Pat H
@peacedance22.bsky.social
My desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to be sane
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2nd photo here, also by Vondruska
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November 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
2nd photo here, also by Vondruska
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America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
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“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
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Door Dash report?!?!
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Door Dash report?!?!
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feel like not nearly enough people are talking about this — apparently the democratic “yes” votes have effectively agreed to having the u.s. government write 6 republican senators $500k checks?
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
feel like not nearly enough people are talking about this — apparently the democratic “yes” votes have effectively agreed to having the u.s. government write 6 republican senators $500k checks?
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A Canadian company is servicing ICE flights?!
🧊✈️ Hello, Collaborator🖕
ICE Air flights at Seattle are now being refueled and serviced by SkyService, which is a... (checks notes)
😲 Canadian company 🇨🇦
Hmm...
ICE Air flights at Seattle are now being refueled and serviced by SkyService, which is a... (checks notes)
😲 Canadian company 🇨🇦
Hmm...
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A Canadian company is servicing ICE flights?!
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Republican Senators slipped this nugget into the CR last night. Rigging the legal system to give $500,000 or more to each of them because someone followed the facts and looked at their phone records. That’s your money folks.
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Republican Senators slipped this nugget into the CR last night. Rigging the legal system to give $500,000 or more to each of them because someone followed the facts and looked at their phone records. That’s your money folks.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶🇺🇸🐸💃🐸🕺🐸
Joy is strategy.
n a noisy, brutal news cycle, artists like Jesse Welles remind us: songs, satire, and porch-style folk crack open hearts and build power.
Dance, sing, make art—then organize.
#PrioritizeJoy #Nonviolence
#ArtOfResistance
Joy is strategy.
n a noisy, brutal news cycle, artists like Jesse Welles remind us: songs, satire, and porch-style folk crack open hearts and build power.
Dance, sing, make art—then organize.
#PrioritizeJoy #Nonviolence
#ArtOfResistance
An NPR piece on Trump-era protest songs, covering Jesse Welles, Jensen McRae and Mon Rovia.
There's a new generation of folk protest singers on TikTok
Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music that cuts through the noise.
www.npr.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶🇺🇸🐸💃🐸🕺🐸
Joy is strategy.
n a noisy, brutal news cycle, artists like Jesse Welles remind us: songs, satire, and porch-style folk crack open hearts and build power.
Dance, sing, make art—then organize.
#PrioritizeJoy #Nonviolence
#ArtOfResistance
Joy is strategy.
n a noisy, brutal news cycle, artists like Jesse Welles remind us: songs, satire, and porch-style folk crack open hearts and build power.
Dance, sing, make art—then organize.
#PrioritizeJoy #Nonviolence
#ArtOfResistance
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New in PN: Cue the rebellion
"The unfortunate conclusion to the shutdown is going to fuel a rebellion within the Democratic Party, one that has already begun but will only get stronger. And despite all the justified disgust now being expressed at Dems, in the long run it will be good for the party"
"The unfortunate conclusion to the shutdown is going to fuel a rebellion within the Democratic Party, one that has already begun but will only get stronger. And despite all the justified disgust now being expressed at Dems, in the long run it will be good for the party"
Cue the rebellion
The Democratic base is enraged at their party's capitulation — and that's a good thing.
www.publicnotice.co
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
New in PN: Cue the rebellion
"The unfortunate conclusion to the shutdown is going to fuel a rebellion within the Democratic Party, one that has already begun but will only get stronger. And despite all the justified disgust now being expressed at Dems, in the long run it will be good for the party"
"The unfortunate conclusion to the shutdown is going to fuel a rebellion within the Democratic Party, one that has already begun but will only get stronger. And despite all the justified disgust now being expressed at Dems, in the long run it will be good for the party"
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For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
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Hey! If you’re tired of your leaders giving up on you and your access to affordable healthcare, follow us here at Indivisible Virginia! We’re the Official Indivisible Virginia Bluesky page, and we’re ready to help people take action in this critical moment. More to come!
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Hey! If you’re tired of your leaders giving up on you and your access to affordable healthcare, follow us here at Indivisible Virginia! We’re the Official Indivisible Virginia Bluesky page, and we’re ready to help people take action in this critical moment. More to come!
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It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
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That said I am lifting up the Senators who I KNOW fought, like my own @vanhollen.senate.gov. We need to press those Senators to demand a different kind of leadership internally. There’s still a lot more work ahead and we need the leadership to be chastened.
I have come to believe this as well. The list is too strange. I don’t think a majority wanted to cave, but many more than the 8.
I think that these 8 Senators are falling on the sword for Schumer and other Senators who wanted the shutdown to end. This allows the majority of Senators to save face; and only retiring or not up for reelection Senators take the heat.
It’s a ruse.
It’s a ruse.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
That said I am lifting up the Senators who I KNOW fought, like my own @vanhollen.senate.gov. We need to press those Senators to demand a different kind of leadership internally. There’s still a lot more work ahead and we need the leadership to be chastened.
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Former VA Del. Mark Levine (D): "I’m really surprised a Senator I know personally and have long respected is this naive. Kaine isn’t stupid. But his justification for bowing down to King Donald is so illogical that it insults any thinking Virginian." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Former VA Del. Mark Levine (D): "I’m really surprised a Senator I know personally and have long respected is this naive. Kaine isn’t stupid. But his justification for bowing down to King Donald is so illogical that it insults any thinking Virginian." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
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Virginians deserve the right to marry who they love — full stop. I’m relieved that the Supreme Court decided to maintain this landmark precedent.
Virginia, come January, know that you will have a Governor who will always protect your right to marry.
Virginia, come January, know that you will have a Governor who will always protect your right to marry.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Virginians deserve the right to marry who they love — full stop. I’m relieved that the Supreme Court decided to maintain this landmark precedent.
Virginia, come January, know that you will have a Governor who will always protect your right to marry.
Virginia, come January, know that you will have a Governor who will always protect your right to marry.
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US Sen. @kaine.senate.gov explains his vote: "Now we’ve got robust SNAP funding and...a guaranteed vote on ACA tax credits...restoration of all the furloughed employees and a guarantee of their backpay...& a guarantee of no RIFs...going forward" bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
US Sen. @kaine.senate.gov explains his vote: "Now we’ve got robust SNAP funding and...a guaranteed vote on ACA tax credits...restoration of all the furloughed employees and a guarantee of their backpay...& a guarantee of no RIFs...going forward" bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
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“This was a very very bad vote”
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“This was a very very bad vote”
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"[Ecstatic] that our country has evolved to where this is now a mainstream position even upheld by a right wing Supreme Court." - @SenLouiseLucas bluevirginia.us/2025/11/mond...
!["I cast my first vote against a ban on same sex marriage in 1996. We lost 38-2 with only myself and Senator Whipple voting no. [Ecstatic] that our country has evolved to where this is now a mainstream position even upheld by a right wing Supreme Court." - Sen. Louise Lucas](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlan7kocyn37uzb25btjt2cc/bafkreie4dxo63c5e5m2d5xta4scepk5zmuvg54funqv2s4lghlzn2i5iyq@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"[Ecstatic] that our country has evolved to where this is now a mainstream position even upheld by a right wing Supreme Court." - @SenLouiseLucas bluevirginia.us/2025/11/mond...