Barb Van
@beatlesbarb.bsky.social
Proud Women’s March and No Kings attendee. Anti-Trump AF. Tired of their lies and hate. Vaxxed. I’m not going to censor myself to comfort their ignorance.
More than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty service members have been detained since Trump took office. At least 6 have been deported. And at least 8 immediate family members remain in immigration custody. Trump is tearing military families apart. It has to stop.
"The president is threatening to bomb a country that for nearly half a century has quietly provided the United States with military access, logistical support, diplomatic assistance, and something increasingly rare in the Middle East."
How America Ends Up Alone
One weird trick to lose friends and influence around the globe.
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It's scary that no one is starting Impeachment procedures when the President of the USA says he stands with North Korea. Wake up USA he will kill us all.
Making the Dodgers visiting the White House look even worse.
Baseball Enthusiast@iluvbaseball.bsky.social · 11h agoI don't know what to say anymore ICE is a dangerous institution and must be abolished
Absolutely staggering: 152 cases involving ICE and CBP officials or contractors accused or convicted of crimes. 131 involved sex offenses. 78 involved children. Maybe the people demanding unlimited power to hunt down “criminals” should spend a little more time looking inside their own agencies.
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 8h agoICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
Andy Beshear Embraces Rise of Democratic Socialist Candidates: ‘It’s Time for Big Ideas’ #Mediaite
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Andy Beshear Embraces Rise of Democratic Socialist Candidates: ‘It’s Time for Big Ideas’
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To be clear, the orange felon has officially shifted US policy to be more friendly with murderous Dictators like Putin and Kim Jong Un than with democratic allies like Canada and South Korea whilst systematically deteriorating the US military. I’d definitely call that treason.
While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings.
How much more spilling of blood and treasure—how much more destruction of the post-war order—will we watch the bloviating buffoon Trump commit before there’s an actual Congress to stop this madness? Asking for everyone who can vote in the midterms.
Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump has no idea how to end the war with Iran.
1/2. A federal judge has ordered Virginia Giuffre’s case files against Ghislaine Maxwell UNSEALED thousands of pages of depositions and evidence involving Epstein, Maxwell and potentially powerful people. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue newrepublic.com/post/214459/... via @newrepublic.com
Federal Judge Orders Release of Virginia Giuffre’s Case Files at Last
The files in Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell will be public at last.
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That is the documented pattern. #RFKJr has now dropped six vaccines from routine schedules and pulled $1.6 billion from global immunization. #Measles is already in 46 states. @bab102.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social @harttandsoul.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @dpsl.bsky.social
This is courage in action. Jason knows the risks, and still he refuses to be silent. Impeach. Convict. Remove. @goodtroublesquad.bsky.social @defendersofourrepublic.org
Just a reminder that if you put $1000 in Trumps Coin in January 2025 you it’s now worth $18.57. Trump made 1.4 billion on crypto last year alone Investing in Trump just doesn’t “math“ folks. #Sheshed
Florida GOP primary, 2026 edition: two convicted felons pardoned by Trump, two sleazy former congressmen, and a Jan. 6 Capitol rioter. At this point, it’s less a candidate list and more a casting call for Felons & Friends. Absolutely unreal! 🫠 #USDemocracy #RisingBlue apple.news/ApiE8Dv0QTFy...
Two Trump Pardons and Busted Rep in Wild Republican Primary — The Daily Beast
A Florida primary features two convicted felons, two former congressmen, and three candidates from other states.
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Maria Farmer, one of the first Epstein survivors to report Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell's abuse of little girls and young women, has reported receiving many threats from Maxwell. Maria Farmer reported Donald Trump to the FBI, but was ignored.
This Druid is sick, sad, and furious. Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
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We're now in a situation where drugmakers are working on monoclonal antibodies against measles that could be given to immunocompromised people and babies too young to be vaccinated in active outbreak situations. www.wired.com/story/measle...
Measles Is Becoming So Common That Treatments May Soon Be Needed
As the US sees its highest number of measles cases in decades and vaccination rates fall, researchers are developing drugs to help those who contract the virus or who are particularly vulnerable.
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Seems like a good time to reup this story from last year. If current vaccination rates remain the same, researchers estimate that the US could see more than 850,000 measles cases and 2,500 deaths over the next 25 years. www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years
A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.
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The Nazis made a special effort to include gays and lesbians in the Holocaust, but now it's illegal DEI to notice that historical fact.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h agoCan't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
Siding with the enemy over one of our longtime allies. AGAIN. He is unquestionably an existential threat to our Democracy. #Impeach-Convict-REMOVE
“Everything they do is money laundering. All of it.” These guys get it. 👇🏽 The Trump projects aren’t just “vanity” (although they are that too) — they are laundering excuses. And ways to put money in the pockets of Trump, his family, and his friends.
Since folks who choose not to get immunized are hurting all of us, and clogging the system? - when a virus mutates & gets *really* dangerous? We will have to control borders at the State, and perhaps even the county level to isolate it. And the non-vaxxed? Triage should put them back of the line.