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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹

@davidsongc.bsky.social

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Trickle-down economics is a GOP scam. 🚫Citizens United 🚫Gerrymandering 🚫Presidential Immunity. Teaching civics and history will save democracy. WVU Mountaineers 💛💙 Pittsburgh 💛🖤. Here are a few of my favorite things:🐕🥃🍷✈️ ⚖️.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 6h

Unstoppable. 👊

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Heinous.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 10h

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 16h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

Britain, you’re nuts if you let them do this to you.

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy is the best form of government, and if we lose it, Americans will regret it.

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and chief attack dog Stephen Miller bit off more than they can chew. Their cities based on obvious lies has antagonized voters, outraged judges, and triggered public opposition from two GOP governors—a rare act of defiance that may trigger more defections. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State

Voters, Courts, and GOP Governors slam Trump’s militarization of cities

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

We need spines for Congress.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“Originalism” was never a coherent philosophy and simply a means of protecting and expanding power outside public or constitutional accountability.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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crapstorm.bsky.social @crapstorm.bsky.social · 1d

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

The utter incompetence and cruelty of this administration are staggering.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3d

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
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CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

Our Attorney General is protecting a pedophile. How far we've fallen.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 3d

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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social · 3d

Go Bernie.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 2d

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 2d

If SCOTUS invalidates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, to put it simply, democracy is finished, and that's not hyperbole.

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