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Jen Rodriguez

@jenrodriguezga.bsky.social
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Native Georgian (but Go Gators!), talented TV watcher, spinner, physician, Navy veteran among other nouns.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm at the Ryman Auditorium tonight, where the Indigo Girls played their anti-death penalty anthem "Faye Tucker" while not knowing that the state of Tennessee was simultaneously botching another execution.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you need to catch up on the whole controversy with GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt not knowing his sports and embarrassing himself while attempting to slander a public servant today, I made a 20 min. video explainer. Yes, 20 minutes. And I enjoyed the hell out of making it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjN...
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GOP Senator Eric Schmitt + Most Embarrassing Moment Ever in a Congressional Hearing (FULL EXPLAINER)
YouTube video by Charlotte Clymer
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wouldn’t stop suing until my name was on every building the school has and every trustee had to write me a personal check.
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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I saw Goody Proctor at the Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are as many frat boys at Cornell accused of rape as there are trans women playing competitive sports in the NCAA. The problem is men and rape culture. Always has been.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A sentence like this appears in every one of these articles: "Sure I object to everything Trump has ever done, but on the other hand I also disagree with some things about Democrats I made up."
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White to Joe Rogan: Talarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He's a criminal. He's a piece of shit.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White: Eight of Ken Paxton’s assistants turned him into the FBI for fraud... They sued and won $6 million. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He’s a criminal.
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Ham Roids 🎃 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran could have refused to boot Macklemore and forced venues to decide if they wanted to lose all that revenue or not. What is the point of being rich and having a platform if you're so easily bullied into being a useless coward?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman in Pennsylvania has just died from measles. There is no controversy. She needlessly died from a disease that is preventable with a vaccine. But HHS Secretary RFK Jr. thinks measles isn’t that bad. Nobody should die of measles in the United States.
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Pennsylvania woman dies of measles-related complications, local coroner says
The 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner. The state health department is conducting a "thorough review" of the case.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway you should read Steve Kandell’s beautiful piece www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stev...
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The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction
Nearly 13 years after my sister’s death, a reluctant Sunday visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where public spectacle and private grief have a permanent home together.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/09/2026
John Fetterman, who refused to attend a funeral for three PA police officers because it was too long, speaks to Trump's midterm convention:
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump has been determined to disprove every argument that Electoral College proponents have made. No, it doesn’t compel candidates to pay attention to the interests of voters all over the country. It shields a tyrant from electoral blowback when he tells states that voted against him to drop dead
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think a lot about how many states keep loosening oversight of homeschooling while other people get this kind of punishment for their kids just being outside
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yes, Rogers is wrong. But it’s not so much an error or a lie as it is Rogers being a virulent ethno-nationalist and Islamophobe who doesn’t believe people like El-Sayed can or should ever be considered American.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If Dems win a trifecta in 2028 and don't push forum-shopping reform (and related judicial reforms) as their first bill, they'll doom everything else they try to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...
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How Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article)
For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i'm sorry, but are you at all familiar with dolly parton's life? "stayed neutral in the culture wars"?? fuck outta here with this shit.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly loved and mothered all of us who were told by our towns we were too fallen for loving and mothering. The queer. The slutty. The barren. “I know, honey. Just let it out.” —— I’ll leave you this. Dolly (and Linda and Emmylou) loving and mothering the wayward son. youtu.be/wWEQDyrbphE?...
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Dolly Parton Linda Ronstadt Emmylou Harris - The Sweetest Gift
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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Dolly Parton sends signed, bejeweled guitar to Austin drag performer Brigitte Bandit
The year ended on a high note for one local performer after unwrapping a gift sent from one queen to another.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Stephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
All this authoritarian nonsense projects is brittleness. It says our military is so damn weak that it can't handle any level of criticism. It's a really bad sign about what's going on there.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No, he took a swing at the president, noting that the president would rather spend time with her on his plane than do his job. If I complain that my son is spending all his time at the beach instead of doing chores, I am not actually "taking a swing at the beach"
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Finally some heat.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Elon Musk’s DOGE project cut tens of thousands of jobs between FDA and USDA and rescinded several rules related to food contamination, so this was all anticipated. And the baseline for food inspection in the US was already pretty weak.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The President is not a doctor and he’s surrounded by conspiracy theorists and quacks. This is a reckless pronouncement built upon lies and misinformation. *Posting from vacation in my personal capacity www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/08/2026
Everything conservatives do is identity politics but only the left gets accused of doing identity politics when they try to mitigate the harm or fight back.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Highly usable post from last year
@weedle.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.
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