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Martha 🥄 near Seattle

@marthawt.bsky.social

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Born-inside-the-Beltway politics nerd, public education advocate, Xitter refugee fighting despair. I AM ANTIFA; come at me, bro!

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · Jan 31

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Trump’s Final Term Ends in: - Countdown Timer

Trump’s Final Term Ends in: Countdown Timer

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 14h

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 4h

And journalists.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 21h

We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time.

This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 5h

Infuriating that WE PAY for this.

Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · 1d

Embedded video crews maximize the production value of fascism. Get enough clips and you can tell whatever story suits you.

The reality tv president knows how to manufacture the reality he wants people to see.

It’s the only thing he has ever excelled at.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 15h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5h

Nobel Peace Prize not awarded to guy murdering fishermen for sport.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 12h

ANTIFA:

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 5h

WaPo has lost all credibility.

Alt VA Comrades @alt-va-comrades.altgov.info · 1d

First off, this isn’t even close to being true.

This is another way to convince people there is SO much fraud that they can’t help but cut benefits. It’s a trick. It’s a scam. It’s a way for the VA to cut benefits and sleep at night. Shame.

#VABenefits #DisabledVeterans #VA

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 1d

This is wrong on every level. It’s a rigorous process that can take years. Just because a small number of rotten people faked being blind or paralyzed doesn’t mean the system should be gutted or over 9 million veterans getting benefits smeared. This is so dam irresponsible of WaPo.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 5h

Good news. I will take it.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 21h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 12h

The administration has extrajudicially killed 21 people in the Caribbean, per their own figures.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

“Thank you Washington Post. Wow!!!”

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 5h

We know CORRUPTION when we see it.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Most Americans say Trump has improperly used his office to:
💠Punish those who say things he does not like (66%)
💠Encourage federal investigations of his political opponents (62%)
💠Enrich himself or his friends and family (61%)

new @pewresearch.org findings

Most Americans think Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents

49% of U.S. adults say Trump is trying to exercise more presidential power than previous presidents and that this is bad for the country.

www.pewresearch.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 5h

Idiocracy in action.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 7h

⚡️Russia killed a 7-year-old boy in Zaporizhzhia — the son of a Ukrainian soldier just freed after three years in Russian captivity.

The father is in critical condition, and the family’s new home lies in ruins.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 13h

The Chinese soy market is lost to American farmers forever. Great job, FFOTUS!

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 13h

Also, “public health” guy who does not know the difference between a uterus and a placenta.

Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15h

Heroin addict.
Serial adulterer.
Road kill collector.
Swimming in bacterial-dangerous waters w/ his grandchildren.
Anti-Tylenol (pro-pain).
Anti-circumcision (excuse for fixation on genitals).
Demonizing autistic people.
Anti-vaxxing propagandist.
Hooligan.

Yeah, that guy.

Impeach and remove. Now.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 13h

Because she was hired to produce clicks, not news.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 14h

Kudos to Judge Perry, who began receiving death threats as soon as she was assigned the case.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 14h

And the cementing of the legacy of the #IllegitimateRobertsCourt as an infamous disaster for generations to come.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 14h

PERFECT teaser for this piece, Guardian! 🎩tip

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance Minds International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 14h

OMG. They keep inventing new ways to get us killed!

🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 18h

The Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board
may be eliminated entirely under the proposed 2026 federal budget. It raises the risk of more, & more serious, chemical disasters—not just in the US, but around the world.

No pay wall.

Refinery fires, other chemical disasters may no longer get safety investigations

Because of the federal government shutdown and proposed budget, key federal investigations may stop, including into what happened at a Chevron refinery in California in October 2025.

theconversation.com

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 14h

Very interesting. Also love France’s subsidizing of housing in dense urban areas so that people in service industries can afford to live where they work. Imagine the time and money saved on commuting and transportation infrastructure.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 14h

The best way to neuter their watchlist is for ALL of us to get on it! I AM ANTIFA.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 Senator warns that NSPM-7 is fueling a secret watchlisting effort targeting Americans
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...

Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans

NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 14h

The best way to counter it is for ALL of us to get on it!
I AM ANTIFA.