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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑
@callyson.bsky.social
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Longtime CA/originally PGH/now NV Leader @SwingLeftReno Politics/fashion/art Fights for American democracy NO DMs unless I know you IRL -- others will be deleted #Resist #Steelers #VoteBlue
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · Sep 9
I did a thing. Hope others find it useful...because we sure AF can't trust the legacy media to deliver the news about what's going on:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Substacks & Podcasts Worth Following
docs.google.com
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h
The Insufferable Liar, JD Vance
Sunday’s talk show circuit revealed the Vice President is willing to lie shamelessly, but he’s just not very good
"Nothing is “making” Donald Trump and Russ Vought cut jobs. This is their way of creating maximum pain for Democrats"
open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Vance asserts that the federal budget is a zero sum game, and that the only two choices are either laying off federal “bureaucrats” or cutting off critical social services and foregoing pay for our troops. Vance would have us believe he actually cares about the plight of low income women getting their food benefits, even though the budget he and his party passed devastates those very benefits. Americans by large margins disapprove of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” precisely because it cuts over a trillion dollars from Medicaid and food stamps for the most vulnerable, all so the GOP can extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts for the super wealthy. Vance says the only solution now is to eliminate even more federal spending and jobs.
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callyson.bsky.social
AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h
"Today the president is taking credit for a cease-fire in Gaza. But who, in America, was first in calling for that exact thing?
Students on campuses.
And what happened to them? They were banned from their own public spaces, all over the country:"
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
open.substack.com
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 15h
They do not want gender-affirming surgeries, while they use species-affirming surgeries to change what nature gave them at birth.

FUCK these losers and hypocrites.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h
Mockler: I think we need to spend more time talking about phase two and the actual peace deal, rather than some Nobel peace prize, when that hasn't been achieved yet.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 20h
everything i’ve read about how this latest ceasefire came about suggests that if you want to credit anyone it should be the qataris for bribing the president enough that he determined he wanted to keep them happy and then using that carrot to demand a change after bibi (insanely) bombed them
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h
It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h
Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h
All too accurate, from @rjmatsoncartoons.bsky.social:
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h
"Trump said that thousands of people running in the streets was a common occurrence in 'Democrat cities,' noting that what happened in Chicago over the weekend has also taken place in New York and Boston"
Resisting the Trump regime is a marathon, not a sprint!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Trump Claims Thousands of Chicagoans Were Seen Running for Their Lives Over Weekend
“You’d run, too, if you were being chased by Antifa.”
open.substack.com
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h
"There is always a risk if you invoke Hitler or Mussolini when talking U.S. politics that people will roll their eyes or dismiss the example as being over the top. But in the case of Donald Trump, you ignore the comparison at your peril"
open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...
Trump is now working to secure one party rule--just like Mussolini and Hitler did
History is screaming at us!
open.substack.com
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callyson.bsky.social
AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h
Columbus:
didn’t actually discover anything new
set the transatlantic slave trade into motion
is responsible for the genocide of the Indigenous people
engaged in and encouraged sexual abuse against Indigenous women
& much more:
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Christopher Columbus
President Trump has vowed to bring Columbus Day ‘back from the ashes.’ But here are some shocking things you may not know about the much-celebrated historical figure behind it.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h
What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose
Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice
www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...
Consider these ten reasons why our forefathers were willing to risk everything to rid themselves of a tyrannical ruler and be free: He has obstructed the Administration of Justice… He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices… He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury… For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us… Sound familiar? It’s almost as if Donald J. Trump and his band of miscreants read this list to prepare their hostile plot to attack our citizens with “repeated injuries and usurpations.”
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h
At a time when energy costs are going up, thanks in no small part to the data centers in the state...
Thanks, Nevada MAGA:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy
Esmeralda 7 in Nevada would have produced enough energy to power 2m homes
www.theguardian.com
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5h
Solidarity is the only way
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h
I'm informed RNO doesn't play videos, so I don't have to worry about that one
Thank you, LAX (see Charlotte's thread for that one)
Hello, SFO?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4h
Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h
"I think the secret as to why this has dragged out so long is the Democratic friends & the mainstream media have been downplaying this shutdown"
Scottie dearie?
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h
I just found out that my favorite independent coffee shop in town will be closing at the end of the month because the greedy owner of the building is rent gouging and
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callyson.bsky.social
AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h
John Oliver Skewers Bari Weiss as He Warns of CBS Shift
"unfortunately, the much bigger answer might be that a billionaire has chosen to inject contrarian right-leaning opinion journalism into an American icon"
At the expense of truth tellers
www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
“She’s been given editorial control of a massive news organization even though she’s never run a TV network, has no experience directing television coverage, and as one 60 Minutes producer pointed out, is not even a reporter,” said Oliver. He went on to further disparage her qualifications, referring to her work both at The Free Press and as a New York Times opinion writer as “deeply misleading.” “I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happen to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News,” said Oliver, “but it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading.” The comedian issued a strong warning to his viewers, urging them that “if you start seeing people resigning or getting fired … it’s worth asking yourself why that might be.”
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
Trump’s own Labor Department quietly admits his immigration crackdown risks ‘supply shock-induced food shortages’ and higher prices
...thanks MAGA:
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1d
George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 5h
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No Kings Day- October 18th
Suggestions for posters
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 5h
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h
ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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