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Lizzie Brahms
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Background in political science. Former editor. Classical music fan. Ex-Republican, now Independent. Principles over party. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 Remember, it's still the "Gulf of Mexico," no matter what he says.
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 15
For more information on the religio-political activities of Peter Thiel, watch "Silicon Valley and the Antichrist Playbook":
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The Antichrist Playbook: Peter Thiel & Silicon Valley Apocalypse Hype
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 21
"Why Authoritarians Fear Women" with Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Why Authoritarians Fear Women w/ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 19
Sen. Lummis (R) certainly won't stop him: “Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right. And that there should be almost no checks and balances on it. I don’t feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries
One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 19
Sen Lummis (R-Wy): “Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right. And that there should be almost no checks and balances on it. I don’t feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries
One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”
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Harry👊🇺🇸🔥 @scondrasht.bsky.social · Sep 18
You don’t like what you see on television? Change the channel. No one is forcing you to watch. To cancel someone because they spoke their mind is un-American. To celebrate someone getting censored by the government is un-American.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 17
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 15
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · Sep 15
The GOP's idea of free speech means only if they agree with what you are saying. If they don't they will then try to silence you using government action, threats and getting you fired from your job.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Sep 15
The Pope is exactly right.

No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the vast majority struggle to just survive — trying to put food on the table, pay rent and afford health care.

We can and must do better.
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 15
Trump will always stand by Patel. Why? 1) Patel is willing to do anything and everything Trump wants him to do. 2) Patel has seen the Epstein files. He has the goods on Trump.
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 15
Trump will always stand by Patel. Why? 1) Patel is willing to do anything and everything Trump wants him to do. 2) Patel has seen the Epstein files. He has the goods on Trump.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 15
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · Sep 15
First, on economic security. We need to treat economic security as a national security priority—because it is.

I believe in my bones that the existential threat to the United States is the shrinking middle class here at home.
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 15
Dear Channel 4, please make it available here! Upload it to YouTube for all Americans to see.
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 15
Dear Channel 4, please make it available here! Upload it to YouTube for all Americans to see.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 15
Why didn’t anyone immediately follow up with “what’s the population of the United States?”
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 15
Not sure 54 is "old age" -- more like "middle age." But point taken. He's beclowned himself for nothing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 15
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · Sep 15
We've learned from history that if you don't immediately and loudly counter the right's narrative, it will take hold.
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Paul Bae @paulbae.bsky.social · Sep 14
About once a month I find this song stuck in my head and I wish this was a real band.
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Sep 15
For more information on the religio-political activities of Peter Thiel, watch "Silicon Valley and the Antichrist Playbook":
youtu.be/KegSMO9XcIY?...
The Antichrist Playbook: Peter Thiel & Silicon Valley Apocalypse Hype
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
youtu.be
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Aug 5
Red sculpture of Trump briefly installed in Midtown Manhattan:
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Red sculpture of Trump briefly installed in Midtown Manhattan
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Aug 5
This SNL skit from 5 years ago is shockingly relevant to the present: youtube.com/watch?v=3c5n...
Alan Dershowitz Argues for Trump Cold Open - SNL
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Lizzie Brahms @lizziebrahms.bsky.social · Aug 2
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Republicans, You Support Pardoning Sex-Traffickers? | Stuart Stevens
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billbramhall.bsky.social @billbramhall.bsky.social · Jul 14
Cartoon
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 11
Kim: I'm very concerned that if a hurricane hits, are we going to have to be begging Kristi Noem to be able to get off Instagram, to be able to actually go and do her job
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