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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · Mar 18

Update!
We have some SPECIAL ELECTIONS coming up this year. Let's follow & support the Dem candidates.

April 1: WI State Supreme Court judge, & Congressional races in FL-01, & FL-06

Sept 23: House race in AZ-07

TBA: House races in NY-21, & TX-18
#Indivisible #DemCast #Resist
go.bsky.app/4Hpup8z

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 3h

My husband and I wrote postcards, donated, and our ballots have been dropped off.

Spread the word!! YES on Proposition 50!

a neon sign that says yes is lit up on a black background

ALT: a neon sign that says yes is lit up on a black background

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 5h

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Thank you so much for being a hero & fighting to save democracy.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you Doc
I phonebank also through
mobilize.us/cadems
Please join us
Vote YES on PROP 50
California!

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 9h

I phone banked tonight for 1.5 hours - very positive experience - you can sign up to phone bank here #YesOnProp50

"Want to join me for this Grassroots Democrats HQ event?" mobilize.us/s/Ksqxww

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 5h

Go to stopelectionrigging.com,
Grassrootsdems.org,
Or linktr.ee/teampelosi to donate or volunteer.

Vote, volunteer & donate!
Even $2 or 20 minutes helps!
If not you, who?

Volunteering is soooo rewarding!

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 12h

All of these warriors for democracy know just how crucial passing Prop 50 is.

It's ESSENTIAL that California passes it & that means that we need resisters across the nation to help.

If you care about democracy follow these activists, post about it often & volunteer!

YES ON 50!
go.bsky.app/Jiw4LDg

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 13h

Congress should be working— not waiting at home — to end the shutdown.

Health insurance for millions of Americans is on the line. I’m back in D.C. ready for bipartisan negotiations.

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

So First Amendment rights can now be snatched away if you [checks notes] celebrate?

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 3h

This story is so frightening.

How odd that the Trump cult are still whining about being censored, right?

Loads of Americans don't follow any news at all - please share this story with someone beyond Bluesky.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

"The Pentagon should not fear scrutiny by the press corps that walks its halls. It should welcome it and rise to it. In a free country, the Army defends the people—and the press ensures the people know what is being done in their name." www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

Locking Down the Pentagon Press Is Dangerous

Pete Hegseth’s proposed restrictions would harm the people whom both the military and the press are meant to serve.

www.thebulwark.com

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🌈 💫𝓛𝓲𝓯𝓮’𝓼𝓐𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱💫🌈*𝒞𝒥* @lifesabeachcj.bsky.social · 4h

The president of the US of A has been systematically inciting violence amongst the people of America for years. When will it end.

Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · Apr 18

Trump's History of Violence (2016-2020)

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young
Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?
HOCHUL: This bullshit needs to stop.

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 1d

I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that.

~ Martin Sheen ~

#DemocracyDefender 🩵💙🩵

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 1d

Martin Sheen 'The son of immigrants' • social justice is at the center of his life.

Sheen also talks about his faith in this country & his call to action for each of us to "lift up this country" & make politics joyful again.

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Martin Sheen eviscerates Trump's Cabinet: 'Smells of ego and fear and false worship'

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 1d

At MSNBC's annual live event, Nicolle talks to Sheen about President Trump's lack of humanity & the "sycophants" in his Cabinet.

Martin Sheen has been playing iconic leading men for nearly 70... but Emmy & Golden Globe winner says that while acting is his profession, activism keeps him alive.

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 3d

In May, Trump accepted a Boeing luxury jet from Qatar. While the aircraft itself was a "gift" valued at roughly $400M, the US will incur multi-million to billion $$ costs to retrofit it.

Critics cite the potential for foreign influence & the lack of congressional approval. YA THINK?

America 1st?👇🏼

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2d

When this happens…something is not right‼️

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Bridge over Troubled Water

Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 2d

This is tyranny right in our faces. Apparently pitting Americans against Americans has paid off, because a few Americans are are getting their jollies.

Just remember that Hitler was wildly POPULAR at one time.

Dictators/authoritarians have used the DIVIDE AND CONQUER playbook throughout history.

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 2d

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

#Maga not normal 'ordinary'

Fmr. VP Harris: Trump 'is deploying U.S. military to the streets of America'

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 3d

'Comedians react to Pam Bondi’s ‘cheat sheet’ during Senate hearing'

Arrogant, Incompetent, Unprofessional, Unprepared, Aggressive, Vulgar, Ridiculous, Lying, Corrupt ...

Do you know what these words have in common?

Pamela Jo Bondi

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Comedians react to Pam Bondi’s ‘cheat sheet’ during Senate hearing

YouTube video by CNN

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 3d

AI:
"No, Qatar was not directly involved in the 9/11 attacks, as the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, & Lebanon. However, some sources indicate that individuals in Qatar provided funding to al-Qaeda & offered shelter to a key planner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, after he fled the US.

Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 3d

It's hard to know what's coming down the pike ... it's nothing good for sure. Many people seem not to be worried, thinking it won't affect THEM. They would be wrong. I'm finding AI a valuable resource.
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Susala @susala.bsky.social · 13d

Not an ACA plan, but the health insurance we're being offered through the Colorado public employees retirement system will be $2650/month in 2026 for 3 people. Who could or would pay that? I feel like the entire health care system is about to collapse.

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 3d

My husband and I are signed up. Pass this along to your friends and neighbors. Not everyone is clued into what's happening. Trump is dismantling our democracy in front of our eyes.

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