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BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · Aug 10

Please, I beg of you, vet links before you post them. I've seen some major fakes lately, and they're not that hard to identify if you take a couple of minutes to check them. Misinformation is bad no matter who posts it.

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Birmingham Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisiblebham.bsky.social · 1d

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BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 10h

Sen Kennedy seems to be obsessed with sex. See his dramatic readings on the Senate floor of banned books. He goes straight for the most lascivious excerpts he can find.

ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 11h

Another lie from Republican, Senator John Kennedy - they just make things up insane lies and hope they stick. No integrity no conscience. They don’t deserve to be elected to serve the people.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Dv1 #Pinks

www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...

Democrats don't want $3.6M for 'Haitian male prostitutes' to reopen government

www.snopes.com

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BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 7d

I vote both.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7d

Can Miller really believe this? If so, he is delusional. If not, then he’s a reprehensible demagogue.

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 7d

This doesn't seem like an essential expenditure.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7d

🚨 JUST IN: Trump spotted heading to his golf course amid government shutdown

Trump Heads to Golf Course Amid Government Shutdown

President shuns shutdown talks for golf trip

meidasnews.com

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 7d

Good Lord. He might as well tell her she's too uppity. Racist misogynist piece of shit.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 7d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 8d

Well, well, well. Another right winger committing the voter fraud he accuses others of committing. I'm shocked, I tell ya.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, but soybeans are woke.

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 8d

It's not "a bit misleading". It's a LIE!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

MIKE JOHNSON: They want to give taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens again

CRAIG MELVIN: I had a hankering feeling you were going to bring that up. I actually did look at it. That's a bit misleading

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 10d

I find myself falling into this trap and despairing of the world around me. (I also live in #Alabama, which makes it even easier to believe most of the population is MAGA.)

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10d

I wish I could find the post, but someone on here recently pointed out that the elite pundit addiction to Twitter is distorting their worldview even further.

They really think America is far more right-wing than it is, which requires ignoring actual data.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-right-...

The Right-Wing Infosphere: You're Soaking In It

Their machine is so effective that even liberals don't realize it's warping their views.

paulwaldman.substack.com

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 11d

I wish I thought it would make a difference.

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 11d

Why am I not surprised #Alabama is at the forefront of bogus prosecutions of low-income women who don't have the resources to defend themselves? #reproductivejustice

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe

Study finds prosecutors targeting low-income women mainly in US south – and figure likely to be an undercount

www.theguardian.com

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 13d

Dammit.

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 13d

Weird.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13d

It's odd that Republicans can do the mental gymnastics to link Tylenol to autism, but not link gun deaths to guns.

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 13d

@leehedgepeth.bsky.social

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 13d

We’re crowdfunding for @eji.org, a charitable org dedicated to “ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.”

tiktok.com/@thisisawkword

The United States incarcerates its citizens more than any other country. Mass incarceration disproportionately impacts the poor and people of color and does not make us safer. EJI is working to end our misguided reliance on over-incarceration.

The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population but nearly 25% of its incarcerated population.

Our spending on jails and prisons reached $87 billion in 2015, an increase of 1000% from the $7.4 billion spent in 1975.

In 1972, there were only 200,000 people incarcerated in the United States. Today that number has grown to 2.2 million.

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 15d

I'm shocked, I tell ya. Shocked!

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 15d

I think I have an account, but I've never posted anything. Removed the app awhile back.

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 18d

My son playing Lord Farquaad earlier this year. ♥️

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BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 18d

She wants to speak to the manager! God forbid the healthiest president ever has to walk up a stalled escalator.

www.rawstory.com/trump-leavit...

Karoline Leavitt demands firings after Trump forced to walk up non-working UN escalator

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called for firings at the United Nations after an escalator stopped working ahead of President Donald Trump's speech to the General Assembly."If someone at...

www.rawstory.com

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BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 19d

...because Trump already pressured him. Otherwise he'd wait till 2030.

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 19d

Well done! 😂😂😂

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 19d

Telling on himself and his unqualified Cabinet.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 19d

"Fight like hell not to take it."

Who knew pregnant people were being forced to take #Tylenol? I hope #Kenvue sues his ass.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "I just recommend strongly that you don't use Tylenol ... I just want to say it like it is. Don't take Tylenol. Don't take it! Fight like hell not to take it."

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 20d

How about saying it out loud and in public?

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 21d

Wait, I thought it was the left that prompted violence. I guess we all know the right lies.

@katmabu.bsky.social

BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · 21d

Fortunately she's young. An older person likely would have and would have been forced to wait for hours for medical care.

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