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Vello

@vellovman.bsky.social
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National Parks. Science. Economics. Human rights. Sensible compassionate governments. The occasional pun. 🚫OF🚫crypto Happily married. If you are an independent limited partner from China … obviously I heard this one.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 28m
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 12m
Threads suspended my account again minutes after i called out trump's hypocrisy on calling for the death penalty for for Black and Latino boys but worried that the Cornell 7 won't get a 'fair shake'.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 8h
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 7h
Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 6h
Possible is doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting there
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 13h
I don't think this line got as much coverage as it should have.
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JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’
A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance...
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 12h
“…. So you lied just now.”
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 12h
Trump‘s going to blame the Fed for raising rates (which is BS obviously because revised numbers before rate change) And also Biden. And Obama. And trans kids.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13h
Gotta be about the kinda of jobs, right? Health aides etc. Lower paying…
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 13h
Damn that Sleepy Joe! Somehow managing to tank the economy after almost 2 years out of office! … is what every Republican will say
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 13h
Lol
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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 13h
bullseye. this is very clearly obama’s doing
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
End state sanctioned murder
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I guess Cuba is off the table now?
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
⬇️⬇️⬇️ truth ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If only can go speak good
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When did we add denial to the US because this guy is our president, and he’s living in the state of
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Better endorsement and more applause than he has earned
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FFS
New York Times screenshot: 

Cornell Police Report Omitted Student's Claim
She Was Raped

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Trump promised he would halve energy prices within his first year in office
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, PBS Newshour, you crazy rascals. Always asking for my money, then platforming Republicans to preach civility while the GOP led ICE is killing people in the streets, sending people to places they have never lived, attacking the rights of women & trans people. You jokers! Also go fuck yourselves
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republicans: solving the problems that most Americans are concerned about. Vote GOP for more of this kind of forward thinking, deficit reducing and popular policy choices! www.businesstoday.in/world/us/sto...
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US passports to arrive in ‘elegant’ gold and white envelopes, says Rubio. Check out the design here - BusinessToday
Rubio also targeted the physical delivery of passports, criticising the current practice of mailing documents in plain, often damaged envelopes.
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
His constituents must be so proud
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t own individual stocks, and I won’t own them as governor. The only thing I am invested in is lowering costs for Ohioans. Vivek Ramaswamy has over $5 million invested in the data center industry and millions more in many other industries that Ohio’s governor would be in charge of regulating.
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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 30/09/2026
What’s going on America? Somebody has to say it out loud. I keep asking that question in my office and in my car, and today I am putting it on paper because none of us gets to stay silent anymore. www.uncensoredobjection.com/p/whats-goin...
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone who calls it superior intelligence lacks basic intelligence
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The billionaires are the problem
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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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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump Organization filed for trademark protection of "Trump TV" so that the government would have to PAY him to use the channel he just created… Miraculously, Trump has found yet another way to steal even more money from the American people. Trump. Is. A. Charlatan. And. A. Fraud. 😎✨
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huronbluechief.bsky.social @huronbluechief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Maddow Reality Check Cartoon Break
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans can’t handle the truth
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The human equivalent of a manila folder. Oh, wrong. Manila folders have uses
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tax the billionaires until they’re millionaires
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He call Smith a dirtbag but he’s a s*** for brains
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All they got is lies and stupidity
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Schiff is up. Apologizes to Jack Smith. “My colleagues have attacked you, but NONE of them have tried to deny what happened on January 6th. They attack you because they don’t want to address the facts. The Barr DoJ sought toll records without a peep from my colleagues.” 1/
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s not about “protecting women”. It never has been
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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even tho I couldn’t get the names of the teams correct I stand by my accusations! is not a good look.
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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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Vello @vellovman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fewer Dems like the Texas transphobe and more like this please. amp.kentucky.com/news/politic...
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Beshear on GOP attack ads on trans athletes: ‘We don’t throw anybody under the bus’
“I tell you what, if we want to ruin sports, put government in charge of them,” Beshear said Sunday on CNN while commenting on attacks ads over anti-trans legislation.
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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