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Nature is my religion and world peace is my dream – a dog-loving, feminist, anti-racist, climate activist, human rights champion, defender and ally of the queer and trans, protector of free speech, advocate of true histories, and blue democracy warrior 💙 🦋

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h
Hypocrisy alert: Trump has officially told his supporters to vote by mail, even though he has spent years trying to ban the safe and secure voting method. This comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking the House and Senate are improving. Help us keep covering this: demdock.com/4zlGLVO
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1h
Is Pete Hegseth building a military more loyal to him than to even Trump? Retired US Army Major Harrison Mann warned in my interview that Hegseth is working to transform the military into an organization "blind loyalty to him.” youtu.be/gmxGUU8DTQw
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Is Pete Hegseth building a military more loyal to him than to even Trump? A US Army Major explains
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Trump ignores a question about "what did mean when you said 'let them take out Los Angeles and San Diego?'"
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 57m
Germany has arrested former BND chief August Hanning on suspicion of treasonous espionage. Prosecutors allege he obtained about 2,000 internal intelligence documents and used classified information in dealings involving foreign intelligence services.
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Former German spy chief August Hanning arrested on suspicion of treason
August Hanning ran Germany's foreign intelligence service for seven years. Federal prosecutors say he spent more than a decade after leaving it buying the agency's classified papers from his former of...
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🖕MAGA
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 55m
Still telling the “vandalism” lie not a single soul believes 🤥
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 54m
NEW: On September 23rd, Cook Political Report shifted the Kansas senate race from "likely republican" to "lean republican." Today, they changed it to "toss up." www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...
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A Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift Left
Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 52m
it's a day that ends in y today so that means Trump is enjoying #TravelWithNatalie (Finn Gomez/Getty)
pic of Harp exciting the White House to bard Marine One with Dear Donald
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 55m
A Cayman Islands source gave Blum incriminating intel on 20 ultrarich Americans defrauding the US Treasury. He took it to the IRS in Miami, where a special agent looked over the documents and told him to get lost. Blum had expected gratitude. “This whole thing is a career killer,” the agent said.
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Oligarchs are robbing America blind, and the IRS is powerless to stop them
The Wealth Defense Industry and its politicians have seen to that.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 42m
For all the Cornell 7 investigation news in one place, subscribe (for free) to @dailybeanspod.com. Never any paywalls. Women owned and operated independent media. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Never Trust Alito (feat. Janet Reitman)
Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · October 6 · 54m
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 40m
"Let them watch us eat cake."
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 41m
A president inviting the destruction of major American cities, including a city that hosts a large part of the Navy fleet, just seems like grounds for impeachment or the 25th Amendment. Even uttered in jest—and who really knows what's in this guy's head—it is, at best, profoundly unpatriotic.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 38m
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates to lead a "comprehensive independent review" into how the school "prevents and responds to sexual harassment, sexual assault and related misconduct on campus.” abcnews.com/US/cornell-t...
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Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent review
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how Cornell responds to sexual assault cases.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 37m
The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm. Two growing phenomena — climate change and AI — pose escalating risks of extraordinary harm. What can be done about both? Two words: Liability law. Let me explain..
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Here’s How To Reduce the Existential Risks
If there’s no other way
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 32m
254 hospitals and clinics have closed since Republicans cut healthcare programs by 1 Trillion dollars. 15 million people are in the cut line. The people who did the math are up for reelection. You can do the math too: vote them all out in November. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 29m
The government is also, as we reported yesterday, separating children from families in the interior, labeling them "unaccompanied," putting them in shelters, and using payments and coercive memos to get them to give up their legal rights and leave the country.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29m
Trump tells ranchers to eat shit 👇 Q: Nebraska is no. 1 beef state. It was striking to see universal condemnation for your choice to import 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef. What message do you have? TRUMP: So, I have been better to ranchers and to farmers than any president in history, but...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25m
NEW: In a major break from past norms, the Trump administration sent criminal prosecutors and an FBI agent to monitor voters in Arizona's primaries earlier this year. The push comes as Trump exerts pressure on state elections as part of an ongoing attempt to find fraud before the midterms.
