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Joe Kassel

@joekassel.bsky.social

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Fleeing from tyranny... and other things. I am human...I think. 🤔 We MUST do everything that we can to stop tRump's coup from taking over our Democracy! PS: tRump is a despot!

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Joe Kassel @joekassel.bsky.social · Dec 6

This is my pinned post!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

Portland 🔥

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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CapricornOne @rdm23.bsky.social · 9h

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1d

Historians sometimes say that when societies are descending into fascism, it can be hard for the people to notice it in real time. Well, historians of the future, I’m here to tell you: We are noticing. Millions of us are noticing. And we are horrified and enraged.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 5h

Chump Has No Courage Nor
Integrity........

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 21h

Badgers are like little tanks.

Badger moving across a short grass prairie.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

We just taped Stephanie Ruhle’s 11 pm MSNBC show tonight and I am pleased to report that my MVP for this week (a Friday segment) was the inflatable frogs of Portland.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 13h

“The Death of Public Health”

Jonas Salk saved millions with a polio vaccine. He gave it away to help humanity. Today, venal and yes, evil billionaires—Koch to Musk to Peter Thiel—are fully behind destroying American society for profit. They want you poor, sick, and desperate. We must stop them.

The Death of Public Health

Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 1d

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 1d

"and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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OldDudeFella @olddudefella.bsky.social · 1d

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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 14h

This is like saying we need the return of Polio #auspol

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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 1d

#Epstein

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 16h

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 17h

The GOP controls the House, Senate, and White House. And they love to remind us when it’s convenient for them. So it's on them to fund the government. If they want our votes, they have to come talk to us.

They know what we want: extend the ACA tax credits so the healthcare system doesn't collapse.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌As we were saying ...

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Joe Kassel @joekassel.bsky.social · 13h

But the Taiwanese do!

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Joe Kassel @joekassel.bsky.social · 13h

The war is raging in Portland!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

Only one thing could top the honor of speaking at the No Kings rally, and that's the honor of speaking at No Kings 2. See you October 18th!

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Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social · 17h

"I don’t see someone calling me up and saying, ‘Hey, how about dinner?’"
The day I missed my chance with the one-and-only Diane Keaton.
www.thetimes.com/article/83d9...

Diane Keaton: ‘Life is magical, but I don’t see happy as part of the deal’

Well, la-dee-da, Annie Hall has made it to Hampstead at last. It’s been a long wait and in the time since Diane Keaton, as goofy, wonderful Annie, wooed Woody A

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 18h

Rest in Peace, Diane Keaton. Thank you for your work and for your many wonderful performances. My favorite was your role as Louise Bryant in "REDS" (1981). 🗃️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ur1...

"Alone with your work" -- Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Reds

YouTube video by David Gibson

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

What horrifies me about this is that it is highly unlikely intelligence services etc didn’t know about Epstein’s activities long before this which means that child abuse is just something to turn a blind eye to (see also Cyril Smith, Al Fayed etc etc)

Guardian story - Tony Blair
Tony Blair met Jeffrey
Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal
National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and
'young and vibrant' financier

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 1d

In no uncertain terms, Ms Proudfoot in today’s @theglobeandmail.com justly calls out petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre for the lies he tells about who’s at fault for the challenges 🇨🇦Canada faces.
👏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻

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Democrats Organizing For America @democratsofa.bsky.social · 16h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

This is like a thank-you from Pauly Shore, after Rob Schneider consoled him by saying the Academy Awards had lost credibility for not giving either of them a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

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