avanb2

avanb2

@avanb2.bsky.social

Life long liberal, unapologetic atheist, lover of all animals and very few people. Too old to put up with any more BS. Here to toast marshmallows in the widening gyre with you all. Know my way around a few curse words. Rogier van den Weyden fan.

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Re:eradicating Dept of Education- "Every educated person is a future enemy. " Martin Bormann talking about policies of 3rd reich. Learn from history!

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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You deserve a plan! Before Election Day, decide whether you'll vote early, by mail, or in person and set a reminder. Make your plan, know your options, and be ready to vote! Visit VOTE411.org to learn more about voting options in your state.

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Polls just closed in the Brazilian presidential run off. Things are looking messy. Bolsonaro-affiliated mayors sabotaged public transport in at least ten states. São Paulo reportedly has 29% of buses out of service. The Brazilian ⁠Supreme Court has just ordered ⁠voting hours ⁠extended by ​2 hours.

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“Voting times extended by two hours in Salvador as the Labour Party tries to get extensions in more affected cities. The party is urging people to vote but the truth is that this criminal transport interference will have caused a massive loss in voting among the largely pro-Lula working class”

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

544 buses stopped in Bahia! Only one bus per line on the streets of Teresina, a capital with a population of almost a million! Metro stoppages in São Paulo with no replacement buses! No buses in São Gonçalo, a city in the state of Rio governed by the far-right!

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Americans have a choice. You can vote for Nazism—which is 100% what this is—or you can vote for America. Anyone votes for Nazism should never be forgiven by anyone they love or even anyone they know casually. Voting for Nazism is an unforgivable sin for good reason. It is treachery against America.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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This story of Google’s destruction of a forest for a data center gets worse and worse.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social

Google’s data center brings wolves. “We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest,” 53-year-old Otanmäki resident Anni Ranta told the Guardian. “They fled.”

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Student debt. Rising bills. Clean air And water. All of it is on the ballot. Allison Janney said it best: Decisions are made by those who SHOW UP. So, SHOW UP. VOTE. YOUR FUTURE IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR. OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT.🗳️ VOTE #BlueWaveIn10Days

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

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Over 1,000 women have been charged with a CRIME for having a miscarriage. Meanwhile, the big ugly bill is shuttering hospitals, especially in rural areas. Make no mistake: reproductive freedom is still on the ballot. #BlueWaveIn10Days #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

Just the sound of his very voice is the tonic my soul needs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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This could work 🤦🏾‍♀️

Heather Thomas@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

Republicans should ditch the elephant and just use a silhouette of a man chasing a little girl as their party symbol.

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Texas early voting is on! Check out the best Political ad in Texas! “If Republicans ads were Honest” #Texas #Talarico #USDemocracy

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"Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimated the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes. For an average citizen of the world it would take 860 years to produce the same amount." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

theguardian.comExcessive wealth, extreme emissions – and ecocide: what I learned at Europe’s big superyacht showThese yachts are highly popular with the ‘super-bourgeoisie’ – and getting bigger. Can anything be done to stop them destroying our seas?

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Wrote last week on The Rooster about Conman cutting an ad with Amy Acton's estranged mother as his "October surprise." Well, here it is. Polling on it just went out.

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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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This is comes shortly after the WH launched a "safety review" of mifepristone. The Women's Health Division, led by Susie Wiles & RFK Jr. is supposed work in tandem w/ the Office of Research on Women's Health. Of course, no scientists were chosen for this new task force. 🧪 archive.today/4q6ph

reuters.comTrump signs order creating NIH division, task force for women's healthUS President Donald Trumpsigned an executive order alongside first lady Melania Trump on Monday creating a White House task force and a National Institutes of Health division focused on women's health...

Why everyone should just ignore Carville. Why does he still get any airtime?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🤔 James Carville: “I’d rather Republicans keep the house by 5 than Dems win by 5… Because then they’re hostage to DSA, and Hakeem can’t move.” 😬Bill Kristol: “Good point.” So afraid of DSA folks who want M4ALL, etc. they’d rather Republicans hold power. Unreal. True colors.

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This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social

The map posted by Trump this morning versus the blurred image on his desk in Katie Zacharia's post. (The White House responded to questions about whether the blurred image was a map of East Potomac by spewing invective.)