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Laurie

@environmom.bsky.social
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Environmentalist, CA native, human mom, grammie, fin/fur/feather/scutes mom, nature lover, rock music all the way. Blue for life.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h
An IRS investigator is suing the agency — claiming officials illegally leaked his confidential personnel records to federal prosecutors to punish him for years of whistleblowing on the agency's failure to tackle tax dodging.
nytimes.com
Whistle-Blower Says I.R.S. Leaked His Tax Records in Retaliation
Brian J. Visalli, a veteran investigator of tax fraud, said in a lawsuit that the agency had sent his personal and tax information to federal prosecutors.
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Agolf Twitler Slayer @slayeragolf.bsky.social · 13h
This will be a classic! Repost if you agree!
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15h
This should outrage everyone.
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Laurie @environmom.bsky.social · 15h
Ya know, I think I have to take a break. Everything all the time. It’s the same. GOP did something atrocious and everyone posts about it, yet nothing changes. I know, that’s what they want - for us to disengage. I don’t see dem politicians being forceful enough. They write letters🙄
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I admit to being rather confused when some folks offer that Andrew Tate should face the death penalty for his sex crimes when it's a well-known fact he was brutally murdered by Greta Thunberg back in 2022.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow essential health care to be withheld from transgender people in federal prisons. Denying medically-necessary care to any incarcerated person is cruel and unusual punishment — period.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 28/09/2026
36 days and we vote. The con man and all his enablers are what's on the ticket. This is our chance. As one.
A family of bison walking to the polls. All wearing funny straw hats a follower photo shopped into the picture.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The last two sentences are … direct. Link: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
About damn time
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Kelly just concluded there's no "national security" argument in this case (CNN/MSNOW/Politico)
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
​This is 2-year-old Tymofii and his 39-year-old mother, Nataliia Horbachenko, russia killed them both on September 19 with drone strike on their home in a village of Hlevakha in Kyiv Region 💔🕯 ​Nataliia leaves behind her husband and two young daughters. Little Tymofii would have turned 3 on Oct 17.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How disappointing.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Heed this warning about the midterms from Ty Cobb, former Special White House Counsel in Trump’s first term: “There’s nothing Trump won’t do.” Our full discussion is worth the watch. You’re invited: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Froggy🤦‍♂️🇺🇦(🆘🇺🇸☎️) @generouslymild.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Like the Kennedy Center, “if I can’t have it I will burn the MFer down mentality.” First, blue tsunami November 🌊. Then, neuter the creep before he breaks anything else 🙏 Godspeed Patriots 🫡
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.
A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In some cases the Trump Adm would induce the 3d country to provide blanket “diplomatic assurances” that nothing bad would happen to those sent there. In those cases, DHS removed people with no notice at all. 4/6
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
RFK Jr. received "more than $250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in Washington, D.C. from Gavin de Becker..." de Becker has been described as Jeff Bezo's "top security staffer" www.wsj.com/politics/rfk...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. Got Free Flights to Fiji and Greece From a Top Donor
The health secretary disclosed over $250,000 in gifts from security specialist Gavin de Becker.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BREAKING: Politico now says it has ALSO been denied White House access.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
IMPEACH PATEL www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Temporarily Halted Cooperation With Canada Over References to 9/11 (Gift Article)
The abrupt move by Kash Patel, the bureau’s director, came as President Trump was ramping up his attacks on the country.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?
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FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.
The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yup... I'm still posting this video of ONE OF THE GREATEST DAYS in our country's history so we can honor these glorious American Patriots who attempted a coup on Jan 6.
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MinimumWageMan @minimumwageman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can not argue with this.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026
HHS wants to relax regulations on human subject research (The Common Rule). For example, they want to redefine “undue influence” on vulnerable human research subjects (children, prisoners, disabled, culturally disadvantaged). 1/
From the federal register: The foundational framework for human subjects protection in the United States was established by the National Research Act of 1974 in response to widespread public concern over unethical biomedical and behavioral research practices. Following its passage, the then-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued the first version of 45 CFR part 46. These regulations established institutional review boards (IRBs) as the key mechanism for oversight and ethical review of human subjects research. While these protections remain vital, the current regulatory framework no longer reflects the realities of modern research.
In 1991 the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the Common Rule, was formally adopted by HHS and 15 other federal departments and agencies. Although the last major revision in 2017 introduced several changes to modernize human subject protections while reducing unnecessary regulatory burden, investigators and institutions have continued to report that the Common Rule imposes unnecessary burdens and unclear requirements, particularly for minimal-risk studies. For example, the Department has received feedback that applying the Common Rule remains cumbersome for research within Learning Healthcare Systems and for other research methods that are integrated into clinical care settings and are intended to improve the quality and safety of medical care.
