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Just ‘Steve’ 💙

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🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🦋PNW rabble-rouser, cycling enthusiast, craft beer aficionado, and all-around tormentor of MAGA, MAGAts, and their related ilk. 🍺🚴‍♂️ A true blue Bills and Timbers fan. 🏈⚽️ Fight the good fight. Music, science, finance, technology, and the environment. 💙❤️🖤

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14h

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 17h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 2h

Miller is a fucking Nazi.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 9h

Eric Swallwell (D-CA) says it’s coming to an end and House Republicans are privately breaking, that a “jailbreak” is brewing the moment the Epstein files hit the floor, and that Trump’s aura of fear is finally cracking.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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SWALWELL’S BOMBSHELL EPSTEIN TWEET: "The Epstein Files Are Coming And The GOP Are Getting Ready To Abandon Trump"

218 or chaos: Inside the House moment that could shatter Trump’s grip

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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 8h

Hey Speaker Johnson, swear in Adelita Grijalva. Or are you too scared that Trump and your other GOP buddies are in the Epstein files?

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 7h

They're not going to reach their goal of deporting 1M per year. There are neither the resources, logistics, or funds to do so. $80 billion to deport 1M per year. 15 million illegals they claim = 15 years and $1.3 trillion. Add in the hit to the economy and it's a total farce.

Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs — NPR

At a recent DHS career expo in Provo, Utah, many attendees hoped to get hired to help with the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Why isn't Pam Bondi releasing the Epstein Files?

Over 80% of Americans want them released. Its the only thing that a majority of this country agrees on.

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Charlotte Crist @touchesky.bsky.social · 1d

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 13h

Deflection number 534.

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Dr Paul M @drpaulm.bsky.social · 1d

To close a Wells Fargo A/C, you must have a zero balance and no pending transactions. You can call customer service at 1-800-869-3557, visit a branch with valid ID, or by mail a completed Account Closure Request form if you are outside the U.S. Wells Fargo does not allow account closures online.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21h

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

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Hellish Children @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 1d

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Chipmunk Whisperer 🌴🥥🏝️ @chipmunkwhisperer.bsky.social · 2d

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 23h

Later on he got hit in the head by a non-lethal round.

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 23h

So, apparently when Republicans control everything no one is in charge when the shit hits the fan and all goes to hell. Can't get a straight answer, or need to look into that, or I'll get back to you. They bicker and argue amongst themselves. Say one and backtrack later and contradict each other.

Trump's off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP — POLITICO

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant.

No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 23h

She deflects and avoids answering questions just like the Felon.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.