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Debra M 🌱

@liberalforareason.bsky.social

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Depressed about the rise of global fascism and yet still believe in the power of the people. Like : being vegan, political theory, dogs, kind people and social democracy - not centrism. Basé à Montréal français et anglais. Unless I know you - no DM’s.

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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · Feb 3

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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 1h

Being an adherent of evangelical religion makes you insane.

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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 2h

The worst human on the planet? Quite possibly…

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 10h

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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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 2h

Also Meghan Markle has gotten a ton of work done recently. It makes me sad. These women are so young!

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 21h

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 3h

Call me a pessimist but I don’t think that the ceasefire with Israel will hold. Rewarding Trump’s attempt at a Gaza real estate initiative also seems ludicrous but anything is possible.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h

"I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism'"

Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.

Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

the one admirable trait trump has is he wants to bleed his entire fanbase dry of all of their money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 20h

politics is the internet. here's a rassemblement national politician talking about vegans eating bugs - a trope that has gone from the darkest reaches of the internet to right-wing provocateurs to the campaigns of far right parties to interviews on france's most-watched TV channel.

Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 21h

Sur BFM, Sébastien Chenu bafouille que les "écolos vegans complètement tarés mangent des moustiques" 😂

Ce monsieur est vice-président de l'Assemblée nationale grâce aux macronistes et LR.

Et il prétend gouverner la France !

Vous imaginez le carnage ?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 15h

israel has been holding over 1,700 people hostage the whole time it has been demanding the release of its hostages

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 11h

Basking in the glory of the Basílica de la Sagrada Família one minute and cursing Joe Rogan to hell in the next. I contain multitudes.

Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 11h

Fuck you Joe Rogan you absolute piece of excrement. You did everything in your power to get Donald Trump elected. Including kneecapping Kamala Harris at every opportunity.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Rogan on Trump’s cruel mass deportations, racially profiling non-criminals and ripping apart families: “This is crazy. That shows no heart. You’re not gonna get any reasonable people to go along with that. Any kind person would go ‘this can’t be the only way to do this’.”

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 15h

Lot of ppl dont know this, esp the edgy bois who love this film, but the music of A Clockwork Orange was made by a trans woman and electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos. She'll turn 86 next month.

picture of wendy carlos as a young woman in front of the moog synthesizer: lots of knobs and wires. circa 1970s

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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 19h

When Scholars and Historians won't even visit your country anymore because its as bad as Russia or China...You know you're effed.
www.salon.com/2025/10/09/t...

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

www.salon.com

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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 12h

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

A staffer on Stephen Colbert's show wanted to ask the first ever Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York City to play a game of thumbs up, thumbs down about an ongoing genocide.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 17h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 13h

Humans are amazing and have created beauty of such magnitude throughout the world - that it is almost impossible to comprehend.

Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 13h

How is this America Jonathan? So utterly awful.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15h

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 15h

Barcelona #vegan

Debra M 🌱 @liberalforareason.bsky.social · 15h

Pure disinformation

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

bit.ly

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be that guy but the democrats should have had the foresight to see this coming when Obama did this exact same thing (including to US citizens!) and they did nothing. It’s not as if they weren’t warned by the ACLU and many others! Bipartisan “war on terror” foolishness delivered this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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