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@temporaryme.bsky.social

💙 Retiree. She/her. California chauvinist. Pro-democracy. I don’t always rant profanely about the current hellscape—I have other accounts for food and travel pics and stuff—but when I do, it’s here.

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture 💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 (@cnice59.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

An icon. Will miss him so much.

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Profile picture ❌👑 하늘 초록색 (@cielosverdes.bsky.social) reposted

Get to DC if you are able to Sept. 6! Info: WeAreDC.net ❤️‍🩹 Please share on socials and push this out through other channels to any peeps who might like to march. @thekattalk.bsky.social

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 11:09:27 PM | 12532 3703 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Could he be any more spectacularly wrong?

2/9/2025, 3:14:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bonnie Situation's Galifianakis (@thebonniesituation.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It's on Drudge. Not on top, but it's a start.

drudgereport.com Trump's attempt to dismiss health concerns backfires as new theories grow... Russian State TV Weighs In: 'Queen Also Had Bruise and Then Died'...
1/9/2025, 6:21:35 PM | 53 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...

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Profile picture Sencha Skene (@senchaskene.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Rain (@simplyrain.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Labor Day! Join, Start or Support a union.

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

I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?

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

If he isn't lying, he's dying.

1/9/2025, 5:50:15 PM | 676 102 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

1/9/2025, 10:49:37 PM | 21021 5294 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Mamdani is good.

2/9/2025, 1:01:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Awww, and look, Jim Kirk (yeah, sure that’s his name) describes his assets: “Bone-petite.”

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Profile picture Cliff W. Gilmore (@cliffwgilmore.bsky.social) reposted

This flag hanging this way in a US grocery store on Labor Day says so much about the current mental state of the Union.

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Profile picture Citizens' Impeachment (@citizensimpeachment.com) reposted

Whatever is in the Epstein files must be pretty bad, because the President seems extremely stressed by its content. 🤔 Tomorrow morning, we push for the release of the unredacted Epstein files, and the impeachment of this criminal president. Join us.

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Profile picture John Bailey (@isucceed.bsky.social) reposted

www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...

2/9/2025, 12:11:56 AM | 3988 989 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Yes, let’s. #TaxTheRich

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Profile picture @Peg33 (@peg33.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted

MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

😮

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

Your Labor Day reminder that Trump doesn't actually care about working people. Take it from me, a former Secretary of Labor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARL5VvYJUe8

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Profile picture Matt (@mattferrel.bsky.social) reposted

stevehofstetter I'm all for banning athletes born with an unfair competitive advantage over their field. That's why we should immediately ban rich children from all sports. Top-notch equipment? Private coaches? Travel leagues? I'm sorry if this offends you but that's just not natural. That's just not how sports were when I was growing up. Won't someone think of the children?
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Profile picture Get Out The Mid Term Vote (@gotmtv.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture puddlejumper005.bsky.social (@puddlejumper005.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Meidas_Pete (@ferst60.bsky.social) reposted

I have an idea, let’s LISTEN to the women

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Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day ✊

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Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.

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Profile picture @Peg33 (@peg33.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Brian Cardone (@cardonebrian.bsky.social) reposted

Just so you know, everything that is being pushed out from the Whitehouse is just a ploy to distract us from the Epstein victims testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Thank you Rep Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) for making this happen. The victims deserve justice! 💥🔥💥

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Grrrrrrrreat!

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

Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.

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Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

🤣🤣🤣

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Profile picture 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Always in a hat now. He’s not well enough to gas up that cotton-candy quiff anymore.

1/9/2025, 4:42:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

They lie like they breathe.

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Profile picture Nash Is Here for It (@nashishereforit.bsky.social) reposted

The National Guardners

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Willful ignorance is the main MAGA qualification.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Sure. Discuss all you want. Republicans have to be crushed at the polls before Ny thing real will get done.

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Profile picture 🇨🇦 Liam Clicks 🇨🇦 (@liamclicks.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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Profile picture Dr. M. Marshall (@drmarshall.bsky.social) reposted

Robert F Kennedy, Jr. is not a medical doctor. I agree. He should resign. Leave government now. Today. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

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

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

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Profile picture NetworkforDemocracy (@simple-truth.bsky.social) reposted

Don't start what you can't finish.

