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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For your Sunday reflection: Catholics around the world heard on Sunday, Aug. 23, about Jesus selecting the apostle Peter to build the kingdom of God on earth. It's a story of redemption for flawed humans. Stand up for your immigrant neighbors, if you haven't already. God's love knows no borders. 🚫🧊
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Trumpism has brought us: - out of control spending - seizure of private industry - destruction of capitalism - weaponized government - forced compliance with the regime’s social agenda - attacks on the courts - suppression of free speech These are all components of communism.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Several impactful speakers -- clergy members, elected officials, and even a social worker -- addressed a crowd of 400+ participants in a rally on Saturday, July 25 aimed at ending 287(g) agreements with ICE in Lancaster County, PA. I'll be posting here several key moments from the morning/afternoon.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“Trump became a character test. … When people watch you support someone who … mocks cruelty, threatens revenge, excuses corruption, attacks democratic institutions, dehumanizes immigrants, praises dictators, and treats decency like weakness, they are not simply hearing your ‘policy preference.’”
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Why Some People Are Cutting Trump Supporters Out of Their Lives
A lot of Trump voters seem genuinely confused about why friends, siblings, children, parents, coworkers, and longtime acquaintances are distancing themselves.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Listen carefully: I don’t condone violence. As for hate speech, calling the president a rapist is not hate speech. It’s a fact. He was found in court to have raped E. Jean Carroll.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
When in US history has the governor of any state ever suspended any election, either primary or general? I think the answer is not since the Civil War, but I just would like to be sure.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
All this time I’ve been saying “no kings,” and then a king shows up to address Congress and I can’t agree with him more. Can he rule us, please? Maybe it’s not kings I have a problem with but tyrants.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
If any other president had pardoned - pardoned! - a man like this, they would have probably been impeached by now. Trump gets away with this kind of gross shit, day after day: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 08/03/2026
The prolonged refusal to commemorate the bravery of our Capitol Police on January 6th was nothing short of shameful. We must continue fighting attempts to erase or rewrite the history of that dark day.
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Jan. 6 plaque installed at U.S. Capitol following yearslong delay
The Senate voted to install the plaque after the House GOP refused to display it.
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
SNL's Colin Jost on Iran: "This attack might be a bad idea, I don't know. I'm not really an expert on Iran. So let's hear from someone who can explain why we might have done it."
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This Black History Month, I watched 33 different titles in 28 days: documentaries, dramas, that type of thing. Part 1: substack.com/@grandstande... Part 2: substack.com/@grandstande... Part 3: substack.com/@grandstande... Part 4, final installment: open.substack.com/pub/grandsta...
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Educating my white ass, part 4
The final installment in my Black History Month 2026 series
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Israel is bombing Iran right now. Forgive me, but isn't that one of the wars Trump is supposed to have ended last year?
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
BAD NEWS: US citizen Bad Bunny’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show has been canceled. WORSE NEWS: The NFL has seen replaced him with a reunion of a bad of foreigners, Led Zeppelin. I’m furious! I haven’t been this outraged since Coldplay in 2016! Great American patriots, you with me?
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Educating my white ass this Black History Month open.substack.com/pub/grandsta... #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #MichelleObama #HarrietTubman #BlackPanthers #BobbyRush #HueyPNewton #FredHampton #antiracism
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Educating my white ass this Black History Month
How many Black history movies can I watch these 28 days, and what might I glean from them?
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I just deleted the Starbucks app in solidarity with baristas fighting for a fair union contract and an end to union busting. Join me and #DeleteTheApp!
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
After hearing George Lee Jr. speak here, I no longer want to compare ICE to Germany's Gestapo but to America's own history of slave catchers after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. substack.com/home/post/p-... #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #ICEout
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ICE, Slavery, and the American Blueprint: Rethinking Domestic State Terror
Why ICE Isn’t a Foreign Import: The Homegrown Legacy of State-sanctioned Violence
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
They wanted to move on not for the good of the country but for their careers. Move on meant not “let’s heal” but: Let’s not talk about who lit the match. Don’t make us choose between oath and party. Don’t make us say Trump was the engine of 1/6, & that the people who enabled him own a piece of it.
