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Renee Cascada🥄

@cascada57.bsky.social
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Blue dot awake in red state, Gardner, mom, & grandmother. Climate change is real. Vaccines Save Lives #SlavaUkraine🌻 PUSH BACK-Don't Comply, "We had whistles, they had guns"

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 9h
‘Desperate’ is an apt word here—Trump’s extremism worsens with his plunging political support. Back in January, I reported in-depth about his ambitions to further exploit violence and consolidate power www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Trump is using violent tragedies to divide America
ICE shootings, assassinations, mass attacks, and other traumas all serve as ammo for the demagogue in chief.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h
An IRS investigator is suing the agency — claiming officials illegally leaked his confidential personnel records to federal prosecutors to punish him for years of whistleblowing on the agency's failure to tackle tax dodging.
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Whistle-Blower Says I.R.S. Leaked His Tax Records in Retaliation
Brian J. Visalli, a veteran investigator of tax fraud, said in a lawsuit that the agency had sent his personal and tax information to federal prosecutors.
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 9h
well, the Israeli response has been grotesquely out of proportion And the Israelis actions over the past 80 years should also have a place in the conversation
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 9h
I heard rfk,jr say that people on hospice weren't dying fast enough
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11h
US sued over plan to blast Utah canyon inscribed by 19th century 'Buffalo Soldiers,' European pioneers reut.rs/4jN70Qc
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US sued over plan to blast Utah canyon inscribed by 19th century 'Buffalo Soldiers,' European pioneers
Conservation groups sued the US government this week over plans to blast the cliff walls of an eastern Utah canyon and build an oil truck highway through an area covered in ​historic inscriptions and near world-renowned Native rock art.
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 10h
will they have palantir monitor our tv's to see who is and isn't watching?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
they’re spending hundreds of millions to kill a tax that would take them back to where they were a month ago 🤡
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
50 years ago this morning, Gen. Pinochet’s assassins murdered my colleagues Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt with a car bomb while they were carpooling to the office. I was in 5th grade and remember seeing stories on the local news. I never imagined I would be working there 13 years later.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11h
Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.
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DW 🚫👑 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @promontory55th.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"'This is not a political issue,' attorney Christopher Parente said.... 'It’s the Department of Justice. It’s not the Department of Republicans. It’s not the Department of Democrats. They have a civil rights division specifically there to investigate things like this.'"
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 11h
👇 💯
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 13h
Soooooo Taliban!
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 12h
the same secret service that deleted all of their text messages from that day? In addition to his role at the secret service, tony ornato had also worked as trump's deputy chief of staff. He's not going to say anything negative about trump, truth or not.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h
The Romans called such efforts to distract a restless public “Bread and Circuses.”
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14h
One of the first things Fidel Castro did upon taking power was televising live executions by firing squad.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
JUST A REMINDER…👇 The Senate we elect on November 3rd could appoint Justice Alito's replacement. Vote accordingly. 😎🇺🇸✨
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Supporting Medicare for All is not radical. Opposing it is. #MedicareForAllNOW www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h
I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 18h
on SNAP, people are not allowed to buy rotisserie chicken - a very economical way to feed a family - because it is "prepared" food
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think we'll ever be done with the "I fucking told you so's." The Food Research & Action Center reported that these changes would weaken safety nets and worsen food insecurity for low-income families: frac.org/blog/project...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
The people who doxxed her will say they are in now way responsible for this entirely predictable turn of events. www.tmz.com/2026/10/08/c...
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Cornell Jane Doe Swatted By Someone Who Called 911 to Report Fake Shooting
8:54 AM -- We obtained the dispatch call tied to the swatting incident, and you hear the dispatcher say cops determined there was "nothing going on."
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 18h
When TPUSA circulates a reporter's photo with instructions to keep him out of an event, one should take that as a recommendation to follow and read his work.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
TPUSA "described the event as a private event that was open to the public" and where some media outlets could cover it, but other reporters could not. Does that make sense? This is at a public university subject to first amendment requirements.
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Josep Goded (Backup Account But Still Active) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 19h
Israeli soldiers assault a Palestinian woman during a Beit Ummar raid.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 19h
Torture? What do you call shooting a legal resident in the neck, dragging him out of the hospital before he can be treated, no pain medication, and throwing him into a cold cell with no bed?
