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Just a Dad

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Currently just one of the 99 percenters living in MO. Worked for DHS until retiring. Made aluminum cans for 30 years prior to that. Slava Ukrainiane🇺🇦 We must stand firmly together to have any chance of our grandchildren growing up in a democracy …

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14h

In a few days, you may be notified that your health insurance premiums will double, because of Republican cuts to health care. Democrats are fighting to change that before it's too late.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 8h

Make no mistake. This nonsense about Antifa is directly tied to the 2026 and 2028 elections. It’s the “crisis” they will use as justification to shut down key voting centers.

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 7h

Dude has no clue !

Trump to Hannity: "The tariffs have brought peace to the world. I'm telling you they brought peace to the world."

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 8h

A unifying theme of the actions taken by the new Donald Trump administration and its Project 2025 is wrecking the United States as a democratic power, to the benefit of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and other autocratic adversaries,”

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 9h

Classic Kimmel !

Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 13h

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 10h

FYI ..
EPSTEIN used young boys too.
Yes. He. Did.
Another HUGE reason they are fighting this.

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 9h

Dumb ass

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 11h

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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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

The White House Office of Management and Budget has deleted a reference to a 2019 law on paying government workers after a shutdown from its FAQ on the current impasse.

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 11h

I find it appalling that they are waiting outside an immigration hearing to take people that are going through the system the right way. Just to pad their number arrested. Just unacceptable and definitely un-American in my America

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 11h

The White House has become a brick and mortar QVC

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 12h

Folks, this is happening. In case you missed Tuesday's newsletter.... NBC is now reporting: "White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act"
This is not a drill. -- Charlie Sykes

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 12h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 22h

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14h

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Shaun Conner @sconner.net · 1d

I've just sat for ages in the garden, camera on its tripod, patiently waiting for a break in the clouds to catch the first supermoon of the year. It didn't disappoint!

A crystal clear picture of a full supermoon.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 18h

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 17h

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 15h

Canada vs America

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 15h

In the second Trump administration, the president does not seem especially interested in governance. He seems to want to use the government to persecute those he considers his enemies and to protect and enrich himself

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Just a Dad @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 1d

including that they would be increasing deployment of chemical arms, such as tear gas and pepper spray.