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Lives in the Divided States of America Happily married retired SW Engineer, disappointed that we cannot tell right from wrong and a convicted felon from a former prosecutor and fact from fiction. 🚫 DMs 🚫 Glam gals 🚫 Cr*pto 🚫 M*G*

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · Feb 15

It’s 2025 in the U.S. and we can no longer rely on the safety of our:

Food
Water
Air and train travel
Air quality
Civil rights protections
Workplace protections
Consumer banking protections
Health and vaccine protections

MAGMA

“Make America Great My Ass”

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 3h

He is systematically stomping on specialized pockets of his hard core base because he doesn’t care anymore. He used them to get elected and avoid prison. Now, he is doing everything he can to enrich himself, his family and his wealthy friends, here and abroad.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h

Trump attacks the cattle ranchers and basically says he knows what’s best for them and that they should be grateful for him

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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 5h

Senator Merkley has held the Senate floor all night—and he’s still going. He’s holding the floor for our healthcare. Our economy. Our rights. Our democracy.

Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy

YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

www.youtube.com

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 4h

👀 Welp, this should be entertaining.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

Via @jayshams.bsky.social, Michael Wolff is suing Melania for SLAPP and demanding subpoenas, including of Trump.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

10. By her Threat Letter and this responsive Declaratory Action and related Anti-SLAPPDeclaratory Action, Mrs. Trump has given Wolff subpoena power which he intends toexercise fully and expeditiously. Since the statements at issue pertain to matters that largelyoccurred here in the NewYork City this action will call for and permit subpoenas to numerouswitnesses, most of them in NewYork. Subpoenas will go to those who frequented or who werepart of Epstein's circle, including Mr. Trump.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 4h

He withdrew his name from consideration. Trump has to come up with another racist, misogynist anti-Semite for this open office.

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 5h

😆True. I don’t think he wears a cross like Leavitt does, to automatically resolve and forgive her lies and sins.

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 5h

It looks familiar although further back in time to the George Floyd protests. I wouldn’t be surprised if they used riot footage from another country, pretending it is in the U.S. Fear mongering outlets like Newsmax and Fox are shameless.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 5h

Propaganda outlet Newsmax airs stock footage from a riot, NOT from the No Kings protests.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Homan: "At the No Kings protest, I watched more of the rhetoric. They've lost their minds. And I tell you: the bloodshed is not over if we don't address the rhetoric."

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 6h

How the press sitting there, doesn’t spontaneously erupt in laughter, continues to baffle me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson shamelessly lies: "We strengthened Medicaid. We improved healthcare access and we lowered premiums with our legislation."

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7h

We now live in a world in which Marjorie Taylor Greene is willing to call out Donald Trump, but John Fetterman won’t.

2025 is weird as fuck.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 6h

Fetterman is a closet MAGA. We were all duped. I fear the same thing is happening with the guy in the Maine Senate race.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 7h

One more day and the top two government shutdowns in history for longevity will belong to Trump 45 and Trump 47. Congrats MAGA (Make Argentina Great Again).

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Due to Trump’s failed leadership (his pervious quote), the government shutdown has now reached day 21. Federal employees and their families across the country are struggling, many forced to take out personal loans just to pay their bills, and soon turning to food banks to eat.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 7h

And the answer is no. State law prevents a N.C. Governor to use their veto power when both General Assembly chambers are held by an opposition party. Another gerrymandered gift seat will awarded to the GOP in the 2026 election.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings organizers just announced they are planning a THIRD round of historic marches after Trump melted down over last weekend’s protests.

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 22h

So let’s get this straight…Republicans are hiding the Epstein Files because Bill Clinton is in them. 🧐😂
We are not MAGA stupid.

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 22h

Bondi will fork over the cash to him, won’t she? You have to admit his brass balls are the biggest and shiniest on earth.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22h

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

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