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PatricksDad
PatricksDad
@chriswalker.bsky.social
Politics nerd, elderly wanna-be motorcycle racer, futbol is life
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Exclusive: US Soccer and the NWSL are set to launch a new club competition. The Crest Cup will be a single-elimination knockout competition featuring all sanctioned professional women's teams in the US, including NWSL sides. www.thecutback.com/p/exclusive-...
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🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “He wanted to make this about him or me — but the question is about YOU. Can YOU afford your gas? Can YOU afford your groceries? This guy is gonna rubber-stamp everything Trump tells him to.”
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Five years ago in the middle of a reckoning over abuse and misconduct, the players of the NWSL were debating if they should save the league or burn it down. They picked both. On the last five years, free to read at @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Love this story about our players hailing from Africa! www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
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I'm trying to add 500 Democracy Docket subscribers this weekend. Democracy Docket will never send you spam or sell your email address. It's not on Substack or ActBlue. Free and premium options available. Link and thanks! demdock.com/4w6emld
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One of the biggest questions Democracy Docket is asked: What can I do to help? Our answer: A brand-new bulletin board community page with a list of ways you can volunteer, attend rallies, do phone banking, write petitions, and more. newsletters.democracydocket.com/fixed-you-as...
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🚨BREAKING: A nonpartisan network of former military and civilian leaders is warning that hundreds of thousands of overseas voters could be disenfranchised if a new USPS rule based on the president’s order is allowed to stand. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:
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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Just shameful.
⚓ Rear Admiral Amy Bauernschmidt came up through the ranks the hard way, graduating from Annapolis, earning her wings, commanding a helo squadron, then a carrier, and now a carrier group. And because Low-T Peter just pulled her promotion, she'll never get her second star. Proud of you, Shipmate 🫡
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New, fun, one-minute learning, and celebration of American History #250to250 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team Narrated by @smith.senate.gov Boundary Waters #WeAreAmerican250 #BWCAW #Roosevelt #NationalForest #Wilderness youtu.be/zTV2XIks7z0?...
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Referee Omar Artan being banned from entering a World Cup country is a stain on this tournament. Freedom of movement was the lowest bar and still it failed. Column. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/omar-a...
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The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.
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I’ve for all days lived my living by these good words of true that without big momentum the good things that hopefully will occur and they probably will can always find people in life.
Trump is literally out here saying random words and calling it a commencement address. Get a load of this gibberish.
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If you want to help me in the fight for free and fair elections, subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tel everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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The Washington Post is beyond repair. We need to build independent pro-democracy media that doesn't equate Donald Trump's pathological lies with Joe Biden. You can start with subscribing to Democracy Docket. I built it to have only one side -- the truth. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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NEW: After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist @peterdicampo.bsky.social saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.
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New in PN: Pete Hegseth C*ckblocks Anthropic "It’s an abuse of power by an intemperate cable news host using nat'l security law to destroy a company that dared to defy him. It’s also a signal to every govt contractor that negotiating too hard may lead to being exiled from the federal marketplace."
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EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
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New in PN: The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here "The fantasy monster that president after president has conjured up is real, and he is squatting orangely over his phone in the bathroom at Mar-A-Lago."
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WATCH — Trump Transpo Sec Sean Duffy’s daughter Evita wants Olympic athletes screened for loyalty to Trump 🤔 Republicans want the United States of North Korea (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
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Happy, healthy and hungry: Why Trinity Rodman chose stability in Washington over a move abroad. My column: sports.yahoo.com/soccer/artic...
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New in PN: Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid "Trump has brought us fascism, he is threatening war and violence. But it is all too possible that his most lasting and horrific legacy, in his second term as in his first, will be plague."
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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I guess I have to scream this: SCRIPPS NEWS HAS BEEN DOING HEROIC WORK COVERING CONDITIONS IN THE TRUMP CONCENTRATION CAMP SYSTEM And they're rewarded with little credit and few views. THIS IS ONLY GOING TO GET MORE CRUCIAL. Follow @scrippsnews.bsky.social and SHARE!!!
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"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Replying to @atrupar.com
Thank you to everyone who is risking their safety and contributing their time and money to protect our neighbors. If you are so inclined, please check out Stand With Minnesota (standwithminnesota.com) to find a way to help. And no one start any beefs with Will Stancil. (2/2)
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