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Jen Graham

@jengraham.bsky.social
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Books, dogs, birds, cooking, and gardening are my thing. Lots of silly pics of our two Biewer Terriers, Merlin & Sonny.

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 11h
12 of the 100 U.S. Senators (12%) and 41 of the 429 U.S. Representatives (9.6%) have held their current office longer than ICE has existed as an agency. When they got sworn in, it didn’t exist. But we supposedly can’t function as a country without that specific agency existing in its present form?
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h
The Federal government is currently staffed like the graveyard shift at a 24 hour grocery store.
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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 8h
Would be nice and reassuring to have an administration that was pro-science and pro-vaccine to stand up the effort to develop one for this — and to ensure they also were creating enough stockpiles of antibiotics and other basic PPE to prepare should this case/situation begin to gain steam.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 6h
Frightening. Fight back at the ballot box.
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 17h
It doesn’t seem like there are enough people in society who despise BOTH Antisemitism and anti-Muslim bigotry. Like, why is it hard for some people to not be a jackass to either group? You don’t have to pick a side to hate. You really don’t.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23h
Setting aside the callous cruelty of this assertion--it's pretty telling that our so-called Commander-in-Chief doesn't know that active-duty military, veterans, and their families make up almost a quarter of the population of San Diego.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h
Trump Admin is tying transit money to higher birthrates. They are going to be so bummed when they figure out that immigrant groups have higher birthrates. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding
The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
remember after citizens united when everyone pretended super pacs wouldn't coordinate with politicians and would be truly independent entities? that was a fun five minutes
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wait, you mean I’M “the enemy within”? I thought you must have meant someone else.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ohio, it’s time to vote – early voting begins today! Go to iwillvote.com/OH to find your polling location and early voting hours.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ohio's early voting starts today! 🗳In-person voting hours: 8a to 5p, Tuesday through Friday this week at your county Board of Elections 📬 Voting by mail: County Boards of Elections begin sending absentee ballots to voters who requested them. 📲 Go to vote411.org to get everything you need to vote
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Data centers are booming. All other private construction is shrinking.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In leaks to the press throughout both Trump terms, Tillis and the other GOP Senators have explained how thoroughly unfit they are to serve and why they should have resigned in shame. If they all write memoirs, publish them together as a 30-volume set Profiles in Cowardice
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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Hennepin County, which endured some of the most brutal ICE raids and the murder of Renee Good, Hispanic turnout is literally 5x what it was at this point in 2022, and >50% above 2024 at the same point.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I appreciate this direct rebuke, by Trump-appointee Judge Brown, of both an illegal ICE arrest *and* ICE's illegal attempts to excuse it. This is practically ICE's standard operating procedure: the behavior of an unaccountable, lawless federal army. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Agents allegedly arrested petitioner based on a physical description and
photograph of one target. Yet the description disproves the match: the target was five
inches shorter and 80 pounds lighter than the petitioner. As to the photograph, the team
leader acknowledged upon cross-examination that “it’s very easy to see they’re two
different people.” Trying to legitimize petitioner’s arrest, ICE issued a post-hoc sworn
administrative warrant containing false information and later issued a Notice to
Appear. At the hearing, the officers proffered inconsistent, false and misleading
testimony.
 The result is troubling: compelling evidence here belies the ICE agents’ reflexive
invocation of misidentification as an excuse for erroneous arrests. Particularly
problematic in this case, the evidence suggests that ICE attempted to support their
unsupported misidentification argument through false or misleading documentation
and testimony. The claims of misidentification here prove baseless, the arrests were
procedurally deficient and legally invalid, and ICE agents falsified official records
trying to conceal their illegal actions, which included significant injury to a U.S. citizen.
 The arrest and detention of petitioner were illegal. The petition must be granted.
Furthermore, given the false testimony and records supplied to the Court and the other
matters revealed, further action must be considered.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Said the same about Covid
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Heads up, friends of Stephen Simpson. Forgive my alt text not working, but he's heading to the ER after doing worse lately
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you for sharing. Prayers for Stephen and Suzanne. They’ve been through so much 😢 🙏🏻
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This weekend, I went to Springfield, Ohio, for Pierre Damas Bel's funeral--and to next-door Vandalia for Trump's same-day rally, where the president took a victory lap on the policies that killed him. I hope you'll give it a read. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If we're going to denaturalize and deport people for sex trafficking they hid on their citizenship applications, is there a reason this would not apply to Ghislaine Maxwell?
CHILD SEX ABUSER’S CITIZENSHIP REVOKED AFTER NATURALIZATION FRAUD CONVICTION
 
Cyril Domaquik Clemens, a Liberian native, was convicted of three counts of indecent liberties with a child after confessing to sexually molesting a young child.
 
The abuse began before he naturalized, but he concealed it during the citizenship process, fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.
 
➡️Learn more about ICE’s role in immigration fraud investigations by searching our website for “Operation False Haven.”
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When I was a kid, the movie WarGames came out and was both brilliant and scary. But we all knew that there was no computer smart enough to try to start a nuclear war. Today they kind of are that smart. And we just have to hope that all the really important stuff in society is locked down enough.
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Wargames NORAD Missile Warning System
ALT: Wargames NORAD Missile Warning System
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RAPE GANG OR ICE? BOTH? No ID. No badges. No uniform. Masks. An unmarked van. How are you supposed to know? PAXIS.app explains your rights during ICE encounters. Free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS This is the shit we grew up hearing about in dictatorships. Now it’s here. Record EVERYTHING.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m certainly not losing sleep over this news for the moment, but anyone of a certain age that lived through the Soviet’s handling of Chernobyl might justifiably worry how much of the truth re: the strain and extent of the spread we are getting from Russia.
Screenshot of a post of a BlueSky user saying CNN is fear mongering and that there is no danger to anyone other than in the lab where she was infected.
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cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 04/10/2026
Ohio lawmakers failed to establish cost protections for residential electric customers before aggressively recruiting data centers, leaving ordinary ratepayers potentially liable for surging grid demands.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Somehow we’ve survived 250 years with the military not being called in to oversee elections.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wish D’s had a similar message in Ohio. R’s have had a supermajority for years and our school finances are a mess, property taxes are ridiculously high, they gave data centers massive tax breaks, and our electric bills have doubled.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The "Higher Rates, Higher Rent Doom Loop" is a major trap for the Fed: 1. High rates mean builders build less 2. Fewer homes mean rents go up 3. Higher rents push inflation higher (shelter is ~25% of CPI) 4. Sticky inflation keeps rates high A vicious cycle. 📉🏠 T at Apollo
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 04/10/2026
Why do lawmakers just stand around in befuddlement every time the president illegally rescinds congressionally-appropriated funds or illegally spends those funds on other programs without legislation?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it's more important to trump that he not be blamed for a republican loss than that they win
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yep. The ads are just bananas at this point. www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic... Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." She didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have to just walk away a lot and then focus on doing something positive. Otherwise, it would drive me insane.
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He’s vile
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The corruption is breathtaking.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I support this decision. Technology does not render Constitutional rights obsolete. Courts must consider how to protect rights in light of changing technology.
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saved from the heatwave. Check your voter registration. Volunteer to work the polls.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A Great Egret passing by with the Fall colors starting to show.
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤮🤢
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#2 most hated after ticks
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m down to Bluesky and some use of Reddit, but that’s about it.
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Jen Graham @jengraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The First Energy golden boy ad is even more effective. We’ve called him golden boy for months now. Every NE Ohioan can tell you how much their electric bill has increased.
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