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Dr Deb K

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Progressive Pediatrician. Fighting for trans kids, neurodivergent kids, all kids. “Time to step up and be the ancestors our future needs.”💪🏽🏳️‍⚧️💙🏳️‍🌈

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · Jan 27

This is chilling watching how tyranny begins and seeing what Trump has tried in one week. We must fight back. We must support everyone targeted. We must not obey. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

Opinion | How Tyranny Begins (Gift Article)

Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.

www.nytimes.com

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Indivisible Oregon @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 5h

A New Irish Blessing:
May Your Rights Be Protected
And your Resolve Remain Strong
As You Join The Resistance
And Fight All That Is Wrong

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 4m

But Ford lost in 1976 exactly because he had pardoned Nixon (plus all the mocking on SNL😆).

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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile...here is your typical Right-wing extremist rally

Trump:"They were very fine people"

Watch "Looking back on deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville" on YouTube

youtu.be/U_w7lfPJvlY?...

Looking back on deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville 4 years later

YouTube video by ABC News

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 15m

The MAD KIND NG is These heartless POS fired dozens of CDC staff via email AT 9 PM FRIDAY NIGHT before long weekend. Including staff who TRACK DISEASE OUTBREAKS & those who PUBLISH NEWS THAT DOCS MUST HAVE TO SAVE PATIENTS! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 5h

These are exactly the LIES that lead to violence by MAGAts. We saw this in 2020, when 80%of the deaths at BLM rallies were attacks on regular people by right wing murderers.

Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 5h

How did the Republicans become so corrupt as a Party? They would have impeached Nixon for Watergate in 1973, but now they are all on board with Trump’s Tyranny. Every last one of them.

Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 5h

RFKJr’s brain worm has caused a lot of brain damage, or he’s a LIAR or both. Given the extremely low rate of circumcision in Sweden & the fact that the rate of autism has gone up while the rate of circumcision has gone down, proves that he is speaking out of his a$$ just to hear himself talk. Loser!

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Prof.Alex @profalex.bsky.social · 12h

If you were wondering about RFK's connection between autism and circumcisions, here is your answer.

Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 22h

RFK Jr is such an irresponsible douche. A Danish study in (2015) where circumcisions are rare (<1% in whites & <10% Muslims) showed an association. BUT Denmark mostly stopped doing circs in 2003. Guess what? Rate of Autism still increased over next 20 yrs! www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

RFK, Jr., Cites ‘Truly Appalling’ Studies to Tie Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol

Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 5h

CALL MIKE JOHNSON NOW 202-225-2777 AND TELL HIM HIS LIES CALLING A PEACEFUL NO KINGS PROTEST WITH MILLIONS OF AMERICANS “ANTIFA” AND “PRO-HAMAS” —the very things Trump has labeled ”terrorists” that he will hunt down—PUTS AMERICAN LIVES IN DANGER. He is a dangerous LIAR.

Susan @naurielsjh.bsky.social · 6h

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ...all this has gotta come to an end."

www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar...

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

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theskyeisbleu.bsky.social @theskyeisbleu.bsky.social · 6h

Looks like Mike Johnson hit restart on the Republican Epstein shutdown. He wants to protect dump at any cost. He does not care about you or me

Mike Johnson hit restart on the Republican Epstein shutdown. He wants to protect dump at any cost. He does not care about you or me

REPUBLICANS ❤️ EPSTEIN

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 5h

Now! They are without representation. Class Action Suit Now!
@marcelias.bsky.social @democracyforward.org

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Mace Moneta @macemoneta.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Johnson isn't showing up to work; replace him. If any of us didn't show up to work for a month, we'd be out of a job.

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 10h

Good for MIT to stand up to Trump’s right wing anti-trans rights extortion. All Universities need to band together and stand for freedom over tyranny.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban

“A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

open.substack.com

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 14h

Next best thing to the Nobel Peace Prize, Donnie. And you really earned this one!

Alex @adm555.bsky.social · 14h

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 16h

Trump never read 1984, but his handlers did.

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jlm617.bsky.social @jlm617.bsky.social · 18h

Equal time: What a non-respectable,Nobel Peace Prize loser looks like:

DJT stuffing his face with a quarter pound cheese burger… (probably pinched from a hungry kid!)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 16h

Red states have ignored their own laws and courts and gerrymandered anyway, cuz what’s anyone going to do about it? Blue states never called them out besides handwringing. So New York and Colorado absolutely could gerrymander more seats. But they are typical Dems—the only ones constrained by rules!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 19h

Elation and relief from Judge Karin Immergut’s well reasoned ruling preventing Military set loose on our citizens has been dashed by likely ruling by 2 Trump Judges telling Trump he can do whatever the F gets in his demented head. THE COURTS ARE NOT GOING TO SAVE US.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

Trump's tweet that Portland is "war ravaged" just backfired. A Trump-picked judge cited it in blocking National Guard deployment to Portland, declaring him "untethered from facts."

On the pod, Oregon AG Dan Rayfield illuminatingly explains the ruling and what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss

As a judge’s blunt ruling blocks Trump from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon’s Attorney General tells us in an interview that Trump’s lawless threats are working against him—and discusses what com...

newrepublic.com

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado (sorry Donny) on her well deserved honor.

RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 20h

nypost.com/2025/10/10/w...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Known as “Venezuela’s ‘Iron Lady,'” Machado has been in hiding for more than 14 months after refusing to bow out after Nicolás Maduro declared victory in a US- and EU-critic…

nypost.com

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 20h

Except in Trump Regime, a sexual assault history is requisite: Trump, Hegseth, RFK Jr. 😡

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t understand why every Congressional Democrat didn’t march to the White House and play Miller’s unhinged Kirk Memorial Nazi speech as loud as possible in front of the White House paired with Joseph Goebbel’s words plus demands for Miller’s immediate departure. Dems have ZERO marketing skills!

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 22h

💯💯💯! ABC is one of the worst now—it’s an obvious change. They literally just publish propaganda pieces from Trump/DHS with ZERO fact checking or their own interviews. It’s an appalling decline. 😡

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Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social · 22h

Such an understatement! It’s painful watching Nick Sortor’s lies on Fox. And I’m sure Trump is paying him so much of our tax $$ for Nick’s propaganda. 😡