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Matt 🍁

@yupitsmatt.bsky.social

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Postgrad, Public School Teacher, Reuters reader Wrote “Alone Together: a DS9 Companion” (Trek cast live-read mini series 1 & 2 on YouTube) Unabashedly woke Stoic, spiritual (but, not religious) empath Every pronoun every day

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: James Comey is filing a motion to dismiss his case based on United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, being appointed illegally.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 13h

🚨 This is happening everywhere you go depending on where you live and your social media presence. Just assume nothing you say, text, look up, or read on your phone is private. Don’t take your phone to a protest without a faraday bag. Use a dumb device to record video. 1/2

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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 5h

Former pardon attorney Liz Oyer was unjustifiably fired by Trump.
She explains, the definition of "plenary authority" and what Stephen Miller is implementing via Project 2025 by extending presidential powers.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2h

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Rest in peace. #DAngelo #soul #funk #RnB #music #artist #spirit

Why D’Angelo’s ‘Untitled’ Video Is Still Uniquely Provocative, Nearly Two Decades Later

The video for Dâ€™Angeloâ€™s â€œUntitled (How Does It Feel)â€ is famously simple: a man, nude as far as the edge of the frame sitting low on his hips, singing so passionately it seems like his inspir...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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Folks, it’s not a failure at all. It’s deliberate and calculated. If the press don’t report on the activities, then the only source of information from the Pentagon becomes its propaganda machine. They can’t announce one. They need to make the public think they were forced into it. #EpsteinFiles

💙@AL- I’m here @phoenix-al.bsky.social · 2h

What about the 1st Amendment you Fuk!

Wednesday, most Pentagon Press Association members are likely to hand over their badges rather than acknowledge a policy that gags Pentagon employees and threatens retaliation against reporters who seek information that has not been pre-approved for release.

Pete Hegseth’s New Pentagon Press Policy Is a Miserable Failure

Even the Defense secretary’s former employer, Fox News, is balking at the new restrictions.

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Kevin ANTIFA Ressler 💙🐈‍⬛ @kevinressler.bsky.social · 2h

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Matt 🍁 @yupitsmatt.bsky.social · 2h

I’ll take signs of a stroke for $1000. #jeopardy #Trump #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Just a sample of the Politico story exposing the level of racism underpinning the Trumpublicans. #GOP #MAGA #racism #EpsteinFiles

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Read it before they delete it. #MAGA #GOP #Hitler #racism #hatespeech Release the god damn Epstein files. #EpsteinFiles

‘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.

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 4h

About the Politico article just posted. #arrestrepublicans #notohate

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Matt 🍁 @yupitsmatt.bsky.social · 4h

It seems every world power wants the authority to prevent their citizens from communicating. Contact your MP. #canpoli #worldpoli #LPC #privacy #freespeech

Canada’s Privacy Watchdog Not Consulted on Bill C-8, Enabling Secret Internet & Phone Shutdowns

The Canadian government wants the power to disappear your internet access with no judge, no warrant, no warning.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Let us translate Mike Johnson's comments about Obamacare for you www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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Tam-Rah @blue-fire1.bsky.social · 23h

While the rest of us die.
This is all they want, people to work in the pollution plants. Workers and the rich.
As Trump Boosts Coal Industry, Black Lung Miners Say They've Been 'Cast Aside to Die' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...

As Trump Boosts Coal Industry, Black Lung Miners Say They've Been 'Cast Aside to Die' | Common Dreams

“The Trump administration was handed tools to protect black lung and they are doing everything in their power to toss those rules in the trash,” said one campaigner ahead of a planned protest.

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Our Revolution @our-revolution.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-Mamdani super PACs have joined forces to try to stop Zohran from becoming the next Mayor of NYC.

Oil industry heir and director of Chevron John Hess has donated $1 million alone. But all their money means nothing when the people are united.

Keep up the momentum for Mamdani 💪🏾

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Bob Lawrence 💙 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 4h

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'Amazing': Pam Bondi under fire after 'bragging' about social media takedown orders

Attorney General Pam Bondi is under fire for telling Facebook parent company Meta to remove content on the social media site. Bondi claimed that a Facebook group posts public photos of federal agents,...

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Earthbound420 @earthbound420.bsky.social · 20h

Hey Micro Mike 💥🤬

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 20h

Prager = racism

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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 10h

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 7h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, color me shocked.

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Sue Massa @smassa.bsky.social · 1d

This is what anyone talking to any of these liars should do!

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 4h

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 9h

"The first-of-its-kind study shows that the world’s biggest oil and gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to global renewable energy — contradicting industry claims to be pioneers in the energy transition."

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’

New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

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