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Cole

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UX designer and livestock guardian mom. #NAFO 🐶 Democracy 💙 Liberal🗽Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

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Cole @colemarie.bsky.social · Jul 3

The sadness I have to my country
is not totally incalculable...

I can add up the times I say,
"Freedom isn't free" and multiply
it by 10 times the way that
Freedom has turned to fiction.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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John Roddy @roddyi.com · 1d

Kid Rock remains the human equivalent of an above-ground pool.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 15h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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david s. pumpkins 🎃 @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 1d

prog frogs 🐸

George Soros paid.. 48m

Aren't frogs a symbol of white nationalism?

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StuffAboutHockey... 39m

That's Pepe, a specific frog.
Frogs arent a monolith.

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Ro Laren RED57... 13m

These are prog frogs, they're cool.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

👇👇

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Free Shrug Fella @freeshrugfella.bsky.social · 20h

No time for dancing around the sht fountain, he just got to the level 40 boss.

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Cole @colemarie.bsky.social · 14h

Oh so we’re just gonna legalize human trafficking now?! Wtaf.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

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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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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Cole @colemarie.bsky.social · 1d

A *must* watch. Only 37 minutes of your time.
www.thesteelporcupine.com

The Steel Porcupine | Ukraine War Documentary

A powerful, cinematic documentary exposing Russia's war crimes, genocide, and the Ukrainian spirit to fight and prevail. Watch The Steel Porcupine.

www.thesteelporcupine.com

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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 1d

Frogmentum

Tigas @bluetigas.bsky.social · 1d

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Cole @colemarie.bsky.social · 1d

Holy hell.

Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 2d

OMG. Seriously. OMG

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Cole @colemarie.bsky.social · 2d

This is insane! Ugh. 😑 sorry to hear this.

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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 3d

Apple should make an iPad for Americans*

*Bulletproof, fits in a plate carrier

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3d

Fools. You cannot conquer a city under the protection of a thrusting frog.

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Colleen Paige @colleenpaige.bsky.social · 4d

👏👏👏

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Cole @colemarie.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously. It’s a horror out there.

Cole @colemarie.bsky.social · 3d

Crimes against humanity.
Treason to us, but we haven’t declared war on Russia. The fastest they come to justice is by the ICC. We have to get through ousting this regime, and the next govt signing the Rome Statute, lifting visa sanctions for War Crime investigations, it’s a lot.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Cole @colemarie.bsky.social · 3d

Well, who is second in command to swear her in?

See? Fixed. Mike ain’t the end of the line here.

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FEMINIST X @feministx.bsky.social · 4d

It's the government holding Americans at g*npoint and robbing us of our Healthcare, tax dollars, and livelihoods.

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