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Retired SPED teacher, Dem, mom to a rescue dog. I write as demwriter on Substack, political, anti-Trump and resistance information. Mom and grand. Knowledge is power-READ. 🫸DM No crypto, no porn, no dating, no money requests #Resist

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/08/2025
BREAKING: In a major win for voting rights, an Arizona Court tosses a GOP lawsuit that tried to make voting by mail even harder. With nearly 90% of Arizonans voting by mail — this ruling protects voters from mass ballot rejections based on minor signature mismatches.
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Arizona Court Rejects GOP Lawsuit Targeting Mail Voting
Read more here.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 28/08/2025
This is Manchis. She's the dog of Alberto Mesías Zárate, a journalist in Peru. When her human was targeted this week by criminals who threw an explosive device at their home, she barked at the perpetrators and successfully extinguished the dynamite before it detonated. 14/10 good girl, Manchis
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demwriter @demwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Every school in America has a version of active shooter drills. Teachers take extra workshops. Kids are taught combat level first aid. But did anyone think to teach a while you're praying shooter drill? STOP THE GUNS!
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Hey MSM, ask RFK Jr to define 'inflammation'. Ask him to define 'mitochondria'. Ask him how, specifically, that he can tell how children have 'mitochondrial challenges'. Ask him what, specifically, about children's faces and body movement indicates inflammation. He won't know. He's making shit up.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/08/2025
Reminder: Since being elected, Trump has moved quickly to undo progress made with gun safety policies.
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Trump prepares to wipe out years of progress on gun violence
An executive order threatens “ghost gun” regulations, red flag laws, and more.
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Fucking Bitch Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Yeah, you should.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6g417dj/ Since our party doesn’t bother to tell us when there are key races we could help win. GA Special election runoff in September. Let’s get some help to this Dem!
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Debra Shigley is headed to a runoff in Senate District 21, and she needs your help to claim victory on Sept. 23rd! www.debraforgeorgia.com @debraforgeorgia #democrats #elections #georgia #politics #s...
TikTok video by NorthATLsFinest
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
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record-guy59.bsky.social @record-guy59.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We stand with Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and every other American willing to stand up to fascism and take back our country.
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Rick Clark @rickclark.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Why of course, this is what good Christian Nationalists do for people in need.
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DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants
Disaster-aid groups said the new contracts would make it harder for nonprofits to help the most vulnerable Americans in the aftermath of a disaster.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I believe this was predicted but still disquieting. One would have to be naive to think such a covert operation is not already planned or underway in Canada, most likely centred in Alberta. Trump’s CIA serves Trump after all. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/e...
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Denmark summons US envoy over report on covert American ‘influence operations’ in Greenland | CNN
The US envoy to Denmark was summoned by the Danish foreign ministry on Wednesday, after the country’s public broadcaster reported that a number of American men have attempted to conduct “influence ope...
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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Despite the heartless Taco government, Compassion n Kindness still exists. #notofascism #kindnessrules
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Unearthed footage of Joan Rivers and Martha Stewart roasting Trump goes viral
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Our President keeps insisting prices are going to drop by 1400%, 1000%, or some other number that’s mathematically impossible. That he can’t do simple math isn’t the problem, it’s that he’s lying to America while things are getting more expensive because of his bad choices.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I have seen multiple instances in which victims of crime who report the crime to the police. Those people are being deported. Victims of domestic violence. Victims of human trafficking.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/08/2025
NEWS: Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa CANCELS his visit to the United States this week. (Kyodo)
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 27/08/2025
Something is wrong with a system where 76% of workers say they’re worried to make ends meet, while greedy corporate CEOs make 285x what the median worker does. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we fight back.
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demwriter @demwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I pray tonight for the priest who was saying Mass as the Minneapolis shooting unfolded in front of him. That had to be a horrible sight to see from the altar. I've prayed all day for the families affected. As a mother, grandmother, and former teacher, each school shooting takes another piece of me.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who l am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud. I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions' words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject his and his colleagues' thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We will not survive, thanks to Gloria Gaynor.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Cop Casually Threatens To Shoot A Black Man In The Head
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The recently selected chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream from Dairy Queen with MDMA and Cocaine and giving them to his two grandchildren
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NC county elections chair accused of putting cocaine, MDMA in granddaughters' ice cream
The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections was charged after Wilmington police said they found evidence he placed illegal narcotics in his granddaughters' ice cream.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
ICE will never know peace in my town! Always the women standing up!! ✊
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
NEW: After reports surfaced that she had been fired, lawyers for CDC Director Susan Monarez say she "has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign."
