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@celaine54.bsky.social
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Democrat in red state. Wife, mother of two, pro-choice. Loves cats, dogs and all animals. No DMs or I block.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off? Well, they may already be doing that thanks to a shady tactic called “surveillance pricing.” Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains what we can do about it. youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?...
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
MADDOW: “What is this country going to allow him to do? This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution and Government… imposition of a dictatorial regime. The strength of the movement against him is what will determine our fate as a country.”
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Avoid the USA Arresting the press. vm.tiktok.com/ZMSDqmFKD/
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/06/2025
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 147-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both Democracy and Personal Liberty.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/06/2025
NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...
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Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/06/2025
NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Put up or shut up…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Let this sink in. Even the Los Angeles Police Chief, Jim McDonnell, made it clear: the people protesting immigration raids were not the ones causing violence. During a Sunday evening press conference, McDonnell condemned the violence as “disgusting”
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Craig 🇺🇲 💙 🦋 @ghostwriter556.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
PSSSSST.... PASS THIS ON!!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
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NPR @npr.org · 24/05/2025
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
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Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/05/2025
Gutting Medicaid will close more rural hospitals. Trinity, TX voted 83% for Trump in 2024. If you live there—or anywhere—please do your homework next time. Republicans have never actually helped working people. Not once. It’s all talk! Health Care Cuts Kill‼️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
CNN: “The tax changes would add $3.8 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade… Funding for Medicaid would be slashed by nearly $700 billion… food stamps program would see a cut of $267 billion…” www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/p...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Phang: It’s time for federal judges to acknowledge that they have lifetime appointments—and that should give them the courage to uphold the rule of law, but also to put some damn teeth into the court orders they’re issuing. it’s time that we start seeing action from the judiciary. Grow some balls
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
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Angie@blueangie.bsky.social @blueangie.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
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concerned4300.bsky.social @concerned4300.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
get some posters printed and put them all over DC and outside Mar a Lago
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Warnock: Georgia officials said they were sorry but their hands were tied, you can’t vote the first weekend of the runoff after the holiday so I decided to untie them, I sued them. And I won… They appealed asking for emergency relief. Emergency relief from what? People voting?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Mark Zuckerberg’s charity quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
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Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
Many Bay Area housing orgs were caught up in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s push to end ‘social advocacy’ grants in the wake of DEI scrutiny.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In a move to change cultural attitudes about childbearing, the Trump administration may soon start bestowing mothers of six or more children a special medal. Here's a not-so-fun fact: This idea was popularized in Nazi Germany.
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Trump may soon offer a motherhood medal, an idea popularized in Nazi Germany
He wants to be known as the 'fertilization president.'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/04/2025
Tom Homan on ABC does not deny that the administration's position is they have a right to grab people off the street and deport them without a hearing
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/04/2025
BREAKING NYT: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.
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Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Horrific
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/03/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is what we’ve come to, and so quickly.
A screenshot of two news headlines. The first headline reads: "Britain Issues Travel Warning for US," with a publication date of Mar 20, 2025, at 10:16 AM EDT and an update at 10:53 AM EDT. The second headline reads: "Germany Issues Travel Warning for US," with a publication date of Mar 20, 2025, at 7:49 AM EDT and an update at 12:00 PM EDT. Both headlines are in bold black text, with the publication and update details in smaller red text below.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Trump administration just shut down a food safety committee to prevent bacteria in baby formula. They are also threatening to fire employees who prevent deli meat from being infected with Listeria and applesauce from being laced with lead.
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Food Safety Jeopardized by Onslaught of Funding and Staff Cuts
The Trump administration halted some food testing and shut down a committee studying bacteria in infant formula. Earlier funding cutbacks under the Biden administration now threaten state labs and ins...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“‘I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days.’”
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Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border
A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO... "Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads... "The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts
Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/03/2025
!!! NEW: DOJ tells Judge Boasberg that he should CANCEL the 5 p.m. hearing "because there has been no violation of the Court's orders, and because the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Because there has been no violation of the Court's orders, and because the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details to Plaintiffs or the public, the Court should vacate the hearing scheduled for this afternoon. The government does not make this request lightly. The Executive Branch has designated TdA a foreign terrorist organization, a designation that Plaintiffs do not challenge. The course of these proceedings in
which the Court has enjoined removal of aliens whom the Executive Branch has determined are part of a foreign terrorist organization raises extraordinary concerns about the rule of law and the Executive Branch's ability to take swift actions to keep the Nation safe.
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Dcat @dcatty.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I'm rewatching The Wire. A character in the episode I'm watching says, "A lie ain't a side of the story. It's just a lie." For some reason, that speaks to me these days (as do a million other lines from the show.)
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Belgrade, Serbia, demanding the resignation of pro-Russia President Aleksandar Vučić.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Fuck.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/03/2025
Donald Trump has illegally invoked The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority, to detain and deport Venezuelan immigrants he deems to be members of criminal gang Tren de Aragua. This was last invoked during WWII to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is going to be important: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Impressively appalling
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 10/03/2025
A federal court reaffirmed its nation-wide injunction against Trump's anti-DEIA policy, clarifying it applies to every agency in the executive branch, protecting universities, workplaces, cities and communities to continue fostering diversity and inclusion without fear of retaliation. bit.ly/43BOSkd
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
They made a homophobic, anti-mask, misogynist the face of their company and then act like victims when decent people decided not to buy their vetbro beer. The punchline: the CEO of Armed Forces Brewing never served. It’s a marketing ploy. $300K from Youngkin wasted. www.whro.org/business-gro...
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Controversial military-themed brewery shuts its doors after a year in Norfolk, citing “woke mob”
Financial filings show the brewery was struggling financially before it relocated and had failed to start turning a profit after opening in Norfolk.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Because DOGE has shut down USAID's payment system (Phoenix), our housing
electricity and the electricity in our USAID building have not been paid for. Mission
leadership has informed us that the only reason our electricity is on is because we've
asked for an extension from the electric company. The Mission asked for a waiver but
because our payment system is down, the Treasury has no way to issue money to USAID
and State Department representatives here are hesitant to make payments on our behalf
for fear of not being reimbursed.
7. Once the electricity goes out in our homes, we lose access to our security cameras and
radios. Again, I live in a high-risk post, so access to security systems is very important to
me.
8. I have been told by Mission leadership that the cell phone and internet bills are due this
week with no way to pay them. This is despite the so-called "waiver" process that has
been allegedly implemented to preserve such access.
9. Our cell phones and radios are also the only way to communicate with the Regional
Security Office about security threats. We have access to no other USAID security
systems.The agency is also considering spending about $25,000 to install a washer and dryer on the building’s 6th floor, according to a Feb. 25 invoice obtained by POLITICO. There is also a child’s play area decorated with a stuffed animal and toys, according to a photo of the room shared with POLITICO.

“People are definitely … sleeping there,” said one GSA staffer.
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