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Joan Sobel

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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 1h
www.facebook.com/share/v/19ZK... Finally. A man who tells it exactly as it is. It’s always about power and who gets it and who gets to wield it. This affects women in ALL aspects of our lives. Thank you. If only more men spoke up as this man is doing.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c... What I won’t and don’t understand is why those people falsely arrested and harassed by our justice dept and our president cannot turn around and sue them. They absolutely should and must.
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o... Why we have lost our rights.
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened.
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Gov. Pritzker Sounds Alarm on AI Safety Action
Governor Pritzker calls for Congressional hearings, federal action, and Big Tech accountability following warnings from AI whistleblower
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o... Repulsive. This is the price of lining the pockets of drumpf and melania. Killing us.
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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat?
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o... Repulsive. This is the price of lining the pockets of drumpf and melania. Killing us.
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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat?
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Hate generalizes, love specifies.” - Robin Morgan
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Hate generalizes, love specifies.” - Robin Morgan
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
womensmediacenter.com/about/press/... Why are we losing our brightest lights? Thank you, Robin Morgan for lighting the way. My heart keeps breaking. First Dolly. Then Gloria. Now Robin. 💔
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Women’s Media Center Mourns Death of Robin Morgan, WMC Co-Founder, Poet, Journalist, Author, Activist, Feminist, Organizer, and Friend - Women’s Media Center
Julie Burton, President and CEO of the Women’s Media Center (WMC), released a statement on behalf of the Women’s Media Center mourning the death of WMC Co-Founder Robin Morgan — poet, journalist, auth...
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh no. The greatest. Thank you, Gloria. You have made millions of women, millions and millions of people safer, kinder, and helped them learn that there is another, better way. Heaven has another angel.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u... This is obscene.
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Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz... The alarm bells are all going off!!!
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BREAKING: DOJ Hires Election Hacker to Monitor Elections, Trump's Stock Trading Spree Exposed, Judge Strikes Down Trump's Blanket Visa Ban, and more...
Top Stories for August 24, 2026.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u... WTHell. The Democrats haven’t even won yet and already they are compromising with this traitorous, grifting, and cruel administration. Can someone explain this to me?
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u... They are lying to intimidate voters, to try to abscond with our ballots, and to declare a national emergency. Don’t fall for it! VOTE!! We are depending on you!!!
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Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It.
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Trump’s Economic Record Doesn’t Come Close to His Campaign Promises
The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
She wasn’t even allowed to laugh.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
He Says Obscene Things About Mothers and Children. Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...
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Opinion | He Says Obscene Things About Mothers and Children. Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him.
Thanks to Trump, G.O.P. extremism has become so ordinary that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high level.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Trump declared an emergency to hide his finances from the BBC. He’s the one who sued them for $10 billion | BuzzyTimes
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u... Do these lawyers at Paul, Weiss ever look at themselves in the mirror of history and realize that they would have capitulated to Hitler, too? And we wonder how Nazi Germany happened.
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Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways
The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u... “This is a case with tremendous evidence” Pirro stated When is our media….When will WE rise up & demand justice. Charge drumpf & his entire cadre of liars, cheaters, traitors, grifters, & cruel executors of the most foul corruption in the history of our country.
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Jeanine Pirro Blames Department Of Interior For Her Failed Reflecting Pool Case
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Senator John McCain warned us about Rand Paul when he said, “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/james-... Threatening the judges. The mark of a dictatorship.
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Senior Trump Official Using Government Account To Smear Sitting Federal Judges
This “puts a bullseye” on judges already facing a spike in violent threats, warned U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, whose son was killed by a disgruntled litigant.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/a... We’ve lost a beautiful artist and one of my favorites.
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Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99
Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/dylan-... Thank you, Dylan and Thank you, Kaitlan for standing up for what is good and right in these very dark times.
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Dylan Mulvaney Has The 'Greatest' Response To Being 'Publicly Mocked' By Trump
The trans TikTok influencer, who was the focus of right-wing backlash in 2023, turned the president’s criticism on its head.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-os...
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RFK Jr. Could Have A Hand In The Diarrhea Outbreak, And Jon Ossoff's Got Some Receipts
The Trump administration’s move last July doesn’t look so smart now that everyone’s got explosive diarrhea.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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He’s right… they’re wasting the opportunity that we gave them. #americafirst #america250
YouTube video by Putting America First 🦅
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just one of these would have gotten any other President impeached.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/critic...
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.threads.com/@cwebbonline...
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Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) on Threads
Rachel Maddow’s description of Juan Sebastian Guerrero killed by ICE in Maine is something you need to see. She explains what happened without being graphic, and somehow that makes it even more power...
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/charlies... —“Ahh, but Richard, it profits a man nothing to gain the whole world if he should lose his soul… but for Wales, Richard?” — A Man for All Seasons The tragedy of Lindsey Graham.
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Epic Fury Returns; Lindsey Graham, R.I.P; and A Week in Review
Ahh, but Richard, it profits a man nothing to gain the whole world if he should lose his soul… but for Wales, Richard?” — A Man for All Seasons
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Jayson Conner, 48, and Jeffrey Newman, 58, Die; Gave Thousands of Backpacks to Those in Need www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n... These are people we should be admiring and mourning, not Lindsey Graham.
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Jayson Conner, 48, and Jeffrey Newman, 58, Die; Gave Thousands of Backpacks to Those in Need
The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... Fascists
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The Supreme Court Didn't Just Expand Presidential Power — It Rigged Who Gets To Use It
The president may fire officials for any reason now, but the court will have major questions if they want to impose new regulations.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trump Administration Fires Members of Independent Election Group www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u... We are now living under a fascist dictatorship.
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Trump Administration Fires Members of Independent Election Group
The firings and a resignation at the Election Assistance Commission came as President Trump has sought to impose control over how ballots will be counted in the November midterms.
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b... We are now officially living under a fascist dictatorship.
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u... In many ways, Ms. Gorman said, his acts are “a betrayal of the American social contract: that those who lead the country prioritize country over self — a premise that goes back to George Washington.”
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Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History
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Joan Sobel @joso2000.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
thedailybeast.com/how-trumps-v... Those drumpf lies and fake rallies go back decades
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How Secrets of Trump’s First Rally Show He Was Always Fake
Donald Trump held his first rally in 1990. This is the true story of its brazen fakery.
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