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Amy Ruffo

@amyrulocal.bsky.social
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focused on state and local news and politics. I repost as a filing method, which means - a lot.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 2h
Diamantoni should not be reelected. Massive disservice to his constituents.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 8h
Great to see some coverage of great public instititions & servants doing their work www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 8h
If anyone can open a private school, why not us? We started our own private schools. In Arkansas, all it took was $45 and an American flag. Welcome to our Curiosity Academies!
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21h
Senior leaders at Customs and Border Protection were left out of the decision to use their agency’s funds for a national ad campaign featuring Trump. They found out from a news report. Trump isn’t smart enough to come up with this himself. Our guess? Stephen Miller.
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CBP leaders cut out of Trump ad buy decision
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott and other leaders at the agency learned from a news report that national ads highlighting Trump were paid for with CBP funds.
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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot. Salah Sarsour was arrested and jailed. The next victim of ICE's cruelty could be you. We must all speak out and demand accountability.
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‘She was pure love’: Renee Good’s partner makes first public comments as family sues U.S. government, ICE officer over her killing
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her SUV during a Jan. 7 en
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/10/2026
‘Just hours after Paramount Skydance issued $52B of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions in losses, triggering a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses
Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine politicians announcing billions for better public transit to save people money and reduce fossil fuel pollution. Imagine politicians announcing billions for solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps, and transmission lines to connect it all. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 01/10/2026
Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE’s ‘Enforced Disappearances’ of Noncitizens | “Disappearing people into a network of remote detention sites, hiding their whereabouts, and cutting off their access to outside help is the definition of an enforced disappearance.”
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Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE's 'Enforced Disappearances' of Noncitizens - Bucks County Beacon
The practice involves withholding the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation from families and lawyers.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NOTE: these positions are now CENTER in the US...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h
@markruffalo.bsky.social kicked ass throughout this entire effort and is 100% correct Next year when the debt-triggered layoffs drop all the dems who buckled to Larry Ellison's threats will be nowhere to be found
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Mark Ruffalo Says Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Will ‘Stifle Creativity’ and ‘Weaken Free Speech’: It ‘Should Never Have Been Approved’
Mark Ruffalo is speaking out against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger once again.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 23h
OMG. Thank you.
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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Workers are earning more. But more than half of those income gains are being swallowed by debt. For the typical worker, 52¢ of every $1 of income growth went to debt payments.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am vigorously resisting naming any presidential biographers rn
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
Millions of voices are impossible to ignore. As we begin our second year without federal funding, our reporting remains loud and clear because people continue to step up to power this free press. Public media is an ongoing commitment that we will live out together. Donate today: n.pr/3VxNBIZ
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are two things to learn from this: 1) Third Way gets to present what the Democratic Caucus plans will be because they're the ones inside the room making them; 2) Dem staffers often don't realize that they're wholly captured by this centrist consultant-industrial complex. It's fish in water.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We must continue to advocate to change outdated investigative practices and preconceptions about rape around the country, modernize our criminal laws and give everyone involved — victims and potential defendants alike — the process they are due." Via the brilliant @mimirocah1.bsky.social.
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Opinion | How the Tompkins County DA set itself up for failure in the Cornell rape case
It appears the Tompkins County district attorney’s office failed to properly follow up with standard practices for cases involving sexual assault allegations when the initial complaint was made in 202...
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Covering the 2026 elections? We built the thing I wish every election reporter had: one place to ask vetted election officials, lawyers, academics and voting-tech experts the very specific questions that come up on deadline. The Votebeat Expert Desk is free: www.electionexpertdesk.com
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Election Expert Desk - Votebeat Election Expert Desk
Election stories move fast. Election law is technical. Local procedures vary widely. And the loudest voices about voting systems are not always the people who understand them. Votebeat’s Expert Desk i...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They think making something an operational command is simply a way of saying "this is an important priority", rather than about how it sits within the force structure.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 30/09/2026
A state investigation found evidence that more than 270 Catholic clerics abused nearly 1,000 children across the Catholic Dioceses of Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester over the course of a century. Read more about today's announcement. trib.al/gXOiWfW
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Chris Neyland @chrisneyland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is where I point out that Todd Blanche has state bar ethics violations proceedings pending against him. ldad.org/wp-content/u...
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is such a load of crap. "As intended" could be anything. And not necessarily for good, other than to make shareholders money. (sorry can't add alt text as I took a screenshot of a jpg) I've not had any luck finding this anywhere as text.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Laugh at Eric Schmitt and Co. for Hawkeyes/Hawks, sure. Their screw up is funny and they deserve the mockery. But also, this was the GOP and allied media geared up to defend a coup attempt with lies and jail a prosecutor because he tried to enforce the law against a criminal. How far we've fallen.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My Building a Healthier America Policy Agenda. 🌱🧑‍🌾🍏💧
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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The Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For “not being a dictator”, he sure does a lot of things a dictator would do.
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🦀🐌Fake Crab in a Snail Suit @desmigeo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's always a backlash against progress for marginalized communities unless it's too small to matter So no MeToo didn't go too far BLM didn't go too far The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not go too far The Voting Rights Act did not go too far The backlash is against progress, not excess
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
El Salvador is still imprisoning ICE deportees from the U.S., even after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case sparked a backlash. Some are disappearing.
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ICE Deportees Are Vanishing Into Salvadoran Prisons
The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“House Speaker Mike Johnson referred to the agreement as a statement of principles that are “voluntary on behalf of the industry,” Please share the statement of principles.
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bradinmotion.bsky.social @bradinmotion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what happens when you no longer legislate
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
According to several people involved, the Trump administration initially floated an idea that would have virtually shut down mail voting: requiring all ballots to be delivered exclusively through certified mail.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are stunning
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Sam N @runs4cake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He wasn’t embarrassed. He went on a far right podcast and soaked up the praise from the reality-challenged hosts, saying someone has to ask the hard questions. These traitors are not capable of being embarrassed.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every time I see Jack Smith speak in public I remember how incredibly cautious he was about doing so during the investigation lest he appeared politically motivated or biased. And now we have the actual AG out here basically saying, “Yeah I’m team Trump, what are you bitches gonna do about it?”
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Amy Ruffo @amyrulocal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some might say Harvard Law is the epitome of out of touch elites.
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