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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social

@juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social
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Retired RN, Eastern Sierra dweller, Husky, Leonberger, Pyr, & cat lover. Apoplectic #Angret I never want to hear the phrase "American Exceptionalism" used again unless it is said sarcastically or ironically. Also, “I don’t like Trump but…”

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🦋𝘙𝘩ₒ𝒏∂𝔞 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 07/10/2026
Following our FOIA requests, we obtained groundbreaking records showing ICE’s attempts to silence voters. ICE obtained 48.4 million records from Heather Honey, a known election denier, as a “strategic line of effort” to pursue voter fraud investigations.
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Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Christopher Armitage @carmitage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shocking, absolutely. Trump Is Adding Terrifying Robotic Technology to His Arsenal Against Americans wendy664.substack.com/p/trump-is-ad…
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Trump Is Adding Terrifying Robotic Technology to His Arsenal Against Americans
ICE Plans to Spend Up to $2 Million on Remote-Control Robots Capable of Carrying Lethal Weapons.
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Exclusive | States Delayed in Getting Covid Shots for Children’s Immunization Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t opened up the ordering process, raising concerns about delays as vaccination programs kick off.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
POLITICO exposed Vice President JD Vance as the leaker behind one of the stories the White House later cited to justify banning the outlet from White House grounds. So either they planted these stories and then used them as an excuse to ban the outlets reporting them, or it’s MAGA targeting MAGA.
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees ahead of annual harvest
Palestinian villagers wailed over the mangled remains of their olive trees on Wednesday after Israel's military uprooted them with bulldozers, days ahead ​of the annual olive harvest, normally a sourc...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Trump, 80, Is Shocked by What’s in His Own Executive Order
Donald Trump appeared not to have even read the order before he went to sign it.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You have less health care (or no health care) because Trump has diverted that money to drastically expanding ICE and building data centers for the very wealthy who seek to replace your job with AI. www.fwd.us/news/healthc...
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Cutting Healthcare, Funding ICE: State Impacts
State by state breakdown of how Trump funding cuts and spending are raising costs of healthcare and groceries, and fueling ICE overreach.
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“not you, not you, not you, you’re the worst.” Thanks dt, I now have this quote for my next protest march sign.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If no one has standing to sue Trump in court to stop his lawlessness, then it’s imperative to elect members of Congress who will. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court
In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Does Trump have to destroy and kill things everywhere he goes, every single day? More than 60 trees have now been cut down at the historic East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C. as Trump pushes ahead with
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Well, the Trump administration’s EPA found a simple way to stop hearing from the public just eliminate the requirement to ask them. The EPA is scrapping public notice and comment requirements for air pollution permits on new data centers and the power plants needed to run them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Amazon continues to bully sellers on its platform through exorbitant fees and exploitative practices. A federal lawsuit filed by Biden's FTC, which could hold Amazon accountable, heads to trial soon — unless Trump's FTC decides to settle. Is it any wonder why Bezos has been buttering up Donald?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Lord, I asked you to take an 80 year old. I am now reminded of why you are not known for pinpoint accuracy.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You think Trump can’t possibly become any worse of a monster, and then you find out his administration is sending America’s wild horses to slaughterhouses. What the Trump administration is doing to our wild horses is absolutely disgusting. 🤮 There has to be a line.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
What was once planned for development will remain open space for bald eagles and the many other species that depend on it. This is a reminder that when people come together, we really can make a difference. Thank you for helping protect Big Bear’s wildlife for generations to come. 🦅💚
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I Resist Fascist Trump @harrypotterresists.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
YESTERDAY - ST. CHARLES, CHICAGO While handcuffed and not resisting, ICE agents smashed a man’s face into a stone wall, then assaulted a U.S. citizen multiple times, once they realized they were being filmed by him and other people, who were also threatened by Trump’s thugs. #ICEOUT
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Warning! ⚠️ Things are going to be bad this midterm election. The Trump administration has fired the remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), leaving the independent bipartisan agency without any sitting commissioners.
