Sanford Holst
@sanfordholst.bsky.social
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Author of #Phoenicians and other books. #Democracy matters. My pinned post is a #BlueWave call to action. A repost helps the cause. Comments welcome. #SlavaUkraini #HandsOff2025
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The 2026 ELECTION has already started!
Taking over the House and Senate is the only way to stop Trump's craziness.
Please start organizing now, and publicize every Trump failure.
Make the US Capitol blue!
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A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves.

And when he drove away, they opened fire on him.

This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
Immigration officers open fire during vehicle stop in San Bernardino
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Newsom: "He's a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time we're having a conversation like this? Someone who's weak. Someone who's broken. Someone whose weakness is masquerading as strength."
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Every activated Guardsman has a family, a job, school, or something that they are leaving to do their duty.

It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days.

But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.
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Lying is bad, and lying about health causes and cures is especially bad.
NEW: The Emory shooter thought the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for his medical problems, NYT confirms, so he shot CDC buildings, killing a police officer in the process.

Our latest:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta
www.nytimes.com
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This video shows a German/US-delivered Cheetah SPAAG in service with the Ukrainian Air Command South. Deployed somewhere in the Odesa region, it regularly works against Russian Shaheds. As always, I've provided you with English subtitles.

PART 1
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If you're in one of the 3 or 4 states where gas is $1.98, please let me know where it is. I'll wait... 🥱
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NPR @npr.org · Jul 24
The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.
Trump's EPA now says greenhouse gases don't endanger people
The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.
n.pr
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Bribing Trump, firing Colbert, and now bringing on Bari Weiss.

I'm not watching CBS News or reading CBS News articles. I'm not watching Paramount movies or shows. I am done with Paramount and CBS. They have sided with fascism, and we must side against them to preserve democracy. It's that simple.
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Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
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Dersh weighs in on the Epstein controversy: “I know for a fact docs are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know their names & why they’re being suppressed, but I’m bound by confidentiality so I can’t disclose it. Files are being suppressed to protect them & that’s wrong.”
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As much as Trump wants to appear all-powerful, he is an unpopular lame-duck president who just signed into law the worst piece of legislation in modern American history.

But we don’t just have to sit back and take it. Instead, we choose to organize.

Find your local group: indivisible.org/groups
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The thing I love most about Zohran Mamdani are his ideas for how to make working people’s lives better. I also love how those same ideas make the most greedy people alive utterly furious.
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AOC is right ! And Chump's
main goal is to Line His Pockets with OUR Money.....
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Under Reagan's tax cuts, the average tax cut for the top 1% was 68x larger than the average cut for middle-class households.

Under Bush's tax cuts, it was 16x larger.

And under Trump, 36x larger. 

The GOP has always governed for the privileged few.
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A federal judge in Tennessee just denied the government’s request to keep Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia locked up while it appeals his release. Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. upheld the magistrate’s order to free Abrego Garcia,
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Six months ago, the US economy was stable.
NATO was united.
Our personal data was secure.
And our military bases weren’t under attack.
Maybe Jake Tapper could write a book about that.
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Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process.

But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.

That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
youtu.be
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Within minutes of the attack on Jewish demonstrators in Boulder the FBI and HLS declared it a terrorist attack and rolled in. It's been 8 hours since the targeted assassinations of Democratic legislators in MN and Bongino says they're "assisting local partners." Silence from Trump. We see you.
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This is the latest on the shootings in Minnesota of two lawmakers and their spouses. The Governor just spoke and the news is absolutely heartbreaking that Rep. Hortman and her husband are dead and Sen. Hoffman and his wife are fighting for their lives. Shooter is at large and had a manifesto.
SHOCKING NEWS OUT OF MINNESOTA
We are waking up to the specter of targeted political assassinations in America
open.substack.com
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If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
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“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org

We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...