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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 6h

Day #267 #proudblue

Anyone see a GO☭ pattern yet?

President Bush under mission accomplished sign

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Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 6h

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Iris May @missmayfieldak.bsky.social · 1d

From Kotzebue to Kipnuk, the public school is open and IS the shelter for communities during this (and many other) flooding/natural disaster events.
Superintendents & staff are working so hard to ensure people are safe.
#AlaskaSky #PubicEducation

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 5h

Sullivan votes in support of killing suspected drug smugglers without trial; Murkowski opposed, reports James Brooks for the @alaskabeacon.com

Sullivan votes in support of killing suspected drug smugglers without trial; Murkowski opposed | Alaska Beacon

Last week, Alaska US Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski split on whether to bring President Trump's use of force to a vote of the full U.S. Senate.

alaskabeacon.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 6h

Dipshit over here just threatening to withhold the billions of dollars he just agreed to if people in a foreign country vote for someone other than who he wants.
He's up to about four impeachable offenses per week now.
Election interference in a foreign country is a BIG one.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

A 15-year-old girl was assaulted while alerting her community about ICE raids. The Department of Homeland Security denies any involvement, ICE misrepresents the footage, and then continuously alters its narrative.

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 16h

Pin Up Of The Week

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 9h

This is what happens when big money entities start influencing politics. This is why Citizens United should have been left in place. When they opened the floodgates of money, super-influencing of America began. Now corporate entities are trying to control small-town newspapers. Bastards. #Oligarchy

Health Care Renewal @healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 5d

Corporate media bowing to Trump etc: 4 journalists for AK Carpenter Media Group papers quit after it "made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death" which called him a “Christian-Nationalist icon", after "pressure from a Republican state lawmaker" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 9h

I am absolutely thrilled with this.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Aug 8

DFP poll finds Mary Peltola (D) with a startlingly huge lead in final round of an Alaska governor's race against GOP frontrunner Nancy Dahlstrom, 65% to 35%.

A Senate race against GOP Senator Dan Sullivan would be pretty much tied up (they find 46/45). www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/8/...

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 9h

In the rich boy's magazine, they soft shoe it well for him, making it all sound like what he is doing is somehow "normal". The whole financial industry helping the coup happen by not speaking out against the unconstitutionality of it all. What he's proposing is illegal.
fortune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Bessent’s big gamble on Argentina has a narrow road to pay off | Fortune

In 1992 Bessent’s analytical work helped George Soros win $1 billion by betting against the British pound. Now he’s essentially on the opposite side.

fortune.com

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 9h

Again, is anyone else bothered by the fact that Scott Bessent is willing to steal from American taxpayers to fix his bad investing decisions/actions. Anyone? (hopefully everyone).

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump’s gamble on Argentina looms over IMF-World Bank summit

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a “framework” for a deal to provide U.S. financing to Argentina through a $20 billion currency swap.

www.politico.com

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 9h

Scott Bessent's personal problems are being bailed out by
"WE THE PEOPLE"...you know, U.S. Taxpayers.

He thinks it's okay to steal from us, to help his problems. That's how I look at this action. It's not approved by Congress, per the U.S. Constitution.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bailing-ou...

Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

paulkrugman.substack.com

16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 9h

Been thinking a lot about the fact that the guy in charge of the Treasury, is both stupid and dishonest, too, like Trump.
He made bad investments that were going south, so he taps MONEY THAT BELONGS TO TAXPAYERS to fix his personal problem.

His bad judgment is also running the U.S. Treasury. smh

a man standing in front of a white board says that 's a real problem .

ALT: a man standing in front of a white board says that 's a real problem .

media.tenor.com

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · 9h

What I love about this post is that I know he has no idea what the word floridly means and probably thinks it has something to do with the state he lives in.

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 3d

This is the line to get into the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History, which will close in a few hours and not reopen until the shutdown ends

Long line of people waiting to get through security at the museum

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 2d

Now this is a lede: “Republicans have tried more than 70 times over the past 15 years to weaken or kill Obamacare. But their campaign keeps backfiring.”

Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring

The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 1d

Secretary Pete Hegseth's press policy will receive just one signatory according to my current tally—from OAN. For context, there are more than 100 journalists who are members of the Pentagon Press Association. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 19h

“The [Gaza] deal depends almost entirely on Trump maintaining pressure on the principals. In turn, this requires him to remain closely engaged, week after week and month after month, with a broad spectrum of actors—not just individual power brokers.”

What Trump Does—and Doesn't—Get Credit for in Gaza

President Donald Trump helped secure a ceasefire in Gaza. Now, he must see this fragile peace through to something more durable.

time.com

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

You know who hates America

The guys who took healthcare away from millions of Americans

The ones who CUT billions of dollars for programs like cancer research and FEMA

Who sit and watch the president use military troops to attack our cities

That’s Mike Johnson

HE hates America

NO KINGS
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 12h

The failed sale underscores a continued low appetite for coal among utilities that are turning to cheaper natural gas and renewables such as wind and solar to generate electricity.

US rejects bid to buy 167 million tons of coal on public lands for less than a penny per ton

Federal officials have rejected a company’s bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on public lands in Montana for less than a penny per ton.

apnews.com

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phoenix509.bsky.social @phoenix509.bsky.social · 12h

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Vote Mikie Sherrill
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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 1d

New Jersey — voter registration closes tomorrow! Go to nj.gov/vote to check your registration, make a plan to vote on or before November 4, and check with your friends and family to make sure they’ve done the same!

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 1d

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All is not lost: USAID’s education data has been preserved - What Works Hub for Global Education

All USAID-funded education data - almost 1,000 datasets - have been rescued! This blog explains how to access the data through the DataLumos platform, established under a data sharing agreement betwee...

www.wwhge.org

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 12h

I've seen confusion/commentary, about why @jamescomey.bsky.social became a high value target for Trump despite his missteps during the 2016 campaign that subsequently helped Trump & hurt Clinton.

That's b/c Comey is the main target of disgraced LtGen Mike Flynn & funneled thru Qanon to manifest it.

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