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Sylvi Baldwin

@sylvansylvi.bsky.social

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Prioress, The Sanctuary@ Mud Bay, WA. Retired healthcare data analyst & clinical RN. I love democracy, the PNW, my offspring & my chug (Lucy). “Live your life in such a way that when you die people aren't ashamed to quote the shit you said.” Texas Paul

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Sylvi Baldwin @sylvansylvi.bsky.social · Aug 5

In fact, what Musk is doing to Tesla is a smaller version of what Trump is doing to America: fleecing it while running it into the ground.

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Why the hell is Musk getting a $29 billion raise?

It’s authoritarian capitalism

open.substack.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

"Get a real job" is devastating

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 14h

More from the scene

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Meiselas: Scott Perry says that Democrats join the military just so they can run for office — and that Democrats hate the military.

Deluzio: Just an unbelievable load of bullshit. I’d dare him to go say that in front of the Democrats in his district who are veterans — there are thousands of them.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 4h

It’s easy to gloss over the details in his daily madness.

He basically admits he is using tariffs to be petty and vindictive.

Nothing to do with the economy.

Not a care for those it hurts on both sides of the border.

Let’s see who in Congress calls him out.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump raises tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for anti-tariff TV ad

Move is response to ad sponsored by Ontario that referenced Ronald Reagan’s support for free trade

www.theguardian.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

You know Trump is the kind of operator to target small potatoes drug runners on behalf of the drug lords. That’s just good business.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 6h

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency.

An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 14h

Now THIS is a mission the National Guard can be proud of. 🙌

Via @voteinorout.bsky.social

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

The ex-prosecutor also said this:

“I have a lot of close contacts in law enforcement, and almost to a person, none of them support these actions. As a lawyer, someone who adamantly believes in the rule of law, watching it in open sight in front of my house just be completely eroded…it’s upsetting.”

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 13h

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public

Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

www.kuow.org

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10h

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.

SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.

Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.

People need & deserve assistance

Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich

Be mad about that

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 5h

Russ Vought and Stephen Miller must have a lot of fights about which one of them is the real president.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7h

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch.
Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas.
Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside
his window.
Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard.
Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas.

Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do
throughout the Trump administration's
"Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months.
He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed
"Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents.
"Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 9h

I’m pretty sure Stephen Miller would steal a lifejacket from a toddler.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14h

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:

“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 13h

Timothy Mellon is the donor of the $130 million for the troops.

In case you’re wondering what he’s like, he said in his autobiography that Black people have become “even more belligerent” because of social programs, and people who receive government assistance are slaves.

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

GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “They’re talking about getting rid of the Voting Rights Act — that may likely happen in months… they’re rewriting history… ANTI-WOKE IS ANTI-BLACK… we’re not doing enough. We’re not calling this out.”

Full: youtu.be/H5_tNkzX1yg?...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

A whole bunch of Americans died in a field in PA trying to stop Osama Bin Laden’s cronies from destroying the WH.

That asshole just destroyed the WH for him.

The terrorists must be so pleased.

TACO accomplished what Al Qaeda could not,

while all the mouth breathing “patriots” let him do it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 12h

This is, in fact, just about the only indication right now that the country can be saved, that government of the people, by the people, for the people might not vanish from this land

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 12h

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 14h