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Happily married to my best friend. Proud Minnesotan. She/her. We cannot become complacent. ✊🏻Resist. 💙 all my followers & those I’m following from all around the World! 🌊🌊🌊🌊 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇸🇪🇳🇴🇮🇹🇦🇺🇨🇦… ‼️ I DO NOT FOLLOW THOSE WITH NO POSTS OR REPLIES ‼️

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Senator Merkley Holds the Senate Floor. This is live now. Watch here:

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Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 18d

He should go to court hours before and just sit and wait for them 🤣

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 19d

The demise of our Democracy and the rolling in of this Authoritarian regime is on the Congressional Republicans. Every damn one of them.

Shelby Kent-Stewart @shelbykstewart.bsky.social · 20d

We must never 'move on' from what is arguably the most perilous threat to our country by a sitting President in the history of America.

Please take the time to read this and act accordingly.

Thank you, @dearlstephens.bsky.social

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THE ENEMIES WITHIN

It is incredible that just 48 hours after the most dangerous, anti-American speech ever given by a president, too many have just moved on to the next thing ...

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 19d

Every eyebrow raise, every flicker of doubt, every moment of discomfort was scanned and analyzed by an algorithm designed to detect who would obey orders without question—and who might resist.”
~ And why wouldn’t we believe this could be true?…

Breaking: Trump Used AI to Scan U.S. Generals’ Faces for Loyalty — and to Root Out Whistleblowers

On the Jewish Day of Atonement, America Must Reckon With a President Who Never Repents

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 19d

“The reason Trump and Pete Hegseth gathered all those generals in one room was not just about a loyalty speech or a pep rally. I’m hearing that the Trump team used artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technology during those briefings to monitor the generals’ reactions in real time. ⬇️

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 22d

Those in attendance that hold our Constitution to a higher standing than the bozos on that stage, and I’m sure they’re in a majority, need to go back to their troops and reread the oath they’ve all taken. Somehow they need to help us, the citizens of these United States, take our country back.

birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 22d

Someone get your paperwork ready to submit for suing the administration over not paying these mandatory spending programs.

5 Calls @5calls.org · 22d

FUN FACT: Social Security and Medicare are mandatory spending programs that are unaffected by government shutdowns. So, what they're telling you here is that they *voluntarily* want to stop giving you your money and health care.

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 22d

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 23d

What do you think they’re being offered for their loyalty? His wrath can’t be that bad for so many of them to have fallen to their knees. I fear for what’s to come sooner than expected with Hegseth calling for the military higher ups. The reality of no mid-terms is just a step over the threshold.

birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 23d

Seriously, I’d like to have it be a reporter’s mission to ask every member of Congress if they are really okay with the country being under authoritarian rule. A no answer speaks volumes. They need to go on record and be held accountable if we find our way out of this.

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 24d

This shouldn’t be on the Gen Zs. It is on us.

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 24d

Guys,

I couldn't be more proud of our Gen Zs than I am after watching Adam Mockler explain to Scott Jennings that it's not his responsibility to take responsibility for the president of the United States.

#USDemocracy

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Adam Mockler checks Scott Jennings on Political Violence #politics #new #fyp

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · 24d

Wackadoodle post by our King…

Trump shares apparent AI video promoting ‘medbed’ conspiracy theory

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SusanLynch22 @skyred1250.bsky.social · Sep 20

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · Sep 20

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · Sep 20

Thanks for including me!

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · Sep 20

I was all for it but then realized the scary part of secession is that’s when those of us surviving on SSA would probably stop receiving it 😟

birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · Sep 20

Are you ready to jump?…

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Sep 20

September 19, 2025

Today U.S.

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · Sep 19

Never thought I’d agree with Tucker Carlson and/or Karl Rove on the same day.

September 18, 2025

Since he took office in 2017, President Donald J.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · Sep 18

Support independent media, now more than ever. Not just news and politics, but film, TV, fashion and other cultural criticism and commentary, from podcasts to apps to good old-fashioned web sites. Pay for it. Turn your adblocker off so they can keep the lights on. Share it.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · Sep 17

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · Sep 16

I was introduced to HCR on 9/19/2019. Have been reading her Letters since and learned so very much. Always engaging with intense, thought provoking, and daily conversations with other followers. She is one of my Sheroes and am ever thankful for the sanity she has brought into these tumultuous days.

September 15, 2025

Six years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:

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birdsofafeather55.bsky.social @birdsofafeather55.bsky.social · Sep 13

Why take this so far out of context? This is trump. I hate defending him, but I also don’t believe we need people blowing statements like this out of proportion. He’s talking about beating Dems at the poles. Don’t give him so much credit. His small mind can’t think beyond loosing.