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@callyson.bsky.social
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · Sep 9
I did a thing. Hope others find it useful...because we sure AF can't trust the legacy media to deliver the news about what's going on:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Substacks & Podcasts Worth Following
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united24media.com
⚡️ Zelenskyy says nearly everyone in Ukraine wants peace, but that same majority insists it must be a just peace and rejects withdrawing from Donbas.
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
callyson.bsky.social
Trump tariffs blamed as bankruptcies reach 15-year peak
"attributed to inflation, high interest rates...tariffs that have increased costs and hampered supply chains...overall growth (4.3 per cent GDP) is not evenly distributed, with many businesses struggling"
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Welcome to the Trump Slump
December 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
callyson.bsky.social
Good night on this 😍 note:
msopchak.bsky.social Corgi Dad of Bluesky @msopchak.bsky.social · 2d
Ear Paw. Stubs are magical in so many ways. #corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky
Gimli's face while he rests on the floor with paw by his ear.
December 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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keepitbluedems.bsky.social
www.kcra.com/article/trum...
December 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
callyson.bsky.social
Again...
MAGA forced birthers can STFU about "HUMAN LIFE!!!"
😡😡😡😡😡
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.

Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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junlper.beer
very convenient that the rich ruling class techbros solution to income and wealth inequality will be solved by letting them accumulate even more wealth
December 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Harmeet has really achieved her natural level of professionalism and character. Congrats to her.
cdbrow1.bsky.social Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 1d
@kenwhite.bsky.social

I have a question about the DOJ's updated media policy....
December 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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rebelb1ue.bsky.social
💯
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Unlike Trump & Witkoff, most Americans aren’t seeking “amazing business opportunities” for US billionaires in Russia. We just want them to stop indiscriminately bombing civilians & end their barbarian war of aggression with their horde of convicts, rapists & foreign mercenaries.
December 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
Katie Miller: BLS data confirms home health aides as the fastest-growing U.S. occupation with a 10% surge to over 500,000 in 2024. It's MOSTLY Medicaid-funded. 42% are foreign-born across the US. 78% are foreign-born in NYC where most home health aides are used. Want to guess where the fraud is? 6:15 AM • 12/28/25 • 6.4M Views
December 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
callyson.bsky.social
Protests can affect elections
...foster lifelong civic engagement
Nonviolence is key
Protests help people feel more effective and hopeful in their own lives
protests rarely incite policy or cultural changes overnight. Often, their rates of impact are much more gradual...
These are long-term fights:
Research confirms that the Women’s March incited tangible change. In particular, it directly prompted an unprecedented surge in female candidates for elected office, which scholars attribute to feeling empowered to draw attention to issues that have historically been dismissed. During the 2018 midterms, more than 500 women ran in congressional races, nearly doubling numbers from 2016. For that reason, protests can build coalitions and networks that can be called upon for future fights. Pressman calls this “organizational success” and says it can be measured by growth in an organization’s membership, funding or even media attention. “You could have a policy failure in that they didn’t adopt a law, but that campaign may have led you to double the size of your organization so you’re more prepared and powerful for your next fight,” he said. This dynamic can be especially critical in smaller towns and close-knit communities, scholars say, where people may fear voicing an opinion that goes against the grain. In a Trump-leaning county, for instance, a person may not feel comfortable vocalizing a position considered progressive, according to Omar Wasow, assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. However, if that same individual sees an anti-Trump protest, they might feel encouraged by the thought that they have neighbors who see things the way they do. “That allows me to know I’m not alone,” he said.
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
And detainees are held for much long periods of time than needed so that these companies can charge more and make billions extra. It’s state sanctioned human trafficking.
Screenshot of a Brennan Center for Justice post reporting that private prison company GEO Group allegedly forced immigration detainees to work without pay. The image shows a car parked outside a fenced detention facility with barbed wire.
December 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
callyson.bsky.social
500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025 - Pt. 2
#101-200. February-April 2025
...MAGA censors have been having a go at 60 Minutes for months now, plus 99 other awful things:
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
DOGE chief Elon Musk called for 60 Minutes producers to be put in prison after their segment about his dismantling of USAID programs: “60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They deserve a long prison sentence.” Maybe he was upset about this truthful line in the segment: “The world’s richest man cut off aid for the world’s poorest people.”
December 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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michelleroy78.bsky.social
They're gonna be real upset when they read about literally any of Trump's appointees for anything.
December 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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kateinkharkiv.bsky.social
To him, it’s a kind of power flex, but in reality he is simply admiring a war criminal in front of the president of the victim nation. It doesn't looks powerful, it looks sadistic and dumb.
December 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Don’t listen to fools or you might become one.
Screenshot of an X post quoting Stephen Hawking about the illusion of knowledge, paired with a reply criticizing Joe Rogan for confusing chickenpox with measles. A video still shows Joe Rogan speaking into a microphone during his podcast.
December 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
“But it's also clear that there is likely something in the files that further incriminates him.” This is what I think, too. Horrible as the facts at hand are, there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-ver...
Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
War is peace. Russia is fully committed to peace in Ukraine.
Over the last two days in Florida, the Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev held productive and constructive meetings with the American delegation to advance President Trump’s peace plan on Ukraine. The American delegation included Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and White House staff member Josh Gruenbaum. Russia remains fully committed to achieving peace in Ukraine. Russia highly values the efforts and support of the United States to resolve the Ukrainian conflict and re-establish global security.
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
callyson.bsky.social
"Before the meeting with Zelenskyy Trump spoke to Putin for two hours (!!!!!!!!), and described his conversation with the mass murderer of Moscow as “good” (no condemnation for Putin’s starting of the war, the brutal assault on Kyiv yesterday, or the continued attacks on civilian targets"
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December 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
callyson.bsky.social
Does anyone know if @jkbjournalist.bsky.social ever got an answer to this important question?
WITAF?
Why is the Department of Justice monitoring journalists?
December 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
callyson.bsky.social
We must support the musician Trump is targeting for refusing to play the “Trump Kennedy Center”
Trump is following Stalin's playbook

I stand with Chuck Redd...& let's have some mood music to go w/the post:
I hear music - Chuck Redd

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRvT...

open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...
We must support the musician Trump is targeting for refusing to play the “Trump Kennedy Center”
Trump is following Stalin's playbook
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
callyson.bsky.social
As opposed to the billionaire bros & the Trumpers, who are pros at it:
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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sebastiangarof5.bsky.social
The only reason he keeps calling it a Democrat hoax is because he needs to be able to blame someone for his name being all over them. He’s building up the narrative, so his brainwashed supporters have a way to excuse him. 🔄
Now 1,000,000 more pages on Epstein are found. DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat inspired Hoax. When do they say NO MORE, and work on Election Fraud etc. The Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Republicans. Release all of their names, embarrass them, and get back to helping our Country! The Radical Left doesn't want people talking about TRUMP & REPUBLICAN SUCCESS, only a long ago dead Jeffrey Epstein - Just another Witch Hunt.
December 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
callyson.bsky.social
How stupid does the NY Post think we are...oh, right:
briantylercohen.bsky.social Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d
Ah yes. Prior tenants famously control rent prices for subsequent tenants.
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM