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Tracy @bsky.social

@taiping2.bsky.social
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Retired internist. Bookworm. True blue. Meet me in the land of hope and dreams. Let freedom ring.💙

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 9h
A new lawsuit has been filed opposing the construction of Trump's planned "egregious and unlawful proposed" arch at Memorial Circle. We partnered with @VoteVets and @TCLFdotORG to educate Americans about the controversy surrounding the arch and give a voice to the veterans, Gold Star families, hist
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phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/this-is-wh... the decline and fall of the American empire
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This Is What The End Of An “Age” Looks Like
And The US Cannot Admit It
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: Former President Barack Obama endorses Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate in Maine: "Troy Jackson is running to be your next senator and I'm proud to be on board" Obama cites Jackson’s record on wages, drug prices, school meals, and abortion rights as Democrats target Susan Collins' seat.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Pentagon says it plans to livestream an execution. Pete Hegseth said the public will be able to watch the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, scheduled for December 3. Turning a government execution into a livestream should alarm everyone.
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I truly miss President Obama! #VoteBlue 💙💙🗳️💙💙
The stark difference between President Obama and trump.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#AZ Seniors-Your Medicare premiums kept climbing while politicians argued. Gov. Hobbs erased $1 billion in medical debt for nearly 700,000 Arizona seniors & families. Gave you a new $6,000 deduction & wiped out taxes on your Social Security tips & overtime. Katie delivers! #Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1
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Tracy @bsky.social @taiping2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How many anti-Muslim hate incidents will this inspire? These people are sadists and ghouls.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pro-rape parties want the assaults to continue and the victim to be further terrorized and that's not even unusual, I regret to say, but it would be super-nice if Letitia James would investigate and prosecute whoever's doing this.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Tracy @bsky.social @taiping2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
GOP/MAGA = sadists, poor excuses for humans
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump drops to 30% approval for the first time this term in a high-quality, independent poll.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BLAS: “.. Once again, I had to update the y-axis as the cost of oil freight (Persian Gulf to the Far East) climbs further. Now at >$1.4 million per day.” @bloomberg.com @javierblas.bsky.social ⛽️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “He wanted to make this about him or me — but the question is about YOU. Can YOU afford your gas? Can YOU afford your groceries? This guy is gonna rubber-stamp everything Trump tells him to.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#TXsen
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Since taking up his post in April 2025, Huckabee aide David Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present Netanyahu in a favorable light.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 08/10/2026
Americans can barely afford food — yet Donald Trump is using our money to buy campaign ads while arguing there’s not enough money for healthcare. Glad to see the @democrats.org take his ass to court. He should pay all of us back. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Two lawsuits challenge Trump's taxpayer-funded ads, alleging they violate propaganda law
Two new lawsuits are challenging President Donald Trump's recent spate of federally funded television advertisements.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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shagiese6.bsky.social @shagiese6.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
$6 BILLION. Of taxpayer money. While the Hunter Biden hunters stay silent. Obscene.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BILELLO: “.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit. Instead, .. The deficit didn’t shrink. It increased 8%.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
While it's early we are seeing very strong Dem early vote performance in three states now - New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. All data via TargetEarly, this day vs comparable days in 2022 and 2024: Here's New Jersey: 2022 D+37 2024 D+45 2026 D+48 1/
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Tracy @bsky.social @taiping2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/unfit-to-s... An administration of “baddies”. H/t Ann Telnaes
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Unfit to Serve
Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made headlines by offering this vision of the military: “No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals.” Inspired by this wisdom, we’...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Tracy @bsky.social @taiping2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
💯. He is so addled that he says what he actually wishes would happen. Believe him.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.
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Tracy @bsky.social @taiping2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An early sign of dementia is loss of inhibition. He said what he really wishes. The reaction of the red-hatted cult showed their hatred of a state with better weather, natural beauty, robust economy and culture. Green envy
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The status quo is not enough.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Trump stood at a rally and said "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego." Then politicos rushed to explain what he "really meant." We won't sanewash him. Today's midday updates are up, paywall free:
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Tuesday Updates: Media ‘Sanewashes’ Trump, Plague Claims Another Victim, More Tankers Struck – 10/6/26
Important updates. Paywall free.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mike Rogers led the charge to flood opioids into our communities. Here's what happened.
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Tracy @bsky.social @taiping2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#ScrapTheCap
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
She speaks the truth. 💯 👇
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Whether Trump reimburses taxpayers for the money he stole in producing these illegal ads doesn't change the fact that he stole $20m from all of us to illegally run ads to fluff up his bleak electoral prospects. Jawdropping abuse of power by the worst American leader in our history.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Let them watch us eat cake."
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White House officials are going to regret taking this ridiculous sh*tshow on the road. He's going to do more to hurt the Rs than help them as he stumbles into key battlegrounds in the coming weeks.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can reasonably dispute the meaning of a lot Trump says because he’s so incoherent and inarticulate. But what you can’t reasonably dispute is that he is a sadistic and delusional narcissistic sociopath, at once both psychopathic and psychotic ...
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump voter: "He gave us a lot of promises, especially in the trucking industry and the shipping industry with the tariffs and everything, bringing stuff back to America, lowering prices, make it more affordable for the economy, and we got the opposite. I believed him."
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/10/2026
I am directing the State Threat Assessment Center to actively monitor the situation in the event that foreign actors interpret the President’s remarks as an invitation to target California.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/10/2026
Donald Trump’s remarks were dangerous — if not treasonous — putting a target on two of our biggest cities and one of America’s largest naval hubs.
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Tracy @bsky.social @taiping2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sandwiching madness of GOP MAGA while pearl clutching for any questionable Democratic comments. GOP cruelty and bigotry is not news. #VoteBlue to check the madness 🌊🌊
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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PANDA™ @pandanook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm going to keep posting this over and over. We can't count on mainstream media to keep this in the news cycle.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Deplorable. Both Trump and the entire audience. Even the ones who didn't cheer-because they also didn't walk out What's more, they're so short sighted. Sure, today it's cities they hate, like Los Angeles and San Diego. But tomorrow it could be Omaha He has no loyalty He's proven it over and over
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The same guy who tore up the JCPOA, the same guy (along with his entire party) who claims that we had to go to war with Iran in order to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons – is now inviting that same country to annihilate our cities. Treasonous beyond measure.
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