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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎

@trypax.charityweb.net

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Key measure of a society: how easy it makes it for members to make morally good choices. Father of 4 wonderful children plus 2 fantastic daughters-in-law. Founder of CharityWeb.net. Member of Pax Christi Metro-DC Baltimore. LGBTQ+ supporter. Christian.

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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎 @trypax.charityweb.net · 21d

Plan for ending Trump presidency in 2027:
- Dem take House and 63 Senate seats
- Replace Jeffries as Dem House leader. Raskin?
- Make DC a state giving 2 more Dem Senators
- Convince 3 GOP Sens (Murkowski, Cassidy, ???) to vote with Dems
- Impeach and convict VP Vance. Don't allow a replacement.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 58m

So the argument for sending US troops into cities to be used against Americans is that Antifa has apparently taken over our cities and the troops have to battle them.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 2h

If you're complaining about independent media asking you to pitch in as a paying subscriber, I can only assume you are happy with "free" billionaire-owned corporate media monetizing your attention, selling you to advertisers, and immersing you in oligarchs' self-serving content.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12m

“King Donald The First. F*ck that.”

Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 18 to show the world that America has no kings, and power still belongs to the people: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 4h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎 @trypax.charityweb.net · 1h

Police dramas on TV and theater have done a lot of damage here. Video can skip over a lot of the mind’s filtering. Makes me very worried about AI. Facebook’s Sora may bring down the Republic.

Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎 @trypax.charityweb.net · 1h

Long before this, we have normalized routine violations of 4th, 5th, and 8th Amendments by the police. Read them, and you will wonder how police, both local and Fed, get away with what they do. I guess “probable cause” is doing a lot of work. We need to pull back on this once Trumpism is gone.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

Trump's nonstop threats to arrest Dems are also about sleepwalking us into forgetting that free societies don't allow for arbitrary arrests of political opponents.

As @kristyparker.bsky.social says, we need to keep reminding ourselves that this isn't how it works:

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Context matters

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NPR @npr.org · 3h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Sister Julia Walsh @juliafspa.bsky.social · 3h

THIS message at the top of the @usccbofficial.bsky.social website when I went there for some prayer this morning!!

thank you, Church, for calling us back to the Gospel

"What happens to a nation when violence no longer shocks us?"

#Catholic

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NPR @npr.org · 3h

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 3h

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3h

Ross’s thoughtful interviews and discussions consistently cover an impressive range all the way from indulging the domination fantasies of theocrats to desperately pursuing quack Lyme disease cures.

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 3h

The fact that this coming 9 days before the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is absolutely intentional. We will not back down. Trump and Miller can lie, smear, and threaten all they want. They will lose. No Kings, No Kings, No Kings. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 3h

🚨NEW: Republicans now have a 2016-esque lead over Dems on the corruption issue.

Some Dems are finally starting to tell hard truths about their party's problem – and the problem of money in politics.

Here's my @thebulwark.com essay as we soon launch our new book MASTER PLAN – please share👇

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats

It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

www.thebulwark.com

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NWresistance @nwresistance.bsky.social · 3h

No Kings 2.0!! 10/18 Get somewhere! WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @ctmirror.org

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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎 @trypax.charityweb.net · 2h

Will we ever go back to the time when politicians are accountable for telling obvious lies? Thune knows he’s lying, the reporter knows it, but neither care.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎 @trypax.charityweb.net · 21h

The major problems facing the USA right now all have known, simple solutions. Only greed for money or power stops their implementation.
1) Cost and lack of healthcare: single payer.
2) Runaway gov't debt: see problem 1 and add wealth tax ...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Kurt Hansen 🥄🏳️‍🌈🌎 @trypax.charityweb.net · 4h

Thank you! I actually did not know that even though I’m a news junkie.

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Bill Ed @excharger.bsky.social · 23h

This well researched, fully documented, and clearly analyzed case study is representative of what people intuitively know, that the U.S.A.'s dogmatic support of the market capitalism has led unconscionable concentrations of wealth while the bottom half of the population suffer needlessly.

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 23h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 5h

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Video Shows ICE Agent Shoot Protesting Minister In Head With Pepper Ball

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