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Dr K

@dockim.bsky.social

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Leadership scholar and sf geek. Coffee, books, movies, and my cat is all I need. Oh… and democracy. #DemCast #ResistTyranny #TeamPete If you put me on a moderation list that projects your own insecurities, you will be blocked.

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Dr K @dockim.bsky.social · Jan 3

Six Rules to Remember in 2025 and beyond.
#ResistTyranny and #BuildCommunity

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

ICE racially profiles an elderly man and takes him into custody. They realize their mistake and release him. They also intimidate witnesses. This incident occurred in Long Beach, California.

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Emily Ann Gregson @splashofgenz.bsky.social · 11h

Hey.
Do you remember that time that Donald Trump wasn't president?
That was super great. Let's try doing that again.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

Donald Trump said he was going to release his healthcare plan to replace the Affordable Care Act in “two weeks,” 159 weeks ago.

Republicans’ only plan for your healthcare is to cut it.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 13h

And in case you’re wondering how rude Winsome was, here are *12* instances in which the moderates tried to get her to shut up and stop interrupting.

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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 13h

Tonight's #VAGov debate in less than a minute — It's clear which candidate has the temperament to be governor.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Dr K @dockim.bsky.social · 10h

Wait… what?

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19h

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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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 11h

ANTIFA:

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 22h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

I think even Marsha knows this.

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Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 1d

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

www.koin.com

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Dr K @dockim.bsky.social · 10h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

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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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Dennis A. @dharmadog.bsky.social · 13h

#fascism #antifascism #Rutgers
"A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night..."

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Context matters

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

asked why he's going to Walter Reed tomorrow for his second physical exam since the start of the year, Trump brags about the cognitive exam he took in 2020, which he describes as "not the easiest test ... there aren't a lot of people in this room that would get every single question right."

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18h

The conclusion Leo draws in his first teaching document is that the Catholic Church’s “preferential option for the poor” has existed from the start, is non-negotiable and is the very essence of what it means to be Christian. https://to.pbs.org/4h06dIm

Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

The Vatican released the document, entitled "I have loved you," which Francis had begun to write in his final months but never finished. Leo credited Francis with the text, cited him repeatedly, but s...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

"The president seizes on a grant of authority which is only supposed to be exercised in an 'emergency,' declares an endemic problem to be an acute one, then insists courts have no authority to review his emergency determination, no matter how divorced from the facts or law." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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