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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Military family members “have generally been shielded from deportation under bipartisan consensus for decades … they’re now routinely being detained for months … and even as the military continues to recruit by advertising immigration benefits for enlistees’ families.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social writes in @rns.org, our country is facing a moral reckoning a year after President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" slashed food assistance, healthcare, and other vital programs. "For Quakers, this is not partisan language but a matter of conscience."
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One year later, people of faith should reckon with Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
(RNS) — These policy choices are not merely budget decisions. They reveal our national priorities.
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Midi Cox @iammidi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Aliyah Rahman, a Minnesota resident invited by Rep. Ilhan Omar to attend Tuesday’s State of the Union address, was later hospitalized following her arrest during the speech, according to statements from both Rahman and Omar.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record. Meanwhile, Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thank you @kaine.senate.gov! 👏 🚨All of our members of Congress need to hear loud and clear: #NoWarWithIran! ☎️Action resource: fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/128...
No War With Iran!
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"True security is rooted in justice, not fear. "We hold those harmed in the Light, and we demand a budget and guardrails that reflect our shared humanity."
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Reckless Exits and Divine Light: Witnessing the Occupation in Minnesota | Friends Committee On National Legislation
If I want to understand what is happening in my neighborhood right now during the ICE invasion of Minnesota, I go to my local gas station.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A win! A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to ensure detainees at an immigration facility near Minneapolis have meaningful access to legal counsel, noting concerns that many immigrants may have been cut off from proper legal services.
axios.com
Trump judge slams DHS for blocking detainees' access to lawyers
It's estimated to be the 45th time a Trump judge has ruled against the administration on mass immigration detention in the past year.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/02/2026
“Love Forward Together”: Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice
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“Love Forward Together”: Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice
Faith leaders in North Carolina are leading a three-day trek from Wilson to Raleigh in an event aimed at supporting “unabridged voting rights; living wages and ending poverty; welcoming immigrants,” and more. Reverend Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove spoke wit...
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 23/01/2026
Jiwasa is a fundamental principle and linguistic code in the Aymara language that means “communal we.” In many ways, Ruben Hilari Quispe reflects, it relates with Quaker testimonies such as community, integrity, peace, and harmony with nature.
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Jiwasa, the Communal We
Recovering a lost foundation of Aymara culture.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The Trump administration has removed an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, calling it “corrosive ideology.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The exhibit, Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation, honored nine people enslaved by George Washington at the President’s House Site and examined the contradiction between slavery and freedom at the nation’s founding.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A year after the Trump admin. began dismantling USAID, the human costs have been staggering and devastating. "While we cannot recover the lives lost, we are not powerless to change our path forward." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 18/01/2026
Is our air and water cleaner? No. Are our bills and expenses at least going down? Also no. Trump is destroying our planet while making life worse for every American.
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Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The Trump administration is attempting to intimidate Minneapolis by ordering around 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota.
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Pentagon readies 1,500 troops for potential Minnesota deployment, US officials say
The army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the midwestern state escalates, officials said, though it is not clear whether any of them will be sent.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 08/01/2026
Trump keeps trying to ban clean energy in order to enrich his Big Oil friends and settle his own petty grievances. We all pay the price in higher costs, dirtier air and water, and less reliability because of it.
energiesmedia.com
Trump administration moves to vacate permits for major offshore wind projects in Maryland and Massachusetts
The US federal government, under the stewardship of Donald Trump, has filed a motion with a Maryland court to vacate the permit for an offshore wind project.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all.” @mayor.nyc.gov #LoveThyNeighbor #Solidarity
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Right now, millions across the U.S. are needlessly facing sky rocketing healthcare costs. Congress can and must rectify this unacceptable moral failure. ⬇️ 💰Our tax dollars should fund our needs, ❌ not ICE, wars, and greed.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We can - and must - build a better and more peaceful world. "One that meets the needs of the majority of its people, rather than endlessly squandering precious resources on war and preparations for more of it." A timely and grounding piece from William Hartung in @thenation.com 👇
thenation.com
Trump and His Cronies Want a War in the Western Hemisphere
Don’t be fooled by the anti-interventionist language. The Trump administration is only too eager to use military force.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🌐New: U.N. officials are sounding the alarm over the dangerous precedent set by President Trump's attack on Venezuela and disregard for the U.N. charter. “A peaceful, safe and just world for everyone is only possible if the rule of law prevails instead of might makes right."
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US actions in Venezuela ‘constitute a dangerous precedent’: Guterres
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said he is “deeply alarmed” over the standoff between the United States and Venezuela in recent months, which culminated on Saturday morning in the captur...
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The attempted cultural genocide carried out through Indian Boarding Schools is one most shameful yet little-known chapters of US history. But as FCNL's Rachel Overstreet writes in @friendsjournal.org, we must not allow "shame to cloud our judgment or slow our feet" in acting to address its legacy.
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Speaking with Friends About Indian Boarding Schools
A Native Perspective Unlike many Friends, I don’t have a clear memory of learning the history of Indian boarding schools.…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Way to go Hilton!!!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"Peace President." [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Stephen Miller’s wife. FFS.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🕊️Our representatives in Congress need to hear from us loud and clear.
War is not the answer.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
"As a person of faith, I believe every life is sacred. War not only violates our human dignity — it defies the divine spark that lives in each of us. Peacemaking is sacred work." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social
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You can't deal your way to peace on earth. Trump should know that by now.
