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Mari Bilderback

@atwoodtoldus.bsky.social
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As Left as you can get. Ultra Progressive Social Democrat. Wife, mother. Public health servant leader.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 3h
The hackers weren't brilliant. They were patient. They waited until the people who close doors had been fired by Kash Patel, then they walked in. That's not a hack. That's a business model. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
Spot the difference
Side-by-side comparison of three social media posts announcing the death of former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert at age 84. On the left, Fox News posts, “BREAKING: Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House speaker, dead at 84,” above a photo of Hastert raising his hand at a microphone. In the center, CBS News posts, “Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died,” above a photo of Hastert walking through the U.S. Capitol. On the right, MeidasTouch posts, “Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a ‘serial child molester.’ He was a registered sex offender.” The MeidasTouch post includes an image of Hastert speaking from the House floor with a C-SPAN chyron identifying him as Speaker of the House.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10h
The Warden of Delaney Hall, the subject of allegations of abuse & neglect, has lent his name & likeness to an org founded by a woman doing 9 years in federal prison for a forced labor sex cult & who's in the Epstein Files. Why oversight of detention centers is so critical. youtu.be/uCy71zDQVZw?...
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SHOCKING Epstein Connection EXPOSED Between DISTURBING Cult & Trump ICE Facility!?!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h
Holy shit.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 4h
Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso, suspended after his arrest on allegations he molested a young child, said he still “intend[s] to win” the November election. And the Palm Beach County Republican Party endorsed him today. Via @miamiherald.com
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Palm Beach County GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
Suspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso said he has not abandoned his campaign, nor has the local Republican Party abandoned him, even after his arrest on child sex abuse charges.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h
Three U.S. citizens arrested and detained by immigration agents are the first Californians to sue federal officers under the No Kings Act, hours after it was signed by Gov. Newsom last week.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h
"I have real confidence that they both understand and will fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood for." Mark Thompson tells staffers he's staying as CNN chief and will report to David Ellison and new Skydance co-CEO Ynon Kreiz.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h
This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If your news network is interviewing a guy who claims he spent 18 days in heaven hanging out with Jesus, that is not actually a news network.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CBS did all that capitulating and still ended up on Trump’s list
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Historian Tim Snyder compares what Trump is doing in Latin America to Soviet tactics in Eastern Europe after WWII: rig elections, apply threats, install the leadership you want. His description of Trump’s approach: “smash and grab.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”
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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Midterm shockwaves. GOP Texas panic. Trump voters defect. Latino backlash. A donor windfall. Kushner questions. Trump’s rally meltdown. MAGA infighting. DOJ poll monitors. And Democrats plan for what comes next. This weekend bulletin is packed. (no paywall)
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 473.
… NYT: “One month until Election Day, voter dissatisfaction with the economy, concerns about political extremism and frustration with Trump have Democrats within reach of flipping 4 Republican-held go...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Since taking office, Ken Paxton has skipped at least 730 workdays as Attorney General. He has instead traveled to Europe and the Caribbean.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith gets more love and admiration in a single night out to a concert than Donald has struggled to get in eight painful decades of rejection.
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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes…exactly
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The elimination of 76 courses from the Texas A&M University-San Antonio’s core offerings will effectively remove all Women’s and Gender Studies courses from the core starting in the fall of 2027, leaving the already small program with one less avenue to attract students.
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TAMUSA core cuts nix pathway to women’s and gender studies
The approved changes to core offerings take effect next fall. Officials say student's currently enrolled won't be affected.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Saving for future use in case I ever make a joke on bluesky dot app.
a beared white dude looking in the mirror, hand on the glass: Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Sluggo Smith @sluggosmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Will Bunch: The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it. And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head. www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...
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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch
A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Katie Phang on Blanche: What are you trying to hide? Who are you protecting? This is the permissive culture that is created, that is then buttressed by conduct by people like the AG to protect perpetrators, co-conspirators, enablers of crimes. Crimes against children, crimes against women.
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🇧🇷 Polls close in Brazil as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro remain neck and neck After casting his ballot, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned that the choice was between democracy and "barbarism".
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Polls close in Brazil as Lula and Bolsonaro remain neck and neck
If no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.bradenton.com/news/article... JD Vance And RePEDOcans Don't Like Free Speech.......
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A Florida legislative candidate heckled JD Vance and wound up in jail
Lakeland police made one arrest at a Republican rally featuring Vice President JD Vance, charging a man who was escorted from the venue after noisily disrupting Vance's speech.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But Hegseth wants to give troops testosterone injections because that’s what is supposedly needed in our military.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
NEW: The Tompkins County DA refused to consider additional evidence in the Cornell case. It's the whole damn system. I'm glad Letitia James is on it now. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Dems getting better at this
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alberta separatists sought US help to break up Canada, offering the province's oil, water and land while Trump threatened Canada with tariffs and annexation; US Republican operatives offered the separatist campaign voter-targeting technology. #cdnpoli
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Alberta separatists asked the US to help break up Canada and offered the province's oil, water and land in return
Albertans vote on 19 October after separatists offered the US government the province's oil, water and land, Michigan Republicans brought in software that exposed nearly three million voters' data, an...
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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MrPassportKing @mrpassportking.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thirty-five Percent! According to the 2025 Cornell Survey of Sexual Assault and Related Misconduct, 35% of female undergraduates reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact involving physical force, threats, or incapacitation while enrolled.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🧵 #Herstory
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They want one woman to stand alone beneath the weight of seven names. Instead, thousands of us will stand beside hers. You wanted Jane Doe? Here we are. #IAmJaneDoe #Pinks ✨
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CatherineFromMA @jbamom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I had to stop reading comments from men about this because I was getting so enraged. Men need to STFU
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I AM SO LOVING THIS!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump in Ohio: "I had a nice simple life before this. I didn't have to be here on Saturday night going like this, working my ass off in front of your people. I could've been home. I could've been in Monte Carlo."
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apparently Trump is up to something and planning to interfere in Brazil's election. He's dying to get his fellow insurrectionist off the hook by getting his son elected. www.rawstory.com/brazil-26779...
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Fears mount that Trump admin ‘absolutely gearing up for something’ on eve of election
Fears mounted Saturday that the Trump administration was “gearing up for something” ahead of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, in which incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face ...
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I bet Jane Doe beat herself up for not seeing her “friend” who essentially served as a pimp, for the snake he was. She shouldn’t. Some guys master the nice guy act. He HATED her and was able to hide it brilliantly. Sociopath.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.
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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts
As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yep. And we both know it. The fact that Trump is going to die a free man on top of a ballroom of money and not broke and in jail is one of the worst indictments of our system of government imaginable.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at the airpark site where the Trump Administration is preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold children..." religionnews.com/2026/10/02/a...
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As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil
ALEXANDRIA, La. (RNS and Verite News) — Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations, the facility — which will hold unaccompanied minors and families — is situated beside an air...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pennsylvania’s reported measles cases are almost at 1,000 for the year.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
In 2024, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws—a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him as he tries to get people to buy his own book.
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Book-banning GOP governor wants you to buy his book
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is promoting himself as a "peacemaker."
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/10/2026
The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. to.pbs.org/4zgbIuz
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
This year’s election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate.
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