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Jo Trafford

@jotrafford.bsky.social
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I am an ordinary person I am an artist, poet, and political activist with a lot on my mind

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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@maddow.bsky.social this coming Saturday - October 17th - is the next No Kings Rally. Please talk about it on this Mondays show. Please.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Maddow: Why Trump's request for emergency room records isn't what it seems
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
@rbreich.bsky.social You asked in your substack post if you should go to the dinner with your acquaintance who is a Trump supporter. I say yes because conversations are so important now. Approach it as research. Ask him questions. Don't lecture. Find out what are the hills he will defend.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
@grahamformaine.bsky.socia I will support you. Your lack of experience is problematic. So do this: Take time to get into the trenches and learn how government works from local level to Congress. Shadow government workers. Write about your experience. Controlling the narrative is gold.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Stand up, speak out, show up. Make some good noise.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Keep up the noise. Call, write. Show up and speak out. This is not time to get worn out. Take care of yourself so you don't burn out but please please please don't give up
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@timothysnyder.bsky.social Today is Trump's second 100th day. Drop him a note and tell him how he is doing. He will not like my note. Not at all. Oh well. He's a big boy. He can take care of himself. www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
whitehouse.gov
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Share your thoughts with President Donald J. Trump.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@jenpsaki.msnbc.com Today is Trump's second 100th day. Drop him a note and tell him how he is doing. He will not like my note. Not at all. Oh well. He's a big boy. He can take care of himself. www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
whitehouse.gov
Contact Us
Share your thoughts with President Donald J. Trump.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Today is Trump's second 100th day. Drop him a note and tell him how he is doing. He will not like my note. Not at all. Oh well. He's a big boy. He can take care of himself. www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
whitehouse.gov
Contact Us
Share your thoughts with President Donald J. Trump.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com Today is Trump's second 100th day. Drop him a note and tell him how he is doing. He will not like my note. Not at all. Oh well. He's a big boy. He can take care of himself. www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
whitehouse.gov
Contact Us
Share your thoughts with President Donald J. Trump.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Today is Trump's second 100th day. Drop him a note and tell him how he is doing. He will not like my note. Not at all. Oh well. He's a big boy. He can take care of himself. www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
whitehouse.gov
Contact Us
Share your thoughts with President Donald J. Trump.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Elon Musk thinks those of us who are protesting are paid actors. I wrote to him to tell him he is wrong. You can write to him too. Here is his email address. I got it from an Economic Times article. They got it from a FOIA request. erm71@who.eop.gov
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Breaking news: rabid sea lions were seen sneaking on to WH grounds. SWAT has been called. As of this hour the Sea Lions are holding the South Lawn. POTUS has been flown to Mara Lago. Vance and Hegseth refuse to leave and are drawing up plans from the Oval. Updates within the hour.
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NorthEnd.page @northendpage.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
On the Old North church tonight
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NorthEnd.page @northendpage.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I called the White House comment line today. Here are the numbers Phone Numbers Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 I called about the WH post on X modifying a NYT headline. I said in this country we have due process. Even if someone is declared a terrorist they have a right to see the
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Today I wrote a letter to John Roberts. SCOTUS doesn't have an email comment place. So I am sending it the old fashioned way. Here is the address Mr. Chief Justice Roberts Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20543 Write him. Hold him accountable. Push. Roar!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Now I see why they only let Vance write press releases in the Marines.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
After all ILLEGAL immigrants are breaking the law. Now it is clear that an immigrants legal status is not the point. The color of their skin and the sound of their religion is the point. SCOTUS is spineless always leaving the president an out. This summer it was presidential immunity.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A seamstress named Elsy Noemi Berrios was forcibly detained by masked agents who did not present a warrant. Elsy is about 52 years old & has an asylum case pending in court. Her teenage daughter filmed this terrifying scene. If they can do it to her, they can do it to you. Speak out now!
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
3000 in Augusta Maine
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This image is of a postcard I created based on a 2018 drawing poking fun of Trump's comment "I am a stable genius" I turned the drawing into a postcard. I will pass them out tomorrow at whatever rally I go to so people can send Trump and our delegates a nice note.
