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Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘

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Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘 @letsbepurple.bsky.social · May 5

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 3h

There are three professional problem solving cultures in DC.

Diplomatic (Do it quiet, behind closed doors)

Legal (Do it in briefs, w citations)

& Journalism (name and shame, get it first, get it right, print it fast)

Still no MSM story on Opus Dei takeover of DC.

Big MSM fail.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

Super interesting analysis about why Trump has withdrawn a record number of his nominations. It's not all GOP opposition (and some of that opposition is not public). It's also Trump deciding they would not be sufficiently loyal.

www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/trump-has-...

A bar chart titled, "Number of presidential nominees withdrawn by year" showing that Trump has had far more than anyone.

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Heidi is kickass!!!

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No need for the words “east wing” for accuracy

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My local ones seem to be mating year round these days

Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘 @letsbepurple.bsky.social · 1h

This regime is the epitome of the swamp

Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘 @letsbepurple.bsky.social · 1h

That famous children’s cancer charity? Or Lara “animal rescue”?

Both result in innocents needlessly dying

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1h

Best reporters in DC on Leonard Leo - @heidireports.bsky.social at Politico & @heidischlumpf.bsky.social at @ncronline.bsky.social silenced?

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Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘 @letsbepurple.bsky.social · 1h

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FeministSociologistPhD @femsocphd.bsky.social · 2h

What #FatSatan is doing is THEFT. He is literally STEALING $230,000,000 from taxpayers for charges he'd have been found guilty of.

Just imagine what we don't know, and what's next.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20h

The peasants have no bread.

Let them eat cake…

www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

The White House Announces White House Ballroom Construction to Begin

Washington, D.C. — For 150 years, Presidents, Administrations, and White House Staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that

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Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘 @letsbepurple.bsky.social · 2h

@muellershewrote.com i think she’s got this 💜

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

It seems Glenn Beck and his ilk are preparing their followers for two possible futures: a) permanent and complete GOP control of the federal government or b) massive resistance to a Democratic victory that will make J6 look like a garden party. One thing they’re not prepping folks for is democracy.

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Speaker Mike Johnson just confirmed something | have been warning about for over a decade: Anarchists, Islamists, communists, and socialists are working together to overthrow the West. I was called crazy for predicting this coalition, which we now know as the Democratic Party.
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 21h

Inching closer to a new pandemic.

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

apnews.com

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Seth Andrews @sethandrews.com · 1d

Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African American justice.

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Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘 @letsbepurple.bsky.social · 2h

No take that list call Grassley’s office and read it to them

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 18h

Alarm Raised Over “An American KGB” Run Out of Gabbard’s National Intelligence Office
www.spytalk.co/p/alarm-rais...

Alarm Raised Over “An American KGB” Run Out of Gabbard’s National Intelligence Office

Group representing hundreds of former national security officials denounce ‘weaponization’ working group

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 2h

OPINION: "With control of the White House and Congress, the GOP holds all the cards. Blaming Democrats for the impasse is ridiculous." — Joseph Hoeffel

Republicans could end the government shutdown tomorrow | Opinion

With control of the White House and Congress, the GOP holds all the cards. Blaming Democrats for the impasse is ridiculous.

www.inquirer.com

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Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘 @letsbepurple.bsky.social · 2h

Ha! That guy is #smalldickenergy to the power of 100

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

mom they won't let me be the special counsel that arrests the people who were mean to me online

Embattled Trump Nominee Paul Ingrassia’s Mom Tried to Meet With Lawmakers Who Criticized Her Son

Donna Gallo Ingrassia demanded meetings at the Capitol Hill office of Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia in late June to defend her son.

www.notus.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

He did everything he possibly could to overturn the election & stay in power - threatening his VP, Govs & Secs of States, organizing a mob to storm the Capitol. He knew if he ordered a military coup they would’ve refused & he would’ve been tried for treason. That’s why he left.

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Now Is The Time 8647 - Don’t Back Down💜 🫘 @letsbepurple.bsky.social · 2h

Is it mating season?

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 4h

They're Called The Bahamas,
Chumpster........

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