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TawnyBeanDolley

@tawnybeandolley.bsky.social

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Childless Cat Mom, Scotland addict, LGBTQA+ friendly,Stuck in the Heartland, Sarcastic, Loves potatoes. Formerly Karen Morguean Dolley on the xitter. Vicious, Tryphina, Foul Morguean,Tigger, Naptown Ninja

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TawnyBeanDolley @tawnybeandolley.bsky.social · 1d

St. Kilda, Scotland (22 July 2022)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 1d

"Nobody deserves to die for their political beliefs."

Interesting, so when women die because you don't believe in abortion… that is you pushing death onto a grown woman- but that’s acceptable? Right?

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TawnyBeanDolley @tawnybeandolley.bsky.social · 1d

St. Kilda, Scotland (22 July 2022)

TawnyBeanDolley @tawnybeandolley.bsky.social · 2d

Inside St. Kilda Church St. Kilda, Scotland (22 July 2022)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

Narrator: This is fascism.

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis
) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

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TawnyBeanDolley @tawnybeandolley.bsky.social · 4d

Rush hour on Hirta
St. Kilda, Scotland (22 July 2022)

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene admitted the GOP could end the shutdown anytime they wanted, they control all the branches of government. Broken clock’s right twice a day.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 5d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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TawnyBeanDolley @tawnybeandolley.bsky.social · 5d

St. Kilda, Scotland (22 July 2022)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 6d

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mxmike.co.uk · 7d

She’s had a busy day

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

🎯 SEN. YARBRO: “Historically bad decision by Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in the hell this is.”

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'?

JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said.

S: Those are quotes

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 8d

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TawnyBeanDolley @tawnybeandolley.bsky.social · 7d

Sigh

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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 7d

In a rare show of unity, Democrats embrace shutdown, viewing the fight with Mr. Trump over health care subsidies a necessary victory. For a party base demanding a tougher stance, confrontation marks a line in the sand despite significant political risks and consequences for federal workers.

Democrats embrace a shutdown fight in a rare moment of unity against Trump

Democrats agree it's time to fight. Democratic leaders across the political spectrum are shrugging off the risks and embracing a government shutdown they say is needed to push back against President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress.

apnews.com

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TawnyBeanDolley @tawnybeandolley.bsky.social · 7d

Hirta, St. Kilda, Scotland (22 July 2022)

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Hirta, St. Kilda, Scotland (22 July 2022)

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

I’m still processing what happened this morning.

Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

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