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Farmer, environmentalist, social justice, lifelong Democrat 💙⛵️⛰️🌊
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Skadden Arps sounds like the name of a cinematic Nazi villain.
JUST IN:

Skadden Arps, to avoid an Executive Order, agrees to terms with Convicted Felon, Donald Trump, including the law firm doing $100 million in pro bono legal services for “mutually agreeable causes.”

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/t...
Trump says Skadden, Arps law firm will provide $100 million in pro bono legal services, avoiding executive order
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March 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Fantastic show! Thanks to future House Rep. @katmabu.bsky.social for joining us on @thefive8.bsky.social...and we are so excited for the 4/16 launch of the NEW show on our network, @thefive8andahalf.bsky.social, hosted by @nadinesmith.bsky.social and @thelisagraves.bsky.social!
Signal Intelligence (Or Lack Thereof)
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March 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.

I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.

🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.

-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
November 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Keep the calls coming. If your rep is blue, call and thank them for not voting for this.
Republicans just voted to move forward with a plan to rip healthcare and food assistance away from working people all to pay for a tax cut for billionaires.

Every single Democrat voted against this.

We can't let them get away with this Republican Rip-Off. Make your voices heard!
February 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care.

They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely.

This won’t just harm people. This will kill people.

They own this.
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Take J. Edgar Hoover and then make him 30 times worse. The whole nation will suffer for this folly. Suffer so much more than anyone yet realizes.

This was a critical benchmark Trump had to hit to advance his plan to destroy democracy. Everyone who voted for Kash Patel should live in infamy forever.
Senate confirms Kash Patel as Trump’s FBI director | CNN Politics
The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Kash Patel as FBI director, installing a staunch loyalist of President Donald Trump and conservative firebrand at the head of the nation’s top law enforcement a...
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February 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text.

Here it is (please share):
Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump
Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov”.
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February 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"Books like hers function not as weapons but as maps, navigating a way around the edges of the abyss." Grateful for @nytimes.com review of Money, Lies and God. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/b...
Book Review: ‘Money, Lies, and God,’ by Katherine Stewart
A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Please join us 🍸 🥃 🎱 tonight 8E/5P
Seven hours from now, or, one hour for every dollar a dozen eggs now costs...

Please join us @thefive8.bsky.social! 🍸🎱
Negotiating With Terrorists
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February 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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The real Elon Musk is orders of magnitude worse than any 007 foe. What he wants to do will not just strangle democracy to death in the United States and everywhere, but, ultimately, end human life on earth.

Elon Musk is a living, breathing, skipping-like-a-dipshit extinction event.
Elon the Destroyer
Musk is become death. And his illegal D.O.G.E. unit seems determined to put democracy, the Union, the global economy, and human life on earth through the woodchipper.
gregolear.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Thank you @lc1summit.bsky.social

"Told MAGA you'll never have to VOTE again"

Remember he said it on the campaign trail

Please take a moment to read
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February 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Check out this asshole. Oh, and fuck Jill Stein.
Jill Stein’s campaign manager just admitted what anyone with half a brain knew all along—their real mission was to help elect Donald Trump.

Fu*k Jill Stein and anyone who supported her
February 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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America is facing an underreported “separatist” movement, which wants some or all of the the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reversed bc those in the movement claim that anti-discrimination laws interfere w/ their right to “free association” in their private lives, both personal & professional. 1/
February 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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As we prepare for tomorrow, here are some things to look for in the first week. “What to Expect When You’re Expecting Fascism” Mostly, be prepared for sensory overload.

america2.news/what-to-expe...
What to Expect When You're Expecting Fascism
The second Trump administration is likely to begin with a series of shock events designed to overwhelm our capacity for sense-making.
america2.news
January 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Heads Up!
January 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Fascism came to America today. 👇🏻
US Oligarch Elon Musk does Nazi salute after being gifted "government position" by US Oligarch Donald Trump. (2025)
January 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Fanone: The Republican party owns a monopoly on hypocrisy when it comes to their supposed support of law enforcement because tonight the leader of the Republican party pardoned hundreds of violent cop assaulters.
January 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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BREAKING: President Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land" but there's still another step -- and a legal fight -- ahead.
January 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This is an oligarchy.

The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER

Stop the oligarchy
December 7, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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📌Under Joe Biden:

-Record 16 million jobs created
-Lowest average unemployment rate of any administration in 50 yrs
-Incomes up $4,000 over prices
-Inflation at world-best 2%
-Economy grew more than any presidential term this century

Dems lose election because of economy.
Absolutely INSANE.
December 7, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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So, back in the 70's and 80's there were a number of campus activist groups: CISPES, CUSLAR, Amnesty International -- trying to get the US to stop backing fascist regimes in South & Central America by writing letters to congresspeople, educating fellow students, holding peaceful demonstrations. 1/N🧵
November 30, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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We have a phone recording of Trump himself asking Georgia officials to find votes while he was President and people think Biden's pardon of Hunter is what's gonna finally encourage Trump to do bad things and misuse his power
December 2, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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A toast to Wisconsin’s fair maps. A years-long movement for fair maps culminated in a state Supreme Court decision and a signature from @govevers.bsky.social—and now, Wisconsinites no longer live under an oppressive GOP gerrymander. Wisconsin’s a democracy.
November 30, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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I was invited to speak about the upcoming Trump era and share some lessons and optimism. I declined politely. After more than 25 years of researching the far right, I have no more (new) lessons and optimism to share.
November 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM