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ballerina X
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I don't have a podcast. I often quip to cope. I Follow leash laws, you should too.
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badtoss.bsky.social
I don't care if China wins the solar race because they had to get off coal even more than we did. The whole planet wins.
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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charlesgaba.com
This is the part about Platner that pisses me off the most.

Even if I bought all of his bullshit about the posts, the tattoo, etc. and believed that he really is a Changed Man yadda yadda yadda…

…ok, fine: Run for city council or county commissioner or something first, not for the U.S. Senate.
sailormichael.bsky.social Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 11h
No reaching out to communities that were affected by the rhetoric and actions. Just jump on a podcast with a bro and get a softball interview while getting your ass kissed 💋
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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evolvingempathy.bsky.social
www.rawstory.com/fake-elector...

Hold them accountable😼
'Whole new ballgame': Nevada judges step in with bad news for fake electors
The fake electors who tried to overturn the election results in Nevada in 2020 just got some bad news from the state Supreme Court.According to Eric Neugeboren for the Nevada Independent, "The Nevada ...
www.rawstory.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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rincewind.run
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates

Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
ips-dc.org Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 1d
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
So, skeptical of a screen shot from Twitter, I went through and translated his actual speech myself and it goes WAY HARDER THAN THE SCREEN SHOT SUGGESTS

