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Lauren @madlady65.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I live in Texas. No one did jack shit to protect those people. There was no advance warning from anyone.

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Art Brown VO @artbrownvo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Muskrat vs Taco - a brief reenactment. #Musk #Trump

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This hits hard.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/05/2025

Duckworth: "He's accepting a bribe, which is unconstitutional and illegal. And he's gonna accept an aircraft that then is gonna cost taxpayers another billion dollars at a time when he wants to cut funding for Medicaid. It's simple unacceptable."

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 12/05/2025

If I were a member of Congress I would have already introduced a bill prohibiting ICE agents from wearing face masks and requiring them to wear official identification at all times

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

When Laura Loomer calls the new Pope a “woke Marxist,” you know he must be doing something right.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Your School House Rock moment......

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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2025

Taking the drug made one writer feel so sick she quit and focused on healthy habits instead of her body size. Turns out, 65% of people using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss quit within a year.

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I quit Ozempic and embraced feeling healthy over striving for thinness

Taking the drug made one writer feel so sick she quit and focused on healthy habits instead of her body size. Turns out, 65% of people using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss quit within a year.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It’s #WIPWednesday! 🧶 This is what I’ve been knitting between Fight the Oligarchy rally stops. Oversized Seasons Cardigan by Ozetta. Splurged big-time on the yarn (🫣) but honestly after holding this thing for weeks I’m happy I did. Woolerton Estates in Fluffy. #KnitSky

Beginning of the knit project on a tray table. Two needles with about ten rows of yarn for the collar of a sweater.

The beginning of a cardigan on knitting needles. It’s the shoulders down to the armpit. No sleeves yet.

The cardigan, knit down a little further now, with four skeins of yarn behind it.

Deco posing as a yarn model. His head is resting on a ball of yarn.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/04/2025

Back in January, I reported on DOGE entering an agency system, exporting the data, OPM server info left open to the public, and someone signing in from a foreign country using a DOGE account. Almost identical to what the Whistleblower reported to NPR this week www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...

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A Fork in the Road: Is Federal Employee Privacy Compromised?

In this interview, I speak to a systems security specialist who found privacy problems surrounding the HR@opm.gov email servers

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 15/04/2025

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

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This Is a Constitutional Crisis

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Hats off to the very strong #HandsOff signage yesterday! Thanks for making your voices heard. 🙏

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going… www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

YouTube video by Associated Press

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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 01/04/2025

HAPPENING NOW: @booker.senate.gov has held the Senate floor for over 15 hours to declare our nation is in crisis, and he’s reading YOUR MomsRising stories. Thank you Senator Booker for speaking out on the issues our families care most about. Tune in and cheer him! Read more stories here:

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Art Brown VO @artbrownvo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Don’t know if I’ll ever understand… We all knew what was coming. Project 2025 was a clear blueprint. We knew he’d try to steal the election… and yet… not one vote challenge. Not one. “When we fight, we win”? We needed you to walk your talk on November 6th to prevent all this.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations

The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Detain him with plainclothes masked men, send him to a Louisiana jail and don’t tell his lawyers where he is or you’re not serious about stopping shit.

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Just Jack @jackhealy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In case you were wondering who's in charge

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’ve asked this question before. Now I’m SHOUTING it. Where the HELL are the Democrats? robertreich.substack.com/p/where-th…

robertreich.substack.com

Where the HELL are the Democrats?

Friends,

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brgooley2.bsky.social @brgooley2.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

D - Destroying O - Our G - Government E - Everyday bsky.app/profile/greg...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

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Angeline4democracy @sandy-angeline.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This is what happens when you allow incompetent people to run our government🤬

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Ashley Craig @ashleycraig.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

@teslatakedown.com Check us out at our weekly protest in Long Beach, CA!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/03/2025

Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

When people talk about "American Exceptionalism" they now usually mean that Americans are exceptionally bad a running a country.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

A screenshot from a court filing reads, in part:

"Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen.

On January 31, 2025, he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses.

As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain his citizenship.

The officers drove Julio and others around for more than an hour before bringing him to an ICE processing center, where he remained, still handcuffed, for several more hours.

All the while, Julio had a wallet containing identification that ICE had confiscated.

The officers never showed Julio a warrant, and they did not ask him any questions to ascertain whether he was a noncitizen or a flight risk.

After about 10 hours, ICE officers reviewed the contents of Julio’s
wallet, realized he was a U.S. citizen, and released him with no money and no paperwork."

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has canceled his book tour because he doesn't want to have to face the consequences of his actions from angry constituents.

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