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blueeyedgranny.bsky.social
@blueeyedgranny.bsky.social
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Widow, mother, grandmother. Resist! I still stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦. I support Canada 🍁 🇨🇦 in its fight with the deranged orange menace.
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atrupar.com
CNN broadcast audio of Trump obliviously announcing land strikes on Venezuela during an obscure radio interview last Friday
December 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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maddenifico.bsky.social
Regarding the DOJ releasing documents depicting the horrific event on Lake Michigan: It was not a mistake. There is a hero within the agency who is as horrified as we are. 😳👇
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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jfoster.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/12/21/n...
Rick Steves steps in to save Seattle-area hygiene center serving homeless residents
Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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seancasten.bsky.social
Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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"the process of dying is still something to be lived"
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10d
Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left.

Sasse is just 53 years old.
Ben Sasse • @BenSasse G... Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too - we all do. I'm blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, "Sure, you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock." Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I've got less time than I'd prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can't begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we'd temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer - and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she's off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she's a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we've been driving off-book for six years — but now we've got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn't be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer - but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle | once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say "hope" when what we mean is "optimism." To be clear, optimism is great, and it's absolutely necessary, but it's insufficient. It's not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you're not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they're gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That's why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city - with foundations and without cancer - is not yet. Remembering Isaiah's prophecies of what's to come doesn't dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity's perspective: "When we've been there 10,000 years...We've no less days to sing God's praise." I'll have more to say. I'm not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God's grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren't the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We're zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I've pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatmen…
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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malena.bsky.social
Did you know that many are being denied medical attention & medicine in immigration detention? Does your family know?

Did you know people are dying in detention at record numbers?

Do your MAGA neighbors know?

Did you know that there's #ICELawlessness & people are denied rights & even tortured?
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Trump’s second-term nominees are younger and more uniformly partisan than ever.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-tru...
How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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michelleroy78.bsky.social
Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Kimbal Musk has publicly admitted that he and his brother Elon were in the country illegally for years before applying for citizenship—so unless they admitted this on their immigration forms, they must be deported immediately.

Every journalist should be buzzing about this.
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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thedemcoalition.bsky.social
WATCH: CNN’s Daniel Dale fact checks Trump's unhinged "presidential" address tonight as only he can.

Dale can barely get through all the nonsense Trump spewed this evening.

Spread this far and wide.

#DonTheCon
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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🚨🚨 “2025 is on pace to post the worst job growth since the pandemic wiped out a record number of jobs in 2020”

Trump’s reckless policies are killing jobs, increasing inflation, and driving wage growth down.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/e...
The No. 1 cause of America’s affordability problem just got worse | CNN Business
America’s cost-of-living problem is simple math: Inflation spiked several years ago and paychecks haven’t had enough time to catch up.
www.cnn.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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grancracker.bsky.social
PLEASE sign to help try to save innocent puppies! 👇 environmental-action.org/take-action/...
Tell your U.S. House representative: No more wolf hunts
Rep. Lauren Boebert's wolf hunting bill is about to get a vote on the House floor.
environmental-action.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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amyoc.bsky.social
And it WILL BE Reversed Pronto ( 2028 )
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.

(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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President Trump — who campaigned against America’s worsening drug crisis — has pardoned or granted clemency to at least 10 people for drug-related crimes since the beginning of his second term, according to a Post analysis.
Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric
The president has granted clemency to about 100 people accused of drug-related crimes during his two terms in office, a Post analysis shows.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
I’ve only posted one GFM, and it’s my intention never to post another. But this one is close to my heart. I know the family personally and have visited with them countless times. If you can help out, it would be great. If not, I completely understand - but a retweet is free.
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Donate to Support Betty's Fight to Keep Her Home, organized by Patricia Winter
Betty is an 86-year-old widow who has always been proud of her independence. A… Patricia Winter needs your support for Support Betty's Fight to Keep Her Home
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November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Democrats should ask: when residential natural gas prices are at their highest ever, why are we exporting a record amount? Why not use it to make energy more affordable here?

The GOP has no answer for this; it contradicts everything they claim they're doing.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US liquefied natural gas exports are set to hit a record high this month, helping to tame prices in Asia and Europe as winter begins. The US is expected to ship 10.7 million tons in November, according to predictive ship-tracking data from Kpler. That’s up roughly 40% from the same month last year, the data showed. EIA, U.S. price of natural gas, residential
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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blue-oleta.bsky.social
An educated population is essential
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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davmicrot.bsky.social
Republican Elite: we are sticking with our plan to cut taxes for rich, raise taxes for working families & undermine basic safety net, terrorize everyone, and steal $billions for Trump Family, but now we call “Affordability”

Corporate Media: Republicans pivot to Affordability!
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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sharonsf.bsky.social
JFC.. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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dvsmemphis.bsky.social
Nine rural hospitals in Tennessee's 7th district are at risk of closing because of Trump's budget bill. When your local ER shuts down, the nearest one could be an hour away. That's not putting America first—that's abandoning small towns.
Need a ride to the polls? Email [email protected]
Nine rural hospitals in Tennessee's 7th district are at risk of closing because of Trump's budget bill. When your local ER shuts down, the nearest one could be an hour away. That's not putting America first—that's abandoning small towns. Need a ride to the polls? Email TN7Support@indivisibletn.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Stephen Miller thinks reminding people of their oaths of office is “calling for an insurrection,” which should tell you exactly how he feels about the Constitution
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM