Deb

Deb

@afirefly.bsky.social

Nerd. Pro-democracy. Pro-person. 💙 Loves cats, lightningbugs, dragonflies, art, doggies, and science plus other wonderful and magical things. (I ignore most DMs.) Kindness matters. ❤️🔭🍯🐝

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It’s Saturday! Today, maybe, is all about recharging. To have a chill day. Or; to take a breather. Or; to keep it low-key. Or; to take a day to reset. A slow day is a good day. Put your rest mode: ON! Enjoy it. Let’s go! Be careful. Be safe. Be shiny. Be glimmer. Be you to the full. Take no shit.

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Brian Kilmeade is not putting up with Rachel Campos-Duffy’s propaganda. “It would be the biggest mistake of his administration to work with Russia. That is the modern Hitler of our generation.”

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Shit! 😳 Let’s make this nationwide.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early."

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Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

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Way too close, but thankfully someone was paying attention and alerted the police before this got really bad. They reportedly tried to call RAF Fairford to report 3 suspicious vans, but couldn’t get an answer from the base.

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When the public finally learns the full accounting of the damage done in this war, it’ll probably be too late to hold anyone in the Trump administration accountable. But this is insane. And they’re lying to the American people.

CBS News@cbsnews.com

CBS News Exclusive: New photos reveal widespread damage at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East caused by Iranian attacks.

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Diesel hit $6 a gallon this week—the highest in average price AAA has ever recorded. Mainers can't take it anymore. Susan Collins allowed this to happen, and she's got to go.

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Today's Kinzinger Report is out (link in reply) and we cover: - Republicans are fleeing Trump's own midterm convention - DHS agents are hunting voter fraud that doesn't exist - Whistleblower says ICE handed out badges before background checks - The White House is lawyering up for a midterm loss

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Today's Kinzinger Report is out and we cover: - Fox fires Maria Bartiromo for leaking to the White House - The DOJ fires the prosecutor who tried to hold an ICE agent accountable - The Missouri Supreme Court throws out Trump's gerrymander - House Republicans cancel the rest of September

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The Pentagon influencer scandal keeps getting bigger. More partisan online personalities. More government jobs. More taxpayer money. Who hired them, what are they being paid to do, and are military officers violating the UCMJ? This deserves answers.

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The Founders didn’t build America around one religion. They knew government had no business deciding who was “American enough” based on faith. That wasn’t a footnote to the founding—it was part of the bargain. In 2026, we really shouldn’t need the reminder. Yet here we are. Share it. #Midterm2026

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You can either tell the truth or you can work for Trump. You can’t do both.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

NEW: Jake Taylor from MSNOW says Jeanine Pirro just arrived at the West Wing. Uh oh! Methinks her days are numbered!

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Trump may disagree with Pirro, but there are apparently limits to how much she’s willing to lie to propagate his narrative. If DOJ had any evidence, even circumstantial, they would be charging people.

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This is obscene. Trump orders safe conduct for Alexei Mordashov's $500 mn superyacht, Nord. Mordashov is a key Kremlin henchman who has expanded his fortune building bombs Putin dropped on hospitals and nurseries in Ukraine. He is a war criminal. But Trump just loves him because of his ostentation.

reuters.comRussian superyacht crosses blockaded Strait of HormuzA superyacht linked to sanctioned Russian billionaire Alexey Mordashov sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, shipping data showed, one of very few vessels to ​transit the blockaded shipping...

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It takes me 2.5 minutes to explain why it’s a lie that we gave all the weapons to Ukraine that we needed for Iran. But the lie can be said in one sentence. We’re at a disadvantage when reality is nuanced. But the truth is essential

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Periodic reminder that Ukraine is one of our best allies. Between the intelligence sharing, capability sharing (drones, counter drone systems), and the fact they’re degrading the capability of one of our primary adversaries, anyone rooting against them looks even dumber now.

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Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊

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The most important thing to remember about Trump’s press conference last night is that the war in Iran is still out of control, gas prices are still through the roof, and the administration is still hiding the Epstein files from the American people.

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Remember back in 2020 when we found out about Trump's secret bank account in China, and that China's biggest state-controlled bank had rented out three floors in Trump Tower? I sure do. Interesting timing given his lies about China interfering in the 2020 election. www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/u...

nytimes.comTrump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits (Gift Article)As he raises questions about his opponent’s standing with China, President Trump’s taxes reveal details about his own activities there, including a previously unknown bank account.

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1. If I may toot my own horn here, when the history of 21st Century science fiction literature is written, the my contribution to it will be as the one who made humor in science fiction marketable again. When I started out, I was literally told it was difficult/impossible to sell SF as humor...

Lisa Meece@lisameece.bsky.social

I can't imagine anyone who's read Starter Villain or The Moon Hits Your Eye doubting your chops as a humorist...

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I'm glad that Graham Platner is out. But it is so disturbing to contemplate that the man who was *twice* elected president makes Platner look like an amateur when it comes to serial sexual assaults.

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This is an insane security failure. Thankfully, Macron was not harmed, but these videos are nuts.

Reuters@reuters.com

BREAKING: Explosive devices blew up ‌in Syria's capital Damascus near a hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron was meant to be staying, a security source said reut.rs/4y9D1qz

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More ships attacked. Folks have to understand that Iran really has no incentive to negotiate in good faith - they know Trump wants this war to end, and they have all the leverage. They’re going to take what money they can get and drag out the political pain for Trump as long as possible.