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GwennLee

@gwennlee.bsky.social
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Former financial executive, former bank regulator, former board member NAMI, skeptic of Trickle Down Economics, GOP redistribution of wealth from poor to rich and American Exceptionalism

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Trump's ICE is disappearing thousands of people in their system, hiding their locations from loved ones & lawyers, & preventing them from exercising their constitutional rights.   This is the lawlessness Republicans keep writing blank checks for. Not another dime! apnews.com/article/ice-...
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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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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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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I mean just look at this horrible, offensive, hateful statement by Macklemore! We must support his cancellation!!! We must!
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/09/2026
Judge Berner's decision is a sobering read. Trump's mass detention agenda "harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history," including the internment of Japanese people during WWII. 
9 Appellate Courts have now shot down this lawless policy. SCOTUS should too.
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Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compared ICE’s policy to Japanese internment.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the most inept Trump articles the NYT has pubbed lately (low bar). It’s like all this stuff just happened to Trump. Passive construction over and over. And if your first paragraph transmits a Trump lie and your second doesn’t call it a lie, you are a propagandist, not a journalist. 1/2
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/09/2026
political corruption is literally an apocalyptic problem — pass it on
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Mike Rogers opposed 9/11 responder health care not twice, but nine times - Detroit Metro Times
Newly uncovered record shows Mike Rogers repeatedly opposed efforts to establish, advance, or fund medical care for people sickened after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Again, do you trust elected officials to regulate this catastrophic technology when both sides are paid by the same Silicon Valley companies to do the opposite? Follow the money. They've bought out most Dems and Republicans. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
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Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown
In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 12/09/2026
Several Trump administration officials privately told Zeteo the Iran war was spiraling out of control, after the Republican Party’s midterm convention. One official said they viewed the developments as Iran & the Houthis in Yemen launching a “Tet Offensive” on the economy: zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It is in the subordinate clauses that you most clearly see the way NYT reporters have internalized the normalization of a lunatic. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with: “In keeping with his freewheeling approach to the global stage…” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/w...
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Trump Says Irish Unification Would Be ‘Fantastic,’ Breaking With Precedent
The United States is officially neutral on an issue that had been a source of decades of violence in Northern Ireland until a 1998 peace deal.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Democrats are dumping Graham Platner. The Republicans nominated Ken Paxton.
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Happy Doggo @happydoggo.com · 27/11/2025
In less than 24 hours, our team rallied to load and deliver 2 tonnes of dog food and supplies to flood-affected Hat Yai 🛻
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/06/2026
Trump's lawless ICE operation spent $700 MILLION of your tax dollars on 7 warehouses they’re now trying to get rid of.   Not only is this ICE operation draconian & inhumane, it's an abuse of taxpayer dollars, paid for by their cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. It's twisted.
ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, reversing course on a signature initiative.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 18/06/2026
💢 Israeli forces murdered 2 Palestinians and wounded many others Wed. evening in a drone strike targeting civilians on the beach in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Felesteen Online. Medical sources identified the 2 killed as Mohammed Jawda al-Farra & Hussein...
💢 Israeli forces murdered two Palestinians and wounded many others Wednesday evening in a drone strike targeting civilians on the beach in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Felesteen Online.

Medical sources identified the two killed as Mohammed Jawda al-Farra and Hussein Mohammed al-Qadra. Ambulance crews transported the victims and several wounded Palestinians, some in critical condition, to Nasser Hospital.

