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Heidi v S

@heidivs.bsky.social
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Writer, book editor, mom and wife not necessarily in that order. Hudson Valley denizen, fan of dogs and democracy

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Seems like a good video for his trial
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Trump’s ICE thugs tear-gassed a Minneapolis neighborhood in the middle of the night and flash-banged a 6-month-old baby. ICE initially told a family trying to flee the gas that they could leave, then flash-banged their vehicle anyway. Their baby stopped breathing and was taken by EMTs. #GoodvsEvil
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
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Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Spencer Kuvin, attorney for Epstein survivors: “The fact that the government is not releasing all information only reaffirms the need for FOIA litigation. There is absolutely no reason that the Dept. of Justice has not reviewed this material for release in the last 18 years”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In case laws still matter…
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/12/2025
Q: "Will you be seeking any authorization from Congress for any land attacks on cartels in Venezuela?" Trump: "I wouldn't mind telling them but it's not a big deal. I don't have to tell them…I just hope they wouldn't leak it."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
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Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 10/12/2025
My daughter doesn’t need 37 dolls and you don’t need a ballroom that looks like Liberace tried to terraform Florida.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 10/12/2025
Most things we worry about don’t happen, which is unfair because I really put in the hours.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 05/12/2025
🚨Huge Pentagon Scandal🚨 Hegseth is funneling Pentagon money to Trump!
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Imagine if Senate and House Dems made a criminal referral to DOJ over Kushner’s corrupt involvement in these negotiations.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Why aren't people calling out that charade Melania pulled. She's friends with Vlad, "got him to release 8 of 20K Ukrainian children he had kidnapped, then stopped?! I guess the rest of them our out of luck?!
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It may be hard to believe, but Twitter was once a useful public space instead of a weird monetization scheme for racist ragebait chatbots.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
YALE BUDGET LAB: “Trump tariff checks would cost about twice as much as the total revenue raised by Trump’s tariff hikes…” Again: Tariffs are a tax that mainly impact low-income households. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19/11/2025
Dear GOP, If you’re gonna do anything with the tariff money, stop bailing out Argentina and passing out checks so Trump can pretend he’s personally writing these checks. Pay down the debt. For once
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Terrific
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Or just move them to a minimum security Club Fed and give them a puppy and yoga classes.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/11/2025
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)
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Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/11/2025
"This all began with the Rigged Census" claims the guy who was president during the 2020 census
I will be strongly endorsing against any State Senator or House member from the Great State of Indiana that votes against the Republican Party, and our Nation, by not allowing for Redistricting for Congressional seats in the United States House of Representatives as every other State in our Nation is doing, Republican or Democrat. Democrats are trying to steal our seats everywhere, and we’re not going to let this happen! This all began with the Rigged Census. We must keep the Majority at all costs. Republicans must fight back!
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"There are about a thousand of us" bsky.app/profile/aaro...
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 15/11/2025
Meet Bubba Saulsbury, son of Odessa oil industry magnate Dick Saulsbury. Also friend to Kash Patel and JD Vance. This is who the Epstein felatio email is rumored to be referring to. Not Bill Clinton.
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 14/11/2025
Kidnapping people off the street is not something law enforcement does in a “free country.” Trump claims that ICE agents are here to keep our country safe, but all they’ve done is infect our communities with racism, violence, and fear.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
So according to Trump the 2021 covid economy Biden inherited from Trump is Biden’s fault. And the 2025 economy is also Biden’s fault. But Trump gets credit for the economy he inherited from Obama. Can we have a date when Republicans are going to take responsibility for anything?
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Everyone should read this and share it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group.

Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. 

None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier.

“I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
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Heidi v S @heidivs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Out of all the corrupt BS the GOP has pulled lately, this stinks the most.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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Heidi v S @heidivs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My bad
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Weekend at Bernie's 3: MAGA Mania
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
REP. CROW: “Trump actually has the money to feed these families. Congress appropriated $6 billion to put towards SNAP Trump has decided he does not want to spend because he is trying to weaponize hunger... How sick & grotesque is that?”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Er, Chuck, take notes.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Attn Pennsylvania voters: A massive wave of texts is being sent from random numbers telling Democrats and Independents to vote “No” on the Supreme Court retention questions. These messages are fake and misleading, part of a coordinated disinformation push.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 03/11/2025
It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.
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