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Feisty and non-compliant Ukranian-American with a dash of improper language. World traveler 🌎 💙 🐈‍⬛️🐈‍⬛️ and animals Grow 🍋 lemon & 🍎apple trees from seed Automatic 🚫 blocks for rump and maga, crypto and solicitation

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Black Cats 💙 @blackcat1111.bsky.social · Mar 6

This is Splash! He doesn't understand quiet purrs. 😍 #cats

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Lynda Will Not Obey @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 1h

Do NOT give them the violence they crave!

They’re salivating for it and that would be handing them a gift.

Peaceful, joyful protests full of community, laughter, music and frogs! 🇺🇸🐸

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 1h

They told you the real threat was the guy sweating on your roof in July, or the woman wiping your grandma’s chin for 10 bucks an hour. And you bought it.

You waved the flag chanted “USA!” while they took your healthcare, kid’s lunch, destroyed your farms to give billions to billionaires.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 1h

To all military
You Deserve Better than Trump, Hegseth, and Republican Senators and Congressional Representatives
They refuse to negotiate
And truly don't care
Democrats are in DC ready
Republicans no where to be found
This is TRUMP'S SHUTDOWN

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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b.rad @bromowitz.bsky.social · 18h

Yet, we are not in debt.

The top 1% have $52 Trillion, and could pay our whole $29 T in treasury debt, and still be filthy rich with $23 T.

And leave the 99 of us out of it.

uswealthclock.com - US Fed links

Let’s hear that in Congress, instead of lies that we are ‘broke,’ and negotiate. — b.rad

US National Wealth Clock - We are not in debt! - any National Debt Clock is a Lie!

Sources showing and proving that the so-called National Debt Clock is a deliberate, well-funded financial and fiduciary lie

uswealthclock.com

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Black Cats 💙 @blackcat1111.bsky.social · 1h

Call your senators and your house representative 202-224-3121 and tell them to work for the American people

Instead of giving the ultra-wealthy extraordinary relief from taxes, they must put hardworking American families first.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

itep.org/trump-tax-la...

Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Black Cats 💙 @blackcat1111.bsky.social · 2h

Just like he rolled out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska

He is a traitor to the US

US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal Democrat @us-political-news.bsky.social · 18h

Trump welcomes Qatar air force to Idaho military base https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/10/2347939/-Trump-welcomes-Qatar-air-force-to-Idaho-military-base?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Trump welcomes Qatar air force to Idaho military base

The Trump administration announced on Friday that it would allow Qatar to operate a military facility in Idaho. This follows the Qatari government giving President Donald Trump a multimillion-dollar ...

www.dailykos.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

😕🇺🇸

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Bob Meier @bmeier79.bsky.social · 1d

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 20h

Just an idea, but how about voting for the party that will NOT give terror financing Muslims from Qatar a MILITARY BASE on US soil?

And even better: How about stopping this and calling your representatives to tell them that YOU will replace them if they don't replace him?

You brought this to USA.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 19h

*decades

Melania Has Been Secretly Working With Putin for Months

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Black Cats 💙 @blackcat1111.bsky.social · 2h

Call Mike Johnson 202-224-3121

He is responsible for this paid holiday for Republicans

He is protecting a child predator and holding our country back --- to the 1950s

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20h

The house just extended their vacation!

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Rep. Emily Randall @repemilyrandall.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson won't swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva — who won her election two weeks ago — because she'd be the 218th vote to force the release of the Epstein files. Arizona’s 7th District deserves representation, particularly in the midst of a government shutdown. Swear her in. Release the files.

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Black Cats 💙 @blackcat1111.bsky.social · 2h

I stand with Ukraine

Black Cats 💙 @blackcat1111.bsky.social · 2h

This is Nazi Germany behavior. H@ll no to this corrupt regime.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 15h

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18h

Typical of a government who gives no shits about its hard working employees.

1. Shut down the government and don’t even bother to try to work with Dems to figure out a compromise.
2. Threaten for a week to fire employees. Enjoy our trauma.
2. Fire us.
At 9 PM
On Friday of a 3 days weekend.

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Black Cats 💙 @blackcat1111.bsky.social · 2h

Call the Supreme Court

202-479-3211
Press option 1

It's for reporters but F that because SCOTUS has no public opinion line --- which is completely ridiculous.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h

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.

www.levernews.com

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JeffEgerton @jeffegerton.bsky.social · 8d

Does it have to be the Speaker of the House that swears in Adelita Grijalva?

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JeffEgerton @jeffegerton.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller has no immunity whatsoever, none!!!

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JeffEgerton @jeffegerton.bsky.social · 5d

Al Capone went to the slammer for tax evasion.

The orange rapist has no immunity for tax evasion!

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JeffEgerton @jeffegerton.bsky.social · 4d

When you have broken as many laws as FOTUS has and caused as much wanton destruction of the administration, you are an enemy of the state.

The military oath, "To support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC."

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