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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 5h

Sure, grow your own food, build mills & store houses, raise your own animals, then harvest & process everything after you’ve weaved your own fabric & thread, then designed & sewn your own clothes in the house you built with tools you fabricated w/o electricity or water unless you’re near a river.

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I've been saying for MONTHS!

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 15h

The “most transparent administration in history!” just furloughed the ICE office tasked with ensuring that people in immigration detention are kept safe.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 8h

It seems most Americans still think that what’s happened before and elsewhere couldn’t possibly happen here now. But it can, and it is. Fascism is here. State terrorism against us is going to get more and more violent. And it is not likely to be stopped by waiting for a chance to vote against it.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 18h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Nation At Risk - #DefundICE #RemoveRFK Jr ❌👑🧡 @kdjs-1.bsky.social · 8h

American citizen was assaulted, illegally detained
lawless, masked Trump regime ICE gestapo must be reigned in
ASAP 🚨

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h

The Saudi family produced the comedy show. If the Trump family produced a comedy show, would Burr take the gig? Would he joke about Trump ordering shooting American citizens, kidnapping people, torturing children to get to their parents? Burr doesn’t have the guts imprisoned Saudi women have or had.

maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h

You can’t say these are just jokes, while also saying comedy changes the world. To imagine you can escape criticism for your public actions is egotism. It’s blaming the audience for your bad jokes. Our personal moral responsibility to one another is not situational; it is foundational to our safety.

maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h

Like the other ass hats that took this gig, they’re equivocating, comparing one cruelty to another as if it’s moral arithmetic where two negatives equal a positive. The willful ignorance of assuming that what you are shown is true or complete is damning.

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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.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h

As a lifelong renter & activist, competence of candidates is important to prevent constituents & candidates from feeling like failures, felling betrayed & losing faith in governing.

maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h

If you don’t know that property ownership is not a prerequisite for political office or voting, for that matter, then take some civics & economics classes first.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h

It’s still amazing to me that so many of our representatives are white guys and medium quality suits.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 9h

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of anti fa"

the founder of anti fascism

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TakamineBill @takaminebill.bsky.social · 10h

Every time that a Democratic politician is being interviewed, the first thing they should do is demand the release of the Epstein files.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h

That’s because you surrendered your moral responsibility to your fellow human beings. Cancel culture just means being called to task for your cruelty. It does not mean you are dismembered in the green room. The false equivalences here are astounding in their moral vacuity.

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 8h

I hope to go to a few, but I’m caretaking for much of the first week. It is a great way to be moved by what seems now to be exaggerated styles, to realise we are watching lives long since lived.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 9h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 12h

Minorities and women have always known this. This is the origin of most gangs like the Latin Kings, the Crips, Bloods, etc. Police weren’t coming to protect anyone so communities policed themselves to protect against the cops

There will come a time very soon where social cohesion breaks down

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 9h

#medsky

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maryhear.bsky.social @maryhear.bsky.social · 9h

It’s right after the Germs Don’t Exist luncheon (served on the floor); before the Flat Earth Society symposium, Sun or Moon: Which Is The Bigger Frisbee?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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