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Beth Carls

@bcarls.bsky.social
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Lifelong learner, education futurist, mom to two wonderful sons, Texas Longhorn fan, lover of Democracy

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this might be the best possible outcome. at least I would much rather see CBP money frittered away on vanity ad campaigns rather than spent on torturing more immigrants
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the 2020 presidential race was stolen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election denier Kurt Olsen leaves DOJ after failing to find evidence of stolen election
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it turns out that when Eric Schmitt thought Jack Smith snuck off for a secret meeting to conspire with Fani Willis he was actually in Maryland watching Caitlin Clark play basketball.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 22h
In the last year, we have added more than one million acres to California's conserved lands — the Golden State's largest annual increase ever. We are protecting more land than ever before and shielding our iconic coastline from new offshore oil and gas drilling.
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 20h
Impeachment Calls Grow as Dems Say Up to $20 Million in Taxpayer Funds Were Used for 'Illegal' Pro-Trump Ads www.commondreams.org/news/donald-...
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Impeachment Calls Grow as Dems Say Up to $20 Million in Taxpayer Funds Were Used for 'Illegal' Pro-Trump Ads | Common Dreams
Democrats in Congress demand answers and accountability for Trump's misuse of taxpayer dollars for "illegal" ads.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 19h
Schools must be protected as ICE-free zones. ICE is disrupting learning, causing kids to miss school, and wrongfully putting educators on the frontlines of Trump's extreme immigration enforcement agenda. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/09/28/i...
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ICE activity near schools and bus stops has returned this school year. Here’s what we know.
From California to Connecticut, recent ICE enforcement actions near schools have revived fears about their impact on attendance. Some Democrats want the agency to back off.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think there should be a museum of shame, that shows every atrocity, broken law, corruption and treasonous act. It should be a cautionary tale to anyone who wants to follow in his footsteps.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can't buy me love. Not even w/ your tax dollars The White House put JMSN's "Love Me" under a govt-funded ad about Trump & never asked. We're sending the song back @democracydefendersaction.org & @Ballard are fighting for JMSN Full scoop @yasharali.bsky.social👇 -TN
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SCOOP: Trump White House Hit With Cease-and-Desist Over Unauthorized Use of Song in Taxpayer-Funded Ad
JMSN’s attorneys are demanding that the Trump administration stop using “Love Me” in a government-funded ad, take down existing copies and account for every airing and dollar spent.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Constance Baker Motley's strategic legal mind fundamentally reshaped the legal landscape of desegregation. As the principal female attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, she was a leading legal architect of the #CivilRights movement. She died #OTD in 2005. 🧵
A black-and-white close-up portrait of Constance Baker Motley (September 14, 1921 – September 28, 2005), the trailblazing civil rights attorney and first Black woman appointed as a federal judge. Photographed against a plain, neutral background, she poses facing forward with her torso angled slightly to the right, looking just past the camera. She wears her dark hair styled in a voluminous, soft-curled bob with a side part. Her expression is warm and confident, marked by a slight, serene smile and direct, engaged eyes. She is dressed in her black judicial robes, featuring structured pleats down the front, accessorized with simple white button earrings and a delicate bead necklace peeking through the V-neckline. The composition uses soft, flattering lighting that highlights her features, creating a dignified, commanding, and historically significant mood that reflects her trailblazing legal legacy.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 19h
Exactly 💯
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22h
The ACLU Voter Education Fund and ACLU of Montana today are launching a campaign to educate and engage Montana voters in the upcoming November election.
Blue graphic with text "Montana let's vote our values all the way down the ballot" With an outline of the state of Montana above the text, and an ACLU logo below.
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 23h
What did we learn today? That Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clack fan and that Senator Eric Schmitt is a dirtbag! The senator mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury. Epic fail. I'm still a fan of Jack Smith. A real American patriot. 🇺🇸
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💙 This is a company with integrity 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18h
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026
In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.
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Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage
The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.
