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Jilly B

@jillybcooks.bsky.social
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writer, home chef, mixologist, friend of animals and nature

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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As your editors and @npr.org 's Board know, these impoundments have been illegal since the Nixon administration. Your both siding won't restart Congressional funding. Your both siding is losing you donors. So what's in it for your editors and broadcasters to deceive listeners by repeating this lie?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The US Constitution is a blueprint for governing and a safety net for civil liberties, not an obstacle to be navigated for loopholes. Happy Constitution Day.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026
Donald Trump and Joe Biden at 9/11 ceremonies today. Trump in DC. Biden in NYC. (REUTERS)
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/08/2026
$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
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5nark Twain @5narktwain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#ICE #DV1 #ProudBlue #MohammadNazeerPaktiawal A U.S. Special Forces combat ally survived a decade of war, only to die in ICE custody inside 24 hours. His veteran comrades are furious, calling it the ultimate betrayal. Here’s what happened to Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal
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gerrylev.bsky.social @gerrylev.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The large spending on data centers is when they are being built. After that they are a large room of computers with relatively few employees.
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EjDžejDí @ejdzhejdi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bernie Moreno is the soulless grifter the people of Ohio dumped Sherrod Brown for
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
BINGO: "I’m going to hold you by both shoulders and look you in the eye. The media loves Trump. They suffered greatly under Biden due to the 'competence penalty.' Joe knew how to do the job and he made it boring so you could just turn off the TV and live your life." bluevirginia.us/2026/07/satu...
"I’m going to hold you by both shoulders and look you in the eye. The media loves Trump. They suffered greatly under Biden due to the “competence penalty.” Joe knew how to do the job and he made it boring so you could just turn off the TV and live your life. Every single person you see reading news in NY and DC loves Trump. He got them second homes, book deals, fancy private schools for their kids, fun cars and it’s a joke to cover him. You can mail it in with “Get a load of what this guy said!”

This isn’t to say we didn’t need intense activism, organizing and advocacy, especially from marginalized communities but to say the media loves Trump’s chaos. That work also didn’t get covered because it’s boring." - sierracascadia
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Seems important
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The pool is empty. There is no gash. Trump is still saying vandals did it. Trump lies with every breath.
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🇧🇪 Belgium 4 - 🇺🇸 USA 1 Can't say the Knicks didn't warn you Team USA.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The reasoning here is absurd enough that it should be part of the story: "Supreme Court rules that Trump statements that Haitians 'probably have AIDS,' are 'poisoning the blood of our country,' are 'eating cats and dogs," do not constitute racial animus."
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Rhonda 🌊 @silverarticfox.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Can somebody explain to me why the rule is "if you can't make rent, cut out the streaming apps, lattes, and avocado toasts" but it's never "if you can't afford your workers a living wage, cut out the mega-yachts, rockets, and spaceships."
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Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/05/2026
NEWS: Virginia Dems have filed a motion asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay issuing its mandate striking down the congressional redistricting referendum. The filing states the Commonwealth intends to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court of seeking review of the decision.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When children are shot in their classrooms, all politicians can offer are thoughts and prayers. When a shooting happens near them, they demand a $350 million golden ballroom to protect themselves.
Don't normalize a system that protects power more than it protects children.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Democrats offered amendments to use this money to fund health care, school meals, childcare, and reverse Republican cuts to SNAP and food assistance. Republicans blocked Every. Single. One. The Big Ugly Bill 2.0 will now come to the House. As you know, I am a HELL NO. (2/2)
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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Jilly B @jillybcooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Because who wouldn't want their tax dollars going to unnecessary wars instead of taking care of their neighbors.
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Jilly B @jillybcooks.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u... Here's Robert Mueller's obituary and an important lesson about being an American
nytimes.com
Robert S. Mueller III, 81, Dies; Rebuilt F.B.I. and Led Trump Inquiry
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If you think the SAVE Act isn’t about disenfranchising women, look at who’s pushing it. Scott Yenor, tied to a men only Christian nationalist group and the Heritage Foundation behind Project 2025. #NoPayToVoteSaveAct Pass it on 👇🏼
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 15/03/2026
The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/02/2026
This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Did you see this today? Anti #ICE protesters carried a MASSIVE U.S. Constitution through the streets of Minneapolis. Not a flag. Not a slogan. The Constitution. Thousands marched, demanding accountability and asking whether federal enforcement is aligning with the rights written on those pages.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 12/02/2026
"If each person takes just one second to ask, will this hurt anyone? The world would already be kinder," the monks' leader said.
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Buddhist monks end peace walk with message: 'Stop before hurting'
"If each person takes just one second to ask, will this hurt anyone? The world would already be kinder," the monks' leader said.
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Jilly B @jillybcooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Watching Orange Caesar turn the National Prayer Breakfast into a festival-style airing of grievances is pretty trippy.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/02/2026
Children at an ICE family detention facility have been denied clean drinking water, medical care, and legal access. Now they may be exposed to measles. Toddlers don't belong in detention, and Congress must end funding for these sites of abuse.
texastribune.org
Measles detected at Dilley immigrant family detention center
The cases come amid renewed nationwide scrutiny of the facility following the transfer there of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy who federal agents arrested along with his father in Minneapolis.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Jilly B @jillybcooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I.: Meltdowns, Chaos, Vendettas (Gift Article)
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Since the occupant of the White House is attacking Alex Pretti again and calling him an insurrectionist, just a few pictures of real insurrectionists that he pardoned. Simply put, his deranged posts won't erase his culpability in Pretti's murder and won't erase the EPSTEIN files.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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teamrickandilsa.bsky.social @teamrickandilsa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This energy in perpetuity. Just say no to fascism. #Resist #Casablanca #TCMParty
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22/01/2026
are they not monsters?
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Marj Halperin❌👑 @marjhalperin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE doesn’t use pepper spray as crowd control. When it’s a “parting gift” to peaceful protesters from agents departing the scene, this is a physical way to say what agent Ross said out load after murdering Renee Good.
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Webanalyst @webanalyst.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Face it. ICE HAS ALIENATED AMERICANS by slamming their victims faces into the ground, wearing mask, not identifying themselves and using aggressive “Gestapo” tactics on immigrants & citizens alike. Americans are resisting, as they should. It is time to defund ICE! Repost if you agree. #BlueCrew
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
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CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY
JANUARY 9, 2026
I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status.
Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/01/2026
NEWS: A source confirms DOJ has NOT provided Congress the legally required explanation for redactions in the Epstein file releases, despite a Jan. 3 statutory deadline under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
meidasnews.com
Department of Justice Violates Epstein Files Law By Failing to Inform Congress of Reasons Behind Redactions
The Justice Department has now blown through another deadline.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/12/2025
I’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives. But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Clinton: Don't trust me, release the files. Trump: Don't release the files, trust me.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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