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Proud to be liberal. Living in a blue county in a corrupt red state. No kings, no third term. #BoycottABC #BoycottESPN #BoycottCBS #BoycottDisney

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 24d

It won’t stop with Jimmy Kimmel, would you ever again trust @ABC News to tell a truth Trump doesn’t want us to hear? #BoycottABC.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1h

2-Minute Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Constitution?
open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

2-Minute Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Constitution?

A High-Stakes Test

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t live there, but Chicago is one of my favorite cities on Earth, and I once lived in both Vienna and Milan for a period of years. Stay strong.

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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 3h

Please Help. Repost every NO KINGS POST that you see. Keep the visibility SUPER HIGH. The fascists are scared of this one.

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 3h

Worse, they could pass the agreement in Congress, only to have Trump refuse to spend the money later. Roberts lets Trump get away with that crap.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 4h

He’s wrong. Trump doesn’t give a damn.

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 5h

Gerrymandering at work, the only way a monster like Jordan gets to congress.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 5h

Like the old guy in the nursing home with dementia, screaming about the time he got the wrong order at the deli 40 years ago. There was a guy who actually did that when my grandmother was in one of those places; Trump reminds me of that guy.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 19h

“He [Tiberius] had the soldiers on his side by means of the bounty promised in the name of Augustus and increased by himself.”

(“militem donativo in nomen Augusti promisso et suo addito sibi obstrinxit.”)
— Tacitus, Annals 1.7

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 19h

It’s not just Trump. This is the Republicans from now on.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

The press sure had the brass knuckles on for President Biden.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

To enforce gold quotas, Columbus ordered that those who failed to meet them have their hands cut off and bleed to death. Indigenous people were publicly humiliated, tortured, or executed to instill fear and maintain control.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

Why climate change is irreversible.
www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/...

Scientists resurrect 40,000-year-old organisms from Arctic ice – now they’re worried | Discover Wildlife

Extracted from the walls of a permafrost tunnel, the revived life forms could help researchers understand more about Earth's changing climate.

www.discoverwildlife.com

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

They want a Pope like Innocent III.

In 1209, in the bloody Crusade against the Albigenses, a French army took the town of Beziers, near the Mediterranean coast. The town was put to the sack, but the question arose as to how to tell which of the town's inhabitants were damned heretics and which were good Christians. Simon IV de Montfort (or perhaps a legate of Pope Innocent III) said he had an easy solution. "Kill them all," he said, "for the Lord will know his own." And so several tens of thousands of men, women, and children were killed.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

Neil Young still fighting…

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Neil Young Says to 'Forget' Amazon: 'Soon My Music Will Not Be There'

Neil Young has revealed that he is planning to remove his music from Amazon, the latest battle in the rocker’s ongoing war against Big Tech.

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

Worth the read….

I'll always remember where I was on Oct. 10, 2025, the day Donald J. Trump was viciously denied the Nobel Peace Prize. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

If a humanitarian like Trump doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, who does? | Opinion

I'll always remember where I was on Oct. 10, 2025, the day Donald J. Trump was viciously denied the Nobel Peace Prize.

www.usatoday.com

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

Is this real? They probably thought that, but would never admit it.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said it would be an insult to the United States if he didn’t win the Nobel Prize. I’m an American, and I don’t feel insulted at all.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

Harry Truman on Republicans, 1948…

Since they won't tell you themselves, I'll tell you...
• They approve of the American farmer-but they are willing to help him go broke.
• They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
• They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
• They favor a minimum wage--the smaller the minimum the better.
• They indorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They approve of social security benefits-so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade--so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing-but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful--but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices"--but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much they’d like to buy it.

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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 1d

I am so grateful to @connieschultz.bsky.social for her endorsement. This campaign is honored to have you with us.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 2d

Our friend and neighbor—and Ohio’s next governor—got to meet Walter and Franklin today. Proud to stand with you, Amy Acton.

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly never heard of this guy. Who cares what he thinks?

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

We can see Rowan’s twisted take anywhere, why do you have to give him yet another platform.

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Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 1d

I still haven’t been paid for the No Kings rally back in June.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 2d

I guess you have to pretend to be a Democrat once in a while, since you run as one to get elected.

Opera Joe 🎼🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘 @operajoe.bsky.social · 2d

Does Stephen Miller know that H.R. Haldeman served his time at Lompoc Federal Prison, and was forced to work in sewage disposal there?