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Retired. Visual Arts Educator 37+ years. Gardener. Tree Hugger. Politics IS Policy. Democracy Matters. Oppose Resist Defy https://dabickfordart.weebly.com

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“He’s my first born,” Susan Pretti said. “He’s the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day.”

“No,” her husband said.

I urge you to read this today.

11.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 5163    🔁 1566    💬 84    📌 28
Screenshot of an X post from FactPost quoting Rep. Johnson questioning a proposal to require passports to register to vote, noting that many Americans do not have passports and asking whether the $150 passport fee would be waived to avoid creating an unreasonable poll tax. Below is a CNN screenshot showing a woman speaking remotely, with a banner reading: “DHS FUNDING TALKS AT A STANDSTILL AS DEADLINE APPROACHES.”

Screenshot of an X post from FactPost quoting Rep. Johnson questioning a proposal to require passports to register to vote, noting that many Americans do not have passports and asking whether the $150 passport fee would be waived to avoid creating an unreasonable poll tax. Below is a CNN screenshot showing a woman speaking remotely, with a banner reading: “DHS FUNDING TALKS AT A STANDSTILL AS DEADLINE APPROACHES.”

Thank you, Julie Johnson, for speaking out against the grotesquely misnamed SAVE act. We need you to keep fighting for us in the House.

11.02.2026 22:30 — 👍 9637    🔁 2933    💬 245    📌 68
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NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

11.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 12665    🔁 5694    💬 867    📌 413
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Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

11.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 21627    🔁 6611    💬 753    📌 352
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This is utterly deranged behavior from a U.S. attorney general

11.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 15676    🔁 4687    💬 2381    📌 831

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

11.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 24332    🔁 6356    💬 1798    📌 386
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WATCH — @warnock.senate.gov: “They are seizing ballots, gunning down ordinary citizens, arresting journalists. All the alarm bells 🚨 are blaring. The question is, are we listening?”

10.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 10419    🔁 4163    💬 426    📌 201

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

10.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 26930    🔁 9587    💬 56    📌 357

America desperately needs a functioning and independent House as a check on Trump’s chaos and mania. It will never have that as long as Mike Johnson is Speaker. Every vote for a House Republican is a vote to give Trump unchecked power for two more years.

11.02.2026 03:42 — 👍 2986    🔁 683    💬 70    📌 18
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Had enough of this shit yet, Michigan?

10.02.2026 00:55 — 👍 9450    🔁 2795    💬 799    📌 215
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GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

09.02.2026 23:09 — 👍 19541    🔁 5878    💬 2675    📌 802
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FfS, he was the president.

08.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 3594    🔁 705    💬 483    📌 114
A dad and a child riding bicycles on a neighborhood street

A dad and a child riding bicycles on a neighborhood street

You are so Nashville if your kid's 1.5 mile ride to school requires a practice run on a Sunday morning, stringing together a convoluted route of sidewalks and alleyways because there's not a shred of bicycle infrastructure to keep her safe.

08.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 693    🔁 88    💬 33    📌 6
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

09.02.2026 01:58 — 👍 17966    🔁 3590    💬 150    📌 302
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ICE Uses Disguises and Fake Plates for Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. As the sweeping imm...

Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state

ground.news/article/hard...

08.02.2026 15:21 — 👍 1988    🔁 1273    💬 125    📌 52

It’s odd that the religious right is so upset about a halftime show that celebrated marriage, love, community, small business, hard work, and family. 🤔

09.02.2026 04:50 — 👍 13817    🔁 3110    💬 580    📌 145
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Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.

Good god what a child

09.02.2026 03:03 — 👍 25303    🔁 4505    💬 3333    📌 630
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Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing

Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
What a Fkng pri*k, he’s destroying everything that’s established to help our environment from assholes like him.

08.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 2029    🔁 989    💬 237    📌 79
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Judge strikes down old Arizona abortion restrictions that clash with voter-backed guarantees A judge has ruled that Arizona must stop enforcing abortion restrictions that predate and contradict a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights.

Arizona must stop enforcing abortion restrictions that predate and contradict a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, a judge ordered in a ruling released Friday.

08.02.2026 12:29 — 👍 5744    🔁 1649    💬 72    📌 40
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Minneapolis protesters arrested during one-month anniversary of Renee Good’s death Several demonstrators taken into custody Saturday after marking killing of Minnesota woman by immigration officer

"One person, as they appear to be placed in handcuffs, says: 'I was here delivering pizza for the protesters. I had no idea that this was happening. I moved to the side of the curb when they started rushing everyone and now they’re arresting me.'"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

08.02.2026 02:07 — 👍 3732    🔁 1832    💬 99    📌 64
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Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

09.02.2026 01:50 — 👍 40883    🔁 9716    💬 685    📌 415
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It’s a feature, not a flaw.

08.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 6375    🔁 1853    💬 427    📌 172

@governorwalz.mn.gov @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social why are State police attacking and arresting protesters? What happened to protecting protesters, and just civilians in general, from the masked thugs murdering people on the streets?

08.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

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07.02.2026 23:05 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Why are the local police violently arresting peaceful protesters!!
@governorwalz.mn.gov

07.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.

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Jeffrey was already on the sex offender registry at this point. His victim was a 14-year-old girl, and there were 35 other potential victims. And these men still chose to have dinner with him.

07.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

The latest file drop shows attorneys who represented Epstein survivors communicated with Epstein and his associates going back over a decade. I’ve been sick over it, but it’s true.

06.02.2026 20:49 — 👍 2465    🔁 722    💬 76    📌 32
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SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

@acyn.bsky.social

07.02.2026 19:38 — 👍 18488    🔁 5793    💬 409    📌 270

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