Two other people were killed in northern Gaza, in attacks Israel’s military later took responsibility for.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The feds' bogus conspiracy case against 'The Minneapolis 15' is outrageous But their real target is YOU -- to shut you up and make regular folks think twice about protesting Trump's stunts to steal the election in November Free the Minneapolis 15! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The ‘Minneapolis 15′ ICE-protester indictments are meant to shut you up | Will Bunch
An outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Of course as a cynical columnist I felt I needed to write today about the America we're NOT supposed to be share.inquirer.com/AqF4RK
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The ‘Minneapolis 15′ ICE-protester indictments are meant to shut you up | Will Bunch
An outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/06/2026
NEW: A federal judge allowed legal challenges to Trump's executive order targeting mail voting to proceed, ruling it would harm states' ability to carry out the midterms. While Trump and GOP states requested that the suits be dismissed, the judge said the order was "ripe and fit" for legal review.
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Judge lets lawsuits against Trump’s attack on mail voting proceed
The judge said Trump's order is “both ripe and fit” for legal review because it will affect elections this November.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/06/2026
Advocates Say Jailed Immigrants “Disappeared” After Transfer from “Alligator Alcatraz”
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Advocates Say Jailed Immigrants “Disappeared” After Transfer from “Alligator Alcatraz”
The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that all immigrants detained at an isolated ICE jail in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” have been transferred to other fac...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We have to crush these billionaire villains. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ladies and gentlemen: our Titans of Industry www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18/06/2026
NEWS: A direct challenge to Citizens United is headed to voters in Montana. After nearly 50,000 signatures, a ballot measure would ban corporations and trade associations — including out-of-state groups — from spending to influence elections. The super PAC era may have just met its mutiny. 👊
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
There is something terribly wrong with a polity where supposedly pro-democracy Senators pose in seersucker with the supporters of lawless authoritarianism, who also happen to be the prime enablers of the trillionaires who have committed unprecedented constitutional crimes & mass murder 🤷‍♂️
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
You can help to keep Ukrainians safe. By contributing, you are allowing people to survive and helping people to persevere. You are also letting them know that they are not alone, and that you can see a better future, and want to part of it. Please help if you can. snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defens...
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Sky Defense: Bringing it Home
We are saving lives and neighborhoods in Ukraine
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
No one should give a shit about risky politics—I certainly don't. Donald Trump is demented and psychopathic, and he has control of a stockpile of 3700 nuclear weapons. *That* is the risk we should be talking about.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
advice on candidate selection, full text here for free, search "when it comes to officials" https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-truth-is-in-here
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Trump Justice Department is doubling down on an argument that, if accepted, could open the door for the administration — and anti-voting groups — to create lists of voters and send them to states for removal right before elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump DOJ doubles down on claim that states can purge voters right before elections
In other words: DOJ is claiming that the federal government or private groups could conduct the systematic review, identify voters they believe may be ineligible and pass those names on to Georgia, wh...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Democrats need the Senate to take the Supreme Court or at least block 2 young replacements for Clarence Thomas and Alito. Eyes on the prize, folks. We get nothing without the Supreme Court.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/06/2026
Israel preventing more than 16,500 Palestinians from accessing medical treatment aje.news/kkhvvj
Israel preventing more than 16,500 Palestinians from accessing medical treatment
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Ken Paxton and Texas Republicans let a pedophile rapist basically walk free. Adam Hoffman did a plea bargain, spent a few weeks in jail, and walked out and doesn't have to register as a sex offender. Might be a huge scandal. Maybe worth some major headlines and stories.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Donald Trump is lying about California elections, threatening criminal prosecutions and this is what WaPo writes. Let's be honest: Legacy media is broken, it is compromised and failing us. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
What we're seeing at Delaney Hall is symptomatic of what we saw in Minneapolis and across the country. It needs to stop. We need to abolish ICE, and we must restore a sensible, legal, and humane immigration policy. #NY12
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It's only 24 hours since I walked up to her in this condition, and I feared the absolute worst. I wasn't sure if she'd even live, never mind walk again. But if you need a big smile, watch until the end of this video, and you'll see just how brave little Skye is.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
President Donald Trump tapped loyalist Bill Pulte, a top housing official, to serve as acting director of national intelligence (DNI), a cabinet position tasked with overseeing the U.S. intelligence community. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump appoints Bill Pulte, unqualified loyalist who targeted his foes, as acting intel chief
Trump elevated Pulte to the country’s top spy role despite the fact that he has no known intelligence experience.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Good. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...
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Group Pledges $2 Million to Fight AIPAC in House Races
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The way I see it, two things need to happen to save our democracy from Donald Trump: [1] Trump must be IMPEACHED and REMOVED. - Trump has to be held accountable, and not just as a formality. - We also need formal investigations into ALL members of his Executive Branch
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Thank you to everyone who signed up. I fight in court because it matters to democracy. I started Democracy Docket because independent, prodemocracy media matters as well. Here is the link to sign up for a premium account or free subscription. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns. Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
He's completely incompetent, even apart from being deranged.
Ben Meiselas: You are seeing in real time why Trump companies went bankrupt so many times. Set aside your politics. This guy is incapable of making a deal or meaningful decision and it follows the same cycle. Big flashy announcement (Epic Fury). Adversity hits (Hormuz closed). Defraud stakeholders (promise two week solution). Freeze up (endless two week cycle loop). Compound the problem (resource depletion). Final chance to save face rejected (what you’re seeing now). Bankruptcy strikes and blame others during chaos. Rinse repeat.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/05/2026
Rashida Tlaib, the US congresswoman from Michigan, decries 'mass murder' in Lebanon as the death toll mounts from Israel's attacks since March, saying the US is not a 'bystander' but an 'active participant' in the Israeli invasion. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/osen4f
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/05/2026
Despite ICJ genocide warnings, 51 nations kept arming Israel, even after pledging to halt support aje.news/hsk76r
Despite ICJ genocide warnings, 51 nations kept arming Israel, even after pledging to halt support
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2026
congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Erasing history www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters
The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Too many people have accepted Donald Trump’s presidency as "normal." Too many believe there is nothing we can do, and that we simply need to outlast his term. We cannot endure 29 more months with this mendacious, narcissistic, rapist, wannabe dictator who is selling us out to the highest bidder.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In this episode I explain how a made up legal doctrine that says federal courts should not alter state voting rules, district maps, or election procedures too close to an election has been weaponized against Black voters and Democrats. youtu.be/InDAklMpVao?...
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A Made-Up Supreme Court Rule Rigs Election Law for Republicans
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.
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