rayfonz.bsky.social
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This is very very very trumpy
April 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Welcome !
Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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JUST IN: After criticism, the National Park Service has restored an old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman.
After a backlash, National Park Service restores old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman | CNN
The National Park Service seems to have returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad, following backlash after her presence on the page was dramatical...
www.cnn.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Free marketeers Bezos and Musk doing very well out of federal government contracts.
www.spaceforce.mil
April 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Going live on Substack at 9am PT / 12pm ET for Is It Legal?
This week: The Supreme Court cleared the way for Venezuelan deportations — but can the U.S. really deport people without due process?

Join me here: harrylitman.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“The Justice Department’s pardon attorney was dismissed a day after she refused to recommend that the actor Mel Gibson, a prominent supporter of President Trump’s, should have his gun rights restored, according to the attorney and others familiar with the situation.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Russia said it was hit by a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack overnight Tuesday, hours ahead of critical talks between officials from Washington and Kyiv.
Russia says it was hit by ‘massive’ drone attack ahead of crucial talks between US and Ukraine | CNN
Russia said it was hit by a “massive” drone attack overnight Tuesday, hours ahead of critical talks between officials from Washington and Kyiv.
www.cnn.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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(h/t: @the.language.nerds)
February 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
February 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Stephen Miller and Homan’s goal is to shock and awe blue cities to terrify whole communities. They’ll deliberately targeting businesses, schools, hospitals churches and other places of worship. They want Americans to be afraid. Mayors and governors must stand up to them. Lawyers get on standby.
January 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified nominee for Secretary of Defense in modern history.

He should be rejected by the Senate.
January 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.
January 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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"1,500 people die each year in #homelessness...
Advocates say no one who’s homeless should be left to die."

Wrong answer.
No-one should be homeless in a nation as wealthy as Australia.

Insufficient secure, affordable housing is a policy choice.
A deadly one.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Almost 1,500 homeless Australians die prematurely each year. This family hopes the death of their loved one won’t be in vain
Advocates say they are struggling to place people experiencing homelessness in secure housing, resulting in preventable deaths
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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"Trump’s election was a response to the cruel failures of neoliberalism, but it will also be their ultimate expression. It was a response to the corruption of the political system by private money. And it will be the system’s ultimate corruption." - George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot
Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"Biden’s threatens to be a disappearing presidency, reduced to an ellipsis between the two Trump administrations, judged solely by its tragic end.

...His vision of America is one that no longer exists, if it ever did." @emmashortis.bsky.social & Liam Byrne.
theconversation.com/joe-bidens-p...
Joe Biden’s presidency will be remembered as one that did not match the times, and a leader who failed to realise it
While the president achieved significant successes, especially early in his tenure, his presidency will be remembered as one that did not suit the times.
theconversation.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Everything Pres Biden anticipated is now happening!
Thank you, President Joe Biden for so many things.

*Inflation Reduction Act
*Lower RX Drugs
*Capping Insulin at $35 for people on Medicare
*For the AMAZING economy we now have
and SO many others.

But most of all, thank you for your compassion & 1460 restful nights of sleep.

YOU WILL BE SO MISSED!
January 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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President Biden has stood by California in our toughest moments over the past four years — right through to the end, as we battle and recover from the devastating fires in Los Angeles.
January 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Rep. James Clyburn gives President Biden a gift at an event celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. in South Carolina and calls Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin his "almost homeboy."

💕
January 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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President Biden to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at an event for MLK in South Carolina:

"He has a heart as big as his head."

I'm gonna miss Joe.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
January 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Sen. Slotkin asking Hegseth if there is ever an illegal order that could come from the Commander-in-Chief & if he’d refuse to comply, and Hegseth refuses to answer the question.
January 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN?

Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia

Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN
January 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM