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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

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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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 2d

You do realize he answered this question. You don’t need to ask me. Just look it up.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 2d

Some people need reminding that, Bad Bunny is an “All-American.”

This graphic should to be updated to read, “The White American and those #BlackMAGA and #LatinoMAGA who will degrade themselves and sellout their communities and come on stage so that we can pretend we’re not racist” Halftime Show.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 3d

In case you didn’t know, during pregnancy, the baby is located inside the amniotic sac, which is surrounded by the placenta.

The baby, is in fact NOT in the placenta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 3d

This is Antifa

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 3d

This is Antifa

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 3d

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The federal government is currently shut down and the Trump administration is escalating tensions with Venezuela. Simply put, it's a time of crisis for those who care about peace, justice, and democra...

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 4d

Good lord.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 6d

It is a damn shame.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6d

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 6d

Democracy died in broad daylight.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 6d

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 8d

ICE is a paramilitary organization.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d

Would you open the door to men who approached you like this?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8d

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 8d

We need to stop referring to the actions of Donald Trump and his administration as childish games. Doing so minimizes and therefore diminishes what they’re actually doing.

Targeting political rivals and viewing opposition as enemies is fascism and there’s nothing childish about it.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 8d

ICE is a paramilitary organization.
It is NOT an immigration customs and enforcement agency.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 8d

"First they came for..."

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 8d

NO ONE should feel comfortable about what happened in Chicago last night. NO ONE.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 11d

This would have been the perfect time to drop a pocket U.S Constitution on his desk.

#Democrats go prepared next time.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12d

As he was body-shaming America’s top brass, did it at all occur to Pete Hegseth that the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S Military is, in fact, fat?

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12d

Republicans dubbed the ACA, Obamacare because of their disdain for President Obama, and yes, racism. They wanted Americans who rejected Obama to reject healthcare.

It’s illegal for anything to be named TrumpRx the same way it would have been illegal for Obama to name the ACA, Obamacare.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12d

This is not a public option. This is something with Trump’s name on it. That’s illegal.

Donald Trump is a marketeer. His product is his name. Such name would be unconstitutional on multiple levels.

The official name of the Affordable Care Act was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12d

During ACA negotiations, Republicans objected to the public option because they said companies would not be able to compete with the government.

"As part of the deal, Pfizer will sell some of its drugs on a new “direct to consumer” website called “TrumpRx.”

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Trump announces deal with Pfizer to lower drug prices, including 'TrumpRx' website

The deal is part of Trump's broader effort to tie the amount the government pays for certain drugs to the prices paid overseas.

www.nbcnews.com

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