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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 1h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Wow — Harvard Crimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI.

With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 4h

But they they want to take away working classes’ health insurance- make it make sense

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CalmlyPanicking @calmlypanicking.bsky.social · 4h

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 4h

After he “stopped 7 wars” - you are saying he won’t win???

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h

This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Tweet from Alex Tabarrok reads:
“Sergio Garcia, celebrated Chef who came to the US before ICE even existed. Deported after 36 years.
The picture tells you a lot about the decline of the Republican party.”
Attached photo shows Sergio Garcia standing with Laura and George W. Bush outdoors. The photo is signed: “To Sergio Garcia, With best wishes – George & Laura Bush.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s obsession with immigration is really an obsession with segregation. It was never about immigrants, it was always about hate and racism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

Trump’s obsession with immigration is really an obsession with segregation | Heba Gowayed

His policies are the latest instantiation of a centuries-long American tradition: laws meant to exclude people of color and privilege whiteness

www.theguardian.com

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 5h

But they are still doing it

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

WATCH: “No. 1 issue I hear about”

Democrats need to keep going hard for
affordable healthcare if MTG is torching the Republican Party for ignoring crushing insurance costs. People’s economic future is on the line.

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 5h

only time you see republicans laughing is when they shaft non millionaires

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

ICYMI — bumbling ICE stooges finally chased off by Chicago folks after a humiliating attempt to grab a man they racially profiled

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 5h

Bet that’s GOP goal

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 6h

I read the books: Handmaid’s Tale; Animal Farm; 1984 & Lord of the Flies.
I liked them all but didn’t think they were non fiction!!!
Heard about the movie Soylent Green - had no desire to watch it.

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 6h

Strands #584
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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 6h

Connections
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Christine Galea @chrisgalea.bsky.social · 8h

The fact that Elon musk, Peter Thiel, and Steve Bannon all being in the Epstein files dropped out of the news way too fast www.bbc.com/news/article...

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files

The documents by the estate of convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by Congressional Democrats.

www.bbc.com

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 6h

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Flora @floramcg7.bsky.social · 8h

Isn’t Roberts a GOP SHILL?

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RevolutionaryRadish @revoradish.bsky.social · 9h

Dems take note. This is what your constituents want to see. We know you don’t control every lever of power, so it’s less right now about triangulation and strategy, and more about what you’re willing to put on the line. Please show us you’re willing to stand up for and with us.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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