he mixes in the history of Colombia into the drug cartels and Bernie Moreno into Jeffrey Epstein, it's wild, wild stuff
One hundred years of solitude. The sad story of a lonely country that seems to be killing itself when he is in the midst of life's exuberance, when it erupts like a volcano, both in the Glimpses of vitality, both in nature and in human beings. And that's why we dance the way we do and why we can admire this greenery that surrounds us like perhaps no one else in humanity. So much exuberance that in the midst of solitude we kill each other. In our loneliness, we kill each other. And it has been this way since the beginning. I was 25 on November 7, 1985 and I had been tortured and was being tortured in prison and they ask me to apologize. Why? Because I wanted a different country and thought differently from those who governed Colombia. That is why I am president of the Republic. But why was the Patriotic Union killed? Why were the magistrates killed? Ah, because Pablo Escobar put up the money to take over the palace. Carlos Leder, third or fourth in Pablo Escobar's cartel, confessed that they had nothing to do with it. He's not the doorman or driver of the drug trade, he's one of the kingpins. I shouldn't talk about this, they say. But if it wasn't drug trafficking, why were the judges killed? Because they destroyed everything. Couldn't they speak? Was anyone even trying to speak? What was the reason? And the reason, in my opinion-I could be wrong, of course, in interpreting Colombian history-was simply that the Colombian oligarchy didn't want to distribute wealth to the population. Didn't want to escape that immense social inequality. Losing even a single penny of their wealth seemed terrible to them. And I said, why hadn't the Conservative Party apologized? Because today we are facing the same events. You only have to look at today's newspaper pages to see what's on display. A magazine published a cover featuring me in an orange jumpsuit, which they claim is the same one worn by prisoners in the United States. In other words, we emerged from a peace process that created a constituent assembly. They wiped out an entire Left-wing party, the Patriotic Union, along the way, and those of us who survived won the elections, and now they're telling us again that they're going to kill us. I'm not saying they're going to kill us, but it's the same thing. They want to eliminate this popular alternative and prevent it from winning the 2026 elections again, and they want to do it with violence once more. And so I ask the Conservative Party, is that why it hasn't apologized? Because it wants to repeat and repeat and repeat the sad history of the physical and violent elimination of difference in Colombia, which is not a minority, but a popular majority. And it has always been a popular majority because Gaitdn was a majority, because Rafael Uribe Uribe was a majority, because La Napo was Because we are the majority, they always kill the majority to continue governing as a minority. It's called oligarchy. Is it possible to try to imprison the democratically elected president in the United States, a foreign country? It's not the worst kind of violence, because it's preferable to die fighting on a street corner than to be taken prisoner to a foreign country that has nothing to do with what one believes, but it does have a lot to do with Colombia's history since the beginning of violence. And why am I talking about the Conservative Party? Conservative? Because those who are doing this—and excuse me for not yet properly entering the event, but I have to say it because they are conservative militants who are influencing a gentleman named Bernie Moreno. Moreno. He's the one who says in the magazine that he's giving Trump the way to imprison Petro. Petro is in jail. Do you know why he's doing it? For personal revenge. A vendetta like the mafia. As García Márquez said, "We are killing each other in circles of revenge. We kill each other out of pride, he says in his book. My first debates in Congress were against Mr. Bernardo Alberto Moreno, who robbed the Banco del Pacífico and later he was president of it. And my first debates in Congress were against money laundering. They went against the money laundering that was established by turning the property, the use of the land in the Bogotá savanna, from rural use that belonged to the peasants to to urban use, where they speculated with such harsh real estate interests that they even turned a $300,000 property into the San Simón Hacienda. A 3 billion settlement with a single signature from the minister of Environment, Mr. Andrés Pastrana Juan Me, a paramilitary member, said he collaborated with the paramilitaries. The business belonged to a man named Ángel Gaitán Maecha de Chí, founder of paramilitarism in Colombia and emerald mining. And who was the political leader? Andrés Pastrana, president who also enriched himself with some lots in San Simón. And on what list does Mr. Andrés appear? On the list. No, no, I'm not saying he appears on the list, he appears as a friend of Epstein on the list and now he's sealing the deal. A clan of pedophiles wants to end democracy in Colombia. It's tough, yes, but that's the reality. And to prevent the list from being published, they send battleships to kill fishermen in this city. And they threaten our neighbor, asking whether he's a dictator or not, how can the people of Colombia applaud the invasion of their brother, who isn't the president, but the people of Venezuela? When would we ever be so treacherous and sellouts that we betray our own blood? Are the people of Ecuador, Panama, or Venezuela not our own people? And then they want the president to do what Duque, the coward, wanted to do: lend Colombian lands so that a brother country with the same history as us could be invaded from there, because Bolívar was born there and came to die here in this city. No, President of Colombia, you cannot do that, President cursed by future generations, because you will never be forgotten as... And I do not belong to those who wanted to kill Bolívar. The Venezuelan government has made many criticisms, I'm critical, but I'm not making fun of the people of Venezuela, nor did I build a trap for the people of Venezuela to fall into. an invasion that is only after their oil, what they want is more greed and violence to make this beautiful corner of the South American continent a Syria, an Iraq, a Libya full of slaves, selling black slaves again, right? list of Epstein's friends that he doesn't want to appear in the United States. They want to use us here with the violence so that the people of the United States do not think about their own government, but rather xenophobia, racism, and the ideas of the superior race and other false ideas, and they use us to avoid discussing their own problems The president of Colombia has denounced drug traffickers for decades. And the drug traffickers he has denounced were always in political power. They were always in political power in Colombia, in the state. And now they accuse us of being drug traffickers. Hypocrites. any of the Colombian senators and Colombian politicians who went to Miami to try to build the road by which they could forcibly remove the elected president of Colombia It is popularly known as being full of relatives and businesses of drug traffickers. Drug traffickers' business. And Marco Rubio doesn't want to believe it, well, believe it. even though he also has a relative who is a drug trafficker. They're all coated in it at their core. I believe, and I hope I'm not wrong, to that insult that conservatives of Andrés Pastrana, a friend of Epstein, its business partners, through the brother, Senator Bernie Moreno, in the United States And how do we Colombians respond to such a massive anti-democratic insult? Such treason against the homeland by those who already sold Panama for 13 million dollars and they stole the money. How do you respond to that? And I can't say more while remaining coherent. And I ask the people who are here, who are listening to me and beyond, because we have to go from village to village, from municipality to municipality, that not only are there elections coming in which I cannot participate, but there is a defense of dignity, of national sovereignty, that when they come here to threaten us, I do not accept threats, we are going to rise up by the millions because the prophecy is true. And we are jaguars, males and females, we are jaguars. We will be jaguars dancing for the dignity of Colombia. We will be jaguars dancing to revive Bolívar, who is still anchored there, in that fascist monument they erected in his honor at the Quinta de Bolívar. We will be jaguars to end the 100 years of solitude. Millions will rise up here, unarmed. against the threat of those linked to the list of pedophiles we will not allow to operate. We will build democracy, we will build dignity. And I'm not talking about Trump, who shouldn't be mistaken, I'm talking about Andrés Pastrana, who orchestrated this slander against the President of Colombia through his friend Bernie Moreno and his brothers, who are the thieves who were in his government, involved in the Banco del Pacífico scandal and the land grabs in the Bogotá Savannah, denounced by the current President of the Republic. I ask for forgiveness on behalf of the State so that they may revive their dead through it. It is a way of reviving. All of it. It's a way to revive. We all know it. We don't die; the energy continues. The second law of thermodynamics in physics states: Nothing is created or destroyed, it is transformed. And the energy of these thousands of people who, as members of the Patriotic Union and having dreams from 1982 to 2000, that energy is here again, multiplied thousands of times over. Now we are millions. Now they can't kill us. Now we are the heart, the hope of We are the heart, the hope of the people of Colombia. Now we are a flag raised high and we will not let them insult it. We will not allow them to spit on her in blood. We will rise up in dignity with the the hands of millions and millions will stop the pedophiles. Thank you very much for listening to me.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
So what is Grokipedia? Plagiarized Wikipedia plus wing nut conspiracy theories.
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
One of the most fascinating parts of the Trump presidency: two of the biggest bulwarks against Trump's descent on American cities are largely women willing to photograph and film ICE agents and Catholic priests and bishops willing to accompany migrants to court. You see both in Chicago.
josephpolitano.bsky.social Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 13h
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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gregpak.net
he's a white supremacist liar so he likes the website for white supremacist liars
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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mariablack.bsky.social
WTAF?
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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yokaicafe.bsky.social
#USfoodrecalls #USfoodsafety

