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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · Apr 12

House sparrows go completely silent and disappear from my yard whenever a hawk flies over. They don’t help the hawk.

I wish US voters were as smart as birds.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 1h

The US electorate consists of two realities, it seems: one in which we’re fighting traditional congressional battles over healthcare, and the other in which we’re fighting for the survival of our country.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 1h

Donald Trump: I shut down the government, allowed ICE to terrorize your communities, and tore apart your country to prevent my past from being released.

Chuck Schumer: I said the F word.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly. Raise your expectations. Your standards. Countless live pressers show this guy’s utter weakness. One staged video, likely with dozens of takes to get it right, is not “the energy we finally need”.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 3h

Gavin Newsom sounding the alarm on Trump stealing elections and him receiving “Trump 2028” hats.😡

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2h

Good lord. We have been starved of leadership, so we fawn over someone using the f-word in a cheesy video. I’m done.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 2h

Fascists are running scared now. Look out. He dropped an F bomb.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 10h

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💙Mabs A'Mabbin💙 @mabsamabbin.bsky.social · 11h

I really can't stay.

🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

Baby, it’s fall outside.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

Pedophiles look like them, if you were wondering why Republicans hate immigrants more.

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mimi828 @mimi828.bsky.social · 13h

How about forever. We are getting very close to this.👇

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14h

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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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 12h

In today’s writing club, we discussed writing dialogue. Some tips: dialogue occurs amid movement and action, in context that changes what the words themselves mean. The interactions among speakers, and among words and movements, and mannerisms, reveal characters—and lies.

Me, in a shirt that reads “Tell me a time in history when it was the good guys banning books.”

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

Baby, it’s fall outside.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

This is so dark

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Bronx and Harlem at our paper shredding events — we cleared out old junk mail, built community, danced, took family portraits and enjoyed frozen treats (it still felt a lot like summer). Thanks to everyone who joined.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a real good time to keep an extra close eye on your family, friends and neighbors.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 21h

Confirmed! Katy Miller has to hook her husband’s nipples to a Lovegasm device before he speaks publicly to ensure his testosterone is activated.

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LA Blue Dot in GA @namwella1961.bsky.social · 1d

In normal America, Republicans shutting down the gov't to stop the Epstein files from being released would be a scandal.

In fascist America, we call it Tuesday.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 12h

Oregon’s National Guard General: They’ll defend America and protect protesters.

That’s leadership we need more of. 🇺🇸

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

According to the billionaires who own all the media outlets, speaking out against government oppression and overreach is only something liberals would do.

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

A teaser for the seemingly liberal-leaning song “Bad News” claims “ICE is gonna come knock down your door.”

What To Know About Zach Bryan's New Song ‘Bad News’—And What It Says About ICE

A teaser for the seemingly liberal-leaning song “Bad News” claims “ICE is gonna come knock down your door.”

www.forbes.com

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

After staring down with contempt for protesters, Secretary of Homeland Security didn’t notice a bright yellow chicken costume standing in the crowd until someone else pointed it out.

I feel so safe.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12h

Angry Gremlin Pam Bondi watches the Faces of Death series for comic relief.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 15h

and the way he drags his words out

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