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Wes Brown

@mustard2025.bsky.social

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Look at the Maga ICE peckerhead in the image above. Are you going to let masked idiots (like him) take your lives away? I will not comply.

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Wes Brown @mustard2025.bsky.social · 28d

Phase out petroleum now
End single use plastics now
Conservation economy
Build to withstand 200 degree heat.
Plant based foods
Women's rights
African American rights
LGBTQ rights
Animal rights
Universal health care
Universal education
Ban machine guns
Habeas corpus is non-negotiable

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BeingHelpish 💙 🇺🇦 @beinghelpish.bsky.social · 9h

New York City is now a No Kings anchor event. So…

⭐️ NYC
⭐️ Boston
⭐️ DC
⭐️ Atlanta
⭐️ New Orleans
⭐️ Chicago
⭐️ Kansas City
⭐️ Bozeman
⭐️ San Francisco
⭐️ Honolulu

There are events all over the world, including all 50 states. If you’re in the US, it should be less than an hour drive from wherever you are.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

> @governor.ca.gov

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 10h

Hey, if the federal government can illegally withhold funds from blue states, maybe blue states should stop funding the federal government, let’s see how fast it goes broke then.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

A 20 year old black woman was just sitting in DC and EVERY agency possible shows up to arrest her!

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Wes Brown @mustard2025.bsky.social · 9h

Heck yeah! Eric is fighting for American freedom. Eric is fighting for you and me.

Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 12h

Dumb Dumb Donnie is crashing out.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

worth 4 mins of your time to watch this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmfD...

Now is the Time to Speak up for Justice

YouTube video by Justice Connection

www.youtube.com

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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 9h

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 10h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

This is what "grooming" looks like:

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 11h

The unfettered right to vote is as American as motherhood, baseball and apple pie.

It's the cornerstone of our democracy.

The Supreme Court must uphold the Voting Rights Act and the Constitutional protection against racial gerrymandering.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Opinion | The Shadow of Jim Crow Looms Over the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Wes Brown @mustard2025.bsky.social · 12h

If God is all powerful, then he cannot be all good. And if he is all good, he cannot be all powerful.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck to Bad Bunny, this is what he has to compete with in the Alternative Super Bowl halftime.

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Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how MAGA told us Javier Milei would fix Argentina's economy with his right-wing policies?

And now we are bailing out Argentina with billions.

Remember how MAGA told us Donald Trump would save US farmers with his right-wing policies?

And now we are bailing them out with billions also.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "If Donald Trump can find $20b to bail out his right-wing dictator friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the healthcare crisis that they've created."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 22h

“Defense lawyers who have clients caught up in the case have expressed bafflement at what possible crime could have been committed…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 2d

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...

hartmannreport.com/p/the-brutal...

The Brutality Is the Message: Why America’s Violence Against Immigrants Isn’t About Immigration

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...

hartmannreport.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Estefano @estefano1.bsky.social · 21h

ABC and CBS are unwatchable now...and NBC is useful only for local news and weather.
Just straight up propaganda.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Wes Brown @mustard2025.bsky.social · 13h

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

GOP Rep. Cory Mills hit with a restraining order from ex-girlfriend

Lindsey Langston said that after they broke up, Mills threatened to blackmail her and physically harm anyone she dated.

www.nbcnews.com

Wes Brown @mustard2025.bsky.social · 13h

"...I need health insurance so I can’t just quit.”

www.rawstory.com/everyone-is-...

'Everyone is afraid': Extent of brain drain shocks as DeSantis' effect on Florida revealed

Citing state policy on tenure, elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and the cost of living, Florida faculty laid out their frustrations in a recent survey.In a Faculty in the S...