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Holly George

@hollysbirds.bsky.social
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Retired social historian. Lifelong learner and Dem politico. Lover of dogs, liker of cats. X escapee.

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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
To everyone who has supported our campaign so far, thank you. Let’s do this thing!!
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Great story from the Sunday Times, but credit where credit it due. It’s worth adding to this section, “whom Cottrell first meet as a teenager” as @bylinetimes.bsky.social first revealed. More here on Cottrell’s early years from @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.
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They're Really Going For It
Trump's plan to overturn the midterm elections comes into focus.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 15/05/2026
🚨NEW: United Nations human rights experts have asked Starbucks and the US government to address the coffee chain’s “ongoing and widespread threats” against their workers. UN experts note instances in which police were called on baristas engaging in peaceful protests.
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UN human-rights experts urge Starbucks and US to address union-busting claims
A group of United Nations human-rights experts has ‌asked Starbucks and the U.S. government to respond to allegations that Starbucks has carried out a years-long campaign against workers seeking to un...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11/05/2026
Intimidation, full stop.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 10/05/2026
What's Trump's playbook for contesting elections? Election lawyer @marcelias.bsky.social tells @johnjharwood.bsky.social how attacks on voter rolls and ballots could be used by the Trump administration to challenge the election results. Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/how-to-sto...
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Donna Rose @donna-rose.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
200 year old wisteria, Japan, photographer unknown
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The landing technique of Swans 🦢
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
💖 if anyone is need of love this is for u 🩷💚🧡💖💜❤️💛
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Shane Goldmacher @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NEWS: Chris Larsen, a tech billionaire from California, said he planned to spend $3.5 million to help Alex Bores in a NY House race that has become one of the year’s biggest proxy fights over the future of AI regulation. From me and Nick Fandos: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Southern Poverty Law Center is being debanked over a mindless conspiracy theory embedded in an indictment by the Trump regime.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A black girl born today will have fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).
Mississippi Free Press screenshot shows a picture of two teen boys with their arms around one another in front of a cake and a sign that says "2026." The headline below the photo says: Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took the Brothers Instead.
by Nick JudinNew York Times screenshot shows a picture of two teen boys with their arms around one another in front of a cake and a sign that says "2026." The headline above the photo says: They Left for the School Bus. ICE
Picked Them Up Instead.

