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Just another suburban Mom with an opinion. Really! No Private Messages PLEASE! "Brevity is the soul of wit" "Love is my religion" #She/Her #Democrat #JerseyGirl #MomsDemandAction #TransgenderRights #Dogs

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MomsThoughts☘️🐶 @momsthoughts.bsky.social · 4m

Oh yeah. I have my pumpkin spice herbal tea all ready!

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MomsThoughts☘️🐶 @momsthoughts.bsky.social · 21m

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 53m

Oh, the incredibly competent and honest president promises that he's totally going to give us something that's much better and much cheaper than we already have? Golly, sign me up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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SalliSue20202 @sallisue20202.bsky.social · 27m

Zelenskyy Suggests Trump Give Florida to Russia
www.borowitzreport.com/p/zelenskyy-...

Zelenskyy Suggests Trump Give Florida to Russia

"Florida should be on the table,” Zelenskyy said. “With Florida, you have cards.”

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MomsThoughts☘️🐶 @momsthoughts.bsky.social · 27m

YES 👇👇👇

hairgae.bsky.social @hairgae.bsky.social · 11h

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Lu 💙 @ladyinred50.bsky.social · 2h

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Ralene @gouletr.bsky.social · 7h

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 49m

Jack Ciattarelli Denies Birthright Citizenship, Backs Trump’s ICE Deportation Raids

The GOP gubernatorial candidate would welcome Trump's chaos to New Jersey

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MomsThoughts☘️🐶 @momsthoughts.bsky.social · 46m

Yeah, it makes no sense. But I suppose there are enough ppl willing to do it.

MomsThoughts☘️🐶 @momsthoughts.bsky.social · 47m

Yup. Not good.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1h

There's a saying "No brains, no headaches" and sometimes I wish I had no brains, because reading shit like this every day gives me a perpetual headache.

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With Mideast Deal, Trump Is on the Brink of a Major Diplomatic Accomplishment
For President Trump, success in brokering a cease-fire is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker.

For Mr. Trump, success in this venture is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker — and a pathway to the Nobel Peace Prize he has so openly coveted. By chance, the winner for 2025 is scheduled to be announced just hours before he may be departing to take his victory lap in Egypt and Israel.

If the peace plan moves forward, Mr. Trump may have as legitimate a claim to that Nobel as the four American presidents who have won the peace prize in the past, though with less bombast and lobbying. (They are Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, who was awarded one decades after he left the White House.)

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 19h

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MomsThoughts☘️🐶 @momsthoughts.bsky.social · 59m

Not a good sign

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

“.. Foreclosure rates have surged across the country and are up almost 20% from this time last year.”

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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MoJoJuju @xoey1.bsky.social · 1h

I Can't Agree More..👍

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 20h

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Montclair Dems @montclairdems.bsky.social · 3h

Mikie will keep #NJ strong. Get out and vote on Nov 4th or with early voting! #NewJersey #voteblue

michnutrish.bsky.social @michnutrish.bsky.social · 9h

@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @karenb4good.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @samschifrien.bsky.social @omzach.bsky.social #nj #newjersey #fdt #teammikie @mikiesherrill.bsky.social #keepnjblue @montclairdems.bsky.social

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Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · 3h

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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 9h

While it keeps the Oregon National Guard under federal status, most importantly, it prevents the President from deploying the guard in Portland,” Rayfield said in a statement. “That means no unnecessary federal escalation. That’s a win for Oregonians who want calm, not conflict in our communities.”

Ninth Circuit: Oregon National Guard can be federalized but not deployed

The Ninth Circuit granted a stay on one of two restraining orders placed on the Trump administration and will hear the government's appeal Thursday morning.

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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 23h

Portland in action! ☮️
#LovePortland 💖

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MomsThoughts☘️🐶 @momsthoughts.bsky.social · 3h

Yes!!! I love it all. I'm ready for it.

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USDemocracy @usdemocracy.bsky.social · 13h

If you are approached by federal agents: invoke your 5th Amendment right to remain silent, and your 6th Amendment right to counsel, by saying “I cannot answer any questions without my lawyer."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 12h

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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