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TrueBlueOptimist

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orig fm boston transplanted to floriduh in 2008 and moved to nc in 2025. i swear A LOT. cancer sucks. trying hard to believe that majority of Americans don’t. 🚫🐂💩 SASurvivor #Antifascist #CancerSux #Resist No time for anyone who rewards a rapist 🖕

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TrueBlueOptimist @trueblueoptimist.bsky.social · Feb 16

the presidency of Trusk sucks ass!

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Tina- Descendant Of Antifa Soldiers @trcfwtt.bsky.social · 2h

The most astonishing part of the MAGA cult is how very few ppl have learned how their disinfo networks works.

They don’t even have to get the numbers right.

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Gandalf the Curmudgeon @420gandalf.bsky.social · 2h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org.

#NoKings

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 3h

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

Tied nearly dead to a barbed wire fence in freezing weather, where he wasn't found for nearly 24 hours. He died six days later in the hospital. Human cruelty knows no bounds.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 15h

If any Democrat in the House is still talking about finding common ground with Trump and maga we must primary them in 2026. These people are part of the problem.

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TrueBlueOptimist @trueblueoptimist.bsky.social · 4h

it's no secret... the GOP are pedo protectors.

two men are posing for a picture and one has a pink tie on

ALT: two men are posing for a picture and one has a pink tie on

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TrueBlueOptimist @trueblueoptimist.bsky.social · 17h

No Kings Rallies are Love Letters to The Constitution and America!
Dont let the Nazis and Fascists explain them as the opposite of what they actually are!

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 4h

www.blueamp.co/p/the-theocr...

The Theocrat in the Closet: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House

Trump's pipsqueak congressional butler hides behind fake faith to protect pedophilia

www.blueamp.co

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 4h

#AZ07 doesn't have a Congresswoman to represent them because trumps little Johnson doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

Swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social

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💋SassyAss💋Sister🔥🔱ValkyrieQueen🔱❤️‍🔥🥷Resistance Fighter👊 📎 @sassysister27.bsky.social · 4h

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Stacy Pinkston @stacypinkston.bsky.social · 4h

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 12h

Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11

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Julie J @j1j2.bsky.social · 4h

NO KINGS
Hudson, Massachusetts
Saturday, October 18

TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 16d

#NOKINGS
#NoDictators
#Massachusetts
NO KINGS
Hudson, Massachusetts
Saturday, October 18
10am – 12pm EDT
5 Washington St
Hudson, MA 01749
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

NO KINGS Hudson, MA · Mobilize

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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TrueBlueOptimist @trueblueoptimist.bsky.social · 4h

jfc. why are everett cops aiding and abetting?! vichy squads are in massachusetts. and that hurts my heart.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Uniquely Me )0( 🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦 @psychichealerc.bsky.social · 5h

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Very 🫘 @veryvaluable.bsky.social · 6h

The orange guy did not put his hand on a Bible when he was sworn in this time.

I guess he thought it was the equivalent of crossing his fingers behind his back. He never planned to respect the constitution.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h

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Joeskid @joeskid.bsky.social · 10h

Prove us wrong.
You cannot.

STEPHEN JAMES @stephen5150.bsky.social · 13h

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TrueBlueOptimist @trueblueoptimist.bsky.social · 14h

exactly!!!

TrueBlueOptimist @trueblueoptimist.bsky.social · 17h

The tactic used by Johnson in not swearing in an elected representative is tantamount to abuse of power, a Constitutional coup, and Voter disenfranchisement by blocking Grijalva! The House of Representatives needs to go back to work NOW! Johnson needs to be removed for not upholding Constitution!

TrueBlueOptimist @trueblueoptimist.bsky.social · 17h

The tactic used by Johnson in not swearing in an elected representative is tantamount to abuse of power and a Constitutional coup and Voter disenfranchisement by blocking Grijalva! The House of Representatives needs to go back to work NOW!

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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 17h

😱😱😱😱

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