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Scottish Swedish mother of Indigenous, German, & Jewish children, Grandmother of MultiCultural grandchildren, in long-term recovery. Reader of books, Poet, 👩🏼‍🌾,💃🏻♍️😻🐦‍⬛ Creativity. WildWoman. ScarClan. Embracing Wisdom of the Crone. 🎼Faun, Shaboozey, Emancipator

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 1m

Wow. Before I blocked a poster on bluesky, i went and looked at their page, who they were following, who followed them. Not pretty. Quite awful. Many c/o Biden, Harris, claiming P2025 is a hoax, kirk-lovers, supporting Insurrection Act, epoch times posts, lots of lying ‘news’ sources. Why on 🦋??

sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 1h

NO KINGS
NO DICTATORS
NO PEDOPHILES IN GOVERNMENT
NO RAPISTS IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY
NO CORPORATE PERSONHOOD
NO GENOCIDE
NO AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES
NO NAZIS
YES CHECKS AND BALANCES
YES SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
YES FREE SPEECH
YES VOTING RIGHTS
YES CIVIL RIGHTS
YES HEALTH CARE
YES FOOD
🖕🏽djt

Art Being @artbeing.bsky.social · 14d

@sanders.senate.gov @balint.house.gov WE ARE ALL ANTIFA

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 4h

Yes and it’s been hell. The corporations run the show. We need this eliminated. Corporations are NOT people.
It’s turned all politicians into greedy corrupt slimy losers.

So much change is needed after we defeat the pedos.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 4h

So basically he’s advocating for pedophilia and rape.

sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. And, they lie. All of them lie. A lot.

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lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent coverage of the budget speech today and the budget itself. Well worth the read, and really good reporting from The TRiiBE as always.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 11h

UPDATE — Mayor Brandon Johnson lays out his FY 2026 budget recommendations to protect Chicago’s most vulnerable residents from Trump.

“When they come for any of us, they come for all of us,” Johnsons said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson reveals budget to 'Protect Chicago' from Trump cuts • The TRiiBE

“This budget was written long before I took office,” Johnson said, surrounded by Chicago Board of Education members, the CTU president, and more.

thetriibe.com

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 10h

Well, if the charges concern handling classified materials, someone does not have clean hands, the guy who's appointed the entire DOJ, felon Trump.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 22h

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Bluesky @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov !

Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 1d

@governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom just called for a Congressional investigation into the matter!

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 22h

I reserve special loathing for people like David Brooks: ivory tower GOP dickheads who draw a soft line on everything that fits their narrative, but never look into their own enabling of the system they propped up for decades.

Fuck David Brooks.

👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 23h

It's David Brooks.

It's mind-bogglingly pretentious, out-of-touch and useless opinion masquerading as analysis.

Read bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Edward Said, Subcommandante Marcos, etc. et al.

Fuck this Neo-con asshole.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Have a good night 🌙

✌️ I’m out.

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” - Angela Davis

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

What's more American than rebelling and protesting against tyrannical kings who do not represent the people of this land?

Literally nothing besties.

We love America and the best way to show that is by defending her in the way the founders would've wanted it.

AMERICA DOESN'T HAVE KINGS. #nokings

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 22h

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 22h

W. T. H. ?

sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you

sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1d

⁨The blatantly political videos being forced on airports across the country are not only an abuse of taxpayer dollars, but they violate the law.

I'm joining @SenBlumenthal and @SenJackReed to demand DHS take down these videos immediately.⁩

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

"Chatbot, show me something that is the *opposite* of what a Republican would do to help the disadvantaged?"

Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 2d

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 22h

Unbelievable, yet Real.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

$40 Billion to Argentina. Don’t tell me we can’t have healthcare.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 23h

I promise you won’t be disappointed listening to Peter Thiel describe the size of Donald Trump’s penis to the South Park kids.

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