This is a pen and ink drawing. It is mostly black and white. I drew a mule with Donald Trump's comb-over - colored blonde -  is standing in a stall eating McDonald's French fries. French fries are colored yellow. Next to the mule eating the French fries it says chomp chomp. On the floor are two discarded McDonald's French Fries containers with the McDonald's "M" logo.The drawing is labeled a stabled genius. I did this drawing in 2018 when Donald Trump had taken a cognitive test. In an interview he was asked about how he did on the test. Trump proudly said he did well. He said he was a stable genius. I am poking fun of his statement.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
As a child of a CIA agent I am outraged by the juvenile irresponsibility of every single person on that Signal call. My father has been dead for 25 years. But he would have been struck mute ( and he was not a man of few words) by this idiocy called an administration. The whole lot of them.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It is a world filled with uncertainty and outrage. But we cannot lose focus. Keep on keeping on. It's not going to get easier. But it will get more important.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today I called the WH comments line number 202 456 1111. The nice VOLUNTEER was unhelpful. I said I was concerned about the impact on special education students with closing Dept of Ed. She only said I should send an email. I said I was concerned about the 80,000 job cuts to the VA and the impact
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today I called the comments line at the White House. I was surprised to find the comments line is only open Tuesdays through Thursdays from 11 am to 3 pm. Their number is 202-456-1111. Then I handwrote a letter to Donald John Trump c/o White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today I called all three of my members of Congress. Senators Angus King and Susan Collins and Congresswoman Chelle Pengree. I asked them what were they going to do to save the Department of Education. I said I would call back Thursday to find out what the answer was.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today I called the White House comments line. I could not leave a comment NOT because the comments line was jammed but because the comments line is only open Tuesday through Thursday 11 am to 3 pm. Their number is 202-456-1111
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today I submitted a letter to the editor to the Portland Press Herald concerning Judge Alito's apparent disbelief that a single judge can hold the government accountable. I reminded him that in our three co-equal branches of government that is exactly how it works. Scary he doesn't know this.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In response to Trump's assertion that the Social Security Administration is paying out benefits to people as old as 350 years old, here is a bit of important information Aside from the fact there are Americans over 100 years old, the real issue is the following
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Today's action. I wrote to the White House voicing my discontent. I don't care if my letter is read. I want to flood the White House email box. This is going from bad to insane. Stay focused. Stay in action. Make that good trouble.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Today I called Senator Susan Collins' office. I called all her numbers until I got a person. I lodged three complaints. 1. The firing of people who work at the national nuclear security administration. See Rachel Maddow's Monday episode.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What do you do on a bad day? A day when it all feels too much, when Trump gets too many green lights. Here's what happens in my brain: maybe it's not as bad as I think.Maybe it's just the spin of all the people I read. Maybe I should be more open to more ideas.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New ACTION STEP Recently Speaker Mark Johnson said in reference to the judges orders on Trump's illegal actions "The courts should take a step back and allow these processes to play out."
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The day got away from me. I have ADD. Staying focused is a challenge. But I called Susan Collins office to share my outrage of her promise to vote for RFK. I called all her numbers until I got a real person. Do that: call the numbers until you get a real person. Then you know someone heard you.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Trump wants to make it illegal to use more than traditional pronouns. He is being bigoted and cruel. But here's ANOTHER idea. Let's have just one pronoun. I don't know what it might be. "They" maybe? Other languages have just one pronoun. It would solve a lot of problems and be a grand equalizer.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
There is a risk we citizens of a constitutional republic take when we do not understand the purposes of procedure. Why didn't the Congressional Democrats note the absence of a quorum while delaying confirmation of Russell Vought in their night of holding strong.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
There is a risk we citizens of a constitutional republic take when we do not understand the purposes of procedure. Why didn't the Congressional Democrats note the absence of a quorum while delaying confirmation of Russell Vought in their night of holding strong.
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Jo Trafford @jotrafford.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I am just a person with concerns. I have no deep background in anything. But I have a lot on my mind. I am worried about this debacle of a presidency and feel so impotent. I am going to write down my thoughts and concerns here.
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