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@sam201810.bsky.social
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NAFO Old Curmudgeon, Lover of Democracy, Just trying to make sense of it all and helping make life a bit less harsh wherever I can.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Seeing a lot of liberal arts majors and pundits who are suddenly constitutional law experts opine on the legality of the next steps in Missouri congressional elections. My advice is to ignore them and maybe pay attention to what the lawyers who actually litigate redistricting cases have to say.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This video is of gay men who front for anti-gay conservative Christians. One the people highlighted is John Paulk, Focus on the Family’s go-to “ex-gay.” I had been corresponding with him to try to get him to reveal he was in on a scam when he was caught at a DC gay bar. Interesting emails.
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Meth, Male Escorts & Megachurches: The Secret Double Lives of Anti-Gay Pastors
YouTube video by Matt Cullen
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🦋𝘙𝘩ₒ𝒏∂𝔞 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you still support Trump and his administration, we have too many moral differences that go beyond politics.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW: Romanian authorities announce a new indictment against the Tate Brothers for trafficking minors, money laundering, & sex with minors. They're also fighting extradition. The latest, including revelations in their bond motions that they are lying about their assets: youtu.be/T1DTcclNPTA?...
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Tate Brothers HIT With STUNNING NEW CHARGES as LEGAL NIGHTMARE EXPLODES!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Federal corporate political spending has already reached nearly $650 MILLION ahead of the midterms, according to Public Citizen. That’s an all-time high — and we’re still months away from Election Day. Big Money is the real threat to “election integrity.”
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
7 faith leaders & clergy arrested after blockading the ICE surveillance center in Williston, Vermont.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 04/09/2026
Hi, according to a UCLA study last year, there are 2.8 MILLION transgender Americans over 13 years old. TWO POINT EIGHT MILLION. Good luck ending us, asshole.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The President of the United States is a traitor and a rapist.
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medicare for all @ypkyp.com · 04/09/2026
As a long-time Seattle resident, I can confirm that having a hard-working and pragmatic socialist mayor is VERY joyful.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And just like that, my account’s been throttled again. It was a good run while it lasted! Pls ♥️ if you’re seeing this on your feed 🙏
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
truthout.org/articles/vot... We’re voting, the over 70+% of us.…
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Voting Rights Groups Are Preparing to Confront ICE at the Polls
Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets.
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.yacnews.com/massie-names... Jes Staley, Leon Black, Leslie Wexner, David Copperfield, Lapo Elkann, Tom Pritzker, Glenn Dubin, Frédéric Fekkai, Eduardo Teodorani-Fabbri, Jean-Luc Brunel, Daniel Siad, Ramsey Elkholy, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor & Lesley Groff, Epstein's sec, conspiratr, not victim
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Massie names 14 as Epstein co-conspirators on House floor, files second discharge petition
Rep Massie named 14 people as Epstein co-conspirators on the House floor on 31 August 2026 and filed the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, that would give states, victims, and members of Congress sta...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They just got back from 5 more weeks off, after multiple other very long vacations. They never work.
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
vt.tiktok.com/ZSqLNV86v/ #Epstein #Pedo-President
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ohio families are working hard and still being forced to choose between feeding their families, paying their utility bills, and affording medicine. This should never be the reality in our state. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...
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Ohio families choosing between food, medicine and utilities, new study finds
A statewide hunger study found 52% of Ohio food pantry households skipped meals, while many struggled to afford utilities and medicine.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The U.S. administration keeps doing Canada’s negotiating team a favour: every time one of them opens their mouth, they prove exactly why Canada walked away. At some point, the rhetoric stops being negotiation and starts confirming that signing a deal with these people would have been reckless.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman is not only a terrible, lazy senator who was supported by his parents until his mid-40s, he’s just a garbage human being. No surprise he ended up as a regular Fox contributor where he feels most at home.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sure, we will have to repair everything Donald Trump has broken, but we also need to fix shit that was broken prior to Trump. To start, there should be much easier ways for constituents to recall representatives who were elected on good faith, no matter the office.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As I predicted, now that he’s been charged federally, suspended ICE agent Christian Castro has turned himself in and should now face justice in Minnesota as well. All no thanks to Texas Governor Abbott, who did his level unconstitutional best to keep Castro from being extradited to Minnesota.
