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Rhonda W

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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

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Rhonda W @rwl1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
www.tiktok.com/@thatcivicst...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
He ran unopposed.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/07/2026
1956 Republican National platform.
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CurtisPaulOstler @curtiswrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Let’s try a more relevant metaphor: I don’t accept the argument that if we eliminate insurance and pensions from our legislators, we’d be responsible for them quitting.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I don’t accept the argument that is you cut off their oxygen you are responsible for killing astronauts.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
ME: "Saudi Arabians were behind 9/11" THEM: "We must do something!" ME: "Saudi Arabian royalty just had a journalist working in America murdered and hacked to pieces with a bone saw." THEM: "We must do something!" ME: "What are you going to do?" THEM: "Give them nukes?"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I was SO SHOCKED that Donald Trump was boorish, dishonest, disrespectful of the First Amendment, and rude to journalists! Why, I never--in a million years--would have guessed any of that. (And *my job* is knowing such things.)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
That was courageous and kind. I'm just glad none of these kids were harmed because these ICE white supremacists are not stable.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/07/2026
Venezuela men sue aviation firms who flew them to notorious Salvadorian jail
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Venezuela men sue aviation firms who flew them to notorious Salvadorian jail
Exclusive: CSI Aviation and GlobalX accused of violating civil rights as part of Trump immigration crackdown Venezuelan men sent last year to a notorious Salvadorian terrorism prison by the Trump administration are suing the US aviation companies that transported them there. A lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Washington DC accuses the companies CSI Aviation and GlobalX of violating the Venezuelans’ civil rights, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and other violations, for their role in flying the three planes that took the men to El Salvador. Continue reading...
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is always the exact same tantrum, too, delivered in the exact same manner, by the exact same people. You don't need to be a master of pattern recognition to put it together!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#Donarrhea
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Grouchy Marx (aka Rupert) @grouchymarx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Bring back the Fairness Doctrine that Reagan scrapped in 1987. Stop licensing news as entertainment (Fox). If you call your show 'News' it MUST be news and use the Fairness Doctrine. Make Civics compulsory on the school curriculum nationwide.🙋
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Carney: "I'm going to take this opportunity to thank President Scheinbaum and the Mexican people for sending 200 firefighters to help us with our fires here. That's what friends do when you have crisis and fires." #cdnpoli
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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The President of the United States is a liar.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I follow an account (Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social) that posts the very same message every day. And every day I "like" it. 👍 #TheTruthMatters
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A retired Air Force colonel named Matt Orlando just beat a sitting Republican for mayor of Chandler, Arizona. By 17 points. In a seat the GOP thought was safe. This is what the ground shifting looks like. 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
When the community note proves that the reason the initial post made him sound like a piece of shit is because he's a bigger piece of shit than the initial post made him out to be.🤷‍♂️
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wolfers: For nine out of the last 10 presidencies, if you’d said, “How much should we blame the president for what’s going on with the economy right now?” I would have said that the president is just one factor among many. That’s what I would have said nine out of 10 times. This is the 10th time.
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Vicki Jared @vjared.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A federal judge just ordered all of the Epstein files to be turned over to him and DOJ must defend each redaction. This is solely because of Katie Phang’s lawsuit. Yay independent journalism! 👏
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I was going to say it’s because voters are ignorant, but I’m way past that. We just need to get going with what we have.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
NBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ukrainian intelligence confirms what many laypeople on BlueSky had already suspected: Russia is using satellites to help Iran target American bases in the Middle East. And Donald Trump will do *nothing* about this because he cares about Putin far more than he cares about American troops.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I love this so much.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ansari: Barron Trump is an adult. He is a full-blown adult, and he is very influential in the Trump White House orbit. We need to stop looking at them as though they’re these innocent, naive kids who aren’t part of any of this.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Bombed" is too kind. Just the same old ugly insults & self-pitying drivel he's been spewing forever. "Fat Pig Chris Christie/Watermelon Head Pencil Neck Shifty Schiff/Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren" etc. from a deranged sociopath who can't understand humor. 🤢 #Pathetic shorturl.at/eEX8A
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Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and proved its point | CNN Business
President Donald Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Friday night. He knew he was bombing, too, and he even tried to meta-joke his way out of it.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
AOC Makes A Great Point 👉.......
