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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Kennedy contributed more towards the current state of the nation than 99.9999% of the population. This is the America he worked for decades to create.
mikesacks.bsky.social Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Sep 27
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
September 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
I already feel it with the tariffs…
September 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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cmhf.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
This kicks ass. Bravo @aft.org @rweingarten.bsky.social 👏👏👏
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
September 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Why are we bailing out Argentina’s economy?
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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robypaula.bsky.social
How long do you think it will be before the DOJ is renamed The Department of Revenge?
September 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.
katiefallow.bsky.social Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · Sep 21
It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
Craig Shirley, a presidential historian and biographer of President Ronald Reagan, said Mr. Trump's experience was so searing that he did not believe the president would improperly restrain others' free speech, whatever his public exhortations. "We all especially know Biden used government to censor Trump, kicking him off many media platforms, a clear violation of the law," Mr. Shirley said. "As his own First Amendment rights were abridged, my guess is he's especially sensitive to anyone else seeing their First Amendment rights taken away."
September 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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augustjpollak.bsky.social
To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Poll: Capitalism is out … and socialism is in
The movement is gaining popularity among Democrats, a left-leaning group found.
www.politico.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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lisalisa42.bsky.social
"the authoritarian's dream"
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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realtexaspaul.com
Why? Why every event do you right wingers do this? Right wing outlet claims 100,000 in attendance and another claims 300,000 in attendance. It's like you people don't know Google exists.
September 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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folkdisstrack.bsky.social
It's pretty telling that some of the most strongly-worded criticisms using the word "fascist," Nazi Germany historical comparisons, etc. have come from members of the first Trump administration.
September 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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michaelianblack.bsky.social
Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?
September 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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tveite.bsky.social
one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them
September 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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atrupar.com
The last two months in which American economy lost jobs were June 2025 and December 2020 -- both while Donald Trump was president. Never happened under Biden.
September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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samyoungman.bsky.social
Questions that should have been asked today:

1. Why is an American president taking election advice from a Russian dictator?

2. Why are you so focused on preventing Americans from voting?

3. You’ve been President for seven
months and Putin has doubled strikes. When does this become your war?
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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depechemodefan101.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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july2022.bsky.social
🤷‍♀️Small donors will contribute to someone they want to win.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/15/m...
Mamdani Nets Record Fundraising Haul While Adams and Cuomo Strike Out on Matching Funds
In the weeks before and after Mamdani’s decisive victory, his campaign raised more than $852,000 and won another $1 million in public matching dollars.
www.thecity.nyc
August 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM