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A-Paul-ed

@a-paul-ed.bsky.social

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people." Retired from 34 years at Amtrak, now living in AZ (it's a dry crazy) Been interested in politics, since the 2000 fiasco. Progressive atheist. #FreePalestine

created October 18, 2024

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Killed for a distraction.

4/9/2025, 1:48:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Talibangelism.

4/9/2025, 1:46:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The one good thing he did in his first term was Operation Warp Speed. Now, he wants to erase it.

4/9/2025, 11:24:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) reposted

Not content with having a total abortion ban and a law that lets citizens sue providers The Texas legislature today passed a bill banning outside sources from mailing abortion medication to its citizens The next Democratic president MUST declare a national emergency and restore reproductive rights

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4/9/2025, 3:46:54 AM | 779 308 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Luca Migo ❌👑 (@victinibcn.bsky.social) reposted

Sen Warren Daniel (Republican-NC) caught red-handed trading stocks while he was legislating.

4/9/2025, 11:09:32 AM | 60 41 | View on Bluesky | view

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‘Swampy Thing to Do’: Thomas Massie Tells Prem His GOP Colleagues Are Hiding and Aren’t Actually Releasing the Epstein Files zeteo.com/p/swampy-thi...

4/9/2025, 11:03:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Florida will be the first state with a polio epidemic.

3/9/2025, 10:58:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump’s Kennedy Center hosted a right-wing pep rally for Gen Z evangelicals www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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3/9/2025, 9:08:47 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Complicit owners.

3/9/2025, 12:01:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 11:28:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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'The Trump Health Cover-Up': Mehdi and Jim Acosta Slam the Mainstream Media's Complicity in a Huge Scandal zeteo.com/p/this-has-n...

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2/9/2025, 10:09:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It will be interesting to see how much the press covers this.

2/9/2025, 3:52:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

So we're using the military to do the landscaping jobs that immigrants used to do. Got it.

2/9/2025, 3:50:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems a fair trade-off. One vacation for the lives of millions of women.

2/9/2025, 3:44:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is Nazi-style eugenics.

2/9/2025, 3:39:26 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.

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2/9/2025, 3:10:27 PM | 18139 7229 | View on Bluesky | view

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Louisiana's AG has executed a troubling bait-and-switch that could send voting rights back to 1964 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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2/9/2025, 12:07:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 12:01:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Loudest voices, deepest closets. Mormon columnist who preached "traditional values" busted for alleged child exploitation www.friendlyatheist.com/p/mormon-col...

2/9/2025, 11:48:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Columbia University Suspended Me for My Pro-Palestinian Activism zeteo.com/p/columbia-u...

2/9/2025, 11:45:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just imagine the smell, without open windows.

2/9/2025, 1:07:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture digby (@digby56.bsky.social) reposted

Larry Sabato says that crime is the Dems' Achilles heel and they need to talk about prices. The Dems can "complain" but too many hate crime and cities and don't care about democracy. I guess we have to let the police state happen while we drone on about eggs. Can't walk and chew gum apparently.

1/9/2025, 7:19:07 PM | 376 41 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

As well as "Dancing in the Streets."

1/9/2025, 6:58:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 1:52:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure, jail... We'll go with that.

1/9/2025, 10:58:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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DO NOT Whitewash.

1/9/2025, 10:57:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Treating our military like his contractors.

1/9/2025, 10:56:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They just cannot stop lying. www.salon.com/2025/08/31/n...

1/9/2025, 10:51:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 10:45:13 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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'Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee zeteo.com/p/nakba-agai...

1/9/2025, 10:41:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Abducted: Mohsen Mahdawi open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...

1/9/2025, 10:40:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Grotesque Fruits Of Your Labor www.levernews.com/the-grotesqu...

1/9/2025, 10:38:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welcome to the new Ministry of Propaganda.

31/8/2025, 12:00:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture msbhavin.bsky.social (@msbhavin.bsky.social) reposted

I’m ashamed to live in a country that pulls funding from children’s cancer research to fund billionaires tax cuts. Remember heart warming stories about impoverished children coming to America for treatment of rare diseases? Now we have to hope other countries will do the same for our poor children.

31/8/2025, 11:52:05 AM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bring out the leeches.

31/8/2025, 11:54:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just another failed Trump business.

31/8/2025, 11:53:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What is the Cracker Barrel controversy really about? Why are billionaires investing $4 million in a new Substack? What memory-holed political decision began creating the conditions for Trump’s ascent? And more www.levernews.com/sirotas-sign...

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30/8/2025, 2:18:51 PM | 590 277 | View on Bluesky | view

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Defund AIPAC

31/8/2025, 2:48:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

For the MAGA men, this is how you lose your virginity.

