lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social)
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“The appeasement of fascism led to everything” said a holocaust survivor. History is repeating itself before our eyes. I am a GA voter from a war veteran family. Message to anyone voting Republican: you’ve been conned. Lied to for decades.
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southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Another way of saying this is that the murderous strike was carried out without any legal authority.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Interesting. She js a liar, pushes Russian propaganda & is utterly unfit for office (based on her words & actions to date). Makes one wonder why she admits Trump is lying about Epsitein files.
Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 (@navinpokala.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
So ... when is the biggest drug trafficker of all time, Ross Ulbricht, getting summarily executed? Oh, wait ... he got PARDONED BY TRUMP? www.bbc.com/news/article...
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Garland should have arrested Trump for insurrection, the day he was sworn in as AG.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social)
#GA
Hayden Center (@haydencenter.bsky.social) reposted
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FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) reposted
New reporting shows that Republican Senator Susan Collins accepted $2 million from a billionaire private equity executive the day before she voted to advance Trump's budget bill.
FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) reposted
Epstein survivor: Epstein surrounded himself with the most powerful leaders of the world. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag, actually.
Kwame Opam (@kwameopam.bsky.social) reposted
A WBEZ analysis has found that a three-month summer span saw the fewest murders in 60 years in Chicago while overall violent crime remained near its lowest point in at least four decades. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
4/ “O’Neill served on the board of a Thiel-backed seasteading venture, which was founded by anarcho-capitalist Patri Friedman—of whom O’Neill is a self-described disciple—who outlined his goal as follows, according to SFGate…” newrepublic.com/post/199846/...
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) reposted
“The new head of the CDC [Jim O’Neill] has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory” 8/29/25 … 1/ fortune.com/2025/08/29/w...
Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) reposted
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted
First of all, again, Don't. Stenographically. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Second, the actual headline should be that this is a massive violation of international law. What is journalism, anyway?
Adam Keiper (@adamkeiper.com) reposted
Pritzker today: "When did we become a country where it's okay for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?" Amen.
VoteVets (@votevets.org) reposted reply parent
We’ve seen in the past how lack of strategy and failure to get Congressional consent has led to endless conflict. Escalating tensions without an end game only stands to puts our Troops and security at risk. (2/3)
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#GA
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
FOX BUSINESS: “My goodness. $5 BILLION. Eye-popping numbers… crypto-friendly legislation coming from the president who is in turn cashing in on crypto. A conflict of interest.” Even Fox sees how insanely corrupt Trump’s crypto grift is. (H/T @ab21.bsky.social )
The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted
Elon Musk and his company have tweaked Grok, the A.I. powered chatbot, to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to a New York Times analysis of thousands of its responses. nyti.ms/462hBye
PBS News (@pbsnews.org) reposted
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Beijing by train on Tuesday to attend a military parade with his Chinese and Russian counterparts, an event that observers say could potentially demonstrate three-way unity against the United States. https://to.pbs.org/47XFOsa
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social)
#GA @ajc.com I wish the media would report this simple truth over & over. Also, headlines should all concern the actions Republicans are taking that have substantially weakened our national security.
Ambassador Greg Delawie (@gregdelawie.bsky.social) reposted
all true - US economy boomed under these Democratic presidents, then the GOP presidents that followed killed economic growth.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Republicans have utterly destroyed our national security.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Reported.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Translation: Trump plans to destroy the housing market.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social)
This Republican Admin is intentionally destroying America.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Not only is this Republican Admin destroying our national security, educational & scientific infrastructure but the fundamental health of the nation. It appears intentional, does it not? The enemy within & all that.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Wishing you a speedy recovery. ❤️🙏
Ambassador Greg Delawie (@gregdelawie.bsky.social) reposted
No shock here. The unreliability of the US under Trump will hinder the willingness of other countries to purchase American products, affecting hundreds of thousands of highly-paid US jobs.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social)
How about it @ajc.com - be the first MSM to do the right thing & demand Trump resign - make history. #GA @tiamitchell.com
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
An image from an old black & white film comes to mind: an angel on one shoulder & devil on the other, each, ever whispering to the human.
Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted
As Trump preps military occupations of Democratic-run cities, his history as a sex predator is relevant. Trump has a lot of experience forcing himself on people.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
It makes my skin crawl thinking back on the Congressional hearings Republicans convened claiming corruption by the Bidens & the ceaseless headlines on Fox & all right wing media about the Biden crime family. The con is so overt. Sadly, it’s not reported as such.Just say it: Trump & the GOP are evil.
29 U.S.C. § 157 (@organizingpower.bsky.social) reposted
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted
If only his two former bosses had not been totally invisible in fall 2024, when loudly & publicly telling people that reluctantly voting for the Democrat was the only democratic option left for lifelong, pro-democracy Republican voters might have made a difference.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t you just report the stark truth in the headline - America’s national security has been destroyed by the Trump Republican Administration.
Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) reposted
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
AP: “When Trump awarded a contract for $1.2 billion for 🇺🇸’s largest immigration detention complex, it handed it to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small biz with no experience… its address a modest home in suburban Virginia.”🤔 Golden Age of Corruption. apnews.com/article/trum...
