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Janipants

@janilisa.bsky.social
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Teacher, Field Biologist, Photographer, all around trouble-maker. Favorite book, 'Teaching as a Subversive Activity'

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
9/21/26 101 freeway in Encino A free press is the cornerstone of democracy. Silencing it is fascism. PERIOD.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vote blue, and vote early if you can!
Mike Luckovich cartoon of women dressed in red robes w/ white hats entering the voting booth, and leaving the booth with freedom, wearing clothes of their own choice.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
GOP pollsters: Stop making people think of elephants Vance: It's not an elephant, it's simply a large land mammal with a trunk and tusks. Don't get this twisted like the media does Hegseth: There's no elephants except in the hearts of the weak Trump: Oh, elephants? Sure, we did the elephant stuff
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Janipants @janilisa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
VOTE EARLY RETURN MAIL IN BALLOTS EARLY, POST MARKS MAY BE DELAYED: apnews.com/article/elec...
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SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/swee... 🚨 Only 47 days to Go🚨
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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks, @janevoter2018.bsky.social for including me in your great starter pack. Check your registration status at vote411.org (LWV). Be ready to #VoteEarly in person if possible. Drop your ballot in a secure ballot drop box or at your Registrar of Voters office. #EveryVoteCounts #EveryVoterMatters
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Plan To Go Vote Early in October
ALT: Plan To Go Vote Early in October
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 18/09/2026
While Trump and Washington sleep, @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom and California continue to put up guardrails, increase transparency, and put accountability measures in place for AI — and we’re not done yet!
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve been saying it for decades: Americans need housing they can afford. The new housing affordability law is about building more homes, lowering costs, and making sure the American Dream is within reach for everyone. Proud that we got this done.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. My great grandmother came from Poland with nothing but the hope of a better life. I still have her citizenship papers. That's the story of so many American families. We’ve always been a country of immigrants. No one can change that.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He’s definitely got that confusing self down pat!
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
another rat off sinking ship... he GAVE us Hegseth www.mediaite.com/media/news/r...
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Republican Senator Who Voted to Confirm Hegseth Now Backs His Impeachment: ‘He Needs to Go’
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary last year, is now backing an effort to impeach him just weeks after calling on President Donald Trump to fire the Pentag...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18/09/2026
Truckers on skyrocketing diesel prices: "We can't continue to run like this." Semi trucks can carry up to 220 gallons of diesel fuel, which costs $1,320. So if diesel goes up, shipping costs go up with it and inflates the price of everything.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Janipants @janilisa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
To fill a 240 gallon oil tank today costs $1,332.00 I know, it was my tank. V 0 T E VOTE EARLY HAND DELIVERY MAIL IN BALLOTS FIGHT LIKE HELL
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rep. Thomas Massie and I have defied history a second time, securing commitments for 218 signatures on Epstein 2.0, including Reps. Norman, Fitzpatrick, Mace, and every Democrat. Two Democrats were sick and will sign when Johnson calls us back. We will not rest until there is justice.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
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Massie, Khanna Say They Have Secured 218 Signatures for New Epstein Files Vote
The announcement comes hours after MeidasTouch reported the discharge petition was just two signatures short of the threshold needed to force a House vote.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe told Democracy Docket that it hasn’t received an invitation from the Trump administration to observe the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them
It’s the latest ominous sign that the U.S. is backsliding on democracy — and adds to concerns that the administration wants to undermine the vote.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/09/2026
There’s a lot going on right now, and Susan Collins is hoping voters won’t notice that she was the deciding vote in confirming another anti-abortion Trump judge to a lifetime appointment.
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Susan Collins Casts Major Anti-Abortion Vote 6 Weeks Out From Election
The Maine senator voted in favor of a Donald Trump judicial nominee who served on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy center.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Florida Republican tries to save her seat by ... running ads against Trump
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: Bipartisan group of former FCC officials submit court filing that blasts Trump's FCC chairman Brendan Carr for Carr's onerous probe of ABC Television "The Chairman has repeatedly exceeded the bounds of FCC authority to suppress speech" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Exhibit 1: Proposed Brief of Amici Curiae – #36, Att. #1 in AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-02902) – CourtListener.com
Unopposed MOTION for Leave to File Amicus Brief by FORMER FCC OFFICIALS. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1: Proposed Brief of Amici Curiae, # 2 Text of Proposed Order Exhibit 2: Proposed Order)(Lopez, Janin...
