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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I accepted & respected the “old normal”, so much more than the “new normal“, which absolutely sucks…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Justice Department has issued a new legal opinion stating that federal disability law does not require states to provide community-based services simply because a person with a disability could live outside an institution.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Many of you know this, but we’ve been getting questions on how did the Trump administration use the CRA to go after the Boundary Waters? Short answer is illegally.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Humanity, diplomacy, and unity matter. Do not ALLOW Trump & Comp to STEAL those qualities from our once great country. Get involved. Stay aware. Make a difference, ANY way you can. Be Kind. One small deed has the power to reach further than EVER imagined. OH... and, ANOTHER thing...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.
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Just A Grandmom🇺🇸 @grandmompa.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Ooooo, simply and perfectly stated!
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The full transcript is worth the read. Yikes. A firehose of lies and grievances. No plans. No policy. His dangerous failings on full display. Link below.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The Trump administration announced it will provide only partial SNAP payments in November.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
There are no national media outlets in Durango, CO - 8 hours from Denver - like there are in Chicago or LA. Grateful to have local journalists + the Durango Herald covering the latest ICE thuggery.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/05/2025
“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Here's some good news. Trump's administration has a 93% failure rate in court. That’s almost as high as his business failure rate.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Thanks to everyone joining the sit-in!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2025
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
They neglected to mention that The Bible Belt is also the pornography belt and the welfare belt. I live at the left side of that t Yikes!
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 26/04/2025
Happy 92nd birthday to the one and only Carol Burnett!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
April 26, 2025
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April 26, 2025
Early yesterday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent three U.S.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 22/04/2025
An Earth Day message from the late Pope Francis: “‘God always forgives; we humans sometimes forgive, and sometimes not; the earth never forgives.’ The earth does not forgive: if we have despoiled the earth, its response will be very ugly.”
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Carlos @dapherdoos.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The indie bookstore around the corner had this sign. So I went inside and bought 2 books from the banned book section. Support local small businesses. Read banned books. Drink your Ovaltine.
Sign reads HEY! You're about to walk by a BOOKSTORE. Are you okay?2 books, the handmaid tale and the color purple
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/04/2025
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
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HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis, who died today at 88, was the antithesis of a strongman. “He was the model of the world leader as a shrewd, searching, and practical man who faced hard choices in vexing circumstances, and responded humbly,” @paulelie.bsky.social writes.
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The Down-to-Earth Pope
In a historic moment characterized by autocrats and would-be autocrats, Francis was the antithesis of a strongman.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 22/04/2025
I’m honored to be named Advocate of the Year for the 29th Annual Webbys! Every day, I fight to make sure our communities are seen, heard, and protected—so to be recognized for that work at the Webbys means the world. Follow along on Monday, May 12 at #Webbys.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Americans deserve an explanation, what is the threshold of malfeasance to finally trigger dismissal?
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Ben @benintn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are letting people die.
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Toxteth O'Grady @toxteth1.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Marco Rubio just became the latest Trump official to walk back a supposed Executive Order... www.govexec.com/management/2...
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Rubio denies that Trump will politicize the Foreign Service and slash embassies
State Department says a draft executive order, which would have created new loyalty requirements for career staff and eliminated many offices, is fake. A reorganization of the department is still expe...
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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
We’re being tested. These are not mistakes.Young Latino Men are most at risk now. Young Black men have always been. LGTBQ people are next. Then anyone opposing the government. MAGA are willing to break our Union and their families and as long as they “win”. They will not stop unless we stop them.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Amazing that another human being would make a decision to halt funding to feed starving children, rather than practice personal austerity, not charge the American people & government for his frequent, multi-million dollar weekend golf excursions, and perhaps direct those funds for better uses…
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Time of Monsters @thetimeofmonsters.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Today in Hector NY. About 200 people in a rural, mostly Republican county, with other demonstrations in nearby towns. Lots of support from cars driving by! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com #handsoff
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Democrats should be leveraging the 250th, especially next year's Independence Day anniversary, for the midterm elections. The language of resistance, rights, and freedom is tailor-made for the present moment. Embrace it!
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The interesting thing is that according to our own Justice Department, MS-13 began restricting tattoos (c. 2015) on its members precisely bc law enforcement was using them to ID them. Members have to get permission, which means fewer people would have them over last decade
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The Supreme Court seems to have an inkling of the fix they’ve put themselves in, with Trump trying to accumulate power at the courts’ expense. Just after 1 a.m. Saturday morning, a majority of the Court (unsurprisingly minus Justices Alito and Thomas) told Trump he couldn’t deport more Venezuelans.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The American people get it, their combined voice is getting louder & louder, showing up as often as needed sends a clear message…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
We just wanted to keep you all updated estimates are now approaching 4 million. Incredible job pulling this off on a holiday weekend! It was tough to get accurate counts today because small towns showed up in force. Some states had record-breaking turnout we didn’t expect this includes
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Has anyone noticed that the Republican discourse about North Carolina’s storm recovery vanished after the election? Nothing. Not a peep from them. Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK! Crazy how that works!
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beelovevoteblue.bsky.social @beelovevoteblue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Wonderful
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
25th Amendment time?! 👇 Whatcha thinkin’?! 🤔
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
We the people are PISSED!📍NYC / April 19 Join the People’s Movement at www.FiftyFifty.one. #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 #NYC @polrev.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 19/04/2025
Thousands turned out in NYC today to stand for justice, democracy, and the Constitution. We don’t crown criminals—we prosecute them. No kings in America. No thrones for tyrants. Just millions of us, standing up and saying: this is what patriotism actually looks like.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
States like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and more drew even bigger crowds than on 4/5. We’re in awe of you, America. You know you did something right when even Fox News is covering it. Wow!! We love you!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Today was truly inspiring. Something happened that we’ve never seen before, you made noise in places that rarely see protests like this. Communities across traditionally conservative areas hosted historic turnouts.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor. A 93-year-old woman who never protested before. They're mad as hell at what Trump is doing to America, as they joined about 80 others in their senior complex in Haverford, Pa. for a "No Kings!" protest like no other My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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In Haverford, 80-somethings and 90-somethings take to the road to protest Trump
They saw the Holocaust, WWII and Vietnam, and these senior protesters on Philly's Main Line have seen enough of Trump.
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smc2.bsky.social @smc2.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Put a light in your window for democracy. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Peace @masshole8647.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Heather Cox Richardson Speech - 250 Year Lantern Anniversary - Old North Church
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Heather Cox Richardson Speech - 250 Year Lantern Anniversary - Old North Church
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carolina1957.bsky.social @carolina1957.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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debbier76.bsky.social @debbier76.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social want to cry?read @ USAID-how peanut butter mix literally brought starving children from brink of death.T canceled it along w/stop payment to pay manufacturer-shut down T 1st week food purchased-millions of dollars of food allowed to rot. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid
The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Trump justifies his war on foreign students with false accusations of antisemitism. It's a lie. They are kicking out people for speeding tickets and frog embryos. Vance gave the game away by saying foreign students are "bad for the American dream." www.salon.com/2025/04/17/j...
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"Bad for the American dream": Trump's war on foreign students is not about antisemitism
One arrested student actually denounced antisemitism on national television
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