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refugeepat.bsky.social
@refugeepat.bsky.social
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Trapped in Occupied America If you’re not furious you’re not paying attention! Using 🤬 way too much these days I love science, animals, good food, travel and the outdoors. Yoga practitioner, former satellite engineer, teacher’s assistant, marathoner. 🌮
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refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social · Apr 6
Sign yesterday:
“Make Orwell fiction again”
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 10h
'Less evidence than a ham sandwich': Lawyer mocks DOJ as another prosecution collapses
'Less evidence than a ham sandwich': Lawyer mocks DOJ as another prosecution collapses
Another U.S. attorney under President Donald Trump's Justice Department has failed to get an indictment from a grand jury, although this time it was in Chicago, not Washington, D.C.There have been a handful of grand juries in Washington that refused to indict protesters and other angry citizens who ...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8h
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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h
The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
😕

Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks to RFK, parents are encountering all sorts of obstacles when trying to find pediatric covid shots, inc. for infants and toddlers younger than 2, who are at higher risk - we knew this would happen.

Some of the problems:

🔹️Many pediatricians and...

🧵1/7

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...
Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall
www.nytimes.com
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Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · 1d
10 families bask in a staggering combined wealth of £24.7bn, eclipsing the £24.5bn owned by #Scotland’s poorest 28 per cent — more than 1.5m people

While £7.7bn, along with 220,000 acres of land is owned by one man

Best #VoteGreen

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tax-...
Tax on richest 10 families could lift 30,000 kids out of poverty
A WEALTH tax on Scotland’s 10 richest families could raise 30,000 children out of poverty at a stroke, according to a new report.In analysis for Tax Justice Scotland, an alliance of trade unions, comm...
morningstaronline.co.uk
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h
This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.
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Indivisible Rapid City @indivisiblercsd.bsky.social · 7h
Got frustration? We got you.
Join #50501southdakota & Indivisible Rapid City for a Poster & Banner making event to prep for the upcoming NO Kings Rally

October 11 Saturday
1:30-3:30 PM
Rapid City Public Library
Hoyt Room

#IndivisibleRapidCity #NoKings #IndivisibleRapidCity #southdakota
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9h
President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 10h
Most of Dem Senators did not attack Bondi yesterday as they should have. Among other things they should have said, "You're lying again, Ms. Bondi" and "That's a bald-faced lie, Ms. Bondi."

The rapid rise of authoritarianism is no place for etiquette.
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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 11h
📌 Mark Kelly & Ruben Gallego
confront Mike Johnson ‼️⤵️🐥
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h
Michigan Avenue right now.
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refugeepat.bsky.social
refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social · 9h
Not a positive thing IMHO
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17h
From 2017 to 2024, the number of data centers in the U.S. increased from 318 to 5,208.
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𝓥𝓲𝓻𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓪 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵 📎 @virginiahall32.bsky.social · 1d
WATCH as Mark Kelly shuts down Doocy!
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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 1d
I see from CNN that Canada’s economy is in “crisis”.

A word of unsolicited advice to everyone: don’t believe a single word any US media says about Canada. None. They don’t know shit about us and they don’t care.

It’s in the US’ interest to describe us as being in crisis. Not ours.
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GingerSpice💙 @thedesertginger.bsky.social · 1d
Attorney General Pam Bondi has seen the Epstein files with her own eyes

She still supports that piece of shit

That's all we need to know about her
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Jami-Jam @jami-jam.bsky.social · 18h
EMERGENT! Trump is quickly destroying our world! We need to make some noise! Follow @georgebarilla.bsky.social for more.
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George Barilla @georgebarilla.bsky.social · 18h
Donald Trump wants to open the spectacular deep Pacific Ocean to drilling and mining. It's a global emergency: resistors in the government say we need to flood the public comment process before it’s too late! action.eko.org/a/trump-atta...
Stop Trump's attack on our oceans!
Donald Trump just announced he’s going to open the Pacific Ocean to deep sea mining!That means his friends will get permits to vacuum up the ocean floor, destroy irreplaceable marine life, and make bi
action.eko.org
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Am I reading this right? Did Trump say he took freedom of speech away?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h
Flagging Trump this afternoon:

"We took the freedom of speech away. Because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech — but what has happened is, when they burn a flag it, agitates and irritates crowds."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
JPM DESK: “.. the US budget deficit has not shrunk despite the tariff revenue.

“.. if tariffs are not being used to pay down debt or in some cases as a bailout (e.g., soybean farmers ..) at what point does the bond market react negatively?”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
My latest: The fight for democracy is the defining battle of our generation. Within that struggle, protecting free and fair elections must be our top priority. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...
Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases
Read here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Joyce M @jkmoore.bsky.social · 12h
He said it…he is insane!
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 12h
He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”
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Joyce M @jkmoore.bsky.social · 10h
Hilarious…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
Wow — Harvard Crimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI.

With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h
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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refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social · 9h
Right?
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