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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦

@jdinreallife.bsky.social

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She/Her. I do politics. I do public and behavioral health issues. And in 2025, I exist to RESIST Nazis and Fascists 🩷💜💙 Vote YES on #Prop50 CA.

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 14d

Y'all, I went down a rabbit hole, curious about Donald Trump's claims of stopping the war between Armenia (not Albania) and Azerbaijan.

The tl;dr, unsurprisingly, is that this answer is far more complex than a peace deal and raises a lot of questions about the implications for the region. A thread:

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Maida ☠️ @emmaidama.bsky.social · 15h

😂🤣 Newsom’s trolling is now at a whole new level 😂🏅
#NobelPeacePrize #Pinks 🌸

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t get over how beyond despicable it is to detain street vendors, people that keep our streets vibrant and safer because of their presence. Street vendors are some of the most vulnerable and visible yet we are being told their detainment is to keep us safe. Ridiculous.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 8h

He is the chair of the @natlgovsassoc.bsky.social. It's way past time for NGA to step it up and say this loudly, on behalf of the majority of governors.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 11h

Good for him. More of this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 8h

I'm on tiktok, I know exactly who this is. 🤣

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

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

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 13h

Another one, @npr.org? Your bothsidesing is concerning.

The gov't has already defunded you to silence you. Your attempt to hedge your writing is not necessary.

You can write better and accurately without it being biased. Ground in reality, be the journalists we need you to be. See the rewrite:

A more accurate rewrite lede and follow-up:

President Trump is deploying the National Guard as a political force, sending troops into Democratic-run cities to suppress protests, enforce his administration's immigration policies, and perform tasks far outside their traditional duties. In Washington D.C., soldiers are being used for manual labor, including collecting trash and landscaping, in a move critics are calling a misuse of military personnel for political optics.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14h

Make sure to read @404media.co’s incredible reporting on this - then check out my newsletter for more info on how the anti-abortion movement is working with abusers to target women

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 13h

It's really feeling like the national media is awaiting the great ratings they will get from an authoritarian meltdown.

Because if journalists understood this exact point, they would be better covering it, NOW. There would be more pushback, NOW.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14h

Turns out, the MAGA Supreme Court is the one interested in converting your kids through the use of quack doctors with medically unsound practices based on no scientific evidence. "Every accusation is a confession" with them.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids

During a hearing this week, the court’s theocrats made it clear that they’ll vote to end a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

www.thenation.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 13h

How we frame sanity vs. Thebfar right's cult behavior matters, @npr.org.

JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 13h

"What people believe about health increasingly depends on how they feel about politics. according to a new poll." @npr.org

*Absolutely not*

This is correlation, not causation. Dems/Inds are better educated on health than MAGA. Not DEPENDING on our political support.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, a new poll says

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what — or who — people believe increasingly depends on their politics.

www.npr.org

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceUnited

Piss Drunk Pete apparently thinks cybersecurity is a distraction from his "warfighting" manly man schtick. The Pentagon has cut cybersecurity training programs at a time of surging cyberattacks on U.S. military and infrastructure. Genius.

www.esecurityplanet.com/news/pentago...

Pentagon Cuts Cyber Training Amid Rising Cyber Threats

The Pentagon reduces cybersecurity training to focus on warfighting, raising concerns about US cyber readiness and digital defense.

www.esecurityplanet.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

it’s all just a grift

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

You have got to be joking hahaha

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 1d

Love to see it Chicago!!

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I leave my puppy home alone for a couple of hours, when I come home, she acts like I've been gone for days and it's so sweet.

My furbaby loves me. ❤️💚💙💜💛🧡

JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 1d

*clears throat*

The illegal rabble rousers coming in to do harm to America aren't filling out paperwork in ERs for Healthcare.

Shut the f* up, Mike I-need-an-app-to-prevent-me-from-watching-porn-on-my-phone Johnson.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 2d

$7K is insane, and that's the "good" number here.

Medicare for all.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.