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@virginiawriter.bsky.social

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Here for the 💙 politics. Fascism is not inevitable. MAGA sucks. Nam vet. Married. NO DMs. Like fiction? Read my novel, ‘West Heads Home.’ My army memoirs are also out: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Peter%20Farnham/author/B0CFFXNXMH

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 18h

Terrifying images of death and destruction and bad dancing.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 2d

“Once authoritarianism shows up to the party, there can be only two kinds of media:

•Propaganda that is sanctioned by the regime

•Independent media that exists to see the authoritarian project ended

There is no third way. Eventually, every media institution will have to choose a side.”

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 1d

Oh pkease let it be so. Or give it to Obama again. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Trump Explodes with Rage after Gavin Newsom Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The committee recognized Trump with a "certificate of participation."

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 1d

Hand to hand combat!

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 1d

I’m tearing up, looking at this. These wonderful people.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 1d

substack.com/@tiggertoon/...

Lydia Royer (@tiggertoon)

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 1d

Push back against a takeover of America’s cities, loudly and persistently.
He’ll back down. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Portland And Beyond

This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 2d

Of course he did. l.smartnews.com/p-6kVPL3tC/e...

Trump snubs Virginia's GOP nominee for governor even as she's attacked as too ‘MAGA' (CNN)

Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears speaks during a campaign event at the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department in Vienna, Virginia, o...

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 2d

The threat to bational security. substack.com/@samantha705...

Samantha Paige (she/they) (@samantha705901)

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 2d

Lol. Share this widely ridicule is powerful. substack.com/@demcastusa/...

DemCast USA (@demcastusa)

Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth is exactly what America needed. 🤣🤣🤣

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve got a real bad feeling about this… open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Week Ahead

October 5, 2025

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 3d

14 injured in downtown shooting, Montgomery police say.

I’m sure Trump will be sending in the National Guard any moment now.

Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 4d

Bwahaha!!!

midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 5d

I think so far this is my favorite from the week 😊

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 4d

Me too brother. Me too. There will be a reckoning.

WTF Seriously @stopbeingaderp.bsky.social · 5d

I can't wait until Russel Vought and Stephen Miler are arrested for treason. It will happen and the way things are going it's going to happen sooner than later. They're escalating, but they forget Americans don't take shit from wannabe dictators.

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 4d

Very occasionally. You just have to look directly above the quote to see the handle of the poster.

Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 4d

Sabrina, I did not post that quote. Someone else on my timeline did. This verse is why I do not consider myself a Christian: I do not believe in Jesus’ divinity.

Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 4d

A very disturbing read open.substack.com/pub/luciantr...

The perfect fascism of a raid in Chicago

This is what we must guard against.

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 4d

And here it is…

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 5d

Jfc.

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

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said."

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 5d

Trump’s former spiritual advisor and donor Robert Morris just pled guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old girl. NBC: “The Texas megachurch pastor…pleaded guilty Thursday in Osage County District Court to charges that he sexually abused a girl in the 1980s.”

—Today’s Meidas update.

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 5d

There are plenty of others. Check out the Sermon on the Mount.

Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 5d

With respect, should we just remain silent when confronting horrible people who even I know are wrong theologically? I am not a believer in Jesus’ divinity. But he was a great, very wise man, and I’m sorry he was murdered.

I will keep trying to convince CNs that they misunderstand Christianity.

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Virginia Writer 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 🇩🇰🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @virginiawriter.bsky.social · 5d

I am not a believer but Jesus understood what decency was. I’ll post a few tomorrow.

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