Stephenie F.
@stephjoyfred.bsky.social
Horrified boomer. All my life I’ve felt something was terribly wrong. Now it’s out in the open. Next to the horror I feel a strange relief. Opposition is gathering; there are understanding comrades to speak with. I am so grateful for you all.
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via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok
June 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok
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Seems like removing Hegseth would be an easier solution
Four people close to Hegseth, including his three top aides, have all fallen in his search for who is leaking embarrassing information about him. It looks like *everybody* is! Because he’s a buffoon! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Pentagon turmoil deepens: Top Hegseth aide leaves post
“There is a complete meltdown in the building,” one official said.
www.politico.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Seems like removing Hegseth would be an easier solution
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Aaron, Acyn and a few others are irreplaceable in terms of clipping relevant political segments for the rest of us.
How they don’t all need therapy is beyond me. It would drive me loco to do what they do everyday.
How they don’t all need therapy is beyond me. It would drive me loco to do what they do everyday.
The Washington Post is out with a nice profile of my friend @acyn.bsky.social
The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop
Acyn Torabi dominates social media with fast-cut clips of political mayhem. Are they news, or something else?
wapo.st
April 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Aaron, Acyn and a few others are irreplaceable in terms of clipping relevant political segments for the rest of us.
How they don’t all need therapy is beyond me. It would drive me loco to do what they do everyday.
How they don’t all need therapy is beyond me. It would drive me loco to do what they do everyday.
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I am so glad @jfallows.bsky.social mentioned this. The headline is ludicrous.
1/2
Many people have already mentioned this, but just to rub it in:
Let's start with terrible click-bait headline on this NYT piece.
As always, no bylines or attribution for headlines, subheds, framing, or "social sell" — even though that is all most readers will ever see.
Then...
Many people have already mentioned this, but just to rub it in:
Let's start with terrible click-bait headline on this NYT piece.
As always, no bylines or attribution for headlines, subheds, framing, or "social sell" — even though that is all most readers will ever see.
Then...
April 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I am so glad @jfallows.bsky.social mentioned this. The headline is ludicrous.
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Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.
April 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.
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WOW: Massive crowds in New York City right now for the 50501 National Day of Action against the Trump regime.
April 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
WOW: Massive crowds in New York City right now for the 50501 National Day of Action against the Trump regime.
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youtube.com/watch?v=Zwtd...
This is happening all over
This is UC DAVIS
but there's like 150 so far all over Universities
50 at ASU
This is happening all over
This is UC DAVIS
but there's like 150 so far all over Universities
50 at ASU
Visa revocations in Davis spark fear among international students
YouTube video by Island News
youtube.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=Zwtd...
This is happening all over
This is UC DAVIS
but there's like 150 so far all over Universities
50 at ASU
This is happening all over
This is UC DAVIS
but there's like 150 so far all over Universities
50 at ASU
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Protesters are out in full force in Portland!
Thank you, Oregon!
Thank you, Oregon!
April 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Protesters are out in full force in Portland!
Thank you, Oregon!
Thank you, Oregon!
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Portland, Oregon
April 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Portland, Oregon
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“That's up to El Salvador if they want to return him, that's not up to us,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning, provide a plane,” she added. (The Supreme Court ordered his return be facilitated) www.newsfromthestates.com/article/pres...
“If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning, provide a plane,” she added. (The Supreme Court ordered his return be facilitated) www.newsfromthestates.com/article/pres...
President of El Salvador refuses to return wrongly deported Maryland man to the U.S.
WASHINGTON — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele won’t return a Maryland man the United States erroneously deported to a mega-prison in his Central American country, he said Monday during a visit to th...
www.newsfromthestates.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“That's up to El Salvador if they want to return him, that's not up to us,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning, provide a plane,” she added. (The Supreme Court ordered his return be facilitated) www.newsfromthestates.com/article/pres...
“If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning, provide a plane,” she added. (The Supreme Court ordered his return be facilitated) www.newsfromthestates.com/article/pres...
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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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2/ Also the DOGE boys seem to have gone full feral tech boy on the whistleblower once he started asking questions.
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
2/ Also the DOGE boys seem to have gone full feral tech boy on the whistleblower once he started asking questions.
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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So Trump’s administration makes a “mistake” and sends a married man with protected legal status to prison in another country and then has a meeting with their president in which he is told he can’t get him back.
