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Gauchohaulic 🗽

@gauchohaulic.bsky.social

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Fresno, California born, UCSB grad, Vallejo, CA resident. Graveshift Biotech worker bee. Imperfect Christian. Anti-reactionary, pro-science progressive. He/Him. Doing my best to get through another day.

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Gauchohaulic 🗽 @gauchohaulic.bsky.social · Nov 26

I refuse to “know my place.”

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Friday, Antifa warriors! 🥂🩵

Funny meme with a picture of an "Antifa" headquarters that reads:

Just got to my desk at Antifa. I can't believe Karen in HR scheduled the mandatory Molotov cocktail safety training today.
Nobody feels like that shit on a Friday.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 9h

Thune says this like it's a bad thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 10h

you go out to these protests, it's kids, old folks, grannies, all kinds of people, and they're still going with "professional protesters" which I guess maybe works on the fox news crowd? but nobody else

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

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Gauchohaulic 🗽 @gauchohaulic.bsky.social · 16h

Tired: Owning the Libs.
Wired: Owning the autocrats.

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Marsinout @marsinout.bsky.social · 16h

Nobel Committee has just give a middle finger to crook Trump and dictator Maduro, by announcing the Peace Prize award to the Venezuela opposition leader.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

www.bbc.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16h

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 20h

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone is lying except the people we know lie to us multiple times per day

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kristi Noem: "I was in Portland and met with the governor and mayor and chief of police and superintendent of the highway patrol. They are all lying and disingenuous and dishonest people. Because as soon as you leave the room, then they make the exact opposite response."

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland frog twerking in front of the ICE officers and they start backing up is a delightful act of resistance.

#Portland #AbolishICE #GoodTrouble

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 21h

I hereby nominate the Portland Frog for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 1d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22h

I feel great about this. If it happens, it will clarify his true nature internationally. He would be displaying his grotesque vindictiveness, childishness, and self-involvement. Bring it!

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly….

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 1d

“Those of us with diagnosable mental illness or neurodivergence (even if we don’t have the means to be formally diagnosed) have had to live in the margins long enough to learn a thing or two about surviving while being creatively maladjusted.”

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

A timely excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, written by my friend Aaron Goggans, who has supported many frontline activists struggling with their mental health during moments of mass protest and upheaval. Thank you, @pempem.bsky.social for uplifting.

A Letter from an Organizer on How to Fight While Feeling Broken

An excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart.

mentalhellth.xyz

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2d

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Weird and amusing that the same people touting unwatchable Bari Weiss as the Authentic Voice Of The People are also claiming that Bad Bunny, the famous musician / actor / WWE wrestler, at the Super Bowl is imposing an unpopular ideology on the majority.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 2d

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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zneeley25.bsky.social @zneeley25.bsky.social · 1d

when I was young, I was particularly good at appealing to parents and authority figures, so I may just be bitter that instead of it getting me national influence it just got me sent out to talk to grown ups when me and my friends were high

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Gauchohaulic 🗽 @gauchohaulic.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, she has vaunted charisma with the few dozen people who own everything.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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