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Samantha Kaiser

@girlinthehat.bsky.social
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Hat wearing liberal, inclusive, exvangelical, learning, growing and resisting in the PNW.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Whoaaaaa www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Congratulations to Tim Mellon, the far right billionaire who just volunteered to become the literal poster child for ads about billionaires whose tax cuts are a primary reason why the govt is shut down. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...
A 1981 black and white photo of Tim Mellon, from the NYT story. He is wearing a nametag and a tie with Christmas trees.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Federal agents tear gassing the Lake View neighborhood.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Jennings: He does not have a right to have a TV show where he lies his ass off to the American people and attacks half this country on a nightly basis Phillip: There are plenty of people over on another network who lied about the last election, who denigrate half the country every single night.
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Samantha Kaiser @girlinthehat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This week Alondra Nelson resigned from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Board. Her essay in Time describes the stark reality of what is happening and the resulting impacts. It's a beautiful and heartbreaking essay. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Samantha Kaiser @girlinthehat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #handsoff #resist #portland
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Samantha Kaiser @girlinthehat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Showing up in Portland, Or! #handsoff #handsoff2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I had legit completely forgotten this.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 14/03/2025
You may not agree on everything Nancy Pelosi has done, but I will say this she has a bigger set of balls in every man in Congress. Especially @fetterman.senate.gov and @schumer.senate.gov
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Pelosi Statement on the Government Funding Bill in the Senate
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on the government funding bill under consideration in the Senate:
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/03/2025
@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN! Watch:
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Rick Wilson Has an URGENT Message for Chuck Schumer: SHUT IT DOWN!
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The Measles vaccine is completely safe and two doses are 99 percent effective
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A little louder for the Senate Democrats in the back: The GOP controls the WH, House & Senate. You will not be responsible for a government shutdown. We need you to stand up for the American people. If you don’t, we will campaign and donate to Dems who will. @schumer.senate.gov
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/03/2025
WOW. Read this entire affidavit.
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Missy Hubbard @missy-ubermom.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Samantha Kaiser @girlinthehat.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Standing up for science today in Salem, Or. @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender. 📌They should STILL be talking now.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 01/03/2025
Silver lining: Europe became a Union yesterday. 🇪🇺
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/02/2025
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/02/2025
Trump is too much of a coward to say a bad thing to Putin, yet he dares lecture Zelensky? Russia is on the verge of collapse and Trump/Vance are desperate to save them
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Trump and JD Vance are an embarrassment to this country. The amount of disrespect these two idiots are showing  Zelenskyy is unbelievably disgusting. Putin is a TERRORIST and Trump is a fu€king LIAR.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelenskyy showed more courage and intestinal fortitude today than the entire Republican Party since 2016. It's shocking to see someone refuse to bend the knee and become a supplicant.
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 28/02/2025
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Brett Meiselas: Right now, we have a president and his billionaire oligarch buddy, who are essentially leading a coup against the United States from within. And I think people are looking right now for people to call this out for what it is every single day, unapologetically,
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 27/02/2025
This news truly breaks my heart. We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line! abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
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Measles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decade
An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 22/02/2025
The Trump admin is planning to strip healthcare away from millions of Americans by proposing new criteria for who can and can't receive Medicaid. Please CALL YOUR SENATORS/CONGRESSPEOPLE. Tell them they work for US. And we demand they protect our access to healthcare. 5calls.org/issue/protec...
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Protect Medicaid Funding ⭑ 5 Calls
Medicaid is a health insurance program serving 72 million low-income and disabled Americans that is jointly funded and administered by …
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
He nails it.
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/02/2025
If you haven’t seen this yet, please do. Because this morning something awesome happened that I’m going to say more about soon…. Hint: Georgia…. Town hall. It’s happening…. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...
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Emergency live: let’s be loud!
A recording from Adam Kinzinger's live video
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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The conclusion was that peaceful protests were more successful than violent ones, and that meaningful change was effected swiftly once 3.5% of the population involved themselves in those protests: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/02/2025
Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥
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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
REPOST if you stand with AOC!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"
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STAT @statnews.com · 10/02/2025
#BREAKING - 22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
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22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/02/2025
Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
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Samantha Kaiser @girlinthehat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
From an exvangical...this is so true.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/02/2025
President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.
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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So you’re telling me there’s a chance… Looking to you Florida for the April 1st special election, if @gayforcongress.bsky.social & @joshweil.bsky.social can flip these seats (plus NY 21), democrats can stop the madness & not-so-slow descent into authoritarian fascist rule 🙃 youtu.be/spo1mPKNsWM?...
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Florida special election gives Democrats a chance #politics #humor #news
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