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Julie Brown

@cinnawind.bsky.social
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Retired, spending time on gardening, dog sports, reading and family. Secular, Liberal, Oregonian.

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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 1h
We have had some horrific betrayals by fellow Americans ..but this might be near the top. They sold there souls to enrich themself while bending a knee to a dictator not caring about the Americans that they swore to serve. Unforgiveable!
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seangralton.bsky.social @seangralton.bsky.social · 3h
Weird how nobody talked about that eariler failed execution. Well. Maybe not so weird.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17h
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 16h
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICE “will spend about $1.3 mil on four of the robots in a deal with… Radeco, which modifies the original machines from… Boston Dynamics with military grade add-ons that include a robotic arm, thermal camera, and sensors for explosive materials…” Absolutely not www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/b...
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ICE to buy modified Boston Dynamics robot dogs in $1.3 million contract - The Boston Globe
The agency inked the deal with Connecticut company Radeco, which modifies the original machines with military grade add-ons that include a robotic arm, thermal camera, and sensors for explosive materi...
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Dollyanna @my2centsay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LOOK HOW YOUR CHRISTIAN SUPPORTED LEADER RAPED OUR TREASURY FOR HIMSELF.⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️ WE MUST SEIZE HIS ASSETS. WE MUST USE BANK EXAMINERS TO FOLLOW THIS WEB OF CORRUPTION, SEX TRAFFICKING AND MONEYLAUNDERING.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.
Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let them stay home and sulk. We don't want them to vote anymore; they've done enough damage. We're motivated to vote every time we see or hear about another atrocity, another betrayal, another unhinged moment.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...
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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY
School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 28/09/2026
Kash Patel spent 2008 deciding Ali Abdelaziz might be a Russian double agent and 2026 partying with him at a MAGA wedding next to a US attorney courts say served illegally. This is who is running the FBI. A grinning national security joke with a gun and a badge.
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Kash Patel spotted partying with suspected Russian 'double agent'
FBI Director Kash Patel was seen partying alongside Ali Abdelaziz, a prominent mixed martial arts manager and former FBI informant who was dropped by the agency in 2008 after he was suspected of being...
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Rupert Murdoch International Tribunal 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪 @hey.rupert.murdochbait.click · 28/09/2026
"This is the final battle." Of Trump's war on the American people?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda.
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Thakman📎🇺🇸 @thakman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The US sold it's semiconductor technology to China years ago enriching a few entitled dumbfuck Americans.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unsurprisingly, there are almost no Russian-made components in Russia's new Geran-4 drone. While Chinese parts surprise no one, how a Texas Instruments onboard computer got there is a major question. #cdnpoli
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oliveevie.bsky.social @oliveevie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Todd, stop justifying the narcissistic, selfish, and childish behavior from this president! He was wrong! Admit it!!! Stop making yourself look like an idiot by coming up with such ludicrous answers to his  unjustifiable behavior. IT IS THE PEOPLE’HOUSE, GROUNDS, PLANE,….NOT HIS!
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 27/09/2026
Calling something “illegal” only matters if the law is actually enforced. Mike Johnson and the Supreme Court need to enforce it. No president should be free to ignore the law to punish enemies, reward allies, and enrich himself.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users emptywheel.net/2026/09/27/d...
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DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users - emptywheel
DOJ is now colluding with Elon Musk in fraud, all to export far right extremism into the EU.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 27/09/2026
DOJ lawyers told a federal judge they violated his order, shrugged that the men are already in a foreign prison so tough luck, then promised it was a one time thing. Boasberg gave them a straightforward choice: hearings or bring them back. They're appealing instead of complying.
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'Tough luck': DOJ accused of brushing off judge's court orders
One of the investigations likely to follow if Democrats take over the House concerns the extent to which President Donald Trump's administration ignored court orders at the direction of those at the h...
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Stepping on Stepien @shamstepien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The truth is no one really knows how much money Putin actually has. fortune.com/article/russ...
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Is Putin secretly one of the world's richest men? Experts estimate a $200 billion net worth | Fortune
The Kremlin says Putin earns just a $140,000 salary. Other experts allege his 20 houses, 8700 cars, and 58 aircrafts suggest a different story.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump. Corrupt as hell.
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PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 😒 @powerfromspace1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@garrykasparov.bsky.social Almost all Chinese components (US also) and used every day to murder Ukrainian civilians. But Trump fawns over Xi, invites Putin to the G20, and complains Zelenskyy won't make a deal. x.com/kasparov63/s...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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cnolen.bsky.social @cnolen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The old “good for everyone else, but leave my family out of it” line. Sad man he is.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The byline is a reference to his "cabinet" btw as it's more of a USSR communist era junk drawer of yes men with personal issues
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Is 👇 Why We Can't Have Nice Things,Chump.......
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 26/09/2026
Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees By Greg Sargent www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mil…
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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social anti-Zionist is not antisemitism…
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tonight is for a Ashley who is battling for her life. I know, because I was once there at stage 4. Cancer isn’t a death sentence, & it should never be. But here we are. And, may we never have to rely on go fund me or going broke to get the healthcare that we need. 🫂 youtu.be/HUEF-NzPnD8
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Artists Stand Up to Cancer | Just Stand Up [Fashion Rocks 2008]
YouTube video by Rafael Ribeiro
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You gotta pick a lane man. Either the rent is too damn high & we’re elitists in the faculty lounge, or people want moral stories about how we live together. Either way, this stuff is a category error in the current authoritarian moment.
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Jukka @it-pajala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ukraine is fighting for its survival. tRump launched a senseless war against Iran. russian trolls are paid to flood the internet with lies. That’s the political reality in a nutshell.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 26/09/2026
The CDC has lost nearly a third of its staff since RFK Jr took over, down to 6,683 people while measles spreads at home and Ebola abroad. Entire divisions gutted, teams on child abuse and sexual violence prevention included. This is dismantling public health from the inside.
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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