30/8/2025, 6:17:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glad they're armed. Those squirrels can be deadly.

30/8/2025, 6:15:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

It can't be a real Nazi movement, without a eugenics program.

30/8/2025, 6:12:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

Now, there's a man excited for football!

30/8/2025, 6:11:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why bother, if he can't get the Nobel?

30/8/2025, 5:15:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

And new politicians.

30/8/2025, 5:11:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

The only alarm Collins knows is the one that tells her to take her pills.

30/8/2025, 5:09:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who knew that exercise was his kryptonite?

30/8/2025, 5:07:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know there's a bunker.

30/8/2025, 5:06:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Only because National Guard troops would have to clean it up.

30/8/2025, 5:06:10 PM | 29 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.

30/8/2025, 1:24:58 AM | 6774 1940 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is Cory Booker For Real? We Asked His (Fake) Political Consultant zeteo.com/p/is-cory-bo...

30/8/2025, 10:30:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our Short Film on Hind Rajab Just Won an Award. Watch It Today zeteo.com/p/hind-rajab...

30/8/2025, 10:28:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why Aren't Democrats Capitalizing on the Scandal of the Summer? zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...

30/8/2025, 10:25:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 4:21:52 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 5:11:34 PM | 148 67 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) reposted

With the news that RFK Jr.’s desired replacement for the CDC director is a Peter Thiel acolyte with no real experience in the area, it’s time to re-up this shocker from @propublica.org detailing how Thiel built a (tax-free) $5 billion Roth IRA:

29/8/2025, 11:30:12 AM | 130 79 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 11:17:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 12:12:30 AM | 25 19 | View on Bluesky | view

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FIREFIGHTERS?! SERIOUSLY?! youtube.com/shorts/OmWTN...

29/8/2025, 12:21:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

28/8/2025, 1:13:50 AM | 5386 1635 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 10:22:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was she alarmed, or just confused?

28/8/2025, 8:34:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 8:19:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A-Paul-ed (@a-paul-ed.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, because prayer has worked so well, so far. The power of prayer is that it relieves them of action.

28/8/2025, 8:16:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately, the other party is the Fundraise and Wait Party.

28/8/2025, 8:14:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He continues to blame Ukraine for defending themselves from an invader.

28/8/2025, 4:45:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you don't think this is deliberate eugenics, you don't know history.

28/8/2025, 4:44:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.

28/8/2025, 4:11:26 PM | 7053 2801 | View on Bluesky | view

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Offshore Wind Energy In The U.S. Goes Out Of Business www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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All they know is fundraising anymore. So, don't give them any funds.

28/8/2025, 4:02:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 1:18:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Miserable people were angry and jealous of those who weren't miserable.

27/8/2025, 7:40:57 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He puts the owners of American workers first.

27/8/2025, 7:38:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Re-whiting history for the stupid.

27/8/2025, 7:35:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pee Wee German looks like he's in pain.

27/8/2025, 3:10:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No wonder his cankles are swollen, with all those heads up his ass.

27/8/2025, 3:07:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That looks so 1984.

27/8/2025, 3:04:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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America is now a protection racket. Trump is using tariffs as blackmail to force countries to make deals that benefit him financially.

27/8/2025, 3:03:32 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump-appointed judge issues rebuke and throws out DOJ suit in deportation case www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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27/8/2025, 11:21:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ICE Gives No-Bid SUV Contract to Republican Donor with a History of Fraud zeteo.com/p/ice-no-bid...

27/8/2025, 11:12:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Federal judge strikes down Minnesota's sensible "faith statement" ban for PSEO schools www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...

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Must be the chemtrails, turning the alligators gay.

27/8/2025, 11:03:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Aviation regulators have been making it harder to track celebrities’ private jets. Now, Trump’s immigration enforcers are taking advantage. www.levernews.com/ice-is-using...

27/8/2025, 11:02:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can use whatever grounds you prefer. The difference is just how long you steep the grounds. 16-18 hours is recommended.

26/8/2025, 7:27:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Breaking: 5 Journalists Among at least 20 Killed by Israeli Strikes on Nasser Hospital zeteo.com/p/breaking-5...

26/8/2025, 11:25:34 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Rohingya, Gaza, and Two Genocides the World Refuses to End zeteo.com/p/the-rohing...

26/8/2025, 11:22:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Private equity giant BlackRock is waging a scorched-earth campaign to acquire a regional power company as Wall Street seeks to profit from the AI energy boom. www.levernews.com/this-is-how-...

26/8/2025, 11:17:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Adams is a criminal and an undercover MAGA.

25/8/2025, 9:11:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

"How dare people have a little fun when I've fucked everything up so badly that hey should be staying home to worry???"

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Wolves weed out the weak and the sick livestock.

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