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Doug Lindsay

@texdemcowboy.bsky.social

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Lifelong Lib. Voting solid Blue since '76! Persister. Musician. Former kid, future corpse. Dem door knocker and phone banker since '04. BLM & LGBTQ ally. Fighting against the economic war the rich started in the 70's! We have entered the Twilight Zone.

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Doug Lindsay @texdemcowboy.bsky.social · 6d

NSPM-7 is a Presidential Memorandum recently put out by the Trump administration that seemingly denotes all kinds of beliefs, speech, viewpoints and opinions including economic, religious and political matters as potential crimes or causes of terrorism. pca.st/episode/0914...

Are You NSPM-7 Compliant, Citizen? (E343)

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Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

this is today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Voting Rights Act in a nutshell

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 15h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Doug Lindsay @texdemcowboy.bsky.social · 6h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h

Apparently $20B of our taxpayer money wasn't enough to bail out Argentina.

Now Trump wants U.S. banks to divert ANOTHER $20B away from lending to American businesses, farmers, and families to prop up Milei's corrupt presidency and failing economy.

So much for America First.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

Young Republicans group chat.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 11h

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 6h

This is what happens when we don't take Climate Science seriously!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

I bet you’ll see a bunch of normal folks with patriotic signs and American flags whose collective protest embodies the foundational truths of this republic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Doug Lindsay @texdemcowboy.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Keith!

a man wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses looks at the camera

ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses looks at the camera

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · 1d

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · 18d

Want to help me raise awareness?

We need education and awareness now more than ever. Long Covid is the #1 childhood chronic illness, people need to know the risks. gofund.me/c6fe1e9e

#health #covid19 #longcovid #mentalhealth

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

"Israel is planning to cut the number of aid trucks going into Gaza by 50% and limit assistance to the war-torn area." This is despicable: Starving Christian and Muslim Palestinians as a form of collective punishment bc Hamas hasn't returned the remains of the dead. www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...

Israel Plans to Halve Aid to Gaza as It Accuses Hamas of Violating Hostage Agreement

Israel is planning to cut the number of aid trucks going into Gaza by 50% and limit assistance to the war-torn area, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

www.mediaite.com

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

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

Thank you for your attention to this matter

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 3d

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Doug Lindsay @texdemcowboy.bsky.social · 2d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

The controversy over Columbus Day used to be kind of Tony Soprano type guys who were taught that Columbus was a great explorer in grade school and just didn't want to think hard about it. Trump by contrast explicitly likes and endorses the genocidal stuff

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

"President Trump issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13 'Columbus Day.' The proclamation goes on to present a white Christian nationalist version of American history with much more emphasis on Christianity than Trump’s previous proclamations." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2d

Somewhere in America is a young girl hiding in an attic writing a diary‼️

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 2d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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