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DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25m
"Project Meridian is like so much that characterizes this moment in history: oriented toward a real challenge, but with the worst people given the power to come up with the answers. The best we can hope for may be that their recommendations get ignored and then forgotten." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 24m
The facility "has six-foot-high fences around it. It's got concertina wire on top of that. It's controlled in and out. The idea that this worker broke a test tube and suddenly contracted pneumonic plague, which is inhalation plague, that does not entirely add up." —Annie Jacobsen
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Understanding pneumonic plague after Russian lab worker's death
The U.S. is closely monitoring a potential case of pneumonic plague in Russia after a laboratory worker who studied the disease fell ill and died. Russian authorities insist there is no cause for alar...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23m
... Who is lacking in morality, conscience, empathy, remorse, and impulse control, and whose only concern if a city (in any country, including ours) were to be wiped off the face of the Earth, would be how it affects him.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23m
You can reasonably dispute the meaning of a lot Trump says because he’s so incoherent and inarticulate. But what you can’t reasonably dispute is that he is a sadistic and delusional narcissistic sociopath, at once both psychopathic and psychotic ...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 21m
At least three sailors were killed in Russian attacks on four merchant ships in the Black Sea over two days. The Royad Mammadov and Alfa Watan sank, the Able was damaged, and another vessel was struck off Ukraine. Alfa Watan entire crew is missing.
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Russian Drones hit three Turkish-owned cargo ships off Romania and Bulgaria in two days, 3 dead
At least three sailors were killed in Russian attacks on four merchant ships in the Black Sea over two days. Two vessels sank, another sailor was killed in a drone strike, and the crew of a ship sunk ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20m
Pete Hegseth's cringe culture war slop is getting a chilly reception in Maryland 😬
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Western Environmental Law Center @westernlaw.org · 20m
AKA "permitting reform." It does fun things like shaving a little off the statute of limitations timeline for key environmental and community protection laws. Reduces them by just a wee little 93%, down to 150 days. So by the time the data center has broken ground, you're powerless to seek justice.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 18m
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Suncor v. Boulder, a case that could determine whether communities can hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damages. At the heart of the fight is attribution science, which is increasingly linking fossil fuel pollution to climate harms.
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared (Gift Article)
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18m
Mike Johnson is not a trustworthy negotiating partner. He lies as part of his religion.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 3h
Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
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Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
Regulators have ordered the company representing the US web giant in Finland to stop building data centers until it can demonstrate compliance with environmental laws. Officials are investigating whether trees and soil were cleared before the company carried out an impact study.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1h
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2h
Declaring war on Chicago wasn't normal. Inciting treason and encouraging an active adversary to bomb Southern California isn't normal. Who's next? A President hellbent on going after "the enemy within" is a threat to us all.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h
A 911 call from Salem, Oregon, describes a disturbing encounter in which a woman was screaming that she was a U.S. citizen as ICE goons broke her vehicle window and forcibly pulled her out. According to reporting on the call, the woman suffered a concussion, torn rotator cuff and bruised ribs.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 1h
Do it. Countries weigh banning smart glasses over privacy concerns www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Countries weigh banning smart glasses over privacy concerns
Governments, courts and companies are considering restrictions and examining existing rules on smart glasses amid worries that the technology, brought to mainstream by ​Meta's Ray-Bans, could be used ...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2h
Very worthwhile to follow @zacheverson.com if you're trying to stay up to speed on the Trumps' crypto machinations.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 2h
December brings more than $900 billion in Republican Medicaid cuts. CBO projects their tax bill will take health coverage from 16 million Americans. Republicans chose tax breaks over our families’ care. Remember who made that choice when you vote. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis #USDemocracy
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h
I attended a lot of events at the UN. But one luncheon topped me in my tracks. What stayed with me was what went unchallenged. RESISTANCE. In my own words. Watch: youtu.be/5MZEkOD-YMs
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RESISTANCE: Choosing Facts in an Age of Disinformation | I#nMyOwnWords
YouTube video by Onest.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10h
Robert's Right ✅️......
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 5h
You can read through the Lutnick and Epstein emails here. #OpDeathEaters www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Age Verification | United States Department of Justice
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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 3h
Project Dipshit
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Rep. Chrissy Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov · 3h
President Trump's statement about Los Angeles and San Diego last night is a betrayal of every person living in this country. It does not matter if he was joking, or confused or off-script.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 9h
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
I'm having quite the day in right wing media.😂
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 2h
SCOOP @wired.com: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 5h
Grandpa is sundowning hard today over his rallies.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 2h
Not a peep from Mike Johnson as Donald Trump calls on Iran to take out American cities in California.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New from Heather Marsh: The predator networks #OpDeathEaters warned about are evolving. Creep cameras, AI deepfakes, stalking technology and organised rape networks have transformed the landscape for women’s rights & safety, creating a predator paradise. www.patreon.com/BindingChaos...
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Mobbing and misogyny | Heather Marsh
Mobbing and misogyny by Heather Marsh on Patreon. Join Heather Marsh's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
Delay, delay, delay...
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