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Karen S. Gaffney

@ksgaff.bsky.social

I am a retired teacher, wife, mom, grandmother, and believer in democracy and every kind of freedom.

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Trumpโ€™s stupid, unconstitutional tariffs. This is ALL on him. MAGA, MAGA.๐Ÿ‘‡

07.12.2025 22:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 934    ๐Ÿ” 374    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.

07.12.2025 19:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1444    ๐Ÿ” 472    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Thereโ€™s no other way to spin it.

The strikes are murder. Theyโ€™re illegal. And they put our troops at greater risk.

07.12.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2017    ๐Ÿ” 653    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 133    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35
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$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.

Whoa โ€ฆ this is really strange.

Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.

๐ŸŽ link โคต๏ธ

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

07.12.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8004    ๐Ÿ” 2871    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 560    ๐Ÿ“Œ 235
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U.S. Flips History by Casting Europeโ€”Not Russiaโ€”as Villain in New Security Policy An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.

Still think Trump/Russia is a โ€œhoaxโ€?
www.wsj.com/world/europe...

07.12.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1132    ๐Ÿ” 557    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 118    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

-They are hiding the Epstein Files
-They are hiding the video of the boat murder
-They are hiding job numbers
-They are hiding military leadership from the press
-They are hiding Trump's repeated health issues
-They are hiding detainees taken illegally

*They do this because they are lying cowards.

07.12.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 723    ๐Ÿ” 267    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trumpโ€™s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...

This is contemptible. Not only do we now have confirmation Hegseth has been lying from the jump, but it seems neither he nor his team understand that killing everyone on a target list *becomes* an illegal No Quarter Order if targets try to surrender or are neutralized. Their semantic games are vile.

07.12.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1114    ๐Ÿ” 367    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

Even the legal justification for drone strikes on senior members of al Qaeda and associated forces (ostensibly covered under the 2001 AUMF) states that strikes are justified only โ€œwhen capture is infeasibleโ€

07.12.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 936    ๐Ÿ” 306    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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This is why MAGA are being told Somalis stole a quadrillion dollars. To distract from this. "The Pentagon is giving Don Jr. hundreds of millions of dollars." -- Sane People. "Somalis stole a billion times that much you have TDS!" -- Your Piece Of Crap Drunk Maga Uncle.

07.12.2025 03:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 700    ๐Ÿ” 357    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

He commits crimes against humanity to stop โ€œdrug traffickersโ€ while pardoning a notorious drug trafficker.

He attacks veterans while committing treason.

Make it stop.

04.12.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11827    ๐Ÿ” 2791    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 395    ๐Ÿ“Œ 103

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

05.12.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11938    ๐Ÿ” 2762    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 421    ๐Ÿ“Œ 113

Admiral Frank Bradley lied in his testimony today. The two survivors did not have a radio or any other means of communication.

Remove him from duty and court martial him. Immediately.

05.12.2025 04:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2824    ๐Ÿ” 859    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 137    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
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Cassidy continues to pay lip service to the public health catastrophe he created with his cowardice.

05.12.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5192    ๐Ÿ” 1439    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 330    ๐Ÿ“Œ 73
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I am taking the next few days off from writing to prepare for a Supreme Court argument. If you want to support Democracy Docket during my pause, here is there link. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

05.12.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8524    ๐Ÿ” 1828    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 272    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54
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Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s firm nabs $620M government contract | TechCrunch Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.

A tiny startup backed by Donald Trump Jr. just landed a $620 MILLION Pentagon loan โ€” the largest in DoD history.
A 30-employee company magically gets mega-funding right after Trump Jr.โ€™s VC firm buys in.
This isnโ€™t national security โ€” itโ€™s corruption in broad daylight. techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/c...

04.12.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits Contact Congress today!

Mike Johnson is powerless to stop this:

03.12.2025 02:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7427    ๐Ÿ” 2154    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 131    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62
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Iโ€™m sure the self-proclaimed โ€˜most transparent White House in historyโ€™ wonโ€™t mind a thorough investigation into the second strike.

Sen Mark Kelly:

โ€œYou do not execute survivors who are clinging onto a side of a ship.โ€

02.12.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9060    ๐Ÿ” 2870    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 254    ๐Ÿ“Œ 93
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Colonists needed to communicate during the Rev. War so USPS was formed. It proved so vital it was written into the Constitution & served as a secure way to hold elections.

Voting by mail is how this country was founded. Traitor Trump wants to end it.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace

01.12.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 408    ๐Ÿ” 205    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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For MAGA, Trump replaces country.

01.12.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2259    ๐Ÿ” 500    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 297    ๐Ÿ“Œ 65
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TN-7 shenanigans over on Reddit ๐Ÿค”

01.12.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 621    ๐Ÿ” 193    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords This is evil.

share.google/hDpfEO0L2PH4...

01.12.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22144    ๐Ÿ” 6021    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 580    ๐Ÿ“Œ 270
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๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!
๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN!!

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! Iโ€™m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

30.11.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1845    ๐Ÿ” 872    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40

Why would Trump pardon a Honduran man who got 45 years for flooding our country with cocaine?

30.11.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 787    ๐Ÿ” 269    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 126    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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BREAKING: HEโ€™S GUILTY! A group of top former US military lawyers declare that Pete Hegseth committed murder and call on US military officers to DISOBEY his illegal orders

30.11.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1269    ๐Ÿ” 445    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in peopleโ€™s mailboxes in Tennesseeโ€™s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.

29.11.2025 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4351    ๐Ÿ” 2251    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 297    ๐Ÿ“Œ 207

โ€ข If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a โ€œnon-international armed conflict,โ€ as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to โ€œkill everybody,โ€ which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give โ€œno quarter,โ€ and
to โ€œdouble-tapโ€ a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes.
โ€ข If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder.

โ€ข If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a โ€œnon-international armed conflict,โ€ as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to โ€œkill everybody,โ€ which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give โ€œno quarter,โ€ and to โ€œdouble-tapโ€ a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. โ€ข If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder.

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Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are โ€œpatently illegal,โ€ anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.

Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are โ€œpatently illegal,โ€ anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.

Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon โ€œNo Quarterโ€ Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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29.11.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6739    ๐Ÿ” 2820    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 117    ๐Ÿ“Œ 173

The word "remigration" is xenophobic and christofascist AF. It's a racist expression of ethnic cleansing and hate. Do not let it become normalized.

29.11.2025 20:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 639    ๐Ÿ” 216    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

This is also true about RFK Junior

29.11.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2815    ๐Ÿ” 595    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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From Adam Miller on Facebook.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #MomSky

29.11.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 439    ๐Ÿ” 256    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

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