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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Hey DOGE where’s our 5 Billion? I say at least we’re owed, some stock and a board seat. Musk’s SpaceX, a privately held company which gets 84% of its revenue from tax payer funded contracts, pays no taxes and due to changeTrump made in 2017 never will. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
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SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.
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Representative Val Hoyle @repvalhoyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
SOCIAL SECURITY ISN'T AN ENTITLEMENT, IT'S AN EARNED BENEFIT. On it's 90th anniversary, Social Security is under attack like never before. That's why I’m fighting alongside @sanders.senate.gov to pass our Social Security Expansion Act to expand benefits & extend the life of the program by 75 years.
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Michael Jaeger @jaegerbru.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Dems really, really, *really* need to make Miller the face of the administration, the way Musk was until recently. He’s hugely unlikeable and has the potential to create major drag if he is out front and center.
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bodhidave @bodhidave.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Timothy Snyder on Maddow just now, being asked what's next for opposition to the Trump regime (my recollection of his words):
"the unpredictability is part of the solution" / it must be, and things like this always tend to be, creative, changing as it goes on ... "it has to be about the future" / give people the sense that things can be much better — and they can be much better ... and "it has to be a coalition", including some persons from the other political side
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 19/05/2025
We know now more than EVER before: The Trump Administration’s cruelty and inhumanity knows no bounds. HERE is the news Sen. DURBIN just broke after staff visited two ICE detention facilities. A THREAD.
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Rep. Laura Friedman @friedman.house.gov · 19/05/2025
This isn’t about budgeting. It’s about power. And it’s about protecting Trump from the rule of law. I’ll be voting against this bill — and speaking out against any attempt to weaken our courts.
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Rep. Laura Friedman @friedman.house.gov · 19/05/2025
The result: 1⃣ Judges would lose one of their only tools to make sure the law is followed. 2⃣ Agencies could be dismantled in violation of court rulings. 3⃣ Trump could keep defying the courts — with no consequences.
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Rep. Laura Friedman @friedman.house.gov · 19/05/2025
Courts routinely waive that bond — especially in public interest cases or when the government is the defendant. This clause would block enforcement in cases where a judge already ruled and didn’t require a bond. Even permanent injunctions could become meaningless.
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Rep. Laura Friedman @friedman.house.gov · 19/05/2025
Right now, if you ignore a federal court order — like an injunction — a judge can hold you in contempt. That’s essential to the rule of law. But Section 70302 says courts can’t do that unless the plaintiff paid a bond at the start of the case. Why is that a problem? ⬇️
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 18/05/2025
🤣😂 #MomSky
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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you are smarter than artificial intelligence
don’t let billionaires gaslight you: we are far more powerful and far more capable than a cadre of men whose only accolades include theft and ill-gotten generational wealth
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Changes In The Military
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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May 6, 2025
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I'm attending Volunteer Blue/Together We Elect's event, “No Kings–Then or Now: Historian H. Cox Richardson, AG Campbell, US Rep. Raskin - Resc www.mobilize.us/volunteerblu...
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No Kings–Then or Now: Historian H. Cox Richardson, AG Campbell, US Rep. Raskin - Rescheduled! · Volunteer Blue/Together We Elect
No Kings – Then or Now: Fighting on All Fronts RESCHEDULED: Volunteer Blue and its 40-plus partner organizations are (re)inviting you to join us on Friday, May 9th, for this special event. We will ...
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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April 29, 2025
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt popularized the idea that the first 100 days of a presidency established an administration’s direction.
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Bridget123goooo 🌊🦋🏃🏻‍♀️⛰️ @bridget123goooo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Workers are under attack! Whether you’re an immigrant, a union worker, farmer or govt worker, let’s stand up for labor rights in this country! 5/1 there will be massive protests. Search for some near you and make your voices heard! Here’s the one I’ll be at! See you there! ✊💙💪
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/04/2025
It was never about saving money—or rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. Musk bought himself a presidency, and in exchange, Trump handed him the keys to our government so he could tear down anything in his way, siphon off our data w/his hackers, and line his pockets w/more fat government contracts.
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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"We bleed just like anybody else bleeds."
But don't expect Convicted Felon Donald Trump's Department of Justice to care.
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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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You Think This Would Have Got More Attention
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Three Wins Today: April 28, 2025
I have a headache, and it’s so much later than I wanted it to be, so I’m gonna make this quick.
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Flashing Red Lights: A Warning for Our Economy
Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren on Trump’s economic chaos, what’s broken, and how we fight back.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
They’re essentially telling everyone "Shut up, fall in line, and we’ll help you take people’s health care."
@AndrewDesiderio: THUNE to me just now when asked about some Freedom Caucus members not being moved by his statement —

