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Public Servant's avatar

Never forget how many government workers are unemployed. My partner lost her DEI civil service job because of the fascists. Now we may lose our healthcare too due to the big ugly bill. My colleagues and I will do everything we can to resist from within the government. We are gathering evidence of the many crimes committed by the Orange felon’s minions: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/dei-public-servant-fired

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jean Kring's avatar

Every time I share a video to FB they take it down. At a loss here as to what else I can do to help. I am on my own and surrounded by red people who watch Fox News 24/7. Can barely make ends meet here!

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Joan Hoose's avatar

I was having the same issue. But I figured out that if you introduce the video and then put it in comments, it’s not taken down. Apparently Substack links are only allowed in comments

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jean Kring's avatar

Thanks for that info; this is a screenshot of what they send, I always contest it and give them the reason why it shouldn’t be taken down but they still do it.

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Anne P. Sacco's avatar

Excellent strategy! Bluesky too!

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Lin Daniel's avatar

Facebook takes down almost all posts with external links. But if you put the external link in the comments, it stays.

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jean Kring's avatar

Thank you

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Oaktown's avatar

Delete your FB account, that's what you can do!!! Organize a critical mass of FB users, publicize why you're deleting your accounts, and ask others to join you.

I simply don't understand why more people didn't do that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. If you don't understand it, please read the book "Careless People" to see what a despicable tyrant you are contributing to simply by using his product.

I have never subscribed to FB; I actually read their "privacy" policy when friends started asking me to friend them. Don't think it's indispensable; I've been living happily without it since it launched. The only think F*ckerberg cares about is profits and power. Period. Delete your account. Boycotting Paramount is secondary to boycotting FB, Instagram, What's App (it's no longer private) X, and Google.

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Anne P. Sacco's avatar

Try Bluesky

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RetiredF4's avatar

Have you tried to post with a VPN from Europe? I link many posts from substack on my FB page, until now none was removed.

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Paula DiSipio's avatar

That is a familiar debilitating spot

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PJO22's avatar

Does FB notify you if they are taken down? I post videos and memes but never check to see if they are still there.

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jean Kring's avatar

Yes, here is what they send

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Teach84's avatar

Where? I don’t see it.

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jean Kring's avatar

So what am I doing wrong; I keep posting here and after hitting post it disappeared

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Teach84's avatar

No, I do not see it. I wonder if SubStack doesn’t allow posts from Facebook. Very odd.

I have shared BlueSky posts on here several times, and those always show up.

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jean Kring's avatar

Let me know if you get this picture

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Flora Jackman's avatar

I also have had that happen when I tried to share two videos of representative Melanie Stansbury. Shocked at first and then realized, of course, Zuckerberg.😠

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Judy Cross's avatar

I'm sorry for what this regime is doing to you. I believe in your site, but can't financially support it, 83 years old and low income. Good luck. I think we all need luck right now, but if we continue to stay together and work together, we will win against this regime. I am not willing to let them take my country away from me. God Bless

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Arlene Meaney's avatar

Exactly the same you. I'm just barely surviving now.i so want to subscribe but I have to make my choices. I just can't. I am so sorry for it. Sometimes I feel guilty about it. Becsuse I get the same info that people do that subscribe as members..

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Judy Cross's avatar

Please don't ever feel guilty about it. Circumstances are what they are. Those that can afford to do it, will and those of us that can't will remember them in our thoughts and prayers. You are not alone with barely getting by, but just think, we could teach those with money how to be frugal. How to save for what you need and not just put everything on a credit card for instant gratification and be in debt for the rest of their foreseeable future. I'm glad I had a great mother, who taught me how to rub two nickles together to make a quarter. Really it was smart shopping. God Bless and have a wonderful day.

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Judy Cross's avatar

I recently signed a petition to try and get this regime out of office and held accountable for what they are doing and what they have done. If you want to see what I signed goggle Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one dated May 5, 2025 and below that the one dated 6 days ago. If you agree with it, sign it and pass the information on.

