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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/10/2025
The data is as clear as ever, mifepristone is safe and effective.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/10/2025
No President gets to dictate what schools teach. No college should be forced to support any political agenda or risk losing funding for cancer research.   It’s well past time for Republicans to join us—grow a spine—and oppose this latest illegal action to control our schools.
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Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda for better access to federal money
A document sent to the universities encourages them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses, with commitments to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s sports, free...
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/09/2025
If it seems like the only sentence that Republicans can form these days consists of a noun, verb, and illegal immigrant—that’s because they have to resort to outright lies to defend their truly God-awful health care policies. But lying can't hide the truth when premiums double.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/10/2025
I just voted NO on the Republican funding bill that does NOTHING to address premiums more than doubling next year. Republicans REFUSED to negotiate with Democrats and now they're forcing a shutdown rather than working with us to fix the health care crisis THEY created.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/09/2025
Have you heard about the Roadless Rule? It protects forestland across the country, but Trump wants to REPEAL IT! Nothing is final yet, so it's time to speak out. You can submit public comment to protect our public lands—just do it BEFORE 11:59pm EST on FRIDAY, September 19!
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/08/2025
Trump just moved to outlaw women veterans who are victims of rape or incest from getting abortion care at VA. Republicans don’t care if your health is in danger, if you’re a veteran, or if you’ve been raped—they want abortion outlawed everywhere, for everyone.
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Trump administration revokes Biden era abortion rule for veterans
The Trump administration revoked a Biden era abortion rule on Friday that allows veterans to receive abortions under their medical package.  The Department of Veteran Affairs is reversing a 20…
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/08/2025
The entire premise of Trump’s trade war is unimaginably stupid. There is no “making it in America” when the “it” in question is coffee or green tea, which we cannot grow at scale here in the United States. Republicans need to vote with us to finally end these tariffs.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Bass: We just heard that the administration’s experiment failed. The raids that were happening in Los Angeles—the random pulling and snatching of people off the streets based on the language they spoke, their appearance, where they work—the court has said that can no longer happen.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/08/2025
Here’s what just some of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's victims had to say about the outrageous preferential and delicate treatment Trump is offering a convicted child sex trafficker. This is a disgusting perversion of justice.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/08/2025
This is because of cuts Republicans in Congress enacted. Understand it will be LOCAL stations in RURAL communities that will shutter and people living in rural communities will be most affected. It won’t be easy, but I'll keep fighting to restore funding for public media.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces shutdown following funding loss
Trump’s successful campaign to strip federal money to NPR and PBS effectively ended the public media middleman.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/08/2025
It is seriously dangerous territory when Trump fires anyone who doesn't cook the books for him. The entire economy hinges on the accurate, nonpartisan data we get from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Republicans need to join us in fighting to protect the integrity of BLS.
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Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report
Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/08/2025
The Senate just voted to pass bipartisan bills to fund military construction, VA, agriculture, FDA, and more. Passing these bills ensures that CONGRESS decides how taxpayer funds are spent—NOT Russ Vought or President Trump. This is a good thing for our country.
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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.
Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998: Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. 

I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times.

Jennifer Lee Rosman @JenLRossman:
We’re disabled, Daniel, we’re not werewolves
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Family pets are being left behind at Southern California shelters as their families face deportation. At Carsom Animal Care Center, dogs like Bruce and Coco are quiet, confused, and up for adoption. Shelter staff say they've seen emotional goodbyes as families forced to leave the U.S.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Neguse: Only in Washington, D.C. could politicians come to the floor and brag about cutting $9 billion from rural radio stations while two weeks ago they voted to increase the deficit by $4 trillion. Spare us these lectures.
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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I’m not generally in favor of withholding any sacrament based on behavior alone but I don’t think that’s the most important point here clergy are standing up for humanity, decency, due process, and the rule of law imagine if our Supreme Court and Congress could do the same
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Detroit archbishop joins Catholic procession calling for just immigration policies
Immigration rights group tried to deliver a letter to the ICE field office, but were turned away.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/07/2025
Trump's budget chief, Russ Vought, has said he wants the appropriations process to be LESS bipartisan. This is a man who ignores our laws and flaunts it. My message to my Republican colleagues this afternoon? STAND UP for Congress as a co-equal branch of government.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Alex Kydd Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/07/2025
Trump pushed conspiracy theories about Epstein's heinous crimes. Now he's being extremely defensive regarding the Epstein files. It raises legitimate questions. Why not just release the files? What is he hiding?
