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Jason💙 🇺🇸🗽 🏳️‍🌈🌻 #NoKings Protest Oct 18th, 2025

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NO KINGS Events mobilize.us/nokings #PeacefulProtestOnly Silence is Complicity, Do Not Comply, AND VOTE Dog dad, Democrat, Writer, Patriot, PoliSci BA #Resist #PubliclyFundedElections #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Jason💙 🇺🇸🗽 🏳️‍🌈🌻 #NoKings Protest Oct 18th, 2025 @jfk74.bsky.social · 1d

'Dear leader will be dead sooner than you imagine': Conservative puts MAGA on notice #TickTock #DementiaDon #MAGACult www.rawstory.com/trump-retrib...

'Dear leader will be dead sooner than you imagine': Conservative puts MAGA on notice

The day before Donald Trump is scheduled to have a “routine yearly check-up” at Walter Reed Hospital, just five months after his last one, former GOP campaign strategist Rick Wilson reminded the presi...

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

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

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Lee 🖇️🇺🇸🦋🐾🇨🇦🇺🇦 @characterfirst.bsky.social · 19h

Time to put faces to names!

REPRESENTATIVE DOUG “KKK member”LAMALFA

Office Phone: (530) 223-5898

VOTE: registertovote.ca.gov

Tell them to release the files
HE supports pedophilia
HE supports groomers

#TrumpWasTheSupplier
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#GuardiansOfPedophiles

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Jason💙 🇺🇸🗽 🏳️‍🌈🌻 #NoKings Protest Oct 18th, 2025 @jfk74.bsky.social · 8h

They know MAGA can't read.

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Jonathan @frakitall.bsky.social · 1d

Since when did Oregon start using the Policia?

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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 8h

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

This is the way

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 9h

Still not going away...

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

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

“The defense secretary underwent a round of cosmetic injections last month.” One insider: “He’s always been full of himself, but lately his ego has been off the charts.”

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#WashingtonPost columnist Marc Thiessen boasted the newspaper was “now a conservative opinion page,” after receiving complaints over an article titled, “Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize”

#JeffBezos destroyed #WAPO to grow his fortune and destroy democracy www.mediaite.com/media/news/w...

‘We’re Now a Conservative Opinion Page,’ Declares Washington Post Columnist

Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen boasted on social media, Thursday that the newspaper was "now a conservative opinion page."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

A resident of Iowa City's Catholic Worker House and employee of the downtown Bread Garden Market was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed by the ICE Gestapo in Iowa City, IA.

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Zora T. Pike @dandel10n27.bsky.social · Jul 4

It's the Final Countdown

Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · Jul 1

"The Rough Beast was indeed re-elected. We are now just three days away from the Fourth of July 2025. And the America that existed when my book came out last May has, alas, already changed as drastically, and as uglily, as a MAGA woman’s Mar-a-Lago’d face."

Fascism in the USA Enters the Fifth & Final Phase

A survey of the work of fascism experts shows that, five months into the Trump Redux, our democracy is reeling. Can it be saved?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

JDVance sponsor Peter Thiel waxes apocalyptic in off-the-record speeches in SFO:
"those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but also threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule."
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10h

Not sure who needs to hear this but your “physical” isn’t “annual” if you need it twice in six months.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 17h

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 13h

One indicator you’re not Nobel Peace Prize material is if the country which hosts the totally independent Nobel committee believes you’re gonna retaliate against them because you didn’t win.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, so embarrassing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Jason💙 🇺🇸🗽 🏳️‍🌈🌻 #NoKings Protest Oct 18th, 2025 @jfk74.bsky.social · 11h

Trump wants to INCITE violence from our side. Do NOT give him the excuse to invoke the #InsurrectionAct. (he will try regardless)

Remain PEACEFUL! #Military #Occupation #2026Election #PeacefulProtestONLY

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland youtube.com/shorts/31X8v...

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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