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📋 Lifelong registered Independent, social liberal| 🏈⚾🏒🏀New England sports diehard 🐈 Proud cat mom | Proud human mom📚 Relentless reader 🌊 Beach is my happy place—yes, even in January 🦋 Zoo volunteer, because wildlife matters
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 22h
There you go! Never doubted it for a minute!
piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 22h
That can’t be true, Kim and Trump are besties, right? Right? Hello?
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 1d
Hang in there!
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Susan M. Furey, Ed.D. @sfurey.bsky.social · 1d
#NoKingsDayOctober18th
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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 1d
Free gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
If you are a paying subscriber to The Washington Post, this is what you get.

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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 1d
In the United States we don’t know what it is to be attacked on our shores and assume that it can’t happen here. We have taken democracy for granted and couldn’t imagine democracy and our rights being taken away by our own government.
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 3d
Does this sound familiar?

www.arabprogress.org/en/the-israe...
The Israeli Case: Major Structural Transformations Including the Possibility of Cancelling Elections
Policy PaperAmeer Makhoul, Progress Center for Policies IntroductionFormer Prime Minister and Chief of Staff Ehud Barak warns of a high probability that the Knesset elections could be canceled if Neta...
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 4d
It’s beautiful, I love it! I think the mist is going to burn off and reveal a cloudless blue sky!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 4d
Because They Gave Their Souls
Willingly To The Chumpster.......
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d
I’m sorry but the fact that this is not everywhere is kind of malpractice
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d
Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.
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Typical Projection👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Robert Koenig @robertkoenig.bsky.social · 5d
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 5d
That’s a beauty, well done!
piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 8d
We need to begin naming names and specifying how they are connected to the ultra-conservative movement. We could start with Larry Ellison.
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A.I. Plata Martinez 🇨🇦🇨🇴⚖️ @iglesiasplata.bsky.social · 11d
They got very quiet after finding out the shooter was a right wing radicalized Deranged #MAGAt!
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 9d
Another excellent history lesson by a great teacher. We can't forget our history even though they want us to

#USDemocracy
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15d
I say again, why are we bailing out Milei and why aren’t more Democrats in Congress talking about it?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10d
The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.
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Skeleton Marv @skeletonmarv02.bsky.social · 11d
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 10d
The healthcare industry is rife with corruption; it can be made affordable by eliminating that corruption to the greatest extent possible.

rdcu.be/eI2Sc

You’ll have to click “open link” or copy/paste the address into your browser. It’s well worth it.
Untangling the corruption maze: exploring the complexity of corruption in the health sector | Health Economics Review
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 10d
He’s not afraid at all.

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New Congressional Report Highlights Mike Johnson’s Christian Nationalist Views | U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman
The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congressman Jared Huffman
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11d
Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 10d
Interesting read, refreshing approach.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Rahm Emanuel road-tests populist message in Iowa while ‘thinking’ about 2028
At a Democratic fish fry in Des Moines, the former Chicago mayor homes in on economic fairness, education and fatigue with the status quo.
www.politico.com
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11d
Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.

Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.

They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then
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piesgirl.bsky.social @piesgirl.bsky.social · 11d
What’s remarkable is Trump’s inability to actually solve a problem. He can send the Guard & military to cities, but what’s going to happen when they leave?