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Colorful Forest

@colorfulforest.bsky.social
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Here to resist and share information about the authoritarian threat to 🇺🇸 democracy and the rule of law. Actual human. I picked my handle based off my son’s drawing.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Just signed up (and paid forward) for this great event with some absolute top people!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...
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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Shit just got real
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
If you get arrested at a protest, and you need to fight a charge, who's your lawyer? A public defender may represent you at arraignment. (Love you, PDs!) Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support. (ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 20/09/2025
When I say change takes time, this is what I mean. I have posted this screenshot many times over the years and every time I get push back. This is why voting in every single election matters. This is why we have to celebrate every single win. 1/2
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Calaveraswatchdog @calaveraswatchdog.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/09/2025
Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions. www.wired.com/story/hundre...
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Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15/09/2025
Stay focused.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/09/2025
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Thank you on this labor day!!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/08/2025
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
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Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/08/2025
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
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They Don't Care
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Mike Stromenger @1in9.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Y’all are wild
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
ELECTION RESULT from Alabama: Paul Prine, the former police chief of Mobile who was fired last year while facing a damning report about his department’s use of force against Black residents, has lost the mayoral race. He came in third, and will not move forward to the September runoff.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
we got another one
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Sentenced to Life in Assassination Plot
Edward Kelley had been convicted of plotting to kill the law enforcement officers who had investigated his case.
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New from me: Most people have not heard of the Administration for Community Living. But it's a vitally important Institution to keep people with disabilities and elderly people in their homes. And RFK Jr. and DOGE are targeting it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Warnings over DOGE cuts to organization that keeps elderly people in their homes
Former employees of the Administration for Community Living say they fear it is being ‘broken up for spare parts,’ Eric Garcia reports
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
STUNNING story: 25-year-old DOGE aide was warned about his conflicts of interest at CFPB but participated in mass layoffs at the agency anyway, including the firings of the ethics lawyers who had warned him.
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DOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of Interest
Before he helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers, DOGE’s Gavin Kliger was warned about his investments and advised to not take any actions that could benefit him personally, ac...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
That there were people cheering on the DOGE cuts because they thought the government would send them a $500 check from all the money saved firing scientists and park rangers is quite sad to me.
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Colorful Forest @colorfulforest.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Roth is right about identity politics creating easy targets for autocrats. Is he right about the solution? Maybe? But the left tends to be a herd of cats. Are we capable of array? foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/p...
foreignpolicy.com
How Progressives Are Unwittingly Aiding the Rise of Autocracy
Dictators get an unlikely boost from the left’s identity politics.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 08/05/2025
"Friendly Signs" explores the impact of a sign language class at San Quentin. Watch the documentary and learn about the challenges of prison filmmaking from director Rahsaan "New York" Thomas.
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‘Friendly Signs’ Documentary Follows One Man’s Quest to Create Community for Deaf Prisoners
Director Rahsaan “New York” Thomas explores the impact of Tommy Wickerd’s sign language class at San Quentin and the challenges of prison filmmaking.
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OldSchoolJourno 🦘🏏🎶 @psclazzac.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I've always loved Paul Rudnick's wit.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We now have a series of federal judges openly suggesting that the payments offered by Paul, Weiss and the other capitulating law firms are legally akin to extortion payments made by shopowners to mobsters who threaten them. And it seems quite accurate.
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 03/05/2025
Three ways to stay up-to-date with what @democrats.org are doing 1. Subscribe to their substack. blueprint.democrats.org 2. Join their slack join.slack.com/t/democratsv... 3. Subscribe to their mailing list. 1/2
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The Blue Print | DNC Grassroots Team | Substack
Weekly updates from the DNC's Grassroots Team. Click to read The Blue Print, by DNC Grassroots Team, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
True level of ex-junkie degenerate insanity here. And that's probably unfair to a lot of people in methodone clinics. But still WOW.
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 01/05/2025
Gentle reminder on this International Workers' Day that the far right is not and never has been the defender of the working class. 🤗 #MayDay www.etui.org/publications...
"Talking left, voting right - An assessment of far-right voting  on socio-economic issues  in the European Parliament" by Gabriela Greilinger and Cas Mudde
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Senator Angus King (I-ME) reaching to history to recall Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) and her 1950 stand against what she called "Republican Fascists." (King does not hold Chase's seat; Senator Susan Collins (R) does.)
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Microsoft drops law firm that made a deal with Trump, engaging a firm that is fighting his executive orders
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Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm
The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 18/04/2025
The GOP budget would gut $880 BILLION from Medicaid—the biggest cut in U.S. history—just to hand $7 TRILLION to billionaires. This will hurt working families, seniors, kids, veterans & people with disabilities. #MedicaidCutsKillUS Not on our watch.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 18/04/2025
Good Friday reminds us of the power of sacrifice, the depth of grace, and the hope that follows even our darkest hours. Wishing you peace and reflection as we honor this sacred day.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Right now there are fascists in the White House. They haven't gotten to the Ustase stage yet, thank heavens, but that might yet come. Trump et al are set on making all of our lives as miserable as possible, and are set on shortening the lives of many of us. Make your art anyhow.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨 OUR VOICES MATTER 🚨 Because we've been LOUD about the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid, TWELVE House Republicans have said they wouldn't vote for cuts if they get too deep. Fissures. They're scared. Let's get LOUDER! #MedicaidCutsKillUS #MedicaidCutsKillUS #MedicaidCutsKillUS Join us:
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DIGITAL RALLY: Medicaid Cuts Kill Us!
Let's not mince words: the GOP plan as it stands will kill Americans.
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Colorful Forest @colorfulforest.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is chilling. And it happened in ND? Why there, my internal investigator wonders.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
And for those who are curious ( @costasamaras.com? @coachfinstock.bsky.social? @enjohnston.bsky.social? @brunojnavarro.bsky.social?): the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program is being eliminated in this draft HHS budget. So I guess this language/script I just published is at least timely.
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Families Will Die Without LIHEAP. Trump Broke It Anyways.
Phone scripts and emails to demand we not abandon low-income families paying their heating and cooling bills
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/04/2025
Begging people to understand the difference between “this, alone, will not fix things” and “this is one necessary step out of 17,243 if we want to get out of this.”
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 17/04/2025
America’s unions and working people will not accept cuts to our essential services like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security just so billionaires can get even more tax breaks. We should be expanding essential services, not gutting them.
I stand with workers, not billionaires. Department of People Who Work for a Living | AFL-CIO
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