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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"I don't need a closet, I have a chair" she said, unironically.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! Happy to see the @steelworkers.bsky.social and USW Pres Roxanne Brown getting support from: Gov Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov Rep Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social Chris Deluzio and special guest Mayor Pete! @petebuttigieg.bsky.social #1u #unionstrong #H2PittStaff #USWpride
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/07/2026
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@nytimes.com Fixed it!
Article headline "Trump threatens Retaliation Against Civilian Targets if Iran Strikes in Strait" with retaliation crossed out and "war crimes" written over it in red
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/07/2026
It Only Tuesday theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-181956…
It Only Tuesday
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 27/05/2026
I told ICE that they could NOT just plow through a crowd of civilians at Delaney Hall. They didn't care. Here's what happened yesterday.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Letter to the editor: Westmoreland Democrats need to rebuild
The results speak for themselves. In 2025, Democrats didn’t field a single row office candidate in Westmoreland County. That shouldn’t happen, and it’s a sign something isn’t w...
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Yep. Textbook abuse behavior. You can't make good decisions about how to respond or protect yourself if you are in a constant state of fear and anxiety. We all need to do what we can to stay grounded so we can keep going.
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Imperialism and exploitation have historically always lead to revolutions. Jon and @hcrichardson.bsky.social discuss the limits of the system those in power have constructed.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I really can't think of anything more Orwellian than Trump and Putin sitting on rhe Board of Peace.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 19/12/2025
If you can’t afford groceries remember that Trump is spending: $230M for a settlement $300M for a gold ballroom $1B to upgrade the private jet he got as a bribe $20B to bail out Argentina dontinflateourplates.com
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This might not be the most important question right now, but why is Mickey Mouse's tail so thin? I guess it's always been that way but ew.
Mickey mouse with open arms.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe. Share it widely.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Weakness in leadership when so many of us are pushing ourselves so hard to fight is insulting. @schumer.senate.gov you had your moment. Step aside for someone ready to meet this one.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
@chrisbritt.bsky.social
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#nokings in #greensburg has reached the dance party phase! 1400+ and counting!!
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I'm glad I have an exercise ball so I can use it as an office chair along with an office chair so that I can use it as a wardrobe.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/10/2025
“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
@indivisiblephl.bsky.social @indivisiblemayday.bsky.social Please share for the upcoming judicial election! Trying to get these across the state to counter disinformation.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
For once, the GOP is on the other side of the messaging. They can't be gluttons for cuts one day, posing with chainsaws, then try to convince people they hate cutting their services.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"You won’t be able to get a Social Security employee on the phone if you have problems, but you will see your brown-skinned neighbors unlawfully seized by masked thugs." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Hegseth’s Quantico Farce: Terrifying, or Oddly Reassuring?
Trump and the defense secretary summoned top military leaders to the side of authoritarianism and abuse, but the officers did not thrill to the message.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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The Fourth Reich Has Arrived
This Substack is reader-supported.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
All mine had was an empty milk carton.
Cava bag sitting on the sidewalk.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Just saw an aunt carrying an infant whose dad has been unable to see them. Any #parent can't condone this. #resistance #pittsburgh #PW4D
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Don't lose yourself in the daily setbacks. "The yardstick is measured in hearts, and the timeline is generations of work on people’s attitudes and views" #resist wagingnonviolence.org/2025/05/dont...
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Don't let the news overwhelm you — use this tool to stay engaged
When it feels like progress isn't happening, a force field analysis can help reveal strategic leverage points.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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‘The weight of the wait:’ Detained Washington County church member awaits immigration hearing
PHILIPSBURG – Liseth Carvajal knelt in a pew at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Philipsburg, Clearfield County, on Wednesday morning, fingers laced in prayer. Three miles away, her husband, Jes...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Important.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
#Pittsburgh area ICE + local police in #ambridge. Per witnesses, no warrants present. Just armed men grabbing people. #resist
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/07/2025
Trump's masked agents aren't keeping us safe-they're just terrorizing immigrant communities.

PROPORTION OF IMMIGRANTS TAKEN BY ICE, BY CRIMINAL RECORD

7% violent convictions
28% no violent convictions
65% no convictions

ICE isn't going after criminals. It's breaking up families.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 25/07/2025
🚨WATCH: This is what Trump doesn’t want you to know about his rotten deal with El Salvador. In exchange for Bukele imprisoning people abducted from the US, like Abrego Garcia, Trump stopped investigations into MS-13 suspects who could testify about Bukele’s collusion with MS-13:
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WATCH: This is what Trump doesn’t want you to know about his rotten deal with El Salvador
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Anyone with @paramountplus.com can cancel their subscriptions and will still have access to the end of their billing cycle, FYI!
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2025
He won’t stop with immigrants. He will come for everyone’s data.
Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE
By KIMBERLY KINDY and AMANDA SEITZ The Associated Press, Updated July 17, 2025, 12:25 p.m.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Corporate "investment" without community input and local safeguards has another name: EXTRACTION #indivisiblepa #resist www.pghcitypaper.com/news/pittsbu...
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Pittsburghers push back on inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at CMU
A peaceful march stood in contrast to a later aggressive police response.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Do not lose hope. You are not alone. Most of America rejects this. The people do not want an authoritarian regime—we do not want oligarchy, we do not want Christian nationalism, we do not want techno-fascism. And we’re more powerful than they’ll ever be. The people united will never be defeated.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I can think of no more fitting celebration of our country than spending resources to pollute our air in order to generate a spectacle that the sunrise will outdo a few hours later.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
pretty weird how there's always billion dollars just lying around whenever ICE needs concentration camps but there's never any money when children need healthcare or a simple school lunch. oh well just one of those things I guess
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
pittsburghwomenfordemocracy.substack.com/p/youve-got-...
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You've got it wrong, Senator McCormick.
In which we rebut Senator McCormick's message on the reconciliation process
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Raskin: You are not our king, and we are not your subjects. We will never be your subjects. All of us born here on this land are citizens and your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"The public should understand that [President Donald] Trump wants to kill U.S. science. And is succeeding.” www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
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“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"...his appetite grows as he eats. That is why the large-scale resistance the Trump administration is already facing is so encouraging and so important: It is in this way that he might be starved."
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"For every dollar spent on the W.H.I., $140 was saved." Funding reinstated for women's health initiative. PUSHBACK WORKS #resist www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...
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Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative
The decades-long research effort has contributed to thousands of research papers, altering medical care for women around the world.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Send this to all your friends and family who don't know what time it is. Yes, it's that time.
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distractedbyplants.bsky.social @distractedbyplants.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Do not do their work for them. Required reading for anyone trying not to inadvertently amplify the opposite of their intended message! @antoniascatton.bsky.social Thank you! open.substack.com/pub/reframin...
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The "Do Not Associate" List
How to stop helping MAGA spread their myths.
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