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Mark Somers

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A strong, fair, and just economy is like a tide that raises all boats and ducks. Sorry about the duck thing. I'll just duck out now. A website about writing I manage. https://www.screenwritingforums.com/ #voteblue I'm not really a duck. Or am I?

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Mark Somers @marksomers.bsky.social · Aug 16

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luckiiyu7.bsky.social @luckiiyu7.bsky.social · 13h

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 13h

Every time someone drops into my comments asking about a general strike, I have to remind folks that unlike in Europe we have at will employment here allowing essentially anyone to be fired at any time for any reason, and health insurance tied to employment.

The amount of organizing

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

I think the only thing Chief Justice John Roberts and I both enjoy is a gay dinner party on Martha's Vineyard. Glory!

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 8h

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Emtcub @cumpigcub.bsky.social · 8h

Occupy Democrats

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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 23h

Russia and China are scrambling to dominate the high north. Shipping lanes, oil, gas, vast territorial sees. NATO needs to step up its game in the Arctic, led by the United States and Canada. www.wsj.com/world/inside...

Inside the West’s Race to Defend the Arctic

Sailors scanned for icebergs on a nine-day journey to the U.S.’s northernmost military installation this summer—part of an effort to erode Russia’s vast advantage in the region.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of people have made fun of this post but she is way closer to the truth than the genre of weirdo who gets mad at irony and jokes about fascism and thinks that we can only respond to it with earnest outrage

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Celia Holup @celiaholup.bsky.social · 23h

Janice Mead approaches retirement - cat lady, HR Manager & Serial killer. Great reviews of #PeoplePersonnel at Literary Titan wp.me/p3cyvH-BM8& & Interview wp.me/p3cyvH-CkB & at amzn.to/3FTbuDs 😻 #HR #CatLady #SerialKiller #Comedy #Whitstable #BookSky #BookTok

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 21h

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 9h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Mark Somers @marksomers.bsky.social · 9h

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The Order of Blood - Hitler's Exclusive Brotherhood

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 17h

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 9h

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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 1d

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 21h

RFK Jr.’s attack on mRNA vaccines will cost lives
HHS shouldn't pull the plug on vaccine breakthroughs. If RFK is successful in rolling back any vaccine’s approval, many will suffer and die. Using children as his guinea pigs is unconscionable. He must be removed.
www.salon.com/2025/10/11/r...