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They Told Us to “Move On.” Now They’re Obsessed With January 6. (Article and Video)
They condemned the mob in 2021. Now they’re helping Trump rewrite the day that will define him.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If Jim Jordan actually believed Trump won the 2020 election, then Jordan would have said in his opening statement the American people voted to elect Trump THREE times. Jordan said, twice in his opening statement, that the American people voted to elect Trump TWICE. Even Jordan disavows the big lie.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Steroid use among ICE agents!? Who’d have thought it!? Gift link included for a New York Times Article by Thomas B. Edsall: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
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Opinion | ‘This Is Trump’s Goon Squad, for Christ’s Sake’
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Free America Walkout
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and ter...
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Feel like I wanna see with my own eyes the transcripts of grand jury testimony in Georgia. NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u... Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina found President Trump’s claims of election fraud in 2020 “unnerving.”
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In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Who else wants to know: 1. If the United States indeed wrote the Ukraine “peace plan” (as Marco Rubio insists after having previously claimed it was a Russian plan that leaked to the press), then why did the U.S. write it in the Russian language? 2. Which specific portions did Ukraine influence?
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This Thanksgiving, I guess we should be thankful the 28-point Ukraine “peace plan” doesn’t include these two rejected points: 1. “A requirement for the U.S. and Western investors to bail out Russia’s economy after the war.” 2. “A proposed U.S.–Russia ‘Christian union’ alliance aimed against China.”
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EXPOSED: The 28-Point ‘Peace Plan’ Was a Russian Play — Laundered Through Trump’s Inner Circle
How a Kremlin-written dossier was translated, sanitized, and pushed into U.S. policy channels —The October handoff, and the backchannel that’s turning American foreign policy into an oligarch pipeline
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“The long con was that they would ever do anything meaningful to hurt Putin and help Ukraine, that somehow they were honest brokers in this war. They never were. They have always wanted Putin to get the best deal possible and they have always wanted to severely weaken Ukraine.”
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The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Have you seen the 28-point peace plan the US president is pressuring Ukraine to sign by Thanksgiving Day? In case you aren’t aware, the peace plan is very beneficial to Russia, detrimental to Ukraine, and it separates the U.S. from NATO. substack.com/redirect/35e...
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'One of the most difficult moments' — Zelensky addresses Ukraine amid controversial US peace plan
President Volodymyr Zelensky was responding to growing concerns over a new peace proposal that reportedly reflects Russia's longstanding demands.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Yeah, I haven’t heard any rebuke from either Senator Dave McCormick or Congressman Lloyd Smucker. I wrote both of them this morning, and not a peep in response! What’s up with that? Has anybody’s GOP representatives or senators said anything about this call to violence? I’d seriously like to know.
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MAGA Raged Over Rhetoric After Kirk’s Murder—Now Quiet on Trump Threatening Democrats
Turns out, “rhetoric” only matters when it’s politically convenient.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Number nine… number nine… number nine…
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The Beatles Anthology Series (2025) | The Beatles
“The Beatles Anthology” Documentary Series Now a Nine-Part Series Featuring a Brand-new Episode Nine
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
You know the authoritarianism is taking hold when the NYT starts referring to Him with a capital H.
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Juan A. Esteban @juanesteban.art · 07/06/2025
Creo que UNO y Tetris son el juego del que más versiones y plataformas distintas tengo.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We have reached the stomp clap portion of #tbtxpn
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
#andjustlikethat another statistician has been sacked.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com Last time you said Lancaster, PA on the air, you mispronounced the city’s name. I hope you’ll say it again but more authentically: Who kissed her? “LANG kissed ’er.” Keep that in mind, and you’ll sound like a local!