“At some point, these guys just have to take yes for an answer. We’re aligned. We’re completely aligned with the House.”

Says he thought his statement was “straightforward”
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
As a Jew, I vehemently oppose these attacks on free speech and human rights and the related kidnappings of young activists. This is not protection of anyone. It is tyranny. Not in my name.
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
House Republicans just voted to cut health care, cut school lunches, and cut veterans' benefits — all to hand $7 trillion in tax breaks to Elon Musk and his billionaire friends. They've deserted their hardworking constituents to help the rich get richer.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The right to vote is the FOUNDATION of all other rights. Without it, our voices are SILENCED, and our freedoms are COMPROMISED. The SAVE Act is a DIRECT ATTACK on this foundation, putting EVERYTHING we hold dear at risk. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/OL6FMzh0
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Contact Your Members of Congress Today
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The House just voted to make it harder for millions of Americans to vote—including women who changed their names after marriage. Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE Act. You can use our easy click-to-call tool to make your calls right now: go.redwine.blue/SAVECYR-FB
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Tell Senate to Vote ‘No’ on the SAVE Act!
We’re standing up to MAGA extremists who want to take away our right to vote. Join us.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/04/2025
"If you can prove someone's a gang member or has committed a crime or is violent, round them up, put them on a plane, get them out. But you have to prove that, right?" Right? Rep. Jason Crow joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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newton’s law of storytelling
the attempt to muzzle speech has resulted in everyday folks finding their megaphone
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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SUPER IMPORTANT!!!!! The House of Representatives will vote on Trump's budget on WEDNESDAY. If it passes, Medicaid and SNAP will be gutted, Medicare will be seriously compromised, AND measures will a...
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
YES!!!
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Maybe the polar bears could delegate a bear to confront trvmp.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/04/2025
There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Important
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ohh "America First" was a hit list
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽
Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert

This is how you write a headline.

San Antonio Express-News ®
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Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thank you to whoever made this
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Beks @antifaoperative.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
South Carolina evangelical pastor, Frank Galbreath, who was arrested in March for child rape in South Carolina, has now been charged for raping a child in Pennsylvania. Galbreath gave the child $100 in cash and told her to keep quiet. tristatealert.com/pastor-alrea...
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Ariella Elm on Substack
It's Thursday, so we just wrapped up the weekly "What's the Plan" Indivisible Zoom meeting, which is open to everyone btw. The focus was mostly on the Hands Off 2025 protests on Saturday and on Cory...
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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How to Protest Safely in Trump's America—Part 1
Essential advice to help you prepare for the April 5 protest
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Choosing lawlessness
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who came to the United States in 2011, when he was around 16 years old.
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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NYC!!!! If you are in city council district 44, you have an election TUESDAY!!!! Neither candidate is great, but Simcha Felder is light years better than the alternative Please don’t sit out this ...
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joanfriedman.bsky.social @joanfriedman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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MASSACHUSETTS!!!! Specifically Natick!!!! You have your annual town election on TUESDAY For select board, a Republican named Kathryn Kelly is trying to weasel her way in by calling her herself an ...
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Call me Rick. @potusbumblephuq.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I'd hate to hear that anyone called the Heritage Foundation at 1-800-546-2843 and shared their thoughts on Project 2025.
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Fight for right @bluewind55.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I came across this scripture last night during my usual nightly prayers, reminded me of what t-Rump is, and what he's doing!
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
BREAKING: The IRS is close to reaching a data-sharing agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, authorizing immigration officials to use tax data to track and locate individuals SUSPECTED of being in the country illegally. Tax information — heretofore confidential — will now…
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