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Rebooting capitalism to make it work for all since 2001. Goal: have your Congresspeople know you by name. https://bsky.app/profile/petermorley.bsky.social/post/3lgbs7esdzc2n

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Welp, clearly America needs innovation around how the People get comprehensive, fact-based news in context.

This is gonna go on as long as that requires.

22.10.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps he tipped over

22.10.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

22.10.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13489    πŸ” 4370    πŸ’¬ 324    πŸ“Œ 150

Glad to see their faces

22.10.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why? Because GOP donors aligned with this agenda control the media playing on the bases.

22.10.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are all paying for this vanity project

21.10.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9241    πŸ” 3671    πŸ’¬ 532    πŸ“Œ 175

Is he actually trying to make white patriarchy seem like a bad thing?

22.10.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I heard a story on kqed about how Trump gained Latino voters in β€˜24. And how some remain with him. One guy said β€œwell a government has the right to enforce its laws.” Which I can understand- but also see as a talking point those voters have bought without questioning whether this is truly happening

21.10.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

maybe but I suspect Nazis understand why people suffer and they’re good with that, which is different.

But those lacking cognitive empathy can be complicit more easily.

21.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Was at Walmart to get my child a Halloween costume, to match her friend’s.

Outside was a Latino guy tabling to get signatures in favor of voter ID in California.

I asked him why would you do that? It makes it harder for legitimate voters to vote. Disenfranchising his own people.

And now this. 😑

21.10.2025 05:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is what we are up against: bankrolled canvassing to let the GOP’s capitulation to their responsibility to govern become permanent. At a community center rounding up canvassers and on the street a caravan of trucks with flags and No signs were honking noisily.

Yes on 50 feels essential!!!

21.10.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t be complacent- Iβ€˜ve seen someone rounding up signatures for β€œNo” at Walmart and tonight a huge event with lots of cars and flags and two big RVs plastered with No and a bunch of volunteers clearly getting ready to GOTV. Yes on 50 needs to get its game on!

21.10.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They lack cognitive empathy, on that I would agree.

And when combined with assurances based on their wealth and scale that they must be more brilliant than everyone else, this definitely leads to psychopathic algorithms

20.10.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: β€˜Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

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Indeed

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20.10.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was there a tanning bed in solitary??

20.10.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And they will find the non-biodegradable skins and it will be known as the Amphibean Era

20.10.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we stayed out there we would win this quarter

19.10.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œ.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.”

@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

19.10.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5728    πŸ” 2564    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 83

Don’t let the efforts to distract us dominate today’s news

NOKINGS!!!!!

18.10.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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California Dreamin’ of No Kings in San Diego.

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Green inflatable frog taking picture with blonde woman and black and white dog

Green inflatable frog taking picture with blonde woman and black and white dog

The numbers of people and the energy at the new Kings rally in Milpitas is unlike anything I have ever seen in this town!!! Absolutely inspired and proud!!! NoKings!!!

18.10.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you include freedom from corporate and wealthy superpac money and stock trading and govt officials becoming lobbyists in the platform then yes

18.10.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But soon enough they will blame it on Democrats as Newsmax informs them it’s their fault

18.10.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If only people would stay out in the streets

18.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His bad buddies’ solidarity? Seems like that’s whatβ€˜s important to too many white men these days

18.10.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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