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The main investment fund of Donald Trump Jr.'s firm generated returns of roughly 200% as of June 30, a person familiar with its performance tells Maureen Farrell. "People are paying for proximity to power." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Investment Firm Posts Staggering Returns of 200%
The fledgling firm, run by the president’s oldest son and his partner Omeed Malik, has made investments in A.I. and defense technology that have tripled in value in just months.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/07/2026
Anyone trying to divide the opposition to fascism three months before the midterms is helping the fascists.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/07/2026
What an honor to welcome world champion and Paralympian Brittni Mason across the finish line of the USATF women’s ambulatory 100m final at Icahn Stadium today — and to meet 5x world champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden after the race.
Mayor Mamdani presenting a gold medal to world champion and Paralympian Brittni Mason at the USATF Outdoor Championships on Randalls Island. Mayor Mamdani poses with 5x world champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden at the USATF Outdoor Championships on Randalls Island.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thank you Katy Perry!
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Chicago is OUT IN THE STREETS! Rallies demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, killed in ICE traffic stops, and the total abolition of ICE. People are fed up with federal agents terrorizing communities. End the violence NOW!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2026
HUGE WIN IN KATIE PHANG’S EPSTEIN FILES LAWSUIT: Judge Emmet Sullivan is making the DOJ prove its case. Todd Blanche must now submit the unredacted Epstein Files documents for in-camera review along with evidence supporting the government’s redactions.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
President Obama met with the WNBA all-stars in Chicago this weekend. I love how he's a big fan of the league like I am and knows all of the players by name. Remember what it was like to have a normal, well-mannered, kind-hearted president? I miss that.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/07/2026
The Odyssey cost $250 million to make. Guess who got a tax break worth more than 30x that last year? Amazon—after firing 30,000 workers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Live your life, unlike Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, so that people still think about you a week after you die.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Iranians of course bear primary responsibility for this—and the worldwide havoc it will cause—but so too does Trump friend and business partner MBS. He FAFO'd his way into this by assuming America would fight his war for him and there'd be no blowback.
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Yemen’s Houthis say they carried out operations against Aramco facilities in Saudi’s Jizan and Yanbu
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2026
Linda McMahon says some elementary school students should be put on a "pathway" to become plumbers
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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
screenshot of a Washington Post news article headline reading: "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When you are too stupid to know that truth is an absolute defense in any defamation or slander case.
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Richard @richpr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I had a MAGA warn me recently about libel when I posted that Trump was a malignant narcissist, serial adulterer, rapist, pedophile, and pathological liar. I told him that I wasn’t worried because every accusation was demonstrably true. Not surprisingly, he believed they were all false.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1. ICE is lying about body cams and I have the documents that prove it. On July 14, Tom Homan, who oversees ICE's immigration crackdown at the White House, said that ICE purchased body cams as soon as Democrats approved funding for DHS in April. That is a lie.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
2. Homan argued ICE officers weren't using body cams when they killed two people in six days is that Democrats held up DHS funding. But did ICE not purchase body cams in April when the funding was approved. In fact, ICE had not purchased body cams at the time of Homan’s statement.
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ICE is lying about body cams. These documents prove it.
"As soon as they had funding they bought them"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
3. Documents unearthed by Popular Information reveal ICE purchased $30 million worth of body cams on July 17 and July 20 (yesterday). The orders were place AFTER ICE came scrutiny for killing two people in six days — with no body cams recording either incident.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
4. Moreover, ICE did not need additional funding in April to purchase body cams. On July 4, 2025, Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which provided ICE with $75 billion in additional funding — with few restrictions. Since then, ICE has been sitting on tens of billions of dollars.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
5. You can read the full report (+ access the primary source documents) here:
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ICE is lying about body cams. These documents prove it.
"As soon as they had funding they bought them"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
6. For more accountability journalism you will not find anywhere else, subscribe to Popular Information. No paywalls. No BS. popular.info/subscribe
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Read Popular Information's exclusive investigation:
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Amid legal crisis, health care exec sends $1 million to MAGA Inc.
On May 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a letter to QOL Medical, a pharmaceutical company, with some serious allegations.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Antifascism looks like Pedro Pascal. It looks like Alex Pretti and AOC. It looks like 600 priests, imams, and rabbis in the cold streets of winter Minneapolis. Antifascism is gorgeous.
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