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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 23h

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

The man was 77 years old and his wife previously organized one of the local ‘No Kings’ protests. All he did was write ‘You Lack Values’ and got an intimidation visit from Desantis’s Gestapo.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEWS: The Epstein Survivors' press conference yesterday was postponed. New date TBD.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

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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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 17h

Do you feel better off after austerity, Brexit and rising bills under Westminster?

With independence, we can raise living standards and build an economy that works for Scotland.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

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...

www.propublica.org

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

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 3d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 16h

well done to #trump - he's right-royally farked the #usa soybean industry

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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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Babs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · 17h

I mean. No surprises here.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

> @jesskarl.bsky.social
@opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 16h

looks delish #food

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State @angelakmarx.bsky.social · 17h

I'm going to give this a try next week when we all get together for my oldest grandchild on her 21st birthday.

How the years have flown.

I looks #Delish

#FoodSky

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Don’t Bake Apple Pie Anymore! This Finnish Trick Is Driving the World Crazy!

YouTube video by Webspoon World

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Aussie News @aussienews.bsky.social · 17h

Despite extending the life of coal power plants, treasurer and energy minister David Janetzki said the government remained committed to reducing emissions by 75 per cent by 2035. #national #queensland

‘Very hard’ to reach net zero under Queensland’s new plan: expert

Despite extending the life of coal power plants, treasurer and energy minister David Janetzki said the government remained committed to reducing emissions by 75 per cent by 2035. #national #queensland

www.theage.com.au

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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 16h

Release the #Epstein files

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 16h

Unbelievable? Or are the pollies just taking the piss. This is bastardry #auspol

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 17h

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · Apr 24

Bold talk for a guy that pardoned a bunch of cop beaters.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · May 25

We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.

The Survival of Democracy Depends on Our Willingness to Fight

Justice Riggs is right. We should not have to fight for democracy. But the reality is that we must.

www.democracydocket.com

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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 17h

Billionaires are dangerous to the health of democracy #auspol

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 1

As right-wing oligarchs were buying up mainstream and social media, the mistake everyone else made was thinking that these purchases were based on a normal assessment of value. Remember when Elon Musk “overpayed” for Twitter?

They understood that controlling the message and narrative is priceless.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 31

Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media.

Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are.

Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.

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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 17h

This is the fundamental problem with our Democracy - it can be bought by vested interests - and both major parties like it that way #auspol #australia
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry

Exclusive: Dinner occurred on the same day that four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry

www.theguardian.com

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fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 1d

Vested interests have too much power and the major political parties like it like that - $$$$ 'donations' = bribes. It is TREASON

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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 1d

It's like we're living under an authoritarian dictatorship.

The government makes sure the government broadcasters don't say anything the government won't like.

How can this be happening in Australia?

#auspol

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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 1d

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