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litzz11

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Blue dot in a red state. Lifelong lefty, reader, writer, kitchen pyrotechnician, Adult ed/literacy advocate, cat and dog mamma. Where is my edit button? "Oh, a rhinoceros!" IYKYK.

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · Aug 27

NO president should have this much power. NO ONE. The Supreme Court is wrong. The Federalist Society is wrong. When they give more power to the president, they are taking it AWAY from US. The people.

This is wrong. It's un-American and anti-democracy.

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 3h

True!!!

litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 5h

The USAID budget was just $30.5 billion and actually saved dying people all around the world.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Was it America First or Argentina First? Somehow there’s $40 billion for Argentina.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 7h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 5h

Hegseth is in WAY over his head. I heard Joe Scarborough mention the fact that Hegseth "worked for Fox News" so he should know how journalism works. But Hegseth was never a journalist, he was just a talking head booked to comment on news. He didn't do reporting. He's not a journalist.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h

Nearly all members of Pentagon Press Corps handed over their badges and walked out today, in protest to Hegseth's directive to criminalize
'national security' reporting

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans NEVER clean their own house. This is how we got stuck with Trump. TWICE. Not because Dems nominated Hillary or Kamala or because Biden was old.

Republicans held a primary! Their voters had over a dozen people to choose from and they chose Trump. TWICE. Don't blame us for your mistake.

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when the IRS went after obvious political groups like Tea Party Nation and Project Veritas and the RWers screamed like they'd been hung from the cross?

Republicans have always operated in bad faith and it's long past time for the media to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.

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UAW @uaw.org · 17h

🧵 The United Auto Workers have endorsed Graham Platner for the United States Senate in Maine.

As a U.S. military veteran, oyster farmer, and proud lifelong Mainer, @grahamformaine.bsky.social is a true fighter for the working class.

Photo of Graham Platner, candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. Photo courtesy of grahamformaine.com.

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 6h

They were gonna? Hell, they DID! They put them everywhere! They're in cities all over the country and we can't get rid of them because the MAGAts whine like little babies about it!

litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 8h

While American airports are forced to show Kristi Noem propaganda, this happened in British Columbia:

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

Kelowna, Victoria airport screens, PA system hacked with pro-Hamas, anti-Trump messages: officials | CBC News

Kelowna International Airport says it is investigating after its public announcement and flight information display systems were hacked by a third party on Tuesday. Victoria International Airport repo...

www.cbc.ca

litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 9h

Not so fast ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump From Firing Government Workers During Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 9h

All of them.

litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 9h

Trump lied about National Guard troops engaging in "hand to hand combat" with "child gangs" in Washington D.C.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 9h

Speaking of Candace Owens, this was reported in this month's Harper's. I knew Owens was being sued for saying Emmanuel Macron's wife is really a trans woman, but the rest of this stuff is even MORE batshit insane.

She's loonier than Laura Loomer! This shit is NUTS.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

“The most patriotic thing that you can do is say no kings.”

Jean Smart is asking you to join us in the streets on Saturday. Let’s make No Kings Day the biggest and loudest peaceful protest in modern American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 9h

Except sometimes they aren't kids doing stupid things, they are actual Congressional staffers.

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, man. Look at this! They always do this. Like the "alternative" Super Bowl Halftime Show.

They are trying SO HARD to undercut No Kings. Trump is such a small, weak, paranoid man, he's seriously threatened by public displays of opposition.

Let's make No Kings Day bigger and better than ever!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 12h

Googling isn’t studying.

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 12h

Apparently money just grows on trees.

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 12h

What’s crazy is Trump stopped allowing Ukrainians to come here and they are actually refugees from Putin’s war. The article says that they are looking at Europeans “who oppose migration,” but I don’t think even those people would leave their strong social safety nets for “sink or swim” America.

litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 12h

Ah yes, all of those “white refugees” from…. ?? Sweden? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 12h

Ah yes, all of those “white refugees” from…. ?? Sweden? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 13h

The June No Kings rallies humiliated Trump. They happened on his birthday when he wanted everyone to pay attention to his sorry assed military parade.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 13h

He’s filled with ambition. Every time Trump leaves the country, Vance wastes no time getting himself booked on every show imaginable. You get the sense that Trump keeps him locked in a room.