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Margaret Baker

@mimibaker.bsky.social

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Retired RN. Continuously reading and learning. In favor of equality. I live in the foothills of Northern California in a small blue town. At 82 housing two 19 year old grandsons. No DM.🦋🪷💙🇺🇦🐕 👶🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽Great Grandma #NQNQ247 Antifa! Sic Semper Tyrannis!

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Margaret Baker @mimibaker.bsky.social · Feb 17

I think I need to pin Dark Gothic MAGA for when people ask why.

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DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious

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Al Brown @animus45.bsky.social · 15h

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1h

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I also will fight but I’m realistic. Money is power and they have it all.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 17h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 21h

The leader of the free world to Colombia (shorter version):
If you complain about the random murder of your innocent fisherman, I'll rip off your entire country and then some. And if you don't like that...

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 17h

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11h

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

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Margaret Baker @mimibaker.bsky.social · 9h

As we devolve into fascism, there’s not much chance of a blue House in 2026. But if Democrats ever get even a bit of power, our government will have been so destroyed that it will be very hard to make progress. Enough people will say, you didn’t do enough and vote fascism forever.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 20h

Got buried in the news this weekend, but President Jesus said the F word on CNN at like 2pm in the afternoon. The next day he posted a poop-filled scat video, but tell Me more about the dignity of the office of the presidency.

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 10h

WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posts her text thread with HuffPost reporter SV Date — when asked about who suggested Budapest for Trump’s meeting with Putin, she replies “Your mom did.”

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 1d

On the blog, I recap a very dispiriting oral argument in last week's SCOTUS Voting Rights Act case. I explain why questions by Justice Barrett about the permissibility of a discriminatory effects prohibition may be decisive, and I call out Justices Alito and Gorsuch for how they framed the issues. 👇

Justice Barrett's "Evil Day" and Other Infuriating Lowlights From the Voting Rights Act Oral Argument

The instant consensus--with which I agree--is that last Wednesday's oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais portends the final step in the Ro...

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💙 MaryH 💙 @maryh58.bsky.social · 1d

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Margaret Baker @mimibaker.bsky.social · 13h

These people are totally out of hand!

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15h

This is an actual quote from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to HuffPost reporter S.V. Dáte.

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Omg 😱

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14h

This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 15h

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Now I wake up at 4 am too, but it’s not because of Jake brakes or train whistles. It’s the authoritarianism that wakes me so early — the constant hum of fascism creeping in. The loud sound of oligarchy.

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Jake Brakes and Jackboots

A narrative

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GrouchyMarkx @grouchymarkx.bsky.social · 1d

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 1d

The article “Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America” reads like the lovechild of 1984 and a bad cop show. John and Nisha Whitehead argue that ICE has gone full action-movie villain.

Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise Of ICE’s Unconstitutional War On America

By John W. And Nisha Whitehead, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | October 16, 2025 “Brother, I am American. You are twisting my arm.”— Man shouts “I am American” while ICE agents detain h...

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Margaret Baker @mimibaker.bsky.social · 23h

Just like Biden changed out people on NLRB and made lots of policy changes to support unions and companies that support unions. You can’t change everything to everyone’s satisfaction overnight. So the party gets voted out, because enough didn’t change. Trump 1 and 2 are and were horrible for unions.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

...at some point around the middle they came for John Bolton, and I did not speak out, because it kinda seemed like that dude belongs in prison.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 1d

The entire "presumption of regularity" can essentially be thrown out the window at this point.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 1d

So in western Alaska, thousands of people are homeless due to flooding rains, one person is dead & two people are missing. But yet, the regime hasn't said a word, no thoughts or prayers, nothing.
Once again, they could care less about Americans, it's about enriching themselves through GREED.

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🎉 ZELD🅰️ 🎊 @zeldazellzelda.bsky.social · 1d

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