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Shmade56
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Retired ATC, pilot, herder of cats. Blue dot in a red state. Support Ukraine.
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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
I think it’s good that Dems are competing re how aggressively they can denounce Trump
slotkin.senate.gov Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 10d
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.

Here’s my response:
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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meidastouch.com
The Pentagon added that contractors would "coordinate with appropriate agencies to avoid confusion in the future." 3/3

Sources:
CBS: www.cbsnews.com/news/warning...
Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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joefore.bsky.social
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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thejenniwren.teamlh.social
Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations.

Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.

F the patriarchy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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kateinkharkiv.bsky.social
Amazing timeline 🤦‍♀️
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
We have our popcorn ready.
Jimmy Kimmel Challenges Trump To IQ Test On National Television After Trump's Latest Cognitive Test Brag
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October 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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atrupar.com
Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
DHS caught in further lies. Body-camera video contradicts the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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hawkeye8.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Item 10 of Trump’s Gaza “peace plan” is the one that caught my attention.
September 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk fans threaten HBCUs because they want to lash out at Charlie’s enemies, and theirs, and they’re conceding that means black people. Not ONLY, but definitely.
September 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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alt-irs.altgov.info
Trump's name is in the Epstein files.

#thoughtsandprayers
September 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The Trump admin has a new propaganda video claiming that DHS is "safeguarding our culture and shared values."

Micah Bock, the Trump appointee in the video, was accused in college of rubbing his erection against a sleeping woman and claiming she was "asking for it."

h/t @jasonpaladino.bsky.social.
Homeland Security @DHSgov With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values. #WeAreDHS 206 Following 2.6M Followers Post See new posts Conversation Homeland Security @DHSgov Decline is a choice. Under @POTUS and @Sec_Noem the era of government failing its citizens is over. We are retaking our country with blinding speed, enforcing the law, and providing for the American citizens who need it most. This is just the beginning. @MicahBock. The video is paused at a moment where Bock is saying DHS is "safeguarding our culture and shared values."
September 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
thanks to @karin829.bsky.social, I've changed the cover artwork on today's post, "decrepit draft dodger declares war on Chicago" — Donny’s gonna make an apocalypse ... in his pants.
thanks, Karin!
folks, please check out my updated post here: bit.ly/485u7Qd
decrepit draft dodger declares war on Chicago
Donny’s gonna make an apocalypse ... in his pants
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September 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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xenta.bsky.social
The death toll from russia’s attack on Kyiv has risen to 14 - among them 3 children aged 2, 14 and 17
💔💔💔
August 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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xenta.bsky.social
Pro-kremlin fascist channels boast russia hit “military & energy facilities” at night, claiming 10 targets destroyed

In fact russia hit residential buildings in Kyiv with drones&missiles
Hundreds of sites damaged incl a mall&a train
At least 14 killed incl children, 50+ injured

Please share this
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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cnn.com
International postal services are suspending shipments to the US after an exemption on tariff duties for small packages is set to expire.

It’s the latest example of how President Trump’s sweeping trade policy is impacting US consumers and businesses: https://cnn.it/45NxNU9
Small businesses are scrambling as US tariff exemption comes to an end | CNN Business
International postal services are suspending shipments to the United States after an exemption on tariff duties for small packages is set to expire. It’s the latest example of how President Donald Tru...
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August 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.

Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The result—an increase of executive power at the expense of legislative authority-does not stand alone. Just last week, this Court granted another stay allowing the President to ignore a federal statute. That decision permitted the President to push forward in dismantling the Department of Education, even though Congress created that agency and tasked it with performing vital functions. See McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. (2025) (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). If the majority had any valid basis for taking that action (relating, say, to the breadth of the District Court's preliminary injunction) it did not appear on the face of the Court's unreasoned or-der. See id., at _ (order) (slip op., at 1); id., at (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 18). That order simply signaled that the President could carry on, even in the face of a conflicting statute. So too does this order, and with the same lack of care. The majority has acted on the emergency docket—with "little time, scant briefing, and no argument" —to override Congress's decisions about how to structure administrative agencies so that they can perform their prescribed duties. Wilcox, 605 U.S., at _ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 5). By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another. Respectfully, I dissent.
July 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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realtuckfrumper.bsky.social
The IRS is building a vast system to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE https://twp.ai/4ipTCv
www.dailykos.com
The IRS is building a vast system to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE
twp.ai
July 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WOW — Speaker Johnson just embarrassingly claimed Trump has a 90% approval rating 🤥 🤦🏼

(and almost just as embarrassingly, Joe Kernen didn’t laugh in his face)
July 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.” In other words, what they want are enforced disappearances, which is a defined crime against humanity.
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."
www.motherjones.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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July 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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motherjones.com
The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.
Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.
www.motherjones.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“U.S. Officials Concede They Don’t Know Whereabouts of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile”

Mission accomplished!
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U.S. Officials Concede They Don’t Know Whereabouts of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM