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Mostly just boosting pro-democracy content. ❌👑

Stop obeying in advance.
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usualex10k.bsky.social @usualex10k.bsky.social · Sep 26
I might be feeling too optimistic, but the Jimmy Kimmel push back seems to suggest there is a lot of people looking to stand up for democracy; they might not know what specifically they can do.

I'm making a thread of things that helped me get started doing more than doom scrolling.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Trump says they care so much about stopping drugs from coming in they're going to 💣 guys on a fishing boat— but set free the guy who ran the cartel?”

@abbydphillip asks the right Q as Lydia moynihan defends the indefensible & Pete Hague-Seth throws Admiral Bradley under the bus.
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
usualex10k.bsky.social
An interesting idea: force a vote on a resolution "To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities that have not been authorized by Congress."

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From the 50501 community on Reddit: TLDR: If war is justified, force a vote.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
usualex10k.bsky.social
Trump is pro-corruption
drdind.bsky.social DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d
Trump has commuted the sentence of David Gentile, 59 yo resident of Long Island, who defrauded people of $1.6B in a phony investment scheme.

Gentile spend just seven days in prison for a seven year sentence.

Grift sees grift

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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catrambo.bsky.social
Really appreciated this. Please #signalboost

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From the 50501 community on Reddit: Resisting Trump is exhausting. So, I wanted to make it easier. Over 6 months, as a married dad with a day job, I found tactics we all can use - overwhelmed students...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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All we can say about this is: WTF? lnk.thebulwark.com/48p9ywR
Steve Bannon Was Epstein’s Comeback Consultant. Where’s the Uproar?
The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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rickstengel.bsky.social
While Venezuela is not a fentanyl-or-cocaine producing country according to the UN, the president of the United States has touted an illegal land invasion of that nation while pardoning the former Honduran president who an American jury convicted of protecting the flow of cocaine to the US.
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
usualex10k.bsky.social
Trump Envoy Busted Plotting With Russia to Sabotage Ukraine

www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-call-...
Trump Envoy Busted Plotting With Russia to Sabotage Ukraine
A jaw-dropping leak reveals Steve Witkoff coaching the Kremlin.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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splatterthought.bsky.social
Gift link

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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theatlantic.com
Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that all of those men were physically abused, Conor Friedersdorf writes:
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
usualex10k.bsky.social
Top MAGA influencers are unmasked as foreign trolls.

At best MAGA trolls are grifters; at worst it is a foreign influence operation.

This should surprise no one.

www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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atrupar.com
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
usualex10k.bsky.social
So the lowest disapprove poll included in the average is now above 50%. You love to see it.

www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
www.natesilver.net
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
usualex10k.bsky.social
The White House intervened on behalf of Andrew Tate.

I know I shouldn't be surprised by this but I am.

www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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willcarless.bsky.social
While everyone's paying attention to the Epstein files, a big story just broke about another alleged human trafficker with ties to Trump — Andrew Tate:
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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theatlantic.com
A sprawling criminal enterprise is responsible for all of those fake DMV texts, and it has a name: the smishing triad. @matteowong.bsky.social talks to the cybersecurity experts trying to take it down:
https://theatln.tc/aQKBYgGA
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.

Share it widely.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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myelita.bsky.social
In the streets of Charlotte…the day after our ICE invasion.

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People gather in uptown to protest Border Patrol arrests in Charlotte (The Charlotte Observer)
Following the arrival of the U.S. Border Patrolin Charlotte Saturday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at First Ward Park in the afternoon and marched...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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theatlantic.com
Newly-released Jeffrey Epstein emails have prompted Donald Trump and his allies to update their defense of the president—but their new narrative makes no more sense than their old one did, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curiouser and curiouser.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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anthonylfisher.bsky.social
When Jeffrey Epstein thinks *you're* the scumbag.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
On Dec. 8, 2015, Jeffrey Epstein offers a NY Times reporter photos of Donald Trump and "girls in bikinis in my kitchen." Epstein tells the reporter that he "gave" Trump his "20 year old girlfriend...after two years."

When people looked into these type of rumors the Times smugly criticized them.
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
usualex10k.bsky.social
In case you need convincing to boycott anything Fox Corp related.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23d
Fox gives Trump a platform during their NFL broadcast to peddle his absurd lies about "prices are coming way down", "we inherited a mess," and "our country has over $17 trillion being invested in it." Absolutely shameful for all involved.
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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atrupar.com
Fox gives Trump a platform during their NFL broadcast to peddle his absurd lies about "prices are coming way down", "we inherited a mess," and "our country has over $17 trillion being invested in it." Absolutely shameful for all involved.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM