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*DEFCON Dem*cracy* POLITICS, sanity, scienze, compassion & sarcasm 🇺🇦🦅🌍. Blocked: no bio, no original posts/only reposts. Don't come at me with AI, religun, porn, crypto, self promotion. Big dem*cracy energy Keeper Of The Flame 🔥 🇺🇸 Art by Anita Inverarty

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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · Feb 10

Pinning a post for the purpose of proving I am a real, pro-democracy human, and not a witless bot or scam artist 👍🔥Notice my amazing alliterative skills? Could a bot do that? I don't think so 😉

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2h

💡🇺🇦 After the massive Russian shelling, as of 12:00, energy workers restored power to 270,000 subscribers in Kyiv. Special emergency outage schedules have been canceled in Kharkiv, Poltava, and Sumy, but regular schedules continue to operate, — Minister of Energy.

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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 2h

👇 It's a resource grab👇

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h

Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, in case anyone was wondering.

Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 3d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 7h

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 10h

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2h

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The committee said she had resisted death threats to fight for democracy in opposition to President Nicolas Maduro - widely considered a dictator who's cheated elections

news.sky.com/story/nobel-...

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado named Nobel Peace Prize winner

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

news.sky.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 3h

Also, not DJT👇

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING:
Facts about 2025 Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Maria Corina Machado
NobelPrize.org www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15h

Banana republic shit.

If the reported facts are accurately, this is going to be a colossal embarrassment for DOJ.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 15h

Time for America to get serious & plan general strikes, boycotts, & millions on top of millions of people PEACEFULLY in the streets to confront The Dictator’s madness.

Got to step it up.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3h

🚫 From railways and automobiles to metals, coal, diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are putting employees on furlough or cutting staff as the war economy slows, domestic demand stalls and exports dry up, - Reuters

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Patricia Padron Fonda @abuelaofanarchy.bsky.social · 3h

Tweet of the Day

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 11h

Again this is how Portland looks right now

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

The Republican shutdown continues.

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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 11h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Trump might have immunity, but ICE does not.

He won’t be able to protect federal agents from criminal and civil prosecution once he’s gone.

Their day of reckoning will come. Broken down here…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Uh huh. And is the “burning Democrat city” in the room with us now?

Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 12h

Paper ballot time👇

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

abcnews.go.com

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thefemdem.bsky.social @thefemdem.bsky.social · 15h

The United States of America is under attack by the President of the United States.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 17h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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