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Dr. Mar 💙

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Believe women Passionate about truth Profoundly pro-choice Pro-public education Pro-union Science rules Separation of Church/State Dogs/cat lover Character matters Married, 2 children Saw the woman in the marble and chipped away until I set her free.

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · May 25

This administration seems unmoved by art.

There is no Shakespeare in their language, no Baldwin in their conscience, no Springsteen on their radios, no Swift in their playlists.

And when leaders feel nothing for beauty, it’s the soul of a nation that suffers.

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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 8h

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like:
"We need to make people work for more years"
"We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way"
"We have to cut benefits for young people"

never:
"We need to tax the rich"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26m

That is different from what the admin said. They claimed it was coming out of DOD R&D funds. Tariff money cannot be touched by the Trump Regime without congressional approval.

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 10m

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ccc333-05.bsky.social @ccc333-05.bsky.social · 13m

140 billion ICE budget.
No screams about how we will pay for it.
Republicans find police state no questions asked.
But if you take a map of poverty and a map of crime I is the exact match.
140 billion is enough to fund ending homelessness for a decade.
That would do more to curb crime

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 11m

Projection at full force.

He didn’t know what to do then.

He doesn’t know now.

Chaos follows, as always.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 4h

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2h

Please remember that "that's illegal" is a *description*, not a *conclusion*.

The law PROHIBITS people from doing things. It does not PREVENT people from doing things. "Illegal" does not mean "impossible." "Illegal" means "on a list of actions the government can, but is not required, to punish."

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Linda Dominguez (she/her) @lindadominguez.bsky.social · 26m

This would be funny, if it weren’t so sad
#Atticle25

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Lexi "Pro-Democracy" 💙 @lexi6toes.bsky.social · 26m

Now an election denier owns the voting machines. Remember this name. Liberty Vote says its actions will be in “compliance with (Drumps) executive order”

THIS is why the GOP does not care.
They think the fix is in and they will never lose.
How the hell do we fix this?

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

www.cnn.com

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 22m

Paranoia rules the day.

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That Worldly Guy @dullcomp.bsky.social · 24m

The fact that “antifa” is literally nothing more than concept of anti-fascism and people treat it like it’s an organization is hilarious and on par for fascist cowards.

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 31m

Peter Thiel sees Watchmen and One Piece as prophecy:

Ozymandias = antichrist,
Luffy = Christ,

and somehow humanity’s fate hinges on manga pirates.

Billionaire takes fictional comics way too seriously.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 36m

Verbal jujitsu on air: Stephanopoulos cuts JD Vance short as he stonewalls on whether Tom Homan took $50k in an FBI tape. Cowardly deflection, sanctimonious blather, and constitutional nihilism instead of an answer.

'Verbal jujitsu:' ABC host ends interview as JD Vance refuses to answer bribery question

ABC's George Stephanopoulos, a host and former White House Communications Director, shut down an interview with JD Vance after the vice president refused to answer a question about a reported bribery scheme.Vance spoke with Stephanopoulos on ABC, and the host asked questions about reports that "Bord...

www.rawstory.com

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 36m

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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 37m

As I keep saying, via this person's letter to the editor:

bsky.app/profile/davi...

David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 41m

Anyone who is opposed to fascism is Antifa.

www.salisburypost.com/2025/10/07/l...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 4h

I'm gonna assume that a Columbus Day sale means I can just walk into a store and take what I want, right?

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 21h

The only domestic terrorists you need to worry about are those in elected office.

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jlm617.bsky.social @jlm617.bsky.social · 59m

People who are cruel to animals cannot be trusted to be kind to people…

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 41m

She was great.😢

Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 42m

Bondi and others present Antifa as an organized, violent “terrorist” force.

But real analysts and experts treat “Antifa” as a loose, decentralized ideology or movement, not a centrally directed organization, which is exactly what it is.

The gap between framing and structure is a critical one.👇

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 50m

There is no reliable public data to support that magnitude of increase.

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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 1h

NPR: ICE thugs with badges say assaults on them are up sharply since June. The White House hysterically claims assaults are up “1,000%”. There is no evidence whatsoever that these wild claims are true.

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