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Alanus Williams

@alanus.bsky.social
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I am a photographer of the lovely island I live on and of news and events. Sometimes I take travel pictures, but seeing without the lens is often better. I'm a retired psychiatric nurse - the world today is fascinating. I'm always trying to learn new info.

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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thank you Adam!!
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Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger)
Quit watching your trafficking documentaries and getting angry if you still support this guy . Trump is in the files
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I'm not wild about this, however, I did not know the US had been doing this with other nations for decades. Pays to dig a little deeper. Associated Press is a pretty reliable source.
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Things to know about the Qatar training facility planned for an Idaho Air Force base
When U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday morning that the federal government had reached an agreement with Qatar to build a facility at an Air Force base in Idaho, social media posts ...
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Lincoln had a Team of Rivals, JFK had the Best and the Brightest. What in hell do you call this?
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Seth Plotnick (@sethinsf) on Threads
Lincoln had a Team of Rivals, JFK had the Best and the Brightest. What in hell do you call this?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS SAY NO KINGS! ❌👑 #VirginIslands #NoKings #Oct18
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Indeed, how will you use your power? Everyone of us has some sort of power. At 75 with some medical issues I'm no longer able to get out to protest. However, I CAN, try to educate people through posts, texts and shares of good and challenging information such as this video. We all can do something.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/08/2025
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Fifty-one years ago today.
Nixon's resignation letter.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Snopes is extremely thorough when fact checking. More people should check before sharing. Unraveling claim Pete Buttigieg's DOT spent $80B on 'DEI' initiatives while delaying air traffic control upgrades www.snopes.com/news/2025/08...
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Unraveling claim Pete Buttigieg's DOT spent $80B on 'DEI' initiatives while delaying air traffic control upgrades
A New York Post article spreading the rumor did not provide a clear definition of what it considered a diversity, equity and inclusion initiative.
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E. Jean @ejeancarroll.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
He LOST. YOU win. (You knew he wanted YOU to pay his lawyers and his legal bills, right?)
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/08/2025
For those who were hopeful that Trump “pivoted” on Ukraine, the meeting in Alaska will sell Ukraine down the river. Trump is scared to death of Putin. Taco
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
“A Republican is somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew someone else was hungry.” ~Mary Karr
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Bonky @shesbonky.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom
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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata).
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Ron Hacker @ronhacker.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
If you missed the March 28th edition of my newsletter, FOIA Files, this is what it was all about FBI Agents, FOIA Staff Pulling All Nighters Reviewing Jeffrey Epstein Files www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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FBI Agents, FOIA Staff Pulling All Nighters Reviewing Jeffrey Epstein Files
An army of FBI agents and FOIA analysts have been holed up in the bureau’s sprawling Central Records Complex in Virginia as they process thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files — at the expense of...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This is not the act of a legitimate government.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 10/07/2025
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court
The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Reminder that this is *Texas* in a high profile disaster affecting a Christian girls camp. If Noem and DHS won’t mobilize for this, what hope does the rest of the country have?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
fine i will do it i will inspect the potato
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/06/2025
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May 2025) By @annaleighclark.bsky.social‬
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Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It’s so on brand Trump Republicans claim CA is under siege WHILE the RNC hosts its Summer Retreat…IN L.A. 🤣 Rumored to be at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel. It’s all so ridiculous. L.A…Safe enough for the RNC but not Angelenos 🤣🤷‍♀️ At least it’s not at a landscaping company this time
RNC Summer Retreat 2025 flyer
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Excellent history of Juneteenth.
youtu.be
What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Representative Stacey E. Plaskett @repstaceyplaskett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
House Democrats are out here doing👏🏽the👏🏽work👏🏽 Thanks again to my friend, @michaelsteele.bsky.social for having me! Catch the full episode here www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jGd...
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Governor Newsom is suing the administration. Here's why. Is Trump trying to create a police state?
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Read the Letter From the Office of Gov. Gavin Newsom to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Gift Article)
On Sunday, the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth objecting to the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 06/06/2025
After months of ignoring our Constitution, it seems the Trump Administration has relented to our demands for compliance with court orders and due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This has never been about the man — it’s about his constitutional rights and the rights of all. Full statement:
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
There wasn't going to be a resolution of this where Abrego Garcia went right back to ordinary life in Maryland with a path to potential citizenship. We demanded his return so he could receive due process and contest allegations before his ability to remain here was determined. That now will happen.
