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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 22h

Somebody please give the conservative Turning Point USA lessons in history and geography. Puerto Rico is part of the USA. Bad Bunny is All American.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 23h

How ironic it is for a
Nobel Peace Prize laureate to thank Trump for his support for democracy in Venezuela while he destroys our democracy.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 23h

Find and your local No Kings protest here. If there’s none, organize one.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 1d

A new ballroom at the White House, now a massive arch de triomphe on the National mall — it’s a disease known as the edifice complex.

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Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary

The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 1d

"Threatening to jail your political enemies is fascist. Sending troops into cities is fascist. Arbitrarily arresting citizens and immigrants is fascist. If we’re too afraid to call the threat what it is, we will not be able to fight it." -- Marc Elias, lawyer and Trump nemesis.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the latest on the little-covered #gerrymandering case in Texas. The bottom-line: Republicans are continuing to attack our #democracy by limiting our freedom to #vote We should all be furious.

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Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 3d

It is called hypocrisy. Se llama hipocresía.

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Why Trump, who declared English the official language, is going to bat for Univision

Trump pressed YouTube to resolve a dispute with the Spanish-language network, the latest example of the president using his position to pressure a media company.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 3d

Being #jobless is not a joke. Instead, ask how you can help.

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Column | Layoffs are traumatic. Here are some things you should never say.

Platitudes or jokes will only add to the hurt of unemployment. Offer real help instead.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 4d

The full Senate must pass the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools (S. 761) in the fall. Urge your member of Congress to act using this link:
fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/108...

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Justice for Indigenous boarding school survivors isn't partisan. Congress must act.

Bipartisan legislation to create a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools warrants our support.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 5d

Hooray for Dr. May E. Brunkow! I hope there will be more women #Nobel laureates this year.

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The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries

They won for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, which is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own tissues..

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 11d

A victory for free speech!

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Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules

The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 11d

Here we go again....

dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 12d

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 11d

SS shows some steel after all -- by usurping powers!

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Stephen Miller managing Venezuela airstrikes in new drug war - Salon.com

Miller is helping direct "lawless" airstrikes on boats from Venezuela, The Guardian reports

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 15d

The Second Amendment was never meant to sanctify weapons of war in the hands of mass killers. It was crafted to protect the institution of slavery and the men who profited from it. We should get rid of it.

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The Second Amendment Was Created to Put Down Slave Revolts

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 15d

It was a massacre, not a battle.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 15d

It's called weaponizing the DOJ for POTUS47's benefit.

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15d

When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 15d

I don’t want to hear about who’s to blame.
Republicans cannot govern. This is common knowledge at this point.😒

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 15d

The scam called tariffs.

Clem H. Fandango @sferroni.bsky.social · 15d

Nutlick has some explaining to do

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 15d

SS or Submissive Stephen Miller! What about for Russel Vought? Holy Vought?

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Gavin Newsom Just Unleashed His Savagely Fitting New Nickname For Stephen Miller

🔥🔥🔥

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 16d

This is why I am for Oxford commas.

Picture with the words: Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 17d

In the first week of the fall equinox, #Presbyterians celebrate Native American Day. The first Bible in North America, the Eliot Indian Bible published in 1663, was in Natick, also known as Wampanoag, the language of Algonquian people of today's Massachusetts.

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Presbyterians gather online to celebrate Native American Day

LOUISVILLE — During Wednesday’s Chapel Service, Ruling Elder Elona Street-Stewart and the Rev. Irv Porter joined to help Presbyterians honor Native American Day, which is traditionally celebrated duri...

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 24d

@michellesingletary.bsky.social always delivers sane, practical advice. This is why she is my favorite personal finance columnist.

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Column | Want to be a 401(k) millionaire? Find out which type of saver you are.

A surge in the stock market has created a record number of retirement millionaires. The best tip for growing your 401(k)? Stay the course.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 26d

For nine out of 10 households, Social Security is our most valuable financial asset. It serves as a counterbalance to the widening wealth inequality in the United States..

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Americans’ Most Valuable Asset Isn’t Stocks or a Home. It’s Social Security.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · 26d

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. It is not an issue of Left vs. Right, but Rich vs. Poor.

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Inflation quashed household income gains in 2024, census finds

The U.S. Census Bureau found that the richest Americans’ income rose last year, and women and Black people lost ground.

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Adlai Amor @bisdak.bsky.social · Sep 11

It's her uncle's signature, says Mary Trump.

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Mary Trump: "Definitely" president's signature on alleged Epstein letter - Salon.com

Mary Trump said the signature "definitely" belonged to the president.

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