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@seriousorchid.bsky.social
Public school teacher, volunteer, dog enthusiast, introvert.

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Having been deployed to Los Angeles by President Donald Trump in order to quell protests against ICE, U.S. Marines detained their first civilian on Friday: an Army veteran on his way to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Trump’s L.A. Marines Zip-Tie Veteran in First Ever Detention
Marcos Leao was on his way to the VA when he was detained by Marines in Los Angeles.
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June 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Want to stop ICE collaboration in Virginia? Get on the ballot!

Across VA, sheriffs working with ICE are running with no Democratic or independent opposition. There's still time — but not much — to challenge them.

Great article from @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-elections-virginia-2025
“It Blows My Mind That There’s No Opposition”: When ICE Allies Run Unchallenged - Bolts
In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” faces a race to the right against a GOP challenger who wants more immigration enforcement. No Democra...
boltsmag.org
June 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Former Jan. 6 defendant Kyle Colton says Donald Trump's pardon also covers his child pornography charge because it stemmed from the J6 search warrant.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Musk's Twitter is now running paid advertising calling for the extrajudicial execution of protesters in Los Angeles. In most countries around the world, this is a criminal act.
June 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Mullin: What were we ranked nationally in math and reading in 1979?

McMahon: We were very low on the totem pole.

Mullin: We were number one in 1979
June 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.
June 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I feel safer already.
June 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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June 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Sooooooo.

Donald Trump gave Peter Thiel and Palantir a massive contract for mass surveillance of all of us with our data that Elon Musk stole with DOGE?

And all those “big brother” screeching MAGA folks are rolling over and taking it?

🙄
June 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The Drama Dogs Club: Volume 1
May 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🦩: Oh look….the commoners
May 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."
June 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Her answer to cutting Medicaid/Medicare.

All y’all MAGA need to stop voting until you are deprogrammed.
Seriously.
#Voices4Victory
#DemVoice1
May 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Right now, members of the military can't fix their OWN weapons because giant defense contractors won't let them.

Imagine you're up against an enemy, your equipment breaks, and there's nothing you can do about it. Terrifying.

Senator Sheehy and I are teaming up to stop this.
May 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Pay attention Americans.⬇️
May 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Crockett: It is time for Republicans to start calling him out and start questioning his mental acuity, and whether or not he is equipped to serve mentally. We know when it comes down to his criminality, he is not qualified to serve, but this is just absolutely deplorable.
May 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Have you guys noticed that Trump still hasn’t even mentioned the storms in Kentucky that killed at least 30 people? Republicans are pretty quiet about the lack of response too.

Outrage under Biden, silence now that he’s president. That’s how you know he never really cared.
May 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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May 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
May 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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May 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.
May 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM