That's a damn good question.. #politics #media #fascism
09.10.2025 06:06 β π 291 π 111 π¬ 24 π 8@mikepadgett.bsky.social
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That's a damn good question.. #politics #media #fascism
09.10.2025 06:06 β π 291 π 111 π¬ 24 π 8Autumn in The Crown of the Continent
#ColorADay #YellowThu #GlacierNationalPark #Montana #RockyMountains #Fall #Autumn #Foliage #Aspens #SaveOURParks #PublicLand #ParkChat #LakeLife #NaturePhotography
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NPR - Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon
The Pentagon says those who fail to obey the new policy will lose their press credentials, cutting off access to the headquarters of the largest department in the U.S. Government.
Bolsonaroβs Conviction is a Win for Democracy and Accountability
RUTH BEN-GHIAT
SEP 18
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Ben Cohen, wearing a blue and white shirt, with Jerry Greenfield, wearing a grey baseball hat and a brown shirt. Both are holding cups with ice cream. A headline reads: "Jerry of Ben & Jerryβs Resigns, Saying Companyβs Activism Has Been βSilencedβ"
One of Ben & Jerryβs founders, Jerry Greenfield, has resigned from the ice cream company, saying that its independence had been lost and its social activism βsilencedβ under the control of its parent company, Unilever. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
17.09.2025 12:36 β π 678 π 204 π¬ 34 π 30RIP, Robert Redford.
16.09.2025 12:20 β π 7722 π 1599 π¬ 295 π 171Airlines sell 5 billion plane ticket records to the government for warrantless searching
Read this important (and alarming) story by @josephcox.bsky.social for free, thanks to @404media.coβs commitment to dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and support them by subscribing if youβre able).
For those that cosplay and yearn for a civil war: they have no clue. Half of them would die from not having insulin
Civil War? The REALITY You NEED to Understand
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How Originalism Killed the Constitution | A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.
@theatlantic.com
#ConLaw
#LawSky
#SCOTUS
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For The Atlanticβs October cover story, βHow Originalism Killed the Constitution,β Jill Lepore argues that the Constitution is not a βdeadβ document as originalists contendβbut rather, that the Fou...
10.09.2025 22:18 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Sen Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) provided the one-vote margin by which the Senate Republicans beat back a mandate to release the Epstein files. Keep that in mind.
11.09.2025 18:10 β π 64 π 25 π¬ 5 π 4In other news, Lisa Murkowski could have voted to release the Epstein Files, bringing the vote to 50-50 and forcing JD Vance to cast a tie-breaking vote.
Instead, she caved to Trump and the GOP leadership.
Again.
Lisa Murkowski is beyond pathetic.
11.09.2025 14:20 β π 29640 π 10106 π¬ 3566 π 1263Authoritarians thrive on your silence β be loud β for America.
07.09.2025 00:38 β π 33327 π 9396 π¬ 533 π 399A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.
The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.
Join us.
Drowning prevention advocates are working hard this Labor Day. The CDC isn't. (Alissa Magrum/MSNBC)
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The reported meeting is part of the House Oversight Committeeβs broader investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case.
29.08.2025 19:30 β π 2999 π 959 π¬ 300 π 77Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein bookβ¦ the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Trump wants to end voting by mail. My state won't give it up easily.
The last time someone tried to end mail-in voting in Oregon, public comments broke the state Legislature's website www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Getting their forever loving homes and pet humansβ¦. β€οΈ
I wish I had some tissues when I watched thisβ¦. ππ₯Ή
My law firm is currently litigating 50 voting and election cases in 22 states. Here are the states with the most cases: GA, AZ, FL, NC, LA, MT, NV, WI.
The fight for free and fair elections is the fight for democracy. Please, pay attention.
Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza after Laura Loomer freaked out over a video showing several children being permitted to come to the U.S. for medical care www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
16.08.2025 21:54 β π 1203 π 668 π¬ 210 π 327Border collie gently building ducklings into a puddleβ¦ π₯ πΆ
#bluesky #duck #dog
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.
Today, weβre publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
My column: The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
04.08.2025 21:09 β π 250 π 82 π¬ 44 π 12A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.
02.08.2025 18:12 β π 9734 π 1904 π¬ 243 π 200"In beloved national parks, summer crowds throng despite budget cuts" β unsurprisingly, national parks are extremely popular and an uncontroversial use of federal funds.
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ICE raids leave abandoned pets and property in their wake https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/ice-raids-abandoned-pets-cars-lawmowers
#axios #news #usnews
Cherished kids, and now beloved pets separated all due to the cruel policies of this admin. When will enough be enough? #Deportations
15.07.2025 20:11 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0ICE raids leave abandoned pets and property in their wake https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/ice-raids-abandoned-pets-cars-lawmowers https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/ice-raids-abandoned-pets-cars-lawmowers
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