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Bernadette DeMesme-Anders @bunideme.bsky.social · 9m

This is how we cope. Let it all out!🎶

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 2h

My grandfather once told me when I was a little boy that singing the Blues is all about a good man or woman feeling sad. This clip reminded me of me & grandpa's convo.

Look at these three legends.

Should I do a thread on the origin of the blues? 🤔

Serious question, fam.

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James Brown, Bobby Bland, B.B King - Blues medley

YouTube video by Soul On Top

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Bernadette DeMesme-Anders @bunideme.bsky.social · 13m

Yes, please. I’d much prefer to talk about W C Handy than J D Vance or DJT.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1h

📌I am not a religious man, but I stand with this man, and against the most grotesque man on earth, and the broken, immoral people who worship him.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h

This is his attempt to muscle the Supreme Court.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I can create peace with tariffs. I'm using them for a lot of different reasons. If that power was taken away, it would be a terrible terrible day for our country. I would say many of the things I've done could be eradicated ... these are enemies of the country that are pursuing that lawsuit"

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Bernadette DeMesme-Anders @bunideme.bsky.social · 57m

Shameless grifters…all of them

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Jeffries: "The streets are hot right now on Capitol Hill because the Republicans are just falling apart. They cannot justify their position having shut the government down. They cannot justify their position in terms of hiding the Epstein files from the American people."

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1h

Russia took less than 1% of Ukraine since Nov 2023. Only cost them at least half a million soldiers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 1h

As Banned Books Week continues, we revisit the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico. While limited in precedential value, the case outlined important, enduring First Amendment principles. (Thread)
www.freedomforum.org/how-a-40-yea...

How a 40-Year-Old Supreme Court Ruling May Quash the Book Banning Wave

Some scholars and First Amendment advocates regard the 1982 decision as a win for students.

www.freedomforum.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

It’s such a relief to know this admin is always working so hard to lower prices, create jobs, reduce the cost of healthcare, and make home ownership affordable.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "CNN is dying like a dog."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

"Maybe you can look into that, Pam" -- Trump directs Pam Bondi to try to stop a planned anti-Trump rally in Austin

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

"I'd love to do something about that" -- Trump floats the idea of stopping a planned protest in Austin

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: You said you might go to Gaza--

TRUMP: Who are you with?

Q: I'm representing the TV pool but I'm with NBC

TRUMP: That's too bad

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: How will you decide which workers get backpay and which do not?

TRUMP: Most of them are gonna get backpay. Some of them are being hurt very badly by the Democrats and they therefore won't qualify

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Do you think you will win a Nobel Prize?

TRUMP: I settled seven wars. But perhaps they'll find a reason not to give it to me

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "7,000 people died last week, by the way. In Russia, between Russia and Ukraine."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

The counterterrorism experts have arrived at the White House..

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

"I'm attacked every time I do my job" -- it's the victimhood olympics today at the White House

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