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She/Her Cat enthusiast, also a dog enthusiast, also just love animals generally, give me all the cute pictures. "Nobody's free until everybody's free." - Fannie Lou Hamer, 1971

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h
A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A few years ago, I said greedy egg producers like Cal-Maine were using their market power to deliberately drive up egg prices. My right-wing critics fried me for saying this — but now they all have egg on their face.
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Fox News Mocked Me For Being Right
When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me craz
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10h
Your vote is not small to the people spending millions to make sure you never cast it. They know what happens when working people, young people, women, and every fed-up voter show up together. We flip Congress. They lose control. That’s the whole assignment. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another NEW development in my case against AG Todd Blanche: he has now filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings, trying to get rid of my case at this stage of the lawsuit. Blanche must be a glutton for punishment because he just recycles the same losing arguments. youtu.be/32RC_CPlZhI?...
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WOW!! AG Blanche BEGS Judge To DISMISS My EPSTEIN LAWSUIT!!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Hi Ken, this is your political consultant speaking. I am advising you to run an ad in which your ex-wife, who you cheated on, references “the elephant in the room” without explaining what the elephant is. This is a good plan with no possible downsides” www.texastribune.org/2026/10/03/a...
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In TV ad, Angela Paxton urges support for “Republican ticket”
The ad is funded by a super PAC that has spent well over $100 million boosting Senate GOP nominee Ken Paxton, whom Angela Paxton accused of adultery in filing for divorce last year.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/10/2026
Many people assumed both of Florida’s Senate seats would stay deeply red for the foreseeable future. But Angie Nixon’s people-powered campaign is proving why we need to keep up the fight!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
76 people already sent this today. The ruling that covered official acts is still the cover. Ask yours why their name isn’t on the articles. The letter is drafted.
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 02/10/2026
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year and rebukes from at least three judges. minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/02/h...
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Hennepin County sheriff drops undercover classification for some task force deputies • Minnesota Reformer
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.cbsnews.com/news/snap-be... The average SNAP benefit across the U.S. is about $6.25 per person per day, or roughly $190 per month, according to FRAC. That isn't enough to cover a typical meal in about 99% of U.S. counties, according to a 2025 analysis from the nonpartisan Urban Institute….
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Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UPDATE: Despite being ordered by Judge Sullivan to produce a certified list of the contents of the Administrative Record by Oct. 1st, Todd Blanche once again has decided he doesn't want to comply. I explain why Blanche would want to avoid producing this court-ordered info: youtu.be/junhrisxRlg?...
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🚨AG Blanche IGNORES JUDGE'S ORDERS And TRIES To DELAY MY Epstein LAWSUIT!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump's economy in two headlines.
CNN Business: The US economy added just 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. 

ABC News: Households will pay more for energy because of Trump's policy changes
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
There are now more than 2,200 No Kings events on the map for October 17! We hope to see you in the streets again with millions of Americans to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms.
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/10/2026
Illinoisans have lost access to food assistance because the President wanted to make himself and his friends at Mar-a-Lago even richer. He made families choose between putting food on the table and paying their bills by driving up costs and cutting SNAP.
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Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So Americans pay more taxes in order to get AI centers in their backyards. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Where will you be on October 17? Organizers, what have you planned for the day? Drop a comment to let us know what you’ll be doing. #NoKings #VoteEarly
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Employers added 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%, slower than expected growth...Growth in average hourly earnings fell to 3% on an annual basis in September, well below the current rate of inflation." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Jobs Report Live Updates: Growth Cools and Unemployment Rises to 4.2%
U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent, as inflation has maintained pressure on markets and raised costs.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.npr.org/2026/10/01/n... Historically, the federal government and states have evenly split the food aid program's operational costs, such as paying for state workers and training staff. But starting on Thursday, states will need to cover 75% of that tab while federal funding shrinks by half….
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SNAP's funding model is starting to change. Here's what that means for the program
States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks.
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Rachel @drrachel18.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The next big "No Kings" event is coming up, with a focus on the mid-terms. Here is the info for the Richmond, VA event!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/09/2026
Today marks 50 years since Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, banning abortion coverage in Medicaid. Hyde has taken a deeply personal decision away from millions of people, especially women with low incomes and women of color. Congress must pass the EACH Act to end this cruel policy now.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A win! A federal judge in Georgia today dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking unredacted copies of the state’s voter registration list.
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DOJ now 0-26 after judge rejects demand for Georgia voter rolls
The judge said the Civil Rights Act does not authorize DOJ's demands for the Peach State’s unredacted voter roll.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
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Stop Trump/GOP/ICE/SCOTUS Reign of Terror Against America. @iampilgrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Food banks are struggling to keep up with demand, fuel costs continue to rise and now ICE raids add to the increasing costs www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Food banks are struggling to keep up with demand, fuel costs continue to rise and now ICE raids add to the increasing costs
We ALL feel the increasing food costs right now. And although we probably expected inflation due to Covid’s impact on the food supply disruption it got better as we all got better.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
“What a crock of sh*t!” Katie Phang torches Todd Blanche after he declares, “There’s not a prosecutor in this country that should ever, ever violate a court order,” pointing to the Trump DOJ’s documented noncompliance with court orders in her OWN Epstein files lawsuit.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez is the SECOND DoorDash driver shot by ICE, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. Delete DoorDash until they speak up against ICE violence and push for Wilber’s release. Learn how to delete it so it counts at deletedoordash.com.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Rob Sand says he isn’t trying to turn Iowa blue. It just might happen anyway. In a midterms wave fueled by resistance and revenge, the Democratic candidate for governor is singing a different tune.
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Rob Sand says he isn’t trying to turn Iowa blue. It just might happen anyway.
In a midterms wave fueled by resistance and revenge, the Democratic candidate for governor is singing a different tune.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Rachel @drrachel18.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This page from the ACLU gives you an easy way to send Congress a message telling them to ban Flock cameras and other similar mass surveillance tools. action.aclu.org/send-message...
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Get the Flock Out
Flock and other automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are taking over our neighborhoods, tracking our movements, and building detailed databases about us. Tell Congress to rein in this mass surveill...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can't recall ever seeing anything quite like this during a Congressional hearing. And I've been in and around politics for 50 years.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: Today, Florida Governor DeSantis and other state officials voted to designate two leading Muslim civil rights nonprofits as “domestic terrorist organizations.” The state's actions are baseless and unconstitutional.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Update: The Texas Tribune identified Gregory Feathers as the ICE agent who fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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SJSCentralTX @sjscentraltx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest DHS is lying. Again.
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Austin man shot by ICE agent faces assault, resisting charge
In a federal criminal complaint, DHS says Wilber Rafael Garces Perez knew he was fleeing federal agents and his car’s sideview mirror struck an officer.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
50501 is joining the call to Delete DoorDash until they stand up for Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, their delivery driver who was shot in the back by ICE on 9/20 in Austin. Delete DoorDash & join the Free DC pledge today! ❌ #DeleteDoorDash
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICE is torturing this man. This is an emergency.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Under Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill, 300,000 Virginians are at risk of losing their health coverage. I introduced a sweeping health care bill to reverse these cuts, permanently extend enhanced ACA premium tax credits, and expand access to care.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/09/2026
Stopping the fascists from sabotaging the midterms is what the next No Kings is all about. On October 17, we need millions of people in the streets putting the regime on notice that We The People won’t accept any of Trump’s bullshit: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
VOTE EARLY
OCTOBER 17
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