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Iridescent Ashes

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Thoroughly VET & VOTE! Was 'no party affiliation' swing/split voter now reg D. Pennsylvania Coming over from Twitter (same name)

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Nursing Shortage Could Worsen, Thanks to Change in Student Loan Programs www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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Nursing Shortage Could Worsen, Thanks to Change in Student Loan Programs
Revised definition of 'professional' would affect all RNs
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Always follow the money.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Pffft, elections?
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Can’t wait until the Trump administration declares that Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland is a notorious drug kingpin, obtains an indictment against him, claims America can invade to “capture” him, makes the nation a US colony and threatens Denmark to ensure they “meet our demands”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Angus: We see this attack as setting the stage for an attack where Trump could go anywhere. The same language he’s used against Venezuela, he’s used against Canada—and he sees that we have immense resources. The difference is, good luck thinking that you are going to break the Canadian people.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Gupta: As we age, sometimes we get a CT of the coronary arteries, a coronary calcium scan, which he actually had in 2018. At the time, there was some evidence of calcification in his coronary arteries… Now suddenly it’s completely normal. That doesn’t make a lot of sense.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
For more than a decade, Trump has been promising a healthcare plan that simply doesn't exist. The truth is Trump and the GOP have zero plan to tackle the affordability crisis. #DonTheCon
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Republican congressman 👇🏽
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/01/2026
I discussed this with @katiephang.bsky.social who posited that Pam Bondi might be "interpreting" the law to mean she has 15 days after all the files are released to provide her explanation for what she withheld and redacted pursuant to the law.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/01/2026
Q: Rodriguez called it a 'kidnapping' of Maduro TRUMP: That's alright. That's not a bad term.
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Not Somali. Not Venezuelan. Worked for Charlie Kirk.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
For the love of God ask the follow up question.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I think we're quickly approaching the first twenty-front war
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"It's different when I do it."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/01/2026
Trump: "We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic. Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security. And Denmark is not gonna be able to do it ... the EU needs us to have it"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize campaign is off to a shaky start.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“So we’re in the business of nation building?” TRUMP: “The Donroe Doctrine… OIL…” Oil oil oil oil oil — get it? Oil companies are getting their return on investment after buying him the election
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is such a pathetic interview
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/10/2025
President Trump’s hand-picked interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan has ousted more senior prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia office, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Lindsey Halligan ousts more prosecutors in key US attorney’s office | CNN Politics
President Trump’s hand-picked interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan has ousted more senior prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia office, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/10/2025
NEW: “Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”
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How Trump is Building a Repressive, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/10/2025
George Santos, a former U.S. House member expelled for lying about his background, had his prison sentence commuted by President Trump. His commutation comes less than three months into a seven-year sentence.
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A timeline of how George Santos’s web of lies led to his downfall
The disgraced former lawmaker concocted elaborate falsehoods about his life and identity, and was later convicted of fraud. Trump commuted his sentence.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/10/2025
The prolonged government shutdown is helping the Trump administration advance its goal of closing the Department of Education — a longtime conservative aim that congressional Republicans have failed to act on.
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With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department
The administration is looking to shed workers and transfer some operations to other departments as it seeks to close the Education Department
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/10/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The choice to deny Pentagon credentials to many journalists will backfire on Pete Hegseth, Maureen Dowd writes. “Because nothing gets a bunch of reporters going like being forced out of the building where they work and being told they aren’t allowed to do their jobs.”
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Opinion | Fraidy-Cat at the Pentagon
Pete Hegseth can’t handle the truth.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/10/2025
Prosecutors appear to have amassed significant evidence against John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser. Experts warned that it could take months — or even more than a year — to see how that evidence holds up at a potential trial.
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Classified documents case against Bolton could take years, experts say
Former national security adviser could use some of the same tactics his adversary, President Trump, used in his documents case
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/10/2025
A series of public statements from the Department of Homeland Security during its migrant crackdown in Chicago and across the country has been contradicted or undermined by local officials, a civil rights attorney and a legal filing.
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In immigration crackdown, DHS statements on arrests face a problem of credibility | CNN
A series of public statements from the Department of Homeland Security during its migrant crackdown in Chicago and across the country has been contradicted or undermined by local officials, a civil ri...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/10/2025
A Vermont state senator has resigned over his involvement in a Young Republican group chat after racist and antisemitic chat messages shared among its members were made public.
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Vermont state senator resigns over racist Young Republican chat messages