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/07/2025
BREAKING: At 2 AM, Republicans just passed a bill to defund public broadcasting and lifesaving aid because Trump told them to—they wouldn’t even protect rural radio or emergency alerts. Congress should decide what we spend and what we cut—not Trump and not Russ Vought. I voted NO.
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Spelledw1n @spelledw1n.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Happy 8th anniversary to people getting PO'd at NPR because they didn't recognize or agree with the Declaration of Independence when it was tweeted out line by line. apnews.com/general-news...
apnews.com
NPR's Declaration of Independence tweetstorm confuses some
National Public Radio marked the Fourth of July by tweeting the entire Declaration of Independence, but it seems some Twitter users didn't recognize what they were reading.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Trump spoke of “shylocks,” which is one of the most recognizable antisemitic terms in modern English. Watch who tries to explain this away.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/07/2025
Here’s what I’m thinking about this July 4th: our democracy is so much bigger than one wannabe autocrat. But it's important for us all to remember, democracy is NOT guaranteed. It’s only by using our voices and our votes that—together—we will preserve our democracy and build a better future. 🇺🇸
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/07/2025
🚨 Trump just signed Republicans' Big Ugly Betrayal into law—the largest-ever transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in our country’s history. This partisan bill is immoral and wrong. Americans WILL make their voices and votes heard at the ballot box.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/07/2025
BREAKING: House Republicans just passed their Big Ugly Bill to rip away health care and food stamps from millions to fund billionaire tax cuts. Republicans ignored every warning about how terrible this bill really is—but Americans will make themselves heard at the ballot box.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/07/2025
After passing a bill to add $4 trillion to the national debt, Republicans can never call themselves “deficit hawks” again.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I think this new mega-gestapo is bad. I guess I'm just old-fashioned.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The tragic thing is that tens of millions of Americans could be spared immeasurable pain, suffering, and despair if only there were a literal handful of Republicans with a working soul.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
I just forced a vote to try to strip out Republicans' defund Planned Parenthood provision from their Big Ugly bill. Republicans voted NO. They voted to shutter some 200 health clinics and deny women basic health care like cancer screenings & birth control. KILL THE BILL!
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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Listen, deaths are a natural consequence of violently arresting septuagenarians and caging them in terrible conditions away from their loved ones for alleged civil immigration law infractions. What are people complaining about?
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
I'm on the Senate floor right now debating Trump's Big Ugly bill, and I really worry Americans do not fully realize just how bad it is. Please help get the word out.   This is just SOME of what's in the bill (so far).
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
Growing up, my dad lost his job after getting MS. Mom was raising 7 kids & needed skills training before she could find work—both unemployed for months. Food stamps kept us fed, but my family wouldn't even qualify today under the Big Ugly bill. It's just wrong. Senators must vote NO.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
It’s past midnight and Republicans still don’t even know what the final version of their Big Ugly bill will look like. Kicking millions off health care, blowing up the national debt by trillions, and devastating generational economic harms—all being written into law on the fly.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
Republicans are racing to pass perhaps the most expensive bill in history, adding TRILLIONS to the debt, by trashing Senate rules.   Don’t EVER tell me we can’t afford to invest child care after we set trillions on fire to give tax breaks to billionaires who don’t need them.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
For a budget bill like this, both parties get 10 hours of debate each. Democrats used our time to spell out explicitly what a catastrophe Trump’s Big Ugly bill is. I guess Republicans can’t actually defend this disaster so they’re forfeiting their time and going to bed.
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DIGITALMB @digitalmb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Commentators need to stop acting like White House Republicans aren't paying bounty hunters $1000 per kidnapped migrant bsky.app/profile/stga... Get out of denial, please, sir
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 19/06/2025
As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, I want to say: Trump can try to erase whatever history he doesn't like, and he can try to brand "diversity" as something bad. But he won't succeed. We'll remember ALL of our history and affirm that diversity is our strength here in America.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/06/2025
This is a disgraceful and heinous comment, beneath the dignity of a United States Senator. Completely unhinged, abhorrent, and divorced from reality. I’ve called on Senator Lee to take down these posts apologize publicly at minimum.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Earlier this week Donald Trump called for a second civil war at a US military base. This scenario can be resisted and prevented, if we have the courage to listen, interpret, and act. And this Saturday we will have the occasion to act." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civ...
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Trump's civil war
And our new birth of freedom
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