(RNS) — Trump claims he's a peacemaker. The death toll tells a different story.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 04/01/2026
Instead of working to lower our bills by embracing clean energy, Trump is busy giving handouts to Big Oil billionaires and forcing obsolete coal plants to stay open and making American taxpayers foot the bill
Two guys on a bus meme

Guy smiling with caption: Clean, cheap, and dependable clean energy

Guy frowning: Dirty, expensive, and unreliable fossil fuels
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
As Zohran Mamdani takes over as mayor of New York City, he joins his new Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice, Julie Su, to talk about building an economy that works for the many — not just a select few.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 01/01/2026
"Developers either canceled or delayed 20 projects after facing pushback from locals." Data centers are driving up our energy bills, stealing our resources, and polluting our water. The American people are fighting back and saying enough is enough.
theverge.com
Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning
Opposition against data centers came to a head in 2025.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The assaults on immigrants and any American who does not look 'White enough' is just the beginning. Trump is gearing up to disrupt the 2026 election by preventing those who do not approve of his autocratic kleptocracy from voting.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
🍃 A positive climate story to help balance your time line: A coal town goes geothermal
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Why this Colorado coal town is digging geothermal
Hayden is tapping renewable thermal energy to affordably heat and cool its new business park — and entice companies looking to reduce energy costs.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Each day, we work to bring a voice for moral governance to the halls of Congress — the kind that prioritizes: ✔️human dignity over ❌corporate profit, ✔️compassion over ❌cruelty, ✔️peace over ❌militarism. Our voice depends on you. Please consider chipping in today:
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Give to FCNL
We believe in a government that serves all people — not just the powerful. Your gift of support turns our values into lobbying and advocacy in Congress.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Let’s talk about something not many people are chatting about and what’s actually happening right now. You might wonder why Imran Ahmed and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suddenly became targets of the U.S. government. The honest answer is that their research hit where it hurt.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The Trump administration's dehumanizing rhetoric denies the inherent worth and dignity of all people. And it has been deployed to justify wanton violence and cruelty - both at home and abroad. We can't let it become normalized or accepted.
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This Week in the World: The Dangers of Trump's Dehumanizing Rhetoric | Friends Committee On National Legislation
This week, we joined 130 organizations in denouncing the Trump administration’s bigoted and cruel scapegoating of immigrant communities in the wake of the Nov. 26 attack on National Guard troops in…
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New from @npr.org: Organizations including Quaker House in North Carolina that provide counseling to service members have been receiving calls from U.S. military members concerned about their own legal and moral culpability in the Trump administration's boat strikes.
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U.S. military members fear personal legal blowback tied to boat strikes
Staff officers and at least one drone pilot have sought advice from outside groups over legal concerns about their own involvement — or potential involvement — in the strikes against suspected drug bo...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Firing over 100 immigration judges. Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings. Pausing asylum decisions. And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen. Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 09/12/2025
Ten months ago, the Trump administration deported two planeloads of asylum seekers—including 81 children—to Costa Rica, where they were put into a de facto prison. A group of Quakers in Monteverde was led to confront the Costa Rican government—and welcome some of these refugees into their community.
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Welcoming the Stranger
Quakers in Costa Rica support asylum seekers deported by Trump.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🔋🌎A victory for our planet -- and "everyone who pays an electricity bill:" Judge Tosses Trump Ban on New Wind Energy Projects
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'Victory for Everyone Who Pays an Electricity Bill': Judge Tosses Trump Ban on New Wind Energy Projects | Common Dreams
Federal judge throws out Trump's ban on new wind power projects in the US. Clean energy advocates celebrate victory for affordable, reliable energy.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
📣 Let's make sure Congress hears our message loud and clear: Immigrants make America whole!
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 06/12/2025
Stronger fuel economy standards would have lowered fuel costs by $23 billion and prevented more than 710 million metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere by 2050. The Trump administration has once again sided with polluters over clean air and water and the well-being of ordinary Americans.
nytimes.com
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A government that targets people simply for providing humanitarian aid to others in need is a government that has lost its humanity.
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Border Patrol Raided Arizona Medical Aid Site With No Warrant, Showing Growing “Impunity”
The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.-Mexico divide was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 04/12/2025
Federal workers are members of our community who keep our essential services like Social Security, Medicaid, the VA and more, running for working families. They—and all working people—need a government that supports federal workers, not attacks them. bit.ly/4rE9r9e
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The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce
Systems built up over the last 120 years are being either eliminated or corroded at warp speed, with the implicit blessing of the US Supreme Court.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Why have so many corporations donated to Trump’s White House ballroom project? Could it be because many of them have lucrative government contracts? Or because they have mergers and other regulatory business before Trump? I’m sure they just thought a ballroom sounded nice…
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Trump’s Ballroom Corruption Exposed
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Did you know? Children, not soldiers, are often the victims of landmines and cluster munitions. Rep. Sara Jacobs and Rep. Jim McGovern breakdown why the U.S. must lead in the global effort to ban these immoral, indiscriminate weapons. 🧵👇
"Progress in the Face of Headwinds: Achieving a World Free of Landmines and Cluster Munitions." Images: Rep. Jacobs and Rep. McGovern
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Midi Cox @iammidi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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