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This week someone told me, “Trump won. Get over it.” That same sense of entitlement is why two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses were shot today, some of them dead. Political assassinations and attempted assassinations happened, and a manhunt is under way, all since I got home from protesting.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Crowd participating in the “No Kings” protest estimated at 3,500 in Binns Park in Lancaster, PA. #NoKings
Crowd participating in the “No Kings” protest estimated at 3,500 in Binns Park across from Lancaster Public Library on Queen Street. Protest signs’ slogans include “Democracy Dies in Silence, America: No Kings Since 1776,” “Janet Diaz Paid Me to Be Here,” “Money Can’t Buy Trump Class,” “No Kings No Fascists No Nazis,” “Rage Against the Regime” and “Stop the Cruelty.”A child holds a protest sign reading, “Not Paid to be Here,” at the “No Kings” protest in Binns Park across from Lancaster Public Library on Queen Street.A sign at the “No Kings” protest in Lancaster reads, “The only minority destroying America are the billionaires.” Subject-verb agreement; they meant “is.”Crowd participating in the “No Kings” protest estimated at 3,500 in Binns Park across from Lancaster Public Library on Queen Street. Protest signs’ slogans include “I’m done with incompetent wreckless [sic] heartless,” “You don’t get to talk about illegal if you voted for a felon,” and “Probably wouldn’t have gotten along” referring to Jesus and Donald J. Trump.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Lancaster PA · No Kings
Indivisible Lancaster, Indivisible Manheim Township, Lancaster Stands Up, and Solidarity Lancaster are working together to make this our biggest rally for democracy yet! Join us on Saturday, June 14t...
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Find your local protest for No Kings Day, Saturday, June 14.
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The White House insists they give parents being deported the choice of leaving with or without children, but these parents say they were not asked. Now their 2-year-old American girl is stuck in Brazil in a diplomatic limbo. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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This 2-year-old American girl was ‘deported’ with her undocumented parents
Since being flown to Brazil in February, Manu has become all but stateless — removed from her place of birth and not yet adopted by her parents’ home country.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Had to look up the word “remigration” and find out it has racist intentions.
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State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“The Six Triple Eight” is on my Memorial Day viewing list.
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Watch The Six Triple Eight | Netflix Official Site
During WWII, the only US Women's Army Corps unit of color stationed overseas takes on an impossible mission in Tyler Perry's drama based on a true story.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Anybody else simultaneously reflecting on these words from the movie “Conclave”?
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
@fetterman.senate.gov You are totally distracted ahead of your 3-year mark as U.S. Senator. You lack the capacity to serve. Please resign immediately so @governor.pa.gov can appoint an interim senator of his choosing. My choice would be to elevate @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social to senator thru 2029.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Shari Redstone asked CBS to ‘delay sensitive stories about Trump’ until Paramount’s Skydance merger closed. nypost.com/2025/05/01/m...
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Shari Redstone asked CBS to ‘delay sensitive stories about Trump’ until Paramount’s Skydance merger closed: source
Redstone had become increasingly concerned over a handful of “60 Minutes” stories that drew criticism from the president and the Federal Communications Commission, sources said.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This Saturday, 4/26, is Indivisible's event, “Stop the Cuts: Lancaster's Rally”; sign up now to join them! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Stop the Cuts: Lancaster's Rally · Indivisible
Republicans like Rep. Lloyd Smucker are selling us out to help billionaires like Elon Musk get even richer. They’re planning to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs to fund massive tax cuts fo...
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The first time I heard the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” I naturally assumed it had something to do with the deranged support of criminals in politics. I like Mike’s suggestion here of “Denial Syndrome.”
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Starr @starrceline.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
and now we rank near Serbia and the Congo... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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US added to human rights watchlist for ‘narrowing’ freedoms
Nonprofit organization says the U.S. is now considered a country with ‘faltering’ civic freedoms
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Not gonna watch the address to the joint session of Congress. Just tell me when it’s over.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We outnumber the oligarchs and kings.
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
To everyone who thought our 46th president was feckless and incoherent, strap in. This is only the first week of the 47th president, and I'd like to highlight this particular exchange with a reporter on Tuesday. This was at his first news conference on the first full day of his second term...
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❌👑 @yy-z.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Last week while I was in the DC area, Rep. Lloyd Smucker was too busy to meet with me. Today I learn members of Congress have time to meet with the Oath Keepers leader who was convicted of sedition.
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