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@rfranz19.bsky.social
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Life long Democrat. Love my country, hate spiteful bigots. ❤️cats all sizes and all animals. ❤️nature ❤️science. All men/ women are and must be equal. 🚫trump #Team Justice 🖖

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Lisa Restine, a Hill’s Pet Nutrition veterinarian, said people looking to adopt kittens should take pairs since cats often bond early in life. And how many cats is too many cats per household? They say two cats per person in a household, but I think kitties each deserve their own human.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I searched through four major news sites for any story that wasn't overwhelmingly depressing to no avail. Then I found this. It's kitten season and the @apnews.com is doing their part. Some adorable pictures here. apnews.com/article/kitt...
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Welcome to kitten season, when animal shelters need all the help they can get
It's kitten season in warm-weather areas and animal shelters need all the help they can get. Now is the time of year when most cats give birth.
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jessicabruno.bsky.social @jessicabruno.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
NOT trained officers, let alone trained humans. These people are bottom of the barrel and should not be cosplaying as enforcers! I’m sure this POS got his rocks off kidnapping someone then stupidly pulling a gun on an innocent bystander.
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US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice @democracyblue.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🎯 Well done England! ⤵️
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denounced the war his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been waging in Gaza. In a piece for Haaretz, Olmert referred to the current government as a “criminal gang” led by Netanyahu. As a proud American Jew, I agree. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Why Ehud Olmert Thinks His Country Is Committing War Crimes
The Former Israeli Prime Minister explains how his view of the conflict in Gaza has shifted.
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rfranz19.bsky.social @rfranz19.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
More people are cooking at home than since early 2020. Canary in the mine
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 23/05/2025
We’re suing DOJ for defunding local programs that save lives. These programs make our communities safer – from preventing gun violence to training law enforcement to work with sex trafficking victims. The Trump admin is trying to end this work, but we will see them in court.
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Nationwide Coalition Sues To Stop Trump-Vance Administration Cuts to Local Programs that Save Lives and Make Communities Safe - Democracy Forward
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Elseagee 🟧 🌊 🌊 🌊🎨 🎸 @elseagee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Nate @nateduty.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Harvard sues Trump administration for blocking enrollment of foreign students... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to stop Harvard enrolling foreign students
It comes a day after the administration said it had revoked Harvard's access to student visa programmes.
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Elseagee 🟧 🌊 🌊 🌊🎨 🎸 @elseagee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Nate @nateduty.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Is there a big red button on his desk that randomly raises tarrifs whenever he hits it mid tantrum? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump threatens tariffs on Apple iPhones and EU products
Shares in the US and Europe fall after the US president says trade talks with the EU are
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Graham @litg-55.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Scary but good read
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 23/05/2025
When Nottoway Plantation burned to the ground last week, artist Damien Davis felt something strange but familiar: relief — a kind of exhale he didn’t know he was holding.
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Let It Burn
For Black people, watching the Nottoway plantation go up in flames felt like witnessing a lie collapse under the weight of truth.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Just speechless at the overwhelming love! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting my move to independent media with my friends at @meidastouch.com! Now, more than ever, we need straight, no chaser reporting and coverage. Please SUBSCRIBE now and thank you 🫶
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CapeCodCritter @capecodcritter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The ignorance of the Trump administration is staggering.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Several guests who attended Trump's crypto dinner last night said they attended with the explicit intent of influencing him and U.S. financial regulations. Trump is selling access to our government to the highest bidder while lining his own pockets. It's all out in the open.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 09/05/2025
By bankrolling El Salvador’s excesses and broadcasting the dramatic footage for domestic political gain, Washington is sending a signal that rights-free “security” can be not only tolerated but internationally legitimized.
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The Perils of Offshoring Justice
Texas and the U.S.–El Salvador Prison Pipeline
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
'Space Jaws': NASA Reveals Roaming Monster Black Hole That's Eating Stars twp.ai/4inUCu
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"Space Jaws": NASA reveals roaming monster black hole that's eating stars
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Pope Leo Calls His Appointment a Cross and a Blessing in First Mass as Pontiff twp.ai/4inUD4
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Pope Leo Calls His Appointment a Cross and a Blessing
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Mari ❌👑 @blueymom.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Another story on how far this admin has gone. The desperate search for a father disappeared by Trump to El Salvador: ‘We don’t know anything www.yahoo.com/news/family-... #MomSky #MamásConPoder
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The desperate search for a father disappeared by Trump to El Salvador: ‘We don’t know anything’
Jerce Barrios told his family he might be transferred from a California detention center – no one’s heard from him since
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Today, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem openly flouted the Supreme Court's order that the Trump admin facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, saying there's "no scenario" where he comes back. One Democratic senator called her comments "incredibly chilling." www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi...
