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LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 1d

Stay weird, Portland 💖

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

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

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12d

When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?

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LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 13d

You know, it’s almost like they could afford fund Medicare with all the money they’re determined to waste.

Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 13d

Portland: where ordinary Americans exercise their first amendment rights while unhinged unskilled hired thugs with no self control attempt to start shit as they waste millions of our tax dollars.

Photo by reddit.com/u/Justcoffeeforme/s/1PHaNDKGms

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13d

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

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LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 13d

A while back I was working an apocalyptic thriller set in DC. I’m convinced that my Google searches for that movie script still has me on some kind of watch list! 🙃

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LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 19d

So glad to see Jimmy Kimmel’s face on my TV tonight! Proud of KSTP & Hubbard for airing the show tonight, it’s wild to think other major metropolitan areas are hell bent on censoring free speech & refuse to air the show. I almost never watch live tv, but I was not missing Kimmel’s late night return!

Jimmy Kimmel Live airing on television on KSTP (ABC) in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro area, as Kimmel resumes his monologue. Closed Captions quote Kimmel saying, “We are still on the air in most of the country, except, ironically, for [Washington D.C.]”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20d

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

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High fevers and pain are widely recognized as potential risks to a pregnancy if left untreated, especially in the first trimester.
Remember to talk to your doctor.
We prioritize science as the core of how we provide care, and that will never change.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 20d

Gavin Newsom’s team is about to make Stephen “N@z!” Miller cry 😂😅

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21d

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23d

There goes the First Amendment.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23d

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23d

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

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LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 24d

I hope Disney realizes what a grave error they’ve made in firing Jimmy Kimmel so their merger will be approved. This is Stephen Colbert all over again! Hundreds of workers on his show now face unemployment.

I’ll continue to boycott ANY business that curtails to the fascist authoritarian regime.

LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 24d

Done! I’ve had a Disney+ & Hulu subscriptions since their streaming services debuted. Just cancelled my Disney+/Hulu/HBO bundle (& our family was going to upgrade to an annual no-ads subscription for the holidays. Not anymore!)

What TF happened to “legalize comedy?”

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LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 24d

Done! I’ve had a Disney+ & Hulu subscriptions since their streaming services debuted. Just cancelled my Disney+/Hulu/HBO bundle (& our family was going to upgrade to an annual no-ads subscription for the holidays. Not anymore!)

What TF happened to “legalize comedy?”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24d

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

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Sue M @suemo.bsky.social · Sep 13

I’m not sure of the percentage of Americans who have their heads in the sand about what is going on in this Country Politicaly, but I envy them. I wish to didn’t know the truth we are close to being Germany 1939 - they really don’t think it all effects them, but it will….

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · Aug 31

“The future of our party is going to be decided by who steps up and fights for this moment” @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social says as Democratic voters press their leaders to fight Trump. “And then, by the way, when we take back power, we need a party who is not afraid to use it.” #Velshi

‘Outright anger’: Democratic voters want their party leaders to fight harder against Trump

Michigan State Senator and candidate for Michigan Senate Mallory McMorrow joined Velshi to discuss the growing grassroots opposition to the Trump Administration and the desire from Democratic voters for their party leaders to meet them where they are. “People are scared and they are angry and they are hurting right now, and the future of our party is going to be decided by who steps up and fights for this moment.”

www.msnbc.com

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 22

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 30

CHICAGO…

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LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m grateful my family is safe, but other families are grieving. Teachers, church leaders, parents & little kids have been traumatized, shot at & killed.

GUNS ARE KILLING OUR KIDS.
They’re the #1 cause of death for American kids.

Thoughts & prayers don’t stop bullets.

WHY TF ARE WE DOING NOTHING?

LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · Aug 28

My sister-in-law teaches at a Minneapolis Catholic school. My niece starts kindergarten this week & my baby nephew is in Pre-K.

My oldest nephew’s the same age as one of the kids who was killed.

I was a frantic mess today until I confirmed it wasn’t their school.
That fear lives in my bones now.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Frey: I think the impetus has to be on all of us to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people, and it's on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can't just say that this shouldn't happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Aug 27

We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.

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