mstraat.bsky.social

mstraat.bsky.social

@mstraat.bsky.social

Grandma in small blue dot smack in the middle of the U.S. My feline roomate’s name is Calvin.

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I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

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Can't wait for Bibi and Trump to either leave office or be carried out and stapled to a telephone pole. Stunning self-centered crooks and cheats. How does the world, including us, put people like this in power? How?

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Don’t believe the lies. Trump is *not* selling $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. It’s worse. Trump is *giving away* $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. American taxpayers are paying for those bombs.

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Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

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08/04/26 AM: Did YOU have Breakfast? 14,000,000 children are starving in America! 770,000 more lost SNAP benefits! 1 in 4 around the world wakeup hungry! You can mute/block me. I don't care. I'll not stop! Will YOU Be Voting for Children to eat in 11/26 & giving to or working in a local food bank?

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You can't make this up: the Trump administration is arguing in court that even a cancer diagnosis isn't enough to claim an exemption from his draconian new Medicaid work requirements. Sickening — and all to fund even more tax cuts for the ultra-rich.

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Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

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After careful consideration of tonight's speech by Trump it is abundantly clear our President is a whiny little bitch. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.

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21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."

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Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren

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Thank you President Obama. 🙏 I appreciate your honesty, intelligence, dignity, integrity, humility & humor. 👍 Looking forward to the opening of your Presidential Center this week! 👀 Wishing you & your family all the best & continued success, Mar🐫

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Replying to @blackcatfoxrabbit.bsky.social

I just saw him say that he’s not worried about anything that is revealed that happened “before I went into politics” my brother in Christ that was less than a year ago. We’re supposed to men in black wipe 99% of your life?

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A second federal commission reviewing Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot vanity arch in Washington with a 60-foot-tall gilded, winged Lady Liberty figure has been deluged with negative comments from the public. 99% of the 1696 comments were negative. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

usatoday.com'Stop this madness!': Trump's arch draws deluge of negative commentsThe Department of Interior says the purpose of the arch is to celebrate the triumphs of the American people and inspire patriotism and love of country

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Experts estimate the death toll from babies not receiving vitamin K shots may be greater than reported. More than 700 newborns died from spontaneous bleeding in their brains in 2024, a common result of vitamin K deficiency.

propublica.orgBabies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at BirthA lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

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the White House menu today as administration officials brag about kicking 4.5 million Americans off food stamps and gas is over $4.50 a gallon -- Caprese salad -- Chicken Paillard -- Vanilla panna cotta (Kevin Dietsch/Getty)

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Pete Ricketts made $10 million in the stock market in April 2025. That works out to $62,500 an hour, $476,190 per day $1,041 per minute $17.36 per second And yet he still thinks billionaires deserve tax cuts and that members of congress should be able to buy and trade stocks.

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Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

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Replying to @paulbernal.bsky.social

What we need is as many people as possible *not* to be directed down a specific career path, but to have the ability to adapt, to think, to be creative and to see through the illusions. That’s what a good university education should provide.

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Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, a long-term study shows. The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80. The results contradict RFK Jr. statements.

nbcnews.comFluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study showsThe new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.