Swallowed by Politics

Swallowed by Politics

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🐝🏳️‍🌈🐈📖🖖Resist!!! 💙 Teacher, artist, sci-fi fan, cat mother, lover of science and fighter for democracy...everywhere.

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Who's up for some last minute door knocking to get out the vote? Click on the link within Indivisible's post, type in your address, & see if you're in an area they've targeted. (I wasn't.) If it's a no-go, at least pass this on so others can help GET OUT THE VOTE! We have just this ONE CHANCE!

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org

Getting out the vote is as easy as talking to your neighbors if you’re in one of these states or districts: 2026.indivisible.org/n2n/

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The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

cleveland.comPlain Dealer/cleveland.com endorses Amy Acton for Ohio governorThe Plain Dealer editorial board endorses Democrat Amy Acton for Ohio governor, citing her preparedness and community engagement, while condemning opponent Vivek Ramaswamy's weaponizing of Acton's chi...

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The resistance around the world keeps growing. Brazil and Serbia are thousands of miles apart, but people in both countries are standing up to authoritarianism. They’ve shown us what can happen when people refuse to give up.

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A Texas in-person voter experienced a problem with a touchscreen voting machine. She selected a candidate, but the machine switched her selection to another candidate. She then pressed her desired candidate FIRMLY with her finger to make the machine work properly. #USDemocracy #MomSky #Texas #TX

youtu.beEarly voters in Bexar County say voting machines are 'switching' up their selectionsYouTube video by KENS 5: Your San Antonio News Source

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Good news from Brazil. Lula is back! And on Tuesday we will find out the results of the Israeli elections that Netanyahu is desperately trying to rig in his favour by launching more strikes on Iran. But even his military is opposing him. If he loses, he'll be indicted for treason. Bring it on!

LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸@namwella1961.bsky.social

Daily Beast: A prominent critic of Trump won Brazil’s presidential election. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva achieved a stunning political comeback on Sunday, that halts Latin America’s move towards the right. Let's vote to do the same!💙 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

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The Pentagon has quietly created a secretive agency, the Technology Support Office, to develop cyberattacks, supply-chain sabotage and deception tactics aimed at slowing adversaries’ military technology programs, Politico reports. No doubt to be used against Europe and Canada

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Jeffrey Sterling, ex CIA: The military is punishing Maj Watson while claiming to follow the very rules that forbid it. Art. 13 of the UCMJ says no one being held for trial may be punished, and that pretrial confinement may be no 'more rigorous than the circumstances require to insure his presence'.

commondreams.orgIn Solitary Confinement for Demanding Trump's Impeachment: Why We Must Stand with Major Jason Watson | Common DreamsEvery public servant, civilian or military, swears to support and defend the Constitution. None of them swears loyalty to a president, a party, or a movement.

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Lonnie Rouse worked at the Hanford nuclear site for nearly 20 years. It was so toxic, he said, that the floor once melted the rubber off his boots. Now he needs 24-hour care. The DOE has appealed his workers’ compensation claim more than 20 times.

propublica.orgNuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to de...

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🚨 A bombshell new House Judiciary Democrats report details allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, including five who accuse Trump of sexual assault. The report also alleges a sweeping DOJ cover-up. We broke down the explosive findings.

meidasnews.comBombshell House Report Accuses Trump of Involvement in Epstein Sex Crimes, DOJ Cover-UpHouse Judiciary Democrats detail allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Epstein and accuse his Justice Department of a sweeping cover-up.

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Yet another entrenched authoritarian defeated yesterday in Serbia. As the United States approaches a critical midterm election, Serbia shows that we can win despite uphill authoritarian conditions. It can be done. It takes all of us, especially young people. Timothy Snyder

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“One of the most criticized aspects of Trump’s announcement [of an oil deal with VZ] has been his choice of a partner: Alejandro Betancourt, a…Venezuelan oligarch who has faced money-laundering investigations in 3 countries.” The “Trump admin is taking a 35% stake in Betancourt’s firm…” 10/21/26…1/

share.googleThe secret terms of Trump’s Venezuelan oil deal - Asia TimesIn late August, President Donald Trump announced what he called the “biggest oil deal in world history.” Since then, the full text of the accord — which

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Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

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“Before July 2025, one of the food bank’s locations served between 20 and 40 families per day, he said. Now, more than 260 families come in daily for help…”

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social

About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

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if you believe that Melania Trump negotiated a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, I've got a $5,000 Trump dividend and some Melania memecoin to sell you

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Replying to @ebisback.bsky.social

Almost all the white males will settle into business as usual and submit to whatever his donors tell him to do. They won't get us healthcare, decent wages, improve environmental protections, improve education, get rid of for-profit prisons, enforce the laws against rape or pedophilia......

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Obama: You hear people say this is somehow radical. What is radical about wanting everybody to have healthcare? Wanting everybody to have a place to live that they can afford—how is that radical?

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The Pentagon just approved the testing of DEWs, “heat wave weapons” at the border. We went from “Build the Wall” to “Microwave the People”… What dystopian chapter of American history is this?! SICK. FUCKING. BASTARDS. 😎✨