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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 22h

And if you add in the number of Africans killed in the slave trade, it's even more mind bogglingly awful.

Multiverse Wanderer @multiversewanderer.bsky.social · 23h

Let u not forget that the largest ethnic cleansing and genocide in history WAS NOT carried out by Germany nearly a century ago. They certainly did those things, but they weren't the worst.

We were.

It was the USA, carried out against Native Americans, over two centuries ago.

David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 22h

This is amazingly beautiful. And I enjoyed Brett's snark - thanks Brett

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Imagine being illegally deployed to Portland and not being able to go watch this because you live in shame and bird fans would run you out of their neighborhood.

📸 @devonfredericksen.bsky.social

www.instagram.com/reel/DPMtSdj...

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wilbybach.bsky.social @wilbybach.bsky.social · 23h

AOC is a example of someone who wasn't born with privilege but believed in her own abilities, courage and strength to outshine many of those who were born with privilege. On her absolute worst day, she would be light years ahead of Trump on his absolute best day.

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

This is the leader we need now!

👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

A very happy birthday to AOC ....we all appreciate you so much....

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

What? Really? Damn, time to look this up. Thanks for the tip.

David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. I'm praying somehow this ceasefire can continue.

Fingers crossed that the trumps' corrupt profiteering with the Gulf will counter Donny's worship of Bibi's aggression: w/o it the genocide will resume in a month.
I can't believe I'm hoping for continued corruption...

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fantastic news that all remaining hostages have been returned.

I’m not ready to spike the football and declare victory on peace yet, though. These things can - and often do - go completely sideways.

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

Fission power on the moon? Something that doesn't exist (yet) on earth - that's the best plan you can offer to strengthen the US and world economy?
Ooh, we're really f'd

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

HOLY S***! Where's FEMA?

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

Expect this message to get louder & to flood corporate+social media with bits aimed at each demographic. Let's pay attn to who bows down to this mandate from the powers that be.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

Security theater: all our lives are worse in order to make us feel like we're stomping down on 'those people'.
But at least Thiel, Musk & the other tech oligarchs will make out like bandits with gov't contracts for total information awareness.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Exclusive: Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

www.independent.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Exclusive: Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

www.independent.co.uk

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

THIS is what government is for: mutual support to form a more perfect union, making life better for us all.

Governor Andy Beshear @govandybeshear.bsky.social · 2d

More than $14.8 million is going toward the development of 74 rental units at the Chestnut Ridge high-ground site in Knott County. We're making sure to deliver multiple housing solutions for Eastern Kentucky flood survivors as we rebuild stronger than before.

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking for the San Francisco Bay Area, we've got what Sara describes: Cute old bungalows with mature gardens replaced by 'McMansions' taking up 90% of the lot + NIMBYs voting against any housing or transit for service workers needed = gridlock.
#TragedyOfTheCommons late capitalist edition?

Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

The alternative to old bungalows being torn down and replaced by a number of condos or townhomes that costs roughly the same is the old bungalow being torn down and replaced by a large house that costs 3x as much.
This is literally what happened before rezoning

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Farkas gave an example from the Glamorgan neighbourhood, where he said $600,000 bungalows
are being torn down and replaced with $750,000 luxury condos.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

... and the mafiosi extortionists running the federal gov't are 100% OK with it. They GAF about crime. For them, the DOJ & DHS are just weapons for attacking the American people.

Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 1d

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 1d

AMEN!

Leigh G @yogaleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Can I tell you a secret? I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country. I think it's a non-issue. Without social security numbers they're not getting the welfare people claim they're getting, the vast majority of them are normal people trying to live a better life.
This whole wall deport-the-illegals bullshit is just the one percent convincing the working poor to blame a subset of the working poor for the fact that they're all poor, instead of realizing they're all poor due to vast income inequality and resource price inflation in combination with wage stagnation.
The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor. It's because the people who control everything refuse to increase your wages.
Jessie Memer

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 1d

The last thing the GOP did in relation to health care was to cut Medicaid deeply

They have offered ZERO policies to "fix health care"

But now that their original ridiculous talking points failed, they want us all to believe they care deeply about "fixing" health care

🐴💩

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 2d

youtube.com/shorts/u3o2-...

The Reproductive Police State #duet #texas #reproduction #abortion #patient #police #maga #tracking

YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 2d

To my conservative Catholic friends & relatives: this should not be taken as a political statement. There’s nothing here that you would dispute. If it feels like a scolding, please think about what that says about the people you support & those you hate.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to understand how Obama’s Wall St “bipartisanship” dovetails with & sweeps under the rug Trump’s wildly corrupt extortion in international trade, check out Tommy’s interview with Froman, Obama’s Trade Rep & prominent DC groupthinker! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Pod Save the World

Politics Podcast · Updated Weekly · “Pod Save America” cohost Tommy Vietor thought foreign policy was boring and complicated until he got the education of a lifetime working for President Obama’s Nati...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

ICE GOONS are harassing two 15-year-old boys on bicycles in Chicago.

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David Wright @dwrightvisa.bsky.social · 3d

I'd add that they calculate that fear and desperation often make people turn to strongman leaders for simple answers.

InscribaJournal @inscribajournal.bsky.social · 3d

If I were to guess, at some point in the last 30+ years (since Gingrich) they slowly came to the decision that Democrats are illegitimate leaders in politics and that they and they alone should have the right to rule--a feedback loop between their media and political elites.

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InscribaJournal @inscribajournal.bsky.social · 3d

If I were to guess, at some point in the last 30+ years (since Gingrich) they slowly came to the decision that Democrats are illegitimate leaders in politics and that they and they alone should have the right to rule--a feedback loop between their media and political elites.

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David King @kingdare.bsky.social · 3d

There's something totally wrong with the immigrant #'s 1200 missing presumably dead that were taken to Florida by ice

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