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Julian P. Donahue

@jpdonahue.bsky.social
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Curator Emeritus, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Retired entomologist, birder, cat-lover, gardener, landscaper, world traveler.

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Environmental activists move to protect cottonwoods threatened by Az border wall, as Trump's bloated DHS rewards Trump donors with huge contracts to construct border wildlife barriers where human immigration is rare or absent. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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Enviros move to protect cottonwoods threatened by Az border wall
At the center of the hamlet of Lochiel, Ariz., a cluster of ancient cottonwoods has stretched across the U.S.-Mexico border, forming a canopy of shade that has stood for decades. But in the next few d...
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American Muckrakers & MUCK YOU! Podcast @americanmuckrakers.com · 04/12/2025
🚨 BREAKING: We just sued Trump’s Deputy AG Todd Blanche to kick him out of federal court—for life. He’s Trump’s personal lawyer AND runs the DOJ. That’s not a conflict… that’s a coup! open.substack.com/pub/american...
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THE CASE AGAINST TODD BLANCHE
Why I Asked a Federal Judge to Strip Donald Trump’s Lawyer, and the Deputy Attorney General, of His Right to Practice Law in D.C.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We had The Big Lie, and now the White House is using our tax dollars to perpetuate even more of lies and distortions. This makes me so f****ng depressed that I could cry. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
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Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island granted a permanent injunction in Rhode Island vs Trump: attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services were unlawful, unconstitutional, and in direct violation of clear statutory directives. www.aam-us.org/2025/11/24/m...
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Major Update on IMLS Court Case
Advocacy Alert – November 24, 2025 New Ruling in IMLS Court Case On November 21, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island granted a permanent injunction in Rhode Island …
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
One last image from this morning's protest outside the office of absentee Congressman Juan Ciscomani (R, AZ-6).
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Part of the crowd from this morning's protest outside the Tucson office of absentee Congressman Juan Ciscomani (R, AZ-6).
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
More of my favorite signs from this morning's protest outside the office of absentee Congressman Juan Ciscomani (R, AZ-6).
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Some of my favorite signs from this morning's protest outside the office of absentee Congressman Juan Ciscomani (R, AZ-6).
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A huge energized crowd participated in #NoKings 2.0 in Oro Valley, Arizona.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Impressive number of #NoKings protesters in Oro Valley, Arizona on October 18.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Our Federal agencies continue to violate the Hatch Act by posting illegal banners at the top of their home pages, falsely blaming Democrats for the government shutdown. This morning I encountered this repulsive banner on the Small Business Administration website.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This is the Hatch Act violation banner on today's home page of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). (Republicans control Congress and the White House; they have the power to end the shutdown on a moment's notice.)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already... www.nokings.org
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 03/10/2025
“To blame the minority party for any of this is a joke. Get it together. Children are starving. People are going to die.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Arizona Democrats call out GOP for government shutdown over popular health care credits
Arizona Democrats blame Republicans for shutdown as GOP refuses to extend popular ACA health care tax credits
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
More photos of this morning's Ciscomani protest.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This morning I joined fellow Tucsonans in a protest outside the office of my cowardly Republican Representative Juan Ciscomani (AZ-6) who refuses to represent his constituents. Here are photos of my favorite signs.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 30/09/2025
Trump’s approval in the swing states is abysmal open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Arizonans enrolled in AHCCCS, the state’s Medicaid program, will no longer be able to visit their local Planned Parenthood clinic for an STI test or a cancer screening starting this week. Planned Parenthood stops accepting Arizona Medicaid as Trump ban takes effect azmirror.com/briefs/plann...
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Planned Parenthood stops accepting Arizona Medicaid as Trump ban takes effect | Arizona Mirror
Arizona Planned Parenthood stops accepting Medicaid as Trump ban on abortion provider funding takes effect
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Trump officials and right-wing media are using the vaccine side effects database out of context. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is made up of unverified self-reports of side effects. azmirror.com/2025/09/18/t...
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Trump officials and right-wing media are using the vaccine side effects database out of context
VAERS is ripe for exploitation because it relies on unverified self-reports of side effects. Anyone who received a vaccine can submit a report. And because this information is publicly available, misi...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
AZ Rep. Gosar's renewed attempt to undo protections for Ironwood Forest National Monument is appalling. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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Enviros criticize Rep. Gosar's renewed attempt to undo protections for Ironwood Forest Nat'l Monument
Environmental groups blasted legislation submitted by U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar on Wednesday attempting to nullify two national monuments in Arizona, including Ironwood Forest National Monument just northw...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
A souvenir from yesterday's demonstration outside the office of Rep. Juan Ciscomani (AZ-6), hosted by the League of Conservation Voters.
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TrumpFile.org @trumpfile.org · 20/09/2025
Gosh, we can't imagine why!
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I joined today's protest outside the office of my spineless Representative Juan Ciscomani (R, AZ-6), organized by the League of Conservation Voters. A beautiful day to demonstrate against a plethora of wrongs.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Tell the House to investigate government censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Live! act.indivisible.org/sign/censors...
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Tell the House to investigate government censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
On September 17th, ABC/Disney announced it was indefinitely suspending the late-night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel, supposedly in response to comments in his monologue regarding the murder of Charlie Kir...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Tell your Republican Member of Congress to sign the Epstein discharge petition act.indivisible.org/sign/epstein...
