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Quatrain Gleam

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Pro-Human Fixing America can't happen without undoing Citizens United. Corporations are not people, money is not speech, Congress can govern money. Human rights are for humans. If you don't breathe you don't "speak" "believe" or "bear arms".

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · Apr 15

It's only helpful if we do something to improve the next election.

Here's the plain truth, zero speculation, it is technically impossible to have both secret ballots (which we clearly need) and secure electronic voting.

100% cannot do both. (The logic behind this is the incompleteness theorem.)

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 4h

Crimes against humanity

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Daniel Terdiman @greeterdan.bsky.social · 8h

There's even a one-stop shop: isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 8h

There's a lot of webcams in Portland

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 11h

We know why. Cruel and unusual punishment. Also uganda has slavery and these guys are neo-confederates.

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 11h

Great. Violation of the 8th amendment right to freedom fro cruel and unusual punishment

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 16h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 12h

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 11h

Ditch Electronic Voting Machines

Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 14h

In under-the-radar news: a GOP-aligned former election official just bought Dominion Voting. He wants to mirror trump’s election directives. His other company, KnowInk, has been tied to multiple voting failures. Now he controls the machinery & our votes. That should scare everyone.

Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories

Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13h

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 12h

Do now we have two Republican voting machine companies.

Pro Tip: electronic voting machines are simply an expensive way to ensure we can NEVER trust elections.

They only add cost, suppression, and insecurity. Less speed, reliability, and auditability than hand-marked paper.

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 12h

Giving hims what he wants doesn't work out well for anyone either.

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southerngirlraven7.bsky.social @southerngirlraven7.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I know… I’m making a lot of posts about Pam Bondi.

But, I just feel like after her testimony the other day - that this is her time to shine, lol.
😂

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 22h

Perfect

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 23h

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 1d

Wrong link

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes i scare myself with how much i want to hurt evil people.

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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 1d

This is intolerable!
The “worst of the worst?”
A housekeeper?

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 1d

So, the president of the United States casually mentioned that he took away free speech. Just in case you missed that.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1d

Someone hack the truth social dm database that shits gonna be our generation’s nixon tapes

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Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 1d

So damned sad. 😢

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 1d

MGT is often ignorant but she ain't stupid. Boebert is stupid.

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Someone with guns wants to protect civilians??!!?

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: Super Bowl halftime artists ARE NOT PAID. They have to foot the bill for the performance.

Pedo Mikey is a pampered pet so he wouldn't know about such things.

Quatrain Gleam @quatraingleam.bsky.social · 1d

You get reminded to do this when the medical issues of your colleagues and their families become topics of common conversation because their conditions change the set of plans the entire company may purchase.