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MsDee57

@dee7557.bsky.social
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Retired teacher, BS in Sociology/Psychology. Retired English teacher. Love travel, art, music and photography.

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MsDee57 @dee7557.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If you live in Illinois 16, vote for someone who will actually do something for you instead of Darin 'where's waldo' LaHood. VOTE PAUL NOLLEY @nolleyforcongress.bsky.social
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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Well, the clocks have gone back. It's darker, it's cold, the weather is miserable. Time to activate hibernation mode, dig out the soft, warm sweaters, woolly socks, snuggly blankets, books, cake, hot chocolate and SAD lamp. Will be accepting invitations come March. Blanket fort going up.
Image of sleeping penguin, surrounded by the words:

HIBERNATION MODE

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Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Breaking news: censorship isn't just for banned books anymore. My musical Between the Lines was cancelled due to the comments of a single parent.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Bill Wyman & Rhythm Kings ~ Chicken Shack Boogie
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20/10/2025
Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Morning folks! Have a great Wednesday 🌞
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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 15/10/2025
Announcing THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, the new novel from @matthaig.bsky.social, to publish in May 2026. A time travelling love story from the world of The Midnight Library, it's available to pre-order here buythebook.online/the-midnight...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
As always, never give YOUR information to websites you don't know and trust. ... BUUUUUT, this would be a great time for Seymour Butz and all of his friends to put themselves into the database (from a library computer, or at least using a VPN, of course.)
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Elizabeth Lindquist @elindquist.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Rockton Meet & Greet with @nolleyforcongress.bsky.social
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Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Another hit from @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG 🧟🎃😱 (Not sure she still uses B'sky...)
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Night of the Living Dead (1968) Directed by George A. Romero starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Karl Hardman.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights. www.ala.org/bbooks.
BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 09/10/2025
Trump is following almost to the letter Hitlers path to power. Sending the SS into Democratic neighborhoods to start violence and then blaming it on Democrats is classic Weimar Republic Germany. Now he wants to start jailing opposition leaders. news.yahoo.com/articles/tru...
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Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy militar...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Federal agents shoot woman on Southwest Side, battle protesters for hours
The shooting occurred Saturday in Brighton Park when federal patrols were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, an account that has yet to be verified...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/09/2025
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18. Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade. As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on 10/18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/08/2025
Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get care—and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Plan to Let AI Deny Medicare Coverage
Donald Trump and Dr. Oz want to let Artificial Intelligence (AI) choose which procedures Medicare will cover for individual patients -- with AI companies being paid based on how much money they save by denying people’s coverage. This cruel ploy comes as Medicare faces an urgent funding crisis thanks to Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill. None of this “cost-saving” would be necessary if Trump and the GOP weren't driving up healthcare costs and starving our healthcare system of funds. Email Congress NOW: Demand that they stop AI-powered healthcare denials and use the upcoming funding deadline to restore healthcare.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20/07/2025
Trump deported hundreds of Venezuelans to a Salvadoran megaprison earlier this year. On Friday, they were quietly swapped for 10 Americans jailed by Maduro. The same men the U.S. claimed it couldn’t bring back are now part of a deal brokered behind closed doors.
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Americans Held in Venezuela Swapped for Men Trump Sent to Salvadoran Megaprison
Read more here.
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MsDee57 @dee7557.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
They are burning food that was supposed to go to starving people, they are closing the Dept of Education, they fired people at NOAA, Social Security is a mess...explain to me why we are still paying Federal taxes.
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 15/07/2025
Sources: pen.org/press-releas... legiscan.com/RI/text/S023... mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-b... www.youtube.com/watch?v=onHU... abc7ny.com/post/nyc-you...
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Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship - PEN America
Joining a growing number of states that are passing laws to protect the right to read, Rhode Island’s newly signed Freedom to Read Act provides safeguards for both public and school libraries, protect...
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 15/07/2025
There are elections tomorrow and it’s more than just AZ. There is a STATEWIDE election in GA with a really bad candidate in a runoff. There is an election in Ward 8 for DC city Council, which is basically their only representation. And then there are elections in FL and SC as well. 1/2
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Election Day Is Every Tuesday July 15
I titled it July 15, cause there are multiple elections this week, but they’re all on Tuesday.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/07/2025
On Thursday, we’re honoring Congressman John Lewis by taking to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all. Join a Good Trouble Lives On event near you to march in peace and act in power.
