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Jonel

@jonelstr.bsky.social
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pronouns are she/her Everything is political Retired, living on a barge. USMC raised, expect swearing. Anti racist feminist Dog/Cat fostering I follow folks with interesting things to say.

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 4h
Sorry, bit late on this. HR 7008 failed to pass cloture on a party line vote 53-47. The bill is effectively dead. There is vote about utilities regulations (HR 9340), which will then be followed by the cloture vote for Sonderling.
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 4h
The Pentagon made last-minute changes to forms that many overseas U.S. citizens use for absentee voting, removing a category of citizens that Republicans have been pushing to block from voting.
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Trump officials changed forms for overseas voters amid a GOP push to restrict voting
The Pentagon made last-minute changes to forms that many overseas U.S. citizens use for absentee voting, removing a category of citizens that Republicans have been pushing to block from voting.
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 4h
The federal government has begun supplying COVID-19 vaccines to states, including Tennessee, to be used as part of a free immunization program for low-income children, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday. From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social.
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After weeks of limbo, federal government now distributing COVID vaccines to low-income kids • Tennessee Lookout
The federal government will supply COVID-19 vaccines to Tennessee, to be used as part of a free immunization program for low-income children.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
🚨BREAKING: The bill failed to clear the 60-vote threshold to end debate in the Senate, 53-47. Every Democratic and independent senator voted against the measure. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP voter ID bill falls short in Senate
The floor stunt attempted to give Republicans facing tough reelection fights something to campaign on as voters sour on the GOP’s willingness to acquiesce to Trump on artificial intelligence, the war ...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16h
State Department employees were falsely accused of "censoring" Americans. When do they get justice? thehill.com/opinion/nati...
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We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16h
i assure u if this were an actual legal document that held them responsible for anything they would fuckin proofread it for a misplaced double space after a period
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15h
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 11h
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Media’s Little White Lie: There’s No Such Thing As an ‘Evangelical Christian’
How evangelical Christianity became part of the biggest myth in American media.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 9h
Netflix has made a hetero hockey show? I don't think they understand what people like so much about Heated Rivalry. Two white straight people fall in love. Wow groundbreaking. Never seen that on screen before
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 8h
The funny thing when Me-Too came around, my two best friends from law school and I were like between the law schools and the law firms, our first five years of practice, was just one horror story after another, and we just thought it was the price you paid for practice.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 8h
When I entered into legal academia, it was called the Meat Market and we met in hotel rooms, too. My favorite interview was when they told me I was the affirmative action candidate while one man was in jean short-shorts, while they all smoked cigars. Yes, it was George Mason.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 7h
And that it why it totally irks me when Pete Hegseth blathers on and on about the “first not being the best”. Dude, every “first” woman I worked with had nerves of steel.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h
✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.
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The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion
Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h
Precisely. And I make that point in the pod! If there's one thing SCOTUS hates more than Black people voting, it's lower courts ignoring its orders. That's why SCOTUS smacked the 8th Circuit upside the head. The goal wasn't to help Black voters in KC. That was just a happy accident.
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SCOTUS Did Something Nice for Black Voters in Missouri. I Know.
YouTube video by Rewire News Group
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h
It is actually completely clear from context clues.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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ACLU @aclu.org · 6h
Governor Lee's 615-741-2001 mailbox is full — contacting him through this form is the quickest way to reach his office.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 6h
URGENT: Hours before Tennessee was set to execute the first woman in the state in more than 200 years today, a federal court temporarily paused Christa Pike's execution. Tell Governor Lee to respect the court's decision and call off her execution NOW.
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Share my Opinion with the Governor's Office
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h
i think this is a fealty test trump daring republicans to show disloyalty
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h
fucking hell
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darthburkie.bsky.social @darthburkie.bsky.social · 20h
Burn fraternity culture to the ground
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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 19h
Yep. We didn't do a damn thing after Sandy Hook or Uvalde. We are not a society that has the will to stop systemic violence. We could choose to be one that does anytime. But we'll have to choose it.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 21h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Jonel @jonelstr.bsky.social · 4h
GODDAMMIT! Men double down on being absolute fucking psychos while women are begging them to step up?!?! JFC
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 5h
In San Francisco, Lurie's RV ban—on which Dan Strauss' similar proposed ban in Seattle appears to be modeled—hasn't gotten people into shelter, but it has pushed them outside city limits, often after losing their RVs and becoming unsheltered. Is this what "success" will look like here?
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S.F. cracked down on RV dwellers. A year later, many have left the city altogether.
Data shows that a year after San Francisco's RV ban, 1/3 of RV dwellers using city aid have moved outside city limits.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 6h
Will note that HR 7008 needs 60 votes to pass cloture, which means 7 Dems have to vote yea for it. If the bill was still originally a very weak attempt to regulate Congressional ownership of stocks, it'd probably pass. But adding a version of the SAVE Act to it makes for a taller task.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 6h
Today at 10:30am, the Senate will begin motions to invoke cloture on fascist bill HR 7008 (a bill that would gut mail in voting and require ID to vote) and to confirm horror show Keith Sonderling as Secretary of Labor. This will be the thread for the votes.
