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Carla2626

@carla2626.bsky.social
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Public school advocate, pro bono attorney, democracy defender, dog lover, Italian mama. These are not ordinary times. Stay involved. Oppose, fight, WIN.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💚 HCR
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Increase in productivity since 1979: 93% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 34% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 05/09/2026
🎶I AM WOMAN🎶✊💜 Survivors raising their voices alongside Rosie O’Donnell, turning pain into power & silence into strength! There is something incredibly powerful about women standing together and saying: We survived. We are still here. We will NOT be silenced🔥 #BelieveTheSurvivors #SheShed
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 02/09/2026
Troy Jackson, Dem Senate Candidate for Maine, enters to raucous applause for his first town hall in Lewiston tonight. He's a fifth-generation logger, lifelong fighter for workers' rights, and former Maine Senate President who's ready to unseat Susan Collins once and for all.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/08/2026
This is fascism.
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The measure of a society is how it invests in its children. For decades, I have advocated for Head Start because every child deserves a strong start in life. Today, I stand with the more than 100 civil rights and child advocacy organizations opposing efforts to dismantle the program from within.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/08/2026
Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants. n.pr/45TAofr
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Federal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users, raising overdose fears
Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is generational damage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social said it best: open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
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What Do I Think About Sophie Cunningham?
I'll tell you.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Thought we didn’t have money in the USA for healthcare. Yet the Defense Department’s latest estimate puts the cost of the war with Iran at $37.5 billion. Funny how we’re always told we can’t afford to invest in people’s health, but somehow tens of billions of dollars for war can be found.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“The next generation of battles over abortion, voting rights and democracy will not be decided primarily in Washington. They are being decided right now in real time at the state level.” #Vote #Midterm2026 www.huffpost.com/entry/aclu-f...
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ACLU Set To Spend $25 Million Boosting Abortion, Voting Rights In Midterms
The group is targeting state Supreme Court and legislative races, as well as referenda, in nine states.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are in the fight of our lives against fascism - a force that seeks to control women - from what we do with our bodies to how we live our lives. The only way to defeat this force is to repudiate it wherever it manifests, whether in legislation, executive decree, or interpersonal action.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“The left has abandoned patriotism.” Delaney Hall, today, right before she was hit by a car driven by ICE.
A woman in black pants and a black top waves an upside down American flag in front of the Delaney Hall concentration camp.
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Carla2626 @carla2626.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Supreme Court appears captured and moving backwards. November matters.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 09/05/2026
The gumption of the young journalists here alone is worthy of commendation, but I’m most heartened by how local reporting by local people breaks through: “It’s like, ’Yeah, your granddaughter is going through this...it’s something different than Fox News.’” #icymi
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‘The power of truth:’ How high school students reported on the ICE surge in their front yard
Student journalists at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis witnessed federal agents shove staffers and students and deploy pepper spray on school grounds last January. That inspired them to report st...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026
yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Get with your people. Do good work. Keep at it. Ask for support and give it when you can. No way out but through.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
FWIW, this is what we train people to do inside the Ripple Effect Institute too, and it works.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Investigating the Good Guys
DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.
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TRG @q4nwspunk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Artemis II Return
NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 07/04/2026
I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Bring back shame. Bring back dignity.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So far the war on Iran has cost $25 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
America first is letting foreign companies come into the US to mine copper?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate
Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The Trump administration has unfurled banners on the Department of Education building featuring Booker T. Washington, Catharine Beecher, and Charlie Kirk. Washington and Beecher were influential figures in American education whose legacies shaped schools and teaching nationwide.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Any executive order like the one being threatened to be signed by POTUS will be challenged in court before any of us can blink. He doesn’t have that authority. Even in an emergency. Our elections are administered by the states.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
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The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A big thank you to Anthropic! After a weeks-long standoff between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic over how the military can deploy its technology, CEO Dario Amodei said tonight that the company will not loosen its usage policies.
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI
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