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Motivational Psychologist, Athlete, Wandering around
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markjacob.bsky.social
Trump didn't send armed agents to the Chicago area to quell violence. He sent them there to cause violence.
hpsc24.bsky.social Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · Oct 31
10/31/25🧊neo-nazis attacking Americans-2 blocks from Evanston Township HS🇺🇸🤬
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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gastropoda.bsky.social
Impressive. Cuz media are complicit.
khrisnin.bsky.social KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · Oct 31
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
NEW. Powerful piece by Miles Bruner.

"I know the thought of walking away from your career and your social network is terrifying...I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction...Take a stand."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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josesepulveda.bsky.social
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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electproject.bsky.social
A donor has a contract
kristin-wilson.bsky.social Kristin Wilson 📎 @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · Sep 6
Fascinating - and frustrating - read. To change the name of the Department of Defense will mean changing all 700,000 seals, letterhead, signage, etc around the world. At a cost of potentially billions.

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: White House to rebrand Pentagon the Department of War
The name change would likely require an act of Congress, although the White House is looking for ways to avoid a vote.
subscriber.politicopro.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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progavalanche.bsky.social
If you haven’t seen this, it’s about time you did.

Sound up!
August 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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theatlantic.com
“More systematically than in his first term, Trump’s administration is reaching into the federal immigration bureaucracy to roll back an array of protections for undocumented children,” Stephanie McCrummen writes:
https://theatln.tc/t1f5tr5y
July 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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washingtonpost.com
A physician at a Sudanese clinic said basic antibiotics probably would have cured a three-year-old boy’s chest infection. The medicines had been scheduled to be delivered in February.

Then the new U.S. administration froze foreign aid programs. wapo.st/4kgohOr
In Sudan, children's lives relied on USAID. Trump's cut have been deadly.
June 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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mims.bsky.social
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM