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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I just checked. Even my own posts sharing theirs are missing. It's not just the normal "content isn't available now" message.
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Anyone else notice the Alt Library Resource Center's FB page is entirely missing today? Even the posts others have made sharing them are missing, not just ALRC's quoted post.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
These are scare tactics and are not legal in the United States. We’d like to request that these texts be investigated. We encourage all Americans to make their voices heard—your vote counts!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Here is the last version of the text used in the presidential election: ‘WARNING: Violating WI Statutes 12.13 & 6.18 may result in fines up to $10,000 or 3.5 years in prison. Don’t vote in a state where you’re not eligible.’ Similar messages are circulating again now.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Image shows a young white tailed doe with white patches on her head walking under pine trees. 
The overlaying text reads: I don't understand how so many people don't get it. If you vote to make some group you don't like suffer, eventually you will suffer. Vote kindness for everyone, always, and we all benefit.
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Republicans are going to kill people. Let's not use passive framing on budget choices like this. Be upfront, like Ruth. People will die. Republican choices will kill them.
The image shows a quoted post. The original post is from More Perfect US and reads: BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.
The quote comment on the original post is from Ruth Mensch, esq., and reads: People are going to die. Disabled people are going to die. Your grandparents are going to die.
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
First they came for Trans people and z undocumented Immigrants... Then they came for Black and Minority people... Now they come for Disabled people... You know the pattern, right? How long before they come for you?
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
No surprise Kennedy doesn't understand that antidepressants correct chemical malfunctions in the brains of people with depression & anxiety, or that ADHD meds help compensate for the different wiring in the brains of people with ADHD.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We urge our international supporters to do the same. Some countries are already proposing tariffs on Musk-affiliated businesses(please do). Join us in taking a stand.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We as a country will save nothing. Federal employee salaries make up just 4% of the budget—roughly $271 billion. So even if every federal worker were fired, that’s the maximum you’d save. Meanwhile, the U.S. House GOP has released a budget that raises the debt limit by $4 trillion.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
While the overt politicization is horrible, arguably the demand that lawyers must zealously enforce Trump's will, rather than exercising prosecutorial discretion, is even worse
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Bondi is officially weaponizing the justice department to go after prosecutors and government officials for doing their jobs. They've gone full fascist. abcnews.go.com/US/bondi-new...
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Bondi, as new AG, launches 'Weaponization Working Group' to review officials who investigated Trump
Newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi has established a "Weaponization Working Group" to review the "politicized" actions of those who investigated President Trump.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
BREAKING: bird break, take a break, here's a bird *photo by me*
In the blue-gray slate of a winter day, a little black-capped chickadee sits intrepid upon the long metal pole where clotheslines where once hung. The metal is red, but corroded with time. The bird (lower center frame) is slight, just a wee slip of a thing, with a black head, a black throad, a cream-colored chest, and a gray back. Snow falls around it. The bird is pointed just gently skyward, ready to launch itself forth into whatever intrepid adventure awaits, which may be firing itself into your eye and entering your skull and taking over your brain, thereby using your body like a flesh-mech. I dunno. They probably do that. It makes sense when you think about it. David Attenborough probably said it on one of those shows. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Pallette cleansers area necessary during stressful times. My favorite are nature photographers and their brilliant photos
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
dehumanize a segment of society. round them up. send them to prison camps out of sight, out of the country. what does that sound like.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/02/2025
There is still beauty in this world
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 02/02/2025
I answer the critically important question, "HOW DO WE SLOW DOWN TRUMP?" Here are 7 meaningful things we can do to fight back. There's no quick fix, but with collective efforts, we can make progress. And yes, it requires Dem Leadership to Wake the ---- UP. www.qasimrashid.com/p/magas-7-de...
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MAGAs 7 Deadly Sins—So Far—And How to Fight Back
How MAGAs are undermining every aspect of our Republic as they march the United States towards fascism—and the actions we must take to stop them
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/01/2025
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
dates of birth, Social Security numbers, performance appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, and length of service for government employees. In response to employees speaking out, Musk’s aides locked civil servants out of computer systems and offices, with reports of personal items being searched.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Tensions escalated when Musk’s aides were discovered at OPM accessing systems, including a vast database known as the Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), which contains sensitive information such as
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
His staff encountered resistance when demanding that Treasury officials grant access to systems managing the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to programs like Social Security and Medicare.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2025
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It took Trump 10 days to announce his first concentration camp. We must not sit by while he tries to send immigrants to Guantánamo Bay.
Image is a tweet from Amanda Hu that reads: Just going to continue emphasizing that this, detaining a bunch of people who haven't been convicted of a crime and incarcerating them en masse in a fortified location against their will because they are part of a specific ethnicity or other group, is a concentration camp.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#NeverForget
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you are a federal employee, it is advised to set your social media accounts to private to prevent outside viewership, as reports suggest that loyalty screenings have begun.
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I genuinely don't care how you voted last November. What I care about is how we move forward. Opposing Trump's cruelty now is far more important. I can't stay silent in the face of Trump's blatant fascism & oppression, and I hope, no matter who you voted for, that you won't stay silent either.
Image of a sunrise with overlaying text that reads: I don't care who you voted for. I care what you do now. Fight Fascism, Bigotry, Hatred, and Greed. Protect Trans and Nonbinary people. Protect Immigrants and Refugees. Protect All Minorities. Protect Medicare, VA, Social Security, and Social Services from tax cuts for billionaires. Protect the Poor, Working, and Middle classes from the Rich. Protect our Environment and Children's Futures from those that would plunder and pollute. Protect our Democracy from Fascism.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Image is a portrait of Elie Wiesel with text that reads, "Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. By Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor."
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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
CBS 58 in Milwaukee fired their weather woman for correctly identifying a Nazis salute as a Nazi salute. (414) 777-5808 to tell them how deeply they fucked up.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
You don't know anyone but natural born American citizens, full stop. And if you're white and border patrol or ICE starts asking questions, you ask to see their warrant. Don't you do nazi shit.
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Mel @auntymouse.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It's gonna be a long 4 years. We have a lot of work to do. Stand up for each other. Resist bigotry & hatred. Speak up for those without your privilege. Protect our environment. Continue voting in every election as if our lives & our children's futures depend on it, because they do.
Image has an Intersex Inclusive Pride flag from Have A Gay Day and text that reads:
"I am a safe person
Coming out, navigating your day, or just needing to talk. 
I am a safe person and will hold space for you."Image has a Transgender Pride heart and text that reads:
"Your validity is not dictated by an executive order."
Credited to @enbydelia
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/01/2025
UnitedHealth CEO was killed 30 days ago on Dec 4. Mangione is on trial for that killing. Since Dec 4, about 5589 Americans have died preventable deaths under America’s exploitative for profit health system. So—when do CEOs who enabled these deaths go on trial? www.qasimrashid.com/p/americas-h...
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America's HELL Corporations
It is long past time we grapple with the violence imposed on Americans from our exploitative for-profit health exploitation system
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/12/2024
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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