John Vranas

John Vranas

@jvranas.bsky.social

Pro Earth 🌍 Science, not Idiocracy. World Traveler, Sci-Fi fan, Husband, dad, and amateur guitar player🎶 📖 🎮 🪐📸 All photos are mine.

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🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

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The Trump DOJ demanded California sideline ballots from voters it claims are noncitizens, from a list sent on a USB drive with a sticky note. Mainstream media doesn't cover these stories like we do. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date: https://demdock.com/4spjoZj

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This is a lie. Kari Lake filed an election contest, a court considered it and she lost.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Kari Lake, whose name he can't remember: "I want to give me respects to that person. She's a very good person. She suffered greatly. She won that election. Probably won the other one too. The damn machines were broken in Republican areas!"

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I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Dr. Vin Gupta, an actual health expert, just dismantled RFK Jr.’s entire health agenda piece by piece. Medicaid cuts. NIH trials canceled. Environmental protections gutted. "Lots of marketing, little substance" on food policy.

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GOP Senator Bill Cassidy thinks he's earned our undying gratitude for *almost* voting no on Todd Blanche. fuck off, Bill. thank you for your attention to my post, in which I cover all the dumbfuckery Republicans were up to on the Sunday shows. link is here: bit.ly/4wQEK31

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I don't care who you are—we should ALL be able to agree that detaining babies and kids is WRONG. There's no other way to put it.   ICE is out of control, and every Republican who just voted to cut them ANOTHER blank check is complicit in their inhumane actions.

ms.nowICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under TrumpOn an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.

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I trust Trump about as far as I could throw him. Congress needs to BAN any kind of corrupt slush fund like this from EVER existing. A wink and a nod won't cut it—we need to ban it by LAW.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

MENG: Are you going to issue new memo in writing rescinding weaponization fund? BLANCHE: I'm not committing to putting anything in writing. What would the purpose be? M: You established it in writing so it makes sense to rescind it in writing B: Ok. I'm not committing to doing anything in writing

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Conversely "talent" will get you only so far. One, talent is spread more widely than people who fancy themselves geniuses might presume. Two, no matter how talented you are, you're probably neither a Prince nor a Picasso, and someone else pretty talented who's not a dick can do nearly all you do.

Jake Sparks@jsparks7s.bsky.social

It really is amazing how far you can get in life by simply showing up and not being an asshole.

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Sean Duffy's "Great American Road Trip" was sponsored by the very corporations he regulates. He blew a gasket when I asked him to answer basic questions about his all-expense-paid vacation. Americans deserve answers, so I'm calling for an Inspector General investigation.

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here's today's post: "the January 6 rioters are about to get millions, and We the People can go fuck ourselves" — why do we even have laws, if some shithead gets to ignore them? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

bit.lythe January 6 rioters are about to get millions, and We the People can go fuck ourselveswhy do we even have laws, if some shithead gets to ignore them?

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Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tel everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

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Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

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The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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If Trump signs an unconstitutional Executive Order to take over voting, we will sue. I don't bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump is expected to sign a sweeping executive order aimed at cracking down on mail-in voting, escalating his long-running effort to restrict voting access ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

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Republicans will talk all day long about their voter suppression bill and fake voter fraud—but they won't say a thing about how they'll actually lower your costs.

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BREAKING: Republicans have relented to Democratic demands to fund the rest of DHS besides ICE & Border Patrol. No more holding TSA hostage. No blank check for ICE & Border Patrol. We need real reforms & accountability. I'll keep fighting for exactly that.

murray.senate.govSenator Murray Statement on DHS Funding - Senator Patty MurrayWashington, D.C. — Today, Senator Patty Murray, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “Democrats h...

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i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

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The US is spending more than $1 trillion on the military for the first time in history. That apparently isn't enough. Now, the Pentagon wants $200 billion more for an illegal war in Iran. The answer is NO. We need to invest in the American people, not endless war.

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it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

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They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

404 Media@404media.co

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

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Certain dudes are still upset with me when I said in 2012 that here in the US, being a straight white male is living on the lowest difficulty setting of life. From here on out I'm just going to refer them to these DOGE staffer depositions, and then tell them to go fuck themselves.

404 Media@404media.co

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

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What's shameful is: Speaker Johnson is not loyal to the constitution of the United States. He should be investigated for falsely swearing his oath of office

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Trump recently suggested that he is getting ready to issue a new anti-voting executive order. Last time he issued one, we sued and won. If he does it again, we will sue and win. Trump knows this. It is why he and his allies hate and attack me. I will never back down or stop fighting for democracy.

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Can I prove that? NO There’s a reason for that

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Johnson: “We had three House Republican candidates who were ahead on Election Day…And every time a new tranche of ballots came in, they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost…It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove that? No.”

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Puritanical Pixie Mike Johnson: "Well, golly gosh darn it! Can you imagine if those meanies in the judiciary made our secret police follow that due process hooey in the dang Constitution? What an OUTRAGEOUS suggestion! Convenience over Constitution!"

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Mike Johnson speaks out against the use of judicial warrants in immigration cases: "Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"