Divagate
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Divagate
@divagate.bsky.social
Definition: to stray or wander off topic.
I'll add a bio at some point. Or not.
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Seeking a social media home that hasn't been ruined by the tech bros. I miss the simpler days of MySpace.
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The American people deserve answers, and it’s time for the DOJ and FBI to provide them.

While we appreciate that the Epstein estate has been transparent, it’s time for the Administration to do their part.
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Epstein offered the NY Times photos of Trump with young girls in bikinis during his first campaign in 2015.

The NY Times declined them because they were just too busy hyperventilating over Hillary’s private email server.

Support independent media.
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Great idea!!
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Poverty is a policy decision.

Concentrated wealth is a policy decision.

Inequality is a policy decision.

Remember this.
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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There are more of us than there are of them. #NoKings
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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One child going hungry in America is one too many – this used to be a value we could all agree upon.

The Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans need to do their damn job and start delivering for the American people.

Enough is enough.
October 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
October 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.
October 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Today I wrote about the importance of not falling into the trap of allowing career prosecutors to legitimize political prosecutions. Become a Democracy Docket member to receive all of my writings and other exclusive content while also supporting independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
October 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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In Bemidji and across the country, Americans will see their premiums double or even triple if Congressional Republicans refuse to work with us to extend the health care tax credits.

Hardworking families don’t have an extra $14,400 lying around. We need to stop this health care crisis.
October 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.
October 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Respect to those who got here first.
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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You need to fix this @cnn.com.
Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.
October 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.
Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...
www.washingtonpost.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Last year they claimed “illegals” were voting, without any evidence.

They used fear mongering to push for voter suppression laws.

Now they claim “illegals” are getting free healthcare, again without any evidence.

So they can make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Enough.
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM