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Fellow sojourner on this good Earth. Against those who would destroy it, and those who have no empathy or social awareness. I don't follow bots. MA x 2, writing, music, sailing, hiking, languages, travel, food, science, wonder. No DMs.
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · Jul 4
"We the People...

These words must apply to everyone...or they mean nothing!"

#weThePeople #declarationOfIndependence #ePlebnista #starTrek #resist
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h
This is why we’re seeing cracks. Their bullshit propaganda blaming democrats isn’t working. By large margins.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
New WaPo/ABC poll:

45% of Americans blame Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown. 33% blame Democrats.

By a 2-to-1 margin, Independents blame Trump and Republicans over Democrats: 46% to 23%.
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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 11h
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 11h
These people make up and believe the most foolish imaginings as facts. The real "fake news."

#ronJohnson #idiots #Republicant #impeachMAGA #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
rustbeltradical.bsky.social Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 13h
Ron Johnson is really giving Joe McCarthy a run for his money for worst Wisconsin politician of all time
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
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Andys Theory @andystheory.bsky.social · 12h
Look up. We may be watching the future: Jasmine Crockett on “The Necessity of Truth.”

She’s in good company.

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." — Thomas Jefferson

"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." — Attributed to George Orwell
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 2d
Essentially
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 2d
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2d
Democrats are furious that the Trump Administration held a briefing on Capitol Hill today about U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats. Only Republicans were invited. This is from Sen. Mark Warner D-VA.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d
The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 2d
"is" right out! (darn keyboards!)
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 2d
Anything requiring secret police os right out, as Brits would say.

ICE is the objectification of the failure to reach a humane immigration policy. It shows the inhumane face of Republicans and the weakness of Democrats to achieve good legislation.
tommasinaresist.bsky.social TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 2d
Immigration lies. High-profile ICE raids, media crews in tow, try to bait Democrats & paint them as defenders of criminals.
This strategy isn't working. The public doesn't support masked ICE agents roaming cities.
The GOP doesn't even know Trump is losing the argument.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Trump and Stephen Miller Thought Immigration Was Their Winning Issue. They Were Wrong.
The more extreme and visible their deportation agenda becomes, the more the American people are turning against it.
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 4d
Doordash worked against a state bill to weaken healthcare insurance in Wisconsin.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4d
This is what corporations should be doing to face this moment!! 🤝

Door Dash now we just need you to pay employees their fair share.
Text is a screenshot of a social media post from DoorDash that says: @DoorDash • 7h The federal government shutdown threatens SNAP benefits for 40 million Americans this week. We're launching an Emergency Food Response to help: delivering 1 million free meals through 300+ food banks, and waiving delivery and service fees for 300k grocery orders for SNAP recipients. It's a stopgap, not a solution. But help is needed now. Read more: about.doordash.com/en-us/news/sna...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 4d
In Old Irving Park, the “new normal” for residents on Saturday included federal agents deploying tear gas as parents and costumed children were leaving their homes on their way to a neighborhood Halloween parade.
www.rawstory.com/ice-chicago-...
ICE deploys tear gas as costumed children head to Halloween parade
A former Cook County prosecutor said he had collected a tear gas canister from his own front lawn in a residential Chicago neighborhood and submitted it to a law firm that is preparing a lawsuit over ...
www.rawstory.com
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People, by @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People
The loss of support comes at a time of uncertainty for one of Arizona’s largest homeless services providers as the Trump administration calls for reducing and restructuring homelessness assistance gra...
www.propublica.org
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Colleen @gracie87.bsky.social · 5d
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Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · 6d
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 5d
Mike Davis, your comments are a disappointment to evolved humanity everywhere. I hope you do not also presume to call yourself Christian.

#fundSnap #fundHealthcare
thadd1950.bsky.social @Thadd1950.bsky.social @thadd1950.bsky.social · 5d
grandpas and grandmas in wheelchairs can't work. Babies can't work. Who will hire an old man or woman who walks with a cane and has poor hearing?
Americans-join an anti-Trump protest and vote blue.
katiephang.bsky.social Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 5d
Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?

Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?

And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 5d
When the Whitehouse had class and was funky. Obama, run again?
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 5d
So he can dole out money as patronage. Reward or punishment. Not a federal republic under this turdfly. A Bananastan.

#impeachTrump
thadd1950.bsky.social @Thadd1950.bsky.social @thadd1950.bsky.social · 5d
• Trump has stated he plans to significantly downsize or potentially eliminate FEMA. Either way, funding will be distributed directly from the White House, resulting in less federal aid for disaster recovery.
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d
This is not “America First”
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 5d
Great show today!

Love me some "Krautrock".

Rock on!
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 6d
No such thing as "federal immunity". Miller is a hateful little man. Talks tough, should be arrested himself for impersonating a human being without a license.

#impeachTrump #investigateMiller #pritzkerForPresident
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d
Threatening to arrest governors for seditious conspiracy. Getting dark fast.
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like a normal, unshot ear to me.

#impeachTrump
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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 6d
Let them eat Argentinian beef, except that farmers can't afford even that due to low commodity prices and closed markets as a result of stupid, capricious tariff "policies."

#impeachTrump ##EpsteinTrump ##EpsteinFiles #impeach47 #castThemOut