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🍁Norman Jaffe (he/him/his) 🇨🇦
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Deadhead/Hawkwind/Lost Planet Airman/LISP/Rust. Terran. Whovian. Canuck. Wet coast native - born in Vancouver. Old systems programmer from back when punch cards and paper tape were what you used and disk drives had oil actuators. Blinking lights rule!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h
Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:

-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
“Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”

—Donald Trump, August 2024
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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h
Liberia agrees to accept wrongly deported migrant Abrego, US says reut.rs/3L4YzR8
Liberia agrees to accept wrongly deported migrant Abrego, US says
Donald Trump's administration said on Friday it has reached an agreement with Liberia to accept Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador in March became a flashpoint in the Republican president's immigration crackdown.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 4h
Justice Department Announces Plans to Monitor Polling Sites in New Jersey and California talkingpointsmemo.com/news/justice...
Justice Department Announces Plans to Monitor Polling Sites in New Jersey and California
In response to requests from state Republican parties, the Department of Justice...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5h
The US hit an all-time high $38 trillion in national debt, thanks to Donald trump.

This marks a +$500 Billion jump in October, or +$23 billion per day, again, thanks to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is bad for the economy, business, and your pocket. Support MAGA, lose money.
US National Debt Chart, shows green line pointing to 38 trillion in debt Orange ape infront of plastic painted Gold, holding AI image of a French hall.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4h
Very concerning, if true.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h
This is their playbook for the midterms. Intimidation and harassment - if we are lucky it will only be that. Because their full playbook is most likely much worse but this is the warmup act.
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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 6h
Align with Trump’s interests, not with US interests.
annemuntean.bsky.social Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 6h
"The U.S. military’s presence is less about drugs than sending a message to countries in the region to align with U.S. interests, according to Elizabeth Dickinson, the International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for the Andes region."

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US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military buildup
The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, in the latest escalation and buildup of military forces in the region.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
In a win for voters Friday, a federal appeals court rejected a right-wing effort to revive a Republican bid to block Pennsylvania from counting undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots.🥳 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Appeals Court Denies GOP Effort to Disenfranchise Pennsylvania Mail Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 9h
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Only a sick bastard would harm a pregnant woman! Even the women in prison here in America get better treatment than this!
ENOUGH of this nightmare!
#Pinks #WomensRights #ICE
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
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🍁Norman Jaffe (he/him/his) 🇨🇦 @opendragon.com · 4h
That looks like a Halloween decoration, not Christmas.
Then again, this whole administration (cabal / junta / crime syndicate) is inherently evil and disturbing to normal people.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h
The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 4h
Trump’s troop deployments to Portland and D.C. face tests in court reut.rs/4hrMykF
Trump’s troop deployments to Portland and D.C. face tests in court
Federal judges in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C. held hearings on Friday in legal battles over the deployment of National Guard troops to the U.S. cities, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand his rare use of the U.S. military for domestic purposes.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h
This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.
adamcancryn.bsky.social Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 5h
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 4h
An uneducated populous is easier to control. They can't think critically and are easily gaslit. This is why fascists always attack education.
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 8h
every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6h
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)
A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 4h
Our veterans shouldn’t be met with force from their own government for exercising the very rights they risked their lives to protect. I stand with every single veteran standing up and speaking out against Trump's lawlessness.
Lawmakers slam Ice after US military veterans are arrested, injured
The Guardian revealed how US veterans have been injured and arrested at protests against Ice deportations
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 21h
youtu.be/r2bK5kmr1tM

This man bravely spoke on the floor of North Carolina Congress. Then the GOP struck it from the record.

Watch it to see why.

#GOPcorruption #GOPTraitors
Democracy Under Assault in North Carolina
YouTube video by Michael Garrett
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 4h
Get it, madam AG.

And by "it" I mean justice.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h
That Donald Trump thinks the Supreme Court would decide a case based on a political speech by Ronald Reagan—instead of the law—is an admission that he knows the current, corrupt Court is a practitioner of politics, not a protector of laws.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h
Someone's desperate.
Andrew Cuomo Slammed After Campaign Posts Racist AI Video Of 'Criminals For Zohran Mamdani'
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 5h
They're literally pissing themselves as they shoot praying pastors in the face with tear gas canisters and rubber bullets. These FLARPing wankers are panicky and that makes them exceedingly dangerous to American civilians.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h
They don’t really care about hungry kids. Just political power. Hold the line, Democrats.
A tweet from user Maine (@TheMaineWonk) says: “You literally voted to cut SNAP by $1 billion over 10 years.” It responds to a tweet from Senator Markwayne Mullin, which reads: “FACT: Oklahomans will lose food stamps (SNAP) if 5 Senate Dems don’t grow a backbone and join us to end the Chuck Schumer Shutdown.” The image below shows Mullin in an office wearing a white shirt and red tie, standing in front of bookshelves with framed photos, with text across the video reading: “What’s going on?”
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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 8h
Jack Smith is asking to testify in an open & PUBLIC hearing because Republicans are lying about his work as Special Counsel.

The truth must come out! Americans deserve transparency & have a right to know what 47, & company, did to incite their insurrection against our country.
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