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dawnofaquarius.bsky.social
@dawnofaquarius.bsky.social
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Dog lover. 💙💙 Lover of freedom and democracy!💙💙 PA girl.
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atrupar.com
Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"
September 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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usedtobe-ikerot.bsky.social
@mlauriat.bsky.social
@cyn1422.bsky.social

KEEP POSTING THIS..
He refused to let the TV broadcasters air the booing as if we wouldn't find out he was rude so posting this information will kill hm..he can't take humiliation
amysiskind.com Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · Sep 7
womp womp.
September 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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reuters.com
Homeland Security's Noem says in talks with five Republican-led states to build detention site reut.rs/4nGVmWR
Homeland Security's Noem says in talks with five Republican-led states to build detention site
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Saturday that she was in talks with five Republican-led states to build another detention site inspired by the "Alligator Alcatraz" facility in Florida.
reut.rs
July 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Scorned billionaire girlfriends to anti-Tesla activist should also be studied. These threats to western civilization can’t be taken lightly.
March 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
dawnofaquarius.bsky.social
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democracydocket.com Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Mar 31
BREAKING: @democrats.org sues Trump over his executive order to impose new voting rules. The Democrats claim the order illegally overrides state control of elections, a power the Constitution grants only to states and Congress. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Democrats Sue to Block Trump Bid to Control Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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davidgilbert.bsky.social
This weekend, the so-called "Tesla Shield" came out to defend Elon Musk and counter the #TeslaTakedown protests.

Among those taking part:

• MAGA
• Proud Boys
• Armed Militias
• And a guy dressed as Hitler

www.wired.com/story/proud-...
March 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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spydoggy.bsky.social
Is everybody caught up to the fact that this is a giant scam and #wisconsin people should know about it?
kronn.bsky.social Kurt Ronn @kronn.bsky.social · Mar 31
Nicholas Jacobs, chair of the Wisconsin College Republicans and a rising GOP operative, has locked his Twitter account following intense backlash over his acceptance of a $1 million check from Elon Musk. #Scam

meidasnews.com/news/republi...
Republican Operative Nicholas Jacobs Locks Twitter After Elon Musk Check Controversy
Jacobs received a $1M check from Musk at a rally in support of Brad Schimel
meidasnews.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Oligarchs buying elections with million dollar giveaways. Hopefully people in Wisconsin won’t allow the South African to purchase a seat on your Supreme Court just like he bought the US federal government.
March 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Getting ready for the day.
March 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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therickwilson.bsky.social
What the actual fuck:
March 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
dawnofaquarius.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
Trump says his administration is “actively monitoring the severe tornadoes and storms” that have already hit multiple states.

These storms need to be monitored beforehand. Trump’s DOGE cut NOAA. People are now dead.
March 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The Trump regime is reportedly planning to gut a unit within the DOJ that prosecutes corruption by elected officials.

This comes after Trump's DOJ dropped bribery charges against Eric Adams and suspended enforcement of a foreign anti-bribery law.

"Drain the swamp."
March 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
I am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt.

Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
March 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Friends,

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March 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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muellershewrote.com
For those asking “If it’s up to us, what can we do?”

I recommend joining your local @indivisible.org chapter. Grow your community. You’re not alone.

We also hand out daily Good Trouble assignments on our free news pod: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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March 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.
February 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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meidastouch.com
ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.
Sepsis Rates Soared in Texas After Abortion Ban: Report
Women in Texas are forced to wait with dangerous infections due to extremist anti-choice laws
meidasnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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libradunn1.bsky.social
Seems legit....

We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.
February 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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bondangle.bsky.social
Great work here by @stevanzetti.bsky.social and #TexasObserver.
This is why I support independent journalism.
stevanzetti.bsky.social steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · Feb 19
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
The “free speech absolutist” owner of X doesn’t like the output of the Community Notes program he has previously championed, so he puts his massive thumb on that scale to ensure it’s labels align with his twisted view of reality.
shayan86.bsky.social Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · Feb 20
Elon Musk says he's going to "fix" X's community notes system because he disagrees with a note on President Trump's claim that Zelensky has a 4% approval rating in Ukraine.

Musk also claims community notes are "being gamed by governments & legacy media", but provides no evidence for that claim.
February 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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prasad.bsky.social
“I'm not the President. I don't pay lip service to the Constitution or my love of country. I live it. It's in the very core of my soul.

For these reasons, I resign my position as the Director of the NIH Executive Secretariat effective at midnight, February 28, 2025.

Semper Fidelis”
iwashyna.bsky.social Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Feb 20
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 18, 2024 TO: Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH CC: John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH FROM: Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH SUBJECT: Resignation Dear Dr. Memoli, On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment: I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included: • For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system. • Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats. • Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them. • Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn. • Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity. I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind. As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha… to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
February 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
in case yall don’t know one big reason a rich guy might move to Texas is the state limits child support to $1840/mo (for one child) no matter how much money he has
Is there a Texas Child Support Cap? Yes, there is a maximum amount of child support in Texas. According to Texas divorce laws, the maximum child support for $1,840 per month for one child, $2,300 per month for two children, $2760 for three children, $3,220 for four children, and $3,680 for five children or more. State law sets a maximum limit on the monthly income used to calculate child support, which is $9,200 per month. The child support percentage in Texas would not apply to income over that amount, save and except for very limited circumstances.
February 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Garcia: The fact that the Trump DOJ now wants to silence members of Congress because we’re actually willing to take on Elon Musk is quite dangerous.

It’s incredibly disturbing. But we’re not going to be silenced. We’ve got to push back.
February 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM