Erie
@empoweredswan.bsky.social
Eternally hopeful Love will win the day. Looking to find joyful warriors to work with to make it happen 💜🦋🪶🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸
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Erie
@empoweredswan.bsky.social
· Feb 23
She Rides
She Rides into battle, sword drawn, pointed forward.
She rides
She rides toward an enemy attacking Her land.
She rides into the fray, pulling attackers off the vulnerable.
She rides. & she does not hide.
When it is over, she drops her sword and returns to planting seeds in Her garden
She Rides into battle, sword drawn, pointed forward.
She rides
She rides toward an enemy attacking Her land.
She rides into the fray, pulling attackers off the vulnerable.
She rides. & she does not hide.
When it is over, she drops her sword and returns to planting seeds in Her garden
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Lesson: Never plot a coup.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro exhausts appeals, will have to serve 27-year sentence: court
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Lesson: Never plot a coup.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.
Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Two polls released today have Trump at 35% job approval, his lowest yet.
35%-62% ARG
35%-56% High Point University
Economist/YouGov track had him at 38%-57%, their lowest reading this year. He just keeps dropping.
Wag the dog time!
Data and graph from fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
35%-62% ARG
35%-56% High Point University
Economist/YouGov track had him at 38%-57%, their lowest reading this year. He just keeps dropping.
Wag the dog time!
Data and graph from fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
FiftyPlusOne - Latest Political Polls and Averages
A comprehensive list of polls and polling averages for elections and politician approval.
fiftyplusone.news
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Two polls released today have Trump at 35% job approval, his lowest yet.
35%-62% ARG
35%-56% High Point University
Economist/YouGov track had him at 38%-57%, their lowest reading this year. He just keeps dropping.
Wag the dog time!
Data and graph from fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
35%-62% ARG
35%-56% High Point University
Economist/YouGov track had him at 38%-57%, their lowest reading this year. He just keeps dropping.
Wag the dog time!
Data and graph from fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
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This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
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This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.
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This is beyond embarrassing.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the U.S. “authored” a 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, after a Republican senator asserted that Rubio had distanced himself from the proposal and called it a Russian initiative.
Rubio Insists U.S. Authored the Ukraine Peace Plan
The comment from Secretary of State Marco Rubio came after a group of U.S. lawmakers claimed that he said the plan was a Russian initiative, not a U.S. proposal.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is beyond embarrassing.
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
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Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
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“Home Deport”.
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$HD
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“Home Deport”.
$HD
$HD
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Any one who considers themselves to be part of the pro-democracy movement in the United States needs to be calling their Senators and House Member this week to demand they fight Trump's selling out of Ukraine. We need to be very, very loud this week.
Congress just loudly rebuked Trump on his rancid Epstein cover up.
Now it must rebuke him for attempting to surrender Ukraine to Putin. Let’s work together to deliver a very loud vote of “no confidence” in the days ahead.
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/congress-l...
Now it must rebuke him for attempting to surrender Ukraine to Putin. Let’s work together to deliver a very loud vote of “no confidence” in the days ahead.
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/congress-l...
Congress Rebuked Trump On His Epstein Cover Up. Now It Must Rebuke Him On His Surrendering Of Ukraine To Putin
“The President’s appeasement plan to Russia is forcing our hand" - Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.)
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Any one who considers themselves to be part of the pro-democracy movement in the United States needs to be calling their Senators and House Member this week to demand they fight Trump's selling out of Ukraine. We need to be very, very loud this week.
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Important thread
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Important thread
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#UPDATE Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday he will not "betray" his country as he pushed back on a US plan to end the war on terms favourable to Moscow, acknowledging he risked losing Washington as an ally ➡️ u.afp.com/ShoL
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#UPDATE Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday he will not "betray" his country as he pushed back on a US plan to end the war on terms favourable to Moscow, acknowledging he risked losing Washington as an ally ➡️ u.afp.com/ShoL
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Some thoughts on the Ukraine peace process.
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-ru...
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-ru...
The U.S. Must Not Push Ukraine Into an Unjust, Unstable Peace
It would be a moral betrayal and a strategic blunder.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Some thoughts on the Ukraine peace process.
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-ru...
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-ru...
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Friends call your Senators and House Member and demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine and Europe.
Every Dem elected at every level of government should be denouncing this rancid appeasement of Putin.
Every Dem elected at every level of government should be denouncing this rancid appeasement of Putin.
In an historic betrayal a weakened and desperate Trump has taken Putin's side, and we must fight this with everything we got👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/after-his-...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/after-his-...
After His Electoral and Epstein Humiliations, Trump Takes Putin's Side In Ukraine, Threatens To Hang Democrats In Congress, Preps For War With Venezuela
As he grows weaker and his many manifest failures impossible to ignore, our malevolent and desperate leader is becoming more dangerous
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Friends call your Senators and House Member and demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine and Europe.
Every Dem elected at every level of government should be denouncing this rancid appeasement of Putin.
Every Dem elected at every level of government should be denouncing this rancid appeasement of Putin.
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More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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Trump is gonna mess around and organize this entire country for the resistance.
Unintended consequences can be brutal.
Unintended consequences can be brutal.
When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone.
This is what community looks like.💙
This is what community looks like.💙
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Trump is gonna mess around and organize this entire country for the resistance.
Unintended consequences can be brutal.
Unintended consequences can be brutal.
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When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone.
This is what community looks like.💙
This is what community looks like.💙
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone.
This is what community looks like.💙
This is what community looks like.💙
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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