jopovt

jopovt

@jopovt.bsky.social

Vermonter fed up with the racism, inhumanity, lies, graft, and incompetence.

215 followers215 following94 posts

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Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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Team Talarico
@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

James Talarico: Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire — all while most Texans’ pay has remained stagnant for decades. He now owns 15 homes, while most Texans can't afford one. We can't afford Ken Paxton's corruption.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@mayor.nyc.gov

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

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Ian Weissman, DO
@drianweissman.bsky.social

93% of cancer researchers who study health disparities said federal policy changes have affected them. Funding is harder to come by and they worry it's slowing progress in their field. www.npr.org/2026/07/15/n...

npr.orgCancer disparities researchers say federal funding changes have disrupted their workIn a survey, 93% of cancer researchers who study disparities said federal policy changes have affected them. Funding is harder to come by and they worry it's slowing progress in their field.

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Allison Gill
@muellershewrote.com

If you're an FBI analyst surging to Atlanta to review records, reach out to me. I'll keep you anonymous. Signal in bio. Please share this post widely.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

if they were intentionally trying to wreck the country, how could you tell the difference?

Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social

SCOOP: Markwayne Mullin met with airline and travel executives at DHS last week and told them he's serious about plan to pressure sanctuary cities by cutting CBP screening at intl airports after World Cup. Execs have warned economic impact would be "devastating" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.comHomeland Security’s Plan to Strong-Arm ‘Sanctuary’ CitiesDHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told travel executives he may target airports in cities that don’t help ICE.

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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

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Barb McQuade
@barbmcquade.bsky.social

Regardless of the wisdom of war in Iran, Chicago archbishop reminds us of the harm to our own humanity when we revel in the suffering of others.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

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Shimanti
@humanconsequences.com

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -Dwight Eisenhower 1953

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Will Bunch
@willbunch.bsky.social

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

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Steven Beschloss
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

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Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social

Scott has spent the last 15 years of his life working in the highest echelons of government, as FL Governor (from 2011-2019) and as a U.S. Senator (since 2019), during which time he has undermined every effort to use the tools of governance to improve the public sphere.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rick Scott: "The government doesn't do anything well"

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BlueCrew community
@libertyovergov.bsky.social

Ontario Premier Doug Ford slammed Donald Trump: “How can one person, one man, create so much turmoil around the world...I can't wait for the midterms."🇺🇸🇨🇦 #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice