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Peter Liepmann

@datadrivenfp.bsky.social

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Family doc, Twitter refugee, son of refugee. #COVIDisAIRBORNE We're in Germany 1933 Mors Omnibus Tyrannis The outrage is to distract us from Muskrats looting the US Treasury Ad Hominem attacks =mute

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · Mar 27

Pritzker is pushing back DAILY, invoking patriotism and American values of fair play, community, freedom, strength, responsibility, empathy.

He coins pithy phrases:
Pritzker described Trump’s first couple of months in office as “true villainous cruelty by a few idiots.”
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Pritzker pushes back on Trump election order

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday had a forceful response to President Donald Trump’s executive order signed earlier in the day to overhaul elections, including requiring documentary proof…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elon' 🙄 @powerfromspace1.bsky.social · 17h

europesays.com/2496293/ Paul Krugman: China has overtaken American and nowhere is that more clear than clean energy. And because of the damage that Trump is doing to our renewable sector, we will never catch up #Energy

(ed: always was a plan get the United States to defeat itself 🤷🏽 #Deconstruct 🇺🇸 )

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Big Chungus Bus Factory, MSW (NOT A MAN) @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 17h

This person is a high school teacher in Phoenix.

I personally would not be pleased if my daughters teacher was pro sexual assault.

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 17h

It's at least a Hatch act violation.
We need some lawyers to start making a list of all the FELONIES TFFG and his toadies are committing.
IF Dems ever have power in the USA again, we need prosecutions.

The first mistake was letting Nixon walk.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22h

Hey Mike Johnson, America has a question for you: What would be someone's motivation for covering-up for a pedophile?

There's only a couple answers:
• Either you're guilty of the same crimes, or
• The accused party is blackmailing you for other very serious crimes you've committed.

Which is it?

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h

JUST IN: A federal judge in San Francisco has HALTED Trump’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers during his shutdown, calling it “unlawful” and “politically motivated.” Judge Illston said Trump acted as if “the laws don’t apply to them anymore.”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22h

A win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump admin from carrying out mass layoffs during the ongoing government shutdown. The case centers on Trump’s statements indicating that the planned firings would be politically motivated, targeting employees based on their political affiliation.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21h

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 21h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 21h

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol

“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

www.huffpost.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20h

Let’s stop pretending. The issue before the Supreme Court right now is easy to understand: There are still many people on the far right who don’t see Black Americans as equals...they see them through the same filthy slur they whisper when the cameras are off. That's right...that word.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

"Why doesn't Chicago want us to zip-tie more naked children in the middle of the night and shove them, screaming, into vans? So ungrateful for refusing our kind, helpful offer to help!"

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 17h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Berlin, Germany” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mountainindi...

NO KINGS Berlin, Germany · Mountain Indivisible

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 20h

Calling for gas chambers. Expressing love for Hitler. Endorsing rape. Using racist slurs.

I'm demanding Rep. James Comer open a House Oversight Committee investigation into these shocking, deeply offensive messages that were exchanged by Young Republican leaders from across the country.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

My message to President Trump.

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European Democrats @europeandemocrats.bsky.social · 6d

The Commission is investigating a Hungarian spy ring in Brussels tied to Orbán’s inner circle.
If true, this is not just espionage — it’s a Trojan horse at the heart of Europe.

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 6d

A cognitive science exploration of how language shapes thought:

Book cover
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
by George Lakoff

When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality. Even more so than when Lakoff wrote, liberals and conservatives simply have very different, deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong.

Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious—part of our "hard-wired" brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that don't fit our moral worldview, our brains work automatically and unconsciously to ignore or reject these facts, and it takes extraordinary openness and awareness of this phenomenon to pay critical attention to the vast number of facts we are presented with each day. For this new edition, Lakoff has added a new preface and afterword, extending his observations to major ideological conflicts since the book's original publication, from the Affordable Care Act to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent financial crisis, and the effects of global warming. One might have hoped such massive changes would bring people together, but the reverse has actually happened; the divide between liberals and conservatives has become stronger and more virulent.

To have any hope of bringing mutual respect to the current social and political divide, we need to clearly understand the problem and make it part of our contemporary public discourse. Moral Politics offers a much-needed wake-up call to both the left and the right.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 6d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

www.theatlantic.com

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 6d

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"CBP Home representatives told them that their lack of passports wouldn’t be a problem and that the U.S. government would help them obtain the travel documents they needed. Now they are being told that they’re on their own— if they get any response at all."

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Imagineabetterworld🇨🇦🕊️ @westcoastergirl.bsky.social · 6d

Hmmm… is being fiesty and not tolerating questions that have been asked and answered in an interview disqualifying for a women? Being “nice” is not my key metric required of women leaders in this pivotal moment in time. I’ll take fierce, intelligent and courageous please.

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