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‘Our Better Angels’ @betterangelsrise.bsky.social · Nov 18

I should have left Twitter long ago. Seeking like minded followers to continue working for an America 🇺🇸we can be all be proud of. #NotGoingBack #BLM #Resistance #Democrats #VetsAgainstTrump #ScienceMatters #VotingRights #CommonSenseGunLaws #MentalHealth #ClimateCrisis #NATO #SlavaUkraine🇺🇦

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473 MILLION DOLLARS on NATIONAL GUARD illegal deployment.All of this while he takes food, housing, healthcare from working people, Veterans, Elderly & Children.

November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM

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PoPville

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“U.S. District Judge (ruled) that the federal government’s deployment of National Guard troops to the District is illegal.” www.popville.com/2025/11/u-s-...

“U.S. District Judge (ruled) that the federal government’s deployment of National Guard troops to the District is illegal.” - PoPville

photo by Diane Krauthamer From the office of the DC Attorney General: "Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb issued the below statement following today’s ruling from U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb that t...

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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM

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Public Citizen

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Trump's National Guard deployments have cost over $473 MILLION.

A disgusting misuse of federal resources, taxpayer dollars, and US troops’ service.

Doing this while firing federal workers and kicking millions off of healthcare is just the cherry on top of the dumpster fire that is the Trump admin.

November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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The Sgt Joker

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If exposing the child rapists who palled around with Epstein endangers National Security, our National Security is in imminent danger by having child rapists who palled around with Epstein running it. Blackmail is a helluva motivation to keep child rapists like Trump doing what blackmailers want.

November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM

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Adam Parkhomenko

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Breaking….

November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM

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Rachel Maddow

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"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.

They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."

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Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario

A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.

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November 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM

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Mrs. Betty Bowers

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November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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Democracy Labs

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Follow the money behind Trump’s Saudi grift
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November 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM

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Democracy Labs

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How Republicans create pedophile victims
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November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM

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Democracy Labs

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10 Point Republican Scheme To Slash SNAP Benefits
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November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Democracy Labs

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Meet the South Carolina legislators who will be voting on SB-323 and the parallels with Handmaids' Tale: South Carolina SB-323 Total Abortion Ban Creates A State Full Of Handmaids
thedemlabs.org/2025/11/17/s...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM

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Delta Chat

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hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.

Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]

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last paragraph of https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly

How we can push back

In an increasingly centralized world, it will take very little for an abusive government to cause an effective organizing tool to disappear, to block an app that belongs to a critical dissenting media outlet, or to force invasive malware into a software update used by everyone. We need a shared infrastructure that doesn’t permit this kind of centralized control. We can disrupt oligopolistic control over software through user choice (e.g., preferring and installing free software), building good protocol frameworks (e.g., demanding tools that use open standards for interoperability), and through regulatory intervention (e.g., breaking up monopolistic actors, or mandating that an OS must allow sideloading, as the EU did with the DMA).

The device you carry with you that is privy to much of your life should be under your control, not under the control of an abusive government or corporations that do its bidding.

November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM

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American President backs murderer of American Journalist, despite American Military evidence

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Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered & his body dismembered by Saudi agents inside Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2, 2018. His remains have never been found. Turkish officials suggesting they were likely dissolved in acid or transported out of the consulate in suitcases.

November 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM

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Adam Parkhomenko

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Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.

November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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Rachel Maddow

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"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..."

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