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Devin Swanson

@monpoteledevin.bsky.social

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Former entrepreneur. Most of my university studies & research, & international travel involved two deadly viruses: HIV, & fascist movements. I am a lifelong fighter for freedom, equality, all civil & human rights. 🚫 maga 🚫bots 🚫crypto

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Devin Swanson @monpoteledevin.bsky.social · Dec 15

Our fiercest adversaries' goal is to take out the US dollar & US hegemony. Period. He's giving aid & comfort to that effort, in plain sight, for all of us to see, if our eyes are open wide enough.📍

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · Dec 15

CEO's and business execs hoping to dissuade Donald Trump from enacting what they and many economists believe will be ruinous tariffs are finding he won't budge and that has them scrambling to find a way to get through to him.

www.rawstory.com/trump-ceos-t...

Panicked CEO's left 'scratching their heads' as Trump ignores their warnings: WSJ

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Devin Swanson @monpoteledevin.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, someone finally photographed that crusty, stinky, treasonous, wicked Qween in a way that really captures her pouty, spoiled, corrupt, prissy, obnoxious essence. Even Queen Victoria was more of a strongman than donald "Dumpy the day one dictator" trump.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Destruction equipment at the White House today.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2d

Brief reminder (in case we start attacking Venezuela at any moment): We're not at war with Venezuela. They don't in any way pose a serious national security threat to us. They have an odious leader and a terrible regime. But if that were grounds to attack another nation we would be in deep trouble.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone know the proper etiquette for how long a widow should wear black leather while mourning her husband?

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · Oct 1

This is a coordinated government gaslighting operation.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Oct 1

The VA is joining all the other agencies blaming democrats for the shut down - when in fact - republicans can fund the government without a single democratic vote.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 1

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b

LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

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Devin Swanson @monpoteledevin.bsky.social · Oct 2

He's speaking from personal, friendly AF experience as neighbors & close friends & associates, too, so he knows but there's far, far more he's not sharing. Is Lutnick also a pedo?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Oct 1

Lutnick on Epstein:

Devine: So how come these other people could hang around him and not see it?

Lutnick: They participated. That's what his M.O. was, "Get a massage" And what happened in that massage room, I assume is on video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That's how he had money.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · Sep 30

This is SO important!

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 30

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Sep 30

The GOP will go to any lengths to cover for Trump, even if it’s just a freudian slip. 👇

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · Sep 30

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · Sep 30

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!

314 Action @314action.bsky.social · Sep 30

Trump's launch of an unregulated direct-to-consumer website one day before 100% tariffs on pharma products go into effect is no coincidence.

TrumpRX is just another scam aimed at lining his own pockets at the cost of Americans' health.

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Exclusive | White House to Announce ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Website, Deal With Pfizer

President Trump is expected to unveil the measures with Pfizer’s CEO on Tuesday.

www.wsj.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · Oct 1

Needs to be REPOSTED.

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Oct 1

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Devin Swanson @monpoteledevin.bsky.social · Oct 1

The grossest, sickest, least humane, & it's also THE TACKIEST ERA EVER!!!

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · Sep 30

We remain in the dumbest timeline.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 30

This is the cringiest MF on the planet. He’s actually saying this to our most senior military officers from around the world.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · Oct 1

100% gaslighting by the press.

West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · Oct 1

West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Republicans are “unified in the belief that this is an easy choice” to fund the government with a stopgap bill that doesn’t include any contentious or political provisions.

Midnight federal shutdown edges closer as US Senate fails to agree on spending bills • West Virginia Watch

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate failed to advance two short-term government funding bills Tuesday when Democrats and Republicans deadlocked for the second time this month, with just hours to go before a…

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michaelmcroc.bsky.social @michaelmcroc.bsky.social · Oct 1

We have taxation without representation now. That GOP Congress has given up it’s power and responsibility to the President who is laying his tariff taxes on us. This is wrong. Mad King George III or Mad King Donald I, is there a difference?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Oct 1

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · Oct 1

The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776.

Yup.
Give it a read…

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Oct 1

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

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Devin Swanson @monpoteledevin.bsky.social · Oct 1

True & I try to take that into account, but then again, most people by now know the word & how to "google".

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · Sep 30

Strange how all the media that carried stories attacking PM Trudeau because of his stronger climate policies are now attacking PM Carney because the authors claim he is not doing enough.
Seriously people, the media is almost useless, nothing but click bait and propaganda.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Oct 1

Why did the GOP shut down the government? Oh, that’s right—because Fat Satan demanded it.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · Sep 30

This is just sadistic & pure, unadulterated misogyny.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Sep 30

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

When miscarriages become crimes

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

www.motherjones.com

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Devin Swanson @monpoteledevin.bsky.social · Oct 1

Washington state has resisted adopting this REAL ID BS for these & other reasons. The oligarchy knows that a reckoning shall come for those leeches & thieves, so they're building out a federalized American putinesque style authoritarian police state, using our tax dollars AGAINST US.

amyoc 🍂 🍁 🍃 @amyoc.bsky.social · Sep 30

Ice is arresting Americans who have the Real ID that the government has said that we must have so that they know we are here legitimately

So what the hell is up with that?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 30

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?

It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Oct 1

“Pete Hegseth won’t allow us to join the army anymore, but he did say we’re qualified for ICE. It’s probably because of my beard.”

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · Oct 1

hiring is tanking www.marketwatch.com/story/adp-sa...

ADP says businesses cut jobs for third time in four months as labor market takes turn for worse

Privately run businesses eliminated jobs in September for the third time in four months, ADP said, in another sign of hiccups in the labor market that alarmed the Federal Reserve enough to cut interes...

www.marketwatch.com

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