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@rnlawson.bsky.social

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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦. Antifascist. Antiracist. Pro personal choice in all things. 🏳️‍🌈💙. Dogs. Gardening. Photography. Art. Cooking. We are all humans. (Well most of us!). PA10. Fibrowarrior. Chronic illness. Ex evangelical.

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Bear Bear @rnlawson.bsky.social · May 22

Quoting French journalist Hippolyte Babou. “The system was never designed to set you free-it was built to keep you chasing, doubting, and conforming. True Liberation begins the moment you unlearn the lies, reclaim your power, and choose joy over fear. “

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Bear Bear @rnlawson.bsky.social · 5h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: No Kings is this Saturday, and here are my tips for how to mitigate anxiety in large crowds. Feel free to share! youtu.be/nxpkVk9TGgQ?...

NO KINGS! Tips for Protesting with PTS and Anxiety

YouTube video by MSW Media

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

And not a single mention in the Times about Michael Ellis installing himself as CIA general counsel. Fascinating.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, once the President of the United States confirms covert CIA operations in a country… say, Venezuela, those operations are no longer covert.

And it puts CIA officers at significantly more risk.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: if you’re planning on taking I-5 to the No Kings rally, you might wanna leave now. In order to disrupt our protests, they’re shutting parts of it down. meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

meidasnews.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Currently working on a potential takedown piece of this bogus graph going around on twitter and boosted by Musk claiming that trans identities are "dropping."

There are some very easy critiques of it, but one stands out that hasn't been reported on.

Any R wizards/data science/quant followers here?

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

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”

If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 10h

JUST IN: Judge tosses libel suit 2 IRS agents filed against attorney Abbe Lowell over claims the agents illegally leaked confidential information about Hunter Biden tax probe. Judge Richard Leon (GWBush) says the statements were legal arguments. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

NEW: in a hearing where a judge is asking the government why it’s defying her court order about deploying tear gas without warning in Chicago, the government argues ICE isn’t using body cams, and they can’t start using them because the government is shut down.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 11h

Skedzielewski also cites the shutdown and says "I don't believe that it will be possible, on a short timeline, to roll out a body cam program in the Chicago [area of responsibility] for ICE.

For CBP it "may be more workable."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

Congratulations to my friend a co-host of the @dailybeanspod.com. Well deserved!

Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 9h

I am BEYOND thrilled to share that I have been inducted into the iconic #Out100 for 2025! It’s a huge honor to be recognized alongside so many brilliant and inspiring individuals who are shaping our world and advocating for greater inclusivity and diversity.

www.out.com/out100/2025/...

The 2025 Out100: Dana Goldberg

These are the LGBTQ+ people making the world bolder and brighter in 2025.

www.out.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Yikes, he is unsteady there.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 9h

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h

🚨BREAKING: New York Court of Appeals UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS state law moving most county and town elections to even-numbered years. By aligning them with state and federal elections, it will boost voter turnout.

Another victory for voters and defeat for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

🚨 Onondaga County v. New York

Learn more.

www.democracydocket.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

Say it!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Mike Johnson tries to reframe his move to keep the House out to avoid a vote on the Epstein files as a "responsible decision" so Republicans can "work" in their districts

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Translation: If Dems vote for the CR, Thune will allow a vote on extending ACA subsidies then Mike Johnson will kill that in the House.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.

Print it.

Put it in a frame.

Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

The "ceasefire" does not seem to be going great

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

ABOLISH ICE and EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT should be mainstream Democratic promises and talking points.

But timidity and civility will rule the day and screw the rest of us and this country in the end.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

"Trust us, bro."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

KEILAR: If you don't deal with these subsidies, many many people are going to see their costs increase

HARIODOPOLOS: We are willing to have the debate

KEILAR: You're not in session! How can you debate if you're not in session?

HARIODOPOLOS: All they have to do is open the government

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 6h

Multiple “sources” are telling Fox News the swastika in a GOP staffer’s office was just an optical illusion. That’s how fucking stupid they think we are.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13h

It’s weird how the “young” Republicans are actually full-grown men and JD Vance treats them as children who shouldn’t face consequences for their racism, misogyny, or xenophobia.

But pregnant 12-year-old little girls are treated as adults and must literally bear the consequences of rape and incest.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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