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@gpbakes.bsky.social

Retired English teacher who taught real history; daughter, mom, grandmother, sister, friend and book lover. 🇮🇹☕️🗽📚

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

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Phil Williams
@philinvestigates.com

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

newschannel5.com'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in TennesseeThey are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

This is such a good piece: More than anyone except Trump, Miller's personal worldview is reshaping our government. He sets targets that fuel invasive immigration round-ups that are indifferent about how is captured. We have to build a new detention state for the people being rounded up.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

newrepublic.comInside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror StateHe is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
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@gpbakes.bsky.social

In a NYT article, the 250th commemorative celebration of US coins, ignores abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, and Civil Rights Movement. “Mr. Bessent opted instead for the more general, and much whiter. For the Mayflower Compact, a Pilgrim couple staring into the distance.” 1/2

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@gpbakes.bsky.social

2/2 “For the Revolutionary War, a profile of Washington. For the Declaration of Independence, a profile of Thomas Jefferson. For the Constitution, a profile of James Madison. And for the Gettysburg Address, a profile of Lincoln…”

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FactPost
@factpostnews.bsky.social

Farmer: Agriculture in this country has been in a complete turbulence and turmoil since Trump got elected. Farm suicides, farm bankruptcies, farm foreclosures are all up under his watch. And I want to remind Trump that we're in the position that we're in because of his tariffs.

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America Is Divided
@petrep.bsky.social

I didn't vote for Trump either time, not because he ran under the Republican banner, but because I knew what kind of man he was. He's proven me right in so many ways during his second term in office, it's sickening and demoralizing to see what he's done to our once proud nation. 🗽

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

Pete Hegseth is the kind of liar who thinks confidence and a loud voice can substitute for truth. It doesn’t. PS- none of this should be making old man Trump drowsy.

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George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social

He’s letting white collar criminals walk free: More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses. “I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”

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Asha Rangappa
@asharangappa.bsky.social

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

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🇨🇦 Tom [redacted]🍁📎
@tntnle.bsky.social

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bsky.app/profile/mark... Ol Bernie hit the nail on the head once again!

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social

"“Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don’t like what your political opponents say, execute them,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that’s not what we do in America.” www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...

commondreams.org'Maybe It's Time to Pick a Fucking Side,' Says Murphy After Trump Calls for Execution of Lawmakers | Common Dreams"Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don't like what your political opponents say, execute them," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that's not w...