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Betty Prioux

@bprioux.bsky.social
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Eternally curious. Grateful for folks and other beings who teach me things.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Ossoff: "I want to remind folks across Georgia that while you pay more for everything as a result of Donald Trump's incompetence, the president and his family are enriching themselves to the tune of billions of dollars ... we urgently need to restore checks and balances"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14h
The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 14h
Threats of political violence are on the rise — it’s a dark reality that we must confront. We must do better, especially this president, who has called for members of Congress to be hanged and stoked these flames. This has to stop.
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America’s Elected Officials Are Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
My God, imagine getting laughed off the stage at a League of Women Voters event.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 14h
While Mainers pay more for the Iran war, Susan Collins’ pockets deepen because of it. #MESen
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 15h
If you like high gas prices, high groceries, no healthcare and endless corruption in D.C., then Cindy High Prices is right for you. But if you're ready for a new direction and a fighter for Mississippi, then I'm your guy. Let's go win on November 3rd! #MississippiMatters
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13h
A bipartisan group of senators is condemning President Donald Trump's diesel deal with Russia. In a letter to the president, the six Republicans and six Democrats write that, "This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies; it should be rescinded."
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/10/2026
SLAVA UKRAINE! 🇺🇦
Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers
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dogteam18.bsky.social @dogteam18.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Spent this past week in Mississippi. Of all the college mascots, Delta State University's Fighting Okra is the greatest mascot.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“These things are important now to put clearly on the record and, I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," the Observer reports Burnham saying.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: “This week was very difficult for us, not only geopolitically, but also because of massive Russian attacks on our civilian infrastructure. They attacked our energy sector 196 times, our gas and oil 20 times. So far, they've killed 153 civilians.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One of the most famous trees in the American southwest—where tress are often considered sacred—is maliciously destroyed by Markwayne Mullins' goons. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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They sat atop a ‘grandmother’ tree for months. Border agents knocked it down.
Activists occupied a cottonwood tree in Arizona for more than two months in a standoff with U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What Marshall did is called theft of services, it's a felony.
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Roger Marshall, a Kansas Senator Facing Re-Election, Settles a Bakery Bill 6 Years Later
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’m joining the call to Investigate DOGE. In Congress, I’ll work to root out corruption across the federal government and make sure our government puts you first, not the GOP’s billionaire donors.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/10/2026
Mmmm I made a god tier gumbo today y’all.
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Pokin @pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@paulginva.bsky.social This seems like there was more intel than I knew about …. 😈 www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response ...
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 09/10/2026
ICC has no teeth against the US because we never signed onto the Rome Statute, but after this shit show we should give the ICC everything they need to come after these monsters. *jack smith waves from the future*
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Jack Smith: The special counsel investigating Donald Trump
Jack Smith was a top war crimes prosecutor at The Hague before he began investigating Donald Trump.
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Virgin Monk Boy @virginmonkboy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Some disappointments are not interruptions of the spiritual path. They are the moment the false self discovers it cannot control everything.
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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump is counting on fear to stop you from voting. Make it drive you to the polls. VOTE!
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Interesting. It would appear that members of the National Guard have been posted at ballot drop-off boxes. This is how you suppress the vote. I've seen a few pictures like this posted, so I'm going to assume they are real.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today I discussed how a live-streamed execution is meant to intimidate us into compliance Like soldiers at polling places is meant to frighten us from voting Authoritarianism requires FEAR. Don't surrender to it We have the numbers & the law & morality on our side www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wUY...
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Violence As Politics
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Q: Mortgage rates are the highest that they've been in three years. Is there anything you can do on home prices? Trump: *walks away*
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration says the temporary subsidy program has served its purpose, but ending it could leave millions of Medicare beneficiaries paying more. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-admi...
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If the Kennedy Center is so unsafe, as the felon claims, why are they still allowing people to enter it daily?
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 07/10/2026
How is this okay? Multiple masked men in plain clothing shoving a woman into an unmarked white van. STOP THE KIDNAPPING.
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: Republicans are now spending $5 million trying to save Lindsey Graham’s sister in deep-red South Carolina. 😂
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Bless Dr. Annie Andrews For Breaking Trump’s Brain
Lindsey Graham’s sister is in a dead heat.
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Congresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · 07/10/2026
It was great to visit Rose Manor Health and Rehab in Durham to learn more about their efforts to provide comprehensive care to residents across our communities. While Republicans make cuts to Medicare, I’ll keep fighting for our local medical facilities and ensure they have the support they need.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes, yes, these ads are clearly illegal and I get why Democrats are fighting them. But -- hear me out -- these ads are only going to help Democrats this fall.
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Operation: Albatross
As the midterm elections draw near, it seems ever likelier that we're finally going to witness a reckoning for Republicans. For nearly two years now, Republican members of the House and Senate have t...
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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Weird flex: USDOT Secretary Sean Duffy just sent out a release touting $416 million his agency is spending on Florida rail projects, including a new Brightline station for the Space Coast. They got the money by reneging on money for California high speed rail. But wait….
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The backpedaling-to-come will be something to see….
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Betty Prioux @bprioux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That bs thinking from a man who is a sitting Supreme Court judge. The need to control one’s own body as a woman seems absolutely foreign to him. It is not “abstract” to women. I wonder how he would react to laws restricting his control of his male body?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Betty Prioux @bprioux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The theft of our US tax dollars by all in the Trump administration and their friends is appalling. I look forward to prosecutions and penalties that retrieve all the stolen funds. Immediately.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Does he even hear himself?
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Trump Just Tried To Boast About America's 'Poverty'—And It Went Instantly South
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
please exercise good self care if you are going to do what reporters do & read the court documents in all their upsetting detail. plan to have some physical & mental rest after you study this case.
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We placed a trailcam at the meeting place of 3 animal tracks in our woodland The choice was obvious. Evidence of deer, badger & rabbits using the tracks What did we get? Over 1,000 photos of the same two squirrels. Sometimes foraging, but almost all just arsing around 🙄
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 05/10/2026
Historians have long treated Thomas Jefferson’s paternity of Sally Hemings’ children as established. Now a scientific investigation is offering what researchers say is the most conclusive answer yet. to.pbs.org/4AwgGo7
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Lock of hair settles questions about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Researchers say they have the most conclusive proof of Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings’ children. A strand of hair found in Jefferson’s Bible launched an investigation involving DNA scie...
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Abdul El-Sayed published a health platform proposing bans on pesticides that are already banned in Europe, support for the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act, and opposition to legal immunity for agrochemical manufacturers. 🧵
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I Completely Agree, Coach!
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 02/10/2026
Today's a great day to double check your voter registration status and your state's deadline to register to vote. Pass it along.
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I'll Call Now Sears Commercial
Alt: I'll Call Now Sears Commercial
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Ben TG @ben-tg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump’s cuts to NOAA, which regulates fisheries, has left the agency slower to respond to the industry’s needs, fishermen said. Staff cutbacks also resulted in the agency reducing weather balloons used to gather data fishermen rely on. apnews.com/article/dona... @standupforscience.net 🧪
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Trump tried to make allies of fishermen. Some are turning on him
Some commercial fishermen have come to question whether Trump is meeting the needs of an industry he has long leaned on for support.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now that the first phase of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's wonderful "250 to 250" project has wrapped, I'll share all the videos (one per day) for which I wrote scripts. Some were recorded nearly word for word; others underwent much-needed editing for clarity and brevity. Tonight: Sandra Day O’Connor.
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Sandra Day O'Connor, Narrated by Joyce White Vance
YouTube video by 250 to 250
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #111
An English Bluebell
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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