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Kat Denise

@katpic57.bsky.social

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I dissent! Independent Thinker, Spoo Lover 🐩 ...with Liberty & Justice for all! Freedom requires effort; speak up. If not now, when? Resist normalizing insanity. Social Democrat. United we’ll stand.🫶 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fatally so. Inferring the GOP does know how to leverage social media algos to their advantage? Holy hell, boy if that’s not the understatement of the decade! The GOP is engaged in INFORMATION WARFARE…weaponized LIES! Until this FACT is acknowledged, broadcast & mitigated, democracy is doomed. 🚩🚩🚩

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4m

The federal food program helping more than 1 in 4 young children access fresh produce, milk, and formula will run out of funding next week.

Over 5 million children could lose food assistance — all thanks to the Trump-Republican shutdown.

The cruelty is endless.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1h

We are Amphifa.

AMPHIFA:

Amphibians Against Fascism.

Black and green flag of a Portland protest frog.

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Support Democracy @supportdemocracy.bsky.social · 1h

UNBELIEVABLE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA! I think we are now exceeding the norms of Russia, North Korea and China at political violence against our citizens.

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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 @andreasor.bsky.social · 34m

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 33m

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 30m

Willful ignorance will not protect you. And it most definitely will not honor you.

Find reliable sources. Read up. Stand up. Speak out. Be loud.

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone in America should know about Bloody Sunday.

It led to unlawful detention and internments for 20 years.

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Bloody Sunday 1972: The day's events explained

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Waker of Dreams @dream-waker.bsky.social · 2h

"I was just following orders is not an excuse, its a confession... You knew these were illegal orders, it was your job to refuse them!"

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h

🚨🚨🚨The intensity here is indescribable. The reference post (to follow) indicates the gravity being similar to that of “Bloody Sunday.” A harrowing parallel. 1/2

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h

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Pam Bondi Hearing Cold Open - SNL

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 13h

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“Science and expertise have taken a back seat to ideology and misinformation,” the former surgeons general warned.

Former Surgeons General Say It's Their Duty to Warn of 'Profound' Threat RFK Jr. Poses to Americans | Common Dreams

Former US surgeons general warn that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poses a threat to public health with anti-vaccine views and misinformation.

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 6h

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William "Chip" Nagel @cto1usn.bsky.social · 3h

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U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday-HQ

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 3h

I post this article too much,,,
But we have mass shooting too much

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Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion

The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism

www.newsweek.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like it should be a slightly larger story that amid all the administration’s screaming about “antifa” (whatever that is for them), Trump and his cronies are more aggressively and more frequently calling journalists they don’t like terrorists.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1h

In fact quite the opposite, Lindsey Graham! Biden never even approached the line. In his attempt to remain neutral he tolerated an AG who co-signed lawlessness. An AG who sided and abetted (protected) the worst criminal of our time. Unforgivable.

Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1h

Really like this Pope!

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

Congratulations to all the runners today at the Chicago Marathon!

I hope you’re taking a moment after crossing the finish line and enjoying all that the best big city in the nation has to offer.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1h

Graham #Platner for US Senate.✔️

Take a listen!👇

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1h

Hear hear!

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2h

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 17h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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