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@tiffinjames.bsky.social
Liberal, ally to marginalized, Anti TrumpMAGA. Quilter, harpist, organist, pianist, singer, cross stitcher, former med transcriptionist. Married >50 yrs. Raised in Memphis, now Mainer. Hair-trigger blocking now with MAGA infiltrating BlueSky.
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I won’t condemn Republicans who decide to turn away from Trump going forward, but let us be clear: Theirs would be no *ethical* repentance. Those with ethics would have turned long ago. Anyone now deciding to pull their toes out of the MAGA pool are doing so ONLY for self-preservation.
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How many more tragic stories do people need to hear? It’s time to DO SOMETHING! This is positively devastating and should not happen to anyone!!
February 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Insight from Heather Delaney Reese
February 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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February 15, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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This piece has been viewed over 14 million times over the last 48 hours. Unbelievable.

I'm so encouraged to see how many people are as disgusted by this as I am.

Sometimes you just need to be reminded that you're not alone.

Keep fighting, good people!

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-pam-b...
Dear Pam Bondi, (A Letter From A Father)
Dear Ms Bondi,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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Legacy media is a major reason we find ourselves in the situation we're in.US media has been sane washing& normalizing Trump (Putin)propaganda for 10 years!You'd think they'd have learned something yet they continue taking trump at his word,writing headlines&doing TV reports using his lies verbatim
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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"The tech companies can choose whether or not to provide the information...

"Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Because it’s not really about trying to get troops to vote Republican-that would be bad enough. It’s about conditioning the military to obey a man and not their oath to the Constitution. It’s why Hegseth & Trump were so adamant about prosecuting the 6 Dems who spoke up about it.
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?
At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
www.nbcnews.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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“The right people voting”, that sends shivers down my spine. As a judge of elections, I want all registered voters to be able and free to vote without fear or intimidation. So help me if anyone tries to interfere with that basic right. Please VOTE
February 14, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Trump has stripped the EPA of its power to fight climate change.

If left unchecked, climate change will destroy Maine's lobster industry. It will decimate our fisheries across the board. The rapid warming of the gulf of Maine is a fundamental threat to our entire way of life.
February 13, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Narrator: "He lost the popular vote in 2016 by about 2.9 million votes."
Trump speaking at Fort Bragg: "The first time, I won but they say I didn't win the popular vote. You know I did. I won it by a lot."
February 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Reuters Exclusive:

The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from USAID, the former U.S. foreign aid agency, to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul cut thousands of federal jobs.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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Petition to make "I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future" the opening paragraph on every legal brief going forward.
“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!”
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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Please please dear Lord . . . let us get back to a decent human being leading our country!
#Obama
This made me ugly cry 😭

I will never claim that he was perfect…every president in my lifetime has pissed me off for one reason or another.
But…dammit, I’m so tired of the constant feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty 😔
February 13, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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SO many jaw dropping revelations in this, from them firing 80% of the career ICE field leadership, to Noem's appeals to Republicans to write op-eds backing her, to Lewandowski firing people who wouldn't authorize a gun, to hiring back the fired pilot because they had no one else to fly them home.
The Wall Street Journal story on Noem and Lewandowski is just a bus running over them, backing up, running over them again, and on and on. A line of admin officials waiting to get their turn at the wheel.

Paywalled at WSJ, free at MSN (good biz model)

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
MSN
www.msn.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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I just almost fainted, a wave of blankness rolled across my vision. We can never, never allow this to pass into a new media cycle, whatever it means for our future.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Amen to this!
It is impossible to represent working people, to represent those who labor and those who struggle, and also represent those who exploit us.

The Democratic Party must choose.
February 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Nearly 60% of Americans are Millennials or younger. Yet we make up just 4% of the U.S. Senate.

No wonder we don't feel represented. Because we aren't.
February 13, 2026 at 12:21 AM