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Quatrain Gleam

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Pro-Human Fixing America can't happen without undoing Citizens United. Corporations are not people, money is not speech, Congress can govern money. Human rights are for humans. If you don't breathe you don't "speak" "believe" or "bear arms".

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · Apr 15

It's only helpful if we do something to improve the next election.

Here's the plain truth, zero speculation, it is technically impossible to have both secret ballots (which we clearly need) and secure electronic voting.

100% cannot do both. (The logic behind this is the incompleteness theorem.)

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 13m

Sleep well and wake, swirly.

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 2h

They've reinvented merkins?

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 2h

8th Amendment

Edna’s Antifa Brat🎨🐈‍⬛📚🍹🕷️🌴 @lsto4.bsky.social · 7h

This simply blows my mind. Evil. The black-and-yellow device has been used on multiple detainees this year, according to the Associated Press. The Department of Homeland Security has previously raised concerns about its safety, warning that the restraints could lead to fatal outcomes.
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#pinks

Deportees were quickly placed in full-body restraints known as "The WRAP," leaving them unable to move their hands or feet for the duration of the flight.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 2h

Once again for those in back:

Preaching human liberation from oppression while excluding the majority of the human race--girls & women--is a betrayal & a rank hypocrisy on par with slavers preaching equality of all men.

Being friends with Jeffrey Epstein=approval of systemic gender oppression.

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 7h

Ive been shoved aside by enough grannies to approve these tiny victories

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 7h

I love her framing

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 1d

Some lessons we should not have to learn again.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 9h

Hegseth needs attention more than reporters need lies.

Media has the leverage in this relationship. So glad they are using it.

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 14h

Laws are for Democrats, say Republicans

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 15h

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 14h

US AID budget was $35 billion

Thousands of qualified passionate Americans working endless hours to help millions of people and projects in dozens of countries was illegally cancelled, but Bessent alone can spend our money to prop up a few of his corrupt friends without any benefit to our nation.

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe Lavrov should have thought about that before fucking with our elections or invading our allies.

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 14h

Nice company you have there

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 14h

Hegseth needs media attention more than journalists need Hegseth's happiness.

Never trade power for irrelevance.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 15h

I'm old enough to remember when the entire left was held accountable every time a random person posted a direct quote of something Charlie Kirk said.

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 15h

Republican men shamelessly play the "youthful indiscretions" card well into middle age.

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 15h

Nice juxtaposition

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Goddess of the Moon 🌕 @diannamjames.bsky.social · 15h

USAID and its entire global aid budget was only $35B, and that covered over 100 countries. Aid hasn’t been canceled. It’s just now going to Trump’s pals.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing how white Republican men get to pull the "youthful indiscretions" card well into middle age.

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 15h

Too many comic book movies

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

The 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution were expressly crafted to grant Black people equal rights as citizens in a democratic society

The Supreme Court is preparing to use those very Amendments to deny those rights instead

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 21h

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