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Bonn Baird

@bonnthebest.bsky.social

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No DMs! Constitutionalist to the core! Wife, Mother to 5 & 🐕 . Living in a dictatorship under a socialist regime. Fiercely independent & a forever learner/researcher. Tree hugger/gardener🇺🇸 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 🖌️ 🖼️

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Bonn Baird @bonnthebest.bsky.social · 22d

Follow me as I read and break down what I learn from this book that I picked up from the public library. If you are reading something interesting and applicable to our current pain and suffering, please share!

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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 42m

'Mad scramble' as judges challenge Trump effort to keep Alina Habba’s US attorney gig

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'Mad scramble' as judges challenge Trump effort to keep Alina Habba’s US attorney gig

In a sharp exchange Monday, Judge D. Brooks Smith of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals described the Trump administration’s efforts to keep Alina Habba in the role of U.S. Attorney for New Jerse...

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Otto ⚛️ @noacttoosmall.com · 14h

Fewer rights.
Less freedom.
More fear.

The future isn’t shrinking by accident — it’s being stolen in plain sight.

Fair Lakes, Fairfax, VA Oct 18, 2025

#NoKings #resist #protestsign #documentaryphotography

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Mary Claire 💙🩵🇺🇸☮️ @claire9389.bsky.social · 8h

This makes me feel sick 😢

LiberalBatch @liberallady.bsky.social · 8h

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3h

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Mayor Karen Bass @mayor.lacity.gov · 5h

Since the raids began, over 170 American citizens have been detained by federal agents without warrants, without probable cause, and without due process.

Let that sink in: 170 U.S. citizens, unlawfully detained in our own country.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1h

So grateful for the people in my phone who remind me Covid is real & dangerous & that I'm doing the right thing. Definitely has held me together this year. Who knows where I'd be at without you all 🩷

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Jim Wilson @jimbw.bsky.social · 42m

SO YOU'RE GOING TO DUMP ON US, TRUMP, AFTER MILLIONS OF US HAVE DUMPED ON YOU????!!!
🤣😂😹💩 LET'S MAKE THIS TREND, RESISTERS!!!!
#DUMPONTRUMP

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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Take 'Unquestioned Power' Following No Kings Protests | Common Dreams

After a weekend where millions of Americans denounced him for trying to be a “king,” President Trump suggested invoking the Insurrection Act, claiming it gives him “unquestioned power” and that there ...

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 14h

i'm no lawyer but "i am a government official and i am discriminating against you because of your political beliefs" seems like a bad thing to put in writing

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Sharon🇺🇦Johnston @sharonjohnston.bsky.social · 42m

DOJ Whistleblower Details Being Ordered to Lie in Court About Kilmar Abrego García
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DOJ Whistleblower Details Being Ordered to Lie in Court About Kilmar Abrego García | Common Dreams

Former DOJ lawyer exposes lies about Kilmar Abrego García's ties to MS-13. Whistleblower reveals violations of due process rights by Trump administration.

www.commondreams.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 23h

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 47m

They are just so dumb
I can not express how dumb
Like a piece of used gum stuck to the bottom of a chair

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 1d

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels.
#climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

We’re Touching 1.9°C - And It’s Only 2025

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate by climate scientist Dr Karsten Haustein shows that, this week, the Earth ...

www.lyrebirddreaming.com

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 1h

i don’t much care about the sanctity of the white house or whatever but building a multimillion dollar ballroom at this exact point in time as a world leader feels loudly, reverberatingly fucked up

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

OMG! In Comey's motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution, he points to others who have lied to Congress that were NOT prosecuted. Number one is JEFF SESSIONS when he said "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two, but I did not have contact with the Russians." 1/

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Literally

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 16h

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 2h

So... What are the names of the current American concentration camps that will be in the text books in a couple decades?

Treat the "facilities" as such. Imprisonment without due process is a concentration camp.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 22h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

POP QUIZ: The Tennessean is…

A) bad at math
B) like other outlets, intentionally downplaying the crowd at the Capitol 🤷🏼

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

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Tina MF @tmfab.bsky.social · 2h

3-year survival twice as high with mRNA vaccine in lung cancer patients receiving immunotherapy
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Cancer Study Links COVID Shots to Longer Survival

3-year survival twice as high with mRNA vaccine in lung cancer patients receiving immunotherapy

www.medpagetoday.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3h

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Making Argentina Great Again

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