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Artist. Dreamer. Democrat.

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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 16/09/2025
Trump promised lower costs, but prices are STILL too high. He and Republicans cut $1T from health care—driving costs up for all of us—and now want deeper cuts. Not OK. Learn what happened below + fight back: trumpflation.momsrising.org
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Another Sign Of How Little We Can Trust The Current Administration…
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 09/04/2025
Changes to a National Park Service website that removed any mention of Harriet Tubman from a text about the Underground Railroad were “made without approval from NPS leadership.”
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Harriet Tubman Erased From US Parks Website Without Agency’s Permission
A text about the Underground Railroad has been restored after it was edited to remove Tubman and downplay the contributions of Black abolitionists.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/04/2025
When hundreds of thousands of people coordinate across an entire nation to protest governmental policies, that’s not a page 18 story. That’s not a “see more in section B” situation. That’s front-page news. Period.
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Print Media to Mass Protests: “Please Turn to Page 18”
Here’s how newspapers across America minimized one of the largest demonstrations since Trump’s return to power.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 08/04/2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is ending most, if not all, remaining U.S. aid for Afghanistan and Yemen in what the U.N. World Food Program said could be "a death sentence" for millions.
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Trump administration food aid cuts put millions at risk, aid sources say
The U.N. World Food Program warned that the termination of U.S. funding for emergency food assistance 'could amount to a death sentence' for millions.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/04/2025
Two Democratic US senators demanded information from Microsoft and Google about their cloud computing partnerships with artificial intelligence companies, expressing concern the arrangements could stifle competition in the cutting-edge industry reut.rs/4j0HQuc
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Democratic US senators question Google and Microsoft's AI deals
Two Democratic U.S. senators demanded information from Microsoft and Google about their cloud computing partnerships with artificial intelligence companies, expressing concern the arrangements could stifle competition in the cutting-edge industry.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/04/2025
BREAKING: At least 58 Palestinians have been killed and 213 injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry aje.io/qz1ssk
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/04/2025
JPMorgan said it now expects the US economy to fall into a recession this year after accounting for the likely impact of tariffs announced this week by the Trump administration.
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JPMorgan Says Trump’s Tariffs to Send US Into Recession in 2025
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it expects the US economy to fall into a recession this year after accounting for the likely impact of tariffs announced this week by the Trump administration.
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Imagine your child’s teacher disappearing overnight. That’s what Trump’s education cuts will do—180,000 teachers gone. This will impact 2.8 million kids. Fight back! Call Congress at 202-224-3121 Demand they reject these cuts. #HandsOffOurSchools social.demcast.com/s/MiakfJX7
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rcinnc1 @rcinnc1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
PLEASE REPOST. PLEASE REPOST. PLEASE REPOST. bsky.app/profile/card...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/04/2025
Breaking News: The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, warned that President Trump’s tariffs risked even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected.
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Powell Warns Trump’s Tariffs Risk Stoking Even Higher Inflation and Slower Growth
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, says the central bank’s “obligation” is to ensure that a “one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem.”
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
iPhones are going to cost $2300.
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iPhones Could Cost Up to $2,300 in the U.S. Due to Tariffs, Analyst Says
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that steep tariffs will be applied to imports from many countries, starting April 9. The tariffs...
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Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) @boldprogressives.org · 01/04/2025
Big news from @propublica.org: Activists exerted leverage on #PaulWeiss & won 200 hours of pro bono time to RE-START lawsuits against Big Tech / Big Banks. Originally started by CFPB. CANCELLED by Trump/Musk. CFPB was a watchdog for your wallet. Now @elonjet.net Musk lines pockets of billionaires.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
2000 members of National Academies warn that this administration is hurting the country. “We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
Nearly 2,000 top researchers call on Trump administration to halt ‘assault’ on science

All the scientists are members of the National Academies, which has remained silent

