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@vb253.bsky.social
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Believer in Education, the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Dog lover, orchid whisperer, rebel with many causes. 🫸🏼 All red*hats blocked.

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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
When I first heard this song in 1980, I didn't really understand what it was about. Now I do and it's happening here. #savedemocracy open.spotify.com/track/66Mwdl...
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Clampdown - Remastered
The Clash · London Calling (Remastered) · Song · 1979
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Yet another reason Ed Martin should never have been in place as the US attorney in Washington DC, even as an acting. He doesn’t understand that the president pardon power only extends to federal prosecutions, not state ones.
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Lulu @lulu.sheshed.rocks · 06/08/2025
Hiding in Penske trucks at a Home Depot and calling it “Operation Trojan Horse”… I just. I mean. The longer we allow the GOP to kidnap brown people and put them in concentration camps, the more complicit we become.
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Breaking: DHS arrives in Penske trucks at a Home Depot in McArthur Park area of LA for early morning immigration enforcement. The area was filled with migrants who scattered.
DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they're carrying out the highly 

With a picture of ICE in a truck.
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50501 Georgia @50501ga.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If 2025 were a drink, it would be a colonoscopy prep.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 04/08/2025
"The Tea app is yet another example of surveillance tech enabling us to turn one another into content fodder for the tech industry." Read Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com's latest op-ed ⤵️
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The Tea App Markets Itself As A Safe Whisper Network. It's Just More Digital Surveillance
The biggest red flag is that the Tea app seems to be an attempt to quick-fix on an individual level what is a structural problem — that is, misogyny — via surveillance culture.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Jessica: As for the manufacturing boom which he is talking about—in the latest jobs report, we lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs and the manufacturing industry has contracted the most we have seen in the last nine months,
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 06/08/2025
A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.
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Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside
In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
They're all hypocrites. And that's being incredibly generous.
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Horrifying but true
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Trump has doubled his net worth to over $5 billion in the last 6 months and handed himself a billion-dollar retrofitted jet courtesy of US taxpayers but hey, glad his $33k monthly paycheck was donated. Heroic stuff.
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I need to leave this hell site, aka Amerika
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Here's how to leak tips and information to Mother Jones confidentially: www.motherjones.com/contribute/h...
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a man wearing a plaid shirt is talking on a telephone
Alt: Robert Redford in All the President's Men
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LexUltimaVeritas @lexultimaveritas.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If you are silent then you are accepting Nazism is normal and shouldn’t change. Don’t be silent ♥️🤍💙
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2025
This is not a coding error.
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"If these creatures can get along, why the hell can't humans?" 💛🤍🖤🤎💜💙🩵🧡❤️💚 #peace
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Rosegarden54🦋💙🦋 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This is what media sanewashing our insane president looks like, courtesy today of ABC, CNN and The NY Times:
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/08/2025
Trump is the most corrupt president in history. Lest we forget, Qatar gave him a jet… and the taxpayer is about to spend almost $1 billion to fit it for AF1 service. AND HE TAKES THE JET WITH HIM WHEN HE LEAVES OFFICE. Staggering corruption from a scumbag of a president
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Rosegarden54🦋💙🦋 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
ICE is about to go on a recruitment ad blitz, including on Hulu, HBO Max, and Amazon Prime www.404media.co/ice-is-about...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Epstein accuser 'disgusted' at Maxwell pardon speculation
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
So much for “America first.”
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God @thegodshow.com · 05/08/2025
how is this real life
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Are they ALL F'ing pedo apologists? Or maybe they're just all pedos? I can't decide.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Berman: Was the President right about the polling? Enten: No. If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
One might call it a...magazine. Many good ones can be had for a lot less than a single substack subscription... secure.motherjones.com/flex/MOJ/SUB...
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Mother Jones Magazine and Digital Subscriptions
Subscribe to our magazine for the hard-hitting stories that others in the media are ignoring. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones!
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My face when reading this: 😲🤯😡🤬😫🤮
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Many need to be expelled today.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/08/2025
'Make America Healthy Again' means eating French fries fried in beef tallow and drinking water that gives you cancer, apparently
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The viper party of 🟠💩🤡 has known this for decades. It always stuck with me when he said "We love the uneducated" -- like what person running for POTUS who had an ounce of respect for the people of this country would ever say such a thing??
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
SICK
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This keeps happening.
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🇺🇸💙💙🤔🤨CJ🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.” ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social
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vb253.bsky.social @vb253.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
TRUTH
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2025
They have downgraded her sex offender status to move her to a minimum security facility. The next logical step is a commutation or a pardon. If you have any information on that, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous as always. Please share widely 🙏 www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I don't want a ballroom in The White House. I want healthcare.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/08/2025
Wow
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Ellan75 @ellan75.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
DONNIES HOUSE OF HORRORS TODAY Give a convicted, sexual predator a nicer prison so he can Pardon her while we lock up torture,starve and grossly abuse brown people in a hell hole, fire someone for telling the truth about job figures and top that off with nuclear subs headed towards Russia. NOW, GOLF
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world. I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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Ex-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won"
Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Who in the hell besides Trump has this many pedophile friends and/or associates? #PedoFührer
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