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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1h

There is only one source of violence and unrest in Portland - it's the Trump's goons force disrupting normal life.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 3h

My city is under siege. Troops are arriving in the suburbs. Federal agents are storming apartment buildings, pulling people out of cars and beds, shooting people in the street, robbing children of their parents, and we can barely track the damage, let alone get in the way. L

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 3h

Mainstream media sold out democracy for ratings, and now we’re all paying the price.
www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/is-mainstr...

Is Mainstream Media Trying To Kill Us? Absolutely!

Profit-Driven Betrayal of Democratic Ideals

www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 5h

'Fyodor Dostoevsky’s dissection of power’s corruption: dominance dehumanizes the oppressor first. Cruelty isn’t just an act—it’s a degenerative disease of the soul. True strength protects; only weakness delights in degradation.' - Daily Stoic

#DostoevskyWarning #PowerCorrupts #SoulCost

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13h

Avoid anyone in the media who claims the problem in the United States is “polarization.” People can make friends on every side by pretending polarization is the problem, rather than fascism; these are at best useful idiots. The two following basic facts are critical right now...

There is massive incentive to play down the problem and no incentive to tell the truth

How bad could it become in the United States?

open.substack.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13h

Grab your 𝗡𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 / 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗲 today! We organize nonviolently—and visibly. Order No Kings gear by Oct 5 so you’re ready on Oct 18. 👉 Get yours now at belib.org/protest-gear?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com 👈

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13h

Your sign. Your voice. Your shirt. Power belongs to the people, not a throne

We organize nonviolently—and visibly. Order No Kings gear now so you’re protest-ready on Oct 18. ✌️📣 #NoKings - nokings.org?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13h

Tragic..

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 14h

“A masterclass in guilty body language.” - “Mind you this is the woman who worked hand and glove with Alex Acosta in 2008 to ignore Epstein’s 42 victims and give him a no-jail-time plea deal in Miami when she was AG of Florida… They downgraded all his crimes to state-level minor offenses. ”

Pam Bondi’s Response to a Yes-or-No Question About Trump and Epstein Should Disturb Everyone

We'll ask the question once again -- what is Trump and the Justice Department hiding?

open.substack.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 16h

“We’re not talking about delays… We’re talking about the end of it.” Bill Nye’s latest warning is a wake-up call for anyone who cares about progress. Are we ready to listen?
www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/bill-nyes-...

Bill Nye's Dire Warning of an 'Extinction-Level Event'

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Science

www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 17h

Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. bit.ly/46GfvFV?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 20h

Grab your 𝗡𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 / 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗲 today! We organize nonviolently—and visibly. Order No Kings gear by Oct 5 so you’re ready on Oct 18. 👉 Get yours now at belib.org/protest-gear?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com 👈

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 20h

We are proud to see one of our great designs by @out5p0ken.bsky.social on @katiephangshow.bsky.social !

“BE LIKE KATIE in our #NoKings tee” - Wear your values on Oct. 18th NoKings.org?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com #protest.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 22h

Can you relate? Also on that note the #Rapture is back on for today... I am praying for it to finally happen and remove all those morons from the population

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Grab your 𝗡𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 / 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗲 today! We organize nonviolently—and visibly. Order No Kings gear by Oct 5 so you’re ready on Oct 18. 👉 Get yours now at belib.org/protest-gear?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com 👈

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Uncle Thomas. Hard not to wonder if at least a few of the SCOTUS are on #EpsteinList

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Grab your 𝗡𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 / 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗲 today! We organize nonviolently—and visibly. Order No Kings gear now so you’re ready on Oct 18. 👉 Get yours now at belib.org/protest-gear?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com 👈

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Writers vs. Editors: The Moral Crossroads. Every day, writers and editors navigate a minefield of ethical dilemmas, balancing personal integrity against the demands of bureaucratic structures. The recent Dan Conaway incident at The Daily Memphian is a case in point.
open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP post was illustrated with an image that seemed designed to support Trump’s false claim that protests against immigration sweeps in Portland are so out of control that the city is “burning to the ground”.

READ: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

The struggle is real. A.I. recruiters, endless online portals, and job openings that were never meant to be filled. Welcome to “Job Search Hell.” slate.trib.al/Abdt1Iz?utm_...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Story after story that makes me ashamed of being American... what have we become?

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
More: bit.ly/48Q3D5C?utm_...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Grab your 𝗡𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 / 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗲 today! We organize nonviolently—and visibly. Order No Kings gear by Oct 5 so you’re ready on Oct 18. 👉 Get yours now at belib.org/protest-gear?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Being+Liberal&utm_campaign=publer&utm_term=beingliberal.substack.com 👈

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Barack Obama seems to have decided that silence is overrated. After years of sticking to the “former presidents don’t talk about their successors” rule, he’s now breaking out of retirement — and and taking up a high-profile role in the Democratic Party’s fight against Trump.

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