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@gentlystream.bsky.social
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Pro-kindness, pro-planet, pro-democracy. For my children and grandchildren.

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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 13h
THREAD: children are lovely and loving. We should aspire to be like them, and govern to give them freedom to be their wonderful selves. @swin24.bsky.social
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 16h
Ocean waters surrounding Europe reached the highest temperatures on record this summer. The warm water is “transforming marine ecosystems” with devastating consequences for fisheries in the region. buff.ly/HKBtwgI
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 19h
“By looking the other way for decades, the banks allowed Epstein to have ready and reliable access to cash necessary to recruit, harbor and transport young women and underage girls for the purpose of human trafficking and sexual abuse.” —Wyden meidasnews.com/news/exclusi... @jenpsaki.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21h
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 19h
“The multimillionaires of Main Street are getting richer even faster than the famous Forbes 400, propelled by tax breaks largely created by Republicans and local regulatory advantages.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b... @rbreich.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @velshi.com @ms.now
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The Rich People Democrats Aren’t Talking About (Gift Article)
As billionaires become a popular political target, a new book urges Washington not to lose sight of a much larger, and quieter, group of wealthy business owners.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 20h
“The Trump admin’s changes to the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) are its latest attempt to block solar development even as the nation’s energy demands skyrocket.” @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social @adamhamilton.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social @ossoff.senate.gov
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23h
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 21h
My heart sinks daily as Trump admin corruption deepens, consistently benefitting Putin. Today re sanctioned Lukoil. @craigunger.bsky.social @davidcorn.bsky.social @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu @mcfaulmike.bsky.social
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And what of the Trump rapes allegedly in the Epstein files. What punishment?
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In many ways Mark Carney is proving to be an excellent Prime Minister for Canada at a critical time in our nation’s history. But he also might be the smartest man in the world to act really stupidly about #ClimateChange at a critical time in world history.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Attn: @votersoftomorrow.org this candidate cares about your future. @wewill2026.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @emorwee.bsky.social @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Voters can ensure their ballots get a postmark when they mail them by delivering it to a post office in person and asking a postal employee to postmark.” Trump’s admin doing all they can to suppress votes. We need to do all we can to make each count. @democracydocket.com @aclu.org @votevets.org
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This (below) is the Trump/2025/MAGA effect in communities across the US. We’re a beautifully diverse, largely working class nation of communities, families, natural lands and waters. Not a billionaire playground. @votevets.org @votolatino.bsky.social @aclu.org @votersoftomorrow.org @
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Real men help each other out.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
States with key Senate races coupled with the rise in diesel/gas since Trump started his war, via Eurasia Group nebraska: +98% ohio: +93% michigan: +93% kansas: +92% iowa: +92% texas: +91% north carolina: +81% minnesota: +79% georgia: +75% alaska: +75% florida: +73% new hampshire: +68% maine: +64%
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THREAD: Some GOP Senate members were part of Trump’s attempted coup January 6, 2021, and are working with DOJ/Blanche to discredit Jack Smith. See post 13 re Grassley to replace VP Pence that day. @carolleonnig.bsky.social @velshi.com @raskin.house.gov @ryanjreilly.com @muellershewrote.com @ms.now
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It likely would have also saved the US (and world) from a second Trump term. @zeteo.com @premthakker.bsky.social
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All victims make me sad, but there’s something about the sunny Renee that’s excruciating, tragic. And we have all watched it all.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad. She’s smart and talented but…
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Texas law gives Paxton the power to probe alleged election crimes, as well as to seek a court order letting him seize ballots… Nothing in state law appears to require his recusal from investigations touching on his own political interests.”- @jenrice.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social @ms.now
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The list of young women creating planet-friendly, people-friendly solutions in recent years is incredibly inspiring. Here’s another🌿
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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As he did before January 6, Trump’s pumping up MAGA with lie-filled rants, this one vastly disproven by this meticulous 👇🏼 media @mmfa.bsky.social database. No, Fox News isn’t centering Dems. Propagandist in Chief continues to bait his rabid followers. @ossoff.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @aclu.org
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
except from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT on how it's a coup
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Source? I’d like to share…
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 30/09/2026
Up to 80% of deep-sea species rely on bioluminescence to hunt and mate. Researchers warn that plastic pollution could disrupt these critical chemical light pathways and harm tissues, posing an emerging threat to life in the ocean's largest biome. Learn more. mongabay.cc/dz6mfF
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More plastic, less glow? Pollution threatens deep sea’s bioluminescent life, experts warn
Plastic pollution could disrupt the bioluminescent light produced by deep-sea organisms, researchers warn in a letter in the journal Cambridge Prisms: Plastics. When deep-sea organisms ingest…
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just eeeww.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Editor Sophia Dasser and reporter Cereese Qusba of the Cornell Daily Sun are the reason we now know about the gang rape case at Cornell and the university’s shameful under-reaction. Nice work, ladies. (📸 Heather Ainsworth)
Two young women, one in a hijab, huddled over lap tops in a newsroom.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’re coming to drive your electricity prices through the roof, destroy your environment, take your water, pollute your air, deafen your ears, pervert your politics, enrich billionaires, obliterate your property values, take your jobs, & make you pay for the privilege. What’s not to love?¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Work should support a life, not consume it.”— @angieforfl.bsky.social I hope we elect a Senate and US House that champions the working class, and legislates for all of us.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flat-out functioning as the enemy within, dismantling our democracy
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over 120,000 people marched across France calling for action to halt global heating. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
From Bordeaux to Paris, organizers say 120,000 people took part in 260 demonstrations 'for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EPSTEIN: The vast global web newly explored by @loveon9.bsky.social + team of women researching on behalf of survivors… @repstansbury.bsky.social @balint.house.gov @warren.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @robertgarcia.house.gov @lukeharding1968.bsky.social @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shame on the billionaires running our government and world—NASA budget withheld ($2 million) to keep these instruments operable another victim of Trump’s tax cuts @billnye.bsky.social @neildegrassetyson.com @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @roguenasa.altgov.info
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Step 1: "Tether’s stablecoin has become a primary means of payment for the Iranian regime and a tool for funding terrorist proxy organizations such as Hezbollah..." Step 2: Now google Howard Lutnick and Tether www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Exclusive | Senate Investigation Finds Rampant Use of Tether’s Stablecoin by Iranian Regime
Wallets sanctioned over Iran ties overwhelmingly dealt in Tether’s USDT stablecoin, according to Senate Democrats.
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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When US media failed to to highlight this March 2015 record-setting FinCEN* fine against Trump casinos for endangering America, I knew our media wasn’t up to defending democracy. www.fincen.gov/news/news-re... @markjacob.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @ms.now @velshi.com @jimacosta.bsky.social
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FinCEN.gov
WASHINGTON, DC – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today imposed a $10 million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort (Trump Taj Mahal), for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
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Lavonne @loveon9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today's WTF? "So we now know Donald Trump and Robert Maxwell were Rothschild Inc clients in May 1991." 📸 substack.com/@epsteinclas... Wilbur Ross ran the bankruptcy restructuring practice at N M Rothschild & Sons in New York... "King of Bankruptcy". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Colleges & universities, like Cornell, that receive federal funding are required to publish an Annual Security Report (ASR) of reported rapes, fondling, dating violence, domestic violence, & stalking on campus, in university housing, & on nearby public property. www.clerycenter.org/the-clery-act
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The Clery Act
The Clery Act
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research on the planet, and its $47 billion budget is larger than that of the next 10 research funders combined." This underscores my big problem with Gorsuch's concurrence in Slaughter. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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