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Sonnie 🌈 🦋

@heysonnie.bsky.social
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Pronounced saw-knee (like Ronnie-Bonnie-Connie-Donnie). Probably older that you. Queer. Married. Suburban. Churchy. She | her. Democrat since before I was born. Working for peace and justice... and love in the world. 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎

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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Californians: Research the propositions. Titles might sound enticing, but the actual legislation could be completely different. Be sure to include learning who's behind it -- both individuals and PACs. I'm going to trust the ACLU and teachers, not "Building a Better California" or "taxpayers assns."
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November 2026 General Election | FPPC
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
You know who I like? Jimmy Kimmel. He's taking tonight off to watch @colbertlateshow.bsky.social Stephen Colbert's last show, and is urging us to do likewise. (I'll be asleep by then, but I'll record and watch tomorrow morning.)
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The whole thing was just too convenient. Trump "won" all the swing states - every single one of them. I never believed it.
thiswillhold.substack.com
Elon Musk’s Ex, Ashley St. Clair, Confirms He Rigged the 2024 Election Using Technology
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
VOTE - for the children!
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
From The Other 98% on FB:
From The Other 98% on FB:
"I have a red line in determining which Democrat I will support for President. That person must commit to removing the stain of Trump's name from every single federal building, and kick it off with a grand public ceremony. With fireworks. You think I'm kidding. I'm not kidding." - Ted Lieu
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Jeez! Our tax dollars at work. 😡
tasteofcountry.com
WATCH: Kid Rock Reveals Video Cameo From Pete Hegseth On Opening Night of Freedom 250 Tour
Kid Rock and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth were spotted flying in military helicopters around the D.C. area last week. Turns out, that video footage is being used in Rock's 2026 tour.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Former Attorney General Eric Holder on yesterday's horridly racist SCOTUS decision. TL;DR - it's going to take national legislation. 🌊
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The Only Answer to a Radical Court is a Renewed Democracy Movement
In effectively gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the Court today ensures that it will be remembered as one of the most destructive and deeply irresponsible Courts in the history of our natio...
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Goodbye.
nytimes.com
Swalwell Says He Will Resign From Congress After Sex Abuse Accusations
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Ca$h Patel is investigating Swalwell, illegally interfering in the California gubernatorial election. Surprised?
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Swalwell and the Politics of Counterintelligence
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Trump sending the 'nice' ICE without masks to airports, to get you used to them coming to your polling places. But they are the SAME agents who wear mask and kidnap, deport and shoot our neighbors in the streets. IT'S NOT A DIFFERENT GROUP. youtu.be/r-gtuP9BhQQ?... Thank you for supporting my work
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TRUMP'S ICE FOLLIES! Deploys ICE to JFK Airport 3/23/26
YouTube video by Sandi Bachom
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Quote: “She will `emphasize education’s role in advancing tolerance and world peace.ʼ”
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Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting in a first for a first lady
U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations said Thursday would be a first.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
He's fucking nuts.
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President Trump wants to impose 15% tariff, up from 10% he announced after Supreme Court decision
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
pastemagazine.com
I wasted 30 minutes of my life watching the Turning Point USA halftime show so you don’t have to
It’s hard to mount a culture war when your big counteroffensive looks like a youth-group lock-in made up of kids who found God in a megachurch but lost their personality somewhere in suburban Atlanta....
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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
. The longer 1 am alive the more I wonder why we women aren't burning everything to the ground .
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Californians - register or check your registration status. Then make a plan to VOTE. Give someone a ride to a voting center or volunteer.
npr.org
The Supreme Court lets California use its new, Democratic-friendly congressional map
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year's midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas' new GOP-friendly ma...
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti:

