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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 2h

The judge ordered federal agents to wear badges and banned certain riot control techniques, saying she is concerned that her orders will not be followed. Ordering body cams is her solution, but why would they follow that order? Who will enforce such orders? And how? The state and local police?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Find your local event at nokings.org/#map.

Bring your family and friends. Stand up with everyone you love, for the country you hold dear.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 13h

Where was the government when we were headed in this direction? Why is insurance the means to control healthcare costs?

Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 13h

I pay more in retirement than I did throughout my career. Medicare alone is insufficient; we still need the insurance companies to provide costly supplemental policies. Advantage policies privatized Medicare, giving insurance companies too much control over healthcare prices and our actual care.

Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 13h

Healthcare costs for everyone are out of control for everyone as they have increasingly exploded over the last 50 years. First, the employers were empowered to control the insurance coverage of their employees, and thus, their healthcare choices, employees beared more of the cost as rates increased.

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 15h

In some states, New York, for one, there is no underwriting. You may switch between Original Medicare and Advantage during the Open Enrollment Period with no penalty for existing conditions or advancing age.

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, and remind Congress and the public that they requested a military appropriations bill to pay the troops and continue to requst an appropriation for the November 1st payroll. Ensure that the public sees that the GOP led Congress refuses to pass a military appropriation bill.

Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 1d

The current GOP mindset is "the end justifies the means", thus, if they think this keeps drugs off the streets of America, so be it. The rest of the world sees this as a war crime. Who will face consequences? What is the red line for US military leaders?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 2d

Our religious beliefs must be held personally and not imposed on others. The salvation of our souls does not require that our neighbor agrees with our beliefs or follow our dogma.

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 2d

We must find the means to amplify the message that we are all equal humans, deserving of respect and the rights of every human. We must argue against the message that immigrants are inhuman or anybody is worthy of being called a POS. When we can look each other in the eye, we will solve our issues.

Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 2d

I agree that there is a big difference in moral values, but i believe that we must not lump everyone who supports DJT as a MAGA deplorable or, for that matter, everyone who doesn't as a dedicated liberal, supporting all of those values. We are complex humans where the path forward is mutual respect.

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 2d

What would he be saying if he was still on good terms with DJT and receiving some benefit from them?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo at Jubilee Mass: “Let us take care to avoid any exploitation of the faith that could lead to labelling those who are different — often the poor — as enemies, ‘lepers’ to be avoided and rejected.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

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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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 3d

"...we live in a society of individuals who have no conception of the common good, no way to come together to pursue a common good, no way to persuade one another what the common good might be, and indeed most of us believe that the common good does not exist.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good?

The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time.

www.theatlantic.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

“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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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

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

www.cbsnews.com

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 4d

"Trump clearly wants to use military power to exert more control over the American people, and soon, top U.S.-military commanders may have to decide whether they will refuse such orders from the commander in chief."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 4d

How is any of this legal?

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 4d

Who is enforcing the law? Words aren't enough; actions should have consequences.

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Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 4d

The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone, the hip bone's connected to the backbone..
No debate, simple anatomy.

Rich Sanfilippo @richsanf.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly! Why are they supporting ICE?

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

Who do they report to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

"Forty-two judges went so far as to say that the Supreme Court’s emergency orders had caused 'some' or 'major' harm to the public’s perception of the judiciary[,] [including] nearly half of the Republican-nominated judges."

gift link 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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