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jamesbakerstudio.bsky.social @jamesbakerstudio.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Whale Cove, Lake Tahoe, California At this time of year, sunlight penetrates deep into Lake Tahoe, making the blue hues of its depths vivid and its sandy shallows luminous. #photography #nature #lake #california #landscape #tahoe #art #water #geology #spring #vacation
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The Episcopal Church stands up against Trump.
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Episcopal Church says it won't help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in US
The Episcopal Church's migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status, citing the church's longstanding “commitment ...
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett speaking from DC about what has been given to billionaires and taken from the rest of us. Shame on every single Republican.
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Redirecting...
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Kimberley @kims-sky.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Key word- “ white South Africans”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. Trump's self-dealing makes Warren G. Harding’s look like a child shoplifting candy.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Take a look at how an all white group of “refugees “ from South Africa were greeted. Big difference from how others are treated.
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WATCH LIVE: White Afrikaners from South Africa arrive at Dulles airport to seek U.S. resettlement
Many in South Africa are puzzled by claims that Afrikaners are persecuted and meet the requirements to be relocated as refugees.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Today marks the anniversary of the FDA’s approval of the first birth control pill—a HUGE milestone in our fight for reproductive freedom. Birth control has empowered generations of women to take control of their health and their future—but we must not forget that these rights are under attack.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
May 7, 2025 Musk has taken much of our private, and supposedly protected, information for his own use. Check the annotated information in Heather Cox Richardson's latest letter. What do you think? What will we have left if something isn't done about the entire administration and minions soon.
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May 7, 2025
Alarm appears to be rising about how the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is consolidating data about Americans.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Republicans push to sell thousands of acres of public lands in the West. That’s a ploy to enable the very rich to gain control of OUR public lands. A hard no from me.
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House Republicans push to sell thousands of acres of public lands in the West
House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Here is the current Secretary of Education’s letter to Harvard after it was edited by that institution. I find it unbelievable that the Trump administration nominated her. That she was confirmed is irresponsible, dangerous and appalling. The children of our country deserve better.
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Linda wrote a letter
It was crap
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 05/05/2025
Elizabeth Warren: I am not in favor of handing over the keys to our Social Security Administration to a man who says that he will do whatever Donald Trump wants, whatever Elon Musk wants, no matter how much it's there just to help the billionaires. #HandsOff @warren.senate.gov
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Is this how expenses are cut? Per BBC "The prison closed because it was too expensive to continue operating, according to the Federal Bureau of Prison website. It was nearly three times more costly to operate than any other federal prison, largely due to its island location." Pure nonsense. RESIST!
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Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison
President Trump says the famous island prison off San Francisco is to be reopened to house "ruthless and violent" offenders.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary. RESIST! Make America Smart Again. Heather Cox Richardson presents ideas to push forward with allowing our children access to real history.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on Thursday at a conference of judges in Puerto Rico. “The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy.” We must all stand against an administration which seeks to intemidate judges and threaten their families. Resist!
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These judges ruled against Trump. Then their families came under attack.
As federal judges rule against the Trump administration in dozens of politically charged cases, the families of at least 11 of the jurists have been targeted with threats and harassment. The intimidation campaign has strained judges and their relatives – and legal scholars fear it could have a chilling effect on the judiciary.
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Here is amazing coverage of all the 50501 protests on May 1. Rachel Maddow covers the protests across the country in cities large and small. Fantastic. Let's all continute to resist in whatever manner we are able. The viablity of our country and democracy is in OUR hands. RESIST!
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‘We won’t back down’: Resistance against Trump continues with hundreds of May Day protests
Thursday’s organizers, including 50501, said part of their goal was to demand “a country that puts our families over their fortunes.”
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Team Trump is cutting money for deaf kids. “Pediatric deafness is a neurodevelopmental emergency. Without support, deaf and hard of hearing children do not learn to communicate, which has cascading effects on brain, language, social & occupational development.” www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...
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Funding Cuts to Deaf Education Impact Disabled Students & Families
Across the country, from rural Utah to Florida, students who are deaf or hard of hearing will face dwindling access to critical support services
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Alanus Williams @alanus.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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