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Vietnam veteran 1965-66 588th Combat Engineers 25th Inf. Division CuChi. Retired Stationary Engineer University of Arizona

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tuckertym.bsky.social @tuckertym.bsky.social · May 26

I lost 2 uncles in Normandy. Major John Edmund Tucker killed during the battle for Carentan France. Pvt.Billy E. Tucker killed during landing on Omaha Beach. They both died in June 1944, 3 weeks apart.

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🦋 M.S. MotorcycleMama 🏍️༄₊°.࿔ ༘. ⃛ @ms-motorcyclemama.bsky.social · 3d

“Everyone is welcome here.
Hate is NOT.”

Printed over a bright wavy rainbow across a black background.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

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/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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.

newrepublic.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

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tuckertym.bsky.social @tuckertym.bsky.social · 12h

I'm with ya George

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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The Liberty Pear @thelibertypear.com · 8d

Poll of the people who voted for Biden in 2020 and stayed home in 2024.

(Credit Chris Murphy for sharing on X)

Bernie would have absolutely destroyed Trump if he were the nominee.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

How do we speed buses up? There are plenty of tools already in the city's toolbox.

Just look at the 14th St busway.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 11

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 11

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3d

At a time when we should be guaranteeing health care to all Americans as a human right, President Trump and his Republican colleagues are threatening to make our broken system even worse by doubling premiums for more than 20 million Americans.

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NYS Senator Kristen Gonzalez @sengonzalezny.bsky.social · 3d

There is no #EqualPayNY without #LatinaEqualPay. We need stronger laws and substantial investment in:

✅ Expanding Pay Transparency Laws
✅ Bringing women into higher paying roles
✅ Fair Pay for Care workers
✅ Making child care accessible to all
✅ Expanding Paid leave

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects the Trump administration's request to greenlight his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, stressing that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment leaves no room for Trump's interpretation.

First Circuit Rebukes Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order as Unconstitutional