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Desert Princess

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A fellow American who believes in Justice, Truth and the Constitution. Recommends TimothySnyder’s brilliant books: On Tyranny and On Freedom.The Lucky Loser is another good read. No DM’s please, not interested in what you’re selling or preaching

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Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 29d

A must read:

Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 19h

OSHA has been gutted: a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces. The United States Congress established the agency under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which President Richard M. Nixon

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 20h

Heartbreaking 💔

For the folks saying politics doesn’t affect you— this is proof that it does.
It impacts everyone.

Prayers up for the love ones, the community and first responders having to deal with this tragedy.

Advocacy Arena with Dee @desia.bsky.social · 21h

The blast in Hickman County is both a human disaster and a warning sign — of what happens when democracy dies piece by piece and communities lose control over their own lives.
#Project2025 #Deregulation
open.substack.com/pub/advocacy...

Tennessee’s Gag Order on Democracy

The Explosive Cost of Silencing Communities

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 20h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 19h

Gotta laugh.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 22h

🤨 we know who’s terrorizing our country.
www.nokings.org find a rally 10/18/25 👊🏼

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

That the Nobel Peach Prize was *not* awarded to thirsty Donald Trump makes it wonderful. That it was awarded to a woman makes it even better. That she is from a country Trump slanders makes it even better. That it was awarded for promoting democracy, something Trump undermines, makes it perfection.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 21h

🚨 Breaking: WGN Video Producer arrested for doing what she does — in Lincoln Square. 1/2

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21h

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 21h

What's it going to take yanks? Seriously what's it going to take?

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Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 20h

@marcelias.bsky.social Is fighting for all of us. He needs to be supported,🙌🏻 along with his team.

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 21h

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 20h

I think it’s a tie between him and Stephen Miller.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist?

Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours!

So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 22h

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 21h

Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH.

If these times feel like you’re living in an episode of The Twilight Zone, you’re not wrong.

#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

Rod Serling: Imagine, if you will, a world where the President of the United States is a rapist.
Oh, wait...

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 21h

Ran across this article today. A small glimpse into Peter Thiel’s ideology.

In the 2022 election cycle alone, he gave roughly $35 million to Republican, especially to PACs backing Vance, Blake Masters and DT.

I’m sure there’s nothing to be concerned about 🫣

Guardian

US news
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel's off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on 'an evil king or tyrant ... who appears in the end times'
Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

The Silicon Valley heavyweight drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including the French-American theorist René Girarde whom Thiel knew at Stanford University, and the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs. He credited the English Catholic theologian Jonn Henry Newman as the inspiration for his four-part series, saying:
"Newman did four, so I'm doing four. I'm happy about it."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 20h

WTF?

🎶Grift
graft
US is taking a bath🎶

The US is not his free “land” to give away to a China ally. Talk about a security breach 😠

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Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 22h

Then why don’t they stop the shutdown? They are using American workers as their pawns. The GOP only has to agree to healthcare reform to benefit their constituents. Don’t blame the Dems for fighting for it.

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Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 22h

Read the article than read the quote I posted below. This is what American goals were that they were fighting for.
What happened? Why is the country so divided today when this is what we still want?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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