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Tell your Republican Member of Congress to sign the Epstein discharge petition
Trump’s administration has tried and failed to bury the Epstein scandal. They’ve misled, called it a hoax, and even closed Congress early to avoid a bipartisan vote for the full release of the files. ...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Plan to Let AI Deny Medicare Coverage act.indivisible.org/sign/trump-o...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Plan to Let AI Deny Medicare Coverage
Donald Trump and Dr. Oz want to let Artificial Intelligence (AI) choose which procedures Medicare will cover for individual patients -- with AI companies being paid based on how much money they save b...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The Heritage Foundation and Republicans continue to attack the norms of our society. GOP investigation pressures Wikipedia to dox editors accused of 'bias' www.rawstory.com/james-comer-...
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GOP investigation pressures Wikipedia to dox editors accused of 'bias'
A pair of House Republicans is moving forward with an investigation that will seek to reveal the identities of Wikipedia editors who have edited articles to include information that portrays Israel ne...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Video of yesterday's webinar on impacts of the new border wall is here: skyislandalliance.org/2025/08/wild...
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Sky Island Alliance Wildlife Research at the Border During Wall ConstructionWildlife Research at the Border During Wall Construction – Sky Island Alliance
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Trump's assault on museums, science, and facts must be opposed. Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
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Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history
The Trump regime’s campaign of whitewashing US history has reached the halls of the Smithsonian museums, with exhibits dealing with slavery, the civil rights movement, and other struggles against oppr...
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
apnews.com/article/ariz...  US appeals court puts the brakes on contested land transfer for Arizona copper mine. Whew! Another last-minute pause in the destruction of sacred Oak Flat, which would be turned into an enormous open pit for copper extraction.
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US appeals court puts the brakes on contested land transfer for Arizona copper mine
A U.S. appeals court has put the brakes on the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a company that plans to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I haven't seen this travesty mentioned in the mainstream media--yet.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Fascinating. Condemning and correcting just spreads the disinformation we are trying to defeat. Here is how to stop doing it, with a list of terms we should never use in association with Trump, ICE, immigrants, etc. and what to say instead: reframingamerica.substack.com/p/dna-august...
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The “Do Not Associate” List – NEW for Aug 2025
How to stop helping MAGA spread their lies. (Print version incl.)
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Noem shot *multiple* puppies in this season's episode 2!
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Construction of more of Trump's f***ing wall will forever block the transnational movement of iconic Jaguars in Arizona. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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New Arizona jaguar sightings a 'positive sign' despite border wall, UA researchers say
Recent sightings of wild jaguars — including 'Jaguar Number Four' on Wednesday — show Southern Arizona is still in the apex predator's range, University of Arizona researchers said.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
285 acres of Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge taken over by Navy in border security move. The latest militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. It would be great if these troops did something useful, like picking up litter. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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285 acres of Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge taken over by Navy in border security move
The Interior Department ceded 285 acres of public land in southwestern Arizona to the U.S. Navy on Wednesday for a "National Defense Area" — part of a Trump administration strategy allowing active-dut...
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Ava Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is so freaking adorable…. 🫠 Snuggles… 🥰 🐯 🐯
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Guttmacher @guttmacher.org · 18/07/2025
Congress has voted to rescind $7.9 billion that had been appropriated to foreign aid. Our data show that withholding this funding will lead to 17.1 million unintended pregnancies and 34,000 preventable maternal deaths after just one year.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Today's outgoing mail, as suggested by #Indivisible. #RepCiscomani #EpsteinCoverUp #ReleaseTheList
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just discovered: the "Project 2025 Tracker" website that shows *all* the goals of Project 2025, by department and agency, and the progress on achieving those goals. The number of regressive goals already completed is astonishing and depressing. www.project2025.observer
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Last night, House Republicans on the Rules Committee blocked a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Do not expect to see coverage of this on Fox News.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Why the federal government is making climate data disappear | Analysis www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...
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Why the federal government is making climate data disappear | Analysis
For 25 years, a group of the country’s top experts has been fastidiously tracking the ways that climate change threatens every part of the United States, but a lot of information about the changing cl...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 09/07/2025
“That is real capital and construction jobs that are just walking out the door.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Trump's tax bill eliminates clean energy incentives, costing Arizona billions
Trump's tax bill eliminates clean energy incentives, costing Arizona $58 billion in investments and 69,000 jobs statewide
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Post-BBB newsletter on what's coming for us next and what we can do. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What to do about America’s super charged secret police
The full, devastating impact of Trump’s Big Bullshit Bill ("BBB") will not be felt for years, but some of the impact will be felt very soon.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Moments after the Big Ugly Bill was passed, late on July 3 the Social Security Administration sent an appalling, misleading, and partially false politicized email to SS beneficiaries, entitled "Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors."
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
May this Fourth of July remind us of where we came from, of what we’re fighting for, and of who we can be. Organize. Mobilize. Resist. Power to the people.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We will use their horrific agenda to turn voters against them by the millions in the midterms. And yes, there will be midterms. Don’t even think about voicing defeatism and doing their work for them.
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Julian P. Donahue @jpdonahue.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Trump Social Security Chief Applauds Budget Bill That Will Harm Social Security's Finances. My email: "The new law includes a provision that eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security benefits..."--no it doesn't, it just raises the standard deduction for all income. tinyurl.com/2dev4e6w
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Trump Social Security Chief Applauds Budget Bill That Will Harm Social Security's Finances | Common Dreams
"The Social Security Administration put out a statement celebrating a bill that would lead to faster insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund."
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