Ekmou she/her
@ekmou.bsky.social
Moderate when it comes to politics, Conservative when it comes to ethics! Interested in politics, writing, and education, mostly. Heart and repost do not indicate support, just importance. We need to be alert to the dangers to democracy.
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“We have the truth. And the FBI knows the truth. The government knows the truth,” Robson said. “You may pull the wool over the sheep’s eyes, but we are the keys, we know who was involved.”
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September 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“We have the truth. And the FBI knows the truth. The government knows the truth,” Robson said. “You may pull the wool over the sheep’s eyes, but we are the keys, we know who was involved.”
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🧊⚠️✈️ HEADS UP COLORADO‼️
👉 ICE Air inbound to DEN
Avelo 737 – Tail: N805VL 👀
🧊⚠️✈️ HEADS UP COLORADO‼️
👉 ICE Air inbound to DEN
Avelo 737 – Tail: N805VL 👀
September 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🧊⚠️✈️ HEADS UP COLORADO‼️
👉 ICE Air inbound to DEN
Avelo 737 – Tail: N805VL 👀
🧊⚠️✈️ HEADS UP COLORADO‼️
👉 ICE Air inbound to DEN
Avelo 737 – Tail: N805VL 👀
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Americans love vaccines. They don’t love Trump.
New polling shows overwhelming support for shots—and weak approval for everything Trump touches.
New polling shows overwhelming support for shots—and weak approval for everything Trump touches.
Americans continue to really dislike Trump and the things he does
A new poll shows Trump languishing across a range of his signature issues, from trade to immigration.
www.motherjones.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Americans love vaccines. They don’t love Trump.
New polling shows overwhelming support for shots—and weak approval for everything Trump touches.
New polling shows overwhelming support for shots—and weak approval for everything Trump touches.
@atro.bsky.social How is this man keeping his medical license? The American Medical Association needs to police its members or risk ruining their brand.
TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?
LADAPO: Absolutely not
T: You didn't even do a projection?
L: It's an issue of right & wrong
LADAPO: Absolutely not
T: You didn't even do a projection?
L: It's an issue of right & wrong
September 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
@atro.bsky.social How is this man keeping his medical license? The American Medical Association needs to police its members or risk ruining their brand.
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Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.
They're middle class and insured. Childbirth still left them with crippling debt.
Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.
nbcnews.to
September 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.
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Trump fucked up the U.S. economy even faster this time than he did during his first term.
September 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Trump fucked up the U.S. economy even faster this time than he did during his first term.
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"I made close to 2,000 phone calls total. I spoke to billionaires, CEOs, bankers, models, celebrities, scientists, a Kennedy, and some of Epstein’s closest friends and confidants."
Here's what we learned from the "Holy Grail" featuring 1,571 names.
Here's what we learned from the "Holy Grail" featuring 1,571 names.
I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
www.motherjones.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"I made close to 2,000 phone calls total. I spoke to billionaires, CEOs, bankers, models, celebrities, scientists, a Kennedy, and some of Epstein’s closest friends and confidants."
Here's what we learned from the "Holy Grail" featuring 1,571 names.
Here's what we learned from the "Holy Grail" featuring 1,571 names.
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Trump and his allies are plotting to subvert elections — from “emergency powers” to nationwide gerrymanders. Media silence is deafening. We’re covering it.
Here’s what you missed, and exactly what you need to know.
Here’s what you missed, and exactly what you need to know.
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Read more here.
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September 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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SEN. DURBIN: “.. I take it very seriously that he is instilling fear in the hearts of a lot of people. .. That is his intention, and it’s working.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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September 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
SEN. DURBIN: “.. I take it very seriously that he is instilling fear in the hearts of a lot of people. .. That is his intention, and it’s working.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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The 69-year-old actor and veterans' advocate had been scheduled to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer award at an official ceremony and parade on Sept. 25.
West Point alumni group scraps prestigious award celebrations honoring Tom Hanks
The 69-year-old actor and veterans' advocate had been scheduled to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer award at an official ceremony and parade on Sept. 25.
n.pr
September 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The 69-year-old actor and veterans' advocate had been scheduled to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer award at an official ceremony and parade on Sept. 25.
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A whistleblower has revealed that DOGE staffers uploaded millions of Americans' Social Security information to an unauthorized server.
The Trump administration's recklessness with our data should be a wake-up call that it's time to update our decades-old laws so that our privacy is truly protected.
The Trump administration's recklessness with our data should be a wake-up call that it's time to update our decades-old laws so that our privacy is truly protected.
DOGE mishandled your Social Security data. Here’s what that means.
A whistleblower alleges that staffers with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency have exposed with Americans’ Social Security numbers.
www.msnbc.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A whistleblower has revealed that DOGE staffers uploaded millions of Americans' Social Security information to an unauthorized server.
The Trump administration's recklessness with our data should be a wake-up call that it's time to update our decades-old laws so that our privacy is truly protected.
The Trump administration's recklessness with our data should be a wake-up call that it's time to update our decades-old laws so that our privacy is truly protected.
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Unless you are female, of course.
Desantis’s surgeon general on why they abolished mandatory child vaccinations: “You have sovereignty over your body.” bsky.app/profile/atru...
LADAPO: I'm not alone. It just so happens that most of the people who have largely microphones tend to align with the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics
TAPPER: I'm kinda shocked you have not done any projection or data analysis of what this is going to mean for kids
TAPPER: I'm kinda shocked you have not done any projection or data analysis of what this is going to mean for kids
September 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Unless you are female, of course.