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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Are we Great yet?
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skylineA vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2025
Rep. Chuck Edwards is jeered at his North Carolina town hall as he struggles to read purported examples of weird funding items that DOGE has cut
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JD Random - RandomWhiteGuy @thereelrandom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The E.P.A. Is NOW in the business of making it easier for the rich to get richer and the rest of us to fight for clean water, air, and land. There are no words to describe this fuckery. Read this shit…
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
House Republican Chuck Edwards is getting demolished at his town hall in Asheville, North Carolina: "Like him or not, Elon Musk has brought a lot of really smart people to DOGE." Crowd: NO! Booooooooo! Boo! BOOOOOO! NOOOO! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Call Me Sook @sookiestackhouse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Protest tomorrow in support of veterans who are losing their health care promised to them in return for their service to America. Major rally in DC at 12:30 and at every state capital. If you’re too far away, join in solidarity where you are. Info about the DC rally👇🏻 mobilize.us/s/I3P0S5.
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Veteran locks self to sign post outside White House to protest VA cuts
YouTube video by News2Share
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FOX8 WGHP @myfox8.com · 13/03/2025
'Resilient Appalachian mountain people': Small business in Swannanoa uses property to help neighbors after Hurricane Helene
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‘Resilient Appalachian mountain people’: Small business in Swannanoa uses property to help neighbors after Hurricane Helene
SWANNANOA, N.C. (WGHP) – A small business in Swannanoa is using its property to help neighbors six months after Hurricane Helene hit. “Swannanoa is doing OK. We are very resilient Appalachian mount…
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 13/03/2025
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UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos
Schools across the country are cutting back as US research takes “severe blow.”…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/03/2025
America’s largest federal employees’ union filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Homeland Security Department and its leadership to stop the Trump administration from canceling a collective bargaining agreement for TSA workers.
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Labor Union Sues Trump Administration Over T.S.A. Contract
The largest federal employees union is suing the Homeland Security Department to stop the Trump administration from canceling its contract with T.S.A. workers.
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Live 5 News @live5news.com · 08/03/2025
Trump administration throws hundreds of affordable housing projects into limbo after contract cuts
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Trump administration throws hundreds of affordable housing projects into limbo after contract cuts
The Associated Press has found that the Trump administration has stalled at least $60 million in funding intended largely for affordable housing developments nationwide.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/03/2025
A federal judge reinstated Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board, declaring that President Trump’s attempt to fire her was unlawful.
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Judge Reinstates NLRB Member Fired by Trump
The ruling, which the Trump administration immediately moved to appeal, was a rebuke of Mr. Trump’s expansive view of executive power.
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 04/03/2025
The Social Security Administration, tasked with running the program relied on by more than 73 million Americans, has begun to reorganize and slash staff, leading to major concerns among Democrats in Congress.
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Deep cutbacks in Social Security staff slammed by U.S. Senate Democrats • Arkansas Advocate
The Social Security Administration, tasked with running the program relied on by more than 73 million Americans, has begun to reorganize and slash staff, leading to major concerns among Democrats in…
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BigBlueWaveUSA2026® ….. 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦🦋🏳️‍🌈 @bigbluewaveusa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Another *massive* American fail.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 02/03/2025
Scores of people, many toting homemade signs, braved the briskly cold weather Saturday afternoon to gather at the Indiana Dunes National Park Visitor Center to protest the loss of park employees.
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‘Hurt the park, you hurt us’: Cuts at National Parks protested at Indiana Dunes
Scores of people, many toting homemade signs, braved the briskly cold weather Saturday afternoon to gather at the Indiana Dunes National Park Visitor Center to protest the loss of park employees.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/03/2025
“Lapdog vice-president.” A seething op-ed from JD Vance’s hometown paper, the Ohio Capital Journal, is not impressed by his first few weeks in a “nondescript role as an appendage in the Trump-Musk administration."
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JD Vance Torn to Shreds in Hilarious Ohio Newspaper Op-Ed
The paper sarcastically lauded the vice president as having “really done Ohio proud.”
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Finally
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“OPM does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees within another agency." - US District Judge William Alsup says in ruling from the bench that the mass firing of probationary employees ordered by OPM was likely unlawful.
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Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers to likely be unlawful | CNN Politics
A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting some temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions and organizations...
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 27/02/2025
Elon Musk has to be the dumbest son of a bitch on the planet.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/02/2025
Is it incompetence or cruelty? Either way, DOGE screws Veterans and this should definitely be getting more attention! DOGE is dragging its feet on processing VA claims, leaving veterans without the healthcare and support they earned.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
How long will they waste time and tax dollars on another unconstitutional bill toward their goal of destroying public education? www.wistv.com/2025/02/27/s...
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South Carolina again faces showdown over spending public money on private school tuition
The South Carolina House approved its own version of a bill Wednesday that would let parents spend taxpayer money on private school tuition.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 24/02/2025
The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/02/2025
U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger has asked the Merit Systems Protection Board to temporarily reinstate six federal employees fired from their jobs and is considering ways to seek relief for others.
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Federal watchdog agency intervenes in Trump's purge of probationary employees
U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger has asked the Merit Systems Protection Board to temporarily reinstate six federal employees fired from their jobs and is considering ways to seek relief for othe...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders. Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/02/2025
This is what courage looks like. While so many stay silent, these people took a stand. We need more of that—right now. 📌 21 civil service employees resigned from DOGE
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Senator Murphy : 😂 "Mar-a-Lago cabal" Republicans are in the midst of a massive transfer of wealth to billionaires, while gutting Medicaid from our children and seniors.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨Liar in charge tRump/musk/DOGE. We hate DEI🚨 Social Security Administration just put on leave the whole Department of CREO. CREO is the office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Oversees SSA Programs Civil Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity, HARASSMENT Prevention & Disabilities
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What she said.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/02/2025
UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.
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Gale @galeflower.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Welcome back, Cathy.
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Bananie @accibsa.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Grow your own food, my friends 😏
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18/02/2025
NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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