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microblap @microblap.bsky.social · Jan 30
Comment below if I actually know you IRL - I'm going to create a list of folks who I have actually met and know as a separate list/feed for myself.

TIA.
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rbreich.bsky.social
A new investigation revealed that school districts and local governments are reportedly overpaying for supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing.

Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
microblap.bsky.social
Know Your Rights When Dealing With ICE
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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December 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Time person of the year cover for 2025
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: We're looking that there could be a cycle where R+10 seats flip to Democrats. And so if Republicans want to draw a map that makes them more vulnerable to that, that's their decision to do that.

Raju: Do you think there will be a blue wave?

AOC: I think so.
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
microblap.bsky.social
Delusional.
klasfeldreports.com Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d
This presidential “pardon,” as it’s for a state crime, is the equivalent of digital toilet paper, only flimsier and serving a less useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
microblap.bsky.social
No harm wanted to anyone who works at CNN, but if this happens, I hope CNN collapses.
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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reptedlieu.bsky.social
Grocery costs continue to increase. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing.

What is Trump focused on right now? Starting another forever war in Venezuela.

We need congressional oversight.
December 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
a democrat in congress created a good moment of friction with one of the most vile people in the administration

i, a member of the media, have highlighted that moment

Kristi Noem forced to face decorated war veteran she deported www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Kristi Noem forced to face decorated war veteran she deported
During a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was forced to justify her department’s pressure for a military veteran to leave the ...
www.dailykos.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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ariberman.bsky.social
Breaking: Indiana State Senate rejects 9-0 Republican gerrymandered congressional map, stands up to Trump’s pressure campaign of threats and intimidation. Huge victory for democracy & defeat for Trump in gerrymandering war he started
December 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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jojofromjerz.bsky.social JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d
Anyone who’s ever looked into the face of an abusive partner knows it on sight.
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
microblap.bsky.social
7-2 is bad enough in a 60-40 state.
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
BREAKING:
Indiana Senate Republicans reject Trump’s redistricting push | CNN Politics
The Indiana Senate on Thursday voted down a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to produce two more GOP-friendly seats, rejecting President Donald Trump’s months-long campaign to pressu...
www.cnn.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
kilmar abrego garcia ordered released. frequent cognitive tests and MRIs. rotting hand. everyone mad about boats.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Recently stumbled upon this Instagram account that's just a guy who lives in a downtown Chicago high rise throwing paper airplanes out his window. Dudes rock, tbh www.instagram.com/reel/DR3CmxB...
December 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
Fuck norms and tradition. Just do the right thing and help people. www.oliverexplains.com/p/eff-rules-...
Eff Rules, Do Good: Towards A New Liberalism
Be Super, Man
www.oliverexplains.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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molly.wiki
Dear Judge Engelmayer, Your Honor, I stand here today not just as a victim of financial fraud, but as a daughter whose world was irrevocably shattered. I ask you to look beyond the cold, hard numbers (i.e., the staggering sum of money that vanished) and see the human cost and lifelong agony that UST's depegging has caused. I am asking you to read these words not with professional detachment, but with the empathy I pray resides within the heart of any person witnessing such profound devastation. I remember the exact moment. It was May 2022, several days after my birthday. Suddenly, I saw a notification flash across my screen: UST had depegged from its $1 parity. In an instant, the value of everything I had worked for, everything my father had saved for, just obliterated into nothing. The shock was a physical blow. I felt my breath leave my body. Your Honor, I didn't think about my own savings at first. The first thought, the only thought, was of my father. And that is what almost drove me to end my own life. I did not consider taking my life over my own money loss, but over the catastrophic failure I brought upon my father...the man who deserved the world. He put $100k of his retirement savings into Anchor Protocol (due to my advice)...and now he is over 70 years old and he cannot fully retire. Because if he stops working, he can no longer afford to live. My father is a good man. A diligent man. For over sixty years, he worked tirelessly, building a modest nest egg for himself and my mother. He's an accountant by trade, a man of integrity, but he always yearned for more for his family. He tried to launch businesses (e.g., a laundromat franchise), but fate, or perhaps just cruel luck, always intervened. I remember when he entrusted a "friend," a supposed partner, with $50,000 for a business venture. The friend fled. Nothing came of it. My father was left to pick up the pieces, never once complaining, simply working harder. He saved for retirement through sheer, relent… My father, who had suffered a string of failed businesses, who carried the weight of a mortgage that pains him every single month. All I ever wanted, Your Honor, was to become successful enough to spoil him. To pay off his debt. To give him the happy retirement he earned and deserved. When I saw the depegging, that vision of a happy future was crushed. I felt the absolute, sickening certainty that I had failed him. I had delivered his lifelong savings into the hands of a scam. My father lost about $70,000 from his $100k savings. That number, $70,000, represents decades of his life, wiped out in the span of a single week! I wanted to crush myself into a ball, to vanish, to take away the pain I had caused him. Years later, the suffering continues. I am 35 years old now, engaged to be married, but I cannot afford the down payment on a home. I cannot afford a wedding. I cannot afford children. As much as it hurts me, I've come to terms with the fact that I can't financially support children nor own my own home. My father is continuing to freelance as an accountant. He's always fantasized about retiring in his 60s, but now that's a distant dream. And what's most miraculous, Your Honor, is that my father has never yelled at me or anything of the sort as someone who advised him about Anchor Protocol. He never blamed me for anything. He never complained. And oddly, that makes me feel even worse. He's just taking things day by day, and somehow, he still loves me ... and finds it in his heart to smile through the pain. His attitude is what kept me alive, Your Honor. If he lost $70k and he's still smiling (despite not having enough years left to recoup that money with hard work), I can lose over $30k and still be alright. Like all the other victims, I seek closure from this nightmare. I do not know exactly what that looks like. But perhaps Do Kwon's imprisonment may help bring some semblance of closure...an acknowledgment from the justice system that the harm done to families …
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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molly.wiki
I have purchased the PACER documents so everyone can read the impact statements submitted by victims of Do Kwon and the 2022 Terra/Luna meltdown. Collapses like these ruin lives.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/67087...
Honorable Judge Engelmayer, My name is Stanislav Trofimchuk (Stan). My life and family were pretty much ruined by Mr. Kwon’s actions back in 2022 and I would like to share my story in writing and speak at a sentencing hearing if videoconferencing means are available as I’m unable to attend personally. Below is my story: We came to the United States in 2006 from Ukraine as a young family with a ten-month-old baby, chasing the American Dream and a brighter future for our children — both the one we had and those we still hoped to have. Like most first-generation immigrants, we had to work very hard to build a life for ourselves. For seven straight years I worked multiple jobs, endless hours, no weekends, no holidays — because my wife didn’t have a work permit during all that time. I barely saw my children grow up. She carried the burden of raising our two boys almost entirely alone, with no family nearby, no help at all. After thirteen years of struggle, we finally became U.S. citizens. For the first time I could breathe. I started a small business, came home at reasonable hours, and began repairing the years I had missed with my family. Life finally felt like it was moving forward. By early 2021 the dream was within reach: a modest house in Texas, a growing business, savings carefully set aside so our sons could go to college. After everything, we were closer than ever to “making it.”. Then, in February 2022, war exploded across Ukraine. Both my wife’s elderly mother and my parents, living in the south of the country — found themselves directly on the front line. We dropped everything. We flew to Europe, pulled them out of Ukraine, and relocated the entire family — our parents, ourselves, our children — to Croatia, one of the few places that felt safe and where we could survive on far less money than in America. In Croatia none of us had work permits. My small business in US started struggling the moment I left. I was desperate for any lifeline that could keep seven p… described UST as a stablecoin that would always hold its $1 peg, and those protocols as safe, reliable way to earn 19–40% yield. It didn’t feel like gambling; it felt like the answer we had been praying for. We sold everything at discounted prices: the house, the business, the cars. We scraped together just over $190,000 — every dollar of seventeen years of sacrifice — and in late April 2022 I converted it all to UST and locked it into Anchor and Mirror, trusting the promises that had been repeated for months. Just two weeks later, on May 9, 2022, I watched UST fall off its peg. In panic, I almost sold everything to limit the damage, but then I saw Mr. Kwon’s tweet: “Deploying more capital— steady lads.”. The price started recovering that day. I trusted him again and decided to keep the UST locked. What followed were two weeks of pure terror. The Terra blockchain halted. Mirror Protocol liquidity vanished. I couldn’t withdraw a single cent. When the system finally let me out on May 23, UST was trading below $0.07. Our $190,000 had become less than $13,000. Seventeen years of our lives — gone in two weeks. People say you should never risk money you can’t afford to lose. But this never felt like risk. The founder of the project had called it “too big to fail,” boasted that the Luna Foundation Guard would protect every dollar. To a desperate father trying to feed two families in a foreign country, it sounded like the safest investment ever. The money was only the beginning of the catastrophe. Less than two weeks after the collapse, my wife packed her bags. She could no longer trust that I could keep her and her mother financially safe. A few months later the divorce papers arrived. Our teenage sons chose to stay with me and my parents, to hold what was left of the family together. College was never mentioned again. Both boys quit school and now work as car mechanics to put food on the table. Today I am [redacted]. I live in [redacted] with my elderly parents, taking wh… completely. Yet that is exactly what happened. I know there are others out there whose stories are even darker than mine. I still hope that Mr. Kwon finds the conscience, the will, and the means to make restitution — so that shattered families like ours might have a chance to rebuild. Thank you for listening. Stanislav
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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thefarce.org
"DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE PASSIVELY AUTO-RENEWED INTO YOUR 2026 PLAN."
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
microblap.bsky.social
Of Indiana's 9 seats, 7 are currently held by Rs.

