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Carol Cofer

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We are only beginning to realize that the obligations of democracy outweigh the privileges. Eleanor Roosevelt 1943 Teacher📚💕, wife💕, mother💕, dog & cat mom🐾🐾💕, lifelong democrat📚, reader📚, Chicagoland

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 13/02/2026
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/02/2026
The Illinois Department of Public Health sidestepped the federal government this week by independently joining the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN). It is the second state to do so, after California joined the network last month. trib.al/0ecIsxF
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Individual States Join World Health Organization After Trump Drops It
Illinois is the latest state to take this step.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Nuclear defense is why we built a base on Greenland in 1951. We had this idea 75 years ago. The base has been there since then. You don’t have to invade a country where you already have everything. Invasion just destroys what you have and much else besides.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Fed’l judge tells the administration to stop violating the rights of people in Minnesota www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/01/2026
It’s been 28 days since the Epstein files were supposed to be fully released.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Gov. Walz to MS NOW: "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic. "The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/01/2026
Now that we’re all about “complying with the law” re Minnesota, does that extend to complying with the law re Epstein files?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
79. American citizen.
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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/09/2025
Truth bomb‼️ This man should be the one speaking on college campuses… “They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.” Watch
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage. So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files. People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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It's Time to Release the Epstein Files
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The question for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer in some sense is: What do you think and feel when you watch Pritzker’s remarks? Are you inspired, like millions of Democratic Party voters? Or do you think he’s a fool for not pivoting to tariffs? www.offmessage.net/p/jb-pritzke...
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JB Pritzker And The Void Of Federal Leadership
Here's a template for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If anyone in or out of government wants to chat securely as the unraveling unfolds, I’m vermontgmg.14 on Signal. That’s my normal username, everywhere, with an extra Vermont: the 14th state.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The year I was born. we basically had no idea why cancers happened and now we understand the underlying force behind it with 100% clarity and the molecular forces behind it with many orders of magnitude more resolution. We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Friend, with all due respect, this assumes a good faith process on the part of the DOJ. May I ask if the past seven months have illustrated anything resembling a good faith process to you?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I'm not interested in what notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell has to say. I'm interested in evidence of what she did. Release the Epstein Files. Stop Donald's coverup.
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We Can Lead Change - Fox Valley @wecanleadchange.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
A heat index of 102+ didn’t deter nearly 1K people from showing up in South Elgin, IL for a #WeCanLeadChange emergency pop-up #StopTheTrumpTakeover rally with @foxvalleyrising.bsky.social & many more. TOGETHER, we are strong! Hydrate, friends! @maddow.msnbc.com
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/08/2025
The Constitution protects your right to record law enforcement in public.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2025
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Proof "The Art of the Deal" was ghostwritten:
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yes!
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Deb Catlady @debkitty.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
They're so good.
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/08/2025
Damn the evil prick ending $500 million in vaccine research while children die of preventable diseases.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes. I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Crockett: This is a person that has a problem with people of color. When we look at who he says are low IQ, even though when you look at his cabinet—this has to be the most incompetent cabinet we have ever had in the history of this country.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Y’all chose this over Sherrod Brown. Come on, Ohio. Really?
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Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Bobbie @bobbiefromtwitter.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Bring back the Department of Education.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We’re basically just paying for these people to have vacations and do horrible morally reprehensible things to people who don’t look like them
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."
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I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids
Perhaps controversially.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
What I cannot fathom is why any court is allowing Alligator Auscwirz to exist. Inhumane detention facilities violate the 8th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
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God @thegodshow.com · 26/07/2025
Thou shalt not pardon a convicted child molester. This one should be easy to follow.
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
At the end of a long day walking, I need to relax
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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's ALWAYS about making a profit. We are owned. Resist in any way possible.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Oh wow hey @tulsigabbard did u see this?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We have been warned about this moment for all our lives. Now it's here. What will you do about it?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We just want to say thank you. The sense of community here is honestly incredible. We’re constantly inspired by all of you tirelessly showing up, speaking out, and standing strong against this administration! 💚✊
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.
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