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KaronMK
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Love America 🇺🇸 and our U.S. Constitution. Nature lover, hiker, 🥾world traveler. 🌎 I’m peaceful, joyful and grateful. ✨ On an insatiable quest for the truth.✨
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gtconway.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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reuters.com
The Trump era has claimed the two longest U.S. government shutdowns in history. See our Chart of the Week reut.rs/4hohdzs
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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kackbro.bsky.social
CHUMP'S A TRAITOR........
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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theonion.com
Trump Touts Productive Call With Putin About Ballroom Sconces https://theonion.com/trump-touts-productive-call-with-putin-about-ballroom-sconces/
Trump Touts Productive Call With Putin About Ballroom Sconces
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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votevets.org
Doug Krugman is a 24-year Marine Corps veteran who chose to resign rather than participate in Trump's and Hegseth's #ForeverWars. His voice carries the weight of someone who has personally made "life and death targeting calls" in combat zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.
October 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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meidastouch.com
Well, well, well...
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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atrupar.com
Kaitlan Collins responds to Mike Johnson's pearl-clutching about Democrats discussing "leverage" by playing a clip of JD Vance, Russ Vought, and Trump making versions of the same argument. Johnson insists it's different, because reasons.
October 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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bloomberg.com
Republicans in Congress should protect National Parks and other public lands, which bring tourist dollars to their districts (via Bloomberg Opinion)
It’s the Wrong Time to Defund US National Parks
Americans are deeply divided. If there’s one thing we can agree on, it’s that we love our national parks.
bloom.bg
September 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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amyklobuchar.com
For one of my first bills, I worked across the aisle with Senator Olympia Snowe to require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. The Trump administration’s plan to end it takes us backward in the fight against climate change.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Again: Faith leaders *themselves* have long also criticized "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric — including leader's Leavitt's own Catholic tradition.

Here are some examples from the past 24 hours, including a statement from Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Catholic nuns) on the shooting.
Sisters of Mercy Statement on Minnesota Catholic school shooting Today, during the first week of the school year, as children at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis gathered for Mass, a gunman opened fire through the windows of the Church. Two young children were killed and many more were injured; some are in critical condition. The gunman took his own life. The education of children has always been central to our mission as Sisters of Mercy. Many of our sisters have spent their lives in classrooms and have formed young minds, hearts and souls. We deeply grieve today's actions. Our response can no longer be "thoughts and prayers" alone. Children were literally praying during the attack. Our Critical Concern of non-violence underlies our lives and ministry as sisters. We must address this culture of violence with a culture of love. As followers of the nonviolent Christ, we continue to advocate for laws that keep weapons out of the hands of those intent on harm. Guns remain the number one killer of our children and teens. We must act. The obsession with the gun ownership in the United States has denigrated our ability to respect the image of God and human dignity of all persons. We call on our lawmakers and all persons of goodwill to work towards and pray for an end to violence. In response to the shooting in Minneapolis, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, released the following statement: "We are heartbroken by the tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. We pray for a refuah shleimah (a complete healing) for the injured and mourn the two children who were killed. May their loved ones find comfort, and may their memories forever be a blessing. Today, another community is shattered, and more families are in mourning. How many people must experience the terror of gun violence before lawmakers take meaningful action? Thoughts and prayers will never be enough; indeed, the victims themselves were children at prayer. Congress must take immediate action to stop gun violence." Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on the School Shooting in Minnesota August 27, 2025 I have been following news reports on the shooting at Annunciation Church and School in Minnesota. While events are still unfurling, what we know now is that two children ages & and 10 were killed and 17 persons were injured, 14 of them children. Two children are in critical condition. While such shootings have sadly become commonplace, this one hits close to home, not only because it occurred at a Catholic school, but also because the gunman shot through the windows of a church where children and their teachers were praying at the start of a new school year. If any place should have been safe, it should have been there. If any time should have been safe, it should have been then. Tragically, we know no place or time when Americans - even children - are safe from the curse of gun violence. While we join our prayers with others that those injured in body and spirit will heal and that the murdered children will be received into heaven, we must also cry out for action to prevent even one more such tragedy. The facts are clear. Guns are plentiful and common sense attempts to limit their availability have been largely rejected in the name of a freedom not found in our constitution. Cutbacks in funding for health care and social service programs will only exacerbate a national mental health crisis and increase alienation. We therefore pray for those who hold the power to make the safety of our people a national priority. We ask God to give them the courage to take the steps they know will alleviate if not eliminate the fear parents must feel sending their children off to school and Americans feel leaving their homes for simple errands. Surely they must be moved by these shootings. We pray that they will not see them as inevitable because then we will have certainly surrendered our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Please pray and please act…
August 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
August 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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thefarce.org
A reminder that Putin attacked our 2016 elections to collapse democracy from within the United States, and here we are!
By the nuts: Russia's attack on the 2016 election | Ball of Thread | Episode 1
YouTube video by L O L G O P
www.youtube.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
The questions reporters just shouted at Trump and Putin — all of which went unanswered:

