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Rob Bluebird

@bobbradysd1.bsky.social

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Stop project 2025 Liberal/Progressive Retired 22yr Corrective & Therapeutic Massage and Deep-Muscle Therapist. Intersectional Activism. Advocate. Grounded. Healthy. Holistic. Cats @35 yr Sobriety since 1981 TBI Survivor . Resilience Truth Seeker in SoCal

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · Feb 9

I just read a great reminder from mariaressa.bsky.social :

Don't swim in the sewer of social media.

Point is: Do Not Lose HOPE

I needed this

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 1m

So is California and other blue states. It's got to be a crapshoot at this stage I (we) guess ..

Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 10m

President Barack Obama:
Important parts of his speech on a YouTube comment ::

Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 7h

North Carolina Is Latest GOP-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Legislative leaders formally scheduled a vote for next week to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts — an extreme, mid-decade power grab ..

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest GOP-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 9h

The list of News outlets saying NO to the Pentagon's rules of how they publish has grown to at least 39.

The back pedaling is just hilarious to how they're reacting to the pushback!

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 12h

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
To capture a democratic nation, authoritarians must control three sources of power: the intelligence agencies, the justice system, and the military ..

Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 7d

This article by @radiofreetom.bsky.social is a must read for all those wearing the uniform, but as importantly for all those wanting to maintain our Constitutional republic.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Lizzie @lizziep43.bsky.social · 13h

Followed all. Please vet and follow back. Thank you!

tammy jo 🔥 @tammyjo408.bsky.social · 22h

follow, share this pack from @bannerite.bsky.social

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 13h

"Multiple Texas airports are refusing to play video from DHS’ Noem blaming Democrats for government shutdown" was first published by The Texas Tribune that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues ..

www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

Red state airports now defying DHS’ Kristi Noem and refuse to play partisan video

Multiple Texas airports are refusing to play video from DHS’ Noem blaming Democrats for government shutdownBy Marijke Friedman, The Texas TribuneOct. 14, 2025"Multiple Texas airports are refusing to p...

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 19h

Over 700,000 southern Arizonans still don’t have representation in Congress, more than three weeks after we elected @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Democracy means honoring the will of the people. Speaker Johnson must do the right thing and swear her in so she can get to work.

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks for using your platform to Speak Out ..

We are United!

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That man from Kent @nbrown1000.bsky.social · 22h

This is absolutely on point 👇👇

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Agree 💯 With Truth Telling
Jasmine Crockett.......

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 18h

Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent

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

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 18h

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape ..

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

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 19h

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 19h

Expert details how to bring 'Trump and his thugs' to justice

The law doesn't apply to Trump & his allies. That is a particularly threatening type of lawlessness.
-essence of Nuremberg: a new law that responds to lawlessness
- need a new institution to enforce it

www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

'Desire for retribution': Expert details how to bring 'Trump and his thugs' to justice

We are witnessing lawlessness on a scale none of us has seen in our lifetimes. It’s so bad that over the weekend, even Kamala Harris was forced to admit she’s lost faith in the American system of just...

www.alternet.org

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 21h

There are millions of kids who are counting on us ..

griffyn12.bsky.social @griffyn12.bsky.social · 21h

Democracy Defender in AZ @4ourposterity.bsky.social · 1d

Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 21h

‘Vertical Morality’ Might Describe Why MAGA Christians Seem So Unchristian

This framework reveals why some MAGA-aligned Christians act in ways that contradict Jesus’ teachings ..

www.huffpost.com/entry/vertic...

What Drives MAGA Christians' Un-Christian Actions? Experts Say It Comes Down To This.

This framework reveals why some MAGA-aligned Christians act in ways that contradict Jesus’ teachings.

www.huffpost.com

Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 21h

Judge accuses Homeland Security of bullying states into accepting conditions to get FEMA money

- conditions that require them to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get disaster funding after he ruled earlier that those actions were unconstitutional ..

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Judge accuses Homeland Security of bullying states into accepting conditions to get FEMA money

A federal judge in Rhode Island has accused the Trump administration of trying to “bully” states into accepting conditions that require them to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get disa...

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 22h

I knew all that press was smoke and mirrors on Monday ..

Just had to wait for the updated news ~

Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 22h

Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 22h

(Not) Electing a Felon was a mistaken assumption ~

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 22h

Pritzker:
"You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up.

There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 23h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him 500 miles out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 23h

~ This is FASCISM ~

A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance ..

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

www.youtube.com

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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 23h

A Statement from NPR on the Pentagon's Press Policy

NPR will never be party to limitations on the independence of the press and the objective, fact-based reporting of our journalists ..

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 1d

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