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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹

@davidsongc.bsky.social

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Trickle-down economics is a GOP scam. 🚫Citizens United 🚫Gerrymandering 🚫Presidential Immunity. Teaching civics and history will save democracy. WVU Mountaineers 💛💙 Pittsburgh 💛🖤. Here are a few of my favorite things:🐕🥃🍷✈️ ⚖️.

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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 1h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine that

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1h

This ⬇️

PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 18h

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Meme with a drawing of to people shaking hands. One hand being darker than the other. Wording is: "I'd rather live next door to someone who crossed a desert to become an American than an American who wouldn't cross the street to help a foreigner."

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 23h

Bluesky liberals - heavily influenced by libertarians and right-wing Democrats - love to treat the economy as a distraction from Trump's attack on democracy.

Look how Mamdani ties them together. He gets it.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6h

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 21h

Republicans SAY they support the military, but then they DO this.

Actions speak louder than words.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 21h

This administration is filled with depravity.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 22h

What a loathsome man. I can’t believe this is who Americans elected.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Layoffs ‘Have Begun,’ White House Says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Layoffs ‘Have Begun,’ White House Says

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

Nuts.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

The DOJ is Trump’s weapon. 🤬

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 2d

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

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

I think they’re pretty well trained at this point.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥

#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.

His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.

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Giles 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹 @davidsongc.bsky.social · 1d

Because they knew who did it.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

The federal investigation into the death of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was marred by significant lapses, experts told CBS News, including the failure by investigators to interview potential witnesses, properly preserve certain evidence and run basic forensic tests.

In cell where Jeffrey Epstein died, a scene of disarray that never underwent thorough inspection, experts said

Photos of Jeffrey Epstein's cell show a scene of disarray that never underwent a proper inspection, according to experts.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

This is not good

The story is actually worse than the headline. The ex-GOP official worked in Missouri with Ed Martin.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Axios headline: Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

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