VermontBubbe
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Vote straight blue down the ballot. Pragmatic optimist. Knitter, gardener, living in Vermont
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 19, 2025
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December 19, 2025
This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.
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Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
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Congresswoman Becca Balint on what she heard during the closed door Jack Smith testimony.
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Congresswoman Becca Balint on what she heard during the closed door Jack Smith testimony.
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You know who uses D.A.R.V.O….
Narcissistic Abusers
This is the Republican Party
The party that protects pedophiles
Narcissistic Abusers
This is the Republican Party
The party that protects pedophiles
Re: Epstein Files
Leaked GOP memo gives step-by-step instructions on how to use DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) a psychological manipulation tactic, to dismiss any Trump wrongdoing, and instead villainize Dems and frame Trump as the victim
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Leaked GOP memo gives step-by-step instructions on how to use DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) a psychological manipulation tactic, to dismiss any Trump wrongdoing, and instead villainize Dems and frame Trump as the victim
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Leaked Epstein Files talking points instruct Republicans how to point blame away from Trump
Trump loyalists have been instructed to relentlessly accuse Democrats and ‘legacy media’ of fabricating a hoax, and encourage voters not to trust any information in the Epstein Files that damage the p...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
You know who uses D.A.R.V.O….
Narcissistic Abusers
This is the Republican Party
The party that protects pedophiles
Narcissistic Abusers
This is the Republican Party
The party that protects pedophiles
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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JAG officers are saying the quiet part out loud: Pete Hegseth’s order amounted to murder and anyone who carried it out shares the blame. ‘Just following orders’ didn’t work at Nuremberg. It won’t work now.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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Daily Rumble on Instagram: "Jag officers say Pete Hegseth has committed murder and everyone who followed his order should be tried"
A group of former JAG officers are speaking out against Pete Hegseth's orders in the Caribbean, accusing him of committing war crimes and murder. They claim that blowing up fishing boats with civilian...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
JAG officers are saying the quiet part out loud: Pete Hegseth’s order amounted to murder and anyone who carried it out shares the blame. ‘Just following orders’ didn’t work at Nuremberg. It won’t work now.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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How strangely coincidental... one of the world's leading nuclear fusion researchers, from MIT, was just assassinated in his Brookline, MA home. bsky.app/profile/drja...
Breaking: The US president is now in the nuclear fusion business
@siladitya.bsky.social for @forbes.com
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December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
How strangely coincidental... one of the world's leading nuclear fusion researchers, from MIT, was just assassinated in his Brookline, MA home. bsky.app/profile/drja...
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WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.
December 17, 2025
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December 17, 2025
This morning, four vulnerable Republicans signed onto the discharge petition all House Democrats have signed to force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring a bill to extend the premium tax credits for ...
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December 17, 2025
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Please read the Alt Text to see what the photographer said to Stephen Miller. What an amazing exchange they had!!!
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
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Holy. Shit.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Please read the Alt Text to see what the photographer said to Stephen Miller. What an amazing exchange they had!!!
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Advancing the science of meteorology isn't liberal or conservative, it's common sense. Fight for your forecast--and the research that makes it possible.
Some thoughts I put together today on the administration's NCAR destruction announced today:
Some thoughts I put together today on the administration's NCAR destruction announced today:
Weather research is a lifesaving effort. Don't let Trump's team destroy it.
Fight for your forecast--and the research that makes it possible.
www.damweather.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Advancing the science of meteorology isn't liberal or conservative, it's common sense. Fight for your forecast--and the research that makes it possible.
Some thoughts I put together today on the administration's NCAR destruction announced today:
Some thoughts I put together today on the administration's NCAR destruction announced today:
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insurance companies literally kill people
UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
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December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
insurance companies literally kill people
50 Years ago! - I still hold that cable TV (and Reagan) was the death of the progressive society it felt like we were building when I was young. Watching AITF (and Maude) with my own family shaped the person I am now.
Uniter
As many are sharing All in the Family clips, I must Repost one from @ladystargem.bsky.social and thank her & @classicactress
It’s a beautiful moment between Jean Stapleton and Rob Reiner about losing a friend to LGBTQIA violence.
#DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited
As many are sharing All in the Family clips, I must Repost one from @ladystargem.bsky.social and thank her & @classicactress
It’s a beautiful moment between Jean Stapleton and Rob Reiner about losing a friend to LGBTQIA violence.
#DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
50 Years ago! - I still hold that cable TV (and Reagan) was the death of the progressive society it felt like we were building when I was young. Watching AITF (and Maude) with my own family shaped the person I am now.
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"Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed...Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing...They said they’d rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving"
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed...Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing...They said they’d rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving"
December 16, 2025
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December 16, 2025
While President Donald J.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
December 16, 2025
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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Yes, the "young, single playboys" in their 40's and 50's, married, preying on 15 year old girls and boys.
Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the Epstein Files:
“[Trump] is in the file. We know he’s in the file... was on [Epstein’s] plane... on the manifest.” "They were, you know, sort of young, single, whatever—I know it’s a passé word but sort of young, single playboys together.” #OpDeathEaters
“[Trump] is in the file. We know he’s in the file... was on [Epstein’s] plane... on the manifest.” "They were, you know, sort of young, single, whatever—I know it’s a passé word but sort of young, single playboys together.” #OpDeathEaters
December 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yes, the "young, single playboys" in their 40's and 50's, married, preying on 15 year old girls and boys.
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"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
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At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
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This is part of a pattern of ICE agents intentionally causing accidents with ICE observers and then accusing them of assault.
December 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is part of a pattern of ICE agents intentionally causing accidents with ICE observers and then accusing them of assault.
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Trump posted this without knowing Nick Reiner had been arrested. He posted it apparently assuming that one of his fans had murdered Rob Reiner. So if you want to know how Trump will react once his fans start murdering his enemies, now you know. He'll celebrate and blame his enemies.
Trump offers incendiary political message about Rob Reiner’s death
Two people have been found dead at the home of Hollywood director Rob Reiner, officials said.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Trump posted this without knowing Nick Reiner had been arrested. He posted it apparently assuming that one of his fans had murdered Rob Reiner. So if you want to know how Trump will react once his fans start murdering his enemies, now you know. He'll celebrate and blame his enemies.