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@sir153.bsky.social
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Retired IBEW member, Gay, Widower, Democrat, Liberal, Cat dad.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 5h
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 4h
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 10h
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.” ~ Thomas Paine #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h
Wait… but Trump said our concerns about AI taking over the world and destroying humanity are a “HOAX.” And efforts to restrict AI and data centers are part of a “SICK conspiracy.”
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 4h
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 8h
A 26-year-old cutting back at the grocery store. A 32-year-old wondering if a home or family will ever be within reach. A 70-year-old searching for cheaper groceries. Different generations. Same squeeze. Working people deserve better than this.
abcnews.com
'Can't catch a break': Shoppers squeezed by surging inflation and higher interest rates
Consumers spoke with ABC News about weathering a monthslong surge of inflation.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 8h
Trump says North Korea's nukes are fine because Kim's his "friend," but slams Iran's pursuit; apparently, global security hinges on his personal relationships.
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‘All You Need To Know’: Trump Slammed After ‘Disgusting’ Pra...
A reporter pointed out Trump’s hypocrisy when it comes to Iran and North Korea — and the president’s...
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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 8h
He does have the magic touch when it comes to bankrupting businesses.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h
Ex-WV police chief violently attacked a woman over an expired registration. Though innocent, she spent five days in jail before the charge was dismissed. He resigned and was decertified.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 8h
Apparently, "serious crimes against our nation" and stashing national secrets in a bathroom isn't enough to disqualify a "leader" for his base.
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“President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our natio...
At 9:39 this morning, a true patriot and countryman stood before members of Congress while a barrage...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h
A disabled Downey resident was detained Tuesday shortly before 10 a.m. by masked individuals during what appeared to be a federal immigration operation near Smallwood Avenue and 4th Street.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 7h
Pathetic…..
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 9h
U.S. out of Iraq…again. Not getting much play is the difficulty the U.S. would have faced if it tried to stay on. It was less political - although that is real - and more logistical, with critical American bases in Kuwait and Bahrain still recovering from Iranian attacks. #RadioFreeAmerica
abcnews.com
Last US troops expected to leave Iraq on Wednesday after ISIS fight, Pentagon says
It's the second time the U.S. has withdrawn all military forces from Iraq.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 20h
Think about it, MAGA. And then join us to vote blue in November. You know your lives are getting worse, not better, under Traitor Trump. Your stubborn pride and racism won't pay your mounting bills.
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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Israeli officials have said they will not allow wide-scale reconstruction in Gaza unless Hamas lays down its weapons." NYT fails to inform its readers that withholding vital humanitarian supplies to civilians is utterly illegal. Jared Kushner has pushed this. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Israel Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (Gift Article)
The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 21h
Firing military leaders, especially women, to fight "woke" ideology while claiming efficiency just makes the professional force weaker globally.
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Hegseth is set to announce more cuts to the military’s gener...
The new directive would double cuts Hegseth ordered last year as the military conducts major operati...
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My office has handled a lot of sexual harassment cases. “Her shirt was too tight” “She drank too much” “Why did she put herself in that position” “She was asking for it.” No. No. No. No. It’s not HER job to be on DEFCON 5 at all times. It’s HIS job not to be a predator. ~ Attorney Ryan
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 23h
The Supreme Court lets Trump deport people to countries not their own, then will hear arguments in December about whether that was ever legal.
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration’s Third-Country De...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23h
PM Carney calls out Canadian based Stelco steel company (owned by US company Cleveland Cliffs) for the layoffs due to Trumps tariffs, betraying Canadian workers. They were offered $$ by the Fed govt in Canada to keep it open and refused. Credit to soocanadian /1 thread
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Joelle Maslak @jmaslak.bsky.social · 22h
So guy calls the cops and says he's going to do something at the police HQ. They track him on Flock, they make sure to say. They send officers to the police HQ. Who noticed? The guys inside the HQ who heard him banging on the door. Outstanding police work there /sarc www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
denver7.com
Affidavit reveals new details after ex-Boulder County deputy allegedly opened fire on police cars
A former Boulder County deputy allegedly fired more than a dozen shots at the Broomfield police cars and also damaged the sheriff's office building, according to an affidavit obtained by Denver7.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 22h
The "America First" guy let China censor *our own* National Archives documents because Xi didn't like Taiwan's history, proving who really ran the show.
npr.org
Potential Taiwan tension sparked 'last minute' change in Tru...
