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Joanie Griffin

@joaniegrif.bsky.social
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Music lover, tree hugger, people helper!

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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/08/2026
The last thing ICE needs is a new tool to inflict even more cruelty and pain on our community members.
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ICE to spend $20M on gloves designed to deliver painful electric shocks
The gloves must be applied directly to someone's skin to deliver the shock
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
License plate readers. Cellphone location data. Social media monitoring. Now, real-time facial recognition on the street. DHS is building a surveillance apparatus—and you're probably already in it. Our latest with @france24.com:
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A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/01/2026
"We should be deeply fearful about what pouring $200 billion of combustible rocket fuel on our immigration enforcement will do to our country." Harrowing words from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in July of last year: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter rolls to the Justice Department. This action violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which strictly limits how completed voter registration data can be disclosed and used. Under 52 U.S.C. § 20507(i), voter information may be
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Sidney Morss @sidneymorss.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
And we’re off to a new year… #satire
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
They say national debt is so high they must cut health care, Medicaid, Medicare, help for disabled kids,food & meds for world poorest, medical research. Cost of everything is UP, YET we pay ICE, occupation of Venezuela, bombing boats, battle ships named Trump, cost of Trump lavish lifestyle -
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
What the United States did in Venezuela is prohibited under international law, which bars the use of force as an instrument of national policy.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Thank you to all the performers who are canceling their events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Bernard Taylor @bernardtaylorforfl.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/12/2025
NEW: ICE will provide immediate medical attention to people in a California detention facility who were being denied care following our legal action last week. People in government detention have a right to medical care, full stop.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/12/2025
The Trump administration is asking states to hand over voters' private data in an effort to create a national voter database. We've already taken steps to stop them in: ✅ California ✅ Colorado ✅ Maine ✅ Maryland ✅ Minnesota ✅ Nevada ✅ New Mexico ✅ Oregon ✅ Pennsylvania ✅ Rhode Island
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Doug Backer @dougbacker.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I’m shocked that 30 people have died in ICE detention this year (per agency).
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Mike Johnson has lost control of the House, as we continue to push through petitions to force the votes he tries so hard to run from. Congress may be closed for the Holiday, but their inboxes aren’t. Let’s flood them with messages and urge them to vote yes on extending ACA tax credits!
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Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20/12/2025
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Verge headline: Death is the Policy

2025 Year in review

Photo illustration depicts RFK Jr surrounded by disease particles
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A win! Thanks to everyone who spoke out. Following public backlash, Mike Lee backtracked on the National Parks proposal, which would have rescinded legislation protecting national parks and maintaining their boundaries as federal lands.
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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/12/2025
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
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Mar-rick @marrickg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Anyone notice that Speaker Johnson subtly dismissed Congress today so that they won't be in session on Friday? Hmmm, anything big set to happen on Friday that might upset people?
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crummybuttons 🫘 ☮ 🇺🇸 🗽 🏳‍🌈 🌊 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 📎 @crummybuttons.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Angry old man yells at kids to “Get off my lawn” for 18 minutes in a nationally televised speech.
December 18, 2025
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/12/2025
"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe." How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids
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"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"
How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids
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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.
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Bakamar Blackwing @bakamar-blackwing.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Governors nation wide should send word to the State and Local Police to arrest ICE on sight. If they resist, then their National Guard should be mobilized to bring this terrorist Gestapo under control. American Communities should be protected.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025
Tell your Senators to vote NO on this bill and protect immigrant children.
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ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children
ICE is traumatizing children as young as 14 – trying to strip them of their rights while they're without attorneys or family to help them. Take action against these horrific abuses now.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/12/2025
For Chase Strangio, co-director of our LGBTQ & HIV Project, coming out as trans was a liberating experience. We’re fighting for a world where all trans people can thrive without political interference.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
ICE = Gestapo 2.0
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Coko @coko.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A Senate vote today to extend healthcare subsidies under the ACA for three years failed. The legislation required 60 votes to advance; only four GOP senators voted w/Democrats in favor of the extension: Susan Collins, R-Maine Josh Hawley, R-Missouri Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/12/2025
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
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Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward. U.S.
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Snarky nurse 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦 @snarkynurse.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Literally. I feel one coming daily
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold SNAP payments to blue states over what’s basically a policy disagreement. The cruelty is just next level. Please spread the word. And call your reps. Thanks to @apnews.com for the great reporting.
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Susan Brown @susanhypoluxo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Susan Brown @susanhypoluxo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Susan Brown @susanhypoluxo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
There is nothing we wouldn’t do now for a little bit of oil money.
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Susan Brown @susanhypoluxo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Free market capitalism in action.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
White background, red ribbon. Text says “World AIDS Day”.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Mike Johnson, whose claim to fame is a ridiculous selfie with Kid Rock, is furious that we’re pushing to force a vote on extending tax credits. You know what to do:
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Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Trump says US will "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries".
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/11/2025
The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA
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