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Kat Denise

@katpic57.bsky.social

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I dissent! Independent Thinker, Spoo Lover 🐩 ...with Liberty & Justice for all! Freedom requires effort; speak up. If not now, when? Resist normalizing insanity. Social Democrat. United we’ll stand.🫶 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fatally so. Inferring the GOP does know how to leverage social media algos to their advantage? Holy hell, boy if that’s not the understatement of the decade! The GOP is engaged in INFORMATION WARFARE…weaponized LIES! Until this FACT is acknowledged, broadcast & mitigated, democracy is doomed. 🚩🚩🚩

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12m

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 11m

Winning? smh

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16m

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also said earlier that the ongoing government shutdown is costing the economy "up to $15 billion a day." https://to.pbs.org/4qtXra7

WATCH: Bessent says Trump still expects to meet Chinese leader as trade tensions increase

Resurgent trade tensions have threatened ongoing negotiations over tariffs between the U.S. and China.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15m

"Everything they do is extremely violent."

Greta Thunberg on Israel:

Excerpt of greta thunberg article in link below

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15m

"War is peace"

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17m

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a religious event in Sderot: "There will be Jewish settlement in Gaza! Because without settlement there is no security… For the glory of Israel! Because it is ours."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Trump didn’t light the fire overnight. He’s been turning up the heat slowly, hoping we won’t notice until we’re already cooked.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 57m

Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 56m

Violence against intimate partners IS very serious

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 33m

In America we don’t do kings!

Oct 18th! Be there for the love of our country! ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

Be counted! Stand up! Speak out! Be loud!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 55m

Trump’s power depends on maintaining the illusion that he’s all-powerful, and that Americans adore him.

But that illusion is harder to maintain if millions of people are in the streets protesting.

This is why Republicans are trying to discredit No Kings Day rallies before they've even happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 54m

Hey, so this is a bit terrifying

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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snkscoyote @snkscoyote.bsky.social · 16h

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@cherijacobus.bsky.social

Trump's fake bots & trolls normalize for MAGA inciting violence and using military against Americans

YouTube video by Cheri Jacobus

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 41m

“Don’t judge me for being a horrible person.” 🥴

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 54m

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 46m

🫶 #Mamdani #NYC 🍎

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 53m

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 53m

JD Vance’s unwillingness to condemn the Nazi GOP groupchat provides the press corps yet another opportunity to probe his personal associations, and take note of how the whole administration exists to please them and make sadistic content go viral. www.offmessage.net/p/governing-...

Governing For The Gram

Republicans are obsessed with finding non-existent connections between Democrats and "the violent left" Meanwhile...

www.offmessage.net

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 50m

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 50m

I’m sure. Yikes. 💔 I hadn’t heard of him before 2016. But then I saw the threat & knew I had to get better informed so I could better understand what was happening. Now it’s tantamount to a full time job, given the information war and fascist tactics of the Right engaged in. It’s insane.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 58m

I’m trying to tell you that when you repeat his lies without providing any/enough clarification, correction & context, those folks who never read articles, but do GLANCE at headers (most ppl) walk away w/ his lie. Begging you to quit doing this. You’re too big a platform to be this irresponsible.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

Karl Marx: "The theory of communism can be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: The Trump regime is systematically turning private companies into government-owned companies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

EISEN: What do you say to people who say the government taking stakes in private companies and picking winners and losers sound socialist?

BESSENT: We're not going to come in and takes stakes in non-strategic industries, but we've identified seven industries

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1h

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Consider most Americans have never even heard of the name Leonard Leo!

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bemoangamble.bsky.social @bemoangamble.bsky.social · 2h

Too bad Leo & Calabresi & their Federalist Society attorneys who conduct the legal research to select the cases & write the motions for Trump’s incompetent attorneys to present to the SCOTUS are never interviewed by the media. Journalists need to interview the puppeteers instead of the puppets.

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Norm Hill @normhill.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile they are gerrymandering the people of Arizona legal choice. To avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Makes you wonder how many little children donald trump molested and abused to make them want to cover it up this much.And this far

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 3h

HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act