The sudden change was precipitated because of Chinese displeasure over one document that the U.S. ha...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h
Newsom signs California ban on electric shock gloves for law enforcement
CBS NEWS CALIFORNIA
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15h
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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Cat music @yanygal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAGA candidate who ranted about election fraud is convicted for election fraud unpresidented.substack.com/p/maga-candi...
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MAGA candidate who ranted about election fraud is convicted for election fraud
Her promises about “election integrity” didn’t pan out so well.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 12h
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 15h
A neurosurgeon operates within millimeters of the brainstem, where one wrong move can mean paralysis or worse. Here is why that training takes a decade to build.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 22h
Imagine the front page outrage if 7 gay men drugged and raped a straight man for 7 hours. I expect the victim in that case would be believed without question. #Cornell7 #CornellUniversity #sexism #misogyny #VAW
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💙 ElleDancer 💙 @elleydancer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breaking news!! The Supreme Court justices who voted for this should be dropped off to Libya or Guyana!!! 🤬 apnews.com/article/supr...
apnews.com
Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume for now while it weighs Trump policy
The Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump’s administration to continue deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Any connection between this and Hegseth and Trump gutting federal cybersecurity offices is surely coincidental… #RadioFreeAmerica #politics cybersecuritynews.com/pentagon-dat...
cybersecuritynews.com
Pentagon Data Breach - Hackers Reportedly Accessed 3 Million People's Sensitive Data
The Pentagon has confirmed a major data breach involving a Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) information system, exposing sensitive personal information belonging to more than three million people.
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Liz McKinlay🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @fagashlil44.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
substack.com/@tytnetwork They’d be welcome to live in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Israel Moves to Strip Citizenship From the Filmmakers Behind Award-Winning "NAZA" Documentary
Two Israeli directors made a documentary about their own military's killing of Palestinian civilians. The Israeli government called it treason.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 23h
Funny how border security funds disappear to pay for Trump’s personal campaign ads, proving their "urgent crisis" was just another cash grab.
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Pro-Trump TV ads paid for with Customs and Border Protection...
The ads, which the White House has described as “public service announcements,” drew bipartisan crit...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026
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Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 21h
Trump diverted taxpayer border security funds to run campaign ads railing against communism, calling his self-promotion "public service."
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Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads...
‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the......
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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sir153.bsky.social @sir153.bsky.social · 21h
Unfortunately as this site grows so does the spam, scammers, etc... I hope there's no limit on here to the number of accounts I can block?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: Today, Florida Governor DeSantis and other state officials voted to designate two leading Muslim civil rights nonprofits as “domestic terrorist organizations.” The state's actions are baseless and unconstitutional.
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Newly updated Google Maps satellite imagery shows the scale of destruction across the besieged Gaza Strip nearly three years into Israel’s genocidal war."
aljazeera.com
Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Such truthful statements 💯🎯
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Webanalyst @webanalyst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My take from the Smith hearings: To be a GOP senator today, you have to be a lying piece-of-shit, who puts loyalty to party & our lying piece-of-shit president, above their oaths to the Constitution & their obligations to tell the truth & do what rights to the American people! Repost if U agree
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SJSCentralTX @sjscentraltx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest DHS is lying. Again.
texastribune.org
Austin man shot by ICE agent faces assault, resisting charge
In a federal criminal complaint, DHS says Wilber Rafael Garces Perez knew he was fleeing federal agents and his car’s sideview mirror struck an officer.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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The Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For “not being a dictator”, he sure does a lot of things a dictator would do.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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