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atriana.bsky.social
@atriana.bsky.social
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Grannie who speaks out against abortion bans and other fascist right nonsense.
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee advanced a blatantly unconstitutional bill Tuesday to exclude noncitizens from the decennial census counts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP Advances Bill Limiting Census Counts For Congressional Seats to Citizens
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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jeffroushwriting.bsky.social
I don’t think one should write with the intent to cause harm. But I LOVE subversive writing, the kind of creative dance that thwarts expectations and confounds the algorithmic boxes in which we’re pushed to settle. Be bigger; be more; disrupt the schemas.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
We’ll take “Things You Say When You Poop On Golden Toilets” for $1000, Alex
December 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Again: Trump never cared about drugs. Just like republicans don’t care about the debt.

It’s about power, corruption, and tax cuts. Whatever benefits him/them personally.

Follow the money.
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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warren.senate.gov
A private equity fraudster was found guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud 10,000 investors, including small business owners, farmers, and Americans living paycheck to paycheck.

Trump just let him out of prison.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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factpostnews.bsky.social
Aftyn Behn: I'll ensure those ACA subsidies remain. I'll restore funding for Medicaid, which is a lifeline for so many rural hospitals. I'll roll back tariffs, which are bankrupting Tennessee farmers. If you're upset about the chaos of Washington and the cost of living, then I'm your candidate
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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sundaedivine.bsky.social
Living the MAGA lifestyle means you drive a truck made in Mexico, post conspiracies on a phone made in China, and scream ‘America First’ through a Russian bot account.
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Maurene Comey's push for discovery in her lawsuit (initially, to figure out whether Trump personally fired her or delegated his Article II authority to someone else to do so), describes a bunch of shenanigans at MSPB I had missed.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Further, the President terminated the sole Democratic member of the MSPB Board and insists he has the unlimited right to do so, and the Department of Justice recently and suddenly reversed its position and now insists that the MSPB must review constitutional issues, compare Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, Slip Opinion, 49 Op. O.L.C. __ (Sept. 26, 2025), to, e.g., Dkt. 1 ¶ 84 (alleging that the government argued, before September 15, 2025, that MSPB has no jurisdiction over a challenge to an Article II removal). The OLC’s reversal came immediately after an MSPB administrative judge declined to rule on the constitutionality of Article II removals; that issue is now on appeal to the very Board that the President has ordered must adhere to his interpretation of law. This is a thorough evisceration of the MSPB’s independence. As a matter of due process and constitutional principle, the President’s decision to remove a career civil servant without cause, in violation of Congress’s explicit prohibition, cannot fairly be adjudicated by an agency that is subservient to that same President. Third, any MSPB proceeding would be futile. On November 25, 2025, an MSPB administrative judge notified Ms. Comey that the MSPB intends to dismiss her appeal without prejudice, while awaiting a ruling from the Board (now beholden to the President) about whether the President’s Article II power overrides the CSRA. Today, the government consented to that dismissal. To the best of our knowledge, Ms. Comey is not alone. Since November 17, 2025, MSPB administrative judges have dismissed without prejudice multiple MSPB appeals of “Article II” firings, and the government has acquiesced in each case. See, e.g., Law360, “Ex-US Trustee Director’s Firing Appeal Tossed, For Now,” November 21, 2025 (citing Tara Twomey v. DOJ, MSPB DC-0752-25-1950-I-1). This procedure is Kafkaesque: the Executive Branch maintains it can fire Ms. Comey without the due process afforded by the CSRA, yet ins…
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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spockresists.bsky.social
Christian Nationalists are the epitome of Christianity. Fear mongering, violent, pillaging, genocide, lynching, burning witches type of Christian.

They are.

This man, is what Christianity was supposed to be before power and greed co-opted it.
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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spockresists.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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aftynbehn.bsky.social
TODAY IS THE DAY!

GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM

WE GOT THIS!!!!!!

December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety.

My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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dailytrix.bsky.social
The Pentagon has adopted a new DEI policy:

Doing
Everything
Illegal
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Best response I've seen to the University of Oklahoma firing one of their LGBTQ+ teachers over giving a student a bad grade
okthen263 posts a meme of someone answering every question in a math test with god, Jesus, bible, or Trump and getting 0/20 F. Then writing "I think my math teacher hates me for my beliefs"
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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motherjones.com
"We’re terrified that if she remains in an environment that is so hateful that she might follow the path of so many trans people and spiral into depression and self-harm. So we’re going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe."

Here's how families are fighting to survive Trump’s war on trans kids.
"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"
How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
that's my wholesaler 🫡
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WATCH: “The barrage of negative attacks against me are because Republicans don’t have a plan to address the affordability crisis.”

Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social draws a contrast between her accessible gathering in Franklin vs. Van Epps’ billionaire gated mansion event earlier. #TN7
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Read @juddlegum.bsky.social on the ties to RU and Ukrainian oligarchs Steve Witkoff is hiding.

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What is missing from Witkoff’s federal disclosure One of the primary purposes of the federal disclosure form is to ensure that the filer is in compliance with the conflict of interest provisions of federal law. All forms must be reviewed by a federal ethics official within 60 days of filing. The federal official then signs the form, certifying that “on the basis of information contained in this report, I conclude that the filer is in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.” But while Witkoff signed his form on August 13, the version posted to the White House website remains unsigned. This is not an oversight. On November 17, Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the White House Counsel and the Office of Government ethics noting that “no agency ethics official signed the form… even though the 60-day deadline for an ethics official to review his form passed in October 2025.” The Senators say the form “appears to have inaccurate or incomplete information.” One issue is that Witkoff’s form does not provide full transparency about what financial assets Witkoff currently owns.
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
If only there were something simple we could do to fix this ... like raise or eliminate the cap on Social Security payments?
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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johnsipher.bsky.social
On top of the corruption and total lack of ethics, team Trump has zero understanding of Russia
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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jerseyflight.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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December 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
A JANUARY 6 insurrectionist pardoned by Donald Trump, Andrew Paul Johnson, HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR MOLESTING AN 11-YEAR-OLD BOY.
January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse
Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, faces multiple charges in Florida and has pleaded not guilty to the crimes, authorities say
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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npr.org
Thousands of demonstrators including from the dominant Roman Catholic church clergy are protesting in the Philippines, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators. n.pr/48brg8f
Thousands in Philippines protest corruption, demand return of stolen funds
Thousands of demonstrators including from the dominant Roman Catholic church clergy are protesting in the Philippines, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM