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Luma @darkblueluma.bsky.social · 11m

You mean MAGA Beldam?

Luma @darkblueluma.bsky.social · 37m

We love Lumas from Mario!

Master Coden @mastercoden.bsky.social · 3h

Gaming question of the day.

Who is an adorable video game character?

#gaming
#character
#cute
#question
#promosky

Luma @darkblueluma.bsky.social · 38m

The oligarchy came out in full force when Trump won.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

BERNIE: “I worry we are increasingly becoming an oligarchic form of society, where a very small # of people control our economy + have huge influence over both political parties. if there was ever a time to stand up for working families and prevent authoritarianism, this is it.”

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 12h

America has no kings. That’s kind of the whole point.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5h

The racist-ass Supreme Court says race can't be a factor for college admissions or redistricting but racial profiling is perfectly fine for ICE to bash brown and Black skulls.

F this corrupt institution.

Expand the Court.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 11h

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 12h

and the list goes on. They are waging a war on Americans.

Mr. Speaker, your actions allow violations of our civil rights because you don't recognize our rights in the first place. It is disgraceful.

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 12h

ICE is zip-tying naked children in the street, tackling teenagers to the ground, shooting faith leaders with pepper balls, using excessive force on our neighbors, dropping chemical agents near schools, kidnapping people off the streets, handcuffing local officials, shooting people dead,

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 10h

Trump is stealing nearly $500M from #IL03 as a punishment for not conceding our power or bending the knee.

It’s illegal, unconstitutional and an abuse of power. We will fight it in the courts, in the streets, and in Congress.

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 10h

Let’s be very clear: Trump is withholding federal funding in political retribution against communities that are standing up to authoritarianism.

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 7d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Gabe 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @paracelsus16.bsky.social · 1d

That would implode their worldview though, so I'm not holding my breath.

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Gabe 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @paracelsus16.bsky.social · 1d

Love to see halfwits still claiming that Ukraine or Zelensky identify with Israel in 2025. Would also love to see these people read anything at all about the last 35 years of relations between the two, or read any news article regarding said relations published in the last year and a half.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 14h

Is there gonna be outrage among westerners about russians blowing up a UN humanitarian convoy or

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Luma @darkblueluma.bsky.social · 1h

It is indeed shameful that the occupant and his cronies want us dead.

But they have no shame, so they keep going.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 6h

Donald Trump is not the disease, he's the symptom. Beating him requires unrigging the system of greed that he represents. That means taking money out of politics, putting money back people’s pockets, and passing Medicare for all.

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Luma @darkblueluma.bsky.social · 1h

Say what you will about Nancy Pelosi, but this is EXACTLY how politicians should deal with bad faith reporters.

Distill Social @distillsocial.bsky.social · 8h

Rep. Nancy Pelosi has had enough of the right wing-lies. As Dems continue to show up to try and make a deal to reopen the government, Pelosi was confronted by a reporter asking about January 6th. Pelosi snapped back telling her to "shut up".

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 9h

We are fighting for true freedom. The freedom to live a life of dignity and joy.

A life of 80 hour work weeks, of constantly struggling to get by, being trapped in a shitty job by your health insurance — this is not freedom, and we are not free. But we could be. If we fight.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 3h

Clusters Near and Far - Messier 35 and NGC 2158 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/UgDqcm

The contrasting open star clusters Messier 35 and NGC 2158 are located in the constellation Gemini. First discovered by the astronomer
Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745, it was later included by Charles Messier in his "Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles" ("Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters"); the famous list of Messier objects.
Messier 35 in the upper left of the image is a nearby young star cluster, some 2800 light years distant and about 150 million years old. It covers an area of sky similar to that of the full Moon and contains approximately 2500 stars. Most are bright and blue, having not yet burned out their supply of Hydrogen.
Southwest of Messier 35, in the bottom right, lies NGC 2158 which is nearly four times more distant and contains many more stars. It is also much older, estimated to be some 2 billion years old. All its blue giant stars have burned out long ago and only the orange glow of its older stars remain. NGC 2158 was once though to be a globular cluster due to its compact nature.
Open star clusters are groups of stars that have formed from a single cloud of gas and dust at roughly the same time. Their individual stars are more or less bound to each other by gravity but may become dispersed over time as the cluster orbits through the plane of the Milky Way and interact with other clusters and clouds.

Image details:
Date: 19th February 2017
Exposure: LRGB: 75:25:25:25 mins, total 2 hours 30 mins @ -25C
Telescope: Ho...

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 3h

Like all members of the armed forces, our executive director takes her oath seriously. Using the military as his own police force is just one of the many reasons to impeach Donald Trump. #NoKings

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Collins: Speaker Johnson that Republicans are actually the party that wants to fix health care by addressing issues with it, as he says they did in the one big beautiful bill.

Sanders: Did he really say that? They're trying to fix health care by throwing 15 million people off of it?

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