Samuel Douglass was reportedly the only elected official to take part in the Young Republican group chat that included racist and antisemitic messages.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/10/2025
Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike this week on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute them or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.
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U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/10/2025
The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem, the secretary, and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
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Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
Public documents show the Department of Homeland Security has contracted to purchase a pair of top-of-the-line Gulfstream jets for the secretary and other top officials.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 18/10/2025
Trump refuses to respect the fact that Congress has the power of the purse “That’s yet another part of the Constitution that Trump is fully flushing down the toilet, and arguably the most important one,” From @ryanlcooper.com and @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/OJlcolj
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Mad King Trump Seizes Your Money
The president is doing almost exactly what Charles I did to touch off the English Civil War.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/10/2025
George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman, was freed from prison on Friday after President Trump commuted his sentence. New York politicians and some voters greeted the news with a mix of anger and frustration.
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Santos’s Release Frustrates His Former Colleagues and Constituents
George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman, was freed from prison on Friday after President Trump commuted his sentence. On Long Island, in his former district, some people called the decision an outrage.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/10/2025
A major stretch of highway between Los Angeles and San Diego was temporarily closed Saturday due to a live-fire exercise the U.S. Marine Corps is holding, an event that has sparked a row between California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and President Trump.
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Newsom closes highway section amid feud with White House over Marine exercise
The announcement came after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) traded jabs with the White House over the live-fire exercise Vice President JD Vance is attending in the area.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/10/2025
The Coast Guard plans to buy two Gulfstream private jets to be used by Homeland Security Department Secretary Kristi Noem and other top DHS and Coast Guard officials at a total estimated cost of $200 million.
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DHS to spend $200 million on private jets for Noem, other officials
The new Coast Guard contract for two Gulfstream G700 jets far exceeds the $50 million the Coast Guard had requested earlier this year to purchase a new jet.
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Frettie Fingers @frettiefingers.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#nokings Portland frog brigade
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The people running our country want to destroy our health care, invade our cities, and turn a conman into a king. Not under nurses' watch! ❌👑 "We’re all here today because we REFUSE to let that happen," says Cathy Kennedy, RN and president of CNA. #NoKingsSF
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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 18/10/2025
The progressive icon delivered a damning speech Saturday in Washington, D.C. as part the nationwide "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump.
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Bernie Blasts Trump At 'No Kings' Protest But Names 3 Other Billionaires As Part Of The Problem
The progressive icon delivered a damning speech Saturday in Washington, D.C. as part the nationwide "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump.
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destroyingangelpdx.bsky.social @destroyingangelpdx.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
@wyden.senate.gov Pdx!
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 18/10/2025
Thousands of people attended 'No Kings' demonstrations on Saturday in protest of the policies of President Donald Trump. Participants criticized everything from Trump's consolidation of power to his immigration policies to congressional apathy toward him. Here are reports from four protests.
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'We've got to do something:' Thousands attend 'No Kings' protests in Alabama | Alabama Reflector
Thousands of Alabamians participated in the protests against President Donald Trump, part of national demonstrations that drew millions.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/10/2025
There’s nothing more American than saying, NO KINGS‼️ REPUBLICANS ABOUT JANUARY 6: “A gathering of tourists.” REPUBLICANS ABOUT THE NO KINGS PROTEST: “A hate rally.” They praise the mob and condemn the movement. You see what they’re doing, right?
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I see my old tweet is making the rounds on Instagram and Facebook. 😊 If you get a chance, pls watch “Surviving Ohio State” on HBO. You will be outraged that this cretin in in the Congress.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Zero arrests. 100,000 people. No violence. This who we are.
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 18/10/2025
DOJ reportedly wrote a memo that justified Trump’s acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar. We’re representing @freedom.press in its lawsuit to obtain the memo. Now, DOJ is blocking its release and trying to strike key factual claims from our complaint. americanoversight.org/opposition-f...
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Opposition Filed Against DOJ Effort to Strike Context from Complaint About Qatar’s ‘Gifted’ Jet to Trump Administration - American Oversight
As the DOJ refuses the prompt release of a memo clearing the Qatari jet ‘gift,’ Freedom of the Press Foundation, represented by American Oversight, argues against erasing this context and the…
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Absolute buffoons. ICE is now just a bunch of roided up idiots with no training.
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Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny.”—Thomas Jefferson. #NoKings
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/10/2025
👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice
Sign reading BIG LAW LITTLE BALLS, and then listing a bunch of lil ball'd firms:

A&O Shearman 
Cadwalder, Wickersham
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Paul, Weiss
Simpson Thatcher
Skadden, Arpa
Willkie Farr

Then the sign ends with a Trump quote that should make these firms put their heads in the proverbial bag:

"They gave me a lot of money considering they did nothing wrong"
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
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Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
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Jim McClain @jimmcclain.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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