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Jan Dohner

@jdohner.bsky.social
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Author, librarian, farmer. Retired public school teacher. Board member at Build The Era. Roundabout fan. Climate. Democracy. Farm dogs. Predator coexistence. Sheep, chickens & 🐝 JanDohner.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
When -- not if, when -- Republicans respond to their losses this fall by crying about "voter fraud" and demanding Congress or the courts review the results, we have good lawyers and elected officials ready to push back. But the rest of us need to take a page from 2000 and mock them as sore losers.
"Sore Loserman" buttonProtesters with "Sore Loserman" crying towels
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 6h
Zelenskyy approval rating: 54% Trump approval rating: 32%
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 3h
No one should be surprised. Trump believes it’s perfectly fine to invade other countries and take over their land and resources.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
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Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But heaven forbid Secretary Pete daring to take family leave to help care for his premature infant twins with serious health issues.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is shameful. It speaks to a character that enjoys turning power into violence. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The First Amendment wasn’t actually “first.” The original First Amendment was meant to ensure that the House of Representatives grew in loose proportion to the country. Instead, the House’s size hasn’t changed since 1911. Today’s “One First” on that history—and the problems a capped House creates:
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Bonus 256: The Original “First” Amendment
The only provision from the original Bill of Rights that was never adopted would've grown the House in proportion to the country. We should revisit it.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bidenomics was working.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/10/2026
32 states permit child marriage. More states allow child marriage and minors to drink alcohol than those that allow access to hormones prescribed by their doctor with the support of their parents. None of it is logical and it's entirely based on moral panic.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We didn’t learn anything from Covid. People are already confidently calling the plague a nothingburger. Sure, we have cipro and doxycycline. The obvious concern here is that this strain was modified to be antibiotic resistant or spread more easily. We simply don’t know yet.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee (H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All these polls for close Senate races say the same thing: voters think the Dem would do a better job, but they just wish they were a bit more racist.
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He also believes we will actually get more hours of daylight each day.
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump magically thinks we will get more hours of daylight with this bill. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Up until now, REAP has allowed farms to build arrays that generate more power than they use, helping farmers not only slash their own utility bills but also earn revenue by selling clean energy back to the grid.” www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...
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The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"America is pissed. I have a lot of people who come up saying 'I am a Republican.'...and then they talk about how important they think it is for Democrats to win in a few weeks," @petebuttigieg.bsky.social shares what he hears from voters as President Trump's policies become more unpopular.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dems’ 2028 platform should include stuff like letting soldiers have beards, letting TSA agents sit down, letting generals get their promotions, etc. The deep state isn’t real but civil and uniformed services are. We need them to know which side respects their human dignity before MAGA’s next coup.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration has formally rescinded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students nationwide.
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And to listen to Smokey the Bear.
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Deliberate choices. Deliberate ignorance.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U.S. manufacturing jobs are down under Trump, including in the auto industry. His strategy failed, and so will this. Lowering standards will accelerate what he has already been doing: handing the clean tech future to China and forcing Americans to pay more at the pump.
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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know this gets old and I hate myself for doing it (not enough to stop me obviously), but what would have happened if Michele Obama had worn a meanswear style suit that was a riff on her husband's tux. How normal would Fox had been about it?
Trump in tux. Melania in deconstructed menswear - huge white pussy bow, black pants with cumberbund.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And the GOP wonders why they are struggling in farming states. Congress didn’t stand up to the tariffs and this is the consequence.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It matters to have leaders who care about the right things - as I was reminded during my last flight out of Pittsburgh International Airport. Here's why.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thread on solar vs. farmland debate: 1/n Enviro writer Bill McKibben: "“If you care about the future of agriculture on this planet,” he added, ​“you should be focused on driving down carbon emissions so we will still be able to grow things.”" www.canarymedia.com/.../lowell-v....
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration is, once again, threatening to take control of billions of dollars of biomedical and public health research funds at the National Institutes of Health, an agency focused on facilitating research and producing reliable data on public health and safety to protect all of us.
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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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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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 16/09/2026
For the first time, the US military has publicly acknowledged that it has space weaponry, violating its policy of secrecy. Experts warn the revelation will cause our adversaries to launch a new arms race in space. One said "I don't think this is going to be in the interest of US national security.”
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Don't be taken in by wedge issues manufactured by bad actors looking to divide us & deflect our attention from the defining issue of this election: defeating a fascist, antidemocratic, racist, misogynistic, bigoted, xenophobic, destructive Trump/GOP agenda. #VoteBlue #Midterms
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I said this in 2018. Trump’s continuing betrayal of our beloved country is more unforgivable now.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026
There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.
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Jan Dohner @jdohner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Truly the most reprehensible people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Buttigieg: "I was shocked to hear Speaker Johnson just now saying 'we shouldn't be rushing, shouldn't be moving too quickly on this.' You know what is moving quickly? AI. For Congress to sit on its hands is deeply dangerous it to the American people ... what have they been doing this entire time?"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The shit is about to hit the fan.
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