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SAVE DEMOCRACY! Senior Trial Paralegal Secular Humanist Equality for All Women’s rights ARE human rights. Arrest ICE! #Bluecrew *NO DMs!!* 🚫NO BIO gets BLOCKED! 🚫MAGAS/NAZIS/CRYPTO/BITCOIN/PORN -ALL BLOCKED!

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PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦 @periwinklerose.bsky.social · Nov 8

“As humans, we’ve TWO things to do during our time on this Earth. Care for our fellow humans & care for the environment the species was placed upon to sustain survivability. If those who wish to be our leaders do not embrace that simple premise, they’re NOT fit to be leaders.”

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Jace Nalaar @jace-nalaar.bsky.social · 8h

ICE is eating good charging steak dinners to federal credit cards while active military line up for food banks.

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This is Trump's America.

From the thescoop community on Reddit: A food bank lined up with military members who didn’t receive a paycheck this week in Trump's America

Explore this post and more from the thescoop community

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 3h

This was in project 2025.

Doesn’t make this any less shocking, but it was all written down.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

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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Freedom @ Earth-One @earth-one.bsky.social · 3h

And ICE thinks they have a place to rest in peace when this is over, not a fat chance, ICE hunters will be a thing. Count on it.

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Dark Nakano @nakanotakeko.bsky.social · 3h

So many fucking idiots in Trump’s cabinet.

Do any of the useless fucktards know anything at all?

Zero management skills, zero critical thinking skills, zero practical skills at all.

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The Transportation Secretary’s threat is not going over well with aviation safety experts.

Air Traffic Controllers Who Call In Sick During The Shutdown Won’t Be Paid, Duffy Warns—But Will Intimidation Backfire?

The Transportation Secretary’s threat is not going over well with aviation safety experts.

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dixiechickenotf24.bsky.social @dixiechickenotf24.bsky.social · 3h

Where’s your line in the sand, MAGA?

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Did you know Qatar is going to have a military base in Idaho?!? Guess that is what all that foreclosed farmland is being used for….

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 4h

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦 @periwinklerose.bsky.social · 3h

—and how can they blame the shut down on Democrats when Republicans have been are too lazy to come to work full time since July! Talk about waste, fraud and abuse!

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Lissthesassy @lissthesassy.bsky.social · Nov 13

We lost a lot of CIA agents to adversaries during Putins first 4 years.

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CJ Sugita-Jackson, PhD @cjsugitajackson.bsky.social · 6h

YESSSSS!!!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 3h

A federal judge has stated that ICE needs to take down their fence in Broadview Illinois

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

I genuinely think that many people don't fully understand the situation in the USA.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 7h

nothing says "we want to end the shutdown" like shutting down Congress for an extra week

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PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦 @periwinklerose.bsky.social · 3h

Holy Cats! Has he looked in a mirror????😂😂

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3h

Congrats, MAGA, you’ve owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability, affordable groceries, affordable healthcare, qualified leaders, and global standing.

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Congratulations, Trump Supporters, You've Owned the Libs

Well, Trump Supporters, as a member of the woke radical Left, it kills me to say this, but you win.

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PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦 @periwinklerose.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe he wants help with conquering CANADA & GREENLAND.

(It would SUCK if one of those guys at that base went rogue.)

PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦 @periwinklerose.bsky.social · 3h

Not buying this “excellent health” and having a heart function of a man “14 years younger’ crap for a second. Does he make everybody lie for him? 🙄

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.