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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 8m

I don't know much about her, but the opposition in Venezuela is right wing.

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US Zionist PUPPET Maria Corina Machado WINS Nobel Peace Prize | Venezuela Analysis w/ Nick Cruse

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 9h

Land of the Free*

*Some restrictions apply. Void where prohibited.

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Judge upholds North Dakota's ban on gender-affirming care for minors

The Supreme Court ruled in June that states can ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. At least 27 states have laws restricting or banning such care.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 10h

Now that's stupid.

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Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 10h

The photo is real, and it does show Trump and Epstein. However, the woman in the photo is Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve.

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Posts claim photo shows Trump, Epstein and Bondi. They're almost right

The original image, taken in 1997, shows the two men with Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 11h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h

This is absolutely disgusting

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

It’s a free country.

Right?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

When it comes toTrump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

Meiselas: Trump says he’s focusing right now on laying off the Democratic agencies and government employees, whatever that means. Again, completely pathetic behavior, and in normal times, this would be impeachable and/or 25th Amendment territory.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.

Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 11h

Sheriff Joe Arpaio misspent millions of dollars.

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Arizona sheriff's office misused millions meant to remedy racial profiling, report reveals

The sheriff’s office for metro Phoenix has spent millions of dollars budgeted for compliance costs in a racial profiling case over Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns on things that had little or noth...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18h

Say no to drugs, kids

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”

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By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.

In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power t...

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MoveOn @moveon.org · 12h

ICYMI: Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in democratically elected Rep Adelita Grijalva. Why? She’s promised to be the tie-breaking signature to force the House to vote on releasing the Epstein files. We’re on the side of democracy and accountability. Swear. Her. In.

Speaker Johnson said he’d swear in new House Democrat ‘as soon as she wants.’ Now Republicans are backtracking | CNN Politics

Speaker Mike Johnson is not planning to allow Democrats’ newest congresswoman-elect to be sworn-in until her party agrees to end the government shutdown, despite telling CNN earlier Tuesday that he…

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 13h

Societal Collapse ‘On Schedule’ According To 1972 MIT Study

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Societal Collapse ‘On Schedule’ According To 1972 MIT Study

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: Democratic oyster farmer Graham Platner is the candidate best positioned to defeat Susan Collins in Maine's Senate race, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by Zenith Research for More Perfect Union.

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 14h

He already has. Several trucking companies have filed for bankruptcy or gone out of business recently. When freight stops moving, things are bad.

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 17h

That @swin24.bsky.social is on his game over at Zeteo.

The public release of NSPM-7 partially served "as a way to apply additional pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi to ramp up arrests and prosecutions to a level that would satisfy people like Stephen Miller." zeteo.com/p/inside-tru...

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 17h

The Trump cult believe they are above the law because Trump does not follow any laws or court orders.

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QuakerOrts🫘 ᴜs @quakerorts.bsky.social · 17h

🤣🤣🤣 Oh, Floriduh! You so funny!

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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Jake @my2bits4u.bsky.social · 22h

Trump at Walter Reed from 10am-3pm? This isn't a physical its a procedure. Hes sicker than they admit.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22h

'No one has an annual physical twice': Trump insider baffled by Friday hospital visit

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'No one has an annual physical twice': Trump insider baffled by Friday hospital visit

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