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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · 6d

A MUST read -if you care about how Trump, as President of the US, is grifting the American people, subverting Justice, knowingly violating the Constitution, and stealing billions of OUR tax money:

Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Lays MAGA Bare >>>
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Transcript: Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Lays MAGA Bare

As Representative Raskin’s broadside against Trump’s $230 million shakedown of DOJ hits home, a legal expert demystifies why this scheme is so appallingly corrupt—and what it says about MAGA’s ugliest...

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 20

Try this for "free" read. Sorry, if it asks for email! wapo.st/46dxO5b

Trump’s media enforcer is relishing his Jimmy Kimmel moment

Brendan Carr has become the personification of the president’s crusade against the mainstream media, and he’s just getting started.

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 19

Violation of First Amendment rights by #ICE.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 19

All righty then!
#censorship idea from @theonion.com

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In Defense Of Mass Censorship

When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 19

GIFT article:
Brendan Carr, Trump's FCC Chairman enforces the idea of it's only "free speech" and "in the public's interest" if the speech is to Trump's liking. If the speakers are liberal or criticize Trump, then they are punished:
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Trump’s media enforcer is relishing his Jimmy Kimmel moment

Brendan Carr has become the personification of the president’s crusade against the mainstream media, and he’s just getting started.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Sep 19

Worth mentioning that we once had policies to resist foreign influence operations, and that these have been undone by Trump.
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Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Sep 18

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 18

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 18

GIFT read. ABC/Nexstar/Disney cancelled Jimmy Kimmel's Show bc they need Trump's FCC to approve Nexstar's merger w Tegna, a $6.2 billion deal.
Theyd need to change FCC regs to allow any one company from reachng more than 39% of US homes. FCC head Brendan Carr will CHANGE those rules.
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Column | Kimmel’s suspension confirms what many suspected after Colbert’s cancellation

Media companies must punish Trump critics if they want their mega-mergers approved.

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 14

Please READ and SHARE - the best explanation of how it's NOT "both sides" who are fomenting and using political violence -
By Thom Hartmann:::

Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · Sep 12

When pundits blame tone instead of truth, they let one party weaponize threats and lies without consequence…

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The “Both Sides” Scam: How False Balance Fuels Extremism

When pundits blame tone instead of truth, they let one party weaponize threats and lies without consequence…

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · Sep 13

One of Hitler’s first actions was to declare the socialist party domestic terrorists and outlaw them. He then proceeded to “dismantle“ his opposition. This is what happens when Reagan cuts funding for education and kills civics and history classes in public schools.

Common Dreams @commondreams.org · Sep 13

Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff, said that he and the president will use law enforcement to "dismantle" the left, which he called a "domestic terrorism movement" after the Charlie Kirk shooting.

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Miller Says He and Trump Will Use Law Enforcement to 'Dismantle' the Left After Kirk Shooting | Common Dreams

Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff, said that he and the president will use law enforcement to "dismantle" the left, which he called a "domestic terrorism movement" after the Charlie Kirk s...

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Sep 13

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 2

GIFT article:
Closing down weather / climate satellites because the Trump administration doesn't want to acknowledge or share information on climate change seems like a very very bad idea! They think that you what we don't know won't hurt us. Idiots.

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Trump is cutting climate satellites. That could affect weather prediction.

The Trump administration is scrapping satellite observations of Earth that officials say go beyond the essential task of predicting the weather.

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yeah, there's a lot of bothsidesism in that excerpt. I'm sick of it. There's only one side fighting against science and vaccines: Republicans.

Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Who the hell does @natesilver538.tweet.pub think are "normal" people? & What are these "characteristics" Blueskyism embodies that makes progressivism "unappealing"? Criticizing or mocking Trump? Resisting cruel immigration tactics? Fighting against climate change, FOR voting rights, FOR vax sanity?

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Labor Day protest and march against fascism and oligarchy.
Downtown Albuquerque NM.
#WorkersOverBillionaires

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Protest marching against tyranny, fascism, and oligarchy in Albuquerque, NM on Labor Day, 2025.
#WorkersNotBillionaires

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Aug 31

This headline is deceptive & shows bias. Calling The Environmental Law Proj "activist" shows Republicans are for profit$ & ignorance against inconvenient truths & knowledge abt damage of climate change. If judges tote the false GOP line then we have alternative reality:
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West Virginia wants EPA to stop funding climate activist group

West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey joined a 23-state coalition of attorneys general urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to cancel grants to the Environmental Law Institute…

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Aug 30

😡 How to steal and ruin forested public lands for profit of the few, brought to you by Republicans:

Feds takes next step in removing protections from 6.4 million acres of Montana’s national forests • Daily Montanan share.google/v039gjeVBy2n...

Feds takes next step in removing protections from 6.4 million acres of Montana’s national forests • Daily Montanan

Since 2001, ‘Roadless Rule’ has prevented new road construction across 58 million acres of national forest land across the country, minimizing logging and development

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Aug 28

A GIFT article about the maligning of the CDC by RFK and the Trump administration over the FALSEHOODS and ANTI-SCIENCE that vaccines are harmful. RFK Jr wants scientists at the CDC to LIE about the EFFICACY and SAFETY of vaccines.
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CDC leaders who resigned said RFK Jr. undermined vaccine science, risking lives

As the CDC reels from the firing of its director, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News the agency is “in trouble and we need to fix it.”

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Aug 28

A MUST read -- and SHARE --
How and why America is now a fascist country. All the proof with examples in article, by Garrett Graff:

Slouching Into Fascism – Mother Jones share.google/e20NZPYhsTMp...

Slouching into fascism

Are we already past the tipping point?

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · Aug 23

Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...

As the family of one of the most prominent survivors, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we are outraged. The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history.

This travesty of justice entirely invalidates the experiences of the many brave survivors who put their safety, security, and lives on the line to ensure her conviction, including our sister

By moving convicted felon Maxwell to a minimum security, country club prison, the DOJ sends a disturbing message that child sex trafficking is acceptable and will be rewarded.

The Department of Justice serves the people of the United States. We continue to call upon the DOJ to do its job by investigating and holding accountable the many rich and powerful people who enabled Ghislaine Maxwell’s and Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Aug 23

"Telling the truth abt slavery is not ‘indoctrination’ "
MAGA want to ignore &shut down this painful true history "bc having to look too closely at the disturbing parts of American history wd mean having to look closely at the disturbing parts of themselves."
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

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Liztalk @elizabethmirra.bsky.social · Aug 23

I wonder if #DeanCain is learning how to deescalate a violent situation, how to be compassionate to his fellow human beings, and what is acting in a LEGAL manner and what's illegal?
#ICE

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