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Ben Franklin Warned Us
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🔵 in red state, Husband to a good wife who puts up with me, father of 3 and 1 in-law, soon to be grandpa, sibling of 13, and am dumbfounded on how close we are to Germany of the 1930s.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Court sets December 5th hearing in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia to hear arguments in Letitia James's motion to DISMISS her prosecution for "vindictive prosecution"
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h
They said make it great.
Instead, they made it gross.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23h
When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
It’s been over 2 weeks since AOC said Stephen Miller was weak and puny. Fox is still talking about it.
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michelle mccann @michellemccann.bsky.social · 2d
gmail just flagged a notification from google calendar as suspicious.

my dude, the call is coming from inside the house.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
A judge ruled Thursday to weaken Virginia’s felony disenfranchisement law, holding that the state’s restrictive policy likely violates federal law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Major Win for Voters, Judge Set to Weaken Virginia Felony Disenfranchisement Law
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d
We’ve become a bad joke.
A tweet from No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen says, “This is not satire, by the way.” It quotes an earlier tweet from the same account that claims, “The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.” Below are three images: a serious portrait of a man in a suit, The New York Times logo, and Mike Lindell (the MyPillow founder) holding one of his pillows and smiling.
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Winnowing @morganafare.bsky.social · 2d
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Jill 💙🌊🌊💙 @pumpkin061.bsky.social · 1d
D-Day today!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d
Women are being erased at the Pentagon. Women are being erased from history. And now a woman has been erased from the desecrated White House.
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)
A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
"There's no fear today" -- it's a love fest for Letitia James outside the courthouse after she pleaded not guilty
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 1d
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Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 1d
Vote them ALL OUT in 2026 !
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Tara Palmeri @tarapalmeri.bsky.social · 2d
The more people see Epstein’s crimes through the eyes of a survivor, the harder it becomes to accept that Ghislaine Maxwell could ever be pardoned. @underthedesknews.bsky.social
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John E Warren 🤠🐝♿️ @floppyadult.com · 2d
Your cost of living and health insurance skyrocketing is the reason you can no longer afford AAA video games the day they come out, not the price of the games themselves.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d
NEW — Video footage obtained by The TRiiBE shows federal agents pulling Laugh Factory Night Manager Nate Griffin as he holds on to a scaffold.

Bystanders screamed at the agents, saying "Show your face," as they detained Griffin.

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Laugh Factory worker detained by federal agents on Chicago’s North Side • The TRiiBE
Two people were detained by federal agents Friday morning at Broadway and Belmont Avenue on Chicago’s North Side.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 1d
That 30% “Better” is all cult members. But wtf is that 18% “Same”…? Did they interview dead people?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d
In Oakland, California, an ICE GOON shot a local clergyman point-blank.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 1d
Medicare for All is about one simple idea: that no matter who you are, healthcare is there for you when you need it.
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Ellenⓥ🌱 @ennievegan.bsky.social · 2d
President Barack Obama looking out at the Rose Garden, moments after it had begun to rain (October 15, 2014)
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d
Gone. Along with all sense of propriety and proportionality.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d
"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d
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