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George Balbona

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💙“Get in Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble.” 💙 Election Integrity Advocate. END ICE NOW!!! Sometimes Anti-Social, Always Anti-Fascist!!! EVERY DAY IS NO KINGS DAY!!! Support Ukraine. Librawl — Fighting for Democracy and America ™️

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George Balbona @gbalbona.bsky.social · Apr 20

Trump is anti-education because he doesn’t want Americans knowing World History. Trump has been using Hitler’s Playbook extensively.

He will use a terrorist attack to strip us of our freedoms like after 9/11 w/ Patriot Act & Reichstag Fire for Hitler.

Read Tim Snyder’s On Tyranny RIGHT NOW!!!

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 9h

Redford. Keaton. Goodall.

We owe it to them and to each other to keep going. To build what they imagined. To protect what they loved. To live as they lived, truthfully, fearlessly, fully.
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The Light They Left Behind

Three souls who reminded us what it means to live fully, and what we can’t afford to lose.

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George Balbona @gbalbona.bsky.social · 7h

And apparently it’s hereditary!!!

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💙Keith B Martin DC 💙 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🌎 @keith.is.democrat · 15h

If you're Blue voting in a Red state . . . it's never too early to check on your voter registration.

@dailykos.com

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My Experience Voting Today.

Let me preface this brief story with saying I vote in every election and in Louisiana where I live we have a lot of elections. Even in off years we can have 3 or more elections. Due to this, sometimes...

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George Balbona @gbalbona.bsky.social · 14h

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Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal over sex trafficking conviction

Jeffrey Epstein’s associate is serving a 20-year prison sentence for grooming and abusing young girls

www.the-independent.com

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 22h

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George Balbona @gbalbona.bsky.social · 18h

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Diane Keaton: Oscar-winning actress dies aged 79, US media report

She was best known for roles in films including in The Father of the Bride, The Godfather and Annie Hall.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

Diane Keaton was quirky and lovable but made of steel — and her indelible roles in the 1970s made her one of the New Hollywood greats. More:
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Diane Keaton Was Nobody's Fool

Diane Keaton's roles in the 1970s, from 'The Godfather' to 'Annie Hall,' 'Manhattan,' and more, showed her range, intellect, and unique charisma.

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Chris Edwards "SINGING TRAIN CONDUCTOR" @singingconductor.bsky.social · 2d

John Lodge
- Forever a MOODY BLUE RIP 😢

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 2d

Argentina --> $20 billion
Qatar --> US based Air Force
Americans --> No healthcare, Groceries @ 3x the price, and an ongoing coup

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes.

Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes.

Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days.

This is a fascist regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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

Grab the popcorn.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Do ICE have MRE provisions? Oh, no. That’s a damn shame. All that income and no place to buy a meal. Hey, I know what they can eat… 1/2

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 2d

Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 2d

Fewer than 1 in 10 of our Congressional races are considered competitive - in a country that's politically more or less 50-50.

This is madness. And it doesn't have to be this way.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map