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Let’s make some good trouble! There’s strength in solidarity. We still have our voices and our votes…until we lose them. Ciao, Bella! Ciao, Bella! Ciao! Ciao! Ciao!

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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“Marketed as tech geniuses, yet they could barely keep up with basic tasks. In reality, they were overconfident, drunk on power and utterly clueless. They giggled and asked me how my day was going—right as they hit the keys to obliterate nearly a decade of my work.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“The Treasury Department has this information because that’s where banks file Suspicious Activity Reports... Wyden’s staff documented that Epstein-related filings by banks contain “information on more than 4,725 wire transfers involving Epstein’s accounts, all of which merit further investigation.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Journalists are dying of hunger: “without immediate intervention the last reporters in Gaza will die”. Write your elected representatives if the images of starving children were not already enough to move you.
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“Tiffany Doe claims she convinced the then-13-year-old plaintiff to attend the parties as a means to break in to New York's professional modeling world. “
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“There are celebrities, princes and princesses, high-profile scientists, artists from all over the world, all alongside some of the world’s most powerful oligarchs and political leaders—people like Prince Andrew (circled), Ehud Barak (circled), Donald Trump (circled).”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/07/2025
To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee
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To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee
Sure Start was New Labour’s finest achievement, and the Tories destroyed it. Now it’s back with a mission to put children at the heart of everything, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Lord, they’re making me do it. They’re making me talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Why? Because they are so damn set on trying to cover up whatever this all is. I explain the sordid mess in today’s piece, link in the replies.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/07/2025
“The psychological toll of ICE raids isn’t borne only by the new immigrants whom Trump calls 'invaders,' but also by many of the Americans tasked with protecting us from real foreign threats,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:
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America Just Beat Up These Marines’ Dad
What is it like for Latinos in the military now?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
You don’t have to love America right now. Not the one under assault from a vengeful despot. But I do hope you care enough to reflect on the commitment of our founders to form a union & free the new nation from a mad king and the yoke of oppression—care enough to be willing to fight for America now.
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit.” A LITTLE BIT????
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
John Lewis: "If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings." Democracy cannot function without an informed public.
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Yes, we must now deploy the tactics of “the baddies” to protect ourselves from our own gov’t: “Face coverings also have the benefit of shielding your identity from cameras and police surveillance…If you wear a hat, and you're interested in further protecting your identity, keep the brim low.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“Therefore the latest polling tells us less about Trump than it does about the catastrophic failure of not just Democratic campaign professionals, but also civil society and the media, to effectively inform voters of the consequences of the choice they had before them.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Get busy! There are seven vulnerable Senators. This Reverse Robin Hood monstrosity can be killed if we can persuade 3 not to vote yes with Vance as tiebreaker.
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“Trump was not done. He lied that Qatar “gave $5.1 trillion worth of investment in addition to the jet,” before returning to Alexander. “Go back— you ought to go back to your studio at NBC because Brian Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be investigated…”
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Good time to remember: The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America $7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Superb thread with advice on the process and what we can do. “The most important thing you can do, by a parsec, is attend a town hall with your Republican Senator and with your Republican member of Congress. There is nothing more useful than spending even a minute talking face-to-face with them…”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
“Kasper has never been charged with or convicted of any crime.”
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.
WSJ OPINION
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We'll Have Herd Immunity by April

Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks.
Experts should level with the public about the good news.
By Marty Makary
Feb. 18, 2021 12:35 pm ET
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Plus, as always, a @resist.bot.
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Stop and Investigate Trump’s Qatari Sky Palace
Text SIGN PIQXHS to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you still do have the plot, though, here are updated scripts/language calling on Congress to do something about Trump's Qatari sky palace bribe. Looking like amendments to the NDAA are probably our best route.
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Stop and Investigate Trump's Luxury Jet "Gift" From Qatar - Scripts/Language Included
Bribery in Plane Sight: Trump Gets $400 Million Luxury Jet “Gift” From Qatar ABC News is reporting that Donald Trump is preparing to accept a super luxury jumbo jet as a “present” from the royal famil...
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Just one of its failings: “This is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, based in Alaska and California, which does not inspire confidence as it has failed nearly half of its tests. It would have minimal value against a Russian or Chinese attack.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Excellent suggestion to write media executives. “In your message, avoid generalities. Instead, focus on two key things that news executives have to take responsibility for: facts and rules. List any falsehoods and misleading claims. And questions their standards and practices.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Alarmingly terrible! …”it would mean that hundreds and hundreds of court orders – in cases ranging from antitrust to protection of private tax information, to safeguarding the social security administration, to school desegregation to police reform – would be rendered unenforceable.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“colleagues who also bought into the school’s opening blather about academic freedom are getting crushed by what she acknowledges in her piece is a dominant political agenda of attacking so-called “woke” doctrine, including diversity, and belittling elite traditional universities”...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
But Hayden-Smith says his efforts to get the charity to understand the lived experiences of people like him were met with resistance – and, on occasions, even hostility. “No one wants to feel like an annoyance or a nuisance under the guise of trying to do something positive.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
And this man is serious. “Vought was one of the main authors – credited as the key architect – of the Heritage Foundation’s influential Project 2025, widely seen as the blueprint for Trump’s second term of office.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“The arrest and prosecution of judges on such specious charges is where rule by law ends and tyranny begins. The independent judiciary is the only constraint of law on a president. It is the last obstacle to a president with designs on tyrannical rule.”
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 14/05/2025
Fletcher: “I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you."
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Look to Hungary. “There are no tanks in the streets; there are elections, and public protests, and judges in robes. But, the more closely you look at its core civic institutions, the more you see how they’ve been hollowed out from within…The new way is cheaper, easier, looks nicer on TV.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“The president seemed exhilarated by everything he had managed to do in the first two months of his second term…”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“…trucking work is going to dry up. Warehouses will start doing layoffs because no labor is needed to unload containers and some products will be out of stock, reducing the need for shipping labor…this will start in the Los Angeles area. After about 2 weeks, it'll start hitting Chicago and Houston.”
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Joe Brian 🇺🇦 will win @mrjoebrian.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Time to yell, time to shout, Time to get your booty out!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
No attorney general should ever speak like this. She's Trump's advocate, not the people's lawyer, which is what the AG's job is. Whatever state she is barred in should start disciplinary proceedings immediately. This isn't subtle or arguable, it's wrong.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Speaking of "waste fraud and abuse", Elon's little sociopath-grunions cut several hundred thousand of NEH grants that help fund the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine). sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/d...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/04/2025
Rural hospitals will shut down. Disabled kids will lose therapists. Families will be stranded without care. All so Republicans can hand out more tax cuts to billionaires who don’t need it! This isn’t policy—it’s cruelty. Medicaid Cuts Kill‼️
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#MedicaidCutsKill Medicaid pays for 60% of long-term care in this country. Over 40% of births. Nearly 40% of child healthcare. Cutting Medicaid for billionaire tax breaks is just cruel. Medicaid Cuts Kill!
Medicaid covers

41% of all US births
61% of long-term care 
38% of health care for children 

Now Republicans want to cut Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax breaks
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We knew it was coming. It’s here now. 🧨
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“Republicans aren’t just vowing to uninsure the 21 million Americans with Medicaid coverage through expansion; they’re …That allows Democrats to go on the offense in states like Texas, Florida, and Georgia and demand Republicans increase coverage, not shrink it to pay for wildly unpopular tax cuts.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“That message should be that Donald Trump is a bully who cowers in a real fight. The good news is that no figure is more contemptible than a bully in retreat. “When people feel uncertain, they’d rather have someone strong and wrong than weak and right,” Bill Clinton said…”
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Raise your kids with the strength to know what they stand for, yet the humility to listen, learn, and grow. – Unknown
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The #MayDayStrong coalition is doing another organizing call TONIGHT at 8PM Eastern! If you missed last week and want to get a better sense of what's coming (or just want to hear more from the organizers), sign up here: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
May Day: this May Day we are demanding a country that puts our families over their fortunes. Join our webinar to learn how we are standing together and fighting back! National call, April 23rd, 8PM ET. Photos of the three speakers: Marcia Howard of the Minnesota Federation of Teachers, Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, and activist/strategist Ash-lee Henderson. Register now, bit.ly/MayDay23Webinar, mayadaystrong.org.
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 53 percent of Republicans surveyed last week said Trump should not seek a third term. Nearly two-thirds of all respondents agreed Trump, 78, should not run for president again in 2028.” Let’s check back in with Okies after another tornado season - without FEMA.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So... it's not illegal, then. Because pretty sure none of these impose criminal charges for speaking to journalists about non-statutorily-protected information.
The guidance document went on to say that “any unauthorized communication with the media,” regardless of what information is shared or how it is shared, “will be treated as a serious offense.”

The memo listed laws, regulations and a departmental guide to explain its legal position. Among them was a regulation concerning civil servants’ ethical obligations and a law, the Freedom of Information Act, guaranteeing the public the right to inspect certain public records.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/04/2025
Have you contacted your senators yet? A bill that would restrict access to the ballot and eliminate online and mail-in voter registration was recently passed by House Republicans. Tell your senators to protect our elections by rejecting the GOP's voter suppression bill: act.indivisible.org/...
Post from Senator Mazie K. Hirono discussing voter suppression, stating that millions of eligible voters lack easy access to voting due to the SAVE Act, impacting Democrats, Republicans, women, people of color, rural voters, and people with disabilities.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The massacre took place on the night of 23-24 of March 2025. Ten days later, 4th April, the commander of the same army unit (Golani Recon) was filmed instructing his soldiers: "Everyone we meet in Gaza is an enemy. We identify a person, we shoot, we kill, and carry on. Don't get confused."
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“It can discipline government attorneys, including referring them for disbarment. It can impose escalating fines upon an official personally for each day an order goes disobeyed. It can order that officials be imprisoned. It can even set in motion criminal contempt cases against … officials.”
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elesw19.bsky.social @elesw19.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“The overall mood in the West Wing has grown dark. Trump and his inner circle are frustrated at having to revisit a damaging storyline that they believe slowed their momentum last month, the sources told me, even as the president remains loath to fire a Cabinet member under pressure.”
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