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Carrie, Quite Contrary

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STRONG Atheist, HATE The Orange Idiot, Portland Suburb Resident, T1D 61yrs, Canine Owned, Cuss Alot, Trans Granddaughter, 🚫 Direct Messages, I Don't Know Your Mom=Block. 💙✊ #CommanderCrazyPants #Impeach47 #OrangeIdiot #Resist 🤘🏼Headbanger 💚Cannabis

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BIG D GRANDROYAL @bigdgrandroyal.bsky.social · 58m

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WATCH: Trump Fan WAVES GUN At No Kings Protest, BIG MISTAKE 🚨

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Raskin with Jeffries: "It's an alarming situation where now we have many of these January 6 defendants who have been picked up on other defenses. The Department of Justice is not zealously prosecuting them for other crimes they have committed ... it's a very dangerous situation."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Carrie, Quite Contrary @carriequite.bsky.social · 42m

THANK YOU!!

The orange idiot will do underhanded actions for distraction...if Adelita gets sworn in, it levels the votes. 💙✊

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1h

I just went to the House floor to demand that Speaker Johnson swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the GOP gaveled out without even recognizing us.

We’re not going anywhere. I’m here with Leader Jeffries and Adelita Grijalva. Speaker Johnson must swear her in.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 2h

Monumental Ego Flex.

And we didn’t stop it. We didn’t gather in mass and scream stop to the demolition crew. We cried as the images came. It was an unexpected, unannounced suckerpunch to the US tapestry and our collective history.

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dapherdoos.bsky.social @dapherdoos.bsky.social · 2h

The most truthful thing he has ever said.

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Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · 20h

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1h

Well I can't help but share this. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’

The turnout and character of the weekend’s No Kings demonstrations speak for...

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 16h

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 1d

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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 23h

Everyone needs to read this!
"The R party...funded the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, ALEC...dark-money groups that shape laws...They worked the school boards, city councils, and state legislatures...They built infrastructure”.
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

When the Chant Fades, Who Builds the Future?

The movements of the 1960s built lasting institutions. Today’s movements need more than moral clarity: they need leadership and coordination...

open.substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of the consistently interesting things about ACA criticism since it was signed into law is how critics discount or ignore the medicaid expansion

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 21h

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Silly Sally 💙💙💙 @caturday62.bsky.social · 1d

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 1d

☀️Hopeful news: While the U.S. may be backsliding on clean energy, renewable sources have now overtaken coal globally for the first time in history.

This is "a crucial turning point," experts say. 🌎🔋

October 2025: Inside the Greenhouse | Friends Committee On National Legislation

Inside the Greenhouse is a monthly update on FCNL’s environmental advocacy and the climate crisis.

www.fcnl.org

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Wes Denton @kitty-puppy.bsky.social · 20h

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 8h

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Carrie, Quite Contrary @carriequite.bsky.social · 51m

Sue them.
Seems to be the only thing left to try because the wealthy who benefit do not care that people are suffering. Money talks with these sorts, hitting them in the wallet will get their attention! 💙✊

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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 23h

1/ Thanks to Comey's lawyers, we have the appointment order for Lindsey Halligan in EDVa that the gov't has been trying to hide for weeks.

I think it means Halligan is not long for this job & the Comey and Tish James indictments not long for this world.

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ORDER NO 6402-2025 AUTHORIZING LINDSEY HALLIGAN TO BE THE INTERIM UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA DURING THE VACANCY IN THAT OFFICE

pursuant to 28 USC Section 546

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AquaMarie 🧜🏼‍♀️💙 @aquamarie23.bsky.social · 21h

He's bulldozing the People's House. Vandalism, law breaking, murdering anti American....ok military, now's good

Oh and all the while he shut the government down because he's in the Epstein Files. So, yeah military, now's good

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Carrie, Quite Contrary @carriequite.bsky.social · 55m

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a woman in a pink sweater is sitting at a table with her hands in her hair and says b-b-b-bingo .

ALT: a woman in a pink sweater is sitting at a table with her hands in her hair and says b-b-b-bingo .

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 21h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I felt at No Kings, tbh.

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