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Josette

@josettewea.bsky.social
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NYC Preservationist (former exec dir NPO), artist, theatre (1st career), former self defense instructor and activist. Married. PS Nickname averse (though I appreciate the sentiment) thanks. I don’t reply to DMs from those I don’t know.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6h
BREAKING: NY Attorney General Letitia James has just been appointed as special prosecutor to investigate the Cornell rape case. Great decision and great choice.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 8h
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 8h
Most of the FBI agents who worked Trump's classified documents case have been fired. Now some are being summoned before a grand jury investigating a "grand conspiracy" against Trump, but testifying could put them in contempt of Judge Aileen Cannon's order sealing Jack Smith's report.
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Judge gagging Jack Smith report stuns experts with new order 'claiming she's illiterate'
The judge who has kept former special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago report secret struck down a request by fired FBI agents subpoenaed in a "grand conspiracy" probe overseen by Attorney General Todd Blanche.U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon struck the agents' motion Thursday in a brief order on th...
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 9h
Thank you, Beth! 💙 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks @heatherturiello.bsky.social @mariahbrown.bsky.social @jeansand.bsky.social @cyndieg.bsky.social @josettewea.bsky.social @tsudden.bsky.social @sonnyvermont.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.lol
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 13h
Voters shouldn’t have to walk past armed ICE agents to cast a ballot. Trump’s DHS says it can put them at polling places despite a 150-year-old law meant to stop this kind of intimidation. Elections aren’t pay-to-play, and they aren’t armed checkpoints. #PayToPlayPresident
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h
U.S. District Judge April Perry: "My sole focus at this point is on lack of candor, concealment of material facts, or other misconduct that occurred before me."
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 14h
Shootings in New York state have plummeted 20% to the lowest level recorded after Gov. Hochul invested over $1 billion in gun violence prevention.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 13h
USPS may set up drive-through ballot drop-offs at some locations.
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U.S. Postal Service To Take New Steps To Ensure Ballot Deliveries For Midterms
U.S. Postal Service To Take New Steps To Ensure Ballot Deliveries For Midterms
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13h
OMG you have GOT to be kidding me
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 13h
Wall Street traders paying for an early look at what Trump posts on Truth Social? Norm Eisen says that’s selling inside government information, and he went to court with David Chiu to stop it. Nobody elected Trump to run a side hustle with your government. #PayToPlayPresident
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 13h
Trump endorsed him. Trump's cabinet funded him. Trump's prosecutor funded him. Trump's ambassador funded him. Michael Whatley is the most expensive 15-point loss in North Carolina history. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Trump’s Senate Pick Is Losing. Look Who’s Paying For Him.
Also: The judge, the lawyer, and the peanut farmer Trump didn’t see coming
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Shoshana Bee @shohanabee76.bsky.social · 16h
“What a democracy cannot—and should not—tolerate is a secretary of defense who trucks in propaganda and wants the people who serve in America’s military to be the armed instrument of his own resentments and biases.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 13h
Reminder that on almost all big issues, the bipartisan majority position is the Democrat position
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13h
The top Democrats on the Senate and House foreign affairs committees urged the State Department to review the conduct of Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, citing a WSJ investigation on.wsj.com/3TtGT6l
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The top Democrats on the Senate and House foreign affairs committees urged the State Department to review the conduct of Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, citing a WSJ investigation
Democrats raise concerns with State Department about the ambassador to Greece’s dealings with a lobbyist and private jet travels.
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 13h
Heartbreaking post. How many more children have to die, Idaho, that could easily have been saved?
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 15h
If you’re a man commenting that the “frat boys” were too drunk and high to know what they were doing, it’s remarkable that you can impose consent on the young woman they were plying with drugs and alcohol. For only one purpose.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution. SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botches the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
“.. The rub: South Koreans didn’t agree to a specific dollar figure—or even to invest at all.” 👀 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/asia/s...
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 15h
Disability rights upended by Trump DOJ : NPR www.npr.org/2026/10/01/n...
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Trump administration reverses stance on integration of people with disabilities
Disability rights advocates are angered by the latest reversal but are rallying behind proposed legislation and working with states to strengthen protections for community integration.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18h
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 17h
This deportation attempted is far more antisemitic than any campus protest. They are trying to deport a Jewish person specifically for his specific religious beliefs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h
Very weird goings on in Bolivia this morning, as local press says the Trump administration is reaching to extreme measures to shut down the criminal probe into Fernando Cerimedo and Brad Parscale and their operation MAGA SUR. No press coverage of any of this in US corporate media, of course.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22h
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”
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FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’
Brendan Carr said the ads are “normal-course public service announcements” and nothing that would “merit any sort of” review by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 23h
People following the Cornell case keep asking the same questions about Jane Doe. Why did she text one of the men afterward? Why didn't she call it rape right away? Why didn't she see herself as a victim from the start? My last three articles take these questions on. 🧵
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h
CNN and MS NOW are complicit in Trump’s illegal scheme to steal taxpayer money for political ads. Why are they accepting stolen money to run illegal ads?
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h
Trump rambles for AGES about the White House renovation (802 words total). The interviewer then changes topic, but Trump tries to bring it back to the White House. The Time reporter doesn't engage and moves on McConnell, and Trump just SNAPS: "You haven't asked me one fucking positive question."
You mentioned the Democrats will come after you if they win. Are you considering pardoning members of your administration prior to the end of your term?