President Putin, will you agree to a ceasefire?
Mr. Putin did you underestimate Ukraine?
Mr. Putin, will you stop killing civilians?
President Putin, how can the U.S. trust your word?
August 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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rollingstone.com
Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday to discuss terms for a potential end to Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Ukraine was not in the room.
Trump, Putin Meet to Discuss Terms for Ending Russia's War in Ukraine
Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Friday to discuss terms for a potential end to Russia’s war against Ukraine — without Ukraine’s involvement.
www.rollingstone.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Putin: 🤷🏼‍♂️
August 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“He’s been here 25 years cutting the state’s grass, paying his taxes — never even had a ticket… we got a felon in the White House but these are the people they got in there. Without immigrants this country is gonna go down.” 🇺🇸
August 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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repraulruizmd.bsky.social
We must never forget the heroism of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
 
Since Speaker Johnson refuses to display the memorial plaque, violating federal law, we will keep a replica outside my office until he follows the law.

Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.
August 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
“The question Trump and his team ought to face is simple:

'Why has American job growth slowed this year to a 15-year low?'”

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
New U.S. jobs report shows 2025 is off to a discouragingly sluggish start
Over the first six months of the year, American job growth has slowed to a 15-year low. It's worth asking why.
www.msnbc.com
July 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
“The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office … had significant vacancies ….

“That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas (Gift Article)
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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theonion.com
No One Sure Why Kristi Noem Wearing Firefighter Helmet, Night-Vision Goggles, High Heels, Wet Suit theonion.com/no-one-...
No One Sure Why Kristi Noem Wearing Firefighter Helmet, Night-Vision Goggles, High Heels, Wet Suit
June 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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nikkimcr.bsky.social
Sen. Cory Booker: When you see a democratic nation having their executive begin to arrest mayors, begin to arrest judges, begin to arrest a United States senator who was simply asking for answers to their questions [...] this is something that we should not tolerate.
June 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
"On Saturday evening, June 7, 2025, Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum. One might call it the Usurpation Proclamation...I suspect we aren’t alarmed enough by this presidential order, which has implications far beyond one action in one place."
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-always...
It’s Always Darkest Before It Goes Pitch Black
We’re not alarmed enough by what Trump’s doing in Los Angeles.
www.thebulwark.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
Judge Illston wrote, "agencies may not conduct large-scale reorganizations and reductions in force in blatant disregard of Congress's mandates, and a President may not initiate large-scale executive branch reorganization without partnering with Congress."
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
"Put simply...defendants want the Court to either declare that nine Presidents and twenty-one Congresses did not properly understand the separation of powers, or ignore how the executive branch is implementing large-scale reductions in force and reorganizations. The Court can do neither."
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
GOOD NEWS - A federal judge has indefinitely paused President Trump's sweeping overhaul of the federal government.
A federal judge further halts Trump's radical transformation of government
In her order, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the president may not initiate large-scale executive branch reorganization without approval from Congress.
www.npr.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM