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Disabled Desert Storm Army Vet/1st Air Cav “GarryOwen” (I stand by my oath) 🇺🇸 former NBC Photojournalist/Photog/Videographer/Editor/Storm chaser 🎥 Michigan Alum/Wolverine 🏈 /#LegacyGuardian with TVP/🏟️ Chiefs Fan for Life! NO MAGA!!!/ #SaveAmerica 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 1d

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The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)

Check out the NO KINGS SONG! Play this at your rallies. 🙌 Pass it on.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 5m

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What You May Have Missed

A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 5m

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NEWS: Trump Fires Nearly Entire Special Education Office Meant to Protect Disabled Students

Trump fires nearly entire special education office meant to protect disabled students, Trump moves closer to invoking insurrection act, Trump claims watergate was a hoax, and more

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The Ten Most Dangerous Bromances on Earth: Trump’s Chill-Out Room Is Where Democracy Goes to Die

The 10 Most Dangerous People in the World by the analytics

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Our Wins Of The Week

As Donald Trump escalates his authoritarian vision with the deployment of National Guard troops to more U.S.

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The Silent Purge: How Trump’s Health Care Cuts Endanger Millions and Dismantle America’s Safety Net

Massive Medicaid rollbacks, CDC furloughs, and the collapse of public health funding reveal a dangerous strategy: shifting government’s duty to care for its people.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 1h

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Rules for Thee but not for Me? I Prefer Rules for We.

We should treat healthcare tax credits like Congress treats billionaire & corporate tax cuts

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 2h

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Sunday Hopium - Meet Maine Democratic Party Charlie Dingham, Trump Had A Bad Week Of Polling, A Note About My Leon Krauze Interview

Maine is one of our most important 2026 battlegrounds

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 2h

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Legal AF - 10/12/25 (Ad-Free)

Watch Legal AF ad-free on Meidas+

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2h

History shows that when people organize, protest, and demand justice, we can disrupt abuses of power, and build collective power in response.

Our advocacy experts answered your questions about how we all can help protect our communities.

How to Push Back Against Trump’s Abuses of Power

From defending free speech to organizing locally, ACLU experts explain what actions actually work to hold the Trump administration accountable and protect democracy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3h

What if all of these were just DMs?

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 2h

Update: No one can trust a fucking word that comes from the DOJ, because it is Chump’s puppet parking garage lawyers running it. Not only are they NOT prosecutors or legitimate trial lawyers, but most have never actually seen the inside of a courtroom outside of law school.

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Kamala Harris: "I don't know if we can trust what's coming out of the DOJ right now. And that pains me to say that."

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 6h

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely 💯!

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ShethaDamnTruth 🌊🌊🌊 @shethadamntruth.bsky.social · 4h

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 2h

I’ll be participating in the No Kings protest in Tulsa, OK on the 18th. Will you be joining a protest in your state?

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Why I'll be marching

Next weekend scores of millions of Americans will gather together in great cities, small towns and rural villages to stand together for their country against the abominations and miseries of the MAGA ...

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 2h

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Sunday Morning Wrap-Up

Here’s your Sunday morning wrap-up, so you can make sure you didn’t miss out on any of the past week’s columns.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 2h

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George Stephanopoulos Obliterates JD Vance On Tom Homan Bribe

ABC's George Stephanopoulos destroyed JD Vance as he would not let the vice president evade questions about the alleged bribe Trump border czar Tom Homan may have accepted.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 3h

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MAGA Nut Threatened to Kill Me and Obama - Pam Bondi Looks the Other Way

The Trump DOJ’s Two-Faced Approach to Threats and Justice

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 3h

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Republicans are losing, and they know it

they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 3h

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David French: Trump's Dangerous Grab for Power

On today’s “To the Contrary” Podcast, I’m joined by David French (who is broadcasting from war-torn Chicago) to try to make sense of a week of alarming developments — from Trump’s threatened invocatio...

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 3h

Always covering up that right hand. Clearly he’s getting an IV filled with something every day just to try and keep him going. Truly an insufficient method for delivering mass doses of Adderall into his putrid body.

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