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Jamie Paul

@desertdandilion.bsky.social
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Librarian, teacher, author, artist, hiker, animal-lover and believer in constitutional democracy of and by the people not pay to play autocracy #orangeisnotthenewnormal #nosanewashing

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike: The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump’s war killed more than 150 people, mostly children. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... #WarCrimes #ICC #Blues
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
I’d rather be annoying than oblivious. These days, neutrality looks more like surrender.
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Gregarious Aquarius @phoxee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Of course. Also, apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congress normally has 45 legislative days to consider a president’s request to rescind funding. By submitting the request just days before the fiscal year ends, the administration argues the money can simply expire before Congress acts.
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President Trump Takes Historic Action to Eliminate Wasteful and Harmful Spending
President Trump is committed to utilizing all possible tools to cut wasteful and harmful government spending that does not benefit American citizens. Last
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another fight over who controls the nation’s purse strings. The White House announced that it plans to cancel $810 million in spending already approved by Congress, using a rarely used maneuver known as a “pocket rescission.”
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New ICE prison camp for unaccompanied migrant kids set to open in Alexandria, Louisiana, inside an airport to speed their deportations. Sen. Ron Wyden warns of putting kids at risk for trafficking. Louisiana AG spokesperson messaged me: “The AG fully supports the brave men and women of ICE."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026
The Kennedy Center closed amid disrepair and declining attendance, while President Trump faced legal challenges over renaming it. An eerie silence, empty halls and security guards marked the end, at least for now, of a once-vibrant public space.
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The last day at the Kennedy Center
An eerie silence, empty halls and security guards marked the end, at least for now, of a once-vibrant public space.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Don’t believe the lies. Trump is *not* selling $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. It’s worse. Trump is *giving away* $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. American taxpayers are paying for those bombs.
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Jamie Paul @desertdandilion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/09/2026
Bad day for anyone whose election strategy begins with “What if fewer people voted?”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
Yikes! That ballroom isn’t going to complement the White House. It’s going to overpower it. Look at the scale of this thing. The people’s house is being swallowed by one man’s monument to himself.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Fun fact"
Since Roe v Wade was overturned, more women have been prosecuted for miscarriages than men for being in the Epstein files.
Over 22 to O.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Donald Trump has ignored panicked warnings from Anthropic employees claiming that AI could end civilization. He says the U.S. will be in a very bad position if China wins in AI. Translation: It’s going to take more than an extinction level event to stop those data center build outs.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A president conditioning a $5,000 payment on his own party winning Congress is buying an election result out loud, on camera, and calling it a dividend to make it sound legitimate. Nobody gets to purchase your vote with your own tax dollars. #CorruptTrumpRegime
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Hillary Clinton: "Xi is thinking, 'They they can't defend anybody anymore bc they don't have capacity. Maybe we can coerce Taiwan into giving up bc there's not going to be support.' If you look at the world map, it's not favorable to the US largely bc of wrongheaded decisions by this administration"
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org filed a Hatch Act complaint against Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy He pitched DOT policy at a super PAC event in Michigan & tied it to a Senate endorsement You can't electioneer with your cabinet title. Congress settled that in 1939 Our complaint👇 -TN
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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: President publicly bribes everyone in America and not a peep about an investigation. Story in November.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/09/2026
If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
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Hayden Black @haydenb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ya fuckin think @nytimes.com ?! JFC. A desperate, ludicrous, illegal, deficit crippling bribe. Report it.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Those closest to the orange criminal-in-charge know him best. They know he is a liar and a cheat. Why don't others realize this. I suppose that they cannot admit being duped by a conman. SMH.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No Kings means nobody gets a throne while the rest of us fight for our rights. On October 17, we will begin taking our power back w/ preparation to avoid voter suppression, & through democracy. We will do this together, & with a plan to vote early. Register now. Vote early. Bring your crew.
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Find An Event Near You
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LaurieHardman @laurielyricalg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@stephruhle.bsky.social @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social this is an irresponsible chyron Stephanie. It should read "Trump floats idea of illegal payouts for votes, which will never happen".
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/09/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 10, 2026 ~ Until 2027 "August 2026 was a remarkable month in the global climate record. It was both the warmest August and the warmest month ever recorded, with global temperatures reaching 1.65°C above pre-industrial levels." climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-a...
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Copernicus: August was the world’s joint hottest month on record, pushing global temperatures back above 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
August 2026 was the joint warmest month ever recorded, tied with July 2023.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Literally Bribing voters now (who he thinks are all morons who actually believe this garbage)
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A former Republican operative, previously charged with sex offenses, donated $10,000 to Ramaswamy. Amy Acton-called it out. So the operative’s brother, armed with guns and a taser, tried to attack Acton-hurting bystanders Rather than back down, Acton-a doctor-went to treat the injured victims Hero
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The 47th President of the United States is a psychopath.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
This is disgusting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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john.in.chicago @john-in-chicago.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Amanda Seyfried is awesome! She moved from LA to the Catskills area and has a registered nonprofit animal rescue with over 40 animals on her property. Happy Sunday Funday! 🦚
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'll go to Cancun when Texans are freezing & dying without power in a storm & Ken Paxton ran off like I did to warmer climates, but Texans "stop your bitching" Voting for Ted Cruz/Ken Paxton, is Texans asking to be kicked in the balls regularly.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/09/2026
Oh, this is going to piss some folks off. They’ve repeated the lie so many times they thought nobody would check the receipts. We checked. Jeffries is the first Black party leader in congressional history, and the “bought by AIPAC” smear has been repeated like gospel. Here are the actual numbers.
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Jamie Paul @desertdandilion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Instead of giving up, scientists and UN officials recommend trying to limit excessive warming and then bring the temperature back down to the agreed-upon threshold. But it still will mean decades of increased weather-related disasters, rising seas, extinctions and melting ice and glaciers."
cbc.ca
For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Steinem’s final essay published today in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...
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Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After Trump gutted the IRS workforce — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires — the agency's annual audit revenue plunged by 35%. Trump's attacks on the IRS were never about "efficiency." They were about making it easier for the wealthy and powerful to skirt what they owe.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Howard Luttnick, Epstein Island regular, on CNBC saying #DataCenters do not use water. Zero pushback fron the hosts. Objectively is dead.
Pics of a data center a pipe spraying water 

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An Oklahoma data center using water-cooling technology just wasted over 3 million gallons of water during a massive pipe burst.
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHICH CRIMES GET YOU DEPORTED AND WHICH ONES GET YOU ELECTED PRESIDENT?
IT'S So
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
To anyone writing about or thinking about the so-called "deal" with Venezuela for its oil reserves: It's theft, an "agreement" at the barrel of a gun. Please don't sanitize it. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Can America Ever Regain Its Honor?
A Saturday Prompt
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More than 1.2 million Texans' voter registrations are suspended www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...
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More than 1.2 million Texans' voter registrations are suspended
Some voters dropped from Texas voting rolls may not be aware until they show up to cast a ballot. More than 1.2 million Texans are on the state's Voter
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