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Ross James

@dudeabides57.bsky.social

Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. - James Baldwin

created January 8, 2025

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Or all individuals. As the late George Carlin described the Bill of Rights as the Bill of Temporary Privileges.

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Average Floridian.

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It may be a pyrrhic victory as Dumpty will appeal to the Supremes and they will bow to their master.

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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I guess they were still negotiating but sounded like they might cave. Hopefully, this keeps their case going, as the Dumpty Admin will appeal this to the Supremes.

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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought Harvard already caved. 500m dollar settlement.

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Profile picture ian bremmer (@ianbremmer.com) reposted

absence of collective security agreement at the shanghai cooperation organization makes for better humor

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

Man baby cries over party he’s not invited to.

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Those could be worth something. 💰

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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

And I hear Susan Collins is concerned.

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😵‍💫😳

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Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"

3/9/2025, 2:45:05 PM | 17975 6254 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) reposted

The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.

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Profile picture Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted

A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration from invoking wartime powers under the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants. In a 2-1 decision, the court rejected the claim that immigration (even on a large scale) constitutes a military breach of U.S. borders.

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Minnesota had a Governor from this party. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_B...

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

If I were Susan Collins, I’d be “concerned.”

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2/9/2025, 11:58:31 PM | 4089 631 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

But he’ll still get her support to be on Mount Rushmore

3/9/2025, 1:02:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Uhhh…ohhhh 👀👀👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼😂

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Profile picture Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle (@dytsras.bsky.social) reposted

Los Angeles - Black mayor D.C. - Black mayor Chicago - Black mayor Baltimore - Black mayor San Francisco - Just lost a Black mayor Seattle - Black/Japanese mayor New York - Black mayor (technically) and Letitia James We gotta stop with the "Democratic Run cities" bullshit and see what it is

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Profile picture The Associated Press (@apnews.com) reposted

BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will order federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.

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Profile picture S373N of N1N3 (@s373n.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Prime example of the 216 members they are going to ask to sign….

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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

* complicit

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Profile picture Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) reposted

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

2/9/2025, 6:55:28 PM | 11951 2040 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

Trump is now more than 35 minutes late

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Profile picture darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) reposted

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substack.com/@tullmcadoo/...

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Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Well. He’s puffier and oranger than usual. His hair is insane. But that seems pretty normal to me.

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Profile picture Tom Flynn (@tomlasusa.bsky.social) reposted

EVEN MORE speculation on Trump's 2pm announcement (now 35 min late) - Mount Rushmore to be spray painted orange - Trump library to be housed in former McDondald's playland space - National Anthem now YMCA -- everyone required to learn dance moves.

2/9/2025, 6:37:51 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't have a law degree and I could've told them it violated Posse Comitatus.

2/9/2025, 5:32:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

Guess your political career is gonna die. :D

2/9/2025, 5:29:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

"That's nonsense, pretty soon they'll tell us we can't put people in concentration camps without due process, separate children from parents, deport people to countries they've never been too. It's almost like the Dems don't like fascism."

2/9/2025, 5:28:45 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We are all discovering that after almost 250 years, we've largely been running on societal norms as the major guardrail.

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Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

Trump Is Dying And Lying About It

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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

nice tie

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Profile picture M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) reposted

Because they're a Brainwashed Cult Who Loves and Shares Chump's Hate.......

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He hasn’t looked that bad since his Covid infection.

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If true, how the news will be greeted across America…

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Profile picture Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) reposted

Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.

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Profile picture Home of the Brave (@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social) reposted

"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...

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Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: A U.S. appeals court has ruled that most of Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs...imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...are illegal...arguing that the president overstepped authority reserved for Congress. Tariffs stay in place during appeal.

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

The damage this man has done is incalculable.

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Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

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Profile picture Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted

From school lunches to supply chains — and now LEGO bricks. A beloved program for custom builders has been derailed by Trump’s trade war, leaving carts emptied and projects unfinished.

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Profile picture Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted

Fuck Trump. Make LEGO Great Again. First they came for the Hasbro Bros Then they came for the Barbie Girls Then they came for the Roblox Kids Then they came for the Brickheads

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Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.

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

SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social)

www.startribune.com/rep-tom-emme... Ass-wipe 😡

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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

Claiming being the operative word here.

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

"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?

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Profile picture Forbes (@forbes.com) reposted

Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.

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Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.

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Profile picture Dea Ptah (@deaptah.bsky.social) reposted

Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.

Arches national park, a full moon shines through the opening of red rock like the iris of an eye.
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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

Btw, now would be a terrible time for a zombie apocalypse.

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Profile picture Ross James (@dudeabides57.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s what they want; total collapse of the public health infrastructure.

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

Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.

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

No Trump hasn’t improved anything

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Profile picture Pam Keith (@pamkeithdc.bsky.social) reposted

I heard that the plaque from Alzheimer’s is an inflamatory response to a virus and that the shingles vaccine greatly reduces the chances of getting the disease. Don’t know if that’s true, but the vaccine is effective against shingles so I’m gonna get it anyway.

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

Frey: I think the impetus has to be on all of us to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people, and it's on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can't just say that this shouldn't happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again

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Profile picture Politico (@politico.com) reposted

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed a new bid to stay in the U.S. The Salvadoran man who was illegally deported in March has reasserted his claim for asylum.

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Profile picture Gabby Giffords (@gabbygiffords.bsky.social) reposted

I am heartbroken and furious over the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Kids should be learning, laughing, making friends — not running for their lives on the very first week of school. How many more children will live this nightmare before our elected leaders do something?

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Profile picture Sloan Ashton (@ashton7sloan.bsky.social) reposted

Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.

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Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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