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@djpickert.bsky.social

News & history junky, musician, songwriter, philosopher, explorer, problem solver, educator, gardener, dog dad. Nashville,TN

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Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

06.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 14152    🔁 7764    💬 711    📌 469
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New T-shirt

24.09.2025 22:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Now Is Not the Time to Pull Back on Voter Registration Read more here.

Today, National Voter Registration Day serves as a nationwide rallying cry. At a time when our democracy faces unprecedented challenges, it’s more crucial than ever to ensure voters are registered ahead of elections.

Learn more about what you can do👇

16.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 450    🔁 212    💬 6    📌 8
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I wish more politicians understood how the economy is rigged against regular people the way Bill Burr does.

20.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 12047    🔁 4304    💬 319    📌 257
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WATCH: Texas Rep. Collier says the high road has crumbled

19.08.2025 17:43 — 👍 14472    🔁 4332    💬 536    📌 323
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Not only will we continue to demand the release of the unredacted (other than that of the victims), Epstein files, we demand the victims be heard!
We don't care what a convicted sex trafficker has to say. The only voices that matter are those of the victims.
1/2

10.08.2025 22:38 — 👍 18411    🔁 5469    💬 328    📌 190
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July 29, 2025 marks 67 years to the day since the founding of NASA. NASA Spinoff—a section of the US space agency’s technology transfer program—compiles just about every commercial technology that has originated in US space research, from freeze-dried food to wireless vacuum cleaners.

29.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 261    🔁 73    💬 6    📌 5

A reminder that Brazil arrested and charged their former dictator Bolsonaro with planning a coup and trying to overturn the 2022 elections in their country.

If only the United States had done the same instead of giving the plotter of a coup full totalitarian power of the govt.

10.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 16715    🔁 4333    💬 550    📌 222
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Raskin: "I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. 'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity ... '"

02.07.2025 15:31 — 👍 5064    🔁 1666    💬 117    📌 108

Sounds like slavery to me.

01.07.2025 23:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not every R who voted for the cruelest bill in modern times will be on the ballot in 2026 but you can vote against everyone who is. Every damn one.

01.07.2025 23:09 — 👍 6915    🔁 1862    💬 246    📌 89

Make them pay now!!

01.07.2025 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”

A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

23.06.2025 02:53 — 👍 33236    🔁 11211    💬 2062    📌 1523

This is nuts!!!!

05.06.2025 11:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

06.05.2025 03:30 — 👍 31712    🔁 8105    💬 1019    📌 461
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WELL PLAYED GOVERNOR!

Kristi Noem wanted to do a press conference today at the Illinois Governor’s mansion. So Governor JB Pritzker
hung this banner.

Noem ended up choosing a different location.

Your thoughts?

07.05.2025 22:54 — 👍 6198    🔁 1346    💬 371    📌 138

No, it’s who Dtrump is.

08.05.2025 12:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When the President of the United States says he doesn’t know if he should uphold the Constitution, it should be a searing red line for every American.

If you let him ignore ANY aspect of the Constitution you embolden him to ignore more of it, including the parts that secure YOUR freedoms & rights.

06.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 21759    🔁 6111    💬 720    📌 290

Somehow, Trump has declared that we’re under numerous national emergencies from the Southern Border Emergency to the Energy Emergency, Trade Emergency, Public Lands Emergency, and Immigration Enforcement Emergency. Yet these crises seem so “urgent” that he finds time to golf every weekend. Odd.

05.05.2025 15:23 — 👍 7650    🔁 1832    💬 234    📌 79
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The Trump Crime Family Business: Selling America from the Inside While Trump sits in the Oval Office, his sons are cutting foreign deals—from Saudi towers to Qatari golf resorts.

Trump’s back in the White House—and his kids are cashing in. Saudi towers, Qatari golf deals, crypto schemes. This isn’t public service. It’s a shakedown.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

05.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 5599    🔁 2046    💬 287    📌 123
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A gift to the NRA.

05.05.2025 14:16 — 👍 20922    🔁 8323    💬 1391    📌 754
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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

Trump's Make Apartheid Great Again plan is rolling along.

27.03.2025 11:42 — 👍 147    🔁 72    💬 17    📌 8

The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.

27.03.2025 10:49 — 👍 38895    🔁 10140    💬 1151    📌 346
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Opinion | Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster. It’s likely that Trump, as he so often is, is being guided by grievance.

OPINION by @jarvisdeberry.bsky.social:

’It seems safe to assume that President Trump’s aim in getting rid of FEMA is not to find a better way to help people who suffer weather-related catastrophes but to find a way to help as little as it can — if at all.’

READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

27.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 116    🔁 40    💬 16    📌 3
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

25.03.2025 11:59 — 👍 52791    🔁 21621    💬 1466    📌 1788
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Morning America.

Want to see how the US’s global standing is doing? Here’s the UK’s biggest radio chat show:

“Never has a major international scoop fallen into the hands of a journalist with less work. This is emblematic of…a government stripped of all competence. There are no adults in the room.”

25.03.2025 13:20 — 👍 4299    🔁 1650    💬 132    📌 140
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Yes, WE THE PEOPLE, not we the king.
These are truly unprecedented times and we are in a constitutional crisis.

Time to show up people.
In any small way or large you can.

Wake up!
Show up.
Take back our Democracy.
Get the rational adults back in the room.
This country is for WE THE PEOPLE.

25.03.2025 03:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump preparing to sign order to dismantle Education Department | CNN Politics The president could sign the order as early as Thursday. He would need support from Congress to get it done.

President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.

06.03.2025 12:05 — 👍 202    🔁 121    💬 111    📌 62

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

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Sums up Rtump well!

02.03.2025 12:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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