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John Armistead

@jarmistead.bsky.social

Retired newspaper journalist/photographer, U.S. Navy 1966-1972, love dogs and art. Democrat. Believer in America. I will not give in or give up as fascism attempts to flood America and her democracy. My military oath to protect/defend America never expires

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#KYsen

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...

06.10.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5743    πŸ” 1357    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 95
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Joni Ernst: "It's a combination of trying to get new trade deals in place and the tariffs that are out there. But then of course any support that we need from those federal govt offices now is even further delayed. We are seeing the 3rd year in a row of declining farm revenue"

06.10.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 475    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 26
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Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.

Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

05.10.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 998    πŸ” 428    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 18
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β€œQue?”

06.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

06.10.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7510    πŸ” 2625    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 128
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The idea of Americans having to be forced to ID themselves and wait to see if they are wanted while everyone is cuffed, because of

"Where they chose to live and by their skin color"

Is FASCISM

stop pretending it isn't

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Live: Greta Thunberg expected to arrive in Greece after flotilla detention YouTube video by Middle East Eye

Awaiting Greta's arrival in Greece www.youtube.com/live/TpwonIt...

06.10.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stephen Nazi Miller...what a pleasant person....

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From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

06.10.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 10851    πŸ” 2508    πŸ’¬ 476    πŸ“Œ 169

I 'm on the same page, Mark!!

07.10.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

06.10.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 29916    πŸ” 7032    πŸ’¬ 1461    πŸ“Œ 630
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18 months ago.

06.10.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9098    πŸ” 2641    πŸ’¬ 410    πŸ“Œ 104

To say what is happening makes you sound like a crackpot on a forum. A federal judge is enjoining the president from unlawfully sending federalized soldiers to invade the states of his political opponents against their will.

06.10.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 357    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

Halloween is going to be weird now that there are scary masked people on the streets all year long.

06.10.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4372    πŸ” 862    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 30
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THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
🧡

06.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 15916    πŸ” 4642    πŸ’¬ 596    πŸ“Œ 373
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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

apnews.com/article/chic...

06.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4901    πŸ” 2414    πŸ’¬ 396    πŸ“Œ 135

3 separate news websites and not a single one mentions the house of a female judge that was burned to the ground just days after being criticized and harassed by Stephen Miller.

seems like a pretty big story, ngl

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We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.

Democrats need to say what they believe β€” and actually believe in something.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

06.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6917    πŸ” 1482    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 62
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Random acts of senseless beauty #83

06.10.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Convicted FElon has finally united the people on one thing.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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We Found the β€˜Enemy from Within’ He’s in the White House

We Found the β€˜Enemy from Within’--He’s in the White House

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Trump DOJ torched after federal judge denies delay request in major case

Trump DOJ torched after federal judge denies delay request in major case

www.alternet.org/amp/abrego-g...

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ICE zip-tying and detaining children isn’t β€œenforcement,” it’s *state cruelty.*

The 8th Amendment prohibits β€œcruel and unusual punishment.” That protection extends through the 5th & 14th to all human beings on U.S. soil.

This is unconstitutional, unlawful, and morally depraved.

FULL STOP.

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Stephen miller reply guy

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DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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β€œNo one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

06.10.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16487    πŸ” 5152    πŸ’¬ 309    πŸ“Œ 166
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Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized.

We asked the judge to issue a broad order β€” one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state β€” stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon.

She issued that order

06.10.2025 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 16486    πŸ” 4902    πŸ’¬ 310    πŸ“Œ 192

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