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@brandiblue.bsky.social
Blue dot in a red state.
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Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...

Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.

Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Flashback to a different parade in 2019, and people were explaining that it was simply free speech, and now protesters will be met with 'great force'. #protests #parade
June 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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When the ground is getting green, you know the aurora is SUPER bright…
June 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Love my tree in the front yard! It smells amazing. #spring
April 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The cover of this week’s Economist.
April 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Kristi Noem is supposed to get an honorary doctorate at DSU graduation. Some of us don't agree. Proud of these people for speaking up while we still live in a country where we can.
April 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
South Dakota has closed its state library due to a lack of funding. Lovely...
April 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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American women deserve better…
April 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Impressive crowd in Sioux Falls for the Hands Off! protest today! Felt good to DO something.
April 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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April 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites.

Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote
Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team
This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
wisdems.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.

Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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March 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence

National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety.

This won’t go well—we love our parks.
March 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Learning to recognize the fake accounts on the social media, blocking them early, and NEVER engaging with their content is an absolutely necessary survival skill in 2025.
March 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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That is exactly true.
March 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Trump is firing 83k VA employees & gutting veterans healthcare to force them into overpriced private insurance

aka a corporate 💵 grab.

The wildest part?

A lot of vets will STILL back him like he didnt just spit in their face.

Make it make sense

I have no idea why the military backs this 🤡

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March 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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A major Norwegian fuel company is refusing to provide fuel to U.S. warships after the “shitshow” in the White House yesterday over Ukraine. This is the way. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu...
Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine
Haltbakk Bunkers will cease supplying fuel to U.S. forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Image of a library book display labeled:
"It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual"
The books on display are:
'On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century'
'1984'
'A Handmaids Tale'
'Diary of Anne Frank'
'Parable of The Sower'
'Fahrenheit 451'
'Animal Farm'
'Brave New World'
March 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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NEW: In 2021, evangelical pastor Steve Berger set off on an ambitious project: minister to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.”

Now, he is Mike Johnson’s D.C. roommate — living in a home owned by a major GOP donor.
Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign
The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.
propub.li
February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…
February 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM