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Barefoot in Virginia

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Small business owner. Boxer lover. Dickinson College Alum.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The Real Epstein List: A survey of the rich & powerful individuals who elevated Jeffrey Epstein, hired him, funded him, enabled him, befriended him, and/or partook of his services.
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Redacted: The Real Epstein List
A survey of the rich & powerful individuals who elevated Jeffrey Epstein, hired him, funded him, enabled him, befriended him, and/or partook of his services.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I know rural America because I live here. I know rural inside and out and I speak on it often because almost no one else does. I have the market on rural politics cornered because not many think it’s worth cornering. But it is. jesspiper.substack.com/p/they-cant-...
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They Can't See What I See
Because they aren't from where I'm from
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/08/2025
I'll make no friends among the monied set who i should be courting with a lot of ass-kissing, but as an indie feminist coop co-founder i have basically nothing to lose: there's no such thing today as "genuinely liberal media" that's even close to comparable to Fox or other right-wing outfits
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is law enforcement in Florida under DeSantis and the Trump administration. This man was punched in the face, and his car window was smashed for not having his headlights on. He stayed calm even though his rights were being ignored. We need to get more eyes on this abuse. Please pass this on.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🧵Posted yesterday that Melania knew Epstein before she knew Trump. This is Paolo Zampolli, her former escort agent & good friend of Epstein & Trump. He's the one who took Melania to Ghislaine's party where she met Trump. He's also the one who secured her Einstein visa All the dirty details below
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Texting Menace @textingmenace.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is a great article on how to break Russ Vought's evil plan to destroy America. substack.com/@criticalres...
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How to Break the Blueprint: A Tactical Guide to Russ Vought’s 180-Day Power Grab
He governs through footnotes and faith tests. Here’s how to trace every wire and clip them.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
BREAKING - Hegseth shared military bombing plans in 2nd Signal chat - with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer Now we see why he fired 2 scapegoats - and his top 3 deputies were pushed out Total MESS at the Pentagon, putting America at risk HEGSETH MUST BE FORCED OUT - NOW
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/g...
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U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law • Georgia Recorder
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
How many people do you think have received threats from Trump, Musk & their goons? Thousands? This interview by Rachel Maddow was chilling. You must watch & share it because our government is being attacked from within! The bravery of Daniel Berulis is so inspiring. I hope it's contagious. 🧵
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 01/04/2025
The House is voting on the SAVE Act this week, a bill that could silence millions of voters by creating new barriers to voter registration that make it harder for Americans to make their voices heard. Congress must reject this bill.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
69M married women could lose their voting rights if the SAVE Act is passed. Transgender individuals too. Why? Absent a valid passport, you must present a birth certificate *with the same name as your registration* to be registered. This is insane! Hands Off Her Vote
Who Does the SAVE Act Impact? 

1 in 3 American Women lack proof of citizenship documents with their current legal name. 

Institute for Responsive Government
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Retweet this if Cory Booker is making you cry with pride and hope right now.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...
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Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources
The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.
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Barefoot in Virginia @barefootinva.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Fantastic article @rtraister.bsky.social!
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Republicans’ SAVE act would not even accept marriage certificates for name changes. You’d have to have a passport and good luck getting the State Department’s depleted workforce issuing you one
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.
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Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker
New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/03/2025
​Archivists recreate pre-Trump CDC website, hosting it in Europe. ​ 🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-r...
screen shot of the restore cdc websitehands on face meme, white black drawing
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Absolutely stunning. Trump to Chief Justice Roberts: "Thank you again. Thank you again. I won't forget."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
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Stand With Trans Americans
You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
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RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🧵This. If an elected doesn't hold townhalls, do like @indivisible.org & go to their offices with a few friends. -Tell your local paper (of any size) when & where you'll be -Take a lot of pictures & post to social -Write a letter to the editor* of that paper about what happened *LTE tips, next! 1/
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Susan Lynn Spirit Navigator @susanlynnmedium.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Wow! Check this out! Gov employees started a website to debunk the attacks on them! This is HUGE! www.wethebuilders.org
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We are the builders
We find the truth and tell the truth
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin
I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.
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Trinity Amor @trinityamor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Holy shit! The ultimate resister right here. Watch what he does at the end. ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏻🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈💙 He is our example. This happened today at a Huntington Beach, California city Council meeting. People are gonna have to be willing to get this loud, get in their faces, make a noise.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/02/2025
Mary Ellen Callahan, former chief privacy officer at the DHS, explains why the treasury secretary violated the law by giving sensitive, personal data to Elon Musk's DOGE.
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Mary Ellen Callahan, former chief privacy officer at the DHS, explains why the treasury secretary violated the law by giving sensitive, personal data to Elon Musk’s DOGE.
TikTok video by Brennan Center for Justice
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
1. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of DOGE launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” URLs that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape.
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DOGE Teen Ran Image-Sharing Site Linked to URLs Referencing Pedophilia and the KKK
The site launched by Edward Coristine in 2021 promised to protect the privacy of its users, stating, “All your images are encrypted. We do not log IP addresses, device agents or anything else.”
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
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Barefoot in Virginia @barefootinva.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We need you now more than ever, @wxrisk.bsky.social!!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
My friend @jaymichaelson.bsky.social shared some key info on the Zuckerbook. Important. Quoting him. Follow him. Don’t give up. We fight. 1/x 🧵 “Hello! I'm posting in response to the many sincerely anguished claims that not enough is being done to stop Trump. This is not reflected in the facts.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
America is under attack. youtu.be/2B6gS_WyXKo
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An Act of War
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Barefoot in Virginia @barefootinva.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
While FOTUS has us discussing his unhinged response to the tragic crash, they are doing this so we don't see.
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Maxmax @maxmax.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I have known Elon Musk at a deep level for 14 years, well before he was a household name. We used to text frequently. He would come to my birthday party and invite me to his parties. He would tell me everything about his women problems. As sons of highly accomplished men who married venuses, were violent and lost their fortunes, and who were bullied in high school, we had a number of things in common most people cannot relate to. We would hang out together late in Los Angeles. He would visit my San Diego lab. He invested in my company. 
Elon is not a Nazi, per se. 
He is something much better, or much worse, depending on how you look at it. 
Nazis believed that an entire race was above everyone else. 
Elon believes he is above everyone else. He used to think he worked on the most important problems. When I met him, he did not presume to be a technical person — he would be the first to say that he lacked the expertise to understand certain data. That happened later. Now, he acts as if he has all the solutions. 
All his talk about getting to Mars to “maintain the light of consciousness” or about “free speech absolutism” is actually BS Elon knowingly feeds people to manipulate them. Everything Elon does is about acquiring and consolidating power. That is why he likes far right parties, because they are easier to control. That is also why he gave himself $56 Billion which could have gone to the people actually doing the work and innovations he is taking credit for at Tesla (the reason he does not do patents is because he would not be listed as an inventor as putting a fake inventor on a patent would kill it and moreover it would reveal the superstars behind the work). His lust for power is also why he did xAI and Neuralink, to attempt to compete with OpenAI and NeuroVigil, respectively, despite being affiliated with them. Unlike Tesla and Twitter, he was unable to conquer those companies and tried to create rivals. I fired him with cause in December 2021 when he trie
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Barefoot in Virginia @barefootinva.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
THISSSSSSS!!!!!
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/01/2025
Friends, we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of good, but we can be more selective about where we spend our coin. This link that lets you search a brand and see what’s up. Maybe it’s time to support companies that align closest with our values. #GoodsUniteUs www.goodsuniteus.com
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Home - Goods Unite Us
At Goods Unite Us, we run political background checks on thousands of brands and companies so you can put your money where your vote is.
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Okay @samasama.bsky.social let’s do this. All US civil rights cases have been stopped by Trump’s DOJ, he’s cancelled Biden’s price reductions for drugs for people on Medicare, he’s attacked trans rights and protections from prison rape. He’s put someone in charge of the FBI who has an enemies list.
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