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minn-flamingo.bsky.social
Disabled older than average mom of a 13 yo son with ASD and epilepsy. I am glad I live in Minnesota!
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Gee, why isn't DOGE flagging this as wasteful spending? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 hours ago • 37 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Genuine question: If tariffs created all of our wealth, why is the Central African Republic, a country with some of the highest tariffs in the world, extremely poor?

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Nazism worked in a country of 80 million people. It won’t work in a country of 335 million. We were shocked in 2016. In 2025. We are pissed.

submitted 6 days ago • 838 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

They listen with their profits

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submitted 6 days ago • 314 comments

To all of MAGA AND Elon Musk. I can trace my history back 3, 4 and more than 5 generations. They served in oue military . What has you hate done? Yo, VP Vance!??! Your kids have less generational citizenship than may family. Birth Right is a right. youtu.be/5aYnNrTnXhk?...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1910 comments

@maddow.msnbc.com I propose to MSNBC and all other media outlets to not cover, or at least use the name, of the POTUS in office for 24 hours. He thrives on attention. But if his pressers are covered, but use the names in Admin relating too, it would drive him nuts, well more so. 🤣

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

He’s so desperately wants to be taken seriously. But he’s a clown- A joke.

submitted 8 days ago • 170 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 8 days ago • 6091 comments

As of now it would be nice if everyone screamed at their governments that RUSSIA IS DRONING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN THE MIDDLE OF EUROPE If I could ask you guys to do something - please let it be this

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The DOGE website that Elon says is proof of how transparent they are basically doesn't exist www.doge.gov

submitted 10 days ago • 180 comments

For the Jewish and Christian Faiths, when Moses went up to receive the Commandments, the Israelites melted their gold to create a golden calf to worship. What is wrong with this picture:

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@mspopok.bsky.social Popok Live tonight? Will we as private citizens have any kind of claim if we don’t receive our rebates? Social security? Medicare? VA? This is what keeps me up at night as a disabled person with a disabled child who needs his Medicaid for his epilepsy.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We're about to learn whether a Supreme Court that's bent over backward to protect the religious liberty of worshippers who sought to gather together to sing aloud in a pandemic will be solicitous of people of faith whose conviction requires them to minister to, shelter, pray alongside the stranger

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

"Karina's Law" was signed into law on yesterday by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. The bill requires guns to be removed from an accused abuser's home after the victim in a domestic violence case is granted an order of protection. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

submitted 11 days ago • 268 comments