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Bridget

@bridgetica.bsky.social
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Political Nerd. Writer. Liberal. Stubborn Optimist. Super fan of Democracy 🦡🧿🪬

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Minnesotan born and raised, You Betcha!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Feeling embarrassed after being rejected European airspace, causing his meeting arranged by his minions Trump and Orban to collapse, Putin is now nuclear sabering again. Putin ordered Russia to carry out large-scale strategic nuclear force drills involving its widely diminished “nuclear triad.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/07/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/07/2025
Big win for California. A judge just blocked DHS from using racial profiling. ✅ They can’t stop people for speaking Spanish, having an accent, or standing outside a Home Depot ✅ They need reasonable suspicion—not skin color or where you work ✅ Detainees get free, private access to lawyers
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Trump gets distracted while talking about search and rescue efforts: "Oh, there's Dr. Phil. Look at Dr. Phil. You're looking good, Phil. This is a hell of a situation, huh?"
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
A win! A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship, a major win for the Constitution. The order, which would’ve stripped citizenship from babies born in the U.S. to undocumented parents or visiting academics, was halted nationwide.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/07/2025
BREAKING: House Republicans Pass Budget Bill, Gutting Medicaid and SNAP
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House Republicans Pass Budget Bill, Gutting Medicaid and SNAP
House Passes Sweeping GOP Budget Overhaul with Major Cuts to Medicaid, Safety Net Programs
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 02/07/2025
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
More fake ICE agents doing horrible things. Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We were just suspended without warning from threads and Instagram. We have no idea why. If any of y’all are on those apps and want to let them know to fix that we would be appreciative.
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/06/2025
Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need
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NPR @npr.org · 12/06/2025
A unanimous Supreme Court rules that a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.
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Supreme Court says family can sue over wrong-house raid
A unanimous Supreme Court said a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/06/2025
The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.
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A new satellite TV channel allows Alexei Navalny's videos to reach Russian audiences
The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
So it’s not “Big & beautiful”?
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 29/05/2025
Steve Davis, a longtime lieutenant of Elon Musk's and a top leader at DOGE, is leaving the department.
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Musk's Longtime Fixer Is Leaving DOGE
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Anti-genocide protestors in Tel Aviv, Israel marched and held up signs that said Palestinians Lives Matter and called for an end to the killings in Gaza. (📸 BtsIsrael) #3E #EndImpunity #FreePalestine
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/05/2025
Fox slipped up and told the truth after lying to us for months. That’s how you know it’s brutal. The Republican bill cuts Medicaid.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12/05/2025
BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government
(RNS) — In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,' the pr...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/05/2025
No words… 😢
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2025
CBS on the cardinals: "One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated. I believe the kids call it rawdogging."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/05/2025
Once again, Hillary was right— about everything!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Former Fetterman staffer sent warning letter to doctor about senator’s “bad trajectory” — citing grave concerns regarding Fetterman’s mental health. In 2024, Adam Jentleson, Fetterman's former chief of staff, detailed "warning signs" to the senator's doctor and expressed concern he…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2025
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
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Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Bridget @bridgetica.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
… democracy is slip sliding away…
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Bernie is a failure, and AOC is a poser!!! @africanprincess7.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bernie Sanders is the only Progressive who can be anti-immigration, luke warm on LGBTQ+ rights, misogynistic, anti-Black, ambivalent on reproductive rights, and still be considered a progressive icon. #GTBW
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
NYT page one: @nytimes.com
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
US stands alone
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/04/2025
Fox hosts looking stunned while reporting Trump’s tariffs jacked up a special needs toy importer’s bill from $26K to $346K overnight. And we know Trump doesn’t give a damn about folks with special needs. America First? American companies on the brink while Trump pretends China is footing the bill.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If you can't protest tomorrow, you can do other things: - call your reps - donate to orgs like the ACLU, Indivisible, etc - be protest support (be the one people call if they're arrested, offer water/first aid, etc) - write an op-ed for your local paper ...and so much more. We can all contribute!
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Bridget @bridgetica.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I think he technically bankrupted 4 casinos. 🫤
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
NEW: The Pentagon Office of the Inspector General just announced it will investigate Pete Hegseth's role in the Signal group chat scandal.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I mean, we obviously knew this, but, also, JFC.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yes, she's truly charming.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Imagine having to work with someone this trashy.
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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wrote about the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding for libraries “Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...
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Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too.
"The public needs to wake up before our libraries are gone," one "livid" librarian said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/03/2025
Staffers at 18 rape crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months after North Carolina’s state Legislature directed $15 million for sexual assault survivors away from Democratic-led agencies that had long overseen such money. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
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A Political Power Grab Redirected Funds for North Carolina’s Sexual Abuse Survivors. Women in Crisis Paid the Price.
The move, which led to disruptions in services for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors, provides a glimpse of the consequences when a branch of government assumes unprecedented control.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Courts willing to follow the Constitution and the law are the only things standing between us and Stephen Miller’s dystopia right now. And he isn’t happy about it.
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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Reporting by DER SPIEGEL reveals another grave, previously unknown security breach at Washington's highest levels. Hostile intelligence services could use publicly available data to hack the communications of cabinet officials by installing spyware on their devices. www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.
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