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Hazmat

@thedudeabides42.bsky.social
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Husband and father, He/Him. Fierce supporter of everyone's rights, friend and Ally ♀️🏳️‍🌈. I despise hate, bigotry, and the like. Fan of many sports 🏉🏒🥊⚾⚽. A history enthusiast with a Master's in American History; Former adjunct professor of history. 🚫DM's.

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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Good evening, Bluesky. Hope all had a good day today, of not tomorrow is another day.
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy Juneteenth. Be excellent to one another.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Happy Thursday Blue Sky. Make it the best you can. Keep your head up and remember: you are not alone.
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls
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5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The resistance is growing. Keep your chin up.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Boycott Airbnb! They’re DOGE!
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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
These could be Tren de Aragua or MS 13 tattoos. He should be deported. Hey, that's how ICE decides who to deport. They don't check facts first.
Pic of Pete Hegseth's tattoos.

These could be Tren de Aragua or MS 13 tattoos.

He should be deported.

Hey, that's how ICE decides who to deport. They don't check facts first.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
J.D. Vance has the charisma of room-temperature pudding and the moral compass of a Magic 8-Ball permanently stuck on "Outlook not so good."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Reminds us of how @marshablackburn voted against it then showed up to try to take credit for it: x.com/thetnholler/...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#DarkAges
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 19/03/2025
We need to keep up the pressure — it's WORKING! Republicans are worried that the people are rising up against their crusade to strip Medicaid to fund tax breaks for their billionaire friends. Republicans need to decide:  whose side are they on? Save Medicaid
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Evelyn "Cheeky Ginger" @cheekyginger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. My mom was a Depression baby, and we were poor, so I remember this. It's a useful mindset. Time to bring it back.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 18/03/2025
You sentenced people who committed no other crime than wanting to live near you and enjoy our freedoms to death in hard labor camps. That's what happened to them when you deported them.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/03/2025
Is she lying—or just too stupid to know the difference between the truth and the lies she’s been fed?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/03/2025
A rare statement from Justice Roberts in response to Trump's post this morning: “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/03/2025
Trump’s Justice Department believes the president has the authority to fire agency heads based on age and gender, according to a new report.
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DOJ Argues Trump Has Power to Fire Every Female Agency Head
Justice Department lawyers are trying to get Donald Trump even more power when it comes to his purge of the federal government.
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Tony Michaels @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
WATCH this! And then tell the Republicans in Congress that when they're burning down this house, there's people still inside. #SaveMedicaid
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Know your GOP lies. One GOP talking point on the budget: “the word ‘Medicaid’ isn’t in the bill.” True—but the bill directs the committee overseeing Medicaid to cut an amount impossible to hit WITHOUT cutting Medicaid. They are lying. Again. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Can House Republicans Cut $880 Billion Without Slashing Medicaid? It’s Likely Impossible. - KFF Health News
A Republican House resolution, which needs the Senate’s buy-in, directed a committee to propose ways to reduce the deficit by at least $880 billion over a decade. Lawmakers have taken Medicare off the...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Last month, Jose Franco Caraballo Tiapa, a Venezuelan migrant who was seeking asylum in the US, showed up to his routine check-in with ICE in Dallas, when authorities detained him. His wife believes he’s one of the hundreds of Venezuelan men who were sent to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.
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Families of migrants who believe their relatives were deported by ICE say they weren't gang members
Family members of two Venezuelan migrants who they believe were among those deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act say they weren't gang members.
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy
The playbook Trump and Musk are following to dismantle government resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/02/2025
Reminder: Zelenskyy refused to leave Kyiv as bombs fell. Donold hid in a bunker from protesters with cardboard signs.
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Did Anyone Not See This Coming? open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
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Did Anyone Not See This Coming?
DOGE is costing the country — and now Trump and Musk too
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
DOGE is not worth engaging. You can’t cut your way to a federal government that does more. www.epi.org/blog/doge-is...
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DOGE is not worth engaging. You can’t cut your way to a federal government that does more.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is the effort largely associated with Elon Musk. The stated goals are to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate unnecessary regulations. Unsurprisingly, ...
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@richardblade.bsky.social can you play some more Depeche Mode? I'm on the road in PA today listening to 1st Wave to make the miles go by a little quicker on my way home.
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Happy Sunday. Day of rest for us here in my homestead. Watched White Fang with the kids. Going to watch some football later. Hope you all have a safe day.
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Happy Saturday. Keep your head up. We're going to make it through this, this too shall pass.
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Happy Thursday evening. You survived another day. Keep smiling, it's important.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2025
Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
It's Tuesday morning and I am sitting grateful with a warm cup of coffee in my hand, a cat on my lap, and a dog at my feet. Life's pretty good in the moment. Make today a good one everybody!
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Happy Friday the 13th to those who celebrate. 🐈‍⬛
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Hazmat @thedudeabides42.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Happy Sunday, hope you had a good one or will have a good one if you're just entering into the day. Was a great one in my neck of the woods, kids performed at a nursing home with their musical troupe and then my son played in his concert band's holiday show. Music heals the savage soul.
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Christina @socinvestigator.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
GOP's wanted to privatize SS for a long time. Now oligarchs will have control & can begin their feeding frenzy. SS, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits--these are programs we'll have to fight like hell for if they put them on the table. 24/7 activism so they can't do midnight votes like ACA nix.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Michael Steele says that DOGE should start with slashing Elon Musk's "padded" contracts. "Let's be honest about what we're talking about here, employees are not your problem." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/12/2024
Our institutions don’t defend themselves, we do. Don't be distracted by Trump's chaotic appointee picks, focus because there's a long fight ahead.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Congrats to CNN for Lowest-Rated Week in Decades, It's Well Deserved My New Post:
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Congrats to CNN for Lowest-Rated Week in Decades
It’s well deserved
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Miss B aka Roberta K @therockbabe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Elon has no self awareness, what does he think he and Vivek are?? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🙄🙄
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 07/12/2024
Elon Musk spent a quarter of $1 billion to get Cheesus elected. Citizen’s United has to go. Tell us again how he’s going to cut wasteful spending. www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/p...
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Musk spent at least a quarter-billion dollars to help elect Donald Trump, new filings show | CNN Politics
Elon Musk plowed at least $260 million into efforts to send Donald Trump back to the White House, new filings show – a massive infusion that makes him one of the largest single political underwriters ...
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 07/12/2024
Cheesus' second choice for AG, after Gaetz went down in flames, is raising red flags among legal observers, not related to her threats to go after Cheesus’ enemies. Pam Bondi works for a big lobbying co that represents big businesses that are under gov’t scrutiny. www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-tr...
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'Off-the-charts bad': New concerns raised over Trump's replacement nominee for AG
Donald Trump's second choice to be his attorney general, after the nomination of ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went down in flames, is raising red flags among legal observers not related to her earlier th...
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