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Tom Porier

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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Congress must pass the last parts of the federal budget that include the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) by January 30th. www.speakupforimls.org via @everylibrary #library #libraries #read #lit #books
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SEND AN EMAIL: Tell Congress to Fund Libraries and the National Archives
Over the past two months, Congress has delivered bipartisan agreements on the FY2026 full-year budget for some of the nation’s cultural and knowledge institutions, including the Library of Congress, N...
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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Marc Elias (@marcelias)
We have had a lot of success fighting against Trump and election deniers in court. I am confident that won't change. What I worry about are the pillars of democracy that can't be fixed in court as wel...
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
You love to see it! A state bill could make Big Tech companies pay their fair share, price-fixing algorithms take another hit, another state finally fulfills a long-awaited health promise, and more www.levernews.com/you-love-to-...
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: AI Power Hogs Hit A Thunder Roadblock
A state wants Big Tech to pay up, other states power down price-fixing robots and slash drug prices, and scammers get a taste of justice.
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🧵Posted yesterday that Melania knew Epstein before she knew Trump. This is Paolo Zampolli, her former escort agent & good friend of Epstein & Trump. He's the one who took Melania to Ghislaine's party where she met Trump. He's also the one who secured her Einstein visa All the dirty details below
Paolo Zampolli
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This makes my nipples a little hard... www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
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Slicing an avacado.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#MusicSky #MayTheFourth
SORRY, NERDS
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DAVE BRUBECK DAY
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
You love to see it! One state’s pharmacies get a lifeline, an Ivy League gets schooled in managing workers’ retirements, Airbnb owns up to its true prices, and more. www.levernews.com/you-love-to-...
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Rewriting The Prescription Playbook
States are cutting out the medicine middleman, an Ivy League college fixes its math, questionable opioid prescriptions are set right, and vacations just got simpler.
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The President CLEARLY has priorities… apnews.com/article/trum... Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
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Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer
President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon for loyalist Michele Fiore, who paid for her plastic surgery with funds that were meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer.
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
REALLY IMPORTANT open.substack.com/pub/50501ny/...
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It's Even Worse Than You Think
Pulling back the curtain on the dark motivations behind the Trump regime's chaos, and what you can do to stop it
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This ass-clown represents me?!?!
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I didn’t have a dog when I became a dog trainer and they said, “.“ Mocha is 12 years old now!
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Gail @grannylib-51.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
But I just had to send a SIGNIFICANT (to me) amount of money to this corrupt government, because they certainly won't stop enforcement against folks like me...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
New Haven, CT! #HandsOff
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I wish I could join my brothers and sisters on the front lines today, but alas… THANK YOU ALL FOR STANDING UP! And please be careful!
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 04/04/2025
Kansas City-area man deported after visiting grandfather’s grave in Mexico #moleg #mogov via @thebeacon.bsky.social
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Kansas City-area man deported after visiting grandfather’s grave in Mexico • Missouri Independent
A Kansas City-area man was deported despite being on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. He came to the U.S. as a toddler.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Clean food was nice while it lasted. Is this what you want, not being able to trust that the food you eat and the medicine you take won't kill you or your family?
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Shadow61 @shadow61.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
@mjfree.bsky.social thank you for sharing this!!! Let’s make this viral !!!
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 29/03/2025
Trump’s changes to Social Security will slash 7,000 jobs, shut down offices, and make folks jump through hoops to get what they’ve already earned. Seniors, disabled people, and rural communities—y’all are the target. This is not efficiency, it’s straight-up cruelty.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/03/2025
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Reasonable to ask if we are now oppressing the Russian opposition at Putin’s behest. theins.press/en/news/280037
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Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stance
A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention. According to multiple independent Russian media outlets and the scient...
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
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My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/02/2025
Please. No more speeches in the Senate about “freedom” until one Republican has the guts to stand up to Trump’s lies about Ukraine & Putin. Ukraine did not start this horrific war. Russia did. Zelensky isn't a dictator. Putin is. The US must not enter into an alliance with Putin.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)
A picture inside the Omaha venue in which hundreds are seen standing and listening to Bernie Sanders. Many have their phones in the air recording it and it is a generally young crowd.
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
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They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle tonight..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
More attention should be focused here... www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-sho...
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We should all pay attention to what is happening at the National Archives
On Friday night, the president officially fired the Archivist of the United States, as he had promised to do before taking office. So, hi there! 👋 Former National Archives employee here.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Germany is saying no to autogenocide, no to oligarchy, and no to impunity. Thousands are taking a stand against fascism ahead of the election. No matter the results they won't bend the knee to oligarchy. #3E
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Help Support the Cause! nwmd.social/s/email/5wuO...
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SEND AN EMAIL: Strengthen the Freedom to Read in CT School and Public Libraries
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
here's some perspective www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening? In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control. Call it what it is.
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New rallying cry!!!
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is what Donald Trump thinks "patriotism" looks like, and who he sets free. myfox8.com/news/north-c...
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North Carolina man pardoned for Jan. 6 facing child sex crime charges
Federal investigators were made aware that Mint Hill PD had an open case regarding an alleged sexual assault of a minor
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/01/2025
I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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History is really repeating itself ‼️ How are we just standing back and letting this happen??
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Trump’s Dictatorial Power Grab: Chaos, Cruelty, and Constitutional Collapse
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Not to be alarmist, but this is the most radical presidential action I've ever seen. He's straight up seizing Congress' budget power. What do laws matter if the mad king's whims dictate what gets enforced and where money goes? It's not a policy memo - it's a revolution. Don't let it be a quiet one.
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Tom Porier @captkikapoo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
DONALD TRUMP IS INTENTIONALLY FOMENTING UNREST AS AN EXCUSE FOR TRIGGERING THE INSURRECTION ACT www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid
In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Counterpoint: no one should have any chill about this whatsoever
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/01/2025
In a blatantly unconstitutional power grab, Trump is freezing funding for life-saving programs like Medicaid, food and housing assistance, childcare grants, and school meals — even though that funding was already approved by Congress.
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Trump Orders Freeze On All Federal Grants And Loans
Democrats warned that Trump’s latest order could harm programs used by millions of Americans, including early childhood programs, and food and rent assistance.
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