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Amy Louise Herndon
@amylherndon.bsky.social
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Humanist and Democratic Socialist. Swiss Army Knife and founding employee @TiltFive.bsky.social. Ham radio call sign AI6ZU. She/Her. #AR #XR #retro #games #nerd #humanist #Atheist #EatTheRich Absolutely 🚫NO DMs unless we know each other IRL.
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Amy Louise Herndon @amylherndon.bsky.social · Aug 26
This is a must read!!!
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 26
Credit must be given to Chris Armitage.
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
Once they win elections, it's already too late.
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 6h
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING: Kristi Noem just discovered the founder of Antifa by questioning their girlfriend. This is the first time the world will see who the founder really is, and it is shocking. Because of the absolute terror this imagery causes, we are sharing it in a follow-up post in this thread.

WARNING 🚨🧵
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 5h
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 4h
Let’s be clear:

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the government shutdown. They don’t need a single vote from Democrats to reopen.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for firing thousands of federal workers. They don’t need a single layoff to offset the shutdown. It’s their Project 2025 playbook.

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 9h
The stakes are high & the time is now! Next Saturday join millions of Americans in 1000s of communities across the country.

The 47 regimes militarized crackdown on dissent is a threat to our very democracy. Be brave, speak out!

Oct 18 we stand against autocracy & we send a LOUD message: #NoKings
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3h
CDC staff in Africa right now, including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak, are laid off/fired.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h
Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8h
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 3h
Can’t unsee this…
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Patrick Doran @patrickdoran.bsky.social · 1d
I found this map showing which states used Dominion Voting Machines in the 2024 race. With an election denier as the new owner of Dominion which is now Liberty vote, I definitely would advise all states to get out of their contract with them & find a new one.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h
"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 21h
Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 5h
Stephen Miller Says Trump has “Plenary Authority”. He does not. Plenary authority means ultimate authority that doesn’t answer to anyone else. Our Constitution provides for checks and balances so that no one would have that kind of authority.

Join a NO KINGS protest on Oct 18th. Mobilize.us
Stephen Miller Says Trump Has 'Plenary Authority'
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3h
“I never understood the idea that you’re supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn’t something I relate to at all. — I’ve done all kinds of things I said I wouldn’t do and, of course, now I’m glad. Thrilled.”

R.I.P. Diane Keaton, what a legend. 🕊️💫
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Amy Louise Herndon @amylherndon.bsky.social · 15h
I watch this periodically to remind me that at one point in time people actually realized that fascists were the bad guys.

youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...
The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18h
Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public.

That means all of us.

Defend Public Health.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 20h
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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 16h
That is some HUBRIS. TechBros vs Mother Nature. This will accelerate the planet's temperature (bad); ruin the delicate biological ecosystem; and wreck every creature's Circadian Rhythms. All for what? The goal isn't to bring sunlight to darkness. The goal is MONEY. Bros gotta plunder.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d
Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 16h
The glory days of stupidity are back: Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy.
Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy
Esmeralda 7 in Nevada would have produced enough energy to power 2m homes
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Amy Louise Herndon @amylherndon.bsky.social · 16h
I absolutely NEED this on a shirt! Go Portland Frog!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.

Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.

"Drain the swamp."
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 20h
Today Trump visited Walter Reed and underwent another single-pass albumin dialysis (SPAD) procedure for his failing liver.

Decades-long cocaine abuse ✓
Decades-long Adderall abuse ✓
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