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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 11h

Uh… don’t we grow corn right here in the USA?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 1d

Could get real interesting!

Blue Feral @blueferal.bsky.social · 1d

Just tell Idaho Qatari’s are brown people. That should take care of it.

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s see if they comply and if there are any repercussions if they don’t

BlueVoter @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 2d

This is very good! #politics #resist

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 1d

2017 he called them terrorists but then they bought him a big plane and now they get to invade our country from within on their new military base on our own soil! He would pimp his mother out for a price.

yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 2d

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 1d

Just like branding those who are anti fascist as terrorists. Crazy times sadly

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo! Think I’ll make a donation!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 1d

I admit, I don’t know any of this. I thought it looked like ramen noodles. However, I am 100% pro science. Just don’t know it all!

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‪𝒩𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶 𝒫 @gemdrgn1.bsky.social · 1d

OMG! I love this! I just saw this on ABC7 just now! Please repost far and wide! And #VoteYesOnProp50 I did and my ballot was accepted and my vote was counted! 😊💙
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California: Stick it to Trump on November 4th. Vote on “Yes” on Prop 50

YouTube video by Tom Steyer

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

True. If it’s a job you aren’t all that keen on, just write N/A on all of them! Let’s not forget, you are interviewing them too!

Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · 2d

In an ideal world, yes. Sadly, the employers have the power, so you either complete the form or you're not considered at all.

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

I think applicants should use a number to identify themselves with. No age, no race, no gender, none of it. Just list qualifications, education, job history etc.

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like all of them should not be asked. How is any of it relevant to your ability to do the job?

Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · 2d

So, I've been applying for jobs, as one does when one finds themselves suddenly without work due to the demise of one's employer. Is this bottom question permitted?

Screenshot of a diversity questionnaire labeled “Questionnaire 3 of 3.” The form includes three required dropdown questions: “Do you identify as Aboriginal Australian and/or Torres Strait Islander?” with “No” selected; “Gender” with “Male” selected; and “Do you identify as LGBTQI+?” with “No” selected.

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@dickinthedirt @watergator.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller's family hates him
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Stephen Miller DESTROYED After His Own Family Calls Him Out In Public

YouTube video by The Damage Report

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

The two sides were never the same

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

Sickening. So now Trump AMA his ICE goons are trafficking children across state lines. That seems EXTREMELY ILLEGAL

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

Utmost respect for all who serve in the military and uphold their oath to the Constitution. We almost reached 250 years and let’s hope it doesn’t end because of this traitor felon in office.

scubapopeye.bsky.social @scubapopeye.bsky.social · 3d

If you’ve never been in the military please understand the majority of us served for you.

We sacrificed time for you.

Most of us are not war mongers.

We served and fought for you.

Unfortunately right now the military is getting used as pawns for a dictator.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

If he’s going to unilaterally fire all federal workers, WHY ARE WE PAYING FEDERAL TAXES? For what? If we dismantle all federal agencies, then WE DON’T NEED A PRESIDENT. WTF…why can’t he fucking die already?

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2d

That asshole fired all the people who help kids with disabilities in education.

Fuck him. Fuck everyone who enabled him

mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

The 🍊 💩 is so rebarbative, that it makes prepping for a colonoscopy something to look forward to by comparison.

Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 3d

Rebarbative [ree-BAR-buh-tiv]
(adj.)
- Causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- Unattractive and objectionable.
- Fearsome; forbidding.

Use:
“Harold’s rebarbative disposition lingered in the air like mothballs and melancholy; even the dusty old taxidermy seemed to recoil.”

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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 3d

This is possibly the only political ad that made me cry. If only this sort of vision, humanity, and COURAGE existed at the DNC.

If only Centrists weren't attempting to crush this sort of heart from the the Left.

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Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

You nailed it….it is all about BEING MAGA and a Trump devotee. They DO NOT CARE about facts or truth. They will kill themselves to own the libs. No reasoning with that kind of psychopathy.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

Trump can’t even make up conspiracy theories correctly

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 2d

Keep up the fight, everyone. Get ready to protest next weekend. #RemoveTheRegime

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

Good opportunity to remind them to stand with their fellow Americans, as we stand with them in times of need, and to remember their oath to the Constitution. Shame on the republicans and Trump for doing this to our military and their families.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

MILITARY FAMILIES COUNTING ON FOOD BANKS

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Mark Somers @marksomers.bsky.social · 2d

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mimicblue.bsky.social @mimicblue.bsky.social · 2d

So sad. RIP Matthew Shepard. The world lost when he passed in such a violent hateful way. We need more people with kind souls and less of the ones who take them.

David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering Matthew Shepard who unfortunately died on this day in 1998. There isn't a day that goes by where his presence and legacy isn't felt. There isn't a day that goes by where we wouldn't have wanted to see him thrive and do great things.

Just remember, hate should never win; humanity should.

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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 12d

"On the consumer side, monopoly control over platforms and interfaces allows a single firm to decide what products appear first, which content is amplified, or which services are accessible at all."

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The Algorithms That Dictate Our Lives Are Not Neutral

Algorithms are not apolitical tools that simply improve efficiency in online transactions or workplace coordination. They are instruments of control and should be regulated like other tools of control...

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