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Vanessa Gorman 🇺🇸🤜🤛✌️

@vanessag1.bsky.social

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Parent, grandparent, Democrat. Left MO in 2019 & headed to Pittsburgh with nary a look in my rearview. Semi retired & loving it. "X" refugee & resister....🚫 DMs Question authority..... #NeverTrumper 🤡 #Volunteer 💙🙈🙉🙊

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Vanessa Gorman 🇺🇸🤜🤛✌️ @vanessag1.bsky.social · Jan 31

I can't wait.

scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · Jan 31

Someday soon, he'll get his parade. We'll ALL watch it. The whole world will remember where they were. The cheering and applause will be insane. We'll have tears in our eyes, and there will be commemorative merchandise.

It will be the best funeral ever.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

Getting ready to rally at Forest Hills Stadium.

@ us in your pics and videos 🙂

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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 9d

🔥🔥🔥 And while you were being complacent. The billionaires bought every single mainstream media and broadcast entity.

They fired all the Pentagon journalist so now it’s only far right paid trolls. I will continue reporting from the halls of 26 Federal Plaza ways to support my work in my profile.🙏

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9d

Break the law, face the consequences. That goes for ICE agents who commit illegal acts outside of their official functions.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

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Vanessa Gorman 🇺🇸🤜🤛✌️ @vanessag1.bsky.social · 9d

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10d

Trump believes his attempts to meet with Kim Jong-un have been hindered by a lack of phone service. “You know, they don’t have much telephone service. They have a lot of nuclear weapons, but not much telephone service.”
www.thedailybeast.com//president-d...

Vanessa Gorman 🇺🇸🤜🤛✌️ @vanessag1.bsky.social · 9d

The only job she could get?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10d

Inflation is now at its highest rate since January.

A tweet from the Governor Newsom Press Office reads: “Donald Trump promised Americans wouldn’t pay the price of his tariffs. Another promise broken and total betrayal by Trump.” Below it, a CNBC news screenshot headline says: “Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.”

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10d

For every fascist authoritarian, there was a Chamberlain who tried appeasement, or a Schumer who opted for stern letters over dogged resistance.

Fascism thrives in the face of timid opposition.

This is why voters are desperate for candidates who will truly challenge Trump and the oligarchs.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d

Jack Smith speaks out. Letitia James turns the tables on Trump's hand-picked prosecutor. Melania's bluff is called with a lawsuit concerning her relationship with Epstein. A major Supreme Court ruling looms. All this and much more on Legal AF at 8p ET/5p PT.

LIVE: BREAKING NEWS on LEGAL AF…POPOK and MEISELAS - 10/25/2025 | Legal AF

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

The most terrified people in the world about Trump’s upcoming summit with Xi are the Taiwanese. With good reason.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9d

Talked with someone today from the Salvation Army, who said they are bracing for this

Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 9d

I suspect the next few weeks of living in a Dorothea Lange photo are going to shatter a lot of Americans' preconceptions about who's using SNAP and WIC.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9d

Senate Dems are demanding answers about Trump's White House demolition and whether any of the donors could be engaging in "quid pro quo arrangements."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and colleagues are requesting a detailed accounting of the donors and specifics about the contracting and approval process.

Trump demolishes the East Wing — and White House norms

The East Wing's rapid razing bypassed a detailed process for major federal renovation projects in Washington. Now, Senate Democrats are demanding answers.

www.msnbc.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9d

Everything Trump touches dies.

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 9d

Walmart makes 8-10 billion dollars a month from SNAP sales.
Take care of each other.
No one is coming to save us; except us.

#TheAlliedForces

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Vanessa Gorman 🇺🇸🤜🤛✌️ @vanessag1.bsky.social · 9d

Bullies always go after those weaker than they are. They don't have the balls to go after the criminals & rapists. They already have enough of those in the regime already.

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 9d

😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d

Dear CBS News personalities: The Canadians' ad did not portray Reagan's tariff policy fraudulently, and you do not have to repeat the president's false characterization of it.

Or if your new boss insists that you do, you can at least point out that it's false.

www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-b...

MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood. We'll talk to Hakeem Jeffries later in the program. I want to ask you about what the President just announced in regard to Canada. Today, the President said he wants to raise tariffs on Mexico. Yesterday, he said he's going to raise tariffs on Canada by 10%. He blames what he called a fraudulent ad that featured Ronald Reagan advocate- advocating for free trade. It was put up by the province of Ontario. Is this ad really the issue here, or is it just a tactic in this negotiation? Does the President want the USMCA free trade deal renegotiated, or is he looking to do two separate deals, one with Canada, one with Mexico?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings

But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9d

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

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Vanessa Gorman 🇺🇸🤜🤛✌️ @vanessag1.bsky.social · 9d

I cancelled my subscription with WAPO years ago.

Vanessa Gorman 🇺🇸🤜🤛✌️ @vanessag1.bsky.social · 9d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

I still can’t believe Scott Bessent, whose net worth is $521 million, went on TV and claimed that he “has felt the pain” of the trade war because he is a “soybean farmer.”

And he claims to be a “farmer” not because he grows things, but because he is a landlord of some farmers.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10d

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10d

Cool. Release the Epstein Files.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10d

So what is Trump talking about?

He’s referring to when the call records of eight Republican senators and one Republican House member were obtained by the FBI in relation to January 6.

No calls were taped — just the phone records.

We’ve known about this for a while.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10d

Update: here’s the post.

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