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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 10h

I agree that there are definitely far more revolting GOP politicians out there but for some reason this guy has irritated the hell out of me. Perhaps it's that he doesn't seem to believe in anything. You described it well with the one foot in each camp resulting in pissing both camps off.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 10h

If Scotus decides the way everyone fears they will regarding the Voting Rights act what will you do then? Send a strongly worded letter to Roberts? Or will you leave it to Rep. Jeffries or Sen Schumer? 🙄You need to fight like it's your last chance to save democracy & break some damned rules.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent. I hoped you'd tell me that. She's fabulous. If only other people would interview Dems as well as she does. I truly admire her. I'm going to go back & watch the video now. I bypassed it thinking I can't listen to him give another performative interview & not see anyone call him out. Thanks

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 10h

I agree.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 10h

If the ones in the WH had done this a long time ago the US wouldn't be living through a fascist nightmare now.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 10h

He's just vile.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 10h

Dan Crenshaw from Texas. A republican & I always thought he was an asshole. Not sure if he's grown a spine or found some remnants of a conscience in the past few months but I won't hold my breath.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 10h

No, was it any good? Did she hold him to account?

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 1d

She’s a dreadful person.

Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 1d

God, me too. Really, really hard.

Backpfeifengesicht is the German word for "a face that's badly in need of a punch."

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 6d

The Atlantic, the NYT, and so many others also participated in the destruction of public health by repeatedly publishing the lie that COVID is mild, and now an organ- and immune-system damaging airborne virus is running rampant everywhere—w/ no infection control anywhere.

Great work everyone.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 1d

And they each looked exactly as I thought they would. I'm not the least bit surprised reading this article, just repulsed.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 1d

They don't give a shit. They just don't & neither do any of their cult members.

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't heard anyone mention "the Strawbs" in forever.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 3d

The emails from the former Manning Centre are getting increasingly unhinged.

CANADA STRONG & FREE NETWORK

Dale,

The Liberals are playing a DANGEROUS game with our country! They’re pushing the Supreme Court to SLASH the Notwithstanding Clause.

THIS IS THE GLUE THAT HOLDS OUR CONSTITUTION TOGETHER.

We’re really worried, Dale. This could spark a crisis and tear our nation apart!

Even the experts are warning this is a “SHOCKING” move that could lead to a full-blown CONSTITUTIONAL MELTDOWN!

Tell Us Where You Stand!
Should the Radicals mess with our Constitution?
No way! Protect Provincial Rights!
Yes, Let Ottawa Rule
I’m Concerned – Need More Info

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

He speaks like a poet.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 4d

The protesters are to be commended. The rest of them are beneath contempt.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12d

Damn... This was really brave and perfectly executed. The way you guys planted multiple people all around the room and spoke up one at a time overwhelmed their security. This was brilliant. I respect it.💙👏😎

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 5d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Novalight 🇨🇦😷 @novalight.bsky.social · 5d

No thoughts & prayers.