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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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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4h
"Do something." Front page of NYT, 9/10/26 — credit Jeff Roberson, AP.
Photo of person holding a sign that says "Read 'On Tyranny' by Timothy Snyder. Do Something." There is a government building in the background.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 5h
#Texas Seniors! Paxton is on board with gutting Medicare & SS! It’s almost as if they really want you to suffer more than you already are! Do not vote for this corrupt, cold man. Vote for James Talarico! #ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 2h
We don’t have the choice to get a new president in November. But we can vote for people who will do their best to remove or neutralize him. Vote like everything depends on it. Because it does.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a really important point
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h
Regime Change and Corruption – a conversation with @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu snyder.substack.com/p/regime-cha...
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Regime Change and Corruption with Anne Applebaum
A recording from Timothy Snyder's live video
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 3h
St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 8h
If I purposefully train a bunch of large dogs to be vicious and destructive, then release them unsupervised into my neighbourhood, and they do significant property damage and even maul people, am I no longer liable for the their actions? Asking for humanity.
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 5h
Thank you!
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 7h
Because of him: •Gas & grocery prices skyrocketed •ICE goons murdered US citizens •Alienated our closest allies •Started a war with Iran that led to deaths of US military personnel—with no exit plan. •Ended the Affordable Care Act Feel free to add to the list. #VoteBlueDownTheBallot
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/10/2026
Pete Hegseth wants to turn the Fort Hood mass shooter's execution into a public spectacle, complete with a livestream. Lt. Gen. @markhertling.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social react: "This is depravity, and it's not something we should be doing or leaders in the army should be allowing."
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 11h
"Behind every statistic on chikd marriage is a girl with a dream, a voice and a future waiting to unfold." #Pinks 🌸
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 9h
"Fetterman largely holes up in his Capitol office, lying on the couch and scrolling Apple News, several former staffers said. "'Every day was a battle that by the end of the day you were physically and emotionally battered just by getting John to do any part of his job,' a former staffer said...."
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How John Fetterman spends his time comes under more scrutiny as he weighs future in the Senate
The Pennsylvania Democrat has been labeled an absentee senator for years. As he floats the possibility of running again, what has he actually done?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 7h
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 6h
TY Julie 💗 @j1j2.bsky.social @thisdudeabides.bsky.social @raykwong.lol @ltwlauren.bsky.social @reallyfasmiller.bsky.social @preciouspetal.bsky.social @josettewea.bsky.social @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social @clareraynor.bsky.social @lms2025.bsky.social @6j1.bsky.social
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 6h
💔 Frankie. Thanks for the shout out.🌷 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h
Zuckerberg isn’t much of a performer, but to be fair, although his self-mythology is not as storied as Musk’s, it does exist. He studied Latin and Greek, quotes the Aeneid, named a daughter August, and once told Evan Osnos that Augustus bought two centuries of peace with a harsh approach. “What are the trade-offs in that?” he asked.

Thoughtful as this may sound, it’s an optimizer’s question — and it’s the oldest argument for the ends justifying means ever made, asked as if it were a product decision. How many genocides to make an omelette? What’s the engagement rate for a pogrom?
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 6h
Synopsis of amendments on Tennessee ballot! #momsky#sheshed
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 7h
Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h
SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 6h
Just none with a pre-sold audience. It is thanks to the brave citizens who filmed these murders that we know what happened. The regime would happily bury it, as they have so many times before.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 12h
happy bday the iconic Eleanor Roosevelt, b.1884, NYC. “Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared,...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 10h
Trump just announced a Navy deal worth up to $2.9 billion. Don Jr. is a partner in a firm that owns a piece of the company that got it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-heros-we...
