Bennett Cotten
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Psychotherapist; Optimistic Democrat; Small Acts create Big Change; We are made of Star Stuff.
PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR should be on every sign, no matter the issue of distraction.
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George Conway āļøšŗšø
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John Abernathy
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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āPedophile Protectorā over and over and over again.
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Where is the organization to our resistance? A smattering here and there will not do.
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Acyn
4 days ago
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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Denise Wheeler
4 days ago
This is powerful, important, and infuriating. Please read. Please watch. Please share.
@propublica.org
is doing outstanding work, tracking and exposing ICE abuses. This 16 yr old was nearly choked to death.
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Jake Tapper on State of the Union with Kristi Noem is driving me bonkers. Decent questions. But why is he allowing her to over talk and out talk him?
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50501: The Peopleās Movement āš
11 days ago
ICE/Border Patrol agents have shot a woman, who was a legal observer, in the face and killed her in a Minneapolis neighborhood. Details are still emerging, and the exact circumstances have not yet been officially confirmed. Credit:
@thejfreakinc.bsky.social
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Shayan Sardarizadeh
15 days ago
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
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Marc Elias
20 days ago
Donald Trump targets his political enemies in order to keep power. In 2026, that won't just mean going after people like James Comey and Tish James. It will require him to target voters who he needs to disenfranchise to keep control of Congress. The fight for democracy is more urgent than ever.
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Strong decision-making.
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Where can I find the new Find Friends feature on Blue Sky?
21 days ago
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Handwriting Experts, we need you on these Lolita quotes.
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Hollywood Stars Flock to Saudi Film Festival
Everyone has a price
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/hollywood-stars-flock-to-saudi-film?r=28f7o5&utm_medium=ios
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Chris Hayes
about 1 month ago
ātable-sizedā
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MeidasTouch
about 2 months ago
Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump adminās 28-point āpeace planā for Ukraine wasnāt a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
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Dr. SkySkull
about 2 months ago
Note for Democratic politicians: you don't have to start your condemnations of ICE raids with "We all want to catch violent criminals, but..." Just say "These raids have nothing to do with catching criminals and everything to do with terrorizing innocent minority groups."
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NPR
2 months ago
A new book by the Nobel-winning pioneer of behavioral economics offers some advice we can all use.
n.pr/4oCpO4q
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How to avoid 'The Winner's Curse'
A new book by the Nobel-winning pioneer of behavioral economics offers some advice we can all use.
https://n.pr/4oCpO4q
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Kyle Cheney
2 months ago
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028. w/
@joshgerstein.bsky.social
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Ezra Levin āš
2 months ago
The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!
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In a game of chicken, the Dems always fold. End of the party.
2 months ago
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Omg. Why? Please someone explain the Senatorsā defection.
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BeijingPalmer
2 months ago
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
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3 months ago
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Buy American
YouTube video by EGjustice1 Minute News
https://youtube.com/shorts/DFCdgcl6wF8?feature=share
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Andrew Weinstein
3 months ago
āAuthoritarians always target art first. They do so, because art and history are enemies of the myths a regime needs to survive." From my new TIME piece on Donald Trumpās campaign to defund the arts and rewrite our history. The stakes could not be higher.
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Trumpās Campaign to Defund the Artsāand Rewrite History
"The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."
https://time.com/7327987/trump-defund-arts-rewrite-history/
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Raw Story
3 months ago
An analyst warned of a "dangerous rot inside the modern Republican Party under [President Donald] Trump" amid rising "Nazi rhetoric" that Republicans appear unclear on how to address.
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'Dangerous rot' inside Trump's Republican Party just got exposed: analyst
An analyst warned of a "dangerous rot inside the modern Republican Party under [President Donald] Trump" amid rising "Nazi rhetoric" that Republicans appear unclear on how to address. Just in the last few weeks, an alarming number of Neo-Nazi-related scandals ā including the leaked Young Republicans...
https://bit.ly/4qpNGtl
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Trumpās motto: I wreak it, I own it.
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Iāve done it. A few slip ups.
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Marc Elias
4 months ago
Day 3 of the court hearing challenging Texas' gerrymandered congressional map and Democracy Docket's Jen Rice is one of the few reporters on-the-ground reporting from El Paso. Help power fearless, pro-democracy journalism by joining Democracy Docket's premium community today.
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Governor JB Pritzker
4 months ago
I urge members of the public to remain calm, stay safe, and document what you see with your phones and cameras. My senior team has also asked legal organizations to support monitoring on the ground.
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Robert Reich
4 months ago
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Governor JB Pritzker
4 months ago
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
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David Corn
4 months ago
Does the propaganda of Sinclair serve the public interest? Where's the investigation there?
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Denise Wheeler
4 months ago
For those who don't know, Sinclair Broadcast Group has been working for years, alongside Nexstar, to create an oligarchy in the broadcast television industry. Sinclair is the 2nd largest TV station operator in the US. Nexstar has a portfolio almost the same size. Both are extremist right-wing.
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Clara Jeffery
4 months ago
What a capper to an enraging and terrifying day
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social
4 months ago
MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.
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Kimmel, Colbert, web sites
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit āfar moreā violence
Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
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Tell Costco: Don't Cave to ExtremistsāDispense Mifepristone Now!
Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristoneāa safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti...
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/costco-mifepristone?source=bluesky&utm_source=bluesky&share=1ecf2098-2629-4df9-a18e-9258a27547d8
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Will Stancil
4 months ago
These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
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GroovyShelly
4 months ago
At least 3 students are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen HS in Colorado. This is the 47th shooting that took place at a school in the US so far this year: 24 on college campuses, 23 on K-12 school grounds. This happened less than an hour after Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah.
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Jacqueline Sweet
4 months ago
This is unreal
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Raptorama
4 months ago
Sorry to make it worse but there's a part of the WSJ article that no one is talking about that I had to share with someone.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
4 months ago
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."
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RIDGE
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