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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 45m

Don't do it. The US government is captured by tech billionaires who will get the data, milk it for market value, then sell the weaponized surveillance back to the highest bidder.

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 23h

Or dump truckloads in front of local congressional offices.

Would get through to local non farming residents.

Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 23h

Headstone for everyone unable to afford lifesaving care?

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 1d

Mine has been The Tempest:

‘Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.’

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 2d

News sites like the click-bait drama Trump engenders. It is their business model. Democracy, where we sit down and negotiate solutions, is not "news worthy" because it is adult behavior rather than a sundowning grampa spectacle.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 2d

This is what they're doing to U.S. citizens right now.

Imagine what they're doing to immigrants.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 2d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 2d

ER only! Code for a healthcare desert.

Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 3d

Colorado.
@loganmdavis.bsky.social
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/04/fire...

Fire on the Mountain: Inside a Secretive Colorado Bible College (Part I)

This story has been republished in light of its recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists. Content note: This story contains references to sexual assault and abuse. Tim McDermott was...

coloradotimesrecorder.com

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 3d

Some are doing some work in flyover country. @loganmdavis.bsky.social

coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/04/fire...

Fire on the Mountain: Inside a Secretive Colorado Bible College (Part I)

This story has been republished in light of its recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists. Content note: This story contains references to sexual assault and abuse. Tim McDermott was...

coloradotimesrecorder.com

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 3d

He is second in the line of succession. If he can't be bothered to keep up with what the president is babbling about, swear in Arizona's Adelita Grijalva, or do the work of keeping Congress working, perhaps he should step down.

Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 3d

Ryan Walters, under investigation in Oklahoma for ethics violations.
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2...

Oklahoma Ethics Commission investigating Ryan Walters again over possible ethics violations

Ryan Walters already has paid thousands of dollars in civil penalties after coming under investigation by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.

www.oklahoman.com

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 4d

Lapsang Souchong is my smokey whisky tea.

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for holding the line. My ability to afford healthcare depends on it.

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 6d

Future historians will curse us.

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 6d

While their families were interned..."The 442nd Regimental Combat Team... Despite the odds, the 442nd’s actions distinguished them as the *most* decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of the US military."
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Going For Broke: The 442nd Regimental Combat Team

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit, is remembered today for its brave actions in World War II. Despite the odds, the 442nd’s actions distinguished them as the most d...

www.nationalww2museum.org

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 6d

The librarian and historian in me has been screaming into this abyss for a while. The books lining the rooms in my house muffle the racket.

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 8d

“It is so much harder to stand up for a small, nearly frivolous thing. It is far easier, at least in imagination, to stand up for the great things.”

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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 9d

The people who work for ICE are closer than they realize to this:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 9d

This is crucial for Dem messaging: it's not ONLY that Republicans are evil (they are) and they want you to pay more for shittier healthcare (they do)--it's that they're doing these things *to give massive tax cuts to the richest people in the history of the world*. Connecting the two matters.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Warren: "Knock 15 million people off their coverage, drive up the cost for everyone else, close rural hospitals -- that's the Republican plan, because you know what the real heart of it was? They gave away a trillion dollars to the billionaires. That was the part that matters to them."