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Avice Meehan

@avicea.bsky.social
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Substitute teacher; volunteer community journalist; science, data and knitting geek; fan of protecting voters and the right to vote; sometime quilter. Norfolk terriers rule. Always, fight the will to be dreary.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/10/2026
"Commissioners, business owners, and members of the public all complained that Shapiro’s Hollywood dreams have brought mayhem to the town’s population of roughly 9,000 people, with a list of misdeeds that includes..." Read the whole thing:
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A Small Montana Town Tells Ben Shapiro to F*ck Off
The Daily Wire wanted a backdrop to film an Antifa siege. The filmmakers got a revolt over their own behavior.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr's 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs ... President Trump is compromised"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "Our whole government made a corrupt tool of one man's vengeance and power and wealth ... in one month, Athens, we will vote to rebuke him so decisively, no president will dare such abuses again for centuries!"
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/09/2026
Meditation has become a multibillion-dollar industry that’s promoted as a cure-all. @olgakhazan.bsky.social on how a true believer in the practice ended up founding a clinical space geared toward helping people who believe that meditation has actually harmed them:
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When Meditation Makes You Feel Worse
A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/09/2026
The latest nationwide FT-Focaldata poll found that just 33% of registered voters approved of Donald Trump’s performance as president — the lowest number recorded since the FT first started asking the question. ft.trib.al/L70XHLr
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Obvious point: The Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are far better Americans than Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller.
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Avice Meehan @avicea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is rich: In addition to violations of federal records laws, Dr. Morens pleaded guilty last month to receiving illegal gratuities in the form of two bottles of The Prisoner Red Blend Napa Valley wine from Peter Daszak, EcoHealth’s former president. Read the whole story from @nytimes.com
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Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists (Gift Article)
As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If a Twitch influencer who has campaigned with a handful of Democrats is a big issue, then what ought we to make of Elon Musk — the richest and most virulent antisemite and racist on the planet — bankrolling and campaigning with pretty much the entire GOP? charliesykes.substack.com/p/dems-have-...
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Dems Have a Hasan Piker Problem. But the GOP Has a Much, Much Bigger Elon Musk Problem.
If Piker is bad, Musk is a trillion times worse.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Liberals say that secret concentration camps for children have no place in our democracy. They’re wrong— secret concentration camps for children have no place in our republic.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/08/2026
"The power to manage federal property begins and ends with Congress. But Trump’s lawyers ballooned that statute into a capacious grant of absolute power to demolish chunks of the building." Of course they did, but Roberts didn't have to rubber-stamp it.
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John Roberts Gives Trump a License to Bulldoze the Law
The chief justice’s order turns the president’s illegal ballroom construction project into a fait accompli.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The president’s daring catering-truck escape raises serious questions about whether America still has the moral authority to lecture other countries about transparent governance.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Dan DeFreest @dandefreest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I need your help. We are almost at 1 million YouTube subscribers. Can you share this and help me get there? www.youtube.com/@aaronparnas1
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Avice Meehan @avicea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oh please
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 04/08/2026
NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.
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U.S. Border Patrol wants a contractor to track down deported people abroad and collect their immigration fines
The agency gave bidders three business days to compete for a first-of-its-kind contract to collect fines from people it has deported to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 04/08/2026
🔥🔥🔥🔥 “All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation.”
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Avice Meehan @avicea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Outrageous.
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How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What will the media companies who are publishing stories that Blanche agreed to a “deal” with Cornyn & Tillis to kill the slush fund write when people start getting paid with our tax dollars & this whole thing is revealed as a sham? Since they aren’t writing how it’s a sham now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I was going to write this morning on the damage Trump and Hegseth have done to the American military, but went in another direction. But Paul Krugman does an excellent job here. And as he would be the first to say, there is even more evidence that could be cited. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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The Putinization of the American Military
When poseurs and yes-men run a war
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Oil
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Daylight Saving” and “Sunshine Protection” are deceits. Restore permanent Standard Time for more honest time-keeping.
Screen still from the movie “The Matrix” (1999). Neo (Keanu Reeves) stares at a spoon. Caption “THERE IS NO EXTRA HOUR”.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The fact that we’ve had 10-plus years of Trump the politician and we are STILL having this conversation shows just how behind journalists (and particularly the TV kind) have been in adapting their practices to fit a changing reality. This should be a no-brainer by now.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/07/2026
NEW: "Let me tell you a story to help you understand how our situation looks to outsiders"—the story of America's death squads. www.thebulwark.com/p/americas-d...
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America’s Death Squads Are Real
Sometimes you can’t see the world clearly from the inside.
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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
WALLER: "If we get another hot reading on core inflation this week, then the FOMC will need to consider tightening monetary policy in the near term." "Sternly staring at inflation until it melts before our withering gaze is not an option." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b... @nytimes.com
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Fed Official Warns of Higher Rates if Inflation Stays Elevated
Christopher J. Waller, a governor at the Federal Reserve, said he needs to see several months of lower inflation data to feel confident about the outlook.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE killed a Colombian man. He was legally authorized to work. His wife and 3-year-old daughter were in the car when ICE fired at least 5 times. He was not their target. Agents wore no body cameras. This is fascism. Prepare: PAXIS.app Keep it free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Platner story shows how political consultants should not parachute into a state and pick a candidate. There were a bunch of solid Democratic candidates in the state. Maybe the elites don’t know better than the people who actually live in the state?
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
CDC scientists wrote a robust paper on the safety results of the Covid vaccine. The acting director Bhattacharya, w/o experience in vaccines, blocked it based on his non-expert opinions on how vaccine safety studies should be conducted. An ongoing pattern of censorship. 🧪 archive.today/3QN9x
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Opinion | Why the CDC refusing to publish covid vaccine research is so worrying
The publication of the study in another journal doesn’t erase the troubling questions raised by its suppression.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
While I'm at it, here's the recruiter who was responsible for vetting him shrugging off a half-assed vetting and dismissing the red flags that did emerge. (WSJ covered how they went the cheap-and-fast route.)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn -- Norm Eisen, Democracy Defenders Fund & Mary Dohrmann, Washington Litigation Group
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Originally there was no Constitution. So ignoring the Constitution is the only truly originalist approach to Constitutional law.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/07/2026
Black text on white page that reads: 

