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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 3h

Order small flags on a stick to hand out on October 18 “No Kings Day”
We pass them out at zero cost.
There are quite a few vendors. Our order of 100 flags cost $20.

Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 4h

My Democratic Senator supports a Nobel Peace Prize for the man who created a “war within” his own country. In over 50 years of voting, he is the only person I regret casting my ballot for.

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🟧🌊still-Rusty🗽🟧 @still-rusty.bsky.social · 4h

I'm a boomer and I have faith in the younger generations to hang 'em high. I'm horrified and seething. Planning to live long enough to see them pay.

tj_805 @pippidelicatessa.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the problem: boomers who have lived a lifetime in stable conditions per the status quo...this needs to be rewritten to ascend and we live our highest ideals, not using greed and subversion to achieve the "American dream"

There are enough resources for everyone if we do it right.

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 4h

Quite trumpian: - -deport migrant farm workers
-farm food supply threatened
-lower farm worker wages

@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 4h

portside.org/2025-10-08/t...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant “risk of supply sh...

portside.org

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, you’re right. there were 244 individuals and 94 organizations nominated for Peace Prize.
Fairly certain that starting a “war within” your own country is disqualifying. Uggh

Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 15h

Fingers crossed.

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 15h

A Democratic nightmare could be right around the corner if the Supreme Court kills the Voting Rights Act this term.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling

Many experts are forecasting the end of a key provision of election law — enabling Republicans to shore up their advantage in the House, according to a new report.

www.politico.com

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 16h

www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/w...
Stay tuned Friday

Will Donald Trump win Nobel Peace Prize or someone else? These are the frontrunners

Experts believe US President Donald Trump might not win the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 no matter how much he believes he deserves it for solving “eight conflicts”.

www.hindustantimes.com

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 16h

Friends, the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday. This is why trump keeps referring to the 8 non-existent peace plans he negotiated. He did admit today that sometimes he settles wars with tariffs. (?)
We can expect to hear a lot of WH wailing and of course, he will say it was rigged.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump to Hannity: "The tariffs have brought peace to the world. I'm telling you they brought peace to the world."

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 19h

⬇️ We Will Take Our Power Back

Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 19h

youtube.com/shorts/ARN53...

We Have Two Options

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

youtube.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 20h

He’s always trying to “one up” Obama.
Even today, he spoke of the Nobel Peace Prize and the 8 wars he stopped (bs)
Nobel Announcement scheduled for this Friday. We can expect a volcano of whining.

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 21h

🦋 🏆 🦋

Scott @scootrdud.bsky.social · 21h

So funny that everyone just accepts this nonsense that “antifa” is an actual organization. Setting that lunacy aside….why does everyone also accept that being anti-fascist is a bad thing???

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 21h

OMG he doesn’t seem to know if habeas corpus is male or female.
The thing . . . most MAGA folks do not know the definition.

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 22h

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 23h

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

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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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 21h

wth

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 1d

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 1d

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 21h

Does everyone realize Mike Johnson is holding a hostage — the swearing in of a recently elected
Democratic woman.

Her name is Adelita Grijalva from Arizona. That the Speaker blocked her, without a supported reason, can’t be ignored.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Just the latest chapter in America’s fearmongering approach to seizing power: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/p...

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

www.nytimes.com

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 21h

The late night raid of the apartment building is abhorrent by itself.
The execution was worse. That residents were separated 𝗕𝘆 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲 and then herded into rented vans is beyond the pale.
These are our neighbors. Stand up. Speak out. Do not acquiesce.

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh search and seizures

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

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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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 22h

If "never leave your drink unattended" were a person.

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 23h

🦋 This 🦋

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 2d

Miller is a Nazi follower and has extensive knowledge of Hitler history.
The similarities between he and Joseph Goebbels (Nazi politician and propagandist) are striking.

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