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😎🎨♓️🎶Political junkie*graphic artist*painter*all music*poetry* Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Da vinci
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Trump and Republicans’ Medicaid cuts will close hospitals and cost thousands of lives. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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dailyspark.bsky.social
🚨TOP STORIES: "Tragic Loss: Trailblazing Singer, Songwriter, and Hip-Hop Pioneer Angie Stone, Famed Member of Groundbreaking Trio The Sequence, Killed in Fatal Car Crash at 63, Leaving Behind an Indelible Mark on Music History and a Legacy of Timeless Soul, R&B, and Hip-Hop Classics"
"Angie Stone, Hip-Hop Pioneer and The Sequence Member, Dies at 63 in Fatal Car Crash" "Angie Stone, Hip-Hop Pioneer and The Sequence Member, Dies at 63 in Fatal Car Crash"
March 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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artcandee.bsky.social
MAGA is big mad that the Philadelphia Eagles are snubbing Donald Trump and are skipping the White House visit after winning the Super Bowl.

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February 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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dworkin.bsky.social
We researched events held across the country yesterday, and can confirm that there were protests in all 50 states against Trump.
Protests Erupted Against Trump In All 50 States Yesterday
Onward.
www.dworkinsubstack.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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realtuckfrumper.bsky.social
Across 50 States, Patriots Turned Out To Say No To Yambo, Elmo: I was greatly heartened by the large turnout in 50 state capitols yesterday to protest Trump policies -- yes, already. Via the Associated Press:

Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump…
Across 50 States, Patriots Turned Out To Say No To Yambo, Elmo
I was greatly heartened by the large turnout in 50 state capitols yesterday to protest Trump policies -- yes, already. Via the Associated Press: Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s early…
crooksandliars.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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esqueer.net
This kid now controls whether your local hospital or clinic gets paid. Many could go insolvent or engage in mass layoffs if payments are significantly delayed.
February 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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rawcognizance.bsky.social
Donald Trump is starting his second term with a negative approval rating of 47%.

Yet he won the popular vote and won all seven swing states.

The math isn't mathing.

youtube.com/shorts/7qH-X...
DONALD TRUMP STARTS 2ND TERM WITH A NEGATIVE APPROVAL RATING
YouTube video by RAW Cognizance
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February 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Totally lost in the chaos is that American troops have begun setting up a concentration camp
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 3
About 200 Marines and soldiers landed at Guantánamo Bay over the weekend to provide security and begin setting up at a new tent city for migrants, as officials comply with President Trump’s order to prepare the Navy base for as many as 30,000 deportees.
Guantánamo Bay Prepares for President Trump’s Migrant Surge
About 200 Marines and soldiers arrived over the weekend as the base faces its most drastic changes since the Pentagon opened a prison there after the Sept. 11 attacks.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The Trump campaign was based on the idea that Americans shouldn’t have to make sacrifices and now they’re expecting Americans to make sacrifices. Good luck with that.
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jan 26
NEW: Trump is going to force Americans to pay more for coffee because Colombia refused to accept his deportation flights.

He announces immediate 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods, rising to 50% next week.

Diplomatic bullying of a supposed ally and economic self-harm.

It’s Day 6.
A post from Donald Trump which says: I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people. Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures: -Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States. In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%. -A Travel Ban and immediate Visa Revocations on the Colombian Government Officials, and all Allies and Supporters. -Visa Sanctions on all Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government. -Enhanced Customs and Border Protection Inspections of all Colombian Nationals and Cargo on national security grounds. -IEEPA Treasury, Banking and Financial Sanctions to be fully imposed. These measures are just the beginning. We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States!
January 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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cynthiaharless.bsky.social
Trump stopped the CDC from warning the public Health crisis.
Unprecedented tuberculosis outbreak in northeast Kansas.
www.kake.com/home/health-...
Health officials facing 'unprecedented' tuberculosis outbreak in northeast Kansas
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports 66 active cases of tuberculosis and 79 infections in the Kansas City Metro area in 2024. As of this month, the number
www.kake.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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January 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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dailybeanspod.com
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.
January 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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swin24.bsky.social
Sounds about right
ejdickson.bsky.social Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · Jan 21
NEW from me: Who will save your soul? Not Jewel! She’s the latest celeb to publicly align herself with Trump/MAGA, performing at the MAHA inaugural ball, then warmly embracing RFK Jr and his wife: www.thecut.com/article/jewe...
Jewel Joined the Inauguration Festivities, Too
She performed at RFK Jr.’s MAHA Ball, which also featured comedian Rob Schneider and a seed-oil-free menu.
www.thecut.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
White House reporters are excited that after four years of boring interviews with subject-matter experts they now get the adrenaline rush that comes from the personal attention of a president who threatens to have them executed. www.cjr.org/political_pr...
Excerpts from a Columbia Journalism Review article: "Instead, White House reporters say, the Biden team preferred to offer background quotes from in-house experts" and "'For a lot of people, what was the point in even going?' said a veteran White House reporter." and "Trump, on the other hand, adores the attention of the media" and "'Despite his sometimes strident and sometimes even violent rhetoric about the press, he loves talking to us,' the print reporter said."
January 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
Literally nothing is as MAGA as watching a bunch of self-righteous frauds who pretend to give a damn about Christianity, viciously attacking a minister who preached about caring for the vulnerable while their rapist-felon messiah scoffed at her.

Your religion is short one Jesus.
January 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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stgael.bsky.social
My parents really left democratic dictatorship of Mexico just to come here and I get a democratic dictatorship in America while Mexico gets a woman President and progressive social and Constitutional reform. IS THIS A PRANK!?
January 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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mommamia.bsky.social
May God bless and walk with you, President Biden.

We will go to sleep tonight for the last time-
Soundly and grateful for the stability and safety your presidency gifted us all.

May peace find and keep you and yours.
January 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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strandjunker.com
John F. Kennedy
22°F / outdoors

Jimmy Carter
28°F / outdoors

Barack Obama
28°F / outdoors

Donald Trump
23°F / indoors

It’s not about the cold. — It’s about covering up Trump’s embarrassingly small crowd size.
January 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Somebody needs this right meow 🥹

Mission Impawssible 🐈‍⬛🐈

#Caturday
#ThankYouTG
#CoffeeKindnessShenanigans
January 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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stgael.bsky.social
I feel really bad about America’s RedNote shift messing up access for the Chinese diaspora. Our tech innovation would be better if our talent wasn’t working jobs they hate to pay off student loans.
January 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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stephenking.bsky.social
Not voting in the Oscars this year. IMHO they should cancel them. No glitz with Los Angeles on fire.
January 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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stgael.bsky.social
Legal status quo is why I refuse to get a JD. Lawyers obey in advance to new shifting legal norms. It’s disgusting.
sethabramson.bsky.social Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jan 15
Donald Trump has nominated _his own personal attorneys_ for the _top three positions_ at DOJ.

Where is the outrage from the legal community? From academia? From the media?

Trump is a man who has repeatedly says he has a right to control all DOJ operations and to treat DOJ as his personal law firm.
January 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
" It’s a messy, confusing legal situation, but one whose outcome is soberingly simple: the fate of over 60,000 ballots — and, as a result, the outcome of the state Supreme Court election — hangs in the balance of the North Carolina Supreme Court." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
'This is a National Outrage:' North Carolinians Protest GOP Election Challenges
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM