harryOOMAN

harryOOMAN

@harryooman.bsky.social

Friendly old curmudgeon. Retired professional. Lover of all things ursine. Generally true blue politically. Joined here to follow Laffy and others.

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2/ The press could take lessons, too. Talk back to Trump, stand up for your fellow reporters.

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VOTE EARLY and help others to do the same

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

📬 REMINDER TO MAIL VOTERS 📬 We are 8 days away from the midterms — a critical election that could determine House control and key positions in your community. To those voting by mail, TOMORROW is the last day USPS recommends mailing your ballot. Be sure to do so to ensure your vote counts.

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A Brazilian union member complains that Meta blocked her union's account for supporting Lula (Subtitles)

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Like, you know, inciting insurrections, abusing and killing Americans and immigrants, willfully tanking the economy, taking away your health care, interfering with elections... VISIONARY! NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “Here's something else Trump doesn't get credit for: he's visionary. “He imagines what people say is impossible. He thinks things that people say, "We can't do it because that's never been done before," and then he achieves them.”

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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Elias Law Group has filed to fight DOJ's lawsuit to rig the Alaska Senate election. We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated.

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Does Raytheon have the ability to shut down our Patriot Missile systems? In case you don't know, the answer is no. Why can Elon do this with Starlink?

Richard Blumenthal@blumenthal.senate.gov

Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX

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Vivek Ramaswamy, Ken Paxton, Mike Collins, Roger Marshall, on and on - everywhere you look the most despicable humans financed by a handful of billionaires and elevated by Trump want you to give them even more political power to serve their interests at your expense.

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Yeah, sounds like a good question to ask republicans: Will you disavow the disgusting ad Ramaswamy posted?

Sherrod Brown@sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social

The ad released by Vivek Ramaswamy is disgusting. Everyone, including Jon Husted, should be willing to condemn this ad.

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You would think given the mythology JD Vance created about his childhood to launch his political career that he would quickly condemn that despicable ad against Amy Acton. But that would require him to have principles and be a decent person.

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Well I couldn't watch most of it, so I can't be sure, but it seems that once again Trump just attacked Ukraine and defended Russia and NOT A SINGLE REPORTER ASKED HIM WHY HE'S DEFENDING THE ENEMY OR WHAT CONCESSIONS HE IS DEMANDING FROM RUSSIA IN THIS CEASEFIRE DEAL. The most feckless press ever.

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The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit

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3/ I think this clip needs to be made into an ad. It shows how truly scary-violent and insane he is. And it's VERY short.

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Fascist.

Matt Ortega@mattortega.com

Vance is, at his core, an anti-democratic authoritarian. Anybody who challenges him is immediately rendered as an "other" who does not belong.

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I cannot wait for the day when Trump’s brutal abuse is history and being treated well is the norm.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "My office is known for world-class service. But what amazes me is how surprised people are to be treated well."

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Words we long for and needed to hear.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "Foster kids don't have lobbyists or a super PAC. Neither do the women subjected to medical abuse in ICE detention. Neither do the female inmates sexually abused by the warden and the chaplain in their federal prison ... they deserve leaders who see them"

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This was Lindsey Graham's bill, something he felt strongly about. So, of course, his devoted sister, Darline Graham, will ferociously rebuke Donald Trump for this. I'm kidding! She doesn't give a shit about her dead brother's wishes. She just wants the fame, $174,000, and free healthcare.

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Laughing at my ridiculous statements is a violation of my 1st amendment rights! You’re not allowed to have an opinion about what I say.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

MARYLAND — @RepAndyHarrisMD gets laughed at 🤡 for trying to blame the Dems for high fuel prices, then whines about the “first amendment” 😢 Who wants to tell Andy getting appropriately ridiculed for saying embarrassing things doesn’t violate his rights?

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Watchdog time! "The Campaign for Acttability has filed a complaint w Calif State Bar asking for investigation into Katie Zacharia over her claims she is a lawyer after reports surfaced that she is not licensed to practice law in any state. .. it’s an act that California law treats as a crime"

thehill.comWatchdog files complaint against Zacharia with California barThe Campaign for Accountability has filed a complaint with the California State Bar Association asking for an investigation into White House press secretary Katie Zacharia over her claims that she …

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Menace to democracy Elon Musk has slowed Starlink to sabotage Ukraine and help Putin. So what country will be stupid enough to pay millions to any of Elon Musk's companies when they now know that he may unilaterally breach contracts for personal reasons on a petulant whim? Oh, I know! The US.

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Oh hell yes. Keep 'em coming

Zoe Tillman@zoetillman.bsky.social

NEW: A lawsuit accuses Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, of unlawfully exercising government power by acting as one of the administration’s “go-to foreign policy negotiators” without Senate confirmation or compliance with ethics rules buff.ly/nT8HJxw Complaint: buff.ly/mtX7rZX

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Thomas is still there, harassing the rule of law.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Photo Almanac: On Oct. 11, 1991, law professor Anita Hill testified before Congress that she was sexually harassed by then-Judge Clarence Thomas, as the Senate Judiciary Committee weighed whether to support Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

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Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

🚨BREAKING: A judge ruled the DOJ's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls and urging them to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal. "This policy...has left untold numbers of disenfranchised voters in its wake and inflicted injuries to the Plaintiffs' privacy," the court wrote.

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He’s going to keep saying increasingly offensive things because it earns him attention and…if he’s lucky…it will turn Americans against each other before the election so he can justify a show of force. Don’t fall for it.