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Sydney Michalski @sydneymichalski.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Polarization is not the problem. And I am tired of being framed as a radical left extremist in service of a talking point that is missing the moment. The center of the spectrum of United States politics is meant to be the Constitution and the rule of law. 1/4

A graphic displays the same text as in the thread: Polarization is not the problem. And I am tired of being framed as a radical left extremist in service of a talking point that is missing the moment. The center of the spectrum of United States politics is meant to be the Constitution and the rule of law. And today it is under assault. The left and right are not migrating further apart. The right has launched off the edge of the chart. And the millions of people taking to the streets? We are not the far-left. We are laser-centered on our most fundamental Constitutional rights. The center is not meant to be compromised ever rightward into fascist dictatorship. You cannot negotiate with people who don't believe in a center at all. So if the center is really what you stand for, I have good news for you. Now is your time! The center is the largest it has ever been! Millions of dead-center Americans are as awake, as alert, as active as they have been in a generation. So join us! But understand this about the center. It is not the place for compromise.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/12/2025

Minutes ago today the Trump regime abruptly cancelled citizenship ceremonies for several immigrants in Boston. THEY CANCELLED CITIZENSHIP CEREMONIES. These immigrants followed every rule & did everything right—Trump banned them anyway. All are from Black & brown majority nations. This Is Fascism.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Just sit with this information for a minute. Let it sink in.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/10/2025

Stagflation The Fed Chair is describing stagflation but does not want to say the word.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

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Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.
White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Andry Hernandez, one of the detainees who was also released just over a week ago, told NPR that guards routinely beat prisoners with batons in the hallway — or dragged them to a small, windowless cell known as "La Isla," or "The Island," where the abuse was even more brutal.

According to Hernandez, 32, the prisoners would be dragged out of their cells for complaining about their conditions, taking a bath outside designated hours, or even for making too much noise.

Hernandez, who is openly gay, said he was once taken by the guards to "La Isla" after guards noticed him bathing with a bucket outside designated hours.

He said that he was beaten by three guards wearing masks. And forced to perform oral sex on one of the guards. After a couple of hours, he was dragged back to his cell.

"CECOT was hell on Earth," Hernandez told NPR from Capacho, Venezuela, where he's now back with his family.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Please call your Reps. We have to try, even if it seems unlikely that there are 4 Republicans with any shred of a soul left.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Read his short 3-part thread. It really is that simple

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025

Not only are ICE bounty hunters, who look more like criminals than law enforcement, abducting people from workplaces & off the street—we’re now seeing they’re being held in private detention centers w/some of the most deplorable conditions imaginable. REPEAT: people are profiting from this cruelty.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Credible whistleblower account that Bove, a Trump DOJ official, told staff attorneys they'd need to say "f*ck you" to courts & to lie in order to send migrants to El Salvador "no matter what." He's now nominated for lifetime appointment as fed judge. Tell your Senators to vote no & to investigate

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To Err Is Human, To Defy Bove-ine

A bombshell whistleblower complaint sheds light on who in the Justice Department is allegedly driving open defiance of the courts

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.” So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances… It was always a lie.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Read his whole thread. Iran didn't pose an imminent threat; Trump acted illegally & recklessly. Whether it's to distract us from disastrous domestic policy, to profit, or because he's been manipulated, who knows. Congress must deny authorization for this illegal war, then IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Alex Padilla, a sitting US Senator from California, was forcibly removed, put on the ground, & handcuffed, for daring to ask a question at Kristi Noem's Homeland Security press briefing. This is authoritarianism. Tyranny. If they'll do that a a Senator, imagine what they'll do to the rest of us. 😡

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Democrats condemn ‘sickening’ and ‘dictatorial’ forcible removal of senator Alex Padilla from Noem event in LA – live

California governor Newsom joins number of Democrats in condemning removal of Padilla from homeland security secretary’s press briefing

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Here's another native plant that pops up in scattered spots around my property each Spring, amongst the weeds: a type of cluster lily called brodiaea elegans. 🌱

A screenshot of the description of brodiaea elegans on the calflora website

Purple cluster lily called brodiaea elegans growing in my yard in the California foothills, which is part of its native habitat

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Remember when Republicans were losing their minds about leaving Afghans who worked with US troops to be killed by the Taliban? Well, Trump has revoked their asylum and is planning to send them back to be murdered.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I am featured this month in Gold Country Artists Gallery in Placerville, CA. I don't often post about my photography but here are some of my images, or visit www.SierraLunaPhoto.com #photography #WildlifePhotography #yellowstone #yellowstonewildlife #wildhorses #canonphoto #canonwildlife

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Dr. Swain is a well-respected climate science guy & has been crucial to firefighting in California; he's calm & measured, not a fear-monger or sensationalist. This is bad for wildfire preparedness/fighting & agriculture in CA, bad for long-haul trucking on I-80 in WY, bad for tornado tracking & more

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

If we talked about what's happening here in the US the same way we talked about events in other parts of the world...

