Displaced Ex-Republican

Displaced Ex-Republican

@mark-darson.bsky.social

Dad. Beer snob. Community Volunteer. Trusts science not grifters.

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There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

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Good for Talarico. As I said a few days ago, the Democrats need to run against Musk. Everyone with a brain knows that he’s the enemy.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

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Saying Biden was “certified” as the winner of the 2020 presidential election is not the same as saying Biden “won.” Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence doesn’t appear to understand the distinction — and his answer is more important than it may seem. https://demdock.com/4vRuGpj

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Ossoff is a extraordinarily effective questioner in tone and substance — and understands the importance of listening and responding when a witness is blathering.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

OSSOFF: Are you aware that Gabbard was present at the Fulton County raid? CLAYTON: ... O: What is going on here? C: ... ... O: Are you aware that members of this committee are probing Gabbard's potential misconduct? CLAYTON: .... Uh uh .... COTTON: Senator Ossoff your time is expired!

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I know the comparisons are exhausted, but come on: Just imagine the months of Fox News outrage and GOP congressional subpoenas and hearings if Biden, Obama, or Hillary had posted an 11-strip US flag on the official White House social media accounts….

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social

The official White House account posted an AI slop American flag with only 11 stripes

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Remember when Reagan got shot at the DC Hilton and his entire administration and the right wing ecosystem demanded taxpayers build him a $400 million ballroom

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Replying to @amandamarcotte.bsky.social

Everyone should be exactly as sympathetic to Trump as he was to Mike Pence. Or Paul Pelosi. Or the innocent Iranians he threatened to genocide.

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O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, & traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from a sick person. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.

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Secretary of the Interior just updated the official U.S. map:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Somali-Americans in Minnesota: "They're low IQ. I can generalize. They're low IQ people. They're bad people." (Note that moments later he claims Indianapolis is in Minnesota)

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Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites

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8 million No Kings protesters Zero police officers beaten Zero police officers killed Zero feces smeared on walls.

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According to Palm Beach County records, President Donald Trump voted in the special election for House District 87, which includes his Mar-a-Lago residence, by mail earlier this month. Trump also voted by mail in the primary for the election in January. https://cnn.it/3NJ7lpF

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Just for the record, these were Sean Duffy's stated priorities:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."

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MAKE SURE that this is the conversation. It’s the reason this horrible thing happened. It’s the ONLY reason. Everything else is a distraction.

John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

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Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

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I have spoken to two people now who have told me that only part of their FBI interviews are in the released files, and the parts of their interviews that are missing include mentions of Trump. 1/

NPR@npr.org

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Imagine how better off we'd all be if Harris had won. No street executions of citizens, no masked secret police, no haywire tariffs or threats against our closest allies. Likely continuation of a booming economy, justice, fighting against climate change and a government we respect.

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Welcome home, Liam!

Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55. Needed 60. Zero Democrats voted for it. SEVEN Republicans opposed it: Budd Johnson Lee Paul Moody Rick Scott Tuberville (John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)

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GOP candidate Chris Madel is dropping out of the Minnesota’s governor’s race, saying national Republicans “have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota.”

on.wsj.comThe Lawyer for the Agent Who Shot Renee Good Thinks ICE Has Gone Too FarGOP candidate Chris Madel is dropping out of the Minnesota’s governor’s race, saying national Republicans “have made it nearly impossible.”

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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

Lisa Guerrero@lisaguerrero.bsky.social

Omg.

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Ice needs to be abolished

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social

This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.

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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

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Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:

propub.liICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
Joe@joealv.bsky.social

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

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Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

No money for SNAP benefits that feed hungry American children but Trump is promising to reimburse US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil production so he and his family can profit. Is this what MAGA voted for??