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ZiggyStardust

@grancracker.bsky.social

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Lifelong liberal. Resister. The Opposition. #Antifascist #SaveEarth #SaveWildlife #SaveFellowMortals #SaveDemocracy

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ZiggyStardust @grancracker.bsky.social · Nov 22

Liberals are mocked by MAGA as being 'libtards.' A few synonyms for liberal include: Humanistic, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, rational, broadminded, open, advanced, enlightened, unprejudiced. Sounds like something EVERYONE should strive for, right?

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 11h

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low"

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 12h

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/f...

Trump refuses to negotiate
Speaker Johnson refuses to bring House Republicans back in session
Senate Republicans refuse to negotiate

Now this 42 MILLION people could have SNAP BENEFITS CUT..Food for Families and Children
And your insurance premiums rise

Scoop: Trump administration warns of "insufficient funds" for food stamps if shutdown continues

It's the administration's latest warning of painful consequences of a lengthy government shutdown.

www.axios.com

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you Californians
This is how it's done
Canvassing...neighbor to neighbor
Vote YES ON PROP 50 CALIFORNIA

You can also help by phone banking from anywhere
Go to
mobilize.us/cadems

Thank you California
YES ON PROP 50 for all of us

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Mitch Kates @mitchkates.bsky.social · 11h

Whether it’s senility or just plain lying our country is getting more chaotic and dangerous every day.

Tens of thousands losing jobs, millions about to lose their healthcare, and the First Amendment being shredded right before our eyes.

It’s time to show up, speak up and fight back.

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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Government’s shut down. Federal workers aren’t getting paid — some even being fired.
MAGA Speaker Johnson just canceled House votes for yet another week.

And this guy’s out golfing.
You can’t make this 💩 up.

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Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry @chshumanists.bsky.social · 14h

Tired of seeing news about book bans? Us too. Humanism calls on us to take action to improve our world. This 'Banned Book Week" join SHL in fighting book bans in our communities.

#BannedBooksWeek

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Madelyne @madelynerants.bsky.social · 11h

This thoughtful post says so much. Radical optimism will be the thing that saves us. "The stubborn, rigorous work of believing in our better Angels, then proving it."

This guy's a great follow, especially if you find yourself wallowing in the daily torment from the white house. There is still hope.

Clark Kent @clarkfromearthx.bsky.social · 6d

I've seen worlds succumb to the whisper: "Why bother?" That radical nihilism is a poison. It paves the way for strongmen.

My mission is radical optimism. Not naivety. The stubborn, rigorous work of believing in our better angels, then proving it.

#RadicalOptimism #Humanism

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 1d

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 1d

The Republican shutdown puts politics over people, including veterans. Our National Organizer Tristeza Ordex and Sen. Ruben Gallego, both Marine veterans and first-generation citizens, discuss the real-world consequences and the fight ahead for #Arizona and all Americans.

Veterans on the Front Line: Sen. Ruben Gallego

YouTube video by VoteVets

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queltiquegodess.bsky.social @queltiquegodess.bsky.social · 1d

FINALLY legacy media is HONEST re: Charlie Kirk's wretched legacy. Here's a gift article from the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

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Henning Pedersen @hepedk.bsky.social · 1d

🎁 article from The New York Times. You can read it for free

11/10 2025

This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s #CrisisConstruction

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction

www.nytimes.com

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ZiggyStardust @grancracker.bsky.social · 14h

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 15h

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 23h

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trumpdisasters.bsky.social @trumpdisasters.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is shutting the door to the U.S to Black and brown people fleeing war and famine while welcoming white Afrikaners, who are the most wealthy group in South Africa. He’s going to lower the cap on refugees from 125,000 in 2024 to just 7,500. More at www.anothertrumpdisaster.com/immigrant-fa...

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Kristin B. @kristinblanchette.bsky.social · 17h

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 15h

Hey Central #Ohio, there are at least 21 #NoKings events in local towns & villages

Most of them are midday so you could also make the OH Statehouse rally from 4:00 - 5:30 pm

LFG!

Find your event: NoKings.org/#map

c: @ohio50501.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social @commoncauseohio.bsky.social

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 15h

I’d like to know too. Has all this insane bullshit made anyone’s life better?

Answer: NO - HELL NO.

#Pinks
#WorstPresidentEver #25thAmendmentNow

i want to check in with trump voters. i have one very genuine question: it's been 250 days. now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all - has your life gotten better? have your groceries gotten cheaper? has your health insurance premium gone down? has your work/life balance improved? can you take a vacation yet? are you happier? has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would, or are you still waiting?

- Ariana Grande

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

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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ZiggyStardust @grancracker.bsky.social · 1d

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AN AGENT FOR MURDER

You can’t bribe your way to peace. You earn it through humanity and Trump has none

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus

Every day there seems to be a mass shooting

And it still shocks me that Republicans refuse to do anything about it

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Newtown Action Alliance @newtownaction.org · 1d

Barely making the news!

The mass shooting took place in downtown Leland, Mississippi after the local high school's homecoming football game.

According to the Gun Violence Archive there have been more than 330 mass shootings this year.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The small town of Leland, Miss., was rocked by the shooting, which took place late Friday. n.pr/46LOd0X

4 dead and 12 injured in a shooting after Mississippi homecoming game

The small town of Leland, Miss., was rocked by the shooting, which took place late Friday.

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 1d

NoKings.org
For the love of America 🇺🇸

#NoKings | Oct 18th

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 2d

On 10/2, Trump unilaterally slashed foreign farmworkers wages.

At the end of the season, when workers who might protest are no longer in the fields, he cut 400,000 people’s wages by as much as 1/3.

Workers with H-2A visas who earned $19.94 this year will earn $13.90 next year flip.it/ywmNTR

Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers

At the end of the season, he cuts wages of 400,000 workers by a third.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

How it's going in Chicago

After ICE arrested US citizen and WGN Producer Debbie Brockman

Agents driving the white van cut off and hit another car, swarmed the vehicle at gunpoint, dragged out the driver-who is ALSO a citizen-and arrested her, too

Straight up fascism

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8APPaBL/

Agentes de ICE chocan contra el vehículo de una mujer y después la sacan a la fuerza para arrestarla. N Paulina St & W Schubert Ave, Chicago, IL 60614

TikTok video by ¿ Qué Pasa ?

www.tiktok.com

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