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Mary Cross 🫘

@ladycross.bsky.social

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Pro democracy. Pets, nature, books, and long walks enrich my life. Buckeye Blue. 🚫 DMs 🚫 crypto or financial advice 🚫 personal entanglements 🚫 gofundme #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

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Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 4d

Please read below. I'll be there. Hoping you will too.

No Kings poster image. Blue a d white lettering. No thrones, no crowns, no kings.

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 5h

Soybean Sorrows...that's hysterical 🤣

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 5h

Like a model posing for the artist 🎨

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 6h

Every wannabe king forgets the same lesson: Americans don’t kneel. The weak call it chaos. The strong call it a wake-up call. The Constitution doesn’t need worshippers. It needs warriors.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is probably causing an increase in crime.

I’m not referring to the many crimes committed by ICE officers—though one certainly could—but to how they’ve enabled criminals by giving them opportunities to impersonate masked ICE officers and by pulling cops off of police work to do harassment.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

🚨BREAKING: 3rd Circuit DENIES Republican Party petition to rehear critical voting rights case involving Pennsylvania’s date requirement for mail-in ballots.

A BIG VICTORY for the DSCC, DCCC, AFT of Pa. and the voters of Pennsylvania. Proud on my ELG team. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections

Learn more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h

Trump WH says its prepared to “ride out” the shut down. That translates to: This was planned. It was never meant to be short…and…oh yeah…we are going to f**k things up even worse during this period of time.

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Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 5h

Vaccinated your kids, please!!!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

Over 1,500 measles cases have been reported in 42 states — a 500% increase from 2024 and the highest count in more than 30 years.
www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 6h

Agree. I've been getting my copy at B&N. So good.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

A judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep. Cory Mills after he was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her.

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Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 6h

So now he's blackmailing Argentinians into voting for a president that has already failed.

apnews.com/article/arge...

Trump threatens to pull support for Argentina if its politics move leftward

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw assistance from Argentina if its internal politics don't align with his interests in upcoming elections.

apnews.com

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 8h

This is how nytimes normalizes Israel’s war crimes.

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Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 8h

That narcissistic bastard and his lapdogs. They better not give him a Nobel. He's destroying the country, committing murder on international waters, and brutalizing immigrants. He doesn't and will never deserve it.

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 9h

Kirk getting a medal of freedom. Unbelievable.

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 9h

Derrick Van Orden (WI) is saying Schumer is afraid that AOC will primary him and that's why Schumer is keeping the government shut down. He's telling some very overt lies. (BBC Americas)

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 9h

This is disgusting 🫣 😤

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 9h

Misogynistic 🫏 🕳

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 9h

When will he realize that he's destabilized the US to a point where China has the upper hand.

#Idiocracy

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 9h

He does look pretty pleased with himself 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛️

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11h

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 9h

Not just a pedo, but a murderer too.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 1d

I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that The Dictator and his pals will stop at nothing to rig the 2026 elections, including declaring martial law & seizing voting machines for phony “recounts.”

We had best start looking at tactics that deal successfully with autocracies.

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

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Mary Cross 🫘 @ladycross.bsky.social · 9h

For once, I'd like reps to do their homework. It's seriously embarrassing. And it's not just in the courts, reps in the house and senate are no better.

BTW, Jordan is a hack who has done nothing of significance in his tenure.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...