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Kathie Punturiero's avatar

I applaud your efforts. But what will be done with that evidence? Who has the courage to stand up to his bullying? What can we do? Most of us are supportive but not in a position to take meaningful action.

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Karma Halleran's avatar

Good luck

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Guy Kite's avatar

Good luck..I hope the day comes that we get to see him in handcuffs..That day I'd celebrate for sure..Or maybe the next bullet won't miss..

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Colleen Boles's avatar

Of course they're lying. It makes no sense that jobs are climbing. The opposite is true.

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K Salisbury's avatar

Hiring teachers in June? COME ON !

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Patricia Ard's avatar

It’s true they get hired but don’t start till the next school year. But they don’t count till then so what are they going to do count them twice?? And the number of teachers hired every year across the country is a handful in every school district! And truth is some aren’t being replaced due to budget cuts! There is no truth that comes from the administration!!

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Ellen CW's avatar

AGREE

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K Salisbury's avatar

Government help comes from Americans' unifying to help each other. It is supremely noble, if any American concerted action is !!!

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Chris Burgess's avatar

You can't believe a single word these brainwashed brain dead maggot Republican cult members tell you 🤬 if I was locked up inside one of 🤡 concentration camps and hadn't seen daylight for weeks and they told me it was sunny outside I would assume it was raining 😡

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Agree!

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SB's avatar

Knowing what we’ve seen with Trump I can’t imagine him allowing any government agency to put out a report that is not favorable to him.

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Judy Cross's avatar

He is trying to get rid of everyone that knows the truth. He doesn't want anyone interfering with his lies. Not going to work, except for those that are stupid enough to believe everything he says, but now that this bill has passed and they start finding out what is really happening, his lies might just be what they need to find the truth.

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Ellen CW's avatar

Exactly

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Probably fire anyone that would do that

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Toni Martin's avatar

Lie, cheat, and steal is all the insurrectionist, felon, ma

n child, knows and his unqualified cabinet.

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Jill Barrett's avatar

Exactly! They totally cooked the books!

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Louise Manelia's avatar

How is it possible that such a corrupt somewhat human being , who is an absolute fraudster, has gained the trust of so many humans? Not a very good testimony to the human intelligence and morality.

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ronni rosenberg's avatar

You cant fix stupid and so many Americans have been Dummied Down for years starting with Regan but then President Chaney and dumbass Bush really took it to a new level and then Trump came up from the rear and pushed them over the proverbial edge of stupidity and here we are today removing historical facts from school curriculum, changing historical facts, denying American history,embracing dictators and denying decency and ignorance prevails

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Just repulsive and disgusting. We have been torn apart and it will take years to regain our place in the world

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Anne P. Sacco's avatar

It's not trust earned, it's done by gaslighting, brainwashing, drip, drip, drip. Subtle at first, a change in language, then a change in actions, slowly but surely continuously moving the goalposts. It causes ppl to doubt their in logic, their own intelligence, what they know to be true. It's effective. Hitler achieved the same thing, as has Putin, and other fascist Regimes. Ppl become Silenced, unable to apply logical reasoning. It's like a plague over the masses. Silence is where Democracy goes to die.

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ronni rosenberg's avatar

Thats why we need to speak up and not go quietly! We need to fight against the NAZI in the White House...the evil permiating our country and make sure this can never happen again!

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Judy Cross's avatar

That's why we are going to be loud and have our voices heard by those that think all is good in the USA.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Nope. But that’s his base the uneducated

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ronni rosenberg's avatar

He made it very clear he loves the undereducated! Water rises to its own level!

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Yep

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AnneHG's avatar

People are going to question the data at some point as businesses close in their communities and they or their friends and neighbors are laid off. Business owners will know the score when their revenues decline. Even corporate media will get press releases from state labor departments and ADP with data that counters the lies. Trump lies cause that's all he knows how to do.

