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BitsyBelleview

@bitsy-belle48.bsky.social
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Whole food plant-based Buddhist, progressive, retired special education teacher and reading specialist.

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Agatha Frame @agathaframe.bsky.social · 8h
Susan Collins' out-of-state PAC is spending big bucks to buy her another six years to do the oligarchs' bidding. Posting this convo between @troyjackson207.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social, with the good people here at Bluesky at my big sis's request. www.youtube.com/live/UUPCTaN...
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Community Conversation w/ Troy Jackson and Heather Cox Richardson | Solidarity Forever Tour
YouTube video by Troy Jackson for Maine
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10h
BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h
A resurfaced video shows Republican congressional candidate Brandon Herrera sexualizing moms who put stick-figure family decals on their cars. What he said about them is now getting fresh attention.
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Brandon Herrera Sexualized Moms Who Have Stick Figure Family Decals
GOP candidate: "You know she doesn’t need protection either."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
An entire massive industry that has the potential to cause tremendous damage and destruction by their own admission completely unregulated because they have Trump and the Republican Party in their pocket. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h
GATES: “.. I almost can’t believe you’re asking that.” @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17h
1. On Tuesday morning, Trump unveiled America dot gov, which he described as “the ultimate product.” Right now, it is basically a chatbot that draws data from official government websites. As a result it is brutally efficient at debunking Trump’s lies.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 16h
If you want your rights protected, and your life more affordable, you need to vote for Democrats like your life depends on it. Because it does.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17h
This is wrong: Trump and Republicans in Congress gave BILLIONS in tax breaks to Big Tech companies building AI data centers. So YOUR tax dollars are subsidizing their AI data centers — at the same time you pay higher electricity and water bills.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h
If you need a refresher about the issues involved in release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report, you’re not alone. The case was briefed months ago, but has been sitting on the court’s docket waiting for oral argument. I wrote about it back then: joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-pas...
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Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him
We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president.
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 18h
9/30 Mainer and professor of American history Heather Cox Richardson says Senate race in Maine is about “reclaiming our democracy” #maine #MEpolitics
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great ad.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This dog walked into the classroom today to find a surprise student who literally followed his human to school.. He was actually the best-behaved student in the class, and honestly a dream, a 10/10 student for any teacher.. 😊 IG: potterhead_sang
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Midnight and sunshine.. 😊
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑‍🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was a moment when the US was taken over by enemies and criminals, the incompetent, the corrupt, and the malevolent. They control our government now and will use every means at their disposal, legal and illegal, to try to stop the rest of us from restoring law, order, and decency to US society.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An 11th Cir panel has refused to reverse the district judge & stay the sanctions she imposed on the plaintiffs in the slush fund case, Trump v IRS, strongly suggesting it was a collusive lawsuit designed to deliver relief to the parties.
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Sandy @sanwil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
VOTE in numbers too big to ignore💥 ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ Check that your registration is correct Verify your polling place Transportation plan to the poll Take all required ID w/ you Comfy shoes to stand in line If denied a vote ask for a provisional ballot.* *a few states are exempt
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 29/09/2026
WIN: Today, a judge issued a final ruling to block Trump-Vance admin’s efforts to add unlawful conditions to federal grants that support state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions and providers. This win invalidates multiple attempts to weaponize this crucial violence prevention funding.
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Court Rules in Favor of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors, Protecting Crucial Grants to Support Victims of Violence Nationwide
Final Ruling Follows Series of Court Orders Blocking Unlawful Administration Attempt to Weaponize Violence Prevention Funding
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Good to know!
Screenshot of America.gov answering who won and lost the 2020 presidential election. It states that Joseph R. Biden Jr. won and Donald J. Trump lost, with an Electoral College result of Biden 306 to Trump 232, and links to National Archives and FEC election results.
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George Smiley @mc2020.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trying to set up a perjury gotcha, as Smith had just testified he did not travel to Atlanta. And then to further insinuate - which is all maga needs - that he must have therefore had some nefarious dealings with Fani Willis there. It's all risible fascist horseshit. bsky.app/profile/mc20...
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The principled Senator from Texas is up www.c-span.org/event/senate...
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"F*cking P*dophile" -- Trump faces protests and heckling as his Administration faces crisis on several fronts: food banks run dry, fuel prices soar, healthcare premiums rise, and the Iran war has no end. A very difficult morning for this Administration less than two months until election day.
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‘F*cking P*dophile’: Trump Faces Backlash as Food Banks Run Dry, Fuel Costs Soar, Healthcare Premiums Rise, and the War Rages
Good morning.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a make-me presidency Congress says taxpayer money can't pay for political ads, so Trump ran two in a week If he makes us, @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are ready, & the courts have slapped him down plenty The latest w/ @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social👇 -TN
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can a president run his own political ads on your tax dollars? Congress said NO, & these ads blow right past it! All options are on the table for @democracydefendersaction.org , so stay tuned Here's the legal case against these ads, w/ @MorningEdition on @npr.org 👇 -TN
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Taxpayer-funded Trump administration ads raise questions about their legality
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former White House ethics czar Norman Eisen about the ethical and legal questions raised by new Trump administration advertisements, which are funded by taxpayer money.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The war in Iran is only “out of sight, out of mind” for someone like Ashley Hinson.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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patriciaadvocate.bsky.social @patriciaadvocate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If rules are gone at the White House…. www.facebook.com/reel/1590723...
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 07/02/2025
Having hate, they can have no mercy. Their greed is the hatred of mercy. Their pockets jingle with the small change of the poor. #WendellBerry #LookOut #Poetry #PrayForAmerica
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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly CHUANG TZU
Anise swallowtail

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species: P. zelicaon

Saturday, Apr 6, 2019

3:20 PM

Yerba Buena Gardens
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 24/09/2026
9/24 ProPublica’s reporters say Senator Collins is now making “incorrect and misleading claims” #maine #MEpolitics
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Hunter Biden: Trump said 'where's Hunter' and you know what? People came to find me. They showed up at my house with my 7-month pregnant wife, banging on the door with bullhorns and MAGA hats and literally ran us out of the house. My wife was driven off the road by these people twice.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In a major breakthrough, GOP Sen (soon to be governor of Alabama) Tommy Tuberville announces dramatically that the mortal threat facing Alabama is no longer Blacks, Hispanics or trans children: now it's "furry culture," which is focused in airplane cockpits across the country. Who knew?
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨A technical error at the Texas Department of Public Safety has created a major backlog of voter registration applications, with some incomplete records dating back to 2025. If you recently registered to vote in Texas, now is a good time to double-check that your information is actually on file.
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Sandy @sanwil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👀Judge says 'Yes." but Don ignores it www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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POLITICO, CNN, MS NOW barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier restoring access.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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BitsyBelleview @bitsy-belle48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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LanguageMatters (@ziggymerlin)
Someone is going to be angry…🥱🥱🥱
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BitsyBelleview @bitsy-belle48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel
Trump gets ready to stiff more contractors
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 22/09/2026
Romanian crime rings have exploited antiquated magnetic stripes on benefits cards to steal hundreds of millions of public dollars. on.wsj.com/4AsDd5i
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Daniel Boris @danboriscreates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump TV 📺 *From the Creators of “The Apprentice.”
Trump seen as Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio”, standing in front of the Trump TV logo.
Tag line: “All the lies. All the time.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”
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