Defender Vert 🌲

Defender Vert 🌲

@defendervert.bsky.social

Defending Democracy. Life in the woods. Darling dogs and cats. Photography and cozy life are my hobbies. Let’s make it better for those that come after us.

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Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"

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This should have been the case long before they killed two Americans. Border patrol agents should never have been sent in masks and camo to wreak havoc and aimlessly run around a state 1,500 miles from the Southern border. apnews.com/article/immi...

apnews.comEvery Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem saysThe secretary of Homeland Security is requiring that all officers on the ground in Minneapolis wear body cameras.

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What the hell is this, @cnn.com? Are you telling me that the people who work in your editing bay don't know that the word is "Democratic," and that using "Democrat" as an adjective in this way is a slur with a long history? Get your shit together. You are embarrassing yourselves.

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Replying to @cwebbonline.com

This part! REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “If you were friends with Jeffrey Epstein and you associated with him multiple times, you knew about his crimes and you knew that something was wrong.” “Not only did Jeffrey Epstein commit these crimes, he showed them off to his friends and associates.”

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If CBP, Customs and Border Protection, is only supposed to operate within 100 miles of the U.S. border, what are they doing leading operations in Charlotte, North Carolina?

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Replying to @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

THE WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM IN HISTORY * 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis * 2001: September 11th attacks * 2011: Raid on Osama bin Laden * 2025: Trump & corrupt allies pressure Rep. Lauren Boebert to help them cover up Trump’s pedophilia on convict Jeffrey Epstein’s private island & other locations.

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Replying to @kyledcheney.bsky.social

McCONNELL said Trump's Truth Social post was essentially an admission of his "intent to defy the court order when he said 'SNAP payments will be given only when the government opens.' As a result "people will go hungry, food pantries will be burdened and … suffering will occur."

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

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NEW: California’s attorney general said Thursday he’s wary of moves Trump could make to use federal power to interfere in the 2026 elections — through intimidation, suppression or purges of the voter rolls. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

politico.com‘I’m wary about this president’: California AG sounds warning about midterm security“We are in unprecedented territory with this administration," AG Rob Bonta said.

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In my day, a President pardoning people who beat cops on video while storming the Capitol to hunt down members of Congress who had to be taken to safety would have been a bigger deal.

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No. Neither Zelenskyy nor Ukrainian People can end russia’s war, because neither Zelenskyy nor Ukrainians invaded anyone. To “continue the fight,” to continue to defend yourself, your families, your children is not a choice it’s a duty. For pootihn & russia, this is a war of choice, for 🇺🇦 it isn’t.

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Replying to @joncooper-us.bsky.social

Fuck them - and law enforcement agents do not hide their identities with masks - criminals do

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1. 55 years ago today, U.S. soldiers with the Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 students at Kent State University - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Schroeder - and wounded 9 others, during a protest against the war in Southeast Asia. Take a moment tonight to...

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Replying to @resistrebelrevolt.net

Then, by George, 2025 reaches the pinnacle of white, male resentment: a full-on assault of democracy for sharing power with people they believe they’re better than. Except Trump’s con is that he hasn’t given power back to these bros. He's just further funneled it into the pockets of billionaires.

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Replying to @resistrebelrevolt.net

The Republicans have convinced these white males to continue to vote Republican (which continues to allow the rich to steal from the middle class). So every year, these white men get poorer & more powerless, but continually feel resentful to Democrats for “sharing” with people of color.

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Replying to @resistrebelrevolt.net

It’s possible that they believe they have less - because people of color & women have been getting more. They scapegoat Democrats, because they believe Democratic policies give away what they have to POC But the truth is, they have less because the 1% has been stealing from the middle class.

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Do I believe this high volatility was created by an insanely high hero mythos that white men have envisioned themselves as (through movies, TV, & books). Yes. But the volatility of billionaires robbing them blind every day for the past 50 years really set the stage for the discontent extremism.

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Replying to @resistrebelrevolt.net

Trump has convinced them to blame everybody else for their defects- Because he shares the same psychology of inferiority/superiority. And he, too, dreams of being great. He just can't achieve it because he's such a dud. So he spends all of his time deflecting his failures away & attacking others.

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Replying to @resistrebelrevolt.net

MAGA are low self-esteem white males, with the hero mythos - waiting for someone to lead them to the greatness *over others* that they felt they always deserved. Except that their failure to be great are both natural defects (mediocrity) ... And powerlessness created by being robbed by the 1%.

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Replying to @resistrebelrevolt.net

But that’s why the volatility of the billionaires constantly robbing us - while feeding the grievances of these powerless white males… Makes such a dangerous, violent demographic that just isn’t dangerous and volatile in other countries. The men here ARE more volatile.

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Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’ Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac. This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Gretchen Whitmer greets Trump in Michigan

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Trump is lashing out at federal judges who have ruled his executive orders unlawful or unconstitutional, denouncing them as “communists” and falsely claiming they’re “trying to take away the power given to the president.” But this tactic is nothing new.

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Pritzker: I think all of us are deeply, deeply concerned about what's happening across the country, and of course, 100 days in, it's been, well, a disastrous administration for the American people

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20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...

kfor.com'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspectsA woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Dreams? Hopes for the future? Individual aspirations? Nah. In the new America Lutnick and the Trump administration envision, we work for the rich until the day we die and then pass our jobs on to our kids as their inheritance.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."