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Meteorologists now face a Trump ‘loyalty test’ when applying to National Weather Service jobs. The essay questions — which have nothing to do with meteorology — are part of federal guidelines launched as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to recruit “patriotic Americans” to its workforce.
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Meteorologists now face a Trump ‘loyalty test’ when applying to National Weather Service jobs
After firing hundreds of meteorologists, the National Weather Service announced it is filling vacant positions. Applicants are being asked to detail their support for Trump’s policies.
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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A reminder that Cracker Barrell settled 2 major discrimination lawsuits in 2004 that found Black customers were seated in areas segregated from white patrons, received inferior service, and were made to wait longer for tables. Oh, and served food from the trash. www.foxnews.com/story/cracke...
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Cracker Barrel Settles Racial Discrimination Lawsuits for $8.7M
Cracker Barrel has agreed to an $8.7 million settlement to resolve all lawsuits brought or supported by the NAACP that accused the restaurant chain of segregating blacks in the smoking section and den...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:

"I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health," Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, wrote, adding that CDC staff "continue to shine despite this dark cloud over the agency and our profession."
CDC's chief medical officer Debra Houry told staff "ongoing changes" prevent her from continuing in her job.
"Vaccines save lives - this is an indisputable, well-established, scientific fact," Houry wrote.
"Recently, the overstating of risks and the rise of misinformation have cost lives, as demonstrated by the highest number of U.S. measles cases in 30 years and the violent attack on our agency."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/08/2025
Release the Epstein files. We don’t care about party. Hold them all accountable! But think about it: why is Trump trying to stop the Epstein files from coming out? He’s not doing it to protect Bill Clinton.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
For Trump's ultra-wealthy donors, fascism is just good business. zeteo.com/p/ice-no-bid...
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ICE Gives No-Bid SUV Contract to Republican Donor with a History of Fraud
The $2.25M award for ICE recruitment vehicles seemed to go around normal contracting procedures.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2025
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
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After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
California Supreme Court Rejects Latest GOP Redistricting Challenge www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Supreme Court Rejects Latest GOP Redistricting Challenge
Read more here.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Four other longtime top CDC officials submitted their resignations, according to letters reviewed by NBC News: " www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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CDC director pushed out; flood of top resignations follow
The ouster comes at a tumultuous time for the embattled health agency. Other top officials also submitted their resignations Wednesday.
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CinderSueT @cindersuet.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We need to yeet that traitors. Help us stand up for democracy! www.facebook.com/share/g/15fM... discord.gg/thepeoples-s... thepeoplessickday.com
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CherieAnne @cherieanne.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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ALT: a close up of a movie projector projecting a film
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Zachary Beasley @zacharybeasley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
German jets reportedly scrambled to intercept Russian spy plane over the Baltic share.newsbreak.com/eqeiu0z8?s=i16 Source: The Independent
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German jets reportedly scrambled to intercept Russian spy plane over the Baltic - NewsBreak
German fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft on Tuesday, German media has reported. Two Eurofighter jets took off from
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
A family outside their home. Their deck is loaded with guns. A man in his living room. His living room is full of guns. There's also a big safe labeled "Liberty."A man outside his home. The walkway into his home is full of guns. A woman outside her garage. The front of her home is full of guns, some laid out in a star formation.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
A parent runs toward the school after the shooting Wednesday at Annunciation Church in south Minneapolis. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
From a pal To: @governor.ca.gov 🚨We need Dem politicians everywhere in CA explaining this is temporary + response to TX actions. As a CA resident, I have already received 2 big glossy brochures from anti redist. orgs. NO mailings from Newsom, Dems. We have 2 mos to convince CA's to fight back.
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