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jschaffe.bsky.social @jschaffe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Looking forward to digging into this, with a forward by @kimkelly.bsky.social
Book cover of American Made:Stories of Work from the WPA
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jschaffe.bsky.social @jschaffe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/03/2026
Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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The LaGuardia Crash Will Be Blamed on One Controller. That's Not the Whole Story.
3,000 controllers short. WWII-era radar still in use. And a lone controller managing two emergencies at midnight. This was preventable.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/10/2025
Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson
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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This here’s a man of the people.
Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.
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Kim @klaw1231.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/06/2025
Protests have sprung up in response to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, including a variety of life-size mannequins placed throughout the city. The satirical project is protesting the billionaire's wedding as a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. wapo.st/3I1z8hU
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 24/06/2025
Update — The Senate parliamentarian has BLOCKED the public lands sell-off as outside the scope of reconciliation. While the fight isn’t over, we’ll keep using every tool to protect our public lands!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Indeed it should — but don’t hold your breath. Most of our newspapers are feckless, intimidated and cowardly!
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Senate GOP budget bill would impose a sweeping nationwide abortion ban by blocking Affordable Care Act insurers from covering abortion care in all 50 states. This extreme measure would override state protections & strip millions of women of their right to comprehensive reproductive health care.
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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Oof I didn’t even think of this.
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/06/2025
Thou shalt remember that President Trump hired a “big time drug addict” to destroy the government and was fine with that. Thou shalt also remember that Elon Musk funded and worked for a man he knew to be a pedophile and was fine with that.
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jschaffe.bsky.social @jschaffe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It was never about the grapes…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is who we sent. Never committed a crime. A soccer team logo and a single picture of the rock and roll horns sent him to be tortured in El Salvador.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025
these people are literally trying to destroy america’s future
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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨BIG NEWS🚨 United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain will be joining our emergency organizing call TOMORROW NIGHT to discuss how federal workers are going to get organized and fight back against DOGE. You don't want to miss this. RSVP w/ the link in our bio, and spread the word.
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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
✈️ Trump is risking American public’s safety by canceling 47,000 TSA workers’ contract. This ILLEGAL action puts all of our jobs and contracts with our employers on the line.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
BERNIE SANDERS: Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.
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Jamie Noguchi | Drawing and Drawing Some More @jamienoguchi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” – John Lewis
Political cartoon. Rep Al Green, D-Texas standing up and pointing his cane yelling "HE DOES NOT HAVE A MANDATE TO CUT MEDICAID!"

In the lower corner are two people hiding behind round signs. One reads "Civility!" and the other says "Did he not get the sign memo?"
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Worth a listen to what Al Green says after he was removed from the chamber.
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Thank you, Rep. Al Green!
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I can’t stop watching Vermont welcoming JD Vance to the state. Thank you, Resistance
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Vermont welcomes JD Vance to the state
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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jschaffe.bsky.social @jschaffe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Maine, the way life should be.
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a woman in a superman costume is standing in a dirt field .
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21/02/2025
Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"
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jschaffe.bsky.social @jschaffe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, NH Senators Shaheen and Hassan -are you there with Congressman Raskin?
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Dripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Every union should be echoing this statement.
IUPAT Twitter post:

There are nearly 3 million immigrants in the construction industry, and they deserve the same rights as all other workers. Our union stands with our immigrant members and all working people in this country — an injury to one is an injury to all.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/02/2025
BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I got death threats for writing about heavy metal bands that happened to have women in them. These wealthy politicians need to grow up
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/02/2025
This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/02/2025
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
THE ASK
This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity.
DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN
TRUMP'S AGENDA
Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how:
1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely.
2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process.
3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze.
4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down.
5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues.
No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have.
Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 16/12/2024
The US National Parks are so popular, some are requiring people schedule their visit to try and accommodate everyone. We'd like to suggest a different solution. Expand the parks. Most of USNPS holdings are adjacent public land. So why not.
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