What a weak incompetent president!
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
apple.news/AyTb8lqAOTam...
What a weak incompetent president!
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
apple.news/AyTb8lqAOTam...
Trump, Bukele say they won't return mistakenly deported man to US — The Hill
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he has no plans to return a Maryland man wrongfully deported to a prison in his country, telling reporters, “Of course I’m not going to do it.”
apple.news
April 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
So Trump’s administration makes a “mistake” and sends a married man with protected legal status to prison in another country and then has a meeting with their president in which he is told he can’t get him back.
What a weak incompetent president!
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
apple.news/AyTb8lqAOTam...
What a weak incompetent president!
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
apple.news/AyTb8lqAOTam...
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President Obama condemns Trump’s $2.3bn Harvard funding freeze as ‘unlawful and ham-handed.’
In some of his most vocal criticism of the current administration, the former president says move is ‘an attempt to stifle academic freedom’
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
In some of his most vocal criticism of the current administration, the former president says move is ‘an attempt to stifle academic freedom’
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Obama condemns Trump’s $2.3bn Harvard funding freeze as ‘unlawful and ham-handed’ – US politics live
In some of his most vocal criticism of the current administration, former president says move is ‘an attempt to stifle academic freedom’
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
President Obama condemns Trump’s $2.3bn Harvard funding freeze as ‘unlawful and ham-handed.’
In some of his most vocal criticism of the current administration, the former president says move is ‘an attempt to stifle academic freedom’
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
In some of his most vocal criticism of the current administration, the former president says move is ‘an attempt to stifle academic freedom’
#MomSky
#Voices4Victory
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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In the past it took hundreds of years for an empire to fall. Information traveled slowly and economies were more regional.
Now, with instant communication, globalized markets, and a 24/7 news cycle, the downfall of the U.S. as a global superpower would be greatly accelerated.
Now, with instant communication, globalized markets, and a 24/7 news cycle, the downfall of the U.S. as a global superpower would be greatly accelerated.
April 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In the past it took hundreds of years for an empire to fall. Information traveled slowly and economies were more regional.
Now, with instant communication, globalized markets, and a 24/7 news cycle, the downfall of the U.S. as a global superpower would be greatly accelerated.
Now, with instant communication, globalized markets, and a 24/7 news cycle, the downfall of the U.S. as a global superpower would be greatly accelerated.
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Okay, then, so is it absurd for _me_ to say it?
As an American citizen, author, lawyer, and historian who wrote a national bestseller this decade on the relationship between Mr. Trump, Russia, and Ukraine?
Because I have no hesitation in saying that Trump and Vance are on the side of the Russians.
As an American citizen, author, lawyer, and historian who wrote a national bestseller this decade on the relationship between Mr. Trump, Russia, and Ukraine?
Because I have no hesitation in saying that Trump and Vance are on the side of the Russians.
⚡️ Vance accuses Zelensky of 'absurd' criticism of siding with Russia.
"I think it's sort of absurd for Zelensky to tell the (American) government, which is currently keeping his entire government and war effort together, that we are somehow on the side of the Russians," Vance said.
"I think it's sort of absurd for Zelensky to tell the (American) government, which is currently keeping his entire government and war effort together, that we are somehow on the side of the Russians," Vance said.
Vance accuses Zelensky of 'absurd' criticism of siding with Russia
"I think it's sort of absurd for (President Volodymyr) Zelensky to tell the (American) government, which is currently keeping his entire government and war effort together, that we are somehow on the ...
kyivindependent.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Okay, then, so is it absurd for _me_ to say it?
As an American citizen, author, lawyer, and historian who wrote a national bestseller this decade on the relationship between Mr. Trump, Russia, and Ukraine?
Because I have no hesitation in saying that Trump and Vance are on the side of the Russians.
As an American citizen, author, lawyer, and historian who wrote a national bestseller this decade on the relationship between Mr. Trump, Russia, and Ukraine?
Because I have no hesitation in saying that Trump and Vance are on the side of the Russians.
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Tax Day reminder that CEOs can write off their private jets and yachts as business expenses on their taxes, but you can’t write off the car you use to drive to work at their companies.
This is what tax laws designed to benefit billionaires and corporations look like.
This is what tax laws designed to benefit billionaires and corporations look like.
