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Gary R Simonds

@garys79.bsky.social

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Author, Speaker, Educator, Has-Been Neurosurgeon Asheville NC Married Would prefer to discuss life, books, kindness, wellness, wonder. Instead I spend hours a day opposing a mad king. But here we are. RESIST! Good Trouble! https://garyrsimonds.com

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 12d

Some concern out there that many people in the military are very conservative and quite a few voted for trump.
All I can tell you is that in my 15 years with the army, soldiers took very seriously their oath to the constitution and NOT to any individual.
Let's hope that hasn't changed.

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 1h

I doubt she has any sense of how hideous she is

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2h

“I never dreamed of anything like this."

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2h

Work harder and die

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2h

Our volunteers are so creative :')

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

25th amendment time

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

25th amendment time

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

LOVE IT!!!!

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

LOVE IT!!!

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

Amen
No time like the present to start

Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 21h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

THIS

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

THIS

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23h

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

The "plaintiffs" seeking to dismantle the Voting Rights Act (in a case this week at SCOTUS) include:

-a member of the "Trumpettes," a group of women who ardently support for the president
-a retiree who said he didn’t remember signing up to be involved in a lawsuit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

One woman made national news when she protested the Covid-19 vaccine at her local City Council. Another is a member of the Trumpettes, a group of women united in their ardent support for the president. A third is a retired grocery salesman who said he didn’t remember signing up to be involved in a lawsuit.

The three are among the 12 Louisiana voters at the center of a case set to be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday that could gut what remains of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark civil-rights-era legislation.

In January 2024, the group filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Louisiana’s congressional district map, arguing state lawmakers had discriminated against them as white voters by impermissibly taking race into account when they drafted the map after the 2020 census.

Since then, they’ve been referred to in court filings merely as the “non-African-American” voters.

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

I'm shocked. SHOCKED

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

I'm shocked. SHOCKED

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

JD Vance blames Chuck Schumer for the fact that the White House mistakenly laid off key public health officials, including those dealing with measles and ebola.
The Trump regime's message is: We demand total power, but we're not responsible for anything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

TAxation without representation

Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 3h

TAxation without representation

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

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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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 7h

need Sunday reading? explore what's on the ballot next month!

I put together the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.

so explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

and let me highlight three under-radar races, in 🧵 below. ⬇️

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 7h

1️⃣ We don't talk much about COUNTY EXECUTIVE races, but a bunch of swing counties in Pennsylvania are holding theirs.

In 2021, the GOP flipped the executive’s office in Erie County for the first time in decades; Dems now competing to flip it back. Meanwhile Dems defending Lehigh & Northampton.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6h

2️⃣ Every seat is up in VA & NJ's lower chambers, but there's also a 3rd chamber with majority at play, at least on paper: Minnesota's Senate is now 34-33 Dem with 2 vacancies to be filled in November. Democrats favored to defend a blue-leaning seat and keep chamber, but still worth watching.

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