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WhatRWeDoingHere

@voteblue4vr.bsky.social
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Lifelong liberal, eclectic creative, eternally optimistic realist, avid reader, movie lover. Please no solicitations for cash. I have no money.

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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 6h
If the US wants favors from its European allies, maybe they should treat them better. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 7h
So, this administration is spending $475 million to send $500 "ACA refund" checks to 950,000 Americans weeks before the midterms. Tariffs and high gas prices have cost each family in my state over $5,600 just this year. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump sending out $500 checks to 1 million Americans. Here's why
The checks are expected to go to residents in 30 states, including Texas, and are expected to begin arriving in October.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 9h
If the Baltic states, the UK and France are not invited to discuss the state of NATO with the USA, then the other European NATO states should refuse to attend as well. European security needs to be seen as a whole, only Putin (and Trump) wants to divide it up. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 10h
A photographer in Australia captured a poignant moment: a male koala embracing and squeezing his deceased companion. This heartbreaking scene demonstrates that animals experience and suffer emotions in a way similar to humans. 🐨💔 National Geographic
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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 10h
fyi there is an “ I am Spartacus” moment happening right now to protect the victim in the Cornell horror to stand in solidarity & in order to protect her an anonymity we say “I am Jane Doe” & hopefully we can keep her from being doxxed
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 10h
Look at that — annual visits from Canadians down from a pre-orange guy high of over 22 million to less than 8 million. I crossed that border today and let me tell you virtually every car coming in from the #TrueNorthStrongAndFree had US plates. Only Yanks returning home.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 12h
Now is the moment for us to reach down and pick up the power we have as citizens and rebuke these abuses so decisively that no president will try anything like this again for centuries.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
abolish the death penalty
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h
That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12h
They gave her two syringes of pentobarbital and she's alive...as far as I'm concerned, God granted a stay Sign from the universe to call the execution off
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12h
again, this is why i argue it's not a gaffe, they are going forward as if it weren't debunked & they always intended to
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13h
Is this declaration accurate? If so, why is the memo so tightly controlled? (We can guess) If the declaration is accurate, seems to complicate the ability of US military personnel to claim they were relying upon this OLC memo.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18h
"We are losing our soul as a nation," warns Cardinal McElroy, as he urges us all to rise up against Trump’s "evil" immigration policies. www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-los... New on Heads Up News.
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‘We are losing our soul as a nation’
Catholic clergy call for action against Trump’s ‘evil’ immigration policies
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h
Spotted walking into the Senate floor votes together: Senators Elizabeth Warren and John Fetterman.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h
she asked to be hanged precisely because she was afraid of a botched lethal injection. jesus christ
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 14h
One of the poorest counties in the country is the planned site for a $6 billion data center. mississippitoday.org/2026/09/...
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Jefferson Davis County data center planned
Jefferson Davis is one of the poorest counties in the country. Officials says that the jobs, investment and expected tax revenue from the data center “could completely transform this county.”…
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 13h
Update: Christa Pike still alive after administered execution drugs, attorneys say. www.tennessean.com/story/news...
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 13h
THEY'RE DEPORTING AN ISRAELI HASID FOR BEING ANTI-ZIONIST
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13h
this woman was tortured by rape before she was old enough to reliably form memories and she will die being tortured by the state.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 13h
I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13h
two doses of lethal drugs and still alive. heartbreaking and barbaric
A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.
Kelly Gleason, an attorney for Pike, said she heard this from another of Pike's attorneys, Randy Spivey. Gleason said Spivey was in the death chamber with Pike but stepped out to call Gleason.
"She's alive and snoring," Gleason said.
Another attorney, Amy Harwell, is driving an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Gleason said.
"She needs immediate medical care," Gleason said.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h
MAGA says they only want judges born in the US. Fine. Start with Trump’s BFF, Aileen Cannon, who was born in Cali, Colombia. Let’s see how long that rule lasts.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 13h
True story: An influence on Mystery Science Theater 3000. It has a guy trapped in space with robot friends.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 13h
A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 13h
I was asked to provide access to the course on the history of American slavery that I posted on Twitter back in 2020, and I'm going to take this opportunity to post the whole thread again here with all the links to readings and sources. threadreaderapp.com/thread/12167...
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Thread by @arothmanhistory on Thread Reader App
@arothmanhistory: I'm teaching the history of slavery in North America this semester. Anybody want to follow along here on Twitter if I post sources, readings, etc? Well, you've convinced me. Thanks f...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h
if this woman goes to jail she should be a day 1 pardon for the next dem administration
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h
a thing anyone can do is look up jury nullification
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14h
Pathological liars just can’t stop lying. Trump: “I’m the only president that donated his salary. They pay me $550,000 a year.” The presidential salary is $400,000. JFK and Hoover donated their salaries and didn’t rob the country blind.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
You know what? He's absolutely right. I'll post screenshots of a few courses in the replies here.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16h
"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech
The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?
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Sad Old Man Crying
ALT: Sad Old Man Crying
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15h
Anne Applebaum has been right about a lot of things and this is one. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16h
What's left of Hurricane Polo is helping fuel a massive storm system that will dump what weather officials are calling "excessive" rainfall for several days. That's creating the risk of flash floods for more than 25 million Americans from Arizona to the Midwest.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a political winner and the impeachments have to be political not "moral" or "principled" or whatever. Rs won't want to vote against it because a vote against impeaching Hegseth is a vote for the Iran war.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking character: I hate to use this account for political strategizing but the ball needs to get rolling on this....when Dems take the House they've got to focus on impeaching Hegseth. He can be be blamed for the Iran war plus he's a drunk and a criminal.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 23h
remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 22h
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 21h
This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h
uh,
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17h
Brazilian intelligence officials have briefed French and German officials on US and Russian interference ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, Reuters reports.
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