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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1h

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

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CB @carlyleblackwell.bsky.social · 33m

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1h

“Very, very unfair and even worse than Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl. Your favorite president was snubbed for someone who’s not even American.” www.reuters.com/world/venezu...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10h

Some good news!

A librarian got fired for refusing to remove LBGTQ books and sued the county, its board of commissioners, the library board, and members of both government boards for violating her 1st amendment rights, and discriminatory and retaliatory firing.

www.rawstory.com/wyoming-libr...

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

www.rawstory.com

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CB @carlyleblackwell.bsky.social · 9h

a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a cup .

ALT: a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a cup .

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h

Leticia James’ statement.

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CB @carlyleblackwell.bsky.social · 19h

How much LSD are they putting in his diet cokes?

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 1d

Please don’t let grandpa watch TV anymore. He’s very confused and having weird hallucinations.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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CB @carlyleblackwell.bsky.social · 19h

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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CB @carlyleblackwell.bsky.social · 19h

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Well, here we are.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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LedaEM @mledaloo.bsky.social · 1d

This is so cute!!!! 🥰

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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LedaEM @mledaloo.bsky.social · 1d

Not a day goes by without screwing over Americans.

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

The White House Office of Management and Budget has deleted a reference to a 2019 law on paying government workers after a shutdown from its FAQ on the current impasse.