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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 29/09/2026
Only 35 days until the US midterm elections. If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it. #EveryVoteMatters
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this weekend I learned that in Texas, sharing is caring. 🤠
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Texas Longhorns - The University of Texas at Austin @utlonghorns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sitting at No. 8🤘 #HookEm 🏐
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
Again, gas prices spiked in 2022-23 because Russia invaded Ukraine which caused a major disruption in global supply. Then they came down. Biden didn’t cause it. Gas prices rose in 2026 due solely to the stupidity of Trump who started a war in the Middle East.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Artists have told Trump to stop using their songs for years -- He never learns! Now it's JMSN's "Love Me," in an ad paid for by YOU @democracydefendersaction.org & @ballard have told WH to take it down. The artist said no, so the answer is NO Full story @nytimes.com👇 -TN
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‘Love Me’ Artist Demands Trump Stop Using Song (Gift Article)
President Trump used JMSN’s song in a recent self-promotional video that was paid for with public money.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
Can't recall ever seeing anything quite like this during a Congressional hearing. And I've been in and around politics for 50 years.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Polls show *Kansas* Democratic Senate nominee Rev. Adam Hamilton neck and neck with incumbent Senator Roger Marshall. Hamilton says “people are coming up to me and they’re saying ‘I’ve never voted for a Democrat before I’m voting for you.” youtu.be/FCaavBtMM4U?...
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GOP Candidates Break with Trump as Kansas Senate Race Becomes a Race to Watch
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23h
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ann Bancroft: the first woman to reach the North Pole on foot* in 1986 (dog-assisted). • 1993: First woman to reach both the North & South Poles on foot (S. Pole unassisted) • 2001: First woman to ski across Antarctica with Norwegian Liv Arnesen Born #OTD in 1955. *walked, snowshoed and/or skied
A close-up photograph of the rugged, joyful countenance of American polar explorer Ann Bancroft (born September 29, 1955), the first woman to cross the ice to both the North and South Poles. Set against a stark, high-key backdrop of a vast, white Arctic or Antarctic ice expanse under an overcast, pale sky, she looks directly at the camera with a wide, radiant smile that crinkles her eyes. Her weather-beaten face is flushed pink from the intense polar cold. Her dark, graying hair is windblown and messy, held back by dark, reflective sunglasses resting atop her head. She wears heavy polar expedition gear, including a dark navy jacket with a thick, fluffy brown fur-trimmed hood framing her face, layered over a bright purple collar, a red knit undershirt, and a visible zipper. The composition centers on her resilient expression, conveying a triumphant, adventurous, and authentic mood that highlights her historical significance as a barrier-breaking explorer.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20h
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & Jacobson Lawyers Group just sued HUD for 10 housing nonprofits Trump's HUD delayed their grants for months while they kept helping families facing foreclosure. Then it canceled $56M outright Unlawful & unkind in equal measure -- See you in court👇 -TN
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her decision to send her daughter, Najya, to predominantly Black, under-resourced public schools and the controversy that followed. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Ray @raymolson22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are not being governed. We are being looted.
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My Building a Healthier America Policy Agenda. 🌱🧑‍🌾🍏💧
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h
Why are we in a trade war with Canada, exactly? What was the country's alleged transgression? Check out my conversation with @samsteindc.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Trump’s War With Canada Has Officially Lost the Plot (w/ Sam Stein)
Podcast Episode · Receipts with Catherine Rampell · September 29 · 40m
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 21h
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 23h
VICTORY: a unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to stay sanctions on Trump & Co. over his $1.8B slush fund He sued his own govt & his own DOJ agreed to the payout. The court wasn't buying it! @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are proud to rep the 35 frm fed judges who blew the whistle 👇 -TN
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ACLU @aclu.org · 19h
NEW: Today, Florida Governor DeSantis and other state officials voted to designate two leading Muslim civil rights nonprofits as “domestic terrorist organizations.” The state's actions are baseless and unconstitutional.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms! A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨Onder v. Missouri
Learn more here.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Free speech includes free press. PERIOD. We stand with every single reporter who refuses to let this Administration decide what gets covered, what gets ignored, and what the American people get to see. The American people deserve the truth, and our reporters have the right to tell it.
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Texas Longhorns - The University of Texas at Austin @utlonghorns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a look at the week 🤘 #HookEm  | #SeatGeek
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
All genuine Americans stand in solidarity with you. 🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙
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