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@amers4.bsky.social
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Reader, nomad, player of games, and eater of junk food.

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Amy @amers4.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
So many AI ads 🙄
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Amy @amers4.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I'm still trying to dig out from Sunday's storm. My hands hurt so much that I can't grip anything. Look how think the ice on my front walk was! (Glove for reference as we're out of bananas until I can get to the store again.)
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Proverbs 31: 8-9 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This is the President explicitly threatening to withhold federal funds from New York City if voters elect a candidate he opposes. This is an unlawful attempt to coerce voters through federal financial threats and a textbook example of voter intimidation to influence the outcome of a local election.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
If you’re a woman who took the last name of your spouse, and you need to pay to get a passport in order to vote, that would be a poll tax. Poll taxes are unconstitutional.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
If I had to reregister to vote, post SAVE Act, I'd need: a $25 copy of my birth certificate, a $5 copy of my name change, a $3 copy of my marriage license, and an $89 drivers license. OR a $165 passport. Not only is it a poll tax, it's also a pink tax.
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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Sen. Michael Bennet: "Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were, as director of the CIA, participating in this thread, were you aware of that? Are you? Are you aware of that today?" Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW
), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The day of the vote is here and my message hasn’t changed: I am a NO on this reckless CR that will hurt Virginians.
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Amy @amers4.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Chuck Schumer doesn't represent me and shouldn't speak for me. @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social are supposed to be my senators. Will they let Senator Schumer steal my vote? Vote NO on the CR!!
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CHUCK SCHUMER HAS TO GO. He’s way past his best by date and I’m not talking about age, I’m talking about usefulness. Senate Dems need to step up and have some courage.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The relief is as follows: TRO will be extended. The VA will immediately offer reinstatement to all probationary employees terminated on or about 2/13-14. The terminations were unlawful. VA will cease all use of OPM's template termination notice. Shall immediately advise all employees that the
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"I just want to say it is sad. A sad day. When our government would fire an employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that's a LIE ... that should not happen in our country. That was a sham to avoid statutory requirements."
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Amy @amers4.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Can you image the uproar? Say... Nancy Pelosi owned a winery. And people who didn't like her decided to boycott her winery and she lost a ton of sales. Then Biden hosts a press conference with her in front of the White House with a selection of her wines on display for the media.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Not even hiding it.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
You first.
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Blake Gendebien @blakegendebien.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The special election in New York’s 21st Congressional is coming up fast, and I am running to replace Elise Stefanik in Congress. Please help spread the word and chip in, and together we will get the job done. secure.actblue.com/donate/gende...
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Donate to Blake Gendebien Today
Let's send a dairy farmer to Congress!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Something odd just happened—an article that had been widely published on media sites has suddenly disappeared without any retraction or explanation. Many may have come across it on Reddit.
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Engage Y’all @engageyall.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The people of Florida’s 1st Congressional District deserve someone who will fight for universal, affordable, and quality healthcare for all. I’m running in the April 1st special elections to represent the people of FL-1 because I understand our community’s needs. gayforcongress.com
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A Reddit thread of terminated federal employees ready to run for office to fight back. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...
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Terminated fed? Plan to run for local and state offices and especially for US Congress
https://ballotpedia.org/
Filing_requirements_for_congressional_candidates
During the 2002-2012 period, while a housewife, 1 conducted consumer advocacy and civil rights work that captured media attention. On several occasions I was asked to consider running for statewide office.
A divorce in 2013 stymied that possibility and, instead, I returned to the workforce and ultimately became a federal employee. Since 2017, I've often said that if I won the lottery I would immediately resign from my fed position and announce my candidacy for US HofR.
The lottery hasn't happened, but Nov 2024 did. And now the diabolical purges. If you've already been terminated (for which I feel tremendous empathy for you and believe you can articulate your plan for a better tomorrow and hopeful future, please consider running for office. Unseating current Republicans in local, state and federal offices is imperative not only for your family's, community's, and state's sakes but also for the future of democracy in America. 1984 is here and you're currently free to run for office. This could be your new public service, and I know you would follow your oath to the Constitution unlike the supine Republicans in Congress.
Forward we must go. Stay strong. You matter.
EDITED TO SAY: Thank you to posters who are providing links and/or names of groups who might in some way assist those seeking political office.
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②固LtJesusUCSB • 1d
I'm running for sure! Starting in city council and then up! What's a better story than a Veteran fired by the Trump administration and the VA! I will win
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I'm a army infantry veteran Fed, while I'm still at my job. My blood is boiling and in my mindset I want Elon and all his traitor bullshit. I am planning on running and being a full on attack dog. Fuck these politics as usual and these soft handed bitches of politicians.
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14 189ResponsibleMuffin851 • 22h
I'm a woman who was denied having a baby safely by republicans. Whose career as a subject matter expert attorney dedicated to serving the American people was destroyed by republicans.
Whose first time home buying dream was taken away overnight by republicans.
Let's. Fuckin'. Go.
Edit: Thanks for the Reddit cares, you misanthropic fucks. Sorry your wives stopped sleeping with you.
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Palmer Report @palmerreport.com · 16/02/2025
What kind of bumbling buffoon of a President mistakenly fires the people in charge of protecting us from nuclear terrorist attacks and then has to turn around and try to hire them back? This is objectively incompetent, and dangerously so.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This also includes *veterans*, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So interesting…
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
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😷 it’s only Wednesday 😷 @diplo-drama.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
If the concern was fraud and waste, why is DOGE all computer programmers and not forensic accountants? It’s like they aren’t looking to audit anything…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2025
BASH: I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about the government having access to personal data NOEM: Well, we can't trust the government anymore BASH: You are the government
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Elon Musk’s team is set to delve into the nation’s aviation system, with his 20-year-old staffers utilizing AI to assist the FAA in a rapid overhaul of aviation technology. However, a more practical solution would be to simply hire more workers, as the FAA is severely short-staffed.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration's offer of buyouts to federal workers. Today was the deadline for employees to accept the controversial packages. Democratic lawmakers have warned are legally dubious w/o congressional authorization.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
nbcnews.com
Live updates: Judge halts Trump's federal buyout offers as deadline for employee decisions arrives
Follow the latest coverage as President Donald Trump participates in the National Prayer Breakfast. Live updates as the Senate weighs Cabinet nominees and federal workers consider buyouts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
To America’s 2.3 million federal employees: Don’t accept a buyout. Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer. And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it? Sincerely, Robert Reich Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
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Maggie 🇺🇸⚾️ @lacentrist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Dear Press, Please stop with the Gaza stuff and keep your eye on the ball. Yes, it’s stupid and outrageous, but while you are distracted, Trump is committing crimes against hard working Americans. He’s committing crimes and abusing his power. Sincerely, Maggie A Hardworking American
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025
Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/02/2025
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
nbcnews.com
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@altusaid.bsky.social’s humanitarian efforts promote peace, global stability, and our safety. That’s why my colleagues and I showed up at HQ to demand answers about why staff who save lives were shut out of work. This illegal shutdown threatens our global standing & makes us less safe.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Maybe tomorrow a <single journalist> might bother to find the Speaker or the Senate Majority Leader & ask why the hell they aren't acting to stop unelected people who aren't even federal employees from violating the laws Congress already passed, & to explain why this isn't a constitutional crisis? 🤷‍♂️
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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
OMG it gets worse… “yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see.…
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The thing that a lot of people don't realize is that "the government" is made up of millions of individuals, most of whom do the things that make your life livable on a day-to-day basis.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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