Subtext says: A school transfer disrupted two brothers' visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and unsettling their Mississippi school community.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A humorous artifact of the courts corruption. Barely anyone even mentions how obvious it is that the new and expanded “eve of election” doctrine doesn’t apply in this case since obviously it would hurt the gop.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What The Guardian Got right. www.therebooting.com/p/the-guardi... The key: "A voluntary contribution model that has attracted 700,000 supporters, 500,000 of them recurring. Reader revenue has grown 35% a year for the past two years." And now they have a bigger audience than the Washington Post.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It was a political hire. She was qualified only in that sense. www.status.news/p/tony-dokou... Data obtained by @status.news shows Tony Dokoupil’s “Evening News” sinking to historic lows, with veteran TV news executives casting the network as a “sinking ship” and blaming its woes on Bari Weiss.
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Really enjoyed speaking w/ @profferguson.bsky.social about his important book "Your Data Will Be Used Against You." All your emails, search engine queries, social media activity, Alexa and Ring spy data - all of it is exposed with a single warrant. Full episode: techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Trump’s mafia DOJ just indicted former FBI Director James Comey for posting a photo on Instagram of seashells on the beach. This is where we are at.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A federal judge dismisses DOJ's lawsuit to force Arizona to disclose its voter rolls, siding with (Dem) SoS Fontes. Her ruling ends with, "The Court will dismiss the Attorney General’s claim with prejudice because amendment would be legally futile." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Accordingly, the Court will dismiss the Attorney General’s claim
with prejudice because amendment would be legally futile."
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Someday Brittany Bernstein at National Review will write a halfway decent article, but that day is not today.
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Cole Allen Found a Safe Space for Left-Wing Extremism on Bluesky | National Review
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect posted on the platform more than 1,000 times.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/04/2026
“For too long, weak-on-fun Democrats have prevented our country from exercising this beloved tradition of murdering for enjoyment,” said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Al Gore said we should put social security in a lock box Trump wants to put your social security in a ballroom
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
this is the FINAL day for this call for questions. you can ask a question to @profferguson.bsky.social as a reply below, or on our form! boltsmag.org/how-police-t...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/04/2026
“Florida law enforcement agencies have used AI-powered license plate readers to track drivers tied to political protests and rallies throughout the state, police records show.”
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Florida police used Flock cameras to track No Kings protesters
Florida law enforcement agencies have used Flock cameras to track drivers tied to political protests and rallies throughout the state, police records show.
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“more than 70 women…[are] shot &killed *every month* in the US due to domestic violence. & we find that DV shootings often overlap w/other types of shootings…a history of DV is a big predictor for committing a mass shooting. & we also find that DV & suicide…often overlap”🧪🛟 @meganranney.bsky.social
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After deadly Louisiana shooting, a doctor shares the realities of domestic violence
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with gun violence expert and emergency physician Dr. Megan Ranney about the mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
“Over the past seven months, 6 percent of Musk’s posts on X, a total of about 850, have been about race, nearly triple the rate for the previous two years.” Musk, the world’s richest man, is a white nationalist. He regularly spreads white nationalist tropes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk’s near-daily online posts about race are turning off some fans
Elon Musk posted almost daily about race on X in recent months, a Washington Post analysis found, at times sharing views experts said echoed white supremacy.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Correct.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Uh oh: Somebody saw his horrible 33pct approval/67 pct disapproval numbers and is lashing out online all hours of the night. Shows just how laser-focused he is on the lives and economic hardships of regular Americans.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
UPDATE: American-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin acquitted on all charges.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fun fact: the first gerrymander in U.S. history occurred in Virginia when Patrick Henry tried to draw James Madison out of his congressional district
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Another one from the old hellsite that had been completely wiped from my mind. Glad to see the cranky baseball still stewing in his own vomit
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is a senator L. Louise Lucas appreciation post
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story. If you didn't read it already, read it. Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary
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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Overshooting 1.5°C looks likely—but it’s not game over. The key is limiting how far (and how long) we exceed it, then bringing temperatures back down with rapid cuts + carbon removal. Every fraction of a degree still matters. 👉 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... #ClimateChange 🌍🌐🧪
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Why Climate Goals Aren’t a Lost Cause—Even If We Overshoot Them
Earth will likely warm by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, but we can’t give up on trying to get temperatures back down
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) reacts to today's decision by a federal judge pausing the acquisition of TEGNA (9NEWS) by Nexstar (FOX31). Weiser and other Democratic attorneys general sued to stop the deal on anti-monopoly grounds.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/04/2026
It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
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A Dozen "86 47" Eggs, AI not SI (Parody Account) @adozeneggs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#WhiskeyPete is a christofascist.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Very happy and relieved it’s TACO Tuesday. Even if it lasts for one night the last month has been horrible. Thank you for all the support in the replies below.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Iran has accepted terms of ceasefire, per NYT www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 05/04/2026
My intel is that Trump administration used Orban to help sabotage the EU’s Russian-assets-to-Ukraine deal. More Trump/Russia.
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Operation Save Orbán: Trump deploys Vance to Hungary
U.S. President Donald Trump gives a final heave to try and keep under-pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in power.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It's really hard to overstate the catastrophic failure of legacy media to present the ascendancy of a psychotic criminal to the presidency for what it was. Time and again, they normalized, sanitized, sane-washed and thus assisted a madman as he seized and began to serially abuse awesome power.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is what happens when 77 million people take leave of their senses and put a manifestly unqualified, unfit, mentally ill narcissistic man-child in charge of the country and the world's most powerful. military. This is what happens when the media 'bothsides' election coverage.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is apt and acccurate. Trump started the war without a plan but then panicked snd decided to get out as fast as he could with anything he cld call a “win”. By that time Iran had already taken the US and global economies hostage. He decided the hostage would have to free itself. wapo.st/4sSOkAs
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Opinion | The Iran war is a hostage crisis
The Strait of Hormuz is closed, the world economy is captive, and there’s no easy way out.
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