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Toni Snowflake ❄️💙🌊🧙‍♀️

@tonisnowflake.bsky.social

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Left of liberal, intersectional feminist, treehugger, animal lover, witch, history nerd. Doing my best to #Resist in the heart of Texas. #BLM #LGBTQIA+ ally #TheResistance (I block DMs, MAGA, crypto, porn, or asking for $)

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Toni Snowflake ❄️💙🌊🧙‍♀️ @tonisnowflake.bsky.social · Jan 24

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

― Elie Wiesel

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

There should be a word for a huge but pointless event, such as a leader making announcements in a conference speech that will never be implemented and which not even the faithful will pay any attention to because the leader will be gone in a matter of months.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Amanda Taylor 🦋🦋 @botanywillsave.bsky.social · 22h

Wildlife Loves Scarlet Sage #birdsong #nature #bee #butterfly #garden

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Andy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 20h

There are many reasons to dislike James Comey. But what this administration is doing to him is a travesty of justice and un-American.

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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 20h

Federal prosecutors investigating former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly making false statements to Congress determined that a central witness in their probe would prove "problematic" and likely prevent them from establishing their case to a jury. abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...

Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources

Ex-FBI Director James Comey faces federal charges, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness in the case would prove "problematic," sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16h

Pritzker is meeting the moment and if he stands up for the people, stands up against Trump's rein of terror, holds ICE accountable, he can elevate himself as a front runner for Dem leadership.

Now is the moment for leaders, not cowards.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 16h

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 20h

When the people speak up in a unified voice, the powerful are forced to listen. Microsoft has pulled its plans for a Caledonia data center after opposition from residents and elected officials.

"Based on the community feedback we heard, we have chosen not to move forward with this site."

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 20h

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man in connection to starting the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 homes and buildings. (via @laist.com)

Uber driver charged in connection with starting the Palisades Fire

The Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7 and went on to kill 12 people and destroy more than 6,800 homes and buildings.

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 17h

@democracynow.org had @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social and me on together to explain that she is not being sworn in because she is the 218th signatory for the release of the Epstein files. Swear her in today.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 17h

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

open.substack.com

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 17h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 16h

I’m don’t think there’s any doubt about this.

Republicans and Trump are absolutely shitting themselves over the evidence against Trump in the Epstein files.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 16h

I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 16h

And there it is.

Trump would choose to be a dictator rather than let people find out that he’s a pedophile.

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Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 16h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 16h

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

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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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 16h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Toni Snowflake ❄️💙🌊🧙‍♀️ @tonisnowflake.bsky.social · 17h

About 540 square miles of land have been cleared for mining in the South American country since 1984, and the environmental destruction is spreading rapidly across the country.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon

Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report finds

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 17h

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