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Joann Wilfert

@joann1w.bsky.social
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Feminist, mother, grandmother, wife, volunteer, lifelong liberal, nerd, retired engineer What you do is more important than what you believe Please, no DMs if I don’t know you 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐝🌊🦋🌈

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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 19h
newrepublic.com/post/216708/... Racism against South Asians has ramped up in recent months, spurred on by right-wing politicians and media.
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Democratic Congressman Was at Temple During Mass Shooting Attempt
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi says he was at the temple a white supremacist tried to attack.
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 20h
Tone deaf mean girl
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The demented, abusive, and very racist misogynist is doing his favorite things. 😡
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/10/2026
Elon cut off Starlink to Ukraine because they blew up his Russian bots and so now his posts don’t get enough likes? Do I have that right?
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Seize Starlink and SpaceX.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14/10/2026
⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says
Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
www.cato.org/blog/questio... Highly irregular & why now, after voting has started? It’s another corrupt attempt by this corrupt regime to rig the vote in a blue state. Cheating is the only way the Guardians of Pedophiles party can win.
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Questions on DOJ Voter Roll Letter to California
The Department of Justice’s letter to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber is highly, highly irregular. I do not know of a previous instance in which the federal government pushed for such a la...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Zelenskyy's statements are dramatic, but also accurate, after Russian ballistic missiles cause scores of deaths largely as a result of the failure of the US to share missile launch data with the Ukrainians, coupled with Musk's unplugging fo Ukraine's missile defenses.
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Zelensky: My people are dying after Trump’s Starlink betrayal
While visiting the UK the Ukrainian president said the apparent decision to curb access to Elon Musk’s satellite communications system was a boon to Russia
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/10/2026
IMF's Georgieva says US growth will not be enough to shrink debt reut.rs/47ob5Dd
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IMF's Georgieva says US growth will not be enough to shrink debt
The United States cannot grow its way ​out of mounting public ‌debt and needs to make other fiscal adjustments to put ​its debt on a ​more sustainable path, International Monetary ⁠Fund Managing Director Kristalina ​Georgieva said on Wednesday.
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“So, a man who can be provoked by a tweet shouldn’t have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes as far as I think anyone with any sense about this should be concerned.” -Hilliary Clinton, 2016
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tom Homan: “If someone committed an immigration violation, if someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they’re a congressman or not, no one’s above the law...” Also Homan: 2024, FBI recorded evidence Homan took $50k bribes from undercover agents. 2025, case closed.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hahahaha
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
GOP Gaslighting
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Let’s all give a big round of applause to Ukraine!!
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"A revitalized American liberalism could incorporate Zelensky’s inspirational courage, Magyar’s organizing ability, Carney’s calm competence, and Pope Leo’s moral grounding. Is it too much to hope we could combine some of these elements in one political movement?" www.thebulwark.com/p/winning-mi...
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Winning the Midterms Is Not Enough
One wave election won’t defeat Trumpism.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oracle, 29th largest company in the world, led by Larry Ellison, books looking bad, bet huge on AI, tens of billions in negative cash flow, and if the company goes down, there’s a good chance it takes the AI bubble and Skydance down with it.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026
"The amount of fuel Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight, the narrative too late to shape electoral outcomes: This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender" www.theatlantic.com/idea/2026/10...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/10/2026
POLITICAL RETRIBUTION Federal agents raided Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s DC home this morning. A sitting member of Congress who has repeatedly been targeted by Trump, now facing a federal investigation over immigration paperwork her father completed when she was a child. A CHILD.
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Lori @tygergyrl17.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hypocrisy at its best...From The Other 98%
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump is an enemy of the West
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Dirty Secret Behind the Farmed Fish You Eat www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Over 250 seafood companies had crimes or concerns documented within their supply chains.
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The Dirty Secret Behind the Farmed Fish You Eat
Forced labor, rancid waste, harmful chemicals. What to know about the seafood that could end up on your plate.
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
emptywheel.net/2026/10/06/j...
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John Solomon Confirms Todd Blanche is FAR More Abusive Than Jack Smith - emptywheel
The latest John Solomon attempt to deceive his rubes, a bunch of pen register reports targeting Susie Wiles, reveal a great deal of corruption. The corruption is all that of Trump and his aides.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump always pressures the victim and never the aggressor
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Traitor president
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Dona!d is P’s bitch.
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He’ll say any bs to keep ppl talking abt him.
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Totally believable
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 10/10/2026
10/10 Court filings confirm ICE agents did add Mainers to “nice little database” of “domestic terrorists” #maine #MEpolitics
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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Joann Wilfert @joann1w.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Insanely needy and narcissistic. A complete embarrassment to have someone like that representing the US.
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MickeyBuntz Estes @mickey-buntzestes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More terrifying tech news
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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Kremlin continues dangling billions and trillions of dollars of potential business to Kushner and Witkoff to get them to steamroll Ukraine. But that money is a mirage. My latest. puck.news/kushner-witk....
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Kushner and Witkoff’s Pipe Dreams
Putin is dangling dubious Russian riches before Trump’s inner circle, betting that personal profit will succeed where diplomacy has failed in persuading Washington to abandon Ukraine. Will it work?
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Russia is so weak economically and in other respects that it has no soft power, non-lethal influence, or legal means to project its power. All it can do is kill and bribe
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"Next month, Trump is hosting the 'most exclusive dinner in the world' at his golf club in Virginia — & you’re invited! Well, only if you can pony up millions to buy his scammy meme coin. It’s just another breathtaking bit of corruption that, by now, is depressingly routine." — @snipy.bsky.social
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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/10/2026
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms. trib.al/7jA0zsy
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/10/2026
BREAKING: A federal immigration agent shot a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, the latest of nearly two dozen such shootings in the past two years. A statement by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani indicated that the man had a five-year-old child in his car.
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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car
Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/10/2026
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms. trib.al/OWLYloJ
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/10/2026
Susie Wiles’s daughter also works for Republika Srpska. trib.al/97v0n9z
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Another Member of Trump’s Inner Circle Works for Russian-Linked Group
Susie Wiles’s daughter also works for Republika Srpska.
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Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today is Latina Equal Pay Day — a reminder that Latinas still earn just 52 cents for every dollar a white man makes. I've fought for equal pay for years. As Governor, I will always fight for equal pay and for women across our state.
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 08/10/2026
Normalizing state murder for obvious reasons
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Donald Trump has done & said so many appalling things, but siccing his racist fans on innocent Somali residents is disgustingly dangerous.
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