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Retired special education. #FBR. #proudblue. #BlueResisters. #StrongerTogether Happily Married. E PLURIBUS UNUM Promoting Equality! Block No or few posts. LGBTQ support. I Block 🚫 DM&Nude&Crypto&daters. Non evangelical minister.

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello! I stand for equality. There is wisdom gained in the growth of equality. If you support this growth mindset for equality, let's follow each other.
I stand for compassion's courage in generating change from a mindview of superiority to a mind view of equality.

2 pictures of Jesus. 1 white skinned.1 brown skinned. Under white Jesus: white, Christian, patriotic, justice through retribution, died for your sins, silent in the face of oppression, condemns sinners, endorses church and state, a king, endorses holy war. Historical Jesus: Jewish, ionized by Rome, justice through restoration, friend of sinners and outcasts, liberates the oppressed, critiques religious people, subverts empire,no violent, homeless man and a refugee, had half siblings

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Paul Achilles D'Aigle @pachilles.bsky.social · 4h

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mc247.bsky.social @mc247.bsky.social · 4h

Boy The Republicans that started Pizzagate. Sure are quiet about the Epstein Files. 👀👀💯📌#Epstein

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h

"congressional Republicans would rather scratch Trump’s back than chip away at their actual jobs, which includes urgent work such as ending the government shutdown, passing appropriation bills, and swearing in Democratic Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva:"
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GOP Rep Reveals Nonsensical Revenge Plan After Trump Loses Nobel Prize

Representative Buddy Carter is furious that Donald Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Natalie ❌👑 @nat4lee.bsky.social · 4h

Get the word out
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

democrats-science.house.gov

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WarpFactorFunGuy @veterancatdad.bsky.social · 4h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDhVDco/ Pedophile Trump & the Republican Party have lost their constituents

Mark Alford of Missouri town hall

TikTok video by Witchy Shai✨

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 5h

Tonight’s #FridayLimericks watch the GOP’s ongoing assault on Americans’ health.
We have shutdown stakes coming more clear:
Whose insurance will soon disappear?
Repubs want to shift wealth,
At expense of our health,
To the donors their ilk hold most dear.

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"We just verified with the Congressional Budget Office and of the 13.7 MILLION Americans who will lose their health care because of the Republicans' tax-cuts-for-billionaires bill, exactly ZERO are undocumented immigrants!"
- REP. BRENDAN BOYLE
OCCUPY DEMOCRATS

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨🚨🚨Fake ICE reporting site reports to ICE. Be warned:

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 5h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 Do ICE have MRE provisions? Oh, no. That’s a damn shame. All that income and no place to buy a meal. Hey, I know what they can eat… 1/2

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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@janettes-999.bsky.social @janettes-999.bsky.social · 4h

Heather Cox Richardson said:

Republicans want Democratic votes for the Continuing Resolution to ensure Republicans alone do not take the blame for their deeply unpopular budget reconciliation bill of July.

Their base would then force them to vote on lots of other wildly unpopular things.

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K🤦‍♀️𝙑 @kv417.bsky.social · 4h

Meanwhile, in California…

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 1d

I'll just leave this here. It's long past my bedtime.

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 1d

Neil Young Pulling Music from Amazon, Calls for Boycott: “Support Your Community”

“BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME.”

consequence.net/2025/10/neil...

Neil Young Pulling Music from Amazon, Calls for Boycott: "Support Your Community"

Neil Young has announced the impending removal of his music from Amazon, and is calling for a boycott of the massive online retailer.

consequence.net

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Robert @no1musclecar.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, the same place the fElon just made a NATO-like pact with to defend. He always plays both sides against one another.

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Day #263

10 Things to Know About Hamas and Qatar share.google/3eToKXduhVgW...

10 Things to Know About Hamas and Qatar

Qatar has enabled the terrorist organization Hamas politically and financially for decades. However, the tiny Gulf Arab state has successfully positioned itself as the lead negotiator in the Hamas-Isr...

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 6h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Bridget 🦋 🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent

Congressman Jared Moskowitz @repmoskowitz.bsky.social · 15h

I filed this resolution today to change the House Rules:

Congress should not be able to leave on a paid vacation when government is closed and federal workers and servicemembers are working without a paycheck.

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Great suggestion

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Trevor Foster @darthfos.bsky.social · 13h

I will bet that their silver minivan is a privately owned vehicle & is not properly insured for law enforcement usage which would need additional insurance due to risk factors.

Start sending their license plates to insurance agencies to see if they are even insured properly.

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Lonewolf @lonewolf1970.bsky.social · 5h

youtu.be/3RxHdOGx8uI?...

Under the Radar | Government Shutdown Effects on the Military

YouTube video by Mary Trump Media

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 5h

I wish they were out.

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EDEN GATEKEEPER @edengk.bsky.social · 5h

NAZI VEEP KKKING TRUMP IS DEMENTED AND DERANGED

IHIP News: Trump's DECLINE Getting More DANGEROUS; MAGA's Craziest are SPLITTING From Him!?

YouTube video by I've Had It

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‪[email protected]‬ @momspersistence.bsky.social · 5h

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 17h

Now that Trump has lost the peace prize, maybe he can start fulfilling his campaign promises:

• Free IVF
• 100% Tax Free Tips
• Release Epstein files
• Lower Grocery Prices
• 100% Tax Free Overtime
• 100% Tax Free Social Security
• 10% Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates

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