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Sevilla Sweetie

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RIGHT MATTERS. Everything librarian, mom, MomMom. Believer in finding the good in all (most!) people. Dreamer of dreams.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/10/2026
Ineligible votes are exceedingly rare, yet treated as a grave threat to our elections. But when far more ballots from eligible voters get rejected over technicalities, nobody bats an eye. And the imbalance works to Trump's advantage: demdock.com/4zfOYLe
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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soundgood2 @soundgood2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can subscribe for $1 for 6 months. It is worth it to read this.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How antivaxxers exploited and hijacked the Covid moment to advance their longstanding crankery. Brilliant from @noupside.bsky.social
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The facts you need to know to explain that what Trump is doing has nothing to do with supposed noncitizen voting and everything to do with preventing eligible Americans from casting their ballots. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"The idea that this hub, built over decades, was significantly degraded in the space of a few days by a regional player is unimaginable. "That the US could not prevent and defend against a predictable attack on a Fleet Headquarters is quite startling." www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2026...
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The devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warning
Opinion: If NSA Bahrain is not reconstituted to pre-attack capabilities, it will fundamentally change how the U.S. Navy operates, the author of this op-ed writes.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We cannot accept the reckless use of deadly force by federal agents as normal. There is a pattern of this administration misleading the public and withholding key facts after these killings.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/07/2026
The Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to the public—and “this new reality risks clouding our understanding of the economy, public health, and the environment,” @willgottsegen.com argues:
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The Trump Administration Is Punching Holes in the Public Record
Since last year, officials have been slowly reducing the amount of publicly available data.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Rachel Maddow learns about weeding at #ALAAC26.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/06/2026
With Gen. Chris Donahue's early retirement from command of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, @markhertling.bsky.social in his latest looks at the general's legacy and the necessity for someone with that experience and level of trust.
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What Happens When the Country Loses a General
It takes a long time to build up a leader.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I don’t know how I can still get mad about this after all this time, but it’s still mind-blowing to watch us repeatedly shoot our world-leading scientific establishment in the face
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Exactly. In fact, Shapiro explicitly holds up Pennsylvania's 250 celebrations as a much better approach than Trump's. See here:
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NPR @npr.org · 25/06/2026
Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49
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How the U.S. is losing ground to China in university research
Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Buttigieg: After Trump leaves office – & he will – there will be a temptation to turn the clock back. But going back is the wrong answer – the flaws in our economic, social, & political systems are what brought us to this moment Going back to the status quo isn't possible – we can do much better
Pete Buttigieg meeting with voters: he says his experience in Biden’s administration has caused him to rethink the structure and scope of the executive branch. Michael Conroy/AP
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Today’s moves are a dagger to the heart of what the Dept. of Education was always supposed to do: protect the most vulnerable. This reckless decision will have real-world consequences for students with disabilities and children whose civil rights are violated. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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AFT’s Weingarten on Education Department’s Move of Special Ed and Civil Rights Offices to Other Agencies
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the federal Department of Education announced it was moving two of its most crucial functions to the Department of Health...
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 16/06/2026
Scrapping the cap is the most common-sense solution for the Social Security solvency crisis!
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I posted this on TikTok today in response to the Jan 6 slush fund and it was almost immediately taken down. Almost like the platform is trying to help Trump…
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/05/2026
When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 13/05/2026
When We Ban Nonfiction, We Erase Ourselves | According to @penamerica.bsky.social’s new report “Facts & Fiction: Stories Stripped Away By Book Bans”, over 1,100 nonfiction titles were removed from public schools in the 2024-25 school year.
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When We Ban Nonfiction, We Erase Ourselves - Bucks County Beacon
According to PEN America’s new report “Facts & Fiction: Stories Stripped Away By Book Bans”, over 1,100 nonfiction titles were removed from public schools in the 2024-25 school year.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The president is trying to pocket billions of taxpayer dollars. When will my Republican colleagues call out the corruption?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.
The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 03/04/2026
I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.
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JeanSand - Keeping It Real @jeansand.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/03/2026
Taxpayers pay twice: Trump is giving one billion taxpayer dollars to a company so it WON'T build clean offshore wind. Fewer clean energy projects pushes up utility rates, which costs families even more.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
What if the placement of ICE in the airports is really a dry run for the use of ICE on election day? I have a feeling putting them in airports is not the big story. America, pay attention to this NOW!!!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 20/03/2026
Senate Republicans have repeatedly blocked legislation to pay TSA workers. They are using TSA workers as pawns to avoid putting a stop torump’s lawless, violent immigration agenda. It’s unconscionable.
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
We need to: ✅ overturn Citizens United ✅ ban Congressional stock trading ✅ get dark money out of politics To get corporate influence out of our politics and return it to the people.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/03/2026
Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.
An infographic titled "president Trump is reshaping the media", reposted from his truth social account.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A thing to keep in mind in the Netflix vs. Paramount bidding war for Warner Bros. Netflix does not propose to absorb CNN, TNT, TBS. It would spin them off in a new company like Comcast did with MSNBC. Whereas the Ellisons want to show Trump they can bring CNN to heel, as they have with CBS. Clear?
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We must state this clearly. Our lawless regime is building a system of "human warehouses" that will function as concentration camps. Most Americans have no idea that this could quickly exceed Japanese-American internment. No national Democrats are calling for these camps to be stopped & closed.
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If we don’t call for the camps to be closed, no one will
The history of Guantanamo tells us exactly what happens when people with "good intentions" confuse a dirty bandage with a cure.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Oh, McSteamy. RIP.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to turn those nominees into life-tenured federal judges. Why? 🤔
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Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees?
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first in a series of eight...
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
He’s a liar. He lied under oath. He lied to get the job. Impeach him.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Saboteurs: Wrecking the US for generations by contributing to the spread of disease.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/02/2026
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
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