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Democracy in Distress
@alilandow.bsky.social
Never Trumper, former news addict, deeply scared for our democracy. Watching the unraveling with dread.
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March 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day please remember the murders of 6.5 million Jews. Elie Wiesel was a teen when deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. He survived, most of his family did not. His novel Night is his #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pHg...
Bearing Witness: Elie Wiesel and Night
YouTube video by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
m.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I’ll never understand it.
December 8, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Hahahaha!
December 7, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Zero shame.
But Hunter’s pardon!
These fucking criminals
December 4, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Do they not vet at all or is it that character doesn’t matter?
Pete Hegseth was forced to step down from both of the nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct, @janemayer.bsky.social reports.
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Good!!
December 2, 2024 at 1:42 AM
I will never forget, but it seems that half the country either forgot or just didn’t care
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
December 1, 2024 at 9:43 PM
This is on brand.
Of course Trump picks someone like Jarad Kushner’s father as an ambassador. He’s a convicted felon.
November 30, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Don't Forget, the president elect is a CRIMINAL!
November 30, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Looking to follow good journalists. Please share any that you like. Thanks!
JOURNALISTS FLOCK TO BLUESKY

“We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:10 PM
This made me chuckle. Much needed.
November 16, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Of course he did.
November 15, 2024 at 10:58 PM
I quit Twitter, I’m on Threads and hear that everyone is moving to Bluesky. Starting over is hard. Oy!

Just followed pretty much everyone that @mollyjongfast.bsky.social is following.
November 13, 2024 at 10:41 PM