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Krista Nicole

@knicole88.bsky.social

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Woke & angry millenial mama. Resistance in the face of tyranny is our duty as American citizens.

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Krista Nicole @knicole88.bsky.social · 20d

The truth, raw and unfiltered:

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20d

The US no longer brings anything to the table. Guns alone aren’t enough. We lost our leverage when we pulled aid. Whatever we destroy in Trump’s times will have no crew patching up that destruction in its wake. We are now one sided.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h

You heard it from the Vice President himself: it is legal to help cartels launder money for a fee. After all, you're only taking payment for a service.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Krista Nicole @knicole88.bsky.social · 7h

Yup...I grew up in the south. If the gun weilders were gonna do anything about this, it would have happened already, but unfortunately they're too busy being mad at their neighbor's gay pride flag.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 8h

There is no realistic scenario wherein gun wielders rise up against ICE or any of the actual bad guys that people like to fantasize about. These guys are too busy shooting each other to defend the communities from a tyrannical government.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Government’s shut down. Federal workers aren’t getting paid — some even being fired.
MAGA Speaker Johnson just canceled House votes for yet another week.

And this guy’s out golfing.
You can’t make this 💩 up.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

If you’re wondering why institutions and people keep failing us, it’s because of capitalism.

Every decision is tied to money.

Will the company lose profits? Will the non-profit lose donors? Will you lose your livelihood?

We choose money, because money is survival.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 10h

We’d already heard them say “the poor can work the fields”. “Those able bodied Medicaid recipients”, slimed out of their mouths already over the Summer.

Couple this with the attack on DEI. And it’s almost like women and minorities are being forced to be that field worker. Maybe they’re hoping?

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 10h

It may sound like paranoia to say Trump is expecting women and minorities to go to the fields, packing and service hospitality sectors, but I can’t help but hear that little voice, “Starve or get to picking and cleaning”. It’s right on brand for these monsters.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11h

Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.

4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whale’s profit: $192 million

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 14h

History warned us about tyrants. Nobody warned us they’d be this dumb.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 10h

The cuts to federal jobs disproportionately targets women and minorities. pshra.org/report-feder...

Report: Federal Job Cuts Having Disproportionate Effect on Women and Minorities - PSHRA

According to a new report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), women and people of color have been disproportionately affected by recent cuts across

pshra.org

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

Essential point:

"Key to... Vought’s worldview is the idea that the constitutional order - and with it the “natural” order itself - has been destroyed: The revolution has already happened, “the Left” won. Therefore, conservatives categorically err when they try to preserve what is no more."

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13h

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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Harmless Artist @dunhillpage.bsky.social · 1d

They wanted the House.
They wanted the Senate.
They wanted the White House.
They got it. All of it.
It's all theirs.
And it's shut down.

They can lie
They can troll
They can "own the libs"

But. They. Cannot. Govern.

This is all you need to hold in mind when you're looking to assign blame.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 11h

We should be looking to our religious leaders for moral guidance on our most divisive issues, not targeting them for standing up for others.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11h

“words mean what I want them to mean”

Luke Côté @locutusof.bsky.social · 11h

Tom, holocaust has a very simple definition. Slaughter on a mass scale.

So the fact you think there has only been holocaust 1.0 and no other events can use the word is a bit odd.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 11h

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.” -Anne Frank, 01/13/1943
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️

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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone who is opposed to fascism is Antifa.

www.salisburypost.com/2025/10/07/l...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13h

Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Krista Nicole @knicole88.bsky.social · 12h

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