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

They've always been anti-union & anti-worker. That's why they create culture war wedge issues to divide the working class. Well, that, & they're racist. But I guess there were enough voters more attached to racism than to any sense of solidarity. And here we are. I hate this timeline so much.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

In Jan 2020 I attended a conference in Seattle, and got very ill for about 2 months. Probably covid, but we can't know. This week I learned that a colleague also got sick at that conference, & simply never got better. She developed long covid and a host of problems including hydroencephalitis, 1/6

A hand clutches more than a dozen imperfect rosebuds in pink, orange, yellow, and peach shades from a home garden.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Good for her! But why weren't more people literally lying down in the way of the police, in the aisles and doorways, in order to prevent them taking her? Meanwhile on the microphone "The Congressman is giving up his time..." NO! It's his damn job; he works for the people. He needs to go.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Pic of a yellow wildflower that pops up in scattered spots across my property every Spring. It's a calochortus monophyllus, and they are native to California, and in fact *only* grow in the western foothills according to calflora. 🌱 #nativeplants #CaliforniaNativePlants #wildflower #bloomscrolling

Closeup pic of a small, star-shapped bright yellow wildflower called calochortus monophyllus which is native to the California foothills.

Screenshot of a map of California from the calflora website, with the growing range of the wildflower calochortus monophyllus marked by blue dots

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits. The company’s turbines—enough to power 280,000 homes—run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. www.eenews.net/articles/elo... ($)

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I was weeding in my yard and startled this itty bitty fren. I snapped his close-up pic and then left him alone. I believe it's a Sierran treefrog; I enjoy their wonderful chorus in the evenings. Adorable! 🐸 #herps #frogs #amphibians

Zoomed in mobile phone pic of a tiny treefrog (maybe 1 to 1.5 inches long) next to a small rock and some blades of grass or weeds. He's got light green markings down his side, and otherwise is light brownish.

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General Strike Tennessee Chapter @gsus-tennessee.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

JOIN THE GENERAL STRIKE ✊️

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This will have devastating effects, both short- and long-term 😢

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So we got this thing, national parks. Americans love them, they draw people from all over the globe, create huge economic benefits, are some of the world's greatest wonders. The Park Service is the most popular agency in the federal government. DOGE: Let's see if we can destroy all that!

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I attend another protest in my conservative little town of Placerville, California for May Day. Pretty good turnout! We will continue to unite to protect due process, the Constitution, free speech, and human rights.

Protesters in front of the courthouse in Placerville, California - a small, conservative town in the Sierra foothills

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

More of my rosebushes have burst into bloom, including some more fragrant ones and some old garden heirloom varieties 🌱 🌹💐

A selection of cut roses from my garden in different vases sitting on my table. There are shades of peach, ink, yellow, and orange blooms and buds

A large rose bloom in shades of yellow and apricot, with the leaves and canes of the rosebush around it

A fully opened bloom on a Joseph's Coat rosebush

A large rose bloom in velvety, deep red, fully opened, still on the bush

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My personal "5 years since the start of Covid" moment is remembering that in 2020, the US discovered it had allowed almost all its mask and PPE manufacturing to transfer to China for cost savings. In 2025, PPE is still almost all made offshore, and we just encouraged China to end shipments to us.

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

They don't even pretend to hide the corruption

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This is much the same logic as arresting the judge in WI. There is obviously nothing wrong with asking law enforcement, including masked officials, to confirm they are, in fact, law enforcement. The goal is to create an absolutely subservient population.

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Teri Kanefield @terikanefield.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I have a blog post ready. It's here: terikanefield.com/your-brain-o... When the Guardian, the Telegraph, and @jenmercieca.bsky.social recommended The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod, I figured I should get a copy and read it. So I did. I'll start with a 2 picture summary of the book ⤵️ 1/

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Eden H @eden999.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Roses from my yard today 🌱 🌹

A hand holding a blue bud vase with several blooming orange-yellow-red roses (Josephs Coat)

A ceramic blue-grey bud vase with two blooming orange-yellow-red roses (Josephs Coat)

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.

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