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Jessica Allen

@jessicaallen.bsky.social
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Illustrator, mom, magical thinker

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2026
Dont look at me... i voted for that lady fortune.com/2026/09/19/t...
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'A huge problem': Trump has traded more stocks than all of Congress combined. A Bush-era ethics lawyer explains why you should worry | Fortune
The White House says the president's 28,700 trades are automated and hands-off.
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 22/09/2026
Got notified an artist was located, hired, and paid for work through HireHumanArtists.com and I couldn't be more thrilled Pls hire more artists through here!!! Support human made! #hha
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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists
Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s shameful we are fighting over 19th century BS. We should be voting on our phones. We can bank on our phones, we should be able to vote a variety of ways that make it easy for the voter. Other countries have figured it out. This Administration is against voters!
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For the one millionth time: THIS IS FASCISM. IT'S MORE THAN JUST GRANT FUNDING. SCIENCE IS A CRITICAL PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
yes please. also identify by name the politicians who will support them
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Now that's a fucking headline. www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconn...
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Mitch McConnell is getting more paid time off than women who give birth
Senator Mitch McConnell has continued to receive his full salary while being absent from the Senate for medical reasons.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
medicine.yale.edu/news-article...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Dr. Fauci, who saved millions of lives in the USA, is getting treatment harsher than all the Epstein perpetrators. America is fundamentally damaged to its core.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Since January 1, 2025, the City of Chicago has transitioned to using 100% clean, renewable energy to power all City streetlights and 400+ City buildings including O’Hare Airport, Midway Airport, Harold Washington Library, City Hall, and more.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Pro-death agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s rollback of toxic gas rules limits EPA’s authority to protect public health, analysis says
Ethylene oxide (EtO) is about 60 times more carcinogenic than believed in 2006, research finds
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/05/2026
At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026
When i say that opposition to data centers and "generative AI" can be a winning issue for Democrats, i mean it. You tie it to resource theft and billionaires doing whatever the hell they want to whoever they want, and people will lock tf *in*. Because they're already there.
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Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall.
Residents in communities across the U.S. are taking a radical step to oppose the AI building boom.
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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Screaming.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Stunningly bullshit framing on this NYT story that insists that somehow renewables are a dicy unpredictable thing and downplays that they're far, far cheaper most of the time by focusing on how they're not always. As is often the case with the NYT, comments smarter than article.
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Spain Says the Sun Shields It From Rising Gas Costs. Is That True?
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is insane.
By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
Article linked below
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
They blunder. Destroy lives and livelihoods. Then double back to cover their mistakes. Like multi-billion dollar farm bailouts after tariffs. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...
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To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is what @karenalzate.bsky.social and other legislators who are putting forth bills to fund #RIPTA understand. They will need the support of @joeshekarchi.bsky.social and Val Lawson to get this done. And Governor McKee needs to get his head out of his rear end on this. /2
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/03/2026
AFP: "It breaks my heart": UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says "we're seeing staggering amounts of money, reportedly a billion dollars a day” being spent on the Middle East war, rather than addressing the world’s “huge humanitarian caseload.”
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 05/03/2026
On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died. Just another day/reminder of how “the richest and most powerful nation in the world” cannot do mass transit. We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Tesla made $5.7 BILLION in 2025. It paid $0 in federal income tax. This is the SECOND year in a row that the company paid zero income tax despite making a massive profit. The system is rigged.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!
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Peter Neronha @peterfneronha.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
So let’s not try to rewrite history in an election year. RI has done too little, and moved too slowly, on this Governor’s watch. Read more from our Office about the need to increase renewable incentives, not, as the Governor proposes, decrease them. riag.ri.gov/media/7996/d...
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Curious about what’s going on with @govdanmckee.bsky.social ’s attempt to gut #RhodeIsland ‘s #renewableenergy programs? Frank has you covered.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/02/2026
New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Hey Rhode Island, McKee’s rollback of renewable energy will mean even higher electricity costs. Tell the Senate Finance Committee: this is not the way. Send a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/budg...
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Urgent Climate Action: Stop McKee’s rollback of renewable energy
Support “100% Renewable Electricity by 2030” in R.I. Rhode Island's #1 Climate Priority Governor McKee's proposed FY 2027 budget threatens to significantly weaken Rhode Island’s clean energy progress...
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Peter Neronha @peterfneronha.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
There’s a lot about this that is pure gaslighting-no pun intended. More to come on that. And I love it when the Governor keeps saying “we” went to court to save Revolution Wind. I just have no recollection of his actual involvement. Truth is he had no involvement. At all. Whatsoever.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I’ll take this America, please.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/02/2026
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
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Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."
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Carlos R Munoz @carlosrmunoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Brown University and some high school students are arriving at the Rhode State House for the ICE protest.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A hero and lady justice
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Shiva J, PhD @dolphinwhisperer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Not much went right this year but to hear of fresh sightings bringing the total to 14 new documented calves for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is most welcome news in these final days of 2025 (photo credit: Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, NOAA permit #26919)
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Helen | Vei4 demo in fall 2026 @helenicchi.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
Edit image button
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I'm reading a piece about how Australia is already tightening its gun laws, less than 48 hours after the Bondi Beach shooting. The piece points out that 64% of Aussies favor stricter gun laws. So do 60% of Americans, but our elected reps don't give a damn.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/12/2025
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
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Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A really great Sunday story and photos: Illinois mom covers 250-mile distance to reunite formerly detained immigrants with their Chicago families: “They deserve to know somebody cares” By Rebecca Johnson www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/i...
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Illinois mom covers 250-mile distance to reunite formerly detained immigrants with their Chicago families: ‘They deserve to know somebody cares’
Rebecca De La Luz helps people detained at the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan, reunite with their Chicago-area families.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
(AP) — A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones. This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
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Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN
Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is really good.
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Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/11/2025
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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David Menestres @abstracttruth.northsky.social · 23/11/2025
Anyone remember that cease fire? "Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue"
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Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue, medics say
‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent days
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