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I'm not interested in your MAGA.. be it of the red or blue variety. I want to help America become what she has always claimed to be: A country where all are created equal with liberty and justice for all. If you aren't... then just fo & block me.

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · Sep 10

.... OMG.. well I lasted a couple weeks.. but damn.. I had to come check out the Charlie Kirk stories.

... going to try to go back to no social media. Again.

Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 2h

so not wrong.. I've bought Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album at least 4 times. 5 if you count the album my sister "borrowed".

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12h

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11h

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.

Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.

Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 9h

I think you are probably right.

I think that Hegseth made a big PR mistake.

But if I lived in Idaho.. I'd be calling my Senator to find out exactly what is going there.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 29d

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

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Jenny DeMilo @jennydemilo.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

All of them.

I believe this is all being run through TrumpRX.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe yes, maybe no.

The reality is that the democrats will probably lose again.

They insist that the only way to win is by being bipartisan and right of center.

The dems just pulled an old woman out of retirement as their top choice to run against Susan Collins rather than support a progressive

Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

Don't get me wrong

I respect Mills. I voted for her 3 times between the primary and the elections.

And she is a good governor for a very demographically old and relatively conservative state that has strong feelings about equal rights.

But she's not what we need to combat the problems in DC

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will make the National Dems happy... if no one else.

She's too old and too conservative.

Bernie nailed it. Platner would have walked away with it. Now we will spend HUGE amounts of money to pick between Mills and Collins who have very little daylight between them.

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Mills to announce challenge to Collins in key 2026 Senate contest

Democrats see Maine as an important target amid a need to pick up a net of four seats to retake the Senate majority.

themainemonitor.org

Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

so help me.

I don't care.

We get a couple of people willing to work to help make American lives better...

It's unfortunate that neither the DEMS or the DSA have any freaking balls at all.

How long are you going to let the corporations decide who gets to live and die?

Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

The ballots were blank. They were stolen from a nearby town.

It would have taken several people to steal them.

It will come out eventually.

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's supposed to get us to change our minds. I mean.. a doctor's note to get an absentee ballot? Get serious.

I think it's supposed to cause 'disillusionment with the system' so that if they lose they can claim it was 'stolen'.

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah.. it's not like they don't know where the ballots came from as the the town a few minutes away was missing some.

It's only a matter of time before the culprits are outed and no one will be surprised that they are MAGA election officials.

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

Explosion at munitions plant in Tenn.

Too bad we don't have FEMA anymore.

Deaths Are Reported in Explosion at Tennessee Munitions Plant

www.nytimes.com

Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

There is a massive difference between 'training' and having a foreign nation build a base.

Darned near everyone that buys planes from us gets training.

Hegseth said they were building a base. Now maybe he's wrong, or lying, or just plain drunk.

If I were Idahoan, I wouldn't be waiting to see.

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Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

Training is training.

Lots and lots of countries get military training here.

No one has ever gotten their own base before.

Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what the completely 'red' state of Idaho thinks about all this?

Did 🍊ask them first before he gave away part of their state to Qatar?

I can see some MAGA heads exploding over this.

Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

I expect she's lying.

She has no line.

Notes from ME @notesfromme.bsky.social · 1d

"WHY would the USA allow them to build one?"

$$$$$

Remember these are the people who gave Trump his new $400M Presidential Jet.

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