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Barb Pederson
Barb Pederson
@saveusjeebus.bsky.social
Former ad gal. Dog momma. Family cook. Cynical human. Somebody save us, please.
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I'm attending Nebraska Democratic Party's event, “Lancaster Dems at the No Kings Rally!” - sign up now to join me! #NebDems www.mobilize.us/nebdems/even...
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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/...
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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...
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"Washington Post readers have rightly concluded that Bezos is no longer committed to the democratic ideals that he once professed to revere and that the newspaper has committed to defend....If ever the Post needed a new owner, it is now." www.thebulwark.com/p/jeff-bezos...
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🚨TONIGHT’S PROTEST IN MINNEAPOLIS IS INSANE: CNN is STUNNED. Share this widely! “I've covered many protests… I've not seen a crowd like this before.” It’s 8 degrees. “It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people.” This isn’t a rally. It’s a movement. @calltoactivism.bsky.social
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“It’s Trump’s Economy, and Voters Are Unhappy With it, WSJ Poll Finds” www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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Yep. We have to shine an even brighter light on the lunacy.
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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“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...
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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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"Historically low vaccination rates, skepticism fueled by the pandemic, misinformation, and “health freedom” ideologies have put communities at risk for the reemergence of preventable, potentially deadly viruses like measles and pertussis." #RSNA25 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.” @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The #PinkyPromise 🎀 economy: @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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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.
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.
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
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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"
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...
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