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yokaicafe.bsky.social YokaiCafe @yokaicafe.bsky.social · 7d
#USfoodrecalls #USfoodsafety #USdrugrecalls #USdrugsafety

⚠️ Recall: SALMONELLA OUTBREAK
Source: Organic Moringa Leaf Powder

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*ALL LOT CODES + BEST BY DATES

Dist: NATIONWIDE

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www.kgw.com/article/news...
Dietary supplement sold at Sam's Club linked to salmonella outbreak
The multistate outbreak has sickened 11 people in several states, with three cases resulting in hospitalizations.
www.kgw.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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yokaicafe.bsky.social
#USfoodrecalls #USfoodsafety

Recall: SALMONELLA CONTAMINATION
(Vallon Farmdirect sourced Moringa powder)

Food to Live brand
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www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/11/a-th...
A third company recalls moringa powder linked to Salmonella outbreak
Another company is recalling moringa powder products because of Salmonella contamination and a related outbreak. Food To Live, of Brooklyn, NY, is
www.foodsafetynews.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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andyswats.bsky.social
What Senate corrupt is Senate Majority leader helping out fellow republicans to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. While also fine with everyone else having to pay double for healthcare insurance.

They could just pass a bill doling money out to themselves!

apple.news/AIryf-JEKQg6...
Senate Republicans run from politically toxic payout provision designed just for them — POLITICO
Only one Republican senator has public plans to sue under new legislative language House Republicans are now seeking to scrap.
apple.news
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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hunterw.bsky.social
I do think politicians that are beholden to to corporate interests do not want to address this. It's definitely part of the problem here.
forskinebowles.bsky.social Foreskine Bowles @forskinebowles.bsky.social · 13h
Hunter might you consider the thesis that nobody actually *wants* to solve the housing crisis?

We need housing prices to keep going up, because home equity is what's filled in the gap between productivity and real wages.

www.researchgate.net/figure/Produ...
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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dianeravitch.bsky.social
U.S. removes tribute to Black soldiers who served in Netherlands in World War II: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Ask GOP candidate for Governor of Florida, Byron Donalds, why he stays in racist party.
U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops
The Netherlands American Cemetery previously had two displays honoring Black American soldiers’ experiences in World War II.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ballerinax.bsky.social
This reminds me i had to mute #RHWOSLC Because it is all just too disturbing to look at.
rhutabhayga.bsky.social Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 14h
Inspo board...?
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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gaytonausa.bsky.social
i’m under the weather, so here’s an excerpt from a convo I had on wechat like three days ago
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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kpanyc.bsky.social
Academic freedom (from govt interference) means being able to follow THE EVIDENCE even when the powerful don't like it.

Every American should want to fight for this. But the GOP exploited resentment of that one bad teacher everybody had & lied ab what profs make (little) to make us enemies
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
Access journalism is already a cancer. This is something worse than cancer.
noahshachtman.bsky.social Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 19h
Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.

So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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benwinslow.bsky.social
Thanks to the redistricting ruling and a more competitive district, Democrats are rushing to declare their plans to run for Congress: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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partialobserver.bsky.social
Remind me, what makes the California plan different from the Texas plan?

Oh yeah, nothing, DoJ is just an arm of the Republican Party now.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 19h
Trump administration sues California over its redistricting plan, months after a similar GOP-led effort in Texas met no resistance from the DOJ
https://cnn.it/4hYuE9J
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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tabathasouthey.bsky.social
When you ask a pedophile to explain the Butterfly Effect.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
Matt Gaetz, wearing a paisley tie and black suit jacket. A headline reads: "In Matt Gaetz Scandal, A 17-year-Old Was Left Vulnerable to Exploitation." Photo by Kenny Holston/New York Times
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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pbump.com
It's all so ludicrous and obvious.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h
FOX: Fox can now confirm that Eric Swalwell has been criminally referred to the DOJ accused of mortgage fraud.
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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galenstone.bsky.social
#YES
‘MigraWatch’ trainings to ‘Whistlemania’ events: Chicagoans fight back against ICE raids
Residents are organizing in response to raids across the city amid Trump’s wide-ranging ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM