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Joy Persists🐈‍⬛

@finbarvano.bsky.social

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Cat lady. BLUE voter. Interested in all things financial & feline. Stage 4a Colon Cancer..Now NED. With my beloved cats OTRB🌈, I am learning to foster cats. Retired Analyst. 🔵 Dot in Red FL

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Joy Persists🐈‍⬛ @finbarvano.bsky.social · Feb 15

New profile pic...

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 5d

This is an Epstein shutdown

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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 1d

I found thousands of Antifa members at Arlington Cemetery.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 8h

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Chuckanutter @speciatedtwit.bsky.social · 4d

The worst thing about our healthcare system is that it delays diagnosis and treatment. People ignore the early warning signs because of the financial disincentive to visiting a doctor. Worst still is that this is by design and seen by the ghouls as a good thing.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 10h

It’s eugenics. If you sicken & die, then you’re too weak. Expendable.

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Jeff @jeffhovis.bsky.social · 11h

So apparently CDC Disease Prevention and Controls efforts are "Democrat Programs".

So what are the MAGA Republican alternatives, Pestilence and Plague?

Didn't we try that route already in Trump Season 1, the Pandemic.

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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 10h

Every #Republican lawmaker on every Sunday talk show needs to be asked why they would ensure a future of suffering for their own constituents.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

🚨🚨🚨A 15 year old opens the door to the vehicle, but ICE monsters proceed to throw her around like a rag doll — because they can. Notice the police drive away, just out of view of the camera. Uploaded ~ 2 hours ago. 1/2

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, but at least the Gulf has a new name.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

Next Saturday is #NoKings Day.

Stand up for democracy before it's too late.

Find a protest near you at nokings.org.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10h

The great actress Diane Keaton has left us at the age of 79. Too soon to say good-bye to the woman who made us smile at the quirky Annie Hall, and who broke our hearts in Reds. Your charm and talent will be sorely missed.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

California is going to “stick it to Trump” this November— Vote YES on Prop 50.

This ad 🔥😂

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🐀 Mike Johnson caught lying using the receipts he directed us to use. Jen Psaki for the 🎯

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h

Fat Satan got his COVID booster shot yesterday. If he doesn’t listen to his Trumpshit-crazy HHS Secretary, why should we?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

"Forty-two judges went so far as to say that the Supreme Court’s emergency orders had caused 'some' or 'major' harm to the public’s perception of the judiciary[,] [including] nearly half of the Republican-nominated judges."

gift link 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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