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Trump is not my President. He does not represent my interests, values or beliefs in any way. His feral behavior and lack of decency should horrify every American. I promise to give up the F-word when Trump and thugs are gone.

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moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 18h

Why are schools banning books about Japanese American incarceration during WW2?

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Spice Lord @sp1c3l0rd.bsky.social · 23h

The last time we had armed, masked, squads of goons roaming the country, harassing, beating, and, killing citizens, was during the heyday of the KKK.

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Annette @ladywaterood.bsky.social · 32m

Opinion: Shouldn’t polluters, not taxpayers, pay for disaster assistance?
Source: The Hill share.newsbreak.com/ffotrh2m?s=i16

Opinion: Shouldn’t polluters, not taxpayers, pay for disaster assistance? - NewsBreak

Fossil-energy companies are determined to avoid their share of responsibility.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 4h

Who needs doctors when you have quacks?

RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 doctors and scientists amid shutdown

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 52m

Soon it will be show us your papers. This must stop.

A tweet by James Surowiecki replying to David J. Bier. Surowiecki asks, “Where in the Immigration and Nationality Act does it say that US citizens have to prove that they're citizens or else be arrested?” The quoted tweet by Bier reads, “ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog,” accompanied by a photo of a man wearing a face mask and standing near vehicles at night.

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

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 31m

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First Republican governor turns on Trump National Guard deployments (Daily Mail)

A Republican governor and staunch supporter of Donald Trump is the first major GOP leader to split with the administration on its use of the National Guard. ...

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 19h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Swishergirl @swishergirl24.bsky.social · 1h

Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think being against fascism should be a crime

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1h

Really glad Trump freed the hostages now maybe he can get the troops out of American cities?

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Blue-G (He/Him/His) 🌱 @spotonthesun.bsky.social · 1h

Corruplicans lie. They are weak.

Anchor Light Publications (@anchorlightpublications)

Republican "Leaders" have to lie about Democrats because they don't have a logical/moral argument to present to their supporters. And most #MAGA know they are being lied to, but love that the GOP is...

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 3h

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 10h

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 8h

Donnie Dumbshit and The Junkie !
Mis-Leading America......

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 4h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 19h

jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 1d

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Essence of RBG @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 6h

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 18h

The amazing thing about the SNL sketch last night was not that Ashley Padilla wore a scarf nearly identical to mine. It’s that I trust Amy Poehler as AG more than Pam Bondi.

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 19h

Freya 💙 @freyalux.bsky.social · 1d

We the People aren’t Distracted!
#EpsteinTrumpFiles

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h

We don't know where Trump is seeing Portland 'on fire.' That's frightening.

If Trump can be fooled by a fake video with his own face and voice, what else is fooling him?

Opinion | We don't know why Trump thinks Portland 'on fire.' That's frightening.

If Trump can be fooled by a fake video with his own face and voice, what else is fooling him?

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 3h

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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rebeccaswh.bsky.social @rebeccaswh.bsky.social · 36m

Bari Weiss, smug and entitled hypocrite.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

"I can't remember the quotation exactly, but it's like 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and wearing the cross.' Mike Johnson's the real embodiment of that." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

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

#FuckICE #FedsOutOfChicago

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rebeccaswh.bsky.social @rebeccaswh.bsky.social · 1h

The GOP wants to see the suffering and death of the American people.

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