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Kristi Noem Openly Flouts SCOTUS Order With 'Incredibly Chilling' Remark
Kristi Noem said the deported Maryland man “will not be coming back" despite a court order, a claim that one Democratic senator called "incredibly chilling."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2025
MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Five Signs of Growing Risk of US War With Iran twp.ai/4inUCt
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Five signs of growing risk of US war with Iran
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
You know who else was an Open Borders guy? Jesus. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus's family escaped Herod's purported infant killing spree by crossing the border to Egypt. I guess he's "gross" to Laura Loomer too.
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Craig Morrison @realcraigdmorrison.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Chicago Sun-Times FTW!
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Meidas_SocietysChild @societyschild.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
MAGA is antithetical to everything the Bible teaches. One can not be both MAGA and Christian. They are literally mutually exclusive.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Is Elon gone? Out of DC? He seems to have skulked away like a thief in the night with none of the flash, bravura, or coverage of the beginning of his disastrous, failed effort to dabble in governing. Which raises a question:Why? Why has his failure and exit not received the coverage his arrival did.
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The Catholic Church should be a social justice organization that makes despots scared.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 09/05/2025
The war in Gaza has killed or injured 170,000. Children are starving to death. Trump is encouraging the ethnic cleansing of 2.2 million people. Why is there no discussion in the US government about why we are spending billions of taxpayer dollars starving children in Gaza?
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Gary Gelormino 🌊🌊🌊 @garygelormino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Breaking News; D☭Иald TЯ☭M₽ Appoints another alcoholic drunk to a top position Between Jeanine Pirro & Pete Hegseth, cabinet meetings will look more like Alcoholics Anonymous meetings www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Continues Poaching From Fox, Taps Host Jeanine Pirro as D.C. Prosecutor
President Trump tapped Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for D.C.
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Ambulances for Ukraine - Ambulansseja Ukrainaan ry @ambulances4ua.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
+275€ = 1.127€ in the jar Thank you! 🚨 125€ Urgently needed 🚨 Let's keep the wheels rolling 🚑🇺🇦 🚨 www.paypal.com/donate/?host... 🚨 IBAN: FI31 1544 3000 3222 68 —BIC: NDEAFIHH 🚨 MobilePay 18846
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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Trump’s America - you couldn’t make this up!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Florida Congressman Greg Steube refuses to explain to his constituents why he supports throwing millions off their health care to pay for a giant tax cut for the wealthy. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social and I will do his job for him. Holding a town hall there tomorrow. floridaphoenix.com/briefs/sen-c...
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Sen. Christopher Murphy & Rep. Maxwell Frost to hold town hall in Sarasota • Florida Phoenix
As part of a campaign of Democrats holding events in Republican-held congressional districts, Connecticut U.S Sen. Christopher Murphy and Central Florida U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost will host a town-hall ...
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 09/05/2025
According to the UN, in the last 6 months, April was the deadliest for civilians. Casualties surged as russia intensified its attacks. 19 children were killed — more than in the previous 4 months combined. This is what russian ‘ceasefire’ looks like. #RussiaIsATerroristState
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
So, let me get this straight. Trump cut tariffs on “very special cars” that are bought by millionaires and billionaires, but he kept tariffs in place on cars that regular Americans buy. Got it.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“We’re all in this together ... Do not give into fear ... This is the time to stand up and fight back ... We will not give in, not give up. We will not capitulate. We will not bow. We will not bend. We. Will. Survive.” NY AG Letitia James More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/heres-more...
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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
FUCK TRUMP! AND FUCK MAGA!!
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Escalating Anti-Homeless Policies Fall Hardest on Disabled People in the US twp.ai/4inUBy
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Escalating Anti-Homeless Policies Fall Hardest on Disabled People in the US
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2025
John Prevost knew there was a chance his brother could be elected pope. But Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was preparing for the conclave, shrugged it off when his older brother called from Illinois. "He said, ‘No way, not going to happen,’" his brother recalled. Of course, it did happen.
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‘I Was Stunned’: Watching From Illinois, Pope’s Brother Reflects on History
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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.
May 8, 2025, 6:37 PM EDT
By Kimmy Yam and Laura Strickler
A Filipino immigrant detained in Texas described being woken up at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday by armed guards in tactical gear, being told he was being sent to Libya, and then waiting for hours on a bus at a military base outside a military plane, his lawyer said.
The flight never took off and he was sent back to solitary confinement in the Texas facility along with the other 12 detainees, mostly from Asian countries, the immigrant's lawyer, Johnny Sinodis, told NBC News. The immigrant requested anonymity due to fear of retaliation.
The immigrants, including people from the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Mexico, would later learn that their attorneys filed an emergency motion after reports that the Trump administration had planned to send a group of immigrants to Libya.
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
💥TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank 🫡 @ledbydonkeys.org marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Victory in Europe Day‼️
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/05/2025
Join us on June 14 for nationwide protests to deny Trump’s fascist birthday wish and send him one message: NO KINGS! Trump wants the world to see a glorious and powerful ruler, but what we’ll show them is a weak and unpopular president: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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