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justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 7h
A voter initiative instituted the increases in minimum wage in Alaska, which is currently $13 an hour Murkowski voted 8 times against equal pay for women. Sullivan & Murkowski have voted against increases in the minimum wage. alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Two Alaska governor candidates advocate lower minimum wage, rollback of sick leave law | Alaska Beacon
Seasonal employers, including the seafood and tourism industries, have sought rollback and legislators are expected to reintroduce a bill.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
A federal judge’s ruling may have just thrown President Donald Trump’s scheme to assert control over state voter rolls into turmoil. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s voter roll scheme hits a major roadblock, and ICE’s role in voting crackdown revealed
A federal judge’s ruling may have just thrown President Donald Trump’s scheme to assert control over state voter rolls into turmoil.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h
And there it is.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7h
Republicans face midterm backlash from factory workers squeezed out of jobs by Trump’s tariffs
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Republicans face midterm backlash from factory workers squeezed out of jobs by Trump’s tariffs
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 10h
NYT confirms, in its NYT way, what's obvious about Susan Collins: she only votes against Trump policies when her vote doesn't matter Her votes "have rarely thwarted the president during his second term" But she's really mad about Vought who she voted for! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him (Gift Article)
A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 7h
Trump announced an immediate “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine, claiming both sides had agreed and warning them not to break it. FT reporter Christopher Miller says the claim is false, reporting that Zelensky and his office have no info about an energy ceasefire agreed with Russia.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h
Important report from the Civil Defense Institute: The Trump administration added 'Border Hawk News" to the White House press pool last month. Its editor-in-chief is an Alex Jones type conspiracist and an avid promoter of Great Replacement bigotry open.substack.com/pub/civildef...
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Border Hawk Media & The Legacy of the "Great Replacement" Theory
The White House gave a press pool seat to a news outlet built on the “great replacement” theory.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 7h
#AZ Please use your vote sensibly. I can attest that Biggs has done nothing for AZ-05 for all the years he has been in Congress. He votes with Trump on everything-these policies have hurt us. As governor, he will hold our state hostage for Trump. Vote for Katie Hobbs! #Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16h
A Yandex data center in Russia’s Vladimir region was attacked last night. Russians are complaining about widespread disruptions to Yandex services. The company reported that the data center has completely ceased operations.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 8h
"Only Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday as he vowed to press ahead with strikes on Russian oil refineries, despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump, who blamed him for high diesel prices and said he should be replaced."
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Kyiv pushes back on Trump’s call for a new Ukrainian president as drones hit Russian data hub
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia alone is responsible for the war in Ukraine. He vows to continue strikes on Russian oil refineries despite criticism from U.S.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 10h
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 June 11, 1967: A White police officer shoots and kills a Black teen, igniting the Tampa Bay Riots— 4 days of violence that reshaped the city forever. Here's the story. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 13h
A masked man seen on camera stealing trays of mail from the postal truck in Sacramento, CA. There is a 100K reward if you know who he is. #Pinks
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
Can Susan Collins point to a single deciding vote she’s made on any key piece of legislation or confirmation against Trump? No, she cannot. Her rare votes against are intentionally meaningless to fool Maine voters.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h
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Jim Stewartson: This is severe psychosis. He exists in an alternate reality constructed by his own grandiose delusions. This separate world is protected by people who use him for their own purposes, and by people like Natalie Harp who guard him from narcissistic injury.

He is not in this world.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11h
Trump supporter at rally defends public execution based on Christianity. I'm Serious: “We’re a Christian nation, and that means that we’re not going to let Satan get his way.” There are no words for how dangerous MAGA is to our nation. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
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‘Not Pleasant’ but ‘Necessary’: Support at Trump Rally for Public Execution (Gift Article)
A sample of people at the president’s midterm stump speech in Tennessee defended the Pentagon’s announcement that it would livestream the execution of a mass shooter.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Zelenskyy: "Freedom, independence, Ukraine -- we can't lose it. And the truth is on our side."
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 9h
What happened to “leave it upto the states?” 60% of Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases. So why are the Republicans doing this? talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things... #pinks
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Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug
A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh hurry, please. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also...
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 8h
Morning, Ray! What a concept.
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George Wachsmuth @georgewachsmuth.bsky.social · 11h
Here’s that starter pack with folks on my recent Skircle. Review the list and follow, you will not regret it. Enjoy !
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 8h
Good morning, George! Glad I made the cut. Thank you ☀️
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 20h
Just now hearing of the mass shooting in Erie, PA—leaving 8 dead. The 45-year-old yet unidentified terrorist killed a 22-month-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, 2 women, & 4 men. One of the women was 8 months pregnant. The terrorist killed himself. In 2026, more than 400 mass shootings so far. My God.😓
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 21h
Thank you, BlueResister! 💙 @docmurphydog.bsky.social @bandroll.bsky.social @southerngayteacher.bsky.social @pinkmouse.bsky.social @roytastic.bsky.social @paula2168.bsky.social @rdoch82.bsky.social @josettewea.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.lol
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Josette @josettewea.bsky.social · 20h
Good night and thanks, Ray💫 @raykwong.lol
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