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Peter Haugen

@peterhaugen.bsky.social

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Resistant. Hopeful (despite everything). Wrote “World History for Dummies” and other stuff, including many theater reviews. Proud survivor of newspaper journalism. Seek to be kind and respectful, but sometimes fail. Stop Donald and his evil cohort!

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Peter Haugen @peterhaugen.bsky.social · Dec 29

You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution. And you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you’re worthless.—Charles Frazier

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 20h

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1d

Make no mistake. This nonsense about Antifa is directly tied to the 2026 and 2028 elections. It’s the “crisis” they will use as justification to shut down key voting centers.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 20h

There was a massive fire on Chicago’s far north side (West Ridge) this morning, w/multiple fatalities. The National Guard is trained to help communities after a disaster, but they can’t now, even though they’re already here, because residents would be too rightfully terrified of them.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

How many felons do you think are working for ICE at this point? I definitely think it's a a non-zero number. If they weren't a felon when they started, I suspect many of them are...now.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 19h

Kristi Noem even complaining that ICE agents aren't being allowed on private property is inappropriate. We have a 3rd amendment for a reason. We do not owe government employees with gun a space in our homes or businesses when they aren't even paying customers!

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zensoul.bsky.social @zensoul.bsky.social · 20h

#ProudBlue If Miller, Noem & Homan think their gestapo tactics are going to break Chicago, they need to think again. #HandsOffChicago

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Protesters hit the streets as Texas National Guard expected to be deployed in Chicago area

The deployment will entail 200 soldiers from the Texas National Guard and 300 soldiers from the Illinois National Guard, according to the military.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 21h

Problems with pharma don't mean that quackery works.

Problems in aircraft design don’t mean that magic carpets can actually fly.

- Ben Goldacre

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Billie Etchison @sybilte420.bsky.social · 1d

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crazycanloon.bsky.social @crazycanloon.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

When is the round table on the tooth fairy?

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

It's been over 9 months since the Palisades and Eaton Fires tore through Los Angeles. We asked for federal support, but we haven’t heard a word from the White House.

Not a single offer.

Is this what leadership looks like? Abandoning the American people when they call for help?

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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 1d

Release the Epstein files

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking most the people who feel abandoned by the Democratic Party are the left-wing people residing in solid red states, like myself. DNC gave up on us years ago. Would be nice to have Blue State brothers and sisters recognize that.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Noem fleeing "war torn" Portland

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

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

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Warnock on Greene saying subsidies need to be extended: “You are going to hear me utter words, I never thought I'd say: Marjorie Taylor Greene is right.”

“I'm seeing what she's seeing. She's seeing what I'm seeing. People's health care premiums on the marketplace are going up astronomically high.”

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