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ℍ𝕠𝕠𝕤𝕚𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕣. 𝔹𝕚𝕣𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣. 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕜𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕞𝕪 𝕖𝕪𝕖𝕤. 𝕊𝕒𝕪 𝕘𝕒𝕪. 🏳️‍🌈 ℍ𝕖/ℍ𝕚𝕞 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜. 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍. 𝙸 𝚍𝚘 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚕. 𝙿𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕. 𝙽𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜. 𝚁𝚒𝚙𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚖. 𝖽ⲟⲛ’τ ⲃⲟ⳽⳽ ϻⲉ!

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · Apr 12

House sparrows go completely silent and disappear from my yard whenever a hawk flies over. They don’t help the hawk.

I wish US voters were as smart as birds.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2h

This is why MAGA fascists aren’t full fascists yet. Dumb af leaders.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2h

I’m in the same place. Enjoy a little laugh now and again.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2h

John Fetterman will have to find a different way to win the hearts of MAGA since he won’t be the sole Democrat voting for a dictator to get a Nobel Peace Prize.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2h

Y’all are too tense lol

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2h

She’s dangerously close to putting an Antifa in a gravel pit after shorting them between the eyes.

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a zoo out there, absolute madness

Antifa was spotted at the scene and identified —
🐼🐻🦝🦊🦄🐸🐝🦖🐔🐘🦒🦈🦚

The 🔥 is out of control

Feel free to add emojis in the replies for any big mean puffy Antifa creatures that I may have missed

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

What irks me about Republicans is their utter disrespect for my country, shown by their complacency in the wake of Trump’s unconstitutional acts and attacks on American citizens.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 17h

Available evidence suggests overwhelmingly that people exposed to the rantings of RFK Jr. and/or Donald Trump have a highly elevated risk of developing ignorance.

Headline of USA Today article, October 9, 2025, by Bart Jansen:

Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol
Kennedy and Trump have warned pregnant women not to take Tylenol. But medical groups continue to recommend the pain reliever for lack of proof that it's active ingredient acetaminophen causes autism.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

Donald Trump: Stop trying to incite Illinoisans into violence. Pack up and go home.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 22h

Why look at that!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

Bad Bunny sounds like something Mike Johnson would be comfortable saying, but maybe that’s just for the boudoir.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h

Trump indicts Letitia James; A federal judge blocks his attempt to send the National Guard into Illinois; Mike Johnson struggles to defend his party amid the shutdown; Updates in the Middle East and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT.

LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 10/9/25

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 13h

Funny but true.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Chicago Military Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 14h

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

Our US Secretary of Health & Human Services really has got me thinking: my mom nicked my ear once when she was cutting my hair then gave me Tylenol for the pain so I think I barely missed getting the autism.

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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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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ShelbieNameless @shelbienameless.bsky.social · 12h

The ceasefire was approved 1/2 hr ago. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office hasn't even given the order to the IDF to cease fire yet.
Shouldn't we at LEAST wait to see if & when there will be a ceasefire, & if so, doesn't it make sense that we should wait & see if both sides are going to abide by it?

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 13h

Christ on a Fettered Cracker.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 13h

Sometimes I smoke weed and laugh at everything I do and sometimes that includes SM posts I probably shouldn’t share, so sorry about that. Kinda.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 15h

Expecting to be told any day now by RFK Jr that we should incorporate dead skin cells and hair into our diets for protection from cancerous winds.

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