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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 6h

I don't say this often, but good for Oklahoma.

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New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools

Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 6h

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JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers has prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be remov...

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 6h

This is nuts. We have no reason or right to go to war against Venezuela.

trump "confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and said he was weighing carrying out land operations on the country."

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Trump confirms the CIA is conducting covert operations inside Venezuela

President Donald Trump has confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 1d

At $20 billion, this bailout was outrageous. How did it get to $40 billion?
Why are we bailing out Argentina when so many fundamental programs for Americans are being destroyed?

Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 1d

Republicans claim we can't afford Social Security and Medicare.

They're giving a $40,000,000,000 bailout to Argentina.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 7h

This is an outstanding (free) column by Jennifer Rubin. In it, she details why we protest against this regime.

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Mike Johnson Calls No Kings Protestors ‘Terrorists’

GOP panic rises as millions prepare to turn out on Saturday

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 18h

With rate increases like this, a lot of people are not going to be able to continue to afford medical insurance. This article is about Pennsylvania, but it’s probably representative of other states as well. This is what Democrats in Congress are trying to prevent.

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Sticker shock: Pennie expects Obamacare premiums to soar even more than first feared

The end of enhanced Obamacare subsidies could be even more costly than initially feared for Pennsylvanians who use the health insurance program. Pennie, the state’s Affordable Care Act health in...

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 19h

If you have access to the Post…

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Opinion | Trump’s war on ‘the enemy within’ keeps running into a legal buzzsaw

Lower courts are rejecting the president’s claims of rebellion to use the military on U.S. soil.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 19h

The inconsistency of the trump regime with regard to defending Ukraine has been maddening, but I’m fully supportive of providing whatever support Ukraine needs.

This is a gift article link.

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U.S. pushes Russia to negotiate as Hegseth warns Moscow of ‘costs’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pushing for Tomahawk missiles as the Trump administration tries to prod Russia into talks on ending the war.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 19h

“Although they produce a fraction of what full-size power plants generate, a nuclear reactor that fits on the back of a flatbed truck could … fuel a small town or military base without needing to refuel regularly.”

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Opinion | The military’s big gamble on small nuclear reactors

The U.S. Army’s plan to deploy microreactors could be crucial after attacks on the electric grid.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 19h

“Although they produce a fraction of what full-size power plants generate, a nuclear reactor that fits on the back of a flatbed truck could … fuel a small town or military base without needing to refuel regularly.”

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Opinion | The military’s big gamble on small nuclear reactors

The U.S. Army’s plan to deploy microreactors could be crucial after attacks on the electric grid.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 19h

Wow. How did I not know this?

“The Mariners are the lone MLB team, the only one, that has never even reached the World Series.”

I now have a rooting interest in the playoffs. Go Mariners!

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 1d

"When your team finally wins, when the dream you desperately wished for as a child comes true, it can feel as important and pivotal any life event," @williamfleitch.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4ojL529

Opinion | In Seattle, there is crying in baseball

But it’s the good kind.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 20h

Despicable. Hegseth seems to have the same regard as trump for what’s lawful and what isn’t. Zero.

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How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a shame this article on the CNN site is for subscribers only. This seems to me to be a gross misapplication of federal law enforcement assets.

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Gun crime cases fall as agents shift to immigration crackdown | CNN

ATF is just one of several federal law enforcement agencies that have felt a notable impact on normal duties while assisting with the immigration mission, a CNN review has found.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 1d

Karen Tumulty's column:

"Though many believe moderation and modulation are the ways for Democrats to repair their tattered brand, Pritzker has claimed that anything less than waging a full-throated battle against Trump is 'moral abdication.'"

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Analysis | Pritzker finds his place at the ramparts of the Trump resistance

The Illinois governor and potential Democratic presidential candidate is waging a full-throated campaign against Trump and his administration’s incursions into the state.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget office headed by Russ Vought is deciding who gets paid or fired in an unpreceden...

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 1d

Note: The spill in the title happened in 2015.

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Trump officials back firm in fight over California offshore oil drilling after huge spill

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump officials back firm in fight over California offshore oil drilling after huge spill

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 1d

He's such an ass. He revels in dividing us, and in punishing anyone who doesn't worship him.

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Trump threatens to yank World Cup games from Boston though it's up to FIFA to choose sites

President Donald Trump is threatening to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston.

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DemCatsGT 💙✌️🍩⚾️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦 @demcatsgt.bsky.social · 1d

I thought this was ... interesting. I think these people are misled and that the speakers' views tend to be appalling, but they undoubtedly think the same of me.

Note that it's "written and produced by Religion News Service" and "distributed" by the Associated Press.

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