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September 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Yesterday Trump announced his treasonous plan to wage war against we, the people in Chicago. Today, this grotesque figure is planning to attend the U.S. Open tennis final, poisoning what should be a day for excitement, relief and pleasure.
September 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yesterday Trump announced his treasonous plan to wage war against we, the people in Chicago. Today, this grotesque figure is planning to attend the U.S. Open tennis final, poisoning what should be a day for excitement, relief and pleasure.
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"Kennedy isn’t advocating sensible reform; he wants to burn down the public health apparatus and rebuild it in his image to push his anti-science beliefs." nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...
RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health
Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.
nypost.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Kennedy isn’t advocating sensible reform; he wants to burn down the public health apparatus and rebuild it in his image to push his anti-science beliefs." nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...
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Not for nothing, the character in Apocalypse Now that he’s quoting, Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, spoke this line “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” while he was in the process of committing heinous war crimes, murdering an entire village of Vietnamese civilians with Napalm.
September 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Not for nothing, the character in Apocalypse Now that he’s quoting, Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, spoke this line “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” while he was in the process of committing heinous war crimes, murdering an entire village of Vietnamese civilians with Napalm.
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Moore: "The National Guard is responsible during this occupation for 744 cubic yards of mulch spread, 886 bags of trash collected, 27 feet of fence pained...We did not have to ask these citizen soldiers to give up their lives and have Americans pay so we could paint fences."
September 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Moore: "The National Guard is responsible during this occupation for 744 cubic yards of mulch spread, 886 bags of trash collected, 27 feet of fence pained...We did not have to ask these citizen soldiers to give up their lives and have Americans pay so we could paint fences."
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To the politicians claiming our nation was founded by white Christians, we would like you to remember who was here first. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t white Christians.)
Attempting to erase culture and history to fit a narrative will never succeed.
truthout.org/articles/fac...
Attempting to erase culture and history to fit a narrative will never succeed.
truthout.org/articles/fac...
Facing Defunding, Indigenous Cultural Workers Say They Cannot Be Suppressed
The proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities threatens Indigenous libraries and arts programs.
truthout.org
September 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
To the politicians claiming our nation was founded by white Christians, we would like you to remember who was here first. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t white Christians.)
Attempting to erase culture and history to fit a narrative will never succeed.
truthout.org/articles/fac...
Attempting to erase culture and history to fit a narrative will never succeed.
truthout.org/articles/fac...
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Q: Do you think Russia intentionally targeted an American factory?
Zelensky: "Putin knows what he's doing."
Zelensky: "Putin knows what he's doing."
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Q: Do you think Russia intentionally targeted an American factory?
Zelensky: "Putin knows what he's doing."
Zelensky: "Putin knows what he's doing."
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Rep. Massie on Speaker Johnson claiming Trump was an FBI informant on Epstein:
"I don't know what that's all about. I think the speaker needs to clarify that. And if it's a hoax, why was Donald Trump an informant to a hoax?"
"I don't know what that's all about. I think the speaker needs to clarify that. And if it's a hoax, why was Donald Trump an informant to a hoax?"
September 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Rep. Massie on Speaker Johnson claiming Trump was an FBI informant on Epstein:
"I don't know what that's all about. I think the speaker needs to clarify that. And if it's a hoax, why was Donald Trump an informant to a hoax?"
"I don't know what that's all about. I think the speaker needs to clarify that. And if it's a hoax, why was Donald Trump an informant to a hoax?"
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I wondered if they realized how much the raid would hurt and disrupt the plant's development and production (short and long-term), but then realized that either wasn't a concern or a very low priority compared to the current administration's strategies for immigration and trade with other countries.
September 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I wondered if they realized how much the raid would hurt and disrupt the plant's development and production (short and long-term), but then realized that either wasn't a concern or a very low priority compared to the current administration's strategies for immigration and trade with other countries.
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Still trying to understand the Hyundai ICE raid. Supposedly a months-long investigation that... picked up people here on visas, permanent residents, and U.S. citizens?
I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Still trying to understand the Hyundai ICE raid. Supposedly a months-long investigation that... picked up people here on visas, permanent residents, and U.S. citizens?
I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees.
🤔
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
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"Taken together, Trump’s eight power flows: expansion, destruction, rule by Executive Order, unification as forced capitulation, erasing inconvenient truths, retribution, militarization, and brand-marking the White House are an authoritarian consolidation of power in the person of Donald Trump."
September 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Taken together, Trump’s eight power flows: expansion, destruction, rule by Executive Order, unification as forced capitulation, erasing inconvenient truths, retribution, militarization, and brand-marking the White House are an authoritarian consolidation of power in the person of Donald Trump."
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Well, well, well, turns out the minute wasn’t missing after all.
Thus far, the Trump administration has not publicly addressed its previous incorrect statements about the video footage. trib.al/ViOpWos
Thus far, the Trump administration has not publicly addressed its previous incorrect statements about the video footage. trib.al/ViOpWos
September 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Well, well, well, turns out the minute wasn’t missing after all.
Thus far, the Trump administration has not publicly addressed its previous incorrect statements about the video footage. trib.al/ViOpWos
Thus far, the Trump administration has not publicly addressed its previous incorrect statements about the video footage. trib.al/ViOpWos
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Ghoulish behavior.
DeSantis celebrates as appeals court blocks dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz
“We are going to continue leading the way when it comes to immigration enforcement.”
www.motherjones.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ghoulish behavior.