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Sabrina Gray's avatar

I believe in karma & even the Bible speaks of it. There are quite a few verses that speak of it. Not a Christian, but I know MAGA professes to be.

Galatians 6:7:

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Proverbs 22:8:

Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.

Matthew 7:2:

For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Matthew 26:28

“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword".

Luke 12:2–3

There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

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Good trouble's avatar

I don't believe it for a second! My daughter lost her job to federal cuts, in March, and she has kept in contact with her coworkers on a group chat. None have found employment still. Last month, I moved her and my grandson home to Seattle from San Diego. She tried applying for Medicaid because she needs help to maintain her chronic diseases. Her medications cost $500 a month out of pocket. We found out yesterday that she was denied. We don't know why because they cited policy numbers without explanation. I expected more from my state and will be writing my House Rep today to see if he can help.

Everything they say is bull$%# lies!

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uRNangel423's avatar

Keep appealing the denials, gather as much information and documentation you can from her drs, after 3 appeals it goes before an administrative law judge for approval/denial. I had to do that for my disabled husband, sadly we lost due to the fact the judge wouldn’t set precedent! Keep appealing though!! 🙏🏻

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Good trouble's avatar

Thank you!

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lojack's avatar

No need to explain the obvious. 🍊'ck is laying waste to economy. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/layoffs-doge-tariffs-cbs-news-explains/

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Judy Cross's avatar

Thanks for the site.

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Rich Larson's avatar

When I first heard the 147,000 job numbers, I immediately thought to myself "they're lying!" Thanks for covering this, Meidas. No one else is. They're lying about the inflation and income numbers, too, I bet.

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

I knew it was a lie when first I saw it.

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Angela Mastriano's avatar

GOP has overreached the American people. We will never know the truth with all the lies and corruption they spew! But we need mainstream media to speak out the truth.

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Skitealwedrop's avatar

I suspect that the con bought some votes so the hold outs would fall in line. Money talks in DC.

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Angela Mastriano's avatar

Of course.

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Rachel C's avatar

Don’t hold your breath 👹

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Cathy Delia's avatar

He lies about everything. You can't believe a word he says, if you can understand what he says.

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Doreen Parker's avatar

I just read yesterday, on yahoo, someone talked about Kamala's "word salad" and I had to laugh. What do they think chump sounds like? A great orator?

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brad ziegel's avatar

I hate to be honest but this is honestly no one wants to hear,our country has already fallen and it might take about two years to see all the damage that has already befallen us. The dollar is steadily tanking and people are taken off streets based on racial stereotype. Judges are hand picked and threatened when they speak out,the Republicans have set a new record for loving Trump at 63% and that's a historical number no one has ever reached. The sellout is completed with the passing of this big beautiful garbage bill,and even Republicans admit it's terrible and will kill people but,you know they only care for themselves and after all "everyone dies" fascism is here and now the last two steps are a "fake" national emergency to suspend the Constitution,and then he will begin round ups of anyone he pleases and we will be faced with a police state republic or a civil war and those are choices where everyone will lose.

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Terri's avatar

Unfortunately, I believe this as well.

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Betty Wilusz's avatar

This is very true it's coming.

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Marietta's avatar

My sentiment exactly! We will never know the truth. They will skew the numbers to make it look like they are doing a great job when in reality it is nothing but a smokescreen. How tragic.

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Betty Wilusz's avatar

How and the heck do we get rid of this No good mental person.???? I'm sick of it.And I don't want to listen about it no more.

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Cathy Delia's avatar

I think Iran is going to get him especially if Putin says it's okay. He has really pissed them off this time.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

That would be ironic indeed.

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Skitealwedrop's avatar

Those dudes in the sand pit are pretty brutal. Remember what happened to Kashoggi in Turkey?

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Skitealwedrop's avatar

Promise. Iran can be so brutal 😎

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Skitealwedrop's avatar

Impeachment!

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Anne P. Sacco's avatar

Jason Bourne? Teenager with better aim?

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ronni rosenberg's avatar

Thank you for getting the facts out there!

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