We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Fuck ICE.
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Man shot during Minneapolis immigration crackdown has died, hospital record shows
A 51-year-old man shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows. Gov.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I've eaten countless pomegranates, and I put those beautiful gems - arils - in my salad last night. I had no idea about the harvesting. Thank you, "Raul" and all farmworkers.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Since Tmp was first elected I've often used the hashtag #PeopleWillDie. It's never been intended as humor.
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Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Everything they're doing is intended to frustrate and stifle us. Despite it all, I will not be silenced!
action.womensmarch.com
January 20th. Walk out. Tune in. Stand up: The Rallyroom Podcast Livestream (Women's March...
On January 20, we’re calling on our communities to walk out on fascism—and come together in solidarity. As part of the Free America Walkout, Women's March Foundation is hosting a live tapping of its R...
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Reporter talking about today's release of the Epstein files used the word "trepidation." Half-listening, I heard "Trumpidation."
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
lawandcrime.com
Pulitzer Prize Board members seek discovery of Trump finances, psych records, prescription meds
Pulitzer Prize Board members filed a litany of broad discovery demands in an attempt to beat back Trump's defamation suit over Russia probe reporting awards.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Orange Menace received a consolation peace prize, invented just for him by FIFA. ⚽
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FIFA gives President Donald Trump a peace prize in a departure from its traditional focus on sport
FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump. It’s an unusual break from tradition for the sport-focused soccer organization, whose president has become a close ally of Trump.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
@nicollewallace.bsky.social and friends talked about this on Deadline WH today. Even TruthSocial's AI won't lie for Tmp.
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Jared Poland (@jaredpoland)
“Donald Trump’s Truth Social website has its own AI search tool…it’s doing something remarkable and unexpected. It’s telling the truth.”
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Jules in SB @graciesbiatch.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I’m convinced Trump will destroy the world to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Katie Phang and Jim Acosta about emails between Epstein and Maxwell about Tmp, House Oversight, and more.
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BREAKING EPSTEIN NEWS WITH KATIE PHANG and JIM ACOSTA
The House Oversight Committee releases damning emails from the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein that allegedly show that Felon Trump knew about Epstein’s conduct
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
As much as I like Spotify I like fascism less. I canceled our subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify #NoICE
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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/10/2025
The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) stated that Orem “is a safe place. Not the kind of place where you expect something like this to happen. It’s truly tragic.” This is true of the sites of most school shootings, but apparently he doesn't care about those.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Once again, it's all about cruelty. How can they live with themselves?
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US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Oh, so just #blamethemessenger
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Trump seeks to fire official overseeing jobs data after weak employment report
President Donald Trump said Friday that he has directed his team to fire the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in ...
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What a weasel Mike Johnson is! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Top Speaker Mike Johnson
Bottom Weasel in a suit behind a microphone
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Wrote a thing: ...at the heart of it is another Trumpian Big Lie, that immigrants are a burden and menace. We need to fight the false story with a true one: this country needs its immigrants and they are a blessing and an enrichment of what this country is and in many ways its heart and soul.
meditationsinanemergency.com
Immigrants: A Love Letter
It has never been easy to be an immigrant to the United States – for most economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers make life here a struggle, even if they were escaping a worse life elsewhere. The ...
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
American historian Dr Heather Cox Richardson reminds us.
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The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
My act of kindness and anarchy today is sharing this way of bypassing most paywalls. archive.ph
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Secretary Kristi Noem: "DHS will continue to sustain and increase our presence in this city. We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialist and burdensome leadership that this governor and this mayor have imposed." #FDT #FKN
Photo of Kristi Noem pretending to be a cop.
#cosplay
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Wanted to abolish the IRS. Never wrote a tax bill. Not an accountant or any kind of organization manager. In fact, he's an auctioneer so he knows about fast talking. “You shouldn’t be within a thousand miles of the directorship of the IRS.” • Senator Elizabeth Warren
nytimes.com
Senate Confirms Billy Long to Lead I.R.S., Ignoring Troubled Tax Credit History
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said that his agency had not been formally notified that the Marines would arrive in Los Angeles. (To me this implies that Mayor Bass hasn't been told either.)
nytimes.com
Live Updates: Trump Sends Marines to L.A. on 4th Day of Immigration Protests
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
ak.democrats.org
Enter now for the chance to meet President Obama this summer!
Get your name in the running now for the chance to meet President Obama this summer! The DNC is the organization best positioned to fight the Trump administration and elect Democrats year after year, ...
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A brief, very true Substack post from @katiephang.bsky.social
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Katie Phang on Substack
My Saturday PSA: Joe Biden isn’t the president anymore. Instead, we’ve got a mentally deranged and ethically compromised old man with the nuclear codes trespassing in the Oval Office. Stop talking ...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/05/2025
The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Grateful that *some* judges understand the Constitution. #DueProcess
nytimes.com
Judge Orders Release of Tufts Student Detained by ICE
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José Orta @orta69.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thank you Greyhound!
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Maybe someone who doesn't use Signal or a personal cellphone for work. Work that might mean people living or dying.
npr.org
Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Tim Snyder's powerful article reminded me of George Orwell's "Newspeak" (new speak) in his dystopian novel 1984. snyder.substack.com/p/state-terr...
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is what is happening to children. #F*ckTr*mp
The image shows a handwritten note expressing a child's fear of being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to El Salvador. The note reads: "If ICE takes me don't forget about me. I will be in El Salvador. You're my best friend, the brother I never had. I cry every night thinking that they will come for me at school. Att Sulmi."
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Sonnie 🌈 🦋 @heysonnie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Live on YouTube now.
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FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY WITH BERNIE AND AOC: LOS ANGELES
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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