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Zen Zinnia

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Zen Zinnia @zenzinnia.bsky.social · Mar 1

MI citizens are organizing a ballot initiative to implement ranked choice voting in the state. You can sign up to volunteer if you like. There are a variety of ways to help.

rankmivote.org/volunteer/

Join the Movement | Rank MI Vote

Join the Movement and volunteer for Ranked Choice! Your help is critical to improving our democracy and our elections in Michigan.

rankmivote.org

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Zen Zinnia @zenzinnia.bsky.social · 3h

It's like, whatever, man. Nobody paid attention to us back then, so we did whatever we wanted. We're such a product of the Cold War era and being told not to expect any of the benefits that previous generations enjoyed, we turned into a bunch of nihilists. INXS Kick is an absolute 80s time capsule.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

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Zen Zinnia @zenzinnia.bsky.social · 4h

Tell it to all the people who died of black lung disease.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5h

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

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Kirsten Gillibrand @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social · 4h

Without key Affordable Care Act tax credits, Americans like Lori Hunt would have to pay more for their health insurance than their mortgage.

And yet Republicans refuse to work with us to lower health care costs. It's baffling.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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Zen Zinnia @zenzinnia.bsky.social · 4h

"I was just following orders" was not a valid defense at the Nuremburg trials, and it shouldn't be in this case either.

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 1d

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 19h

I covered politics as a reporter more than a decade ago.
I’m back in the swing and I have some news for you, America:
The divide isn’t political anymore — it’s ethical.
Corrupt or not.
That’s the line now.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 17h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Zen Zinnia @zenzinnia.bsky.social · 14h

I thought I read "federal debt forgiveness." If that's the case, it could be back taxes, PPP and other SBA loans, student loans, etc.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 18h

Congress should be working— not waiting at home — to end the shutdown.

Health insurance for millions of Americans is on the line. I’m back in D.C. ready for bipartisan negotiations.

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 14h

You can fact check all of these quotes. They REALLY said all this.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is randomly targeting peaceful protesters because the point is to terrorize the public into accepting martial law.

Indiscriminate attacks send the message that there’s nothing you can do to stay safe.

The regime wants you to cower at home and cede the streets of your city to their control.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Zen Zinnia @zenzinnia.bsky.social · 14h

For someone who's so vain and has money, he sure hasn't gotten any cosmetic procedures that we know of, other than spray painting himself and maybe dying his hair.