@defiantinblue.bsky.social
Blue AF. Pro-democracy, pro-human rights, pro-animal rights, pro-environment.
No DMs. No fascists. No Nazis.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum! Sic semper tyrannis
No DMs. No fascists. No Nazis.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum! Sic semper tyrannis
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Arctic Warming Is Turning Alaska’s Rivers Red With Toxic Runoff
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December 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
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This is both disgusting and expected.
The Scumbag-in-Chief
The Scumbag-in-Chief
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is both disgusting and expected.
The Scumbag-in-Chief
The Scumbag-in-Chief
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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This new Politico poll should stop us all in our tracks!
50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.
I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”
50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.
I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”
December 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This new Politico poll should stop us all in our tracks!
50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.
I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”
50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.
I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”
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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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"It's not that we have a unitary executive, but we have a wayward executive...a corrupt executive," @gtconway.bsky.social tells @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social. "We have an executive who defies the law, who fails to execute the laws properly because he doesn't consider himself bound by the laws."
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"It's not that we have a unitary executive, but we have a wayward executive...a corrupt executive," @gtconway.bsky.social tells @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social. "We have an executive who defies the law, who fails to execute the laws properly because he doesn't consider himself bound by the laws."
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Mike Lindell, MyPillow Founder, Announces Run for Minnesota Governor
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December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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By refusing Henning’s request to remove an ICE WAS HERE sign from a Nativity scene outside his church, Father Steve is putting it to the current archbishop. Where do you stand? With perpetrators and those who excuse them, or with victims and those who help them?
By refusing Henning’s request to remove an ICE WAS HERE sign from a Nativity scene outside his church, Father Steve is putting it to the current archbishop. Where do you stand? With perpetrators and those who excuse them, or with victims and those who help them?
Dedham pastor has rebelled against an archbishop before. Now it’s Richard Henning’s turn. - The Boston Globe
The Rev. Stephen Josoma, the pastor of St. Susanna’s in Dedham, is challenging the archdiocese’s leadership on a core tenet of Catholic morality and teaching.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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By refusing Henning’s request to remove an ICE WAS HERE sign from a Nativity scene outside his church, Father Steve is putting it to the current archbishop. Where do you stand? With perpetrators and those who excuse them, or with victims and those who help them?
By refusing Henning’s request to remove an ICE WAS HERE sign from a Nativity scene outside his church, Father Steve is putting it to the current archbishop. Where do you stand? With perpetrators and those who excuse them, or with victims and those who help them?
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left.
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
💔 A European Parliament interpreter could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left.
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
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Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control.
All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control.
All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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"This is not just a matter of aggressive deportation. The things that are being done by our government to our fellow human beings are monstrous."
@monacharen.bsky.social on the abject cruelty of Trump's deportation policy: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn
@monacharen.bsky.social on the abject cruelty of Trump's deportation policy: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn
Trump’s Deportations Are Ripping Mothers from Their Babies
The president’s immigration policy is “beyond inhumane.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"This is not just a matter of aggressive deportation. The things that are being done by our government to our fellow human beings are monstrous."
@monacharen.bsky.social on the abject cruelty of Trump's deportation policy: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn
@monacharen.bsky.social on the abject cruelty of Trump's deportation policy: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
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U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
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December 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Octopus could be the next commercially farmed seafood. Should it be? — Fast Company
They’re clever, they’re otherworldly, and if a growing band of companies and scientists have their way, they’re going to be raised for human consumption. Inside the birth of a new and controversial in...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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House GOP leaders in a private meeting presented no firm plan for advancing health care legislation. Vulnerable members warned of political fallout.
House GOP erupts over health care as leaders hunt for a plan
Speaker Mike Johnson presented a list of concepts that did not include extending expiring Obamacare subsidies.
www.politico.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
House GOP leaders in a private meeting presented no firm plan for advancing health care legislation. Vulnerable members warned of political fallout.
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An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...