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Krista Nicole

@knicole88.bsky.social

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Woke & angry millenial mama. Resistance in the face of tyranny is our duty as American citizens.

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Krista Nicole @knicole88.bsky.social · 19d

The truth, raw and unfiltered:

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 19d

The US no longer brings anything to the table. Guns alone aren’t enough. We lost our leverage when we pulled aid. Whatever we destroy in Trump’s times will have no crew patching up that destruction in its wake. We are now one sided.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 48m

We’d already heard them say “the poor can work the fields”. “Those able bodied Medicaid recipients”, slimed out of their mouths already over the Summer.

Couple this with the attack on DEI. And it’s almost like women and minorities are being forced to be that field worker. Maybe they’re hoping?

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 52m

It may sound like paranoia to say Trump is expecting women and minorities to go to the fields, packing and service hospitality sectors, but I can’t help but hear that little voice, “Starve or get to picking and cleaning”. It’s right on brand for these monsters.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1h

Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.

4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whale’s profit: $192 million

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 57m

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

History warned us about tyrants. Nobody warned us they’d be this dumb.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 1h

The cuts to federal jobs disproportionately targets women and minorities. pshra.org/report-feder...

Report: Federal Job Cuts Having Disproportionate Effect on Women and Minorities - PSHRA

According to a new report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), women and people of color have been disproportionately affected by recent cuts across

pshra.org

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Essential point:

"Key to... Vought’s worldview is the idea that the constitutional order - and with it the “natural” order itself - has been destroyed: The revolution has already happened, “the Left” won. Therefore, conservatives categorically err when they try to preserve what is no more."

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Harmless Artist @dunhillpage.bsky.social · 16h

They wanted the House.
They wanted the Senate.
They wanted the White House.
They got it. All of it.
It's all theirs.
And it's shut down.

They can lie
They can troll
They can "own the libs"

But. They. Cannot. Govern.

This is all you need to hold in mind when you're looking to assign blame.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 1h

We should be looking to our religious leaders for moral guidance on our most divisive issues, not targeting them for standing up for others.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1h

“words mean what I want them to mean”

Luke Côté @locutusof.bsky.social · 1h

Tom, holocaust has a very simple definition. Slaughter on a mass scale.

So the fact you think there has only been holocaust 1.0 and no other events can use the word is a bit odd.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 1h

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.” -Anne Frank, 01/13/1943
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️
WE ARE THERE NOW‼️

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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who is opposed to fascism is Antifa.

www.salisburypost.com/2025/10/07/l...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h

Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Krista Nicole @knicole88.bsky.social · 2h

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

The country is run by various evil ministers each of whom has carved out a fiefdom for himself, while the nominal head of state ruins what's left of his brain with internet content

THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!!
President DJT

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

A drawing of a Portland protest frog holding a One Piece flag with text overlaid that says:

“RESIST
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - George Orwell”

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Mary Rarick @maryrarick.bsky.social · 14h

That’s how we roll! #TeamFrog

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 17h

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 16h

Trump admin cuts mental health jobs during shutdown

In the second week of the ongoing government shutdown, the Trump administration has laid off roughly 125 employees from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the main mental health agency in the US. “I think the general feeling today is shock — and not understanding why?” the source revealing this info told NPR. […]

dlvr.it

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 20h

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18h

Broadview faces off against Illinois State PD.

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