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pro-democracy, transparency, equity, environmental justice and dogs anti-DOGE, oligarchy, fascism #resistance #altgov

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The plan is paid for by taking child care supports away from low income parents (mothers), just as they're requiring these same families (women) to *work* to access Medicaid and SNAP. The real goal is to punish poor single mothers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
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White House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides Conservatives
Some praise the idea championed by Vice President JD Vance to direct federal money to support traditional families, while others say it cuts against conservative principles.
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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/07/2026
The Odyssey cost $250 million to make. Guess who got a tax break worth more than 30x that last year? Amazon—after firing 30,000 workers.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Birthright citizenship hangs by a thread. The promise of equality under the law, of rights for all born here, of a fair shot for everyone, is one vote away from oblivion. We are one vote away from, effectively, a racial caste system. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship
A 5-4 decision shows the nation is one vote away from creating a subclass of children.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 29/06/2026
One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children.
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A Testy Musk Attacks Claims DOGE’s Cuts Killed Children. But Studies Paint Grim Picture.
One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children.
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AltReclamation 💦 @altreclamation.altgov.info · 24/06/2026
Let’s have a big round of applause for the former NOAA employees who launched Climate.us in response to the regime taking down the dot gov site. It takes a lot of work to build & launch a scientific federal site, & now this great resource lives on! 🌊 🌎 🌡️ @altnoaa.bsky.social
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.
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OneAID @oneaid.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Last night, over 300 people gathered at Politics and Prose to support a book talk on Nicholas Enrich’s “Into the Woodchipper”, moderated by Dr. Atul Gawande. 📲Check out the recording on our Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DXK-m0P... 📺 Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/8rfKjIudffw
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 15/04/2026
If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid: $124 — school lunch & nutrition programs $49 — diplomacy to prevent wars $19 — USPS $19 — Federal Aviation Administration $18 — national parks and $4,049 — weapons and war. These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.
Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🚨🚨 Dozens of documents detailing FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her as a 13-year-old are being kept under wraps.
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DOJ is Hiding Trove of Documents About Trump’s 13-Year-Old Accuser
Why can’t we see the all the files in the 3501.045 sequence?
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Sidney Morss @sidneymorss.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
When you’re just trying to get through your day…
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just realized that with Abolish ICE at +11, it's polling over 30 percentage-points ahead of Trump approval. Guess that means if the media wants to be representative, it should give at least like 40% more airtime to people who support abolishing ICE to Trump supporters
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Trump went from an obviously fake “No More Forever Wars” to “No! More Forever Wars” pretty fast
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Former Arizona lawmaker Austin Smith, former TurningPoint leader made false claims of election fraud for years but now pleads guilty to election fraud charges www.ms.now/news/austin-...
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Former Arizona lawmaker and Charlie Kirk ally pleads guilty to election fraud charges
Austin Smith aided TPUSA’s election-denial efforts after the 2020 election. He pleaded guilty Monday to forging signatures on his own reelection petition.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 19/02/2026
DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…
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DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’
Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were "related to DEI." That's what the newly released proposed amended complaint from the Authors Guild against the US government reveals about how DOGE actually decided which National Endowment for the Humanities grants to kill.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
After railing against narcoterrorists + deporting migrants w/no criminal record, President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president last year – then federal officials lifted his ICE hold & whisked him to the Waldorf Astoria My latest for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment
After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Some stunning takeaways from the Les Wexner Epstein deposition today: -He claims the DOJ & FBI never contacted him, even though a co-conspirator -He claims he was not close to Epstein even though Epstein‘s wealth was built on his relationship -Not a single Republican showed up for the deposition.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2026
gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“She’s not from here.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2026
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 16/02/2026
Please vaccinate. www.ms.now/opinion/meas...
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Opinion | I’m a South Carolina pediatrician. This measles outbreak was preventable.
Dr. Annie Andrews: I’m a pediatrician — and a measles outbreak is surging in my home state of South Carolina. This was all preventable, and we need to be honest about how we got here.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
USAID money that saved people’s lives now reallocated to create a paid entourage for the guy who promised to put federal employees in trauma
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026
If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We rely on ethical and honest election officials to ensure we can rely on our elections. Those officials have been threatened and attacked, and are fleeing from the profession. Turnover since 2020 is above 50% in western states/ issueone.org/press/new-re...
graph showing massive turnover of election officials in western states
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Spooky Sasquatch @nerdysasquatch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If these MFers actually wanted to "protect kids", they would: Pass gun control Stop demonizing vaccines Fund education and healthcare Punish every single creep in the Epstein files Censoring the internet does nothing to actually help kids. It only makes them ignorant.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
What made it such a great show is that it was entertaining and layered and explicitly political with excellent music, delightful surprise guests, stunning sets, a clear narrative, a shout out to ALL of the Americas and a cameo from Belcalis.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Donald Trump is: - Openly racist - Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children - Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state - Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders - Polling at 38% amongst the American people
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It's obvious but still striking to consider that we have a United States government driven solely by one man's emotional dysregulation and dysfunction.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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