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Open Letters @letters.resist.bot · 9h
From a constituent in 📍 Cherry Hill, NJ
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An open letter to Sen. Booker, Rep. Norcross, Sen. Kim.
From a constituent in Cherry Hill, NJ. Text RESIST to 50409.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 13h
Can I get an amen? AMEN!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h
big dynamic this fall
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12h
📌 ICYMI — Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — Samantha Asumadu The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK…
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12h
The world's largest producer of oat milk, Oatly, is pushing its customers and their governments to act on climate change, in a new milk carton campaign that's taking off in Europe and is expected in the United States within the next few months.
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The world's largest oat milk producer has joined an unusual climate journalism campaign
The world’s largest producer of oat milk, Oatly, is pushing its customers and their governments to act on climate change, in a new milk carton campaign that's taking off in Europe and is expected in the United States within the next few months.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 12h
Last week, a federal judge ruled that the former acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Russell Vought violated federal law and the Constitution's separation of powers clause by trying to defund the agency.
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Attorney General Brown Announces Win in CFPB Funding Lawsuit - News - Office of the Attorney General of Maryland
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Part of me secretly hopes that members of the 11th Circuit were cool to have arguments for releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report in January, but watching Schmitt's colossal fuck up made them move the arguments up to Nov 2.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 18h
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 16h
Matt Dunlap's race is important because it's a potential flip. But it's also important because if Dunlap pulls it off it will be a repudiation of Jared Golden-ism and the DC establishment groupthink that assumes the way to win tough districts is to adopt GOP stances and badmouth Dems. #MEpolitics
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 19h
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Psaki's Apprentice @sleepycongressman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every GOP is to blame for the shit hole America is in right now, Every one, without exception
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 18h
Susan Collins says she’s the oh so powerful chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee but she hasn’t done anything to stop this corruption. Instead she’s voting with Trump 96% of the time after Trump stopped a corruption probe into her getting a contract for a crooked donor. #mepolitics
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Expand the Supreme Court www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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Resistbot @resist.bot · 30/09/2026
Trump’s ethics filing for June listed more than 1,000 securities trades, valued between $78.1 million and $263.1 million. The White House says there are no conflicts because his investments are independently managed, but 2,280 people have petitioned Congress to respond.
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Your Silence is Complicity
Trump reported a staggering 1,051 trades in his June financial disclosure. Here are two of the more curious ones: — June 18: Bought $250K–$500K in…
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Tedderman1🦋 @twj75.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He wasn't kidding, he really is a shitty President.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt was so overzealous to try and get Jack Smith, a good and honest man who has done great work, that Schmitt embarrassed himself by accusing Smith of going to the wrong basketball game. You can't make this stuff up. And right wing media will pretend it never happened.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have engineered a virus that invades and destroys glioblastoma one of the deadliest brain cancers while turning the immune system into a relentless tumor-killing force. This could be a historic shift in cancer treatment.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Let’s be clear: It is ILLEGAL to pay for campaign ads with taxpayer money. There's a whole bunch of federal laws specifically designed to prevent this! The seething, sinister vibes are just as alarming. He really does see himself as above silly things like “the law” and “campaign ethics.”
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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Support Protecting Presidential Memorials Act. Save Kennedy Center, block Arch
Please declare your support for the Bipartisan Protecting Presidential Memorials Act of Chellie Pingree and Jeff Merkley. Pingree explains that this act…
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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Stop Trump's pocket recissions: impeach him for illegal impoundment
Please block Trump's latest plan for pocket recissions and impeach him for impoundment. The constitution gives separate powers to each branch of…
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Paging Susan Collins! #mepolitics
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#mepolitics Check out what's been done with susancollinsforsenate.com!
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Bribe Susan Collins yourself*
*Kidding. See what the FBI was investigating — before Trump's FBI shut it down.
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Pine Tree Activism @pinetreeactivism.org · 28/09/2026
The devastating changes passed in the Big Ugly Bill that start taking place next Jan (by design AFTER the midterms), the 70% increase in home heating oil cost, the reduction in food assistance and crisis at the nation's food banks is *not* something for which Americans are prepared. #MEpolitics
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's my overview of the state of the Maine Senate race. Thoughts, #mepolitics crew? www.ms.now/opinion/susa...
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Opinion | Why Susan Collins is hanging on so tightly in Maine
A new poll provided a reality check to Democrats’ hopes that Troy Jackson would unseat the Republican incumbent.
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Matt Dunlap @dunlapforcongress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 Orono 📢 Join me on Thursday, October 8th at University of Maine! I've always made it a priority to be accessible to the people I represent, so come with your questions, your concerns, whatever's on your mind. I want to hear from you. Sign up at www.mobilize.us/dunlapforcon...
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's called f- it up and then do it again
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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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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Arizona First-time voter? Register by Oct 5 at iwillvote.com. Update signature, sign up for AEVL (ballot mailed automatically), track it. That's your plan. Five minutes. Oct 5 deadline—make it happen. #ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Objective" Maine "reporter" Phil Hirschkorn (actually an inveterate Susan Collins bootlicker and errand-runner) doing external PR for a senate candidate days before early voting starts. So often being "objective" really means reserving the right to put a thumb on the scale but quietly. #MEpolitics
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Stop Trump's pocket recissions: impeach him for illegal impoundment
Please block Trump's latest plan for pocket recissions and impeach him for impoundment. The constitution gives separate powers to each branch of…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When legacy media compare Orban's treatment of the press to Trump's, do they realize they're telling on themselves? Big corporate media folded. Independent media stood up there and is standing up here. Support Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
45 million acres of roadless national forest. Trump wants bulldozers and logging trucks on all of it. Once a road goes in, the wild is gone for good. Tell Congress to stop him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.politico.com/news/2026/06... Anti-Trump group can keep flying ‘86-47’ flag near National Mall, judge rules U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss says the banner can’t plausibly be read to threaten violence against President Donald Trump.
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Anti-Trump group can keep flying ‘86-47’ flag near National Mall, judge rules
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss says the banner can’t plausibly be read to threaten violence against President Donald Trump.
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#News: #Indigenous peoples fight #Socfin’s #landgrabbing #violence and intimidation in Africa and Asia. Solidarity is growing as affected people demand justice and dignity. #HumanRights #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🚫 www.oaklandinstitute.org/public-state...
Une femme prend la parole lors d’une réunion organisée dans le village libérien de Gbarfein Town, au cours de laquelle sont abordés les problèmes liés à la plantation LAC de Socfin. (Photo : Carielle Doe/EPER)
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The most patriotic wisdom in America's 250 year history from founding father, first president and military legend George Washington: “No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin." 🦅 🇺🇸
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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump's endorsement is becoming more like a kiss of death. When Nixon's approval rating fell, Republican leaders went to him and told him that if he didn't resign, they would impeach him. He resigned. Trump's approval rating is even lower than Nixon's was at that point.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is making the rounds. #MEpolitics
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Amy Jean Nobles @ajnobles.com · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration wants to gut the rule and open up 45 million acres of roadless forest to clear-cutting and other harmful development enabled by roading. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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LottesEnkelin @lottesenkelin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
resist.bot/petitions/PK... #resistbot @resist.bot #environmental @scholten.house.gov
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Hold the Line on Clean Vehicle Standards
As a voting constituent, I am writing to demand urgent legislative action to defend clean air and accelerate our transition to affordable electric…
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