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Al GDad1x7 @gdad1x7.bsky.social · 2d

This is it alright. And far too few seem to be paying attention.
#FightFascism

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · Aug 29

Four million dollars. They’re cutting a program to test treatments for children with brain cancer to save four million dollars a year.

Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out

www.nytimes.com

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · Aug 26

NOW MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT "I WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS" WAS REJECTED AS A DEFENSE AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS.
@FUTUREELDERSCOLLECTIVE

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 26

ROGAN: “Yeah, he didn’t have an answer.”

Joe Rogan & Dave Smith discuss how Trump couldn’t explain how the election was stolen from him when he was on Rogan’s podcast. (Because it wasn’t)

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Amkg @amkg.bsky.social · Aug 21

The unseen harvest: Pesticides, cancer and rural Missouri’s health crisis investigatemidwest.org/2025/08/18/t...

The unseen harvest: Pesticides, cancer and rural Missouri’s health crisis - Investigate Midwest

Unyielding is a University of Missouri School of Journalism project for Investigate Midwest. KENNETT, MO. — Nestled in Missouri’s Bootheel is the small town of Kennett, the Dunklin County seat. With j...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Aug 11

Doesn’t deploy federal troops to stop a Capitol invasion or save children from a Texas flood or clean up debris from a StL tornado.

Deployed federal troops to disperse people in sleeping bags.

Got it.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Aug 11

One perverse aspect of Trump calling up the D.C. National Guard while crime plummets to a 30-year-low: Trump REFUSED to call up the D.C. Guard on Jan. 6 to counter an insurrection that he himself incited.

If Congress won't give D.C. statehood, at least give us control over our National Guard.

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Amkg @amkg.bsky.social · Aug 11

No sense can ever be made of this. It's about the money - NRA money.
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Eric the Blue @erictheblue.bsky.social · Aug 11

Republicans say we don't have a gun problem, we have a mental health problem. So why give guns to the people that shouldn't have them?

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · Aug 9

King Midas of the Golden BigMacs 🍔 we know how that turned out...🤞🏼

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · Aug 11

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by phone on Sunday with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and the two leaders condemned Russia’s airstrikes on Azerbaijani energy facilities in Ukraine.
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Zelensky and Aliyev condemn Russian strikes on Azerbaijani energy facilities in Ukraine — Meduza

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a phone call on Sunday with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, during which the two leaders condemned what Azerbaijan’s presidential office described…

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · Aug 10

ICE slam head of local nurse into ground during arrest—she's a U.S. citizen & community volunteer.

Agents charged at her so she dropped a poster——they claim she "attacked" them with that poster.

Amanda Trebach is well known—and targeted in advance for false arrest—according to fellow volunteers.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · Aug 10

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 9 AUGUST 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

TODAY, ICE GESTAPO RAMPANT
. . TEXAS DEMOCRATS FIGHT
. . STAND WITH ZELENSKYY

Meet Rob Rodgers, an award-winning cartoonist of 20 plus years
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
FIRED for this cartoon

This is what fascism looks like🧵

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 10

Trump is declaring fake "emergencies" while reducing our ability to deal with real ones.

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE

Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It co

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 10

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.

By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…

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Elizabeth @underthesea62.bsky.social · Aug 10

#ICE are thieves and raiding businesses while vandalizing & destroying cameras and property

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · Aug 9

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 6

Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift

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Amkg @amkg.bsky.social · Aug 6

WTF ??!

Stoned Feminist @ladylinds.bsky.social · Aug 6

This makes me proud to be a long time Apple hating Samsung user

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 6

Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift

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Robert Raymond @robertr369.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is the equivalent of me announcing that "Andy Burge has reviewed Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's last theorem concluding it to be false"

Kennedy has no scientific qualifications and is full blown idiotic conspiracy theorist. 2/2

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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Linda Rey (@lindarey)

No caption needed…BUT SHARING IS NECESSARY.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 6

No, it's not only the US who will suffer from RFK Jr cancelling vaccine research.

1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress.

2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Aug 6

BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.

Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:

- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.

See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · Aug 6

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Jul 21

Though national media has mostly been focused on Los Angeles, it is crucial for eyes to be on the Central Valley to properly address the plight of undocumented immigrants.

Read how organizers in California's Central Valley are putting their bodies on the line to fight ICE raids and deportations. ⤵️

How Organizers in California's Central Valley Are Fighting ICE Raids and Deportations

Organizers in California's Central Valley are calling attention to the plight of the region's 300,000-plus undocumented migrants.

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · Aug 6

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Jul 23

Providing an alternative to establishment politics and an increasingly right-leaning party made all the difference for Mamdani, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com argues in this op-ed.

Read the full story here ⤵️

The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone

Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.

www.teenvogue.com

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💫🌎✌️📚💙 Stefunny @stephhyer.bsky.social · Aug 6

This really is the message they send. Single mommas everywhere... know!

antimaggotzone.bsky.social @antimaggotzone.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Trump
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
#EpsteinCoverUp
#EpsteinTrumpFiles
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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