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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 7d

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 12h

Bob Ross, still doing good things…. www.huffpost.com/entry/bob-ro...

Bob Ross Paintings Auction To Fund Public TV Gutted By Trump Cuts

Congress has -- as Trump wanted -- eliminated $1.1 billion for public broadcasting, leaving hundreds of PBS and NPR stations to find alternative funding sources.

www.huffpost.com

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 13h

Stormy Morning Blues 10-8-2025 #photography #TwinLakes #silhouette #nature #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

SEN. HIRONO: “Did you approve shutting down the bribery investigation into Homan?”

BONDI: “Are you Antifa?” 🤡

(That’s a yes)

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 1d

#sunrise 10-7-2025 #photography #TwinLakes #clouds #colors #landscape #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #nature

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 2d

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 2d

😂🤣😂🤣

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

NEWS: A top federal prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues the she is DECLINING to charge NY AG Letitia James, despite pressure from Trump himself to indict her on bogus charges.

New via Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian of MSNBC. Link in reply.

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a brown jacket is pointing in front of a sign that says that 's true

ALT: a man in a brown jacket is pointing in front of a sign that says that 's true

media.tenor.com

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing about 2025 that hasn’t been a complete shit show was adopting Tilly. The first pic is her intake pic at the shelter after spending her first two years in a puppy mill. The second pic is her now. She’s proof that love can work magic.
#dontshopadopt #schnauzer

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Pennsylvania Democratic Party @padems.org · 2d

Make your plan to 🗳 VOTE ✅ YES to RETAIN OUR JUDGES on or before Election Day, Tuesday, NOVEMBER 4! #ProtectOurCourts #VoteLocalPA #PoweredbyPADems

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Rep. Jim McGovern attempted to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep Elect AZ-07, but they would NOT recognize him in the House. He has a candid reason as to why he thinks this happened. 1/2

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 2d

“It appears that my termination was based on little more than a single social media post containing false information,”…. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fired national security prosecutor warns colleagues in note on way out

Michael Ben’Ary says he was fired based on a social media post by a January 6 conspiracy theorist

www.theguardian.com

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to disappoint, but this is a IPhone pic and this is exactly how it looked. I honestly think the fog helped define the rays coming through the trees. I’ve taken pics like this before and they always seem better when the fog hits them.

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 2d

Every so often the court does the right thing: Ghislaine Maxwell fails in effort to be freed

www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-ma...

Ghislaine Maxwell fails in effort to be freed

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator argued that she should have been shielded from prosecution under a pl...

www.rawstory.com

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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 2d

Federal judge rips Trump admin for open defiance: 'Direct contravention of my order'

www.rawstory.com/portland-267...

Federal judge rips Trump admin for open defiance: 'Direct contravention of my order'

A federal judge accused the Trump administration late Sunday of openly defying the courts with its deployment of National Guard members to Portland, Oregon, which had been blocked on Saturday after be...

www.rawstory.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

Doocy: "So the Democratic position is that illegal immigrants should not have any access to taxpayer-funded health insurance?"

Sen. Mark Kelly: "Federal law is that undocumented individuals do not have access to medicare, medicaid, food stamps, or the ACA. That's the law."

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 4d

Oh look, another White House Signal scandal.

This time it was an aide to Stephen Miller who was using Signal so openly in a public space that a bystander captured images of the chat.

Oh and the messages were about sending the *82nd Airborne* into Portland.

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