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Holly Allen

@hollyvt.bsky.social
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American Studies professor living in Vermont, politics enthusiast, feminist, parent/advocate for adults with autism and intellectual disability.

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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
You go girl! 🐙 #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Holly Allen @hollyvt.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Just pre-ordered my copy of "How to Eat an Elephant" by Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark. It’s billed as a "playbook for consigning MAGA-style politics to the ash heap of history (where it belongs)." Looking forward to reading it. Consider pre-ordering if you’re interested!
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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
✊🏼Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Every day, fresh horror. (📸 Dave Decker)
A woman holding her young daughter has a face of total anguish apparently begging an ICE henchman to leave her family alone. Her partner, handcuffed behind her, is trying to run away. Photo credit to photojournalist Dave Decker.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The MAGA brain chip meme in which the chip being removed says "Don't tread on me. 2A forever" and is being replaced by one that says "guns bad."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here’s who Alex Pretti, the man executed by ICE yesterday, really was. Spread the word. Help defeat the regime’s lies.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If you’re just figuring out now that yes, it really is fascism, that’s fantastic & I think you’re great & I’m glad we’re on the same side. I don’t need to scold you. My desire for “told-ya-so” is as useless as your denial was. Let’s move on together to the fight at hand, each as we feel called. 1/2
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What lying fucks they all are.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Journalists aren’t supposed to report “both sides.” They are supposed to report the truth. DHS is not telling the truth. Stop reporting their lies.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
IRAQ WAR VETERAN: “I wouldn’t do that in a war. There are no rules of engagement I’ve ever had that would justify shooting someone in that situation… and he shot an American citizen. This should scare the shit out of everyone.” (From Louis Laurant)
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Danielle ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
💔 Michael and Susan Pretti, parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti: “Please get the truth out about our son.”
January 24, 2026 at 18:42
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey 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 had 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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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Impeach Kristi Noem. Abolish ICE.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Meanwhile
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Trump posts that we’re “locked and loaded” to go into Iran, then goes marble shopping in Florida before golf.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Kudos to Sharyn Alfonsi for exposing the truth But Bari Weiss killing the 60 Minutes story about Trump sending innocent immigrants to CECOT is only part of the story The bigger issue is MAGA trying to take over all our broadcast networks and social media to spread their hateful propaganda
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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
All in favor of renaming them as the Trump-Epstein Files, say aye.
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
There used to be rules, like “You don’t go after the kids.”
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SuzyQ @suzyqfit4u.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Family includes everyone! ❤️
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
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PunaLady @punalady.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Seattle Streets. #CrushIce
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/11/2025
A president calling for the execution of elected officials is incredibly dangerous and un-American. It has no place in a democracy.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 18 NOVEMBER 2025 TODAY MATTERS TODAY FOR THE SURVIVORS TODAY FOR JUSTICE TODAY HOUSE & SENATE PASS THE EPSTEIN TRANSPARENCY ACT Showing their powerful video again I am holding them all in my heart Children they were CHILDREN My heart is for Virginia Giuffre
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/11/2025
This is the 16th strike of its kind this year — and at least 66 people are dead because of the government’s rash actions. These extrajudicial strikes are illegal under both international and domestic law.
nbcnews.com
2 killed in U.S. strike on alleged drug boat in Eastern Pacific, Hegseth says
Two people on board an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific were killed by a U.S. military strike, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
George Retes is suing the federal government for unconstitutional detention.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Portland gets the assignment #OregonStrong
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2025
George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2025
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7." @timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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Deb @debkat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I would love if the judge could see this taken recently in front of the ICE facility in Portland. It looks really dangerous there. Especially the person in the capybara costume. bsky.app/profile/wyde...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
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FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23:

Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.
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Andy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
He’s a major threat to the life of every single American. He’s not a doctor, he’s not a scientist, he’s nothing but an ignorant, unqualified, incompetent conspiracy-spewing maniac… nypost.com/2025/09/01/u...
nypost.com
RFK Jr. is ‘endangering every American’s health,’ 9 former CDC directors argue in scathing op-ed
The former CDC directors and acting directors described Kennedy’s changes to the CDC as being “unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced.&#…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Today 3rd day of school Mt. Pleasant DC CHILDREN BEING HARASSED BY ICE . !! FREE DC !! "This is ridiculous "
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
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Holly Allen @hollyvt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hilarious!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Aside from everything else, they’re pissing our tax dollars away on dragging National Guard troops away from their lives to participate in a stunt while they’re defunding food programs for kids and cancer research.
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AnotherPoint @anotherpoint.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
CNN says the Epstein story is dead based on google searches dropping, as if people need to continually search for the same information, so in order to keep it as a top story OUR job is to type "Epstein files" into google once a day every day.. do it now! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 28/06/2020
"If you're a historian, your job is to help people understand not just what they want to remember, but what they need to remember." @SmithsonianSec quoting Princy Jenkins, caretaker at Friendfield in SC (lived w grandmother who had been enslaved there)....
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KZach @zachauthor.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It’s not a distraction. It’s fascism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2025
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 10/08/2025
In 1954, broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow reminded us that disagreeing with those in power isn’t the same as being disloyal.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The remaining democratic Western power - the EU, UK, Canada, Japan & Ukraine - need to declare asap that Trump has no mandate to negotiate on behalf of or on Ukraine. Anything agreed between Putin and Trump in Alaska on Friday must be declared nul & void before that meeting.
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