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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 2h

"The administration is getting rid of the building built to house the Social Security Administration...
while Trump contemplates building a triumphal arch, carving MAGA ideology into the nation’s capital in stone."

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 8h

October 13, 2025

Last Tuesday, President Donald J.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 3h

REMINDER: It's now 266 days since Trump was sworn in but he has still NOT released the complete Jeffrey Epstein file. What is Trump hiding?

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 1d

From the letter: The Columbus Day holiday began in the 1920s, when a resurgent Ku Klux Klan tried to create a lily-white country by attacking not just Black Americans, but also immigrants, Jews, and Catholics.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 2d

My newsletter tomorrow is called “They Are Us. We Are Them.”

In it, I invite us to ponder the concept of “foreigner” through the lens of Luke 17:11-19 and how God consistently calls us to be in solidarity with all who the world considers “foreign.”

Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile

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I have spent the majority of my life in Evangelical Christian spaces. I have experienced a lot of church hurt. I now write to explore topics that often are at the intersection of politics and Christia...

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 3d

"A second Republican governor, Phil Scott of Vermont, opposed the administration’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops... “I don’t think our guard should be used against our own people..... “Unless, of course, there’s an insurrection, much like we saw January 6 a few years ago.”

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 4d

From the letter: This is the time for leaders on both sides of the aisle to speak out against this blatant perversion of our system of justice.

#TrumpRegime

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4d

October 9, 2025

Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 4d

19 year young Snickers getting a few extra zzzzzs

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.

GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 5d

I find reflections in the water fascinating. Who's with me?

#Trails #Nature #Photography

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 6d

From the letter: Today in an interview with CNN, Miller went further, claiming that the president has “plenary authority,” that is, complete, unchecked power....... where true power rests in a society is central to the philosophy of Carl Schmitt, a German political scientist who joined the Nazis.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6d

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 6d

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 7d

From the letter: This is Phase One of the Republican campaign to force Americans to work into old age to access their earned Social Security benefits, and represents the largest cut to disability insurance in American history.

#SocialSecurity ##TrumpRegime

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 7d

October 5, 2025

October 6, 2025

If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 7d

He's sick

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 7d

It's a great day to get out and touch nature. Well, every day is!

#Nature #Photography #Trails

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11d

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 11d

He's sure not wrong!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 11d

This!

Brother’s Keeper @revdrmatt.bsky.social · 16d

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 12d

Compassion isn’t a weakness.
Empathy isn’t a sin.
Cruelty isn’t a strength.
Vengeance isn’t a virtue.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness." -Isaiah 5:20

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 12d

The trump regime just keeps rolling along....

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12d

October 1, 2025

Last night, as the government barreled toward a shutdown, President Donald J.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 12d

ACCURATE AF.

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Gayle @grandmagayle.bsky.social · 13d

Total insanity

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13d

September 30, 2025

Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 14d

Pete Hegseth is a jackass that has no clue what women are capable of.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Hegseth: "I don't want me son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Hegseth: "For too long we've promoted too many uniformed leaders for the wrong reasons -- based on their race, gender quotas, historic so-called 'firsts'...we've weeded out so-called 'toxic leaders' under guise of double blind psychology assessments. We became the 'woke department.' But not anymore"

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