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Arleta James

@arletajames.bsky.social
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Blue dot in Ohio, loves dogs, and taking long walks. Mental Health professional, www.adoptattachtherapy.com

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 36m
Americans can barely afford food — yet Donald Trump is using our money to buy campaign ads while arguing there’s not enough money for healthcare. Glad to see the @democrats.org take his ass to court. He should pay all of us back. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Two lawsuits challenge Trump's taxpayer-funded ads, alleging they violate propaganda law
Two new lawsuits are challenging President Donald Trump's recent spate of federally funded television advertisements.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1h
Once a week, for the next 10 weeks, I’m going to share a short passage from my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable. This isn’t a greatest hits collection. I want to revisit ideas that still feel useful for where we are now and that will help us keep the Republic. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-republ...
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The Republic, Revisited
Ten Essays for Right Now
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3h
The US has lost 21,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office. But why is bringing them back the goal? Why are we trying to push people into lower paying work? newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Manufacturing is What Rich People Think Poor People Want To Do
What’s really pushing up bond yields, and what has the trade war actually delivered?
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 3h
Hardworking Ohioans deserve to know where their tax dollars are going. Ohio is sending billions of taxpayer dollars to private schools without requiring the same level of financial transparency and public accountability we expect from our public schools.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 8h
I think the Los Angeles thing was just a garbled stupid thing that came out differently than he intended, but Jill is right in general that his jokes are not really jokes
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 8h
Thrilled to officially endorse Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan — as well as Will Lawrence and Donavan McKinney. Let's get them elected, folks. gandernewsroom.com/news/electio...
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El-Sayed lands endorsement from Gen Z's biggest voter group
El-Sayed-backing Voters of Tomorrow—which reached more than 32 million voters last cycle—is launching phonebanks and new outreach efforts to bring young Michiganders to the polls.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 8h
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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Arleta James @arletajames.bsky.social · 8h
I like coffee and we can't grow enough for everybody in America to have coffee.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 8h
Thanks to Trump, gas is over $4 a gallon, health care premiums are spiking, & everything from groceries to mortgages costs more.   And what's Trump focused on?   Yet another pointless scheme that will do nothing but benefit him.
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Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into the new Camp David
The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 9h
Sen. Collins faced Troy Jackson last night in their Maine Senate debate. On stage, Collins inaccurately described ProPublica’s story about an FBI anticorruption investigation that probed the conduct of her & her staff until Trump’s DOJ shut it down. Let’s get into the facts…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
"Gov. Greg Abbott is blaming a scheduling conflict and says he's not gonna be attending the rally in San Antonio today where the president is going to be. He's not taking time for the president."
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 13h
NEWS: California leaders call Trump "mentally ill" as calls for the 25th Amendment grow. Ken Paxton caught on tape admitting Trump's war and gas prices are sinking his campaign. Senator says the Pentagon blocked him from a US base. Trump wants to turn Mar a Lago into the next Camp David.
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NEWS: California Leaders Call Trump ‘Mentally Ill,’ Paxton Turns on Trump's War, Gold Star Families Snub Trump, Trump Eyes Golf Club Camp David
Good morning, everyone.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
"This president is not serious" -- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson cuts a promo on Trump on CNN
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12h
The economy baked a bigger pie then handed everyone a smaller fork. youtu.be/Cc21Z2WeWdU
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
An authoritarian government forcing people to use new politically-driven language in their speech -- call it "newspeak," if you will
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
MEMPHIS — Here are the 7 city council members who voted to delay a vote for a moratorium on data centers: (The people’s reaction: www.instagram.com/reel/DeLBLMD...)
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h
As Trump crisscrossed the country last week trying to help his party avoid a blowout in the midterms, two of his top political advisers — James Blair and Chris LaCivita — were in the Balkans helping a pro-Russian government looking to tighten its grip on power.
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire and now she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was a good answer
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Venezuela's Cardon Oil refinery, the country's second largest at 310,000 barrels per day, just unexpectedly exploded and caught fire, forcing a full shutdown. The fire started at a gas line connecting the refinery's diesel hydrotreater and halted the whole plant, including the boilers. #ETTD
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/10/2026
Trump is the first president to call for America to be attacked. And his Republican allies said nothing. They don't care about you, or the country. Vote Democratic this November. The future of America depends on it. youtu.be/DhIeyeqI2Ng
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 07/10/2026
"He has a repellent personality. He's not a person you want to spend time with." TV reacting to Vivek Ramaswamy at his recent rally.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins’ accomplishments: ~ Sponsored ad • Paid for by bribes for Susan Collins ~
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." As it turns out, she isn't from Ohio and didn't have surgery until she was an adult ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing trans surgeries not Ohioan, didn’t have procedure as minor • Ohio Capital Journal
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." As it turns out, she isn't from Ohio and didn't have…
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Arleta James @arletajames.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Collins spent a year without healthcare. A year. Many go without healthcare for more than a year. The Big Beautiful Bill is making this worse.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/10/2026
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has an idea for deciding who qualifies for Social Security: Let AI decide. meidasnews.com/news/mike-ro...
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Mike Rogers Said A.I. Should Be Used to Determine Social Security Eligibility
The GOP Senate candidate from Michigan has a long history of trying "decimate" benefits for millions of Americans
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A private company invited Gov. Wes Moore to a Baltimore event. Trump had him removed as a speaker. A Moore spokesperson: "Governor Moore has always said he will work with anyone when it comes to delivering for Marylanders but bow to no one when it comes to standing up for them."
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A private company invited Gov. Wes Moore to a Baltimore event. Trump had him removed as a speaker.
The president asked Anduril Industries to remove Maryland Gov. Moore from the speaking program at an event celebrating a defense tech investment in a working-class community.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MacFarlane: Fox is platforming Abdul El-sayed because it seems to do well for their ratings. It engages their audience. People on Fox seem to want to hear from him. It's not necessarily the case that they want to hear extemporaneous remarks at rallies right now from Trump.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some Americans are already feeling the healthcare squeeze -- and it hurts & kills. Enhanced ACA premium subsidies expired at the end of 2025 without being renewed by Congress. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” did not extend them, because the pompous prick doesn't give AF if you have healthcare.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“People will die” is not just an angry slogan. It's a rare promise Trump will keep unless we stop him on November 3rd. In June 2025, Yale and Penn researchers projected more than 51,000 additional deaths EACH YEAR from Trump's healthcare cuts combined with expiring enhanced ACA subsidies.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “The only thing we are wanting to pass today is a data center moratorium. 12 months.”
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can’t hand a campaign speech to your pharmacist. You can’t pay for chemotherapy with boos from a rally. And you can’t replace health insurance with another fucking IOU. Now Trump is offering to buy your vote for $5,000 if Republicans keep Congress. Hmmmmm.... something fishy about that, no?
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Arleta James @arletajames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I never expected this in Tennessee!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"In my 65 years of living, I've never seen the city in such an uproar..." deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
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'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility
Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Getting sick should not destroy your life. Your mother’s care at home. Your kid’s prescriptions. Your neighbor’s cancer treatment. The emergency room your town depends on. THAT is what’s at stake when politicians treat healthcare as a budget line they can slash and brag about.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
STEWART: "That's the answer - if we let them do enough unfettered capitalism, we can apparently capitalism our way to socialism😬... but if the ultimate goal is to give money to the people, why wait? Why not just give us the $50 TRILLION now? -- STOP LYING TO US."
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What's going on with this plague death in #Russia? Whatever it is, don't count on Moscow to be honest about it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Russia Needs to Tell the Truth About a Plague Death
After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways.
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