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Dara

@daraveda.bsky.social
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NYS public school teacher, mom of 3, wife, sister, daughter. I care deeply about climate justice, gun-control, public education and being a decent human being. Go Bills!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think if we just picked out a random inmate in a local county jail for disorderly intoxication, after doing a lengthy stint in a dual diagnosis facility for taking shrooms and running naked through a playground, to be president they would do a better job overall.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Playing in our faces
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/07/2026
Children didn't always need to learn how to eat well.
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How Children Learned to Hate Food
On the origins of pickiness.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026
"Donald Trump is the face of hate. He is the face of war. He is the face of a pandemic. And now he is the orange, sagging face of explosive diarrhea." — @nberlat.bsky.social
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Trump’s latest public health initiative: explosive diarrhea
This administration is the best thing that ever happened to cyclosporiasis.
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Amazing conversation around how to (and if you can) change people's minds, why we should fight for our relationships even if it's tough, how to process and learn from criticism and, of course, how to (politely) tell the Vice President that Iran got everything they wanted in that MOU :)
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I Disagree by Jessica Tarlov: 9798217154135 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The outspoken liberal voice on the Fox News show The Five shows us how to stay true to our values, find common ground, and communicate with confidence when engaging across political and social divides...
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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oh
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
PSA: If Trump isn’t threatening to pull your broadcast license you’re doing it wrong
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ya Think?
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Dara @daraveda.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
One of the sweetest, kindest souls on this Earth. Donate and share ❤️❤️🙏🙏 gofund.me/6c65857c2
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Donate to Support for Mary Jane Laskowski’s Recovery, organized by Bill Major
Mary Jane Laskowski is the heart of her family—a devoted sister, aunt, daughter,… Bill Major needs your support for Support for Mary Jane Laskowski’s Recovery
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Loo Read @looread.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
WOW! Walking the talk and telling the truth... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The same Republicans who were hysterical when asked to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID19 have no problem wearing masks to spread their White Nationalist Christian hatred.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal… division is the oldest trick in politics.” Zohran rings in America’s birthday by reminding us our story is one of welcoming immigrants, not excluding everyone who doesn’t look like us. 🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaVzyL0...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Four Supreme Court justices opposed that goal! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump’s evidence to prove that someone sabotaged the Reflecting Pool is in the same file as the evidence that the 2020 election was stolen.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trying to get your brain around the fact Musk‘s now a trillionaire? That many $1 bills wd stack 67,866 miles high. If you‘d begun work at federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour right after the asteroid killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, today you’d still need a million more years to match Elon.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“These men came here…to storm these beaches…not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom, systems of self-government in the world.” ~Eisenhower to Walter Cronkite, “D-Day + Twenty Years,” 1964. Image: Eisenhower NHS.
This black and white photo shows journalist Walter Cronkite and former General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower sitting on a stone wall in an American cemetery in France.
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Voted for Hubie and Kamala @stef47.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Here’s ten widely wanted social benefits that most Americans cannot get bc…ICE.
Ten widely wanted social benefits that most Americans cannot reliably get
• Stable, full Social Security benefits for future retirees.
• Universal, affordable health care for all.
• Guaranteed affordable housing and rent stability.
• Affordable childcare and paid family leave.
• Debt-free or low-cost college and real student-debt relief.
• Clean, safe water and modern infrastructure everywhere.
• A livable minimum wage that covers basic needs.
• Universal access to affordable high-speed internet.
• Paid sick leave and predictable work schedules for all.
• Stronger gun-violence prevention laws (e.g., universal background checks and safe-storage rules) that most support but are not fully enacted.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/05/2026
Tennessee Brando on Trump voters waking up: "I'm glad they're speaking out, but I can't give them a full pass. If you got duped the first go around in 2016, that's one thing ... but if you lived through Jan 6th and you still hung with him ... then, I mean, you're the reason we're here."
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2026
Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said. They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans.
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Is it a good sign or a bad sign for a president when a popular sports figure is denouncing your immigration policies on a widely watched March Madness broadcast?
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.
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Dara @daraveda.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
My favorite sign from today #NoKings #BuffaloNY @indivisible.org
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Dara @daraveda.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Ready for tomorrow #NOKINGS @meidastouch.com @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @thebulwark.com @keithedwards.bsky.social
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Dara @daraveda.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Tonawanda” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Tonawanda · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Hegseth should spend a little less time worrying about how he looks in photos and a little more time fixing the fucking disaster he has created in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “I’m saying there are problems with this operation. I don’t know how you could hear me say we struck an Iranian school and there are a bunch of dead kids and just say this is going great.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“War-a-Lago” By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/03/2026
Get it here: bit.ly/4rWlX3S
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How to Eat An Elephant
The essential plan to save America by persuading voters to discard MAGA into the ash heap of history (where it belongs). Featuring a foreword by Jonathan V. Last.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/03/2026
Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
James Talarico: Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire. He's about to make more money than every elementary school teacher in America combined. Do we really believe one man is worth more than every elementary school teacher?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Currently trending on X.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/02/2026
The thing about the U.S. and Israel is that both of their leaders are trying to stay out of prison.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
THIS.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.” A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is catching on. There’s nothing Trump hates more than being ignored.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich... "That's just how it is."
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Dara @daraveda.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Williamsville” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Williamsville · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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