fill a truck. And folks wonder why I have questions about restarting a war in Iran. #AngieForFlorida
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Send this to your friend that isn't registered to vote yet. #AngieForFlorida
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Jennifer 🦋🐶☕️🦋 @jenelliot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NOMORE
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People are working more and still being left with less time and less room to build a life. I talked with @newsweek.com about the pressure working families are under and why I believe work should support a life, not consume it. #AngieForFlorida
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Data centers are gonna be very popular”🤔 Trump again makes it clear his loyalty is to the tech oligarchs (who enrich him and his family), not to regular Americans
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Bob-Parker54 @bob-parker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like this could be cover art for a book on tech fascism.
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Democracy SOS 🫘💙 @democracysos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exactly. The fed govt paid more than 4.6x the reported book value of the Otay Mesa detention center (~$579.4 million above book value) to CoreCivic which Trump bought more stock of just prior, and then CC donates $$ back to GOP PACs & other grifts.
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Ruth Yost @justicelovr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These prisons are here to make money for their owners, who then are kicking back bribes to Markwayne, Homan, Blanche, and probably Hegseth. Oh and Trump too.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Buried away and completely hidden out of sight in a dense forest, more than 1,600 immigrants are imprisoned here on any given day in what is the largest immigration detention center in the Northeast.
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Trump’s mass detention machine in Pennsylvania
"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Screaming Butterfly @screamingbutterfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Elon's x will allow those videos and so will Meta's Zuckerberg
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AntiMachineGunDeath In MassMurderistan = 2025ProLife @deepvard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤬🫡🕉️ ⬇️❤️‍🔥 bsky.app/profile/cweb...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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Marcy Kaptur @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In their first 2 years, the Trump Administration are expected to spend nearly $2 Billion on vanity projects. That could cover #OH09‘s costs for: ⚫ 1 month of Rent ⚫ 1 month of Groceries ⚫ 1 month of ever rising Electric Bills ⚫ 1 year of Medical Care for every veteran . . . with change to spare.
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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#FireThemAll
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