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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 9h

-"Epstein won't walk your dog"
-"Epstein is burning Portland"
-"Epstein wears red?"
-"Epstein never used makeup"
-"How many Epsteins does it take to screw up a democracy?

mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 9h

Bernardo de La Paz @demunderground:
Just start wearing tees that say
-"Epstein stole your Affordable Health Care."
-"Epstein Raised your Electricity bill"
-"How many Epsteins in the Billionaire tax cut?"
-"Got Epstein?"
-"This is the Epstein Economy"-
-"Epstein distracts from ICE"

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 9h

KS Tornado @demunderground:
Rs are getting more of their understanding of things from social media. Almost every underhanded thing we read about on DU that this administration has done and are doing, I'm hearing from total strangers in a town that voted 90% for dumpie.
He's losing his base.

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 9h

KS Tornado @demunderground:

What I've been hearing recently from people around here (my town is 90% R) are saying stuff they never would have heard on FQX noise. One lady referred to the $190M dumpie made off bitcoins and asked me "Why would we want to replace
our monetary system with bitcoins?"

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 9h

KS Tornado @demunderground:
If every one of us started asking strangers at the grocery stores at least once a day "Think we'll ever see the Epstein files?" and "Why is Congress protecting these pedophiles?", we could sweep the R party under the rug in the midterms and maybe for 10 or 20 years.

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 9h

Asked guys at checkout, "Think we'll ever see the Epstein files? Hardly got a word in after that....He started talking about how the rich use their money to control us, taking Obama care away from people were the main 2 subjects he mentioned.

www.democraticunderground.com/100220715713

2nd amendment guys at Walmart today - Democratic Underground Forums

www.democraticunderground.com

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STAT @statnews.com · 15h

"RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong. His latest conspiracy theory is no more accurate than his others." www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/m...

RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong

Now RFK Jr. is claiming vaccines don’t actually save lives. Here’s the math to show what he gets wrong.

www.statnews.com

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 11h

Netanyahu decided he could get more of the terms he wanted in any deal if he waited out the election in the hopes that Trump won. .

mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 11h

The framework for Trump's Gaza peace plan originated in Biden's administration.
The Biden administration reportedly drafted a three-phase framework for a peace deal, which included a ceasefire, hostage release, and plans for postwar reconstruction in Gaza.

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 14h

"Billionaire Larry Ellison could soon control huge portions of America’s AI, attention economy/legacy media. He already owns swathes of AI infrastructure and is preparing to takeover TikTok, whilst his son, whose company already owns Paramount, is preparing to buy Warner Bros. Discovery."
/BBC

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Stefan 🥼 @stefank1117.bsky.social · 15h

“The investment firm Narya Capital—which Vance launched in 2020 with backing from Peter Thiel—was a vehicle for [AcreTrader] investments & a key backer in early funding rounds of the farmland startup…Vance is still an investor in the firm.” — Civil Eats

JD Vance benefits from farms going bankrupt.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15h

JD Vance has decided his entire job is to go on television and lie.

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 15h

Trump Is Looking at All ‘Options’ Before Invoking Insurrection Act—J(uris) D(octorate) Vance.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached after declaring martial law, and accusing the opposition-controlled National Assembly of "anti-state activities".

www.bbc.com/news/article...

South Korea: Yoon charged with insurrection over martial law attempt

The unprecedented indictment means Yoon Suk Yeol faces decades in prison if convicted.

www.bbc.com

mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 15h

No other attorney would pursue charges because they didn't want to end up like other Trump lackeys.
Trump Lawyers Who Were Disbarred or Had Law Licenses Suspended...
www.newsweek.com/trump-lawyer...

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine the reaction if Democrats tied federal funding to Ole Miss or Bob Jones University to naming a street after MLK.

mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 15h

*Not necessarily, Keith Olbermann based his recommendation on the story drives the news.
That journalist principle is over; conservative billionaires control the media. Two weeks after ICE used a Chicago apartment building for military training, and the media is still mum.

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 15h

"That’s how you turn the press on its head — you get ahead of it. You don’t wait for it to tell your story. You write it yourself."
/Keith Olbermann

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 15h

"...standing shoulder to shoulder and saying, “Enough.”
By 9 a.m., the networks would have to cover it. By noon, social media would light up. By evening, local TV would run the footage." *

/Keith Olbermann

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 15h

"Stand in front of that shuttered elder-care home, with nurses and families behind you, and tell the truth: “This is what Trump and his party have delivered. This is what they call success.”
"Imagine Schumer and Jeffries kicking it off, with Warren, Raskin, AOC, Pritzker, Mayor Pete...."
(con't)

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 15h

Every Sunday morning, before the network talking heads roll out their panels of pundits, Democrats should hold press conferences in towns deep in the heart of red America — where Trump’s policies are biting hard.

www.democraticunderground.com/100220715550

Keith Olbermann is right: Turn the Press on Its Head - Democratic Underground Forums

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 16h

As Trump is well aware, Senate Republicans can use the nuclear option to pass his CR. His sadistic nature would take greater pleasure to compel Democrats to formally dismantle the ACA, Obama's signature legislation.
It's his ultimate revenge for President Obama's WH Correspondent's Dinner roast.

mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 19h

"The blueprint is: Create chaos. Blame the chaos. Then offer yourself as the cure.

This plan is already underway. The question now is if the rest of us will keep pretending this is law and order."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction

www.nytimes.com

mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 19h

"....to carry out operations (like family separation) in a way that instills distrust in law enforcement. When law enforcement is forced into partisan roles, it stops serving the public. And when the public loses trust in law enforcement, the whole system begins to fail."
(con't)
NYT

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 19h

"Federal agents, many of whom signed up to protect the nation, are essentially being used as props...The proud men and women who enforce our immigration laws saw this during the 1st Trump administration — the posturing, the betrayal, the blame dumped on officers who were directed...."
(con't)
NYT

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mimimoore1285.bsky.social @mimimoore1285.bsky.social · 19h

"The president’s team vowed to target gang members, murderers and rapists, but we’re not just rounding up violent offenders. We’re arresting working parents, students, asylum seekers and even U.S. citizens, to create made-for-TV crackdowns."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction

www.nytimes.com

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