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Josette

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NYC Preservationist, @WEPS_nyc, artist, theatre (1st career), former self defense instructor and activist. Married. @westendwis59857 PS I don’t reply to DMs from those I don’t already know so feel free to unfollow if that’s what you’re looking for.

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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · Nov 19

Nov 6, 2024: Welcome to the He-Man Woman Haters Club, formerly known as America.

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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 20m

Hope your Sunday is going well. Thank you!🌺
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 22m

Happy Birthday! 🎉 Hope you’re having a great day.

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SkyyBlue💙 @skyyblue6.bsky.social · 24m

@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social gives us more info on
NSPM-7 as we approach No King's Day Oct 18

Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 35m

A clip from LIVE Substack discussion about Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum and what it might mean for No King’s Day. Join me for more: substack.com/@thefrankfig...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2h

In #Odesa, the choir and audience continued the performance in the shelter of the Philharmonic Theater despite a Russian attack.

📹: y.krasinskyi

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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks so much, Bob, for including me among these great follows. 💕 Take a look and see who you may be missing. @oldmanhippy.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

There's a local right wing show on KSLM in Salem, OR called Noncompliant America. KSLM broadcasts Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk's show, etc. This week's show featured this "small gov't" guy saying "bring all of the troops home," right after saying "send the troops to here to Oregon!"

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NONCOMPLIANT AMERICAS
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Trump takes Covid Booster? - Bolton next on the chopping block - and more candace updates

Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Tr...
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Makes you wonder. And so we don't want wars. We want to pull out of everything.
I think all the troops should come home to the United States, maybe leave a couple behind elsewhere. But we don't need to be involved fighting for other countries like Ukraine either. We don't need to be defending them.
We don't need to be there. I say we pull out completely, and let's get out of these wars, and let's save some money. Let's be fiscally responsible.
Let's pay for the taxes that are supposed to be used on the American people, and stop giving it to all these NGOs that are thwarting and undermining Western civilization all over the world. Let's start focusing on the people, not other countries. That's what we need to do.
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Tr...
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Well, it really is a war zone in the sense that you look at the lawfare that's happening between the judges and the governor that's vowing to fight Trump in every way. And he's not violating his constitutional right. He's protecting federal buildings.
He's not sending in the National Guard to take over the city, which I personally believe he should. And it may or may not happen because Portland is an Antifa stronghold. There's a guy, there's a video I posted on my ex earlier this week.
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 2h

House Republicans are now scheming to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

And take away healthcare from tens of millions of Americans.

How did that work out for the extremists the last time they tried it?

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks, you too!

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 4h

If you were just laid off by the Department of Education and your job was to help distribute IDEA funds, please be in touch for a @motherjones.com article. I can protect your identity in an article, though I'll have to confirm who you are. My signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts appreciated.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6h

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10h

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Count Coachula @coachmark25.bsky.social · 8h

Sunday morning timeline cleansing quote post

I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 8h

Best Friends

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 6h

In 1947, some Hollywood stars including Henry Fonda stood up to anti-communist witch hunts.

Now, Jane Fonda and artists like Viola Davis, Pedro Pascal and Billie Eilish are reviving their organization — the Committee for the First Amendment — to defend free speech again.

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Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood

Even after the original group fizzled, many of its members were able to keep making films with progressive messages.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 5h

Some of the 100s of CDC workers "mistakenly" fired on Friday have been asked to return to work. Some were involved with the federal measles and Ebola responses.

JD Vance told CBS it was a mistake caused by "the Dems' shutdown of the Government".

The sackings were ordered by the White House.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 2d

Bondi is lying but it’s worse than that: she’s blurring the line between fact and fiction for the GOP base. If nothing is true, no one can be held accountable. Keep speaking the truth.

The Nine Principles of Propaganda
1. LIE BIG Big lies work better than small because the masses won't believe that anyone would lie "about that."
2. FOCUS Don't make it complicated, ignore history, keep it simple for simple minds.
3. REPEAT People cannot tell the difference between facts and
familiarity. If they hear the same words repeated enough, they become true in their minds.
4. BLAME Never credit the other side, always blame, debase, defame, and dehumanize.
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5. PROVOKE Outrage, fear, and resentment are more powertul than reason, logic, or facts.
6. CRISIS Issues must be lite or death, good vs evil, love vs hate, us vs them.
Urgency defeats objection.
7. EMOTION A person might question facts, but they will never question their own feelings. Go emotional.
8. PANDER Ignore reasonable arguments, demonize all who disagree as having bad intentions.
9. NO LIMITS Morality is for losers. The victor's morality will not be questioned. No limits.

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CNN @cnn.com · 6h

"While Trump came to office promising to restore free speech, particularly on college campuses and on social media, he's now engaged in a multi-front war over what people can say in the US," writes Zachary B. Wolf | Analysis
https://cnn.it/4q1uOkl

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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 6h

That’s great, George. My husband rides down to work in Manhattan every morning, save Sundays. It’s a lot safer on you tube, I think.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 6h

Ukrainian FP-1 drones struck a warehouse in Sigma shopping center in occupied Donetsk where Russian forces were reportedly assembling and storing Molniya kamikaze drones, footage shows Russian soldiers at the supermarket days before the strike.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 6h

Trump knows he was president on Jan. 6. He’s simply lying to rewrite the history of his attempted coup.

Just like Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and lied to fraudulently subvert the results.

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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 6h

So important. Please read and share. Time and time again MSM leads us down the wrong fork in the road. This path will not end well for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Hope @crickettehkm.bsky.social · 6h

Remember that constitutional crisis everyone was promising us? Well, we’re here…

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 23h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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