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CindyLJW

@debbieocean8.bsky.social
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Teacher of special needs kids for 30+ years; native Texan looking to move quickly; supporter of the common good; mom to a thrice exceptional son.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/02/2026
NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...
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NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them
ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
One-third of the energy now generated in Texas is from renewables like wind and solar. Without this clean energy, the grid in Texas would have failed multiple times and many people would have died. This is something Gov. Abbott and the GOP refuse to tell the public.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This young man has it exactly right.
A tweet from “Adam Mockler @adammockler” reads:
“Stephen Miller just went on Fox News and said telling troops to refuse illegal orders is an ‘open act of insurrection.’ He is telling on himself.
They are planning to give illegal orders, and they want a military that will follow them blindly.”
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NPR @npr.org · 22/11/2025
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, is seen in a booking photo from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 06/11/2025
The Hallmark Channel has risen from the ninth to the fourth most-watched cable channel in prime time in the last three weeks.
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A Hallmark Christmas Movie Just Beat Almost Everything On CNN, MSNBC
The Hallmark Channel has risen from the ninth to the fourth most-watched cable channel in prime time in the last three weeks.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Collins: When the president says there's virtually no inflation and that grocery prices are going down, do you agree with him on that? Greene: No. I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 06/11/2025
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/11/2025
When you desperately want to starve Americans:
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas. But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community. It was standing room only.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The US House of Representatives committee calendar for October 2025 It's .... quite something
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/10/2025
Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal
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Defend Kat Against Unjust Charges
Show your support with a contribution.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ICE has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office. You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT. Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The Trump administration just ordered two Gulfstream luxury private jets for Kristi Noem at a cost of over $172 million. This comes as Americans can barely afford groceries.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 06/10/2025
we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2025
This is very, very bad.
A post on X (formerly Twitter) from user *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) with a profile picture of a man in a dark shirt against a light background. The post reads: “ADP REPORT: NUMBER OF JOBS CREATED IN AUGUST WAS REVISED TO -3,000 FROM 54,000.” The timestamp shows 5:20 AM on October 1, 2025, with 50K views.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Call Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, and ask him why he's protecting pedofiles and childhood sex traffickers. His official DC numbers are: (202) 225-4000 and (202) 225-2777 Bossier City office: (318) 840-0309 DeRidder office: (337) 226-6385 Leesville office: (337) 423-4232 Be relentless.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
3 more rallies across Texas this week.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
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Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
There goes the First Amendment.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
BREAKING: GOP Senator Thom Tillis regarding the Epstein files: "Release the damn files… It makes no sense to me… [its a] “nothing burger in terms of the evidence we have” [or its] "disturbing."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔 Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Crockett: Earlier someone was talking about cities being hellholes. Los Angeles contributes almost 20 billion in taxes. That’s more than all states in this country except for four.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2025
Durbin: "Either they mislead the American people with this conspiracy theory for years, or they're covering it up now."
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
How VERRRRRRRYYYYYYY unsurprising
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/07/2025
TED CRUZ CAUGHT VACATIONING AS TRAGEDY STRIKES TEXAS...AGAIN The Daily Beast reports that Ted Cruz was vacationing in Europe as floods ripped through Central Texas, killing at least 89 people, including 27 campers and counselors from a summer camp. Link: www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-was...
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Ted Cruz Was Vacationing in Europe as Emergency Crews Desperately Searched for Texas Flood Survivors
The Texas senator was visiting the Parthenon in Athens while a massive rescue mission was under way to find flood victims, our must-read newsletter, The Swamp, reveals.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/07/2025
Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Breaking: The US lost 33,000 jobs in June. They were expecting to *gain* 100,000.
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The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says
Economists polled by Dow Jones forecasted an increase of 100,000 for the month.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 23/06/2025
California currently has 205 members of the Cal Guard deployed in the Middle East, including at bases in Qatar and Iraq. Jen and I are praying for their safety — and for the safety of every American service member serving in harm’s way.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/06/2025
YOU DID IT!!! 5 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS! Thank you to everyone who has subscribed to MeidasTouch on YouTube for joining this people-powered, pro-democracy movement. This is just the beginning! YouTube.com/@MeidasTouch
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Meiselas: And now, the little engine that could—the one people said could never happen—the MeidasTouch Network has hit 5 million subscribers, 33 million views every 48 hours, more views than Fox News and any cable news network… we are so grateful to share this moment with you all.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
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