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Democracy Takes Work. Worth It For My Kids. 🗽Vote blue to save it. 💙🗳️ 🇺🇸 Blue dot in TX. End Citizens United / Bring back Fairness Doctrine. Also Cats, Dogs, Comedy. LWCC 👋 #Resist 🚫DMs unless we know each other Threads: kivett.l

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · Mar 13

Someone needs to tell me why the (unqualified) Cabinet Secretaries
hired to gut/eliminate the Departments they now head
get a TAXPAYER-PAID salary for doing it?
WHY ARE WE TOLERATING THIS? 😠

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You Deserved Better

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

We appreciate what you did for America

robertreich.substack.com

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 1d

Karma is a bitch

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 13h

This ⬇️

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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To Love a Mariner Podcast @toloveamariner.bsky.social · 1d

BAZARDO BELIEVERS RISE UP

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 13h

I believe this after so many experts have examined it.

He wore a bandage for 2 days.
Then had a completely healed ear.
Don’t buy it.

Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 1d

IT WAS ALL STAGED. IT WAS FAKE except for the one guy killed accidentally or maybe not, and then they killed the fake shooter. The shooter was not the person they said was the shooter. This entire thing was a sham.

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Vincenzo @vincenzodon.bsky.social · 1d

No one who pardoned J/6 protesters that beat cops, etc. should ever be forgiven. This was treason and he’s doing worse today.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 1d

He was a good boy

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22h

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ralphpoppy.bsky.social @ralphpoppy.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't yet see the 1933
Germany parallels, you either skipped history, or you're disturbingly comfortable repeating it.
—Billifer

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 17h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 13h

I believed her in 1991.

Look where not believing her got us today. A grifter who wants to dismantle the protections of the 14th Amendment.

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 13h

I believed her in 1991.

Look where not believing her got us today. A grifter who wants to dismantle the protections of the 14th Amendment.

Edward @eddietheteacher.bsky.social · 17h

October 11, 1991 – Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Climb To The Clouds @climbtotheclouds.bsky.social · 13h

His people told him the optics of him on the golf course while troops are at the food pantry seem bad.

Trump authorizes troop pay amid government shutdown

The president said he would direct Defense Department officials to pay military members on Oct. 15.

www.nbcnews.com

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

When I asked AI why trump thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize 😉

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

“Memo to future historians: This is fascism, and millions of us see it”

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Memo to future historians: This is fascism, and millions of us see it

Fighting Words.‌ What got...

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Thou shalt not shoot priests in the head. I shouldn’t have to say this.

Thou Shalt Not Shoot Priests in the Head

I shouldn’t have to say these things.

www.thegodpodcast.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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