As temperatures continue to rise across our city, protecting older New Yorkers is one of our highest priorities. I spent this morning at the Carter Burden Covello Older Adult Center communing with older New Yorkers and sharing simple ways to stay safe during this dangerous heat wave. 

It was a powerful reminder that cooling centers aren't just places to escape the heat — they're places where New Yorkers can come together, stay safe, and look out for one another during dangerous weather.
 
As this heat wave continues, let's make sure older New Yorkers have the support they need to stay safe. If you or someone around you is experiencing trouble breathing, a rapid heartbeat, dizziness, nausea, confusion, or other signs of heat illness, call 911 immediately.
 
Staying cool saves lives. Cooling centers are open across the five boroughs. 

Find one near you at nyc.gov/beattheheat.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Poll workers say that staffing and equipment prevent them from counting every ballot on Election Day. A Fox News guest says that the counts are delayed so that Antifa and Italian satellites can change the results. For busy Supreme Court justices, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My grandkids have measles and I’m about to get kicked out of my nursing home since they had to fire all the Haitian nurses. But at least now I know that the students at some school I never heard of aren’t going to get trigger warnings anymore.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.
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Hayes: Musk wants you to forget his deadly DOGE legacy
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Holy shit I didn’t know it was literally electric slime green.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Keep speaking up.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Unitary executive theory was made up by conservative lawyers in 1980s to empower Reagan. Today, they find support in Scalia’s dissent in Morrison v Olson, but SCOTUS majority — in still-binding precedent — said hogwash. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
JD Vance can NEVER become president under any circumstance. When Trump is so far gone that he must be impeached and removed, Vance must be removed, too. Here's the evidence
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Elias: The fact that the New York Times thinks there’s a middle ground here… Here’s my message: I don’t compromise with Republicans because there is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist, and they are trying to burn down democracy.
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