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Maureen

@modelaney.bsky.social

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I want our democracy back. It was my honor to be a public servant for 35 years... from the Statue of Liberty, to Africa, to addressing air pollution from mobile sources and now time to fight to restore our country's goodness. Delaware🫘

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Maureen @modelaney.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Hoaxes POTUS" ... The felon's magic lies will make it disappear.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 4h

A military spouse caller on C-SPAN today directly begged Speaker Mike Johnson to pass a bill to ensure U.S. troops keep getting paid as the government shutdown drags on, condemning his “audacity” for saying he doesn’t support doing it. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

Military Spouse Caller On C-SPAN Begs Mike Johnson To Pay Troops Amid Shutdown

“As a Republican, I’m very disappointed ... in you, because you do have the power to call the House back,” a Virginia woman fumed at the speaker.

www.huffpost.com

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Nailyard @nailyard.bsky.social · 3h

This is downtown Portland yesterday afternoon. There is no danger here. The danger lies within the WH.

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Hope can’t die @pal75.bsky.social · 3h

Bondi is losing her law degree and going to prison. Every action she takes keeps adding years to her sentence.

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Maureen @modelaney.bsky.social · 1h

Sitting around making shit up to pump up the felon's sick ego. Traitors, each and every one of them.

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 2h

Trump is ineligible for any Peace Prize because he has declared war on Americans

Sending the military into states without the state governor's approval

NO DUE PROCESS

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 4h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15h

This guy butt-dialed a constitutional crisis. Amazing.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Cindy 🇨🇦⚢🏳️‍🌈 @bilbow.bsky.social · 7h

4 in 5 Canadians surveyed believe boycotting US made goods & avoiding travel to the US could help strengthen Canada’s bargaining position with its southern neighbour
(Not in the poll: the other 1 in 5 are doing it because they're pissed about the 51st state bullshit)
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/nan...

Most Canadians think boycotting U.S. goods or travel is helpful: Nanos

Four in five Canadians believe boycotting U.S.-made goods or avoiding travel to the United States could help strengthen Canada’s bargaining position with its southern neighbour.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Maureen @modelaney.bsky.social · 5h

WTF... There is civil society at this point.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

when i saw marsha fucking blackburn was being honored by journalists i thought i was having a neurological episode

Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 8h

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 10h

Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

The counterterrorism experts have arrived at the White House..

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 18h

Mikie Sherrill took Jack Ciattarelli to the woodshed in the #NJGov debate tonight (his face says it all).

I had no idea about Ciattarelli’s role in getting people addicted to opioids.

I know it now.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17h

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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 10h

Is Trump just being Trump when he threatens to jail Governors and Mayors? Or is he testing the response to see how far he can go? Please read or listen to Robert Hubbell’s newsletter.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...