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Just another ‘Murican who believes in equal justice under law; understands the assignment.

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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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From the Popculturenow community on Reddit: Protests against Trump erupt inside D.C. restaurant as people chant to his face: “FREE D.C.! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE H*TLER OF OUR TIME!”
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Samantha Paige (she/they) (@samantha705901)
Sure doesn’t look like Chicago wants Trump’s help.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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J.B. Pritzker has opted out of pretending
Sifting through the noise and constant madness of this American moment is depressing, distressing and dispiriting because it is so unrelenting.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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The Irish Politics Newsletter (@tullmcadoo)
Probably the best thing the Onion is has ever done?
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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The Beta Brigade: Trump’s Faux-Alphas and the Crisis of American Manhood
They pose as tough guys—but follow Trump like lost puppies. Our sons are watching, and it's time for better role models.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Conversation with Secretary Buttigieg Today
Secretary Pete Buttigieg and I will chat here on Substack at 2:00 Eastern Time.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Zelenskyy Had The Cards
A surprise attack, planned and devastatingly launched from inside Russian territory, has reset the board in the Ukraine / Russia war and beyond
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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The Inevitable Donald Trump
Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis has spawned a new round of relitigating the 2024 election and whitesplaining "why we lost." Please stop.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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Natasha Young on Substack
We won’t be rescued. No cavalry’s coming. Project 2025 is in Stage 3. This is the moment they’re counting on us to freeze. Don’t.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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These People Are Never Happy
And I don't think they ever will be.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Keeping It 100
Here's a look at what ContrabandCamp accomplished in our first 100 days and where we're headed.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Still We Rise (@_stillwerise) on Threads
Detainees at an immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: S-O-S. A Reuters drone image showed the detainees in the courtyard at the Blue...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/04/2025
Last October, ProPublica and @documented.net published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," he said.
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“We Want the Bureaucrats to Be Traumatically Affected”
ProPublica and Documented obtained videos of two speeches delivered during invitation-only annual gatherings for the Center for Renewing America, a pro-Trump...
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Katie Phang (@katiephang) on Threads
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savi...
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Judge Boasberg: Trump May Be Held in Criminal Contempt
What happens when a President believes he can operate above the Constitution, above the law, and above the courts?
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Steve Schmidt on Substack
I was at a concert on Friday night in Stillwater, Oklahoma, with a crowd of 50,000 people. There was not a single MAGA hat or piece of Trump anything on anyone. Don’t be lied to by your screen, or dec...
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Yes, they voted for this
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in."
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Susan Erickson (@pianotinkler1) on Threads
And then they silenced the historians…Heather Cox Richardson’s posts are disappearing from her wall.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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It's Time For A Republican Sickout
If you can’t find the strength to take a stand, at least lie down.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Women’s Elite Rugby (@rugbyevolved) on Threads
We join in celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility. Rugby is for everyone. #tdov
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Amy Siskind on Substack
THANK YOU WISCONSIN! Hundreds of protesters outside Musk’s rally in Green Bay. Bless you all! 💙🩵💪👏
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 31/03/2025
The National Archives was born from disaster that proved the fragility of government records. Now, after Trump fired the head archivist in Feb 2025 and top staff left, it faces a new era of uncertainty. An archivist explains:
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Fires, wars and bureaucracy: The tumultuous journey to establish the US National Archives
Every democracy needs a national archive. Trump’s staffing shake-up is endangering an institution that preserves the nation’s history.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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UCS: Rescinding NIH Scientific Integrity Policy is an Attack on Science and Public Health
WASHINGTON (March 28, 2025)—Today, President Trump’s administration rescinded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy designed to maintain the use of science in decision making and protect scient...
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @JeffreyGoldberg.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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The Trump daymare
Friends,
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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I just put in conditional notice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom… | Rachel Cohen | 123 comments
I just put in conditional notice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates. I sent that notice firm-wide and anticipate the email will leak. I… | 123 comments on LinkedIn
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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Adam Kinzinger on Substack
Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted t...
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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What Was That?
Grandpa Simpson visited the Justice Department on Friday, giving a speech that must have given even his handlers pause, a campaign stump speech delivered in front of the Seal of the Department of Just...
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🍂 Database of NIH terminated grants 🧪 taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf "The TAGGS database (is) an HHS-wide database somewhat analogous to (and overlapping with) NIH Reporter " @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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🇺🇸 Gone but not forgotten? 🇺🇸 This evening I honor a soldier who gave… | Jessica Ruttenber | 176 comments
🇺🇸 Gone but not forgotten? 🇺🇸 This evening I honor a soldier who gave the ultimate sacrifice for her country. Capt. Jennifer M. Moreno wasn’t just a… | 176 comments on LinkedIn
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/03/2025
Grow a spine, Chuck.
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WTF?!! Schumer CAVES to GOP CR and DEMS ARE PISSED
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Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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ICE has captured and detained a British girl on a backpacking trip through North America.
From Paul Burke - Urgent Appeal
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Letterkenny. 100% certain that the Donald has never watched an episode of Letterkenny.
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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
RP or like if you are safe & welcoming too 🏳️‍🌈
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 08/03/2025
The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers.
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US Vetoes G-7 Shadow Fleet Task Force Plan, Signals More Change
The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers, as the Trump administration re-evaluates its positions across multil...
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Trump Attacking Law Firm That Bought Dossier, So Clearly The Pee Tape Exists
Also all the colleges, on behalf of (not on behalf of) 'the Jews.'
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Primary Sources: The Secret Slave Revolt That Started the Civil Rights Movement
The story of the Underground Railroad, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and Emmitt Till begins with a national slave revolt.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Navigating Safety as a Trans Person in Uncertain Times
Living in a World That Wants to Erase Us by Connor Wolfe
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Dr. Andrea Love on Substack
I can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice are not TransGENDER mice
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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An Incomplete List of Things Donald Trump Considers to be 'DEI'
According to the MAGA resegregationists in the Trump Administration, anything Black is now considered "DEI."
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Kennedy proposes scrapping public comment on major US health policies
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking to eliminate public participation in many of his department's policy decisions, a move that appears to contradict his pledge to Congress of "radical transparency."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Cyber attacks are the main way Russia engages us. An important bit of context as we choose an alliance with Russia over historical alliances with richer and more reliable countries who, to state the obvious, do not attack us all the time on cyber.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Today's disgusting scene
Friends,
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is one of the most shameful days in U.S. history. A weak, corrupt, deceitful, compromised Kremlinist U.S. president recruited his Yarvinist VP to gang up on a heroic ally on live TV. It devolved into a shouting match. Why? This report explains _exactly_ why:
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The Birth of the Trump Doctrine Lies in the 1987 Recruitment of Donald Trump By the KGB During His Trip to Moscow That Year
How Trump responded to his recruitment remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that it shaped his entrance into politics and his foreign policy in a way the world now ignores at its peril.
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Be Not Afrayed @benotafrayed.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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The Anti-Vaccine Movement Gets Help
As this bird flu jumps to humans, Trump pauses funding for a vaccine
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