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 07/10/2026
Out today: Little information, if any, comes from the federal government after these shootings, and North Austin’s is no different. DHS has not given any information, like body camera footage or written reports, to police department investigators.
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What Will It Take to ‘Get ICE the Fuck Out of Austin’?
Shootings by federal agents are proliferating since Donald Trump took office in 2025, several of them in Texas. To stop it from happening again, local elected officials and prosecutors are hunting…
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Atlantic’s Caitlin Dickerson’s has been documenting the children left behind — and the caregivers who find themselves in difficult positions. Read More👉 ebx.sh/hadMA6
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 07/10/2026
“Adrian should have had access to a process that was independent, trauma-informed, and transparent.” Featured: Months after this soldier's tragic death, his family still has questions. Not just about how he died, but whether he got the legal rights he was owed as a sexual assault whistleblower.
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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections
Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.
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KVUE @kvue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts www.kvue.com/article/syndication/as… 
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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
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The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 08/10/2026
Today's News Brief: Austin EMS suspects a new synthetic opioid, cychlorphine, is in town, likely mixed with other street drugs. In a recent 30-day stretch, nine overdose patients needed multiple doses of Narcan — some as many as six.
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The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 08/10/2026
Free Narcan available at ACL and from vending machines around Austin: www.centralhealth.net/naloxone-ven...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
5. Deters said Guilfoyle promised him that if he came up with the $100,000 to pay her American Express bill, “I will be your Trump ride or die, forever and ever.” He said she ultimately delivered nothing. Deters had paid Guilfoyle $300,000 over several years for speaking appearances.
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Advocacy groups demand changes at Texas' youth prisons after KERA News and The Texas Newsroom reported that children have been subjected to unprecedented levels of isolation.
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Texas youth prison lockdown prompts calls for reform ahead of new facility builds
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 21h
Who chooses the stocks the accounts invest in? What if parents have no clue how to operate in the stock market? If trump is doing this, I don't trust it. Why are they showing a picture of Susan Dell and ted cruz?
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An Austin American Statesman reporter was eventually let in, but under some truly bizarre parameters in which she was told she was not to behave like a “reporter.”
A tweet from journalist Faith Bugenhagen: got in but late and I’ve been told I’m not allowed to operate as a “reporter” in general admission and that the event was “private” but “open to the public” — I’m in the crowd now but was told to “respect my non press capacity” + not document anything inside
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So instead of watching Ben Shapiro talk Oct 7, I am now on the UT campus watching Hitler-loving Manosphere influencer Myron Gaines “debate” the innocence of the Cornell 7.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was just removed without explanation from Ben Shapiro and TPUSA’s event at UT Austin. TPUSA apparently circulated my photo to security, which was waiting to kick me out as soon as I got in.
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KXAN News @kxan.com · 08/10/2026
The event will be held Saturday, Oct. 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the George Morales Dove Springs Recreation Center. www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/aph-…
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 21h
Do Israelis read their own newspapers? Haaretz, soon after the attack, had a story about the women IDF manning the surveillance station by Gaza. They warned that HAMAS was training/preparing for an attack but were ignored.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 23h
Third round of Paxton audio recordings is out
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Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio
In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 22h
of course it would never occur to them to make the wealthy pay their fair share
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 22h
God was 🎯 back after the election.
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 22h
hm, haven't tried it in this order but I'll give it a go and I'm in Texas so no worried about rain
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here in Connecticut, we really did not vote for home heating oil to spike by 86% above the average at this time last year. www.courant.com/2026/10/07/w...
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Heating oil prices have risen 86% over last year. What CT officials fear as consumers ask ‘Do I buy groceries’
The current price per gallon is 86% above the average at this time last year and up 50% from June, officials said.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“An ABC News analysis found defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting.”
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE is our Gestapo.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
NEW: ICE flagged Zumiez, a popular skate store found in shopping malls, "for further investigation" in Pennsylvania because it supported voter outreach efforts. The streetwear brand was among hundreds of groups probed by ICE this year as part of Trump's ongoing hunt for noncitizen voters.
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ICE investigates mall staple favored by teen skaters in its hunt for noncitizen voters
Zumiez was among hundreds of groups, most of them nonprofit organizations, probed by ICE as part of the Trump administration’s hunt for noncitizen voters, new records show.
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