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Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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

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

Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”

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Profile picture Marco Foster (@marcofoster.bsky.social) reposted

Former CDC Vaccine Chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis: “I only see harm coming. Based on what I’m seeing, they’re really moving in an ideologic direction where they want to see the undoing of vaccination.”

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Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽

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Profile picture The Sons of Liberty (@sonsofliberty.bsky.social) reposted

#trump #illegalmilitaryoccupation #nationalguard #whitehouse #constitutionalcrisis

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Profile picture Fight For A Union (@fightforaunion.bsky.social) reposted

On #LaborDay we celebrate the fight of workers throughout history who've laid it all on the line for the pay and conditions we deserve. We also fully recognize that we're living through a historic moment for workers right now!

Poster for a labor rally with 'Families First Not Billionaires' in bold text. Features an image of a person raising a fist at a protest. Includes SEIU and Labor Day 2025 logos.
1/9/2025, 2:31:03 PM | 104 41 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Bitch is tits up in a ditch.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Of course she’s just following her Russian handlers’ orders. She’s been an asset for years.

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Profile picture Nancy B 💙🐱🐶📚💀 (@extremebeautylv.bsky.social) reposted

IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!

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Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Right on! We’re headed to a West Coast one in about an hour. ✊ #WorkersOverBillionaires

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Profile picture Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted

If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

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Profile picture Left Of Center Orange Hater (@henshinhal.bsky.social) reposted

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

As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Interested in the rest of us only as workers they can exploit or military they can send off to get killed.

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Profile picture MAGA HATER (@maga-hater.bsky.social) reposted

@freedomwithin.bsky.social

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

If you’re a Boomer and wondering why things went downhill so fast after our halcyon childhoods: look at this.

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Profile picture Sencha Skene (@senchaskene.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

These assholes.

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Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."

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

Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Shrimps

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

These people think we’re so stupid. #GOPWarOnAmerica

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

I know that Sebastian Gorka is *always* a ridiculous buffoon, but throughout history inanimate objects have killed for more people than conscious ones.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

That blond, pudding-faced dude in front is pretty recognizable. All these thugs need to be identified, arrested, and held accountable for what they’re doing. Even if they’re 89 years old when it happens.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Please, somebody …

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

Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

The president of the United States - more likely, his handlers - are planning to invade an American city. Think about that. WTF are we doing here?

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Cautionary tale with analysis of the role of corporate and media power. We should have that at least.

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Profile picture Kimberley Johnson (@kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social) reposted

So much unity in the hope that one person dies. Global unity. Has that ever happened before?

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Morning, Gunny! Happy Labor Day weekend.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

Way to go, Portugal! 🇵🇹 My people!

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Right-o!

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

Honored that Mark is now a Democracy Docket member.🙏 The force of democracy must be with us!!!🥳

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Profile picture Mister (@2snarky.bsky.social) reposted

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats

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Profile picture Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted

Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Profile picture Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) reposted

You’ll notice that propagandists like Jake Tapper no longer have a problem with older age in office nor do they mention the orange felon’s obvious mental and physical decline.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social)

In case anyone needed reminding. Also applies to child molesters.

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Profile picture Byrd (@temporaryme.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like the kind of ranting old coots you find on Nextdoor.

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

Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:

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Profile picture Mayor of Crazy Town (@sunmonkey23.bsky.social) reposted

#DebunkHisLies

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

MAGA: "Go woke, go br—oh, never mind. . ."

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

I don’t care that Trump went golfing today. Something strange is going on—his lack of interaction with the press is simply not normal. What is the White House hiding? 🤨

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

Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.

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Profile picture Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted

I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The firefighter, whose name has not been made public, has lived in the US for 19 years after arriving with his family at the age of four. He received a U-visa certification from the US attorney's office in Oregon in 2017 and submitted his U-visa application with US Citizenship and Immigration Services the following year. The U-visa program was established by Congress to protect victims of serious crimes who assist federal investigators, and the man has been waiting since 2018 for the immigration agency to decide on his application, according to Stephen Manning, a lawyer with Innovation Law Lab, a Portland-based nonprofit representing the firefighter. Another homeland security policy says agents cannot detain people who are receiving or have applied for victim-based immigration benefits, his lawyer said. Charging the man with an immigration violation was
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