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Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Neither here nor there in the problems of the world, but I am really really weary of seeing ads on TV showing people eating grossly. Can't turn them off fast enough. Yuck. (On the other hand, the same is true of a certain chief exexutive's creepy voice.)

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We need to prioritise people over cars in public spaces ASAP! We need shade, greenery, water and meeting places. Heat killed a staggering 50,000 people in European cities this summer. People with health issues, loneliness and poverty were particularly vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comHeat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warnPeople succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll

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Bernie Sanders: "If you believe as I do that Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in the history of the United States, we need to get rid of that rubber stamp Republican leadership in the House and Senate."

I've heard fibs & little white lies before & we're probably all guilty of telling people things like, "You look just fine today," when they don't. Or in protection of ourselves & loved ones. But, Lord have mercy, we have a whole government telling us we're not seeing or hearing what we see and hear.

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Attn: The Trump administration is attempting to violate a judge’s order again. A judge blocked the reorganization of the Forest Service. Now Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Trump administration is “full-bore ahead” with its sweeping Forest Service reorganization.

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The Statue of Liberty doesn’t stand in New York Harbor holding a permission slip. Freedom belongs to the people & so does the power to choose our leaders. Don’t surrender because you’ve lost faith in politicians. That’s exactly when your vote matters most. #BlueWaveIn10Days #Pinks 🌊✨

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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC, Elias Law Group is fighting the Department of Justice’s sham lawsuit to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if anyone other than the Republican incumbent wins. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comDemocrats fight DOJ bid to block Alaska election if GOP losesMary Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Party want to fight the Trump administration’s attempt to interfere in Alaska's Senate results, calling it “extraordinary assault” on democracy and “insultin...

Maybe I'm just a cynical journalist, as we were labeled in J-school. But it still shocks me (not really but it dismays) that so many voters believed the promises of the current occupant of a certain white house. His hisory of fantasy is long. And then there was that horrifying Jan. 6.

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Bill Clinton: I balanced the federal budget Barack Obama: I expanded health insurance access and protections for millions of Americans. Joe Biden: I passed the largest long-term investment in US infrastructure since WWII Donald Trump: I can identify a snake

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When Elon Musk took control of X, he had CBS News chief Bari Weiss write a portion of his ill-fated “Twitter Files”-so you have to wonder how long ago this was planned But the big story is, anti-democracy conservatives want to reshape public opinion until it aligns with their warped worldview

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.

250 years and a celebration soured by a pitiful and nefarious admin. Graves all over the world on land and in the sea, sacrficed for our liberty and democracy. Let's elect the best, the brightest, and the most energetic to save our Constitutional government.

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Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

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Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

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Murderous dictator Vladimir Putin slaughtered children in a park in Ukraine on Tuesday and Steve Witkoff praised him as a "humanitarian" on Wednesday. If you're not repulsed and disgusted, you just might be a sick and twisted piece of shit yourself.

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Beverly and Jeff Morris lived in peace and quiet on their beautiful farm before Meta broke ground on a data center complex next door. Now, they don't have clean drinking water and are dealing with constant noise pollution.

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Vladimir Putin is not a “humanitarian.” He’s an evil killer and dictator. He’s the very antithesis of a humanitarian. Any American in any position of power who believes Putin is a humanitarian should not be in a position of power.

People think that it will take many years to overcome the corruption of this administration. But let's take the attitude we took about WW2 when we finally fully joined our allies after Pearl Harbor. Let's make urgent plans to overcome this with the powerful urgency of the early 1940s. We can do it!

People keep asking how we got to this place. Well, good people voted without looking at the whole picture or the right picture and for their own deep prejudices. They also disregarded the current president's well-known and long personal history at mendacity and self-glory.

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Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko recalls witnessing the aftermath of Russian attacks on civilians trying to flee. “Half-burnt bodies lying on the asphalt” beside the wreckage of their cars. “Something that you would expect to see in horror movies, but it's absolutely reality.”

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There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

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I really miss his particular saneness he made jokes but always knew what time it was.

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In 2012, Robin Williams warned us about Trump’s ownership of pageants like Miss America and Miss Universe, comparing it to Michael Vick owning pet stores: “It’s a catch-and-release program.” We should have listened to Robin.

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Every time Vance talks I am going to give money to the Dr Amy Acton gubernatorial campaign.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Vance just held an outrageous presser in which he defended Vivek's vile attacks on Acton, agreed w/ Witkoff's assessment of Putin as a "humanitarian," and had gall to claim "there's no person who hates people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the govt than Donald J Trump" Supercut:

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Neil Bush, brother of President George W. Bush, says he voted for James Talarico: “My vote was motivated by two things: deep concern about Ken Paxton's record and genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico.”

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🗳️ OHIO’S GOVERNOR RACE Dr. Amy Acton faces an ad featuring her estranged mother questioning her childhood abuse account. Police & court records support her account of childhood abuse. Voters deserve facts, not just accusations. 💜 Survivors deserve dignity. #Vote4DrAmyActon #Ohio #SheShed