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Disabled Desert Storm Army Vet/1st Air Cav “GarryOwen” (I stand by my oath) 🇺🇸 former NBC Photojournalist/Photog/Videographer/Editor/Storm chaser 🎥 Michigan Alum/Wolverine 🏈 /#LegacyGuardian with TVP/🏟️ Chiefs Fan for Life! NO MAGA!!!/ #SaveAmerica 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 18h

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The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)

Check out the NO KINGS SONG! Play this at your rallies. 🙌 Pass it on.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

Currently in Chicago...

This looks peaceful to me...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 6h

In case you missed today's good news:

No Kings Protests Set To Break Records, JD Vance Gets Booed, While MIT and An 'Anti-Fascist Frog' Reject Trump’s Tyranny

When institutions say no, and protesters say never again

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 9h

Silly white nationalist MAGA influencers think they're in charge.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 3h

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When Silence Feels Like Surrender: Bearing Witness in a Broken America

How family conversations, cultural memory, and moral courage become our last lines of defense against erasure and authoritarianism

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Speaker Mike Johnson WANTS a Dictator - He Thinks Protesting Dictatorship Means You Hate America

Hawk focuses on Speaker Mike Johnson’s controversial remarks labeling Americans who plan to attend the upcoming No Kings protests as “anti-American” and “pro-Hamas.”

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 3h

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The Paradox of Tolerance: A Lesson for a Divided Democracy

The civic dilemma at the heart of democracy

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Joe Biden is THE reason Trump Won a Second Term

Hawk talks about why Joe Biden’s decision to run for a second term was the turning point that ensured Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 5h

Citizens demanding transparency and lawfulness from their public servants.

📢This is the way.
#ChicagoStrong

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 3h

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A Toast to Diane Keaton

The patron saint of cool women.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 6h

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More Lawsuits Coming After Trump’s Mass Firing Comments

Hawk focuses on Donald Trump’s latest comments about firing thousands of federal workers and the legal backlash those statements could trigger.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 6h

The President is a r*pist.

We should never stop being pissed off about this.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

Meryl Streep, honoring Keaton at AFI:

“She’s given us all so. Much. Happiness.”

#RIP 🙏🏼

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 7h

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 6h

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Tonight's Community Meeting: not all vindictive prosecutions are created equal. Let's talk about John Bolton.

A recording from Glenn Kirschner's live video

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 7h

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Charlie Kirk, Bad Bunny, and the Racist NFL Backlash

Hawk discusses the continuing legacy of racism at Turning Point USA following the death of its founder, Charlie Kirk.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 7h

Pirate Wires—founded by Peter Thiel protege Mike Solana (with an investment from Thiel— whines that Wikipedia calls Trump an “authoritarian.” 10/10/25 … 1/ www.piratewires.com/p/wikipedia-...

Wikipedia Declares Trump an Authoritarian

a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 7h

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October 10, 2025

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 8h

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When Joe Rogan Makes Sense… and Then Loses It

Hawk discusses Joe Rogan’s latest contradictions — from calling out Donald Trump’s cruel immigration policies to defending Trump over the January 6th Capitol riot.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

This is like a thank-you from Pauly Shore, after Rob Schneider consoled him by saying the Academy Awards had lost credibility for not giving either of them a Best Actor Oscar nomination.