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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦

@jdinreallife.bsky.social

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She/Her. I do politics. I do public and behavioral health issues. And in 2025, I exist to RESIST Nazis and Fascists 🩷💜💙 Vote YES on #Prop50 CA.

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 14d

Y'all, I went down a rabbit hole, curious about Donald Trump's claims of stopping the war between Armenia (not Albania) and Azerbaijan.

The tl;dr, unsurprisingly, is that this answer is far more complex than a peace deal and raises a lot of questions about the implications for the region. A thread:

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 39m

Make sure to read @404media.co’s incredible reporting on this - then check out my newsletter for more info on how the anti-abortion movement is working with abusers to target women

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 21m

It's really feeling like the national media is awaiting the great ratings they will get from an authoritarian meltdown.

Because if journalists understood this exact point, they would be better covering it, NOW. There would be more pushback, NOW.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 37m

Turns out, the MAGA Supreme Court is the one interested in converting your kids through the use of quack doctors with medically unsound practices based on no scientific evidence. "Every accusation is a confession" with them.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids

During a hearing this week, the court’s theocrats made it clear that they’ll vote to end a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

www.thenation.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 26m

How we frame sanity vs. Thebfar right's cult behavior matters, @npr.org.

JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 26m

"What people believe about health increasingly depends on how they feel about politics. according to a new poll." @npr.org

*Absolutely not*

This is correlation, not causation. Dems/Inds are better educated on health than MAGA. Not DEPENDING on our political support.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, a new poll says

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what — or who — people believe increasingly depends on their politics.

www.npr.org

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceUnited

Piss Drunk Pete apparently thinks cybersecurity is a distraction from his "warfighting" manly man schtick. The Pentagon has cut cybersecurity training programs at a time of surging cyberattacks on U.S. military and infrastructure. Genius.

www.esecurityplanet.com/news/pentago...

Pentagon Cuts Cyber Training Amid Rising Cyber Threats

The Pentagon reduces cybersecurity training to focus on warfighting, raising concerns about US cyber readiness and digital defense.

www.esecurityplanet.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h

it’s all just a grift

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20h

You have got to be joking hahaha

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 10h

Love to see it Chicago!!

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 15h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 11h

Every time I leave my puppy home alone for a couple of hours, when I come home, she acts like I've been gone for days and it's so sweet.

My furbaby loves me. ❤️💚💙💜💛🧡

JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 14h

*clears throat*

The illegal rabble rousers coming in to do harm to America aren't filling out paperwork in ERs for Healthcare.

Shut the f* up, Mike I-need-an-app-to-prevent-me-from-watching-porn-on-my-phone Johnson.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 1d

$7K is insane, and that's the "good" number here.

Medicare for all.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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.

JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 1d

When people do this, it gives permission for other people to also see the light and leave modern conservatives behind.

But...Until I hear talk from Dem white men on understanding how government impacts race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, my conversion skepticism remains. Show up for everybody.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"Geoff Duncan’s conversion from red to blue may seem politically opportunistic. But converts can be welcome, discomfort can be tolerated, and the opportunity to win just might be enough to temper all that." Can it?

Can a Repentant, Regretful Republican Thrive as a Dem?

Geoff Duncan isn’t just running for governor of Georgia as a Democrat. He’s testing how wide the party’s ‘big tent’ can stretch.

www.thebulwark.com

JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 1d

My office IT has currently blocked all search engines from being accessed.

In my Google Chrome browser, I am not allowed to search Google.

Or Bing from my Microsoft system.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

BONDI: The National Guard is on the way right now as we speak. You're sitting here grilling me and they're on their way to Chicago to keep your state safe.

DURBIN: It's my job to grill you

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 1d

How did someone who had harassed a young woman for months, with online proof of it all, escalate to the point where now that young woman and her friend are dead?

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 1d

This is false. Hawley is lying abiut the context of what was released yesterday. There was no tapping. Context is needed before posting when everyone in the comments assumes its true without research...

Phone records were analyzed. Calls were not tapped. Geebus.

rollcall.com/2025/10/06/j...

Jan. 6 probe analyzed GOP lawmakers' phone records, senators say - Roll Call

Federal investigators collected and analyzed call records from the personal cell phones of nine GOP lawmakers, senators said.

rollcall.com

JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 2d

Gift link: Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

@theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 2d

Why is this accurate?

Also, why do my cheese slices disappear faster than my cheese sticks...

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 2d

🛑 STOP THE PRESS:

🚨 The GOP is still refusing to swear in Grijalva, *who yields the power to cast the vote needed TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.*

🔊 STOP DECLARING WAR ON AMERICANS

🔊 REOPEN THE GOVNT

🔊 SWEAR IN GRIJALVA

🔊 RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

🆘🇺🇸

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JDInRealLife 🇺🇦 @jdinreallife.bsky.social · 2d

I just want to be able to write longer posts and spell check them @bsky.app. Please and thanks.