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💙🇺🇸DWally🇺🇸💙 @dkwally.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A tornado hit Detroit's East Side last night so we came out to assess the damage and check in on the community. To support residents who need water, food, and batteries to get through the next few days, go to: afterthestormmi.org
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump says he will be the last republican president if the Democrats win back the house & senate…. Ok… LET’S FREAKING GO.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Apparently, Karma doesn’t like to be hung up on . . .
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💙🇺🇸DWally🇺🇸💙 @dkwally.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026
Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/09/2026
The VP wants nothing more than a promotion in 2028. Thursday showed again why he doesn’t deserve it. Upon arriving at the briefing room, it took him only 40 minutes to contradict his boss, insult the American military, and ask the country to feel grateful about gas prices going up. (Link below)
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what people voted for. Then they complain endlessly . . . and vote for it again. Geez people, look at what is actually happening, not what you're being told, and recalibrate.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The most dangerous person is the moron who thinks he knows everything with the ability to wreck the fortunes of a country and harm its people. We’ve had many bad presidents, but there was just nobody close to this bad.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts just barred the U.S. Postal Service from advancing new mail voting restrictions that, I break it down in this special live episode. www.youtube.com/live/KTHJMGY...
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BREAKING: Judge BLOCKS Trump's Mail Voting Takeover
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Johnson: It took them 72 hours to come up with a bill to do redistricting. Can you imagine if they worked that hard to fix education or health care? Newsom: The governor right now, in not 72 hours but in 7.2 seconds, could affix his signature on a piece of paper and provide Medicaid expansion…
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The Good Mim 🫘 @shashi1121.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The rage I feel will never be adequate.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If Fetterman had an ounce of decency he would resign since he obviously hates working and does nothing for his constituents. Which means he won’t resign.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Renaming things don’t put food on the table. Trump: Wrong!! I just renamed cat food “filet mignon!”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Holy shit! This is gonna be good!
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anything kpop and more ✔️ @allkpop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
[Pop] Dolly Parton’s new Hollywood Walk of Fame star is officially back on display after being replaced and restored following vandalism.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Every Republican in Congress owns what Trump has done, is doing and is going to do. The vast majority of it would not have been possible without their collective acquiescence and enabling. He’s emboldened by the fact that Congress refuses to function as a separate branch of govt.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
John Fetterman refuses to do his Senate job. So does Mitch McConnell—but for different reasons.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh NOOOOO. I never missed her show!!! I never watched it, so I've never missed it. <rimshot> Thank you ladies & gentlemen, I'll see myself out...
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Street art in Seattle's Pike Place. Love it! 🤭
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Cranky Cracker @timmyturmoil.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Spotted in Seattle
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked Trump’s Postal Service from enforcing key new mail-ballot restrictions through Election Day, finding likely voter disenfranchisement as states begin sending ballots. The mail is for delivering votes—not deciding which voters get one.
First page of a September 4, 2026 U.S. District Court order in Massachusetts granting preliminary injunctions in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump and California v. U.S. Postal Service.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Popok: I got to the section in the facts around this case about a husband-and-wife judge team, where she seals the deposition for this business dispute and his testimony. And at the same time, her husband is sealing the divorce depositions, and they’re big contributors to Ken Paxton’s campaigns.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If John Fetterman hates being a senator so much he can always—and should—make his way to the nearest exit door. He is a public servant, not an indentured one. Bye!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Department of Justice filed an appeal to the First Circuit Friday as it tries to put President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order into effect before Election Day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Justice Department immediately asks First Circuit to revive anti-mail voting order halted by judge
The appeal came shortly after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service from implementing a new rule that would impose restrictions on a votin...
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Official Toonie Tuesday @toonietuesday.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It’s #FiverFriday - Let’s Shine!🌞 Today you can help close fundraisers and make the invisible fundraisers visible. Just ❗QUOTE / COMMENT❗ this thread with 📷screenshot of your 5 $€£💶 donation, add a description + TAG the Bsky🦋 profile or add link for donations 1/2 #NAFO #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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