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News & views-especially on True Blood alumni & genre shows. Also, science spoken here (Research Chemist/Biologist/Env. Science) and a Veteran. Retired. #Resistance is not futile. Be a #Yoda (teacher) or a #Jedi (resistor)

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True @tbvamp.bsky.social · Feb 4

All these #Jedi could use some support!

#Jedi AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees):
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#Jedi AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees):
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#Jedi National Treasury Employees Union:
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True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 16h

Good for the media! Bout time they took a stand.

GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social · 1d

🚨In other words, they want complete control over what the media reports.
Just like Russia and North Korea. 👇

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 2d

ITA we need a tax rebellion to get through to these money misers.

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Mark O'Connell @oconnellmark.bsky.social · 3d

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True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 2d

I'm calling myself #Antifa(scist) so the slow readers can keep up.

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True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 2d

This needs to be done at the state and local levels as well. #TheBigReveal

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 2d

Folks can look for themselves: www.everywebcam.com/north-americ...

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DMC ❌👑 @dcombes.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings Oct.18 Join us! Find your event. www.nokings.org

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

Billionaire corporations are already seeing the money roll in from the giant tax giveaways Donald Trump and the Republicans stuffed into their Big, Beautiful Bill.

What about working Americans? They're losing their health care, and their costs just keep going up.

It's shameful.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 3d

ticket them. Repeatedly. Enough tickets? Confiscate their vans.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 3d

Tell your anti vax neighbors that their lord and master got his flu and Covid shots.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

So, people who have at-risk relatives, or kids, or pregnant women struggle to get the Covid booster.

But Trump can just waltz over to Walter Reed to get his... www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 4d

New Rule: Anyone that asks for or covets the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't deserve it and it will not be awarded to them.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 4d

No worries. These Kavanaugh stops are just a minor inconvenience. A heart attack probably would have happened anyway at some point, amirite? It's all good.

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 4d

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 4d

Could they first remove all lead pipes since they are so 'pro life'?

True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 4d

Like the ancient Egyptians, we should blank out his name on every place it is written, including history books. The Unnamed President will do.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

@HillaryClinton:

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

http://nokings.org

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 4d

Why hasn’t this hit @cnn.com @theguardian.com @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @msnbc.com yet? Surely this is tied to the blatant corruption of a free jet and millions to Trump family.

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True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 4d

Which tells you all you need to know about their priorities!

True @tbvamp.bsky.social · 4d

Nor vote on releasing the Epstein files!

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🐦‍⬛🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸Dan won't shut up about trans rights & Palestine @verboseminimalist.gay · 4d

"A spokesperson for Drake has announced that he plans to appeal, which is both his right, and also an invitation to the Second Circuit to take judicial notice of the fact that Take Care was good, Nothing Was the Same was fine, and he hasn’t put out a decent album since."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 4d

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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