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
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PolitiFact (@politifact.bsky.social) reposted
President Donald Trump says he “stopped six wars” in six months since taking office. Trump had a hand in temporary ceasefires in a few conflicts. But there’s little evidence he permanently resolved them and, in some cases, little evidence of U.S. intervention.
Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted
Congrats again, everyone
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Last January, a source shared evidence with me that DOGE was installing devices on govt servers to upload data to the cloud. Some hosts were FOREIGN. On Friday, a whistleblower resigned and came forward to share the same. Listen to what we found in January: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...
Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others." --Abraham Lincoln, 1838 www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) reposted
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Court confirms what we already knew - what Congress knew. The Republican Party is a corrupt organization led by a criminal.
Inequality Media (@inequalitymedia.bsky.social) reposted
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Rima I Anabtawi (@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social) reposted
After Seeing Gaza's Starving Children, My Work as an Israeli Pediatrician Will Never Be the Same "The power is in our hands only. We must put a stop to the atrocities that are being committed in our name." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Republicans are evil incarnate. It’s just a fact deduced by their conduct.
Zach Everson (@zacheverson.com) reposted
“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”
Kate Ross (@kateross.bsky.social) reposted
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) reposted
Trump is damaging our national security by failing to live up to our commitments to those who risked their lives and their families' lives to help us in overseas conflicts. Why would anyone trust America's word again, even after Trump is gone?
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted
Lisa Cook was confirmed twice by the Senate - who, last time I checked, were elected - after being nominated by the President. What Trump wants is to reverse a legitimate democratic process here.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Shameful
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) reposted
Reminds me of Cambridge Analytica (CA), Breitbart, & Brexit. I wonder who will help with the data analytics this time…
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social)
More utterly shameful action by Republicans. #GA
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@whitehouse.senate.gov) reposted
Trump appointee slams administration for calling judges “‘left-wing,’ ‘liberal,’ ‘activists,’ ‘radical,’ ‘politically minded,’ ‘rogue,’ ‘unhinged,’ ‘outrageous, overzealous, [and] unconstitutional,’ ‘[c]rooked,’ and worse.”
Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) reposted
DOGE put the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading it to a vulnerable cloud server, according to a whistleblower complaint -NYT
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Kemp is a coward aiding & abetting a criminal traitor. Damn to hell the #GA GOP.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure we can recover from the damage this Republican Admin has already done to our core government infrastructure, especially given the culling of expertise. Glad to see you weighing in on this.
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) reposted
Again, I can’t emphasize enough how central the Claremont Institute—and its offshoot organizations like New Founding & American Moment—have been in creating & boosting the new so-called “new right.” They & Peter Thiel = “ground zero.”
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Not my view. Duncan has articulated his reasons for leaving the GOP (you can easily find & read for yourself) - his views align more with Dems on major issues. If GA can convert to Dem vs GOP control, it could be a game changer for the country. Time will tell.
Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) reposted
Vance: "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." Washington Post, May 8, 1945: "Germany Surrenders Unconditionally."
The War Monitor (@warmonitor.net) reposted
The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in GA and think he could win. #GA
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
54% of Americans read at a 6th grade level. Dems are the “party of smart” but I do wonder sometimes if they need to dumb down their game when campaigning.
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
It is weird how sensitive people are to phraseology used by the left vs overt incompetence, hypocrisy, cruelty & corruption on the right. It’s really quite a phenomena.
Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) reposted
“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Arrested for filming it. And look how excited they all are to get some *action*. 🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
it will take years to undo the damage from this lawless, criminal conduct. business as usual once Democrats reclaim executive power will unacceptable. no turning the page without repairing the damage
Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) reposted
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social)
He has represented #GA so well.
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) reposted
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 (@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social) reposted
23 of Epstein’s victims have testified in court. In an August 2019 hearing, 22 women spoke about the abuses committed by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. 4 women testified at Ghislaine’s trial. Investigative reporting has identified roughly 80 survivors in total. 🖕🏼👇🏼 www.justice.gov/maxwell-inte...
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
This is so wrong.
The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted
DEMS: It’s time for other Democrat Governors to follow Gavin Newsom’s lead. No more following tradition, no more whining about fairness. We have to fight fire with fire and beat them at their own game. Time is running out.
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
On December 14, 2012, a mass shooter murdered 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage. He died today at 89.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
PolitiFact (@politifact.bsky.social) reposted
The Trump administration proposed changing H-1B visas to favor employers who pay higher wages. Some lower wage visa holders such as teachers could lose out. Most H-1B visa holders work in tech and are from India.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
Republican motto: “Cruelty is the point.”
Robert Downen (@robertdownen.bsky.social) reposted
Peter Thiel to give four lectures on the "biblical Antichrist." Among the "religious thinkers upon whom Peter will draw" is Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt.
lightthepower.bsky.social (@lightthepower.bsky.social) reply parent
100% predictable. Why isn’t every daily headline damning the GOP & Trump for this idiotic mass deportation plan? It’s a fact that undocumented immigrants have a net positive effect on our nation’s economy. @ajc.com #GA @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @wsj.com