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naomiohmy 🐝

@naomiohmy.bsky.social

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Can eat my weight in sushi but it’s politics that’s consume me. Knitting/hiking/fiction help sooth my increasingly savage beast. Prefer dogs to peeps because...duh. #DemocracyWhore #KHive #StillWithHer #SlavaUkrainï

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · Nov 26

Every time I borrow an audiobook on Libby I feel like I won the lottery.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 1d

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 Pull back the curtain--force the press to focus. We know they know how to do it (see: 2024 Biden obsession).

Pritzker zeroed in on Trump's mental decline. Every Democrat should be!
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Pritzker zeroed in on Trump's mental decline. Every Democrat should be!

He followed Rep. Dean and Senator Gallego. The corporate media will only ask questions about Trump's mental state if Democrats turn up the volume.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 4d

"First they came for..."

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens
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How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 10d

Laughing.
And crying.

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If the Urgent Trump-Hegseth Address to the Military Had Been an Email

THIS IS NOT SPAM.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 12d

Pretending that far left politics can win in anything other than the bluest of blue districts is delusional. But certain politicians have planted the idea that "if we build it they will come" even if that means ignoring that the majority of people in this country are NOT on the far left. 3/3.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 12d

Bernie's "M4A or Bust" was nothing but a populist slogan--but resulted in [young] people thinking that Dems who wanted to actually wanted to do the work to create universal healthcare in our country (see: Hillary/Kamala) just weren't "pure" enough. 2.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 12d

Amen to all of it. The dumbing down of our general populace by populism on the right AND on the left leads people to think in overly generalized, simplistic terms--which don't come even close to reflecting reality. 1.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 12d

And I didn’t even mention the House Rules Committee, which is the most partisan committee of all. There are 13 members and four of them are Dems.

This is all to say that our focus should be on getting the majority, not on switching out moderates for progressives.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 12d

An excellent reminder that We The People do have legal power. Use it before we lose it.

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Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock

When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

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Side-Eye Pinkie Pie Read Project 2025 - Did You? @nypoliticalmom.bsky.social · 14d

Fucking hell.

Marilyn 🇨🇦 @mlauriat.bsky.social · 14d

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'Can't afford to pay': Health insurance premiums may double next week in largest market

Americans in the largest health insurance market could see their premiums double in price virtually overnight, depending on what Congress does over the next few days.Politico reported Friday that hund...

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 14d

An Olympic athlete with a master’s degree who has devoted 20 years of his life to bettering OUR public education system.That’s who ICE detains.

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ICE arrests superintendent of Iowa's largest public school district

The agency said Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyana national and superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was in the country illegally and had a final order of removal.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 16d

Did Trump make the Justice Department fire James Comey’s prosecutor daughter because she’s his daughter or was it because she successfully prosecuted his buddies Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell?

Yes.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 22d

Just subscribed. Keep the faith--spreading truth matters now more than ever.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22d

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22d

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.

When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.

I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 22d

weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you. Always needs saying. Always worth hearing.

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 22d

you know what will never get our country back? quitting when the fight gets hard. you have to believe we can do this to make it possible.

what help are you providing by posting on social media encouraging other people to quit because you're discouraged?

we can do this.
believe it.
and get to work.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22d

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money!

tough!!

Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 22d

One other wrinkle to consider as Bob Iger makes his decision about Jimmy Kimmel

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 22d

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.

This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 22d

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A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing

That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

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💥LazarAAWOOOTagWolf @lazartagwolf.bsky.social · 29d

I am disgusted. This is disgusting.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29d

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Bear Jewess 🟦🎗️ @388shark.bsky.social · 29d

This question.

R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 29d

Kirk died.
Leftists and Progressives are blamed.

So, why are HBCUs getting threats?!?!

Why is our name always in someone's infected tonsils?

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Kaali Kamala: Thee OG YIMBY for Harris 🪷 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 @domitiaenobaria.bsky.social · 29d

Or they just plain like what he was about.

Ben Tripp 老年火腿 @bentripp.bsky.social · 29d

If you’re surprised to see mainstream pundits lionize a hate-filled ghoul upon his demise, remember they are, in part, making sure they’re on Trump’s ‘acceptable’ list.

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naomiohmy 🐝 @naomiohmy.bsky.social · 29d

This. Anyone who wasn’t insane (e.g. insanely ignorant, bigoted, racist, and/or misogynistic) would have showed up to vote for ANYONE running to stop. The majority of white men and white women failed this country, failed their fellow citizens and failed the future of democracy.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.

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