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Common Power @ourcommonpower.bsky.social · 4h
The question for Iowa now is: can Democratic nominees make it a swing state again?  While door-knocking for Rob Sand and Josh Turek, Iowa voters shared their fatigue concerning corruption and the general lack of affordability. These issues will decide the race.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 4h
The multiple deaths at Delaney Hall are the predictable outcome of a rapidly expanding detention system, with no transparency or accountability. Congress must pass the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act to end mandatory detention, family detention, and private facilities like Delaney Hall.
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A Congressman said reports of deadly conditions at an ICE detention center were a “false narrative.” Then two more people died. - ACLU of New Jersey
Immigration detention is cruel and inhumane. It’s also deadly.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h
Trump and the tech oligarch's new "AI accord" is a meaningless and toothless performance -- designed to pre-empt real oversight and propped up by a pathetic U.S. press:
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Trump's New 'AI Guardrails' Are Worthless Gibberish Propped Up By A Shitty Press
Tech and media giants are desperate to convince the electorate that meaningful corporate oversight isn't necessary.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h
I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 7h
Who is running against this man?
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 7h
Trump cuts healthcare for millions of Americans. Healthcare costs skyrocket. Trump slaps tariffs on basically everything—including food. Grocery prices go up. Trump starts ANOTHER war in the oil-rich Middle East. Gas prices go up. See the pattern?
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 7h
Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now. Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now
Contact Congress today!
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 7h
More empty #Foxconn promises. An Indian owned steel plant promised to Iowa. Now a South Korean project for Alaska. States they risk losing. And how's that Foxconn deal going, Wisconsin? BTW? MAGA racists not happy. "This isn't America First!" apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump will unveil $54 billion in South Korean investment in Alaska, site of a tight Senate race
President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans for South Korea to invest roughly $54 billion in a project to export natural gas from Alaska, a proposal long backed by Republican Sen.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h
People are apparently getting varying answers, but it seems clear some changes are underway.
Daniel Dale & @ddale8
The Trump administration appears to have changed its Al chatbot so that it no longer debunks Trump lies.
Yesterday: It said Biden won the 2020 election and there's no indication of widespread fraud.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions.
was there widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election
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Official federal findings did not show widespread voter fraud that changed the 2020 esidential result.
CISA and other election-security officials called 2020 "the most secure in American history" and said there was no evidence that voting systems deleted, lost, or changed ment servi votes. NCSBE citing CISA ^
• DOJ and DHS found no evidence that a foreign government manipulated election results. DOJ^
• Then-Attorney General William Barr said DOJ found no fraud on a scale that would ha changed the outcome. Jan. 6 Committee report 7
lated fraud cases can occur in any election. Official reviews did not find fraud at a scale it reversed the certified result: Biden 306, Trump 232 electoral votes. National Archives >
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 29/09/2026
A super dumbfuck trying to make people say super intelligence is super lol
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We know how this story goes….
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 29/09/2026
Why the press needs to ask Susan Collins a LOT of questions substack.com/note/m-ba0e9...
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Alex + Andrew Weissmann LIVE!
A recording from Andrew Weissmann and Alex Wagner's live video
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's especially notable is that after having his nose rubbed deep in the unwashed crack of his own stupidity, the Honorable Senator doubles down and insists Jack Smith is a perjuring dirtball. Even Emily Latella, on being lurched back to reality, offers up a quiet "nevermind."
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 23h
Supreme Idiocy
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h
it would be cool if U.S. journalism could clearly inform readers that the trump administration dismantled what was left of our already shaky regulators and replaced them with perfomative vibes
"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Mr. Trump said while flanked by SpaceX's Elon Musk, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai and a throng of other tech executives."It's not clear exactly how the accord will work. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters the AI firms agreed to "multiple layers of auditing and controls," including internal evaluations and external audits. The findings of auditors would be independently reviewed by each company's board of directors, Zuckerberg added.
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Alberta Clipper @albertaclipper1.bsky.social · 20h
“Bari Weiss sits down with Senator Eric Schmitt to talk about life lessons and standing up for one’s principles. Plus she finds out where to find the best butter cake in Saint Louis. That, and Ross Douthat coming up on the next 60 Minutes”
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These Republicans are actual fucking clowns
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Get you "friends" who make fun of your team in their lede graphs, AND THEN TELL YOU that you're not paranoid and the swipe was meant *specifically* for you. :(
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21h
Please vote for B*tch, Listen to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award for the episode in which @elienyc.bsky.social and I talk about how the Constitution is trash but it's working exactly the way the white slaver founders intended. You can vote here. You have to sign up. Do it! Do it now! Please?
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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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Jonel @jonelstr.bsky.social · 20h
ELIEEEEEEE @elienyc.bsky.social this interview with Imani is my fave interview you've done this year! (the one with Jay will always be good because of this 🔽) Folks, go vote for Imani's podcast!
Sign posted on door: "Looking for Elie Mystal?  Enter through West Side doors."
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21h
My podcast is only a year old. I'm so geeked to be nominated for this particular episode because it's an episode ERRRRYBODY needs to listen to.
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