April 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Tax Day reminder that CEOs can write off their private jets and yachts as business expenses on their taxes, but you can’t write off the car you use to drive to work at their companies.
This is what tax laws designed to benefit billionaires and corporations look like.
This is what tax laws designed to benefit billionaires and corporations look like.
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The 22nd Amendment says it plain: “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.”
Bannon on Bill Maher, straight-up said Trump’s going for a 3rd term — and they’ve got a “team” working to circumvent the Constitution.
They’re not joking. They’re plotting. Believe them.
Bannon on Bill Maher, straight-up said Trump’s going for a 3rd term — and they’ve got a “team” working to circumvent the Constitution.
They’re not joking. They’re plotting. Believe them.
April 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The 22nd Amendment says it plain: “No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.”
Bannon on Bill Maher, straight-up said Trump’s going for a 3rd term — and they’ve got a “team” working to circumvent the Constitution.
They’re not joking. They’re plotting. Believe them.
Bannon on Bill Maher, straight-up said Trump’s going for a 3rd term — and they’ve got a “team” working to circumvent the Constitution.
They’re not joking. They’re plotting. Believe them.
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Full Remarks: AOC in Los Angeles, California | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
This movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests, but about class solidarity - the over 36,000 people who came out to LA to stand here together and say: our lives deserve dignity and respect.
youtu.be/msQ9_YDmrC4?...
This movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests, but about class solidarity - the over 36,000 people who came out to LA to stand here together and say: our lives deserve dignity and respect.
youtu.be/msQ9_YDmrC4?...
Full Remarks: AOC in Los Angeles, California | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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April 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Full Remarks: AOC in Los Angeles, California | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
This movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests, but about class solidarity - the over 36,000 people who came out to LA to stand here together and say: our lives deserve dignity and respect.
youtu.be/msQ9_YDmrC4?...
This movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests, but about class solidarity - the over 36,000 people who came out to LA to stand here together and say: our lives deserve dignity and respect.
youtu.be/msQ9_YDmrC4?...
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It’s MAGA violence. It’s Nazi violence. They are 100% the same. We got to this point because we let Fascism in. Sorry not sorry. That’s a fact and it will continue to fester until it’s forcibly removed or it ends us. #HardTruth
Throwing a fire bomb into a Jewish Governor’s home on Passover is a blatant hate crime—and part of a surge in antisemitic violence. Conflating all Jews with Netanyahu or the IDF is vile, lazy, and dangerous. It must stop.
#JewSky
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#JewSky
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‘Depraved act’: Arsonist set fire to Pa. governor’s mansion during Passover causing ‘significant damage’
Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were uninjured, but the fire caused a "significant amount of damage" to parts of the governor's mansion, according to state police.
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April 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It’s MAGA violence. It’s Nazi violence. They are 100% the same. We got to this point because we let Fascism in. Sorry not sorry. That’s a fact and it will continue to fester until it’s forcibly removed or it ends us. #HardTruth
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Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!?
Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
April 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!?
Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
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(AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron was “gravely mistaken” in advocating for a Palestinian state.
@afpnews.bsky.social
www.brecorder.com/news/40357383
@afpnews.bsky.social
www.brecorder.com/news/40357383
Israel PM says Macron ‘gravely mistaken’ in promoting Palestinian state
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron was “gravely...
www.brecorder.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
(AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron was “gravely mistaken” in advocating for a Palestinian state.
@afpnews.bsky.social
www.brecorder.com/news/40357383
@afpnews.bsky.social
www.brecorder.com/news/40357383
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Trump = less safe
"If successful, the public would almost certainly be exposed to much higher levels of chemicals linked to a range of serious health issues such as cancer, hormone disruption, liver disease, birth defects, and reproductive system damage"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"If successful, the public would almost certainly be exposed to much higher levels of chemicals linked to a range of serious health issues such as cancer, hormone disruption, liver disease, birth defects, and reproductive system damage"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump = less safe
"If successful, the public would almost certainly be exposed to much higher levels of chemicals linked to a range of serious health issues such as cancer, hormone disruption, liver disease, birth defects, and reproductive system damage"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"If successful, the public would almost certainly be exposed to much higher levels of chemicals linked to a range of serious health issues such as cancer, hormone disruption, liver disease, birth defects, and reproductive system damage"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.