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Tim in Maryland

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Proud Democrat,Husband married 42 years, father, grandfather, SCSU graduate, Army Infantry Officer ret., veteran who’s disgusted with 47 and his Ducks walking in a line agreeing with every lie that he lets fly from his mouth. 🚫sales 🚫porn 🚫maga 🚫cam girls

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

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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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 9h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Aug 30

Alright, fuck it, enough of the shenanigans.

We're spending an hour to edit a series of a pelican diving into the ocean that took 3 seconds to shoot.

jking please continue with the shenanigans. we deserve it!

#birds

a scene in front of an island with palm trees about 10 minutes before sunset, the ocean is light blue and the sky is yellow, a pelican flys and then dives into the ocean with 15 individual frames plus the splash frame.

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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look everyone….how a real president writes and speaks…..

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Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 10h

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Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 11h

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 21h

As a U.S. senator last year, Marco Rubio supported María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize nomination @schmidtsam.bsky.social and Steve Hendrix report

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María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, wins Nobel Peace Prize

The prize honored Machado, who is in hiding, for keeping “the flame of democracy burning,” but the White House accused the Nobel jury of “placing politics over peace.”

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 16h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 12h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 17h

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h

Pam Bondi gets uglier with every clip of her I see. People lying...when everyone knows they are lying...yet they do it anyway...they're the most repulsive thing you can ever see. That feeling of being repulsed...and what you are looking at...when you feel that way...fuse... permanently.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 13h

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 14h

“Can you show us a video of Portland in flames?”

Is a question someone needs to ask the frickin’ President of the United States.

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 12h

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Elizabeth Dunn🖇️📎 @elizabeth64.bsky.social · 14h

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Callies Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things @calliedot.bsky.social · 19h

I do think it would be amazing if hundreds of protesters just showed up dressed like ICE. They’d be absolutely baffled, they’d have no way to tell who’s who. They’re all dressed in off-the-rack Cabelas clothes since they don’t seem to have a standard uniform so it’s easy.

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Democrats Organizing For America @democratsofa.bsky.social · 13h

Call them terrorists.

We dare you.

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99fgh.bsky.social @99fgh.bsky.social · 18h

If Congress is looking for something to impeach the felon for, accepting bribes in order to give a military base to a foreign power in our country seems like a good one!

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17h

MSNBC is reporting that the DOJ is seeking an indictment of John Bolton.

I can’t stand that guy, and still: THIS IS SO WRONG.

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