2/9 = 22% of the seats.

40% of Hoosiers voted for Democrats for President in 2024. ~DOUBLE the number of House seats.

Trump wants them to rig the map to cheat more.
briantylercohen.bsky.social Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d
Republicans announce the entire state of Indiana will be defunded if they do not obey Trump by gerrymandering their state.

“Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop.”
December 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
microblap.bsky.social
One of every 7 of his previous supporters has bailed on him!!

15% of his support has vanished!!! "Slightly"?
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Everyone knows the best advent calendars have tickets to our campaign holiday show!

This Friday, come see some incredible artists, score exclusive merch, and support the campaign:
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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tribelaw.bsky.social
A Third Grand Jury Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James. Will the Vengeful Crazies Go for Four? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
microblap.bsky.social
His narcissism is wasting taxpayer money defending his illegal actions in court, only to lose all the time.
biologicaldiversity.org Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 2d
We just filed a lawsuit to prevent Trump from replacing a beautiful picture of #GlacierNationalPark with a closeup of his own face on the #AmericaTheBeautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass.

Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4rOJIv5
The background shows Glacier National Park, green trees, dramatic mountains, and a river cutting through the center. In the foreground is a picture of a National Park Pass with Trump's portrait next to George Washington's on it. There is a quote in white text at the top. It reads: "National Parks Are Not a Personal Branding Opportunity. They're the Pride and Joy of the American People."
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM