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Ann VanSlyke

@annvan5.bsky.social
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Traveller, gardener, reader, baker, grandma, MAD AS HELL

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Greg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Breaking: Gov. Kemp has called state lawmakers for a special session on June 17 to reshape both how Georgians vote and to redraw the state’s political maps after last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision for the 2028 election. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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Kemp calls special session to redraw 2028 maps, overhaul voting process
The June special session comes on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court decision gutting racial gerrymandering protections in the Voting Rights Act.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Beyond dismaying
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
www.savehhs.org
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Carl Ott @bubba687.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"Dangerous, Irrational, Illogical: RFK Jr. Has Put So Many Lives at Risk" The decision by Trump's extremist health secretary to restrict COVID vaccines & oust the CDC chief could be a death sentence for vulnerable Americans, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.
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Dangerous, Irrational, Illogical: RFK Jr. Has Put So Many Lives at Risk
The decision by Trump's extremist health secretary to restrict COVID vaccines and oust the CDC chief could be a death sentence for vulnerable Americans.
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Ann VanSlyke @annvan5.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If you live in metro Atlanta, you no doubt have friends and neighbors who have worked for or currently work at the CDC. Good people. True experts. Selfless public servants. They have been under assault. RFK must go. Call your reps. Now. https in://5calls.org/issue/rfk-hhs-autism-registry-vaccines/
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/08/2025
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Republican Tommy Tuberville has blocked a Democratic resolution that would have condemned the proposed gift of a luxury jet from Qatar to Trump.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/05/2025
was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/23/2019 2:45:32 PM
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CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT
AMENDMENT ONE
THIS AMENDMENT ONE shall amend that certain Consulting Services Agreement dated June 28, 2018 by and between the Embassy of the State of Qatar (Embassy') and Ballard Partners ("Consultant").
In consideration of the mutual promises set forth herein, the Embassy and Consultant agree to amend the Consulting Services Agreement, as follows:
The Term of the Agreement shall commence on July 1. 2019 (the "Effective Date"), ar all expire on COB June 30, 2020, unless earlier terminated in accordance with t!
Agreement.
2. Appendix A is amended by adding the following:
"Additionally, the Consultant shall provide consulting and advocacy services regarding matters involving anti-human trafficking
The following Consultant personnel shall be designated "Key Personnel": Ms. Pam Bondi and Mr. James Rubin. Key Personnel shall be personally and substantially engaged in the delivery of the Services."
3. Appendix B is amended to modify the consulting fee to US $ 115.000 per month.
Except as expressly stated herein. nothing in this Amendment One shall alter or amend the terms of the Consulting Services Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Embassy and Consultant have executed this Agreement by their duly authorized representatives.
By Embassy
By:
BBI
Consultant
Date:
July 17, 2019
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
BREAKING: Rümeysa Öztürk released from ICE detention by a judge. “The decision is another blow to the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport international students for their speech,” writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk Released From ICE Detention by Judge
The decision is another blow to the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport international students for their speech.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Holy moly. Check out this tweet from the new American pope. I’m sure MAGA would hate it if you reposted this right this minute.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Perfect level of petty for dealing with bureaucratic idiocy.
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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Make no mistake about it, if those numbers are even close to true, there is no way all of the weather forecast offices can exist as they do now. A full-on attack on public weather services. If a car lost 25% of its parts, it doesn't slow down. It just doesn't work.
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Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Time’s up ! We are here
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A come-to-Jesus moment for American lawyers, and for America's most important law firms. This is it. This is the moment you always imagined, where you told yourself you would do the right thing -- where you told yourself that your profession would stand up. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks
The result is an extraordinary threat to constitutional rights of due process and representation and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump’s actions in court than during his first term.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ossoff: This was a huge a mistake Ratcliffe: No Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
One thing that can get lost in all this is that Jeff Goldberg knows much, much more about national security than the principals who were on that text chain.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
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Shutdown Tyranny @shutdowntyranny.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In Anniston, Alabama
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/03/2025
Human rights organizations say the cuts have undermined years of global democracy-building and free speech initiatives, and put the lives of their staff at risk.
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DOGE's Foreign Aid Cuts Have Sparked 'Total Chaos' Around the World
Human rights organizations say the cuts have undermined years of global democracy-building and free speech initiatives, and put the lives of their staff at risk.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The U.S. is cutting research funding, the weather service, park rangers, Social Security Admin staff, lifesaving foreign aid, plus billions in Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To potentially buy crypto with taxpayer dollars and to give more tax cuts to the rich.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is an amazing (and somewhat scary) tool that tracks the completion of the initiatives in Project 2025. Remarkably, they are already at 36% in just over a month. Pass this on. www.project2025.observer
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Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.
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Ann VanSlyke @annvan5.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
So, as Elon and his youngsters root around in all of our personal data, destroy our medical research, fire the folks keeping our skies safe and our nuclear weapons secure, and who knows what else, I am watching folks resign instead of stand in the way, and find myself waiting for… Batman?
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including some who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, despite four deadly crashes since inauguration day.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump administration firing hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeks
President moves to cut Federal Aviation Administration workforce, including safety workers, as critics say public could be endangered
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...
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Julianne Moore says her book about embracing differences was removed from Pentagon-run schools | CNN
Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The community note 🤌😘
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 15/02/2025
👇🏻👇🏻
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
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JessicaMCurrall @jessicamcurrall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
You might also find this resonates — it has for me. Credit Black Liturgies by @colearthurriley.bsky.social
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A friend shared this about the need to lean into joy in this dark time, which might sound counterintuitive and absurd but I keep thinking about it and now I'm sharing it here so I guess it resonates.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.
A page of 52 thumbnail images of government websites that are no longer available.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
We’ve heard plenty about what Trump, Musk and their marauding henchmen want to destroy. But have you heard anything about what they want to build or in any way make lives better?
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Inspectors general investigate waste and fraud at government agencies. Trump fired many of them.
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