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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
www.axios.com/2025/06/06/d... 1) DOGE employees can access millions of Americans' sensitive Social Security data, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a party-line decision. Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissent joined by Justice Sonya Sotomayor that chastised the Supreme Court
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DOGE given access to Americans' Social Security data by Supreme Court
Justice Jackson in a dissent chastised the Supreme Court for once again reporting to the emergency docket.
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Olivia Gaines, Author @ogaines.com · 07/06/2025
Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/... A US-born American citizen was detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his US birth certificate in court & a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida...
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U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14/04/2025
"Diversity is discrimination" is literally Orwellian language, like "war is peace, hate is love, slavery is freedom." You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov
A screenshot of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division website with a banner saying "Do you believe you have been discriminated against because of diversity, equity and inclusion? Get help NOW!"
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
True ✅
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 04/04/2025
Where’s the mad king while the market crashes? Golfing in Florida.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Welcome to all our new followers! 💚
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/03/2025
Western Forest will cover 2,500 hectares across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol A new Western Forest is to be created across a swathe of the west of England from the Cotswolds to the Mendips, the government has said. The project, one of the government’s promised national forests,…
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New forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050
Western Forest will cover 2,500 hectares across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol A new Western Forest is to be created across a swathe of the west of England from the Cotswolds to the Mendips, the government has said. The project, one of the government’s promised national forests, will create 2,500 hectares (6,200 acres) of woodland by 2030 across five priority areas in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol, with plans to plant 20m trees by 2050. Continue reading...
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NPR @npr.org · 21/03/2025
From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.
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A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests
From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital t...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025
Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
TODAY'S TRAITOR QUIZ ================== What is Trump's KGB Secret Agent name? --------------------------
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Brutal.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Is this how the USA surrendered to Russia? This and the obscene ruckus in the White House today?
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Hate Liberals? Bite Me. @happyliberal.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Republicans want your private data and they are going to stop ANYONE getting in their way. =========================
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
archive.is/f9J7P Lawyers for trump in line to take top jobs at the Justice Department sparred with Democrats yesterday over whether trump could simply ignore some court orders - an early skirmish in a larger fight over the White House’s efforts to claim more sweeping presidential powers...
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jcstrauss.bsky.social @jcstrauss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Serious q: why do we/ the media call it "misinformation" rather than a good old fashioned anglo-saxon word that doesn't gloss or sanitize: ... "lies".
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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petertomaro.bsky.social @petertomaro.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Criminal activity!!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is what authoritarianism looks like. It’s taken 249yrs to come to America. It’s up to the American people to resist it. To defeat it. I hope we do.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Anyone asking if Trump would actually defy a court order needs their fucking head examined. I mean we’re talking about someone who tried to overthrow an American election. Wake the fuck up. Of course he’ll defy the Constitution. Apologies for my language. I don’t feel well.
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jcstrauss.bsky.social @jcstrauss.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#3 And --- will there *really* be an enforceable firewall between "regular" T-mobile use and the Starlink satellite use? All things worth thinking about ... and a shame b/c T-mobile is really quite good for people who travel overseas a lot ...
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jcstrauss.bsky.social @jcstrauss.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#2 What I want to know (any techies out there who can help?) is the degree to which this deal between Muskrat and T-mobile is enriching either/ both, and whether it is now time to ditch T-mobile on grounds of principle. thoughts? Any one who has read the contracts between Musk and T-mobile?
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jcstrauss.bsky.social @jcstrauss.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... #1
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Starlink, T-Mobile open their satellite texting test to all. Here’s how it works.
The satellite messaging service will be free to use until July -- even if you aren’t a T-Mobile customer.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/02/2025
Tulsi Gabbard is a national security threat, and the Senate votes on her today. A vote to confirm her as Intelligence Director is a betrayal to our nation, and will put us all in danger. Call your Senator now and tell them Tulsi is too great a risk: 202-224-3121 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bInd...
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YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.
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jcstrauss.bsky.social @jcstrauss.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So --- here's a question. Was Orange really booed at the Superbowl? (This is a real question because if he was, surely Fox would have edited it all out).
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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jcstrauss.bsky.social @jcstrauss.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
OK, so now it's out in the open. Not content with neutering the legislative, they're going to deny judicial review, in short doing away with division of power, and doing away with the Constitution.
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Tony DeMarco 🟧🟦 @patriotsnhfan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
All of a sudden, I’ll be praying 😂😂😂
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
THIS is how you do it: 250,000 people in Munich, Germany, demonstrate against Putin's puppets, the Musk-endorsed AfD.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The richest man on earth, Elon Musk is trying to kill a department, USAID, that helps the poorest people on earth Because USAID has been investigating Musk and his Starlink company — and their ties to Vladimir Putin and Russia THAT is why Musk is attacking USAID
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 09/02/2025
Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u... @rmac.bsky.social @stacycowley.bsky.social
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Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
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cchinni.bsky.social @cchinni.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Sorry, but this is NO SURPRISE to anyone who was paying attention
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