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Knitter, reader, environmentalist. Retired teacher. Runner, XC skier, yoga enthusiast. General nerd. Ovarian cancer survivor. There is such a thing as truth. 🦋 “Even the dead will not be safe.” - Walter Benjamin, ‘On the Concept of History’

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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Omg the Argentina/Cape Verde game was one of the best I’ve ever seen!!!
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A heartbeat away from the presidency, JD Vance is just dangerous. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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A Heartbeat Away from the Presidency, J.D. Vance is Just Dangerous
What's worse than being a weasel? A fascist.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The same people who yesterday were dismissive of when the Capitol police got the shit kicked out of them by a bloodthirsty mob are today claiming a bunch of unharmed ICE goons were in mortal danger from one woman.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
What a great man.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Not that it’s surprising, but the lack of any clear moral line from the most powerful people in the country is truly stunning. Migrants can now be rounded up and sent to torture camps in random countries for the crime of … coming to the US to build a better life.
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Heartbreaking. We will never get this land back.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Not enough reporting on the fact that Trump created the "problem" that bombing Iran was intended to "solve." He pulled out of the 2015 nuclear agreement for no other reason than Kerry/Obama negotiated it. This war has been in the works since 2018 and Trump is it's author.
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Desperate.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
💯
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is OUR land, being sold off.
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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The VA can now deny service to veterans if they are unmarried or registered as Democrats, the British newspaper The Guardian reports, citing a memo it obtained. It will be interesting to see how much, if any, coverage this gets in major American news outlets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
RFK Jr.’s plan was always to undermine the vaccine regimen as much as he can. Bill Cassidy and other Republican senators were fools to believe anything else. They have enabled a profound threat to the health and well-being of millions of Americans.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Hey, remember when Trump told a room of Big Oil CEOs he'd make all their wildest dreams of climate denial come true...for $1B in campaign cash? Now the White House war on the environment is the Trump corruption scandal we don't talk about nearly enough My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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Trump got the Big Oil cash he wanted so now he’s killing the planet |Will Bunch
Even top climate experts are shocked at the speed with which Trump is undoing their work, after $450M in Big Oil donations.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
“We’re not in love with the law” is a pretty good motto for this group
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Democrat’s top line ad theme for the midterms…
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
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HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 23/05/2025
Since 1975 (the past fifty years) global vaccination efforts have saved the lives of 154 million people, especially reducing infant deaths — by 40%. That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany. #ScienceMatters
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Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years
A major landmark study reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years. The vast m...
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... COWARDS.
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Republicans are dodging fired federal staff: ‘They will not even look in our direction’
Members of Congress are accused of hiding out when workers have sought answers on why their jobs were axed
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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Buried in Donald's big policy bill is a GOP provision to put his dictatorial actions beyond judicial review:
Judges would not be allowed to hold administration officials in contempt if they flout judicial orders, except in the very rare case where a bond is posted.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich -$700B in Medicaid cuts -$500B in Medicare cuts -$300B in SNAP cuts -Leasing public lands to Big Oil -Ending IRS Direct File -Ending clean energy tax credits -Banning AI regulation in the states The oligarchy's wish list.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 22/05/2025
When a Government is scientifically illiterate, but doesn’t know it, then its actions (or inactions) can be a recipe for the dismantling of an informed and enlightened Democracy. #ScienceMatters
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... This is OUR land and shouldn’t be sold off to private interests!
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This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness
During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 05/05/2025
In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one. All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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How a Wyoming town agreed it needed a charter school, but ended up fiercely divided - WyoFile
Alpine “desperately” needs a school. But when a charter school got approved, it ignited a polarizing community debate that roiled the small town.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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a. @aturna.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Bye, Target.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Even the Atlantic can slip into the trap of adopting Trump's rhetoric. It says "Trump is delivering" on his commitment "to...cut government waste." Trump is cutting government operations, not government waste. He's not evaluating what is wasteful; he's slashing important programs—which has a cost.
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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“Oil and gas billionaires just bought themselves an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. While the rest of us have to deal with skyrocketing prices and rising temperatures, they’re sitting on their thrones and raking in billions. We need an end to this oligarchy now.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs will not apply to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/04/2025
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.
A screenshot of a text conversation discussing chaotic and troubling conditions at NOAA, expressing concerns about the administration's lack of care and the need for legislative attention.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year. This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year. See what DOGE is really about?
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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rod ✪ @roddiaztwine.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
this gotta be the worst day of milchick’s life 😭 they fucked up his work AND his performance i know he’s pissed #severance
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In the past week, things have been escalating really fast. It should be at least a little bit hard to bring American democracy down. Turns out all it takes is an extremist buffoon, enabled and encouraged by extremists around him, yelling “I’ll do it anyway! I don’t care!” It’s all so sad.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity. He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud. Which of course is fucking crazy.
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If you won’t negotiate with Democrats or talk to them about the CR, you can’t complain when they won’t vote for it. It’s really that simple.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This shows you that Donald Trump isn’t bothered by the illegal use of force, war crimes, the bombing of civilian targets, and the kidnapping of children. At least not when Vladimir Putin does it. That’s sociopathic.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
FACT - every single Republican member of the House clapping for Trump right now has been ordered to STOP holding any Town Hall meetings in their districts They're hiding from you They know they're not doing a good job They've forgotten who they work for -- time to remind them
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelensky just provided a clear example of how you handle these pathetic assholes. You don’t allow them to distort the truth, you don’t back down, you don’t capitulate and do what they want. We could use some leaders like that and seeing it only makes that fact painfully more obvious.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.
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