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Meidas_Pete

@ferst60.bsky.social

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Political junkie, USA and Canada mostly. https://substack.com/@meidas_pete I ‘fight’ Class Wars and rightwing propaganda through memes and fact-based News. Immigrants and Trans people aren’t the enemy, billionaires are. DM is disabled.

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Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · Jan 28

Literally happening as we speak

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Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 17m

Priming for future generations of brainwashed Conservatives

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 24m

This is who enabled it, why don’t you get to the root of the problem instead of asking Libs to continually have to clean up other peoples shit

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 25m

How about getting to the source of the problems instead of asking Libs to solve everything for everyone

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 28m

So it’s always up to Libs to clean up the Republican mess.. I’d have written: “ Hey MAGA ! Are you winning yet? “

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 30m

It’s official, America really is a shit hole Country now

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.

Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.

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Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 32m

Do not trust anything/anyone from the Trump Regime

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 33m

Why are royals still a thing in 2025 .. rhetorical

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 34m

Dump her

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 35m

AI is annoying af, monotonous and devoid of emotion or energy

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 45m

Beijing says it will not back down in the face of threats, urging the US to resolve differences through negotiations.

China slams Trump’s 100 percent tariff threat, defends rare earth curbs

Beijing says it will not back down in the face of threats, urging the US to resolve differences through negotiations.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12h

🐀 Mike Johnson caught lying using the receipts he directed us to use. Jen Psaki for the 🎯

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Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 57m

Right off the cliff for their orange pedo

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 11h

Dumbass grifters in charge

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 1d

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 11h

Gotta keep firing the qualified in order to replace them with DEIs

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 11h

Who’s going to draw pictures to explain things to dementia DonOLD?

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 11h

Got that right

Meidas_Pete @ferst60.bsky.social · 11h

We can’t ask too much of Hooligan.. She was only 3rd runner up after all

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 12h

I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 2d

As Americans lose faith in capitalism, Trump’s economic nationalism looks less like free enterprise and more like state control…

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We’re All Socialists — But Only Trump Acts Like a Communist

As Americans lose faith in capitalism, Trump’s economic nationalism looks less like free enterprise and more like state control…

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 15h

New video: "CHAOS BREAKS OUT as Trump Agents GET CAUGHT"

click below to WATCH👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCwEAiCSiOw

CHAOS BREAKS OUT as Trump Agents GET CAUGHT

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