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Peter Haugen

@peterhaugen.bsky.social

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Resistant. Hopeful (despite everything). Wrote “World History for Dummies” and other stuff, including many theater reviews. Proud survivor of newspaper journalism. Seek to be kind and respectful, but sometimes fail. Stop Donald and his evil cohort!

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Peter Haugen @peterhaugen.bsky.social · Dec 29

You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution. And you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you’re worthless.—Charles Frazier

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 6h

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

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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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone was wondering, “Give us your land or we will bomb you and take it” is not a peace deal; it’s extortion by artillery. A peace deal requires consent.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This unwell man, who was President of the United States, is trying to rewrite history.

Nice try, Don. Biden wasn’t president on January 6, 2021. I would say even his own voters can’t be this gullible, but…

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The Daily Sizzle 🧙‍♀️🪄✨️💙🦸‍♀️💄🐆🗣🚫🍊 ☮️❤️🤍💙☮️ Savage Daughters Unite 🗽50501🗽 @womenvspatriarchy.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is disappearing people to work camps!

Prison labor pays up to $1.48/day, less than $1/day for those receiving early release credits.

People with civil infringements are being sent to labor camps WITHOUT prosecution.

13TH AMENDMENT VIOLATION

HAPPENING IN KENTUCKY NOW

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon by David Horsey.

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 3d

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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 2d

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 3d

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Last I checked the GOP controls all branches of our government.

Tweet from MeidasTouch: “Wow that’s crazy. Who’s running the federal government?”
Below, Acyn’s tweet quotes Rep. Mike Johnson: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all-time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.”
A C-SPAN screenshot shows Johnson speaking with another man standing beside him.

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 2d

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Democratic_Beast 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @northsquatch.bsky.social · 2d

This man is the model for how all police incitement should be handled.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo temporarily closed Sunday due to the federal government shutdown.

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 2d

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

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

Remind me, who was the president who sat on his fat ass in the White House cheering this on during J6?

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🌊Scott the Process🌊 @scotttheprocess.bsky.social · 2d

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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