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Fight 4 Democracy Continues @politically.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some are dangerously stupid. Some are stupidly dangerous. This belligerent child is both.
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Hartford Visibility Brigade @nwresistance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hartford #Visibilitybrigade with gas messages today! Everyone must be feeling the pain at the pump! Help us get the messages out! gofund.me/67e2d6e53 @hcrichardson.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @thegodshow.com
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Donald Trump has made nearly 29,000 individual stock trades since the start of his second term.    That is nearly 50 trades PER DAY.    The American people deserve a President that serves their interests, not his own wallet.
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17/09/2026
Donald Trump did that — and he could stop it if he wanted to.
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Canadian plane dropping water on the Los Angeles forest fire. Neighbors helping neighbors. We are sorry your current leader is a monster.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Janipants @janilisa.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Credit to PBS News. This is by far one of the most accurate descriptions of what trump did. None of the sanewashing we saw with so much of the news coverage.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All eyes on the attacks on democracy in U.S. Front page above fold in @nytimes.com on Trump’s assault on free speech: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u... Lead story online in @washingtonpost.com is danger to elections from Trump Admin: wapo.st/4r70eX8 Editorial in @elpais.com elpais.com/opinion/2026...
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A Sweeping Effort To Stifle Free Speech
Trump Deploys Agencies and Lawsuits
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"MAHA is driven by the idea that an individual’s personal experience is what really matters, even if there’s no scientific evidence to back up their observations – or even, frequently, despite a large volume of research showing the opposite…” 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Food-borne illnesses, funding cuts and layoffs: Maha movement’s glaring limitations are now showing
Policies enacted by RFK Jr have not delivered the expected results, but have instead hindered people’s ability to eat healthy
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A clip from tonight’s 60 Minutes story about pardons in the Trump administration and all the money and corruption involved.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"We now know that there never can be a free humanity until woman is freed from ignorance, & we know, too, that woman can never call herself free until she is mistress of her own body." ~Margaret Sanger, 1918. Birth control advocate/nurse/author Sanger was born OTD in 1879. Image: LA Times/UCLA.
This black and white photo shows a woman, Margaret Sanger, wearing a white hat, white shirt, and dark coat.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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Jacob Weisberg @jacobweisberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My forthcoming book is about what happened in America in 2025, when an elected president tried to rule as a dictator. Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818503...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Rep. Massie (R-KY) brings forward a resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth for high crimes and misdemeanors
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15/09/2026
Republicans are using our final days before the midterms on another hearing so Fox News can get clips to darken my skin and convince you to blame immigrants for Republican policies. It's Republicans who gave tax breaks to AI companies and data centers, not immigrants.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 15/09/2026
Consider this your assignment for National Voter Registration Day. Head to IWillVote.com and check your voter registration status. Then send this to the group chat and make sure they check theirs, too. We all need to turn out this November and be too big to rig.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If an administration can bend rules, intimidate opponents, or meddle with elections, the answer cannot be to sit out. Check your voter registration. Register if you need to. A ready voter is much harder to silence when it counts. #GetReadyToVote
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today would’ve been my father’s 95th birthday. In search of a better life, he came to America with only $2.43 and a Korean-English dictionary. He had no friends or family here. Like many immigrants, he dreamt of the promise of what this country could offer. Each day I work to honor his memory.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since the Supreme Court is trending it’s a perfect time to say John Roberts should be impeached. Tell your Rep now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
NEWS: The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump regime’s emergency request to enforce new restrictions on mail ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. See the full decision and learn more here.
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Supreme Court Blocks Trump Mail-Ballot Restrictions for 2026 Midterms
The justices rejected the Trump regime's emergency request, leaving new ballot-envelope, barcode and voter-data requirements on hold.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Want to learn about permafrost thaw and how it affects land and water? Follow me for more videos like this, where I give you a personal glimpse into the science of permafrost, why it is truly the backbone of the Arctic, and what happens when the “perma”’disappears.
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