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Carrie, Quite Contrary

@carriequite.bsky.social

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STRONG Atheist, HATE The Orange Idiot, Portland Suburb Resident, T1D 61yrs, Canine Owned, Cuss Alot, Trans Granddaughter, 🚫 Direct Messages, I Don't Know Your Mom=Block. 💙✊ #CommanderCrazyPants #Impeach47 #OrangeIdiot #Resist 🤘🏼Headbanger 💚Cannabis

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

On our way to #NoKings

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's thugs aren't just abducting undocumented immigrants.

More than 170 American citizens — including children — have been detained and assaulted by ICE since he took office.

No one is safe. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainl

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump hosted a dinner this week for donors to his White House ballroom project.

Now he's heading to Mar-a-Lago to host a $1 million-per-person dinner for his super PAC.

Meanwhile, 700,000 federal employees are furloughed, with nearly as many working without pay due to his government shutdown.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

After her partner was detained, leaving her to support two kids by herself, Pérez applied to self-deport.

DHS set a departure date — then went silent. No information, no plane tickets.

Months in, she feels trapped in a country that doesn’t want her.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 8h

Whether you attended #NoKings today in body or spirit PLEASE take the follow-up step of calling your 2 Senators and 1 Congressional Rep to say why you attended and what you expect of them:

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❤️🤍💙 🗽🇺🇸 🚫👑

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10h

“This is what democracy looks like.”
“This is what America looks like.”
NYC

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Halloweean Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 8h

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10h

“This is what democracy looks like.”
“This is what America looks like.”
NYC

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 14h

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11h

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

This doesn’t even include the ones who had pending case but he had their charges dropped.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

So no terrorism then?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Nye: We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is
wrong. They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants. No thrones, no crowns, no king

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14h

Same energy

NYT 1931: HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.

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Comicfoil @comicfoil.bsky.social · 15h

the only orange monarch we want (and a picture of the butterfly)

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Chrys Gorman @chrysgorman.bsky.social · 14h

That's me! Oregon born and raised, standing in solidarity with Portland all the way in Barcelona, Spain.

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Nurse Chapel 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @nurse-chapel.bsky.social · 13h

"All we are saying - -
- - is give peace a chance."
🌺John Lennon

Nurse Chapel 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @nurse-chapel.bsky.social · 18h

There will be paid agitators out there. Some will be there free, just to feed their bigoted bloodlust.

Many of them will be posing as True Resistors.

Don't take the bait.

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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately
History is repeating itself

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks for the pic, @dailycaller.bsky.social !

Be sure to tag me and @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social with your best, most fun #NoKings content!

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 12h

As Californians take to the streets today to stand up against the President’s authoritarian playbook, I urge everyone to stay safe and demonstrate peacefully.

Don’t give in to his provocations. Our strength is in our unity and peace.

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