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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 14h

If after viewing this map it seems that conservatism causes poverty, illness, misery and death you would be completely correct.

Social media post:
Image of map, color coded by average life expectancy in America
showing the deep south has a significantly shorter average life span.

@AlpacaAurelius
Wow, Americans in the southeast of the US have a 20 year
shorter life expectancy than those elsewhere. Wtf is going
on?
@davidhogg111
Poverty

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 8h

Trump is trying to extort and punish blue states into submission. (He's doing the same thing to universities, science, and the arts.)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 11h

Nature will eliminate
Those who don't vaccinate.

Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 11h

Don't believe a single thing Robert Kennedy Jr. says.

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Commentary: RFK Jr., Tylenol and circumcision--the lowdown

In a new surge of medical disinformation and misinformation, RFK Jr. goes after Tylenol and circumcision.

www.latimes.com

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 13h

It's really important for universities and school systems (and corporations!) not to submit to the Trump administration's extortions.

"We hope our leaders will see this deal for the folly that it is and will have the courage to call it out as MIT did."

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Trump's ultimatum to USC and others is a dismally researched document

We give it an F. Though considering portions of it are plagiarized, it probably shouldn't even be graded.

www.latimes.com

Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 13h

"My 99 year old Mom just voted yes on [California] Prop 50...

She commented that she figured this was her last vote, and as someone who grew up during WWII, she didn't expect to ever have to cast a vote against fascism."

(DM in The Downballot)

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DM on The Downballot

My 99 year old Mom just voted yes on Prop 50. I wasn't sure we would get this yes vote, since a month ago she went on hospice, and was expected to live a few days to 2 weeks. She commented that she f...

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 14h

ICE does whatever the opposite of "protect and serve" is.

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 16h

GOP arises from the bad place. How did these people get this way? How can we get them to submerge themselves again?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat. Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape. (Politico)

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 1d

One Battle After Another--Review in Eschaton

I really do recommend going to see it. I don't see all the movies these days, but it is the best movie I've seen in awhile.

I don't think "too over the top" will be what comes to mind when you see it.

Every actor deserves an Oscar.

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 1d

ICE increasingly out of control, a violent mob.

NPR - Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

One video, filmed in Hyattsville, Md., shows a man pinned to the ground by two ICE officers. He pleads in Spanish and English for someone to help him.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” would let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our colleges and universities. We must demand that our schools reject the regime’s blackmail attempts by committing to uphold freedom of speech and provide an affordable, safe education for all. 👇

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, Jan.

Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) was elected to an open Congressional seat and would be the deciding vote to release the Epstein files. But Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in. He insists the Epstein issue has “nothing to do with” his refusal to seat her.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

"This person who looks white cannot be in any way Middle Eastern by virtue of looking white" is the most tired talking point out there. Every Middle Eastern culture and society - Muslim, Christian, and Jewish - has a segment of the population who could pass as white in the US. Every single one.

Johnny STABcato: Television’s Jazz Detective @tunaghost.bsky.social · 2d

why would you ever tell this red-headed white man his roots aren’t from the Middle East

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 2d

This joke is funny because it's saying Israelis are fake, rootless people who steal all their culture, see? Not a real ethnicity whose material culture is rooted in their blood and soil. No, some kind of sub-people.

This meme was heavily pushed by an influencer who claims Israel killed Charlie Kirk

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 2d

Somebody must’ve explained to Trump that you can’t be in St. Peter’s files if you’re in Jeffrey Epstein’s files.

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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · Feb 10

Trump Is Running A Bulldozer Over Independent Federal Agencies

Trump is ignoring precedent and the law by firing officials and trying to bring independent bodies under White House control.

Trump Is Carrying Out An Unprecedented Power Grab

The new president is ignoring precedent and the law by firing officials and trying to bring independent bodies under White House control.

www.huffpost.com

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 2d

Catastrophic memory loss or strategic lie?

Trump Blames Jan. 6 On ‘The Biden FBI’ In Unhinged Late Night Post (Huff Post).

As everyone remembers, Trump himself was president on Jan. 6, 2021. Did he forget--or did he purposely confuse his low-information followers?

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 2d

"Go see One Battle After Another. It's good!" (Eschaton blog)

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s fraud stunt with the tariffs on China, cost the US economy $1.65 trillion, which was wiped out in seconds.

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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 2d

I thought Trump was demented, but Kate Starbird thinks his error was strategic. #akatestarbird.blsky.social

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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serene blue lake @serenebluelake.bsky.social · 2d

who or what is whale? What is the persons name/corp and how do they know trump. This is totally against the law. why do they let this crook named trump do this over and over? wtf

truthseeker19.bsky.social @truthseeker19.bsky.social · 2d

A crypto-currency WHALE somehow traded the exact highs & lows to make a bundle of money on Trump's trade tariffs (taxes).

WHO would know EXACTLY when/how Trump would make his market moves? And how did Trump himself benefit from sharing this "inside" information?

www.tradingview.com/news/crypton...