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Dinah Cox

@dinahcox.bsky.social
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Writer person, working person, teaching person, committed Democrat, lesbian feminist living in Oklahoma, where I was born.

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Molly Jolly Christmas @mollyjchristmas.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Smoking weed under a rainbow, never kill yourself
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
And a good-looking pup at that-! A King Charles Cavalier-? Hope the house-training is coming along without too many paper towels, ha. You will have to share this pup's name-!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/05/2025
Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.
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Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/05/2025
I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The definition of authoritarianism and the opposite of free speech: The government will now control science reporting and silence anyone who opposes RFK Jr's opinions. "RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals" wapo.st/43sc0Bz
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RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
How much you want to bet it was the only thing he had clean.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A mutual aid approach that candidates and office holders could try is to set up hyper-local banks of volunteers to help people navigate SNAP/medicaid/Section 8 etc procedures. Which could also lead to data helpful to future reforms.
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I am considering myself lucky I don't know/haven't yet seen the uh, content of this latest left-punditry-squabble; still, I can well imagine. A lot of people make a habit of going after low-hanging fruit--maybe they should take a hint from Peewee Herman and marry a fruit salad instead. :)
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Attorney Ben Crump @attorneybencrump.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Just days before the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, the DOJ is backing away from police reform agreements in Minneapolis & Louisville. Consent decrees are a vital path to accountability. We've seen what happens without oversight — this is a terrible step backward.
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Justice Dept. abandons police reform deals with Minneapolis, Louisville
Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, announced the decision days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
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Joshua Martin @joshuarmartin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
if a UNITED STATES CONGRESSWOMAN can be prosecuted for literally doing her job, what does that say for you and me??? any person of power who thinks this is okay should lose their job.
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I was alarmed when one of my first-year-college students confessed he'd never ONCE watched an entire movie--even at home--without looking at his phone (during the boring parts, he said, also to watch previews of the movie so he "knows how it will turn out").
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 04/05/2025
The international immune system is activating. Democracy, flawed and fragile, is developing antibodies against a very specific kind of viral politics. The backlash is electoral, cultural, and institutional. And it is spreading. www.theindex.media/rebuke/
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/04/2025
[guy who smashed a window at the capitol] “he made a mistake and was doing what he thought was right, let’s pardon him and give him back the fine he paid” [guy who stood outside home depot] “why would we bother with a hearing before sending him to the el salvador terror prison”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/04/2025
Guy who said he was right about covid and the 2020 election says he’s right about tariffs in part because so many people agreed that he was right because they were idiots or opportunists.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Many/most manufacturing “jobs” that could be onshored will go to robots/AI. As 25% of factory jobs in China are expected to be in next few years. Our entire discussion on this is fighting the last war.
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I'm assuming you mean funny/weird and not funny/ha-ha. Another funny thing is how fickle American voters are.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/03/2025
Uh, I believe the point is to be better than the criminals.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/03/2025
Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Terrific writer and thinker (and sounds like person). Sending condolences to his family peeps and workplace peeps both.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025
New in PN: MAGA's Big Lie budget "Trump has said he wants to do three things: 1. Balance the budget 2. Extend tax cuts 3. Keep Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid fully funded But doing all these simply isn’t possible. And Republicans know it."
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MAGA's Big Lie budget
Trump’s economic agenda is about fooling the American people.
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Seems like he should be able to just press Off and wait 30 seconds and then press On (or maybe he pays someone fifty cents to do that). Really tho this does not inspire confidence in what's about to happen to ... all of civilization.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
America waking up to the fact that the biggest recipients of “DEI” are white women. And veterans are right up there.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
remember tonight to set your clock ahead an hour. but if canada and mexico set their clocks ahead an hour, then set your clocks back an hour. except for clocks in the automotive industry and clocks made with parts already covered under the USMCA, in which case
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Oh wait, Howard Lutnik is trying to hand Elon Musk billions in government contracts? You don’t say… www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Commerce to Overhaul ‘Internet for All’ Plan, Expanding Starlink Funding Prospects
The agency plans changes that will make Elon Musk’s satellite-internet service eligible for more rural broadband funding.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇 #TraitorTrump
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
People seem to have forgotten what the Ukrainians have gone through, was Putin’s invasion has done. Here’s a photo essay of Ukranians in their bombed out homes www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Portraits of Ukrainians returning home show just how much has been lost
Months after they fled, Ukrainians return home, seeking normalcy—or at least closure. Instead they find rubble and dust.
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In OK we've had a fairly large number of teachers run for office. Needless to say they haven't exactly taken over--yet--but their political presence is definitely more noticeable and indeed more powerful than it was even five years ago. Run, journalists-!
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Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Not a particular Katy Perry fan but I think a better title (possibly) would be "I Kissed my Personal Liberty (goodbye) and Danced to the Free Market Mambo."
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NEWS The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines. This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines. 86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season. About 430,000 people were hospitalized.
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F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots (Gift Article)
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 27/02/2025
The Index will keep publishing op-eds telling Bezos, his doomsday cult markets and his self-serving liberties to go fuck themselves. And you can support that right here: www.theindex.media/
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Medicaid cuts the GOP is about to try and shove through would have horrific results. Imagine millions of poor and disabled people—a huge number of them children—having to literally beg for help. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump's Medicaid cuts would leave millions without health care
The human cost will be brutal—unless a few Republicans develop spines.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/02/2025
This would be more worrisome if Trump had booted a Secretary of Defense because he was reticent to deploy troops against peaceful protesters oh wait
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Ah yes, the "environmental warrior" is killing climate change programs. Read @davidcorn.bsky.social's latest www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr., one-time environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programs
He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/02/2025
So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten: - a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI - the release of a crime boss - Hegseth ceding Crimea to them - Trump offering a WH visit - The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So, Google Calendar has removed Indigenous Peoples Month. Who here still supports the Native community? 🖐🏾
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
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Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In 2016, it took Twitter’s algorithms less than a day to turn the Microsoft chatbot, Tay, into a horrific bigot.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I remember when right-wing media said that I wasn’t qualified to be a member of Congress because of my credit card debt. My debt was nowhere near $1.2 million. Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Putinist celebrates Musk’s war on USAID. It’s kind of all you need to know.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Government of South Africa takes Trump to school:
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hey @washingtonpost.com you say your new Kash Patel story has "not previously been reported." Wrong, we at @motherjones.com scooped you and had this out earlier today. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Feel free to correct.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A fundamental question that every person running for Congress should be able to answer is: when push comes to shove, will I risk this job to save the country. One party is failing this test entirely. The other need not follow.
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