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Good Trouble Lives On
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, v...
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 02/07/2025
On a call with @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social just said “people are going to die, this is a crime scene” No better way to describe this bill imo. It really is that simple.
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 02/07/2025
We are at the end of the line, we have now gotten the okay to call republicans even if they arent in your district. But start with your own state. @frost.house.gov also said that what could be even more powerful than calling is sending faxes because they might unplug their phone line, 1/2
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/07/2025
“We’ve got about 26 Republican targets. We need four of them. This is not a done deal.“ @ezralevin.bsky.social highly encourages you to stop doomscrolling and start contacting your representative. We can still defeat Trump’s Tax Scam and save Medicaid and SNAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Great 🧵
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/06/2025
If they are legit, they need to identify!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
No one is better at explaining things than @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. Wishing you all a wonderful and MEANINGFUL Juneteenth! 🖤
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MsDee57 @dee7557.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop Trump’s Political Retaliation and Deportations!
This is not a drill. Trump is weaponizing ICE and Homeland Security to arrest and disappear people, including students, fathers, academics, among other everyday people, in yet another power grab demon...
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John Doffing @johndoffing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"LET'S JUST SAY IT MOVED ME . . . " "TO A FLYING AIR PALACE OF MY VERY OWN . . . " www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMHt...
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Let's just say it moved me ... TO A BIGGER HOUSE!
YouTube video by Tyler B
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Trump Republicanism at its finest. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Is it too soon to begin discussing all the members of the Trump regime who should be held criminally liable once the Republicans have been removed from power?
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/05/2025
Here’s everything to know about our nationwide day of defiance on June 14. You can sign up for No Kings now.👇
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Oh.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨UPDATE: New evidence filed by the ACLU last night shows that the Trump administration is going forward with more Alien Enemies Act deportations in seeming violation of the Supreme Court's clear command that people be provided a "meaningful" opportunity to seek judicial review.
As detailed in the Brown Declaration, in the hours after this Court’s order on the TRO, Attorney Brown’s client, F.G.M., was approached by ICE officers, accused of being a member of Tren de Aragua, and told to sign papers in English. Exh. A (Brown Decl.) ¶ 3. F.G.M. understands only Spanish, and he refused to sign. ICE told him the papers “were coming from the President, and that he will be deported even if he did not sign it.” Id. Another Venezuelan man who is detained at Bluebonnet and speaks English then read the notice to Attorney Brown, and the notice tracks the language of the Alien Enemies Act: “In the notice, it classified F.G.M. as a TdA gang member” who “must be removed” from the United States. Id. F.G.M., like other men against whom the Alien Enemies Act has already been used, does not have a final order of removal and is therefore not removable under the immigration laws. See id. The notice was not provided to counsel by the government, not did the government inform Attorney Brown that her client was being designated under the AEA
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MsDee57 @dee7557.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Illinois District 16 and Rockford Area...
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Every time.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"There is a reason totalitarian states so often ban singing and dancing and it is the same reason those communal habits have died out in the US. Bringing them back is resistance. Being optimistic and happy is resistance. Reaching out and connecting with each other is resistance."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/04/2025
Federal judges have the power to ensure compliance with their court orders — if they have the courage to exercise it, @david.noll.org writes. Learn more here.
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If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
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Sarah @skarabara.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I do want to say, if you didn't get to go out and march or protest for whatever reason, I hope you feel this energy that grew across the country, and I hope it rejuvenates you. You are part of this fight. ❤️
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MsDee57 @dee7557.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I know this is really getting serious when my sister, who has never protested anything in her 65 years, protested in Orleans, MA today! I am so proud of her!!!
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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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MsDee57 @dee7557.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Happy 26th Anniversary @maddow.msnbc.com and Susan!!! Wishing you many, many more!!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Again.
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MsDee57 @dee7557.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
ILLINOIS!!!!! I know the attention is on Florida and Wisconsin, but you have elections TUESDAY too!!!! There are school board election throughout the entire state. 118 of them are uncontested, but luckily many of them Please remember to vote!!!!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Better headline: Trump executive decree for Smithsonian is bunk wapo.st/427CciI
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Trump wants to reshape the Smithsonian. Who funds the vast institution?
The Smithsonian, tasked with telling the story of America, could see changes under Trump’s unprecedented executive order. What to know about how it operates.
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