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Barbara Rybolt

@barbararybolt.bsky.social

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Retired reporter/editor. Grandma of 4. Political junkie. Lover of road trips, gardening, birds, photography & sumo! 🚫DMs, no profile, no posts = immediate block!

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Barbara Rybolt @barbararybolt.bsky.social · Dec 11

I’ve had this pinned on that other site for a long time. Today I will pin it on BlueSky! It will remind us of how Trump’s presidency ended & that he plans to pardon those who were convicted. Such a fine example of what not to do! I’m so glad we had Biden for 4 years.
#ProudBlue #Resist #DemsUnited

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Dec 10

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 12h

George Stephanopolous did what every anchor and host should have been doing since Bush 2000: Rejecting the bullshit, gaslighting, and rude, evasive filibustering the GOP has perfected to hide their lies.

NO MORE BULLSHIT.

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 22h

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 11h

Things to do in the future:

1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague

2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again

3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” is not law—it’s authoritarianism by stealth. When even Reagan’s judges call it a “war zone,” the veil has torn. Power now hides in the dark, unsigned and unaccountable. Democracy doesn’t die in daylight—it’s smothered at midnight. #JudicialCoup #EndTheShadowCourt

‘A war zone’: Federal judges sound alarm on Supreme Court’s use of 'shadow' rulings

A majority of federal judges who spoke with The New York Times recently – many of them appointed by Republican presidents – are sounding the alarm on the Supreme Court’s increased use of its emergency...

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 12h

THIS!!!

A letter to Benjamin Netanyahu

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Kate @gaylekate.bsky.social · Nov 25

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”
~ Winston Churchill 1942

A new friend made the allusion to this moment in this fight to Dunkirk: for those with a granular understanding of Dunkirk, that is just about perfect.

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 4d

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 11d

This was always the plan.

Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 13d

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

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Howard.1933 @howard-1931.bsky.social · 11h

Amen, Brother. Amen.

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Ellie Harvie 🇨🇦 💙 @reaieharvie.bsky.social · 10h

If they don't I'll walk away they are not journalists.

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 10h

This is so wrong

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marc 🇪🇺 @mbanon38.bsky.social · 1d

It is not Tech bowing to the government, or to anyone, it is actually the government being displaced and controlled by tech billionaires. Do not misunderstand what's happening before our open eyes and closed mouth

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marc 🇪🇺 @mbanon38.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile...

www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/wp-content/u...

www.planetaryhealthcheck.org

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 5h

L'immigration, une chance pour la recherche scientifique.

Sur les 202 lauréat(e)s du prix Nobel de physique, de chimie ou de médecine au cours de ce siècle, ~30 % sont nés à l'étranger.

Chacun(e) apporte des idées originales, des techniques nouvelles & des approches différentes des problèmes.

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L'infographie montre les pays d'origine et les pays de résidence au moment du Prix Nobel des 63 lauréats des Prix Nobel de physique, chimie et médecine depuis l'an 2000.

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marc 🇪🇺 @mbanon38.bsky.social · 16d

Today's capitalism: the way we spend our money creates monsters, the way we cast (or not) our ballots elect them. Dystopia ??

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Comedy Dr. @comedydr.bsky.social · 19h

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auntmeme @auntmeme.bsky.social · 19h

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BlueScotty Will Not Obey @bluescottyp.bsky.social · 19h

Pretty much says it all!
#ProudBlue

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Chris 📎 @dalekchap.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, they totally believe it. When my wife said it in passing decades ago, I said, “what!!?”. She’d never thought about it before; after she did, she’s never said it again.
I turned her inner Fox News off, I think 🤣
It’s deeply embedded.

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Sandi @handisandi.bsky.social · 22h

Yes the lawyer that also defended 6 of them pointed out the obvious bias and lying by the white personnel - the CO contributing to those circumstances that elevated the tensions. Great research Eddie! This history and it needs to be taught. Another incident I knew nothing of. Thank you ❤️

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 23h

I believe this is the Black perspective that you requested. I made sure that it was included in the thread. I make it a point to include multiple source material into the discussion threads.

Anyway, here you go.😊

#KeepItWoke

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The Kitty Hawk Riot Takes Place

*On this date in 1972, the USS Kitty Hawk Riot occurred. This was a racial conflict between white and Black sailors aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk that night while position...

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