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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎
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Key measure of a society: how easy it makes it for members to make morally good choices. Father of 4 wonderful children plus 2 fantastic daughters-in-law. Founder of CharityWeb.net. Member of Pax Christi Metro-DC Baltimore. LGBTQ+ supporter. Christian.
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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎 @trypax.charityweb.net · 23d
Plan for ending Trump presidency in 2027:
- Dem take House and 63 Senate seats
- Replace Jeffries as Dem House leader. Raskin?
- Make DC a state giving 2 more Dem Senators
- Convince 3 GOP Sens (Murkowski, Cassidy, ???) to vote with Dems
- Impeach and convict VP Vance. Don't allow a replacement.
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 13h
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Pop Quiz!

Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?

The history, and the Constitution itself?

Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.

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NPR @npr.org · 10h
The small town of Leland, Miss., was rocked by the shooting, which took place late Friday. n.pr/46LOd0X
4 dead and 12 injured in a shooting after Mississippi homecoming game
The small town of Leland, Miss., was rocked by the shooting, which took place late Friday.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h
The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
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arielwest1987.bsky.social @arielwest1987.bsky.social · 11h
Do you think people get it that Trump and GOP really do want to screw them?
Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas (Gift Article)
Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
“This is not sustainable”
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d
A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week
House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period. Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes. Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d
Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic
Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 13h
Most medical care treats the social determinants of health. It treats poverty and chronic stress and high inequality instead of preventing it. Since when is treatment a better approach than prevention? And teachers can only do so much to overcome those same obstacles. UBI is the foundation for these
Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
Can the savings of basic income exceed the costs? > “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/247269-an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-...
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Lizard Of Oz @lizardofoz316.bsky.social · 21h
This is a hair on fire situation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 1d
“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

www.ft.com/content/013e...
The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate
The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
UPDATE #TN-05 Democrat #ChazMolder raised $785,000 in the first four weeks of his campaign. That’s more than 13 times Republican Andy Ogles’ current war chest.

People are clearly eager to put an end to #PinnochiOgles lies and drama www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h
SEN. @gallego.senate.gov on the terrible Milei rock concert: “Millions of Americans are about to lose their health care and have their insurance premiums double, but Trump & Republicans are giving this idiot $20 BILLION. Good job. Way to make America First, guys.”
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 12h
In places throughout the world and in moments of great social duress, such as in Poland during the Solidarity movement and El Salvador during St. Oscar Romero’s episcopate, “people’s Masses” have been organized by grassroots Catholic communities.
Amid Chicago ICE raids, a people’s Mass is an example of ‘political holiness’
Several hundred Catholics and people of faith gathered on Sept. 13 to celebrate a people’s Mass, or Misa popular, outside the gates of the Great Lakes Naval Station in the city of North Chicago.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h
“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,” Miller’s cousin wrote in a July Facebook post that resurfaced over the weekend. “This is not by accident, but by design. Your design, Stephen.”
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Stephen Miller’s Own Cousin Calls Him the “Face of Evil”
Alisa Kasmer says Stephen Miller has betrayed all of their family values.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h
They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h
Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
Imagine that
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d
Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h
This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 14h
Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 12h
"As physicians committed to evidence-based care, we are alarmed by the direction of HHS under Sec RFK Jr. To protect patients, safeguard scientific integrity & restore public trust, we join our colleagues in calling on [Trump] to remove [him] & appoint a qualified, evidence-driven leader w/o delay."
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NPR @npr.org · 15h
Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.
Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary
Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.
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