Without additional changes intended to clarify ambiguities, expand flexibilities, and redirect protective measures toward high-risk activities, the rights and safety of research participants as well as scientific breakthroughs can be impeded. Examples of how this rulemaking will address these issues include expanding exemptions for certain additional types of low-risk research, incorporating flexibilities for de minimis protocol changes, and clarifying key terms such as the definition of undue influence. These reforms will reduce ambiguity and undue administr…
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Texans are angry at the Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas operations, for shutting them out of public comment and serving the industry instead of the public. This @saulelbein.bsky.social story forcefully shows why it's so important to elect @jon-rosenthaltx.bsky.social to the RRC.
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Texas' oil and gas regulator cuts out the public from its meetings
Last month the Railroad Commission of Texas — which oversees oil and gas, not railroads — ended guaranteed public comment at its monthly open meetings.
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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From last year. A good history lesson.
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The price of a gallon of diesel in Des Moines is nearly the same as the hourly minimum wage in Iowa…
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The rich are only interested in making more money for themselves. The New Yorker reports that during peace negotiations with Iran earlier this year, Kushner managed to raise $5 billion for his company. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/215415/...
newrepublic.com
Jared Kushner Raised Billions for Himself Off Iran Negotiations
Donald Trump’s son-in-law has made bank.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote this: Click-happy media & credulous pols are letting the AI boys set the agenda without investigating the real story: the insane, odious philosophies that drive them. Fear the AI boys more than the AI. They’re Covering the Wrong AI Story medium.com/whither-news...
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They’re Covering the Wrong AI Story
Fear the AI cult more than AI, for doom is just a distraction
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
FWIW, I think it's fair to blame W Bush for a lot of things that happened on his watch -- it was like a preview of the incompetence we see now, on all three key issues: natural disaster, war, finance.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I said this years ago. It's been obvious. It remains obvious. It's a tragedy for our country.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here's the threat from the Kennedy Center's Trump-appointed board. Without "appropriate recognition" of Trump on the facade it's "unlikely" there will be any financial rescue. Board then lists 10 options for slapping his name on the building. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
WHEREAS, the Center is seeking to appropriately recognize and acknowledge President Trump for his well timed proffer of fiscal rescue. The Board understands that without such appropriate recognition it is unlikely that President Trump will provide the fundamental oversight of the renovation of the main building and lead the fiscal rescue of the Center. The Board seeks to provide multiple options so that President Trump can be legally and appropriately recognized and acknowledged on the facade of the Kennedy Center so that he agrees to carry the burden of managing the renovation and provides the Center with a much required financial rescue.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Center will undertake all legal means to effectuate one or more of the following public recognitions or acknowledgements to the President:
TO BE PLACED ON THE EXTERIOR MARBLE BENEATH THE NAME OF THE CENTER, ONE OF THE FOLLOWING as voted upon by the Board:
• Option 1:
Renovation and endowment overseen by
President Donald J. Trump
and the
Trump Kennedy Center Fund
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bettina Trump, Don Jr.'s wife, defends having a Putin ally finance part of their wedding trip, saying he was simply "our dear friend." Such a dear friend that brother Eric's rep told @propublica.org that “Eric has absolutely no clue who this person is, nor has never heard his name.”
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hillary Is Spot On.......
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/09/2026
Houthis take control of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and key shipping route aje.news/kl59l5
Houthis take control of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and key shipping route
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026
NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.
propublica.org
EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly p...
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Maggie 🇺🇸⚾️ @lacentrist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A coyote living in Studio City was recently captured because she was injured. After a full x-ray, we learned she was shot twice in the face with a pellet gun. She had to be euthanized. If you know anything about this, please contact the organization below. #JusticeForWendy
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They have bought our government.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
PSA: Election officials in California, Oregon, Washington and elsewhere are telling voters if you can, return your ballot through an official ballot drop box rather than trusting it to the mail.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Troll-Masters return Wednesday 9/16 🙏 🤣
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Be like Albanians & Hungarians! The ballot box is where we get regime change. We are democracy! Vote 🌊 Voting questions or incidents? Call The nonpartisan Democratic voter protection hotline 833 336-8683. Check your registration, track your ballot And more at iwillvote.com #dv1 #usdemocracy #v4v
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Wonder Why🦆Ducky🦆 @duck-flying.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation If tech firms such as Meta, Google and TikTok did not give the option to turn off algorithms, they should face "substantial" penalties www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation
Firms like Meta, Google and TikTok should face "substantial" penalties if they don't give the option, minister says.
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Parker Lewis @parkerlewis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kam Chancellor when another Seahawks DB had beef
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