Yeah, sure I’d do that. 

Is that something you would consider doing? 

Well, Sleepy Joe Biden, he gave pardons to everyone. [Holds up pictures of White House] They're actually—see, this is the way it looks now.

Have you seen the videos of Mitch McConnell back in the Senate? Do you think he should resign because of his health condition?

It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans. So that's just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I'm not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe's allowed to give them? This ain't gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war. I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18h
Barbosa de Cunha immediately goes to the front of the line as the most important case #SCOTUS will decide this term. Trump's entire immigration arrest and detention policy regime *depends* upon its novel reading of the statutes, one that's been rejected by an overwhelming majority of lower courts.
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PJ walker @pj1304.bsky.social · 18h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tennessee governor suspends all executions after Christa Pike’s lethal injections fail
Independent inquiry ordered after halted execution of Pike, who was convicted of murder
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 18h
After nearly two years of claims on Fox News that Trump’s deportation operations were targeting the “worst of the worst,” the administration acknowledged that it's attempting to go after every person it thinks is in the U.S. without authorization.
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Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h
Student journalists at Cornell doggedly pursued the frat house sexual assault case for years, even as the Cornell administration at the highest levels was using all its authority to quash and cover up any inquiries.
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
I wonder why Trump and Republicans are promoting this industry so heavily and are allowing them to operate free from any guardrails or regulation?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18h
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on the legality of ICE's mandatory detention policy, weighing in on an issue that has been ovewhelmingly rejected by district and appeals courts but has nevertheless roiled the justice system nationwide. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Supreme Court will rule on Trump’s ICE detention policy
Lower courts have overwhelmingly rejected ICE’s novel view of its detention authority.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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Clareraynor 🐸 @clareraynor.bsky.social · 18h
#Breakfastcrew Look what Penny has found ☕☕
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 18h
John Kennedy: "'I mean, here we are..and I don’t have the slightest idea what we’re doing. Frankly, I’m kind of tired of being treated like a child. Just tell me what the plan is.' Kennedy wouldn’t say who was treating him like a child or whether that comment was directed at Republican leadership."
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18h
the democrats who put themselves in a panic over hasan piker are the same democrats who push the party to be anti trans, and a generation ago were the ones saying we cant oppose the war in iraq these people are never right they doom the party they hurt america stop listening to them
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
COLUMBIA, MD 21044-3592
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: MD-03
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maryburns.bsky.social @maryburns.bsky.social · 20h
Michigan Rep. Bill Huizenga was one of the 211. #Pinks
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MS NOW @ms.now · 19h
THIS SATURDAY at 1pm ET, MS NOW’s YouTube channel will livestream “Power to the People” featuring Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, and many more! This is LIVE only so watch TOGETHER one time only at ms.now/powertothepeople. Hit “Notify Me” so you don’t miss the show!
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MS NOW LIVE EXCLUSIVE: "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" with Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Tom Morello and more!
MS NOW is the EXCLUSIVE streamer for “Power To The People” - a cele...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h
Wow! Schmitt didn’t just get it wrong, his team was warned the texts were unvetted, but he used them anyway. Not only that, Chuck Grassley’s Judiciary staff left the texts out of its own hearing memo. Schmitt’s team went digging for them, then used them to accuse Jack Smith of perjury.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth, who has been rebuked by the pope and the leaders of several other churches for a stream of heretical statements (statements inconsistent with Christian theology and dogma), appoints himself the supreme authority over all chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces.
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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 20h
🦇 30 days until Halloween... *Movie marquee and theatre display for Horror of Dracula (originally released as Dracula in the UK). Hammer Film Productions, 1958. 🎞
Horror of Dracula (1958)—originally released simply as Dracula in the United Kingdom—is a landmark British Gothic horror film directed by Terence Fisher. Produced by the legendary Hammer Film Productions, it is celebrated as the first vampire film ever shot in color (Technicolor/Eastmancolor). The movie catapulted Christopher Lee (as Count Dracula) and Peter Cushing (as Dr. Van Helsing) into global horror icons, redefining the vampire mythos with an unprecedented blend of vibrant color, visceral gore, and underlying sensuality.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19h
Diesel near a record $6.50 a gallon in the US is weighing on all corners of the economy, right as midterm elections near.
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Diesel’s Record Run Sidelines Truckers and Hits Voters’ Wallets
Fuel costs are near their all-time high as the war in Iran enters its seventh month, squeezing households and small businesses ahead of the US midterms.
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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 19h
Pete Hegseth says a free press is 'of course important,' then calls coverage he dislikes 'anti-American' and 'treason.' Free as long as it flatters him. Call it a state newsletter with extra steps. Real patriots get to ask questions, Pete. Nobody elected your editor. #Blues
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