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Music Correspondent - ThisWayOut.org Weekly International LGBTQ🏳️‍🌈 Radio News/Culture Program. Producer/Marketing - AltQRadio.org; Carpenter. Seattle

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StephenSims.bsky.social @stephensims.bsky.social · Nov 12

This is what waking up on November 6th felt like.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22h

Like you I am celebrating Tuesday's victories. However, my job is not to sugarcoat things and tell you it's all fixed. It is to warning about what to expect next and fight back.

That is why I wrote this and why I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

What Comes Next After the 2025 Elections

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”

What are we doing?

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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 14h

It's always this way, and corporate media will have these guys on and let them say things with no pushbacks.

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Kirsten Gillibrand @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social · 2d

President Trump has the money to fund SNAP, and the courts ordered him to use it.

It's simple, he needs to follow the court order and get Americans the food assistance they need -- now.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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StephenSims.bsky.social @stephensims.bsky.social · 14h

DO NOT CAVE!
@cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

Inside a tense, three-hour meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday, a fiery Senator Bernie Sanders urged Democrats not to yield to Republicans without a real victory on health care. He was armed with fresh polling that showed voters would punish the party for giving up with nothing in return.

Emboldened Democrats mobilize against centrists’ emerging shutdown deal | CNN Politics

Hours before the first major elections since President Donald Trump’s win last November, Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a stern warning for Democrats about the party’s secret talks to end the shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

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Michelle likes democracy. @democracymichelle.bsky.social · 1d

Things I don’t want to pay for with my taxes:

Political revenge.
State Guards and ICE intimidating, endangering, and killing people.
Performative lolsuits.
War crimes.
Noem’s costume budget.
Sending thugs to threaten universities.
Kash’s dates.
Bribes.
Golf.
Random 40B handouts to Argentina.

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Jerry Teeple🇺🇸🇮🇩🇺🇦 @bvbfan.bsky.social · 15h

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msbhavin.bsky.social @msbhavin.bsky.social · 2d

🎯🎯🎯🎯

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StephenSims.bsky.social @stephensims.bsky.social · 2d

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov DO NOT CAVE!!

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The Good Mim 🫘 @shashi1121.bsky.social · 2d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

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Jules1212💜🌎☀️ @jules1212.bsky.social · 6d

Yes my friends! Please feed the people and starve the system this holiday season.
Thank you
@genxer-71.bsky.social
@merlinmm.bsky.social
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@annmb48.bsky.social
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social
@abbarsha.bsky.social
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Charlotte Crist @touchesky.bsky.social · 6d

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 7d

To be abundantly clear, ICE is violating everyone’s constitutional rights, citizens and non citizens alike.

The coup leaders commanding this ongoing illegitimate brutality want us to forget that core fact.

It’s intentional confusion arising out of the chaos they create.

Stay focused.

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George Wachsmuth @georgewachsmuth.bsky.social · 6d

A more recent version …Don Mclean opens…..pretty damn good….and really good to see him.

Home Free - American Pie ft. Don McLean (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Home Free

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

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StephenSims.bsky.social @stephensims.bsky.social · 7d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

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StephenSims.bsky.social @stephensims.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t let Republicans rewrite history!!!
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @merkley.senate.gov
Two U.S. prosecutors suspended after describing Jan. 6 attack as carried out by a 'mob'

www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Prosecutors suspended after calling Jan. 6 crowd a ‘mob’ in WA man’s sentencing

The suspensions follow efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to rewrite the narrative of the Capitol attack.

www.seattletimes.com

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 10d

I DON'T GET SNAP.
I'M NOT ON MEDICAID.
I DON'T RELY ON SAFETY NETS.
BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN FULLY FUNDING THEM-BECAUSE I'M
NOT A GARBAGE HUMAN.
PEOPLE'S UNITY PROJECT

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