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Moving over here from that other place. Mostly here to read. Democracy must prevail. 🕊️
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
A sane country.
December 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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lisaguerrero.bsky.social
Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
i like these home details designed for pets

IG meredithsterninteriors
Two photos. The first shows a dog next to some pull out cabinets. One of the drawers reveals a dog food bowl. The other shows some space underneath some cabinets, so the food bowls can stay out of the way for humans but be accessible for a pet. Two photos. One shows a room divider that rolls out to separate two rooms, while neatly tucking into a wall when not in use. Another shows a crate the same color as a desk, shelf, and wall, where a dog can sleep. Two photos. Both show wash areas specifically built for pets. A dog is peeking out of a tub in one photo. Two photos. One shows a glass door with a small windowpane that can open for a pet to pass through. Another shows a door, where one of the panel swings open for a pet.
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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ericlipton.nytimes.com
Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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ericlipton.nytimes.com
This NYT piece--the story of Harold Hamm--helps explain in part why this is happening, regardless of efforts to combat climate change. The course of America energy history has shifted this year under Trump. A BIG deal. Read the story--understand a bit why and how. As you can see, it was a journey.
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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charlesgaba.com
🚨 Senate Republicans just voted to more than double avg. health insurance premiums for 24 million Americans.

Today would be a good day to help Democrats flip the Senate. #Blue26

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December 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
It appears that HHS/CDC are not doing anything to combat this outbreak, leaving it to a single state to counter something that doesn’t honor borders. Why the CDC exists!
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
In bizarre, self-pitying tirade, unraveling Trump admits his polling is actually pretty bad and not at record highs, as he keeps claiming
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
asharangappa.bsky.social Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
mikeeckel.bsky.social Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 4d
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Hello FIFA, the Olympic Committee, Chamber of Commerce, Travel and Tourism peeps - ain't no one going to come here if required to submit all this info to USG/DOGE/Palantir while also risking to getting thrown into an ICE detention facility without due process and contact with the outside world.
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
This is who we selected as president
An undated photo of a Trump condom with a legend saying “I’m HUUUUGE!”, priced at $4.50 each, from the photo collection of his then close friend, rapist and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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rollingstone.com
"I’ve thought about trying a lot of things. I’ve researched phlebotomy certification, HVAC school. I started a short-form YouTube horror channel and Googled 'how to sell feet pix.'"

What happens when you lose your job to AI?

Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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oversightdemocrats.house.gov
On October 10th, 2025, Dayanne was assaulted and kidnapped by masked ICE agents. They gave no reason why.

She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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tessbridgeman.bsky.social
Daily reminder that the laws of war don't apply when we're not at war, and all of the killings President Trump has ordered are not war crimes, they are murder:
justsecurity.org Just Security @justsecurity.org · 8d
Operation Southern Spear: Why the Crews, Drugs, and Boats are Not Targetable

A deep dive into international law applicable to US lethal operations against suspected drug boats

By Mike Schmitt, Tess Bridgeman, Ryan Goodman
@mikeschmitt.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Operation Southern Spear: Why the Drugs, Boats, and Crews are Not Targetable
A deep dive on the international law applicable to the U.S. military's lethal operations against suspected drug boats
www.justsecurity.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
JFC. The weakening of America continues.
Fred Wellman @FPWellman 🚨 I am getting a flood of messages from panicked @DeptVetAffairs employees that there is a bloodbath unfolding as @SecVetAffairs has quietly issued personnel guidance cutting THOUSANDS of jobs. Heavily hit is mental health and suicide prevention providers! They are gutting the VA and veterans healthcare while we aren't looking! Word is they are even gutting the brand new clinic in Fredericksburg, VA that Collins has been claiming credit for building. This is the privatization they've always dreamed of and veterans are going to pay for it! @RepVindman #veterans
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Eileen Higgins blows it out in Miami, wins 59%-40%!!!! In the last 2 years Dems have flipped Florida’s two largest cities, Jacksonville and Miami. Great work everyone!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/eileen-hig...
Eileen Higgins Blows It Out In Miami, Wins 59%-40%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great work everyone!
www.hopiumchronicles.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Trump is stumping in PA-08 tonight. Want to meet our great House candidate who has them so worried?

Here she is - Scranton Mayor @paigecognetti.bsky.social….

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December 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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pbump.com
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM