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Bud Michel

@budgothmog44.bsky.social

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81 Married AF Vet LCSW ProChoice support BLM LGBTQ Indigenous People Women’s Rights AntiFascist AOC Democrat! Friend of Bill W Profile pic is 10 years old! No profile or posts block! Miss the Jersey Shore!!! I don’t answer DM’s!

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Bud Michel @budgothmog44.bsky.social · Nov 12

Nowhere on the face of this earth, in any time, has conservatism ever brought fairness or justice or mercy to anyone! Only a cold, ruthless order favoring the wealthy few over the struggling many!

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Bud Michel @budgothmog44.bsky.social · 12h

Has anyone else had no followers to speak of lately without resorting to starter packs if you can find them!? Have we reached a peak in Blueaky Liberal progressive membership!!?

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 11d

"Leave it to the states" the GOP said.

Right.
#ReproductiveFreedom #MomSky

Louisiana issues arrest warrant for Calif. doctor over mailed abortion pills

Louisiana has taken action against a California doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills. A warrant was issued for the doctor’s arrest.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

REPORTER: US law already prohibits giving healthcare to illegal immigrants

LEAVITT: Are you denying that Medicaid money has never gone to illegal aliens?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Apr 10

How did my generation – the baby boomers – squander the potential our parents left us?

What can our children do to correct our mistakes?

These are the central questions of my new memoir: Coming Up Short.

You can preorder it now. sites.prh.com/reich

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Leavitt: "There have been so many incredible independent journalists across the country who have gone undercover within antifa and really have come to understand how this is a growing domestic terrorism threat."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9d

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

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Irreverent Paintgirl @paintgirl83.bsky.social · 7d

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lisasasa56.bsky.social @lisasasa56.bsky.social · 5d

I await the day when these ICE cretins see their neighbors turning them in for war crimes. They think they’re so powerful now, so immune… folks will line up all too happy to rat out each and every one!

Covid keeping us housebound was only 5 yrs ago. It’ll come

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ICE's treatment of protesters so violent and graphic that X takes action

Videos of ICE violently arresting people on the streets of US cities have shocked many at home and abroad as Trump loyalists cheer on the chaos

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 5d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Whislerat @whislerat.bsky.social · 3d

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John Colton @johncolton.bsky.social · 3d

This is 100% Trump's goal.

#ImpeachTrump
#NoKings

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 19h

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

I am telling you again, as an airplane, I implore you to not fly until this is all resolved.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans want to be the party of healthcare? Open up the government. Put the subsidies back in place, and stop fucking with people’s health care.

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Bud Michel @budgothmog44.bsky.social · 12h

Good night Bluesky Resisters and kindred! Hope your weekend was better than good and that you’re prepared for Monday’s assault! Sleep tight!

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Bud Michel @budgothmog44.bsky.social · 17h

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SHERO on Sunday

A lightning-fast rundown of the week's most significant political and legal events for October 6th - 12th, 2025

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 18h

A Donald Trump-appointed judge showed everyone how this president should be handled, according to a conservative analyst Sunday.

'A Trump appointee said no': Conservative flags the moment president's 'con' was 'exposed'

A Donald Trump-appointed judge showed everyone how this president should be handled, according to a conservative analyst Sunday.New York Times columnist David French, a former writer for the conservative National Review, wrote an article Sunday explaining how, in his view, the president's appointed ...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

“It’s weird.”
“It seems messy.”

That’s what experts had to say about the $1.3 billion contract handed to a tiny firm called Acquisition Logisitics to run a detention facility at Texas’ Fort Bliss Army base.

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

Our latest feature on Florida's surgeon general:

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18h

As the partial government shutdown continues, the White House and some congressional Republicans are worried that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of any bill to reopen the government is proving salient with voters — including their own.

Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring

The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18h

Rod Serling used ‘The Twilight Zone’ to say what 1950s TV wasn't allowed to say. Fans at SerlingFest argue his lessons still hold up.

How The Twilight Zone Smuggled Controversial Ideas Past TV Censors

Hundreds of fans gathered in Rod Serling’s hometown to celebrate The Twilight Zone creator who turned science fiction into bold social commentary.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 18h

Last week: “On the first day, I thought they had picked me up by mistake. … I didn’t know what kind of situation I was getting into.”

But Salomão Castelo Branco Borges' harrowing journey had just begun.

A Brazilian Carpenter's 51-Day Detention Journey from Vermont to Texas

“On the first day, I thought they had picked me up by mistake..."

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18h

The measure comes after the US added Mali to its list of African countries required to post bonds of $5,000 and $10,000.

Mali imposes retaliatory visa bond fees on US travellers

The measure comes after the US added Mali to its list of African countries required to post bonds of $5,000 and $10,000.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h

Who Visited Epstein Island? Find out by watching 'The Onion Investigates: Jeffery Epstein' on The Onion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 17h

For seven years, low-income Arkansans who use Medicaid have been unable to have their health care covered at either of the state’s Planned Parenthood locations. #arpx

Arkansas providers seek to fill affordability gaps in maternal health care landscape | Arkansas Advocate

As the federal budget reconciliation law cuts off federal Medicaid funding to certain organizations that provide abortions, what’s already happened in the Natural State likely will be repeated…

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