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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 55m

Woohoo!

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Brian Ettling @bgreenettling.bsky.social · 7h

For our #democracy, I enjoy these Saturday morning livestream chats on Facebook & YouTube with American historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Joanne Freeman about what happened the previous week. #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyNow

What the Heck Just Happened?

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

A Nuremberg prosecutor addressed accused businessmen: “They joined in stamping out the flame of liberty & in subjecting the German people to the monstrous, grinding tyranny of the Third Reich, whose purpose it was to brutalize the nation & fill people w/hate.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/gold-greed...

Gold, Greed and Cowardice

Trump's corporate and billionaire supporters are emboldening him as he pursues his path of destruction. History proves the future does not bode well for them.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 5h

Watch the full discussion with @raskin.house.gov and @oversightdemocrats.house.gov @robertgarcia.house.gov now available on YouTube.

Release the Epstein Files: A Conversation with Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia

YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools

Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5h

Mario Guevara's deportation signals a dangerous precedent for press freedom. ICE detained him for over 100 days for live-streaming law enforcement, despite the fact that he was permitted to work in the U.S.

Hear more on the newest episode of At Liberty.

The Journalist Who Spent More Than 100 Days in ICE Detention | American Civil Liberties Union

Emmy Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was covering a protest near Atlanta when local law enforcement arrested him. Then, ICE detained him.

www.aclu.org

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 5h

That's exciting! Good for you!

Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 7h

Between reading you, Anna Bower, Marc Elias, and a few other lawyers and folks who report this stuff, I get the gist of what you're all saying. I can look up what I don't know or understand or I can do this thing called asking politely. I don't have to get pissy with you because you're intelligent.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 22h

From the legendary Toni Morrison's 1993 Nobel Lecture.

#ToniMorrison
#Language
#Pinks

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 10h

If there's no one better, I can imagine what the rest are like.

Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 10h

The Pentagon. WHO in the Pentagon? Let's be specific as to who accepted this illegal donation knowing it was illegal.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19h

25 October 1901 | Czech Jew, Bedřich Pereles, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

An ID photo of a mature man with round glasses. Czech Jew, Bedřich Pereles.

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Pudge @stonesfan23.bsky.social · 18h

Probably because mainstream media is owned by conservatives.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How the US right wing is taking over news media and choking press freedom

Takeover of broadcast companies by Donald Trump’s allies is harbinger of media capitulation to authoritarian leanings

www.theguardian.com

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 22h

What a good boy!

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 22h

He looks like a claymation figure, kind of like the Abominable snowmonster.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23h

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.

I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. 🤮🤬

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 1d

Who is experiencing this American Grandeur? Surely not the average person living and working in this country. And really? Is that all her generation has to contribute? Opulence and wealth inaccessible to the People who own the house?

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 1d

Spread it around.

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 2d

How can we let ICE take our neighbors?

How can we let them brutalize grannies, grandpas & pregnant women?

How can we let them ziptie little children?

This Dolores Huerta video must go viral.

There are atrocities being committed in our name with our taxpayer dollars!

Don't be silent!
Speak out!

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 1d

I not only own a Scrabble dictionary, I used to read it in the bathroom, BP (before phone). 😂

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 1d

Headlines. I hate them. Just a rhetorical question. No offense to you meant.

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 1d

Video of Trump shitting on the UN to follow. I don't remember learning of anyone in History who had such blatant disregard for rules as Trump, while simultaneously claiming to be the one of Law and Order.

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Sam @ahaxton.bsky.social · 1d

Is that "born with no arms" thing intended to generate sympathy for him as opposed to outrage for the pornography charge?

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 1d

"One ICE agent’s knee was on his neck, another’s was grinding his back. Drenched with tear gas and pepper spray, George Retes might have wished that his 137 pounds were back in Kirkuk, Iraq, one of his Army deployments. Herewith a glimpse of your tax dollars at work." wapo.st/3WRMcKG

Opinion | When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran

George Retes is suing the federal government for unconstitutional detention.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Just in: Florida-based Unusual Machines, a little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts. on.ft.com/3WYgkUI

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