Barb Pederson

Barb Pederson

@saveusjeebus.bsky.social

Former ad gal. Dog momma. Family cook. Cynical human. Somebody save us, please.

129 followers102 following161 posts

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How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

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“If this guy isn’t impeached and removed, what’s the point to the whole Constitution? You can’t have a fucking criminal running the government for his own benefit screwing the people. And that’s what we have.”

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A picture is worth a thousand words. How does AG Pam Bondi sleep at night?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

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Replying to @pocan.house.gov

1. A passport, which more than half of Americans don’t have and costs at least $130 OR 2. A birth certificate PLUS your photo ID with matching names, which nearly 70 million married women lack OR 3. Military services papers (not a military ID alone) with sensitive info. I’m voting NO.

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NEW: As President Donald Trump and his closest allies continue demands for a federal “takeover” of elections, House Republicans are rushing to deliver this week, working on a pair of voter suppression measures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comHouse Republicans further voter ID bills that would disenfranchise millions“All these bills have the same outcome. They are the Trump election takeover bills,” Morelle said.

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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

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Europe gets it! The UK raids the home of a close Epstein pal. Poland probes ties to Russian intel. France raids the office of Musk's X. But the U.S. elites who palled around with the world's worst sex creep get away with it The crisis of elite impunity. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jeff...

inquirer.comEurope is holding its Epstein creeps accountable. Why can’t we? | Will BunchEuropeans are pushing to hold Jeffrey Epstein's creepy pals, including billionaires like Elon Musk, accountable. The U.S.? Not so much.

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I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home. We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss. We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.

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my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them

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Yep. We have to shine an even brighter light on the lunacy.

Federico Finchelstein@finchelsteinf.bsky.social

When a leader becomes so weak & unstable, lies need to be amplified even more. Without them his cult of personality weakens. This might be insane but it needs to be understood historically. Fascism is more than ever the main ideological precedent for Trump's lies.

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Heavy rains have deepened Gaza's misery, flooding tents in which many thousands of people are huddled, exposed to winter. A baby recently died of hypothermia. Israel continues to restrict humanitarian aid, including tents. Nothing but silence from Trump. We must not forget Gaza.

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Trump's opening words, "11 MONTHS AGO, I INHERITED A MESS" was perhaps the biggest lie of his entire angry Miller-written speech. Taco Don inherited a booming economy from Biden, & so far, he's driven it into the ground. Let's hope MAGATs can separate the salesman from the product.

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Replying to @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Your voice is more powerful than threats from a weakening, unpopular president. If they hear enough from you now, legislators may still do the right thing. Hoosiers, call today and tell them to vote no: 317-232-9400.

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Pleased to speak with Fredricka Whitfield on @cnn.com today. Explained that the legal problems with the killing spree at sea far go beyond the September 2nd incident. Premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is called murder. And there is no armed conflict.

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Good God.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social

NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors. This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:

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This is what is happening.

Ence Morse@ence.bsky.social

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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Musk's Grokipedia is a cesspool of white supremacist and Neo Nazi garbage. Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times

nbcnews.comElon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study findsAn analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.

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Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social

There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me www.motherjones.com/politics/202...