@qwicksand.bsky.social

I embrace my role to be an anxious, jealous, guardian of democracy.

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9 months ago
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Cuts to the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Will Lead to Dramatic Rise in Infections, Deaths, and Costs Without funding, there will be a loss of momentum in reducing HIV cases, and the nation's epidemic will worsen significantly.

#ActUpSaveHealthcare

Lives will be lost!!

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Commentary: If masks are wrong for protesters, how about for ICE agents? Commentary: Sworn officers of the law should not be held to a lower standard than Columbia University students. Or are they ashamed of their actions?

If ICE is on the up and up, why are they wearing masks, and sometimes not wearing badges? Democrats need to instigate investigations NOW!

"agents participating in a February raid in Tennessee did not have badges. "

www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.

And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.

And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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From the Kansas City star: U-Haul bans, patriot front members after trucks rented in Casey for March

THANK YOU!!!

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MAGA is cruelty disguised as strength, nationalism dressed up as patriotism. All to worship a con man who made people feel seen, not with truth, but with resentment.

They chose grievance over grace and the rest of us are left trying to explain how it happened to a world that once believed in us.

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Guess which is going wind up killing more Americans.

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THIS is the most devastating constitutional crisis.

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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

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Tear off the masks when they show up. Take their photos. Get them on video. Expose them. Out them. Name them.

They need to be made into pariahs where decent people gather.

We cannot allow them to terrorize us.

Eyes open. Phones on.

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As a professor, I’d have caught Pete Hegseth plagiarizing in a heartbeat—and the consequences would’ve been swift: suspension or expulsion.

Public universities treat academic dishonesty with real consequences.

Too bad elite private schools let grifters coast.

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Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN Politics The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat...

"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.'

The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...

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I am positive that the folks who follow me already know this, but if you see a person being kidnapped off the street, put your body in the way.

Record it and get in the way.

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This part

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Lost in the Arizona desert, pregnant and alone: Guatemalan woman tells her story Erika Mateo, 35 weeks pregnant, traveled more than 2,000 miles to get to the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's what happened after she was detained in Ariz.

“These are our community members. They're our neighbors. We don't want to send our friends away. We don't care where they're from...

"We would want them to stand up for us, so we're standing up. Tucson is resisting.”

www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

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Republican member of Congress accuses Democrats who inspected an ICE facility of “insurrection” that’s “worse than 9/11.”

These people are fucking insane.

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Stand Up
Speak Out

Tell immigrants we are #ONYOURSIDE

If you live in an area where you see a lot of immigrants. Protect them.

Use your voice!

Stand up, and Speak out for your neighbors!! Keep them safe!!

#OnYourSide
#SheShed

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Do your job, Sean.

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Crockett: I cannot wait until voters have an opportunity to say: You took food out of my mouth. You took a roof from over my head. You are responsible for making sure that I do not have health care. I'm going to make sure you don't have a job.

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Seems like Mike Lawler had a whole police dept there to physically eject people from his town hall.

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Folks, Emily Feiner went to Congressman Mike Lawler’s Town Hall as his constituent, to ask him a question

He refused to answer, and when she tried to follow up had her forcibly removed

Thank you, Emily, for standing up to fascism-in a nonviolent manner

As all patriotic Americans should

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Nothing to see here. Just @emilyjaynef.bsky.social being forcibly removed from NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall tonight for having the temerity to act like a citizen of the United States. Hero.

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Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."

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Keep Doing Your Jobs 60 Minutes!!!

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Doctored photo of Pete (unqualified & most likely drunk) Hegseth with an altered tattoo that shows MS13 over his iron crosses.

LMAO Totally legit! 😉 Hurry, tell Trump. Off to El Salvador ya go, Petey and good riddance. 👋🏼

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