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Robert Fischoff

@rfischoff.bsky.social

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This crazy, sad, beautiful world will break your heart. A young person who isn't an anarchist has no brains; an older person who isn't a socialist has no heart. "There's no success like failure, but failure is no success at all." - Bob Dylan.

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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · Jul 20

I wouldn’t believe anything that comes from the Trump Regime. It’s all lies, propaganda, misinformation and more lies. Always.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17m

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Barbara Boxer @realbarbaraboxer.bsky.social · 23h

No Mike Johnson. We support “No kings day” because we love America and stand with the Founders who revolted against a king. So take a little breath Mike,and join us. Whoops! I forgot you love Orange King so much that you’ve given up even coming to work to protect him from Epstein files.

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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 4m

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I’ll be there on October 18th. Don’t commit crimes. Never been arrested. Pay my taxes. Vote every election. Registered as an independent. Not a member of any political groups. Don’t know George Soros. No one is paying me anything for attending or exercising my rights.

Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 4m

I’ll be there on October 18th. Don’t commit crimes. Never been arrested. Pay my taxes. Vote every election. Registered as an independent. Not a member of any political groups. Don’t know George Soros. No one is paying me anything for attending or exercising my rights.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

Did people actually believe Trump during his campaign, or did they just love the permission he gave them to be racist?

Trump on loop: “They’re stealing your jobs.”

If that were true, why aren’t Americans lining up to take those so-called “stolen” jobs?

Every Trump voter needs to see this.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22m

As a Professor Emerita from the University of Arizona and an alumna, the UA *cannot* accept Trump’s “compact” aka selling their academic soul to the Devil.

This moment is when UA decides whether they will stand by academic freedom and integrity or become a tool of The Regime.

U of A president breaks silence on White House compact

University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella sent an email to the campus community about the White House’s proposed higher education compact, a week after receiving it.

tucson.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2h

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3h

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.

Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.

Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Angus: Who else are you going to give military bases to? When’s Vladimir Putin getting his rocket bases in the United States?

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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 59m

Simple answer. Putin is getting his military bases in the United States as soon as he agrees to a multi billion dollar golf course in the Crimea.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 1h

Not quite. It’s much more visceral than that. Trump and the Republicans hate renewable, non-polluting energy because they hate anything that is good. Their policies are designed to create as much death and destruction, suffering and chaos as possible. They hate anything that makes things better.

Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 5h

Government of the oligarchs, by the oligarchs, for the oligarchs.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

Trump is giving another taxpayer-funded bailout to billionaires, and working class MAGA cultists won’t say a peep.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

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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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

Market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine that

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 7h

🇺🇸🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: I had a call with US President Donald Trump—a very positive and productive one. I congratulated POTUS on his success and the Middle East deal he was able to secure, which is an outstanding achievement.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 9h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 7h

Authoritarians and oligarchs throughout the world are uniting and working together. This is a new and dangerous situation, very different from the previous incarnations of fascism in the past when nationalist tendencies ruled. Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes about that in her books.