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Tessa Blackwell

@tessablackwell.bsky.social
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Trump's 'Noble' Peace Prize @laboomer68.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
"Two viable female candidates run for president in the last decade and lose to a man who can't make complete sentences. It says more about us as a society.
"Two viable female candidates run for president in the last decade and lose to a man who can't make complete sentences. It says more about us as a society. 

~ @MrGee54
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Steven Crowder is facing legal action for lying about the shooter's bullets having "transgender and anti-fascist ideology" engraved on them
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
True Story. 👇
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John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This.
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Fighter Fran @fighterfran.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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Tessa Blackwell @tessablackwell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
They're as stupid as they are immoral. #USA
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Tessa Blackwell @tessablackwell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
tee hee
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Some more good news…🌈✨
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Silver Spring Progressive Action @sspaction1.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Today is the 1st day of early voting for the WI Supreme Court. Susan Crawford is running for this seat & will protect the basic rights & freedoms guaranteed to Wisconsinites under our constitution. Make your plan to vote for her. Go to vote.wisdems.org for more info on EV dates & polling locations.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I just sell cars and love everyone!
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In desperate need of therapy and intervention
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The White House claims planes bearing migrants to El Salvador were in international waters off the Yucatán, so that’s why they ignored the court order to turn them around. International waters, eh? Isn’t that the Gulf of *America* now?
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Tessa Blackwell @tessablackwell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
He really has lost the plot.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/03/2025
Moulton: "Trump thinks if you try to kill cops to overthrow the government and change an election, that's not domestic terrorism, but somehow having a protest in front of a Tesla dealership is? The bottom line with Trump is freedoms and liberties belong to people who agree with him, and that's it."
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🌊Scott the Process🌊 @scotttheprocess.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/03/2025
Democrats won a key special election yesterday and massively over performed in another, potentially indicating a shift in voter sentiment amid the chaos of the Trump administration.
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Special Elections: Key Democratic Victory in Minnesota; Massive Overperformance in Iowa
Democratic dominance continues at the state level since the election
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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
😂🤣 🐢💨
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How much longer til America is great?
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 12/03/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...
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Education Department cutting nearly half of workforce | CNN Politics
The US Education Department said it is cutting nearly 50% of its workforce, according to senior agency officials, as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the agency altogether.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Congrats to @mcuban.bsky.social for joining me in the @sxsw.com Hall of Fame — it was an honor to give him the award.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Let the kids drink sewage water and breathe polluted air to make the 1% richer. This is the GOP way. E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
less than five hundred years ago even the most powerful monarch was at the mercy of childhood disease and weather. now we can do literal concrete things about both and are in fact actively choosing to die of childhood disease and weather
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Grateful for Bluesky today!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/03/2025
Destroy the country then give yourself a vacation. What a gig.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Wow — mega congrats to Bluesky on reaching 33 MILLION users! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Tesla is collapsing before our eyes. It couldn't happen to a n̶i̶c̶e̶r̶ nazier company.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This discussion about cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is all theoretical and full of big numbers. The impact for average Americans will be unreal even if you personally aren't drawing from those programs now. I tried to dive deeper in my latest: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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You are about to get screwed
Cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is much worse than you realize
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imo @gogumas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
bryan johnson looks like if someone drew loki from memory
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
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As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine
HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 12/03/2025
Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Tessa Blackwell @tessablackwell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
There, there Elon, it's only what you deserve.
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Zi Xu @ziqqix.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I wrote a Reddit post asking for some hardware advice for my cintiq and I listed the specs of my PC and the solutions I’ve tried and someone commented praising me for writing an “excellent troubleshooting post” “with good details” in the comments and I feel so proud of myself omfg
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/03/2025
They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025
X engineers clocking in this morning
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a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a room with a sign that says " warning "
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a room with a sign that says " warning "
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"On day one"
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MysterySolvent @mysterysolvent.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump didn’t “flip sides”! He’s always been on Russia’s side. Why is there suddenly confusion?
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I'm sorry, this is hilarious. Spencer telling KD he was open, and KD telling him to shut his bitch ass up, then Bane gets in his face and KD shoves him away saying "fuck outta here" and then asking Bane "what you gonna do?"
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Tesla stock has now erased all of the gains that it has made since the election. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
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