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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸

@ithacanexile.bsky.social

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Good old fashioned social democrat. Born in the US, raised in Britain, Ireland and Italy and consider myself all of the above. AS Roma, PAFC, 49ers, Star Wars, Tolkien, SPN & Liberty - All this will pass one day. #TeamPete - Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · Dec 11

Here is a starter pack of voices I have come to trust on Syria. People who actually know about Syria including Syrians themselves. BTW you can ignore me, I just made the list! go.bsky.app/Af2Tt8g

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ticosfrancisco.bsky.social @ticosfrancisco.bsky.social · 14h

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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 7m

With all these border agents in our cities who is watching the border?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 38m

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?

Border agents have become a key force in Trump’s migrant crackdown — operating far from their traditional rural range.

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?

Border agents have become a key force in Trump’s migrant crackdown – operating far from their traditional rural range

www.theguardian.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10h

Trump's Justice Department is firing the people who prosecute terrorists, Jake Tapper argues. The president's politically motivated personnel decisions make "the United States and the world less safe":

Trump’s Purge of Terrorism Prosecutors

The politicization of the Justice Department is making Americans less safe.

bit.ly

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16h

This is appalling 🤬

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify family.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 22h

And if Dems manage to take power and slash ICE’s workforce, all those violent, bigoted goons who signed up for Trump’s Gestapo only to find themselves unemployed a few years later are going to be a big problem. Only so many of them will be able to succeed in the RW grift industry.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22h

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America

The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.

www.msnbc.com

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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 1d

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Silver Spring Progressive Action @sspaction1.bsky.social · 1d

The Nov election’s near! Help flip the VA Governor seat & grow the House of Delegates. Join our phone bank on 10/13 at 6:30pm ET to call VA voters & support @abigailspanberger.com & @staceycarrollva.bsky.social. Let’s make VA bluer! Sign up:

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump received his flu shot and a COVID vaccine booster today, per the White House.

For some of his supporters, COVID boosters are used as a perjorative when attempting to insult someone.

October 10, 2025
TO: KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
FROM: SEAN P. BARBABELLA, D.OSK PHYSICIAN TO THE PRESIDENT CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY
٥.٥٠ سا
SUBJECT: President Donald J. Trump Completes Comprehensive Follow-Up Evaluation at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit was part of his ongoing health maintenance plan and included advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. These evaluations were performed in coordination with leading academic and medical consultants to ensure optimal cardiovascular health and continued wellness.
Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters.
In preparation for upcoming international travel, President Trump also received preventive health screenings and immunizations, including annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations.
President Trump continues to demonstrate excellent overall health. His cardiac age-a validated measure of cardiovascular vitality via ECG-was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. He continues to maintain a demanding daily schedule without restriction.
SUMMARY: President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

France right now

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Congratulations to the happy couple

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

For everyone preparing to peacefully and nonviolently assemble on Oct 18th, the sign I will be carrying that day. I am sure that @markhamillofficial.bsky.social will love this!

#NoKings #NoTyrants #DemVoice1 #DV1 #MayTheForceBeWithYou

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

This and the Doctor Odyssey cancellation is why I’m having trouble committing to new series. It’s heartbreaking to see two shows that were an escape from our awful reality taken from us.

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 1d

I could have told him that from the door. A party that is predicted on racism can only abide that cognitive dissonance so long.

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1d

“Try as he might, Vivek Ramaswamy will never be fully accepted by MAGAworld.
The Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former DOGE co-chief came face-to-face with the racism rampant amongst American conservative youth culture Tuesday when he headlined a Turning Point USA event in Montana.”

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UnseenUnibondsdog 🇺🇦🇮🇱🐝🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙 @magratgarlick.bsky.social · 1d

I have real fear for BlPoC being at these protests. But yes, my fellow ⚪️s should absolutely do this. Even Hillary Clinton has boosted this protest

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

These folks are SO scared of simple honest protest.

They’ve gone from 0 to 60 in lie-telling regarding October 18 immediately.

October 18—and the idea that lots of Americans will be peacefully marching in support of American democracy and “no kings,” is terrifying them.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

I guess that would include his fave JRR Tolkien as well, he was well known for his loathing of technology.

Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a brutal hypocrisy in Peter Thiel, a man who sees himself as Aragorn, yet appears to the rest of us as Sauron. Tolkien had a loathing of technology and ‘machines’ that would horrify him if he were alive today to see what one of his so-called admirers has produced.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace".
Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
No. 102: From a letter to his son Christopher Tolkien (9 August, 1945)

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 1d

in a more just world, Peter Thiel would be yet another insane podcaster/blogger/poster we all agree to ignore

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

Such a shame, I really enjoyed the escapist fun mixed in with some first class acting from Jensen Ackles. If you see this can you pass on my comiserations with the superb crafts and services that worked their asses off to give us a show that will be much missed. Thank you Derek Haas.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

It’s happening…

Thousands more federal workers are getting pink slips. This is 100% Trump’s pressure play to make Democrats cave and give up the fight for our healthcare.

Reminder: Military members got their last paycheck today, and many federal workers only got a partial paycheck.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

Under President Biden the murder rate and violent crime went down.

Fact.

So why is the military and ICE out there in the first place?

Source: FactCheck.org from FBI sources.

#DemVoice1 #DV1

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 2d

No money for healthcare, feeding children in school, or keeping federal agencies open, but plenty to keep a far right Trump wannabe leader in power.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
#TrumpIsACriminal

apnews.com/article/trum...

US buys Argentine pesos, finalizes $20 billion currency swap

The U.S. Treasury has purchased Argentine pesos and finalized a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina’s central bank.

apnews.com

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 2d

Who thought a long time heroin addict and non-medical professional would make a good HHS secretary?

Senate Republicans, of course.

RFK Jr. is going to kill people. Full stop.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica

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Kennedy reups unproven Tylenol-autism link during Cabinet meeting as Trump repeats 'don't take it'

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has reasserted the unproven link between the pain reliever Tylenol and autism, and suggested people who opposed the theory were motivated by hatred for Preside...

apnews.com

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