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Republican Senator Blasts Proposed Changes to Federal Grantmaking Process www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
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Republican Senator Blasts Proposed Changes to Federal Grantmaking Process
And Senate Democrats called for the proposed rule to be 'immediately rescinded'
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Private Equity Makes Deals With Healthcare Nonprofits www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbase...
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Private Equity Makes Deals With Healthcare Nonprofits
More than 500 healthcare facilities are operated through nonprofit joint ventures
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It’s the world’s dumbest cult.
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Trump Administration to Buy Back Another Energy Company's Offshore Wind Leases for 4 More Projects
The Trump administration says it’s buying back another energy company’s U.S. offshore wind leases for four more wind projects, bringing the total amount spent on these agreements to nearly $2.6 billio...
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Sig Christenson @saddamscribe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Diabetes experts booted for criticizing Trump. Rogers said ADA owed the diabetes medical and scientific community an explanation for incident in which police and security guards confiscated copies of the editorial and forced researchers out of convention center. www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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Diabetes experts were booted from a conference for criticizing Trump
The American Diabetes Association removed the experts for handing out an editorial critical of research cuts. A San Antonio diabetes expert has cried foul.
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StateOfTheRepublic @laura101.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
They were changed incrementally over decades. The most telling part is in the screenshots I documented from 2020-2022. It really ramped up then. They are literally delusional and will repeat anything at this point. substack.com/@lauracstolk...
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How We Got Here
How the U.S.A. Was Targeted From the Inside
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Also, this allows for the admin to apply the State Dept's visa and entry bans to 50+ more countries, which will effectively double the number of immigrants banned by this useless administration. Constitutes theft of probably $1 billion more in fees www.cato.org/blog/banned-...
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Government Defrauds Legal Immigrants and US Sponsors Who Paid $1 Billion in Fees
The US government is charging fees to immigrants and US sponsors for services it has no plans to provide. The government took their money, and now it won’t even adjudicate their applications—in many c...
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I thought I couldn’t get any more discouraged but for some reason the past couple of days of DT news has been especially crushing. Still won’t tune out, never will. I’m sure he’s shortening my life due to the constant stress though.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"The Trump administration has struck what some see as the final blow to PEPFAR, the vaunted US program that has saved the lives of 26 million people living with HIV. The State Dept now says that as of 30 September, CDC support for PEPFAR will end in most countries." www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump administration cuts CDC’s key role in global program to stop HIV
State Department would send PEPFAR money directly to countries, which could then pay fees to health agency for help
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@aselrod.bsky.social says VA must use its new map, Dems must expand the Supreme Court, and the new rulebook is all hardball all the time: "Democrats need to wake up and realize what time it is. And I’ll be clear, I’m not a radical. The moment is." Exactly. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
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Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Fascism.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/05/2026
The Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated with yesterday's transfer of three people to Equatorial Guinea and today's likely transfer of an unknown number of Ukrainians to Poland. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
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Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals
Bookmark this post, it will be updated.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
One individual reported being unable to apply for positions at the Justice Department, OSHA, and the Defense Health Agency without completing the loyalty questions. OPM responded claiming agencies are changing the default setting to make the questions required on their own.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
35 U.S. Senators sent a letter to the USDA demanding answers about the dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. Led by Senators Klobuchar, Heinrich, Merkley, and Padilla, the letter calls out the March 31 reorganization as a threat to the agency’s ability to do its job managing 193 million acres of
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Via Drudge: 999 days left of Trump’s presidency. (Or less.)
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hi All, Just sent out. On Saturday we saw Trump blink in his confrontation with Iran, though too often the reporting was that he called off talks. There is no evidence to support that, and actually what we see is the US being placed in a strategic box. Here is why. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Trump Blinked
What It Could Mean
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JulieFrumKin.bsky.social @juliefrumkinbskyso.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The ideal response to the event at the Hilton yesterday evening would have been to report the most bare basic facts, shrug, and move on to other news. All the discussion is playing into his hands on multiple angles and potentially setting up the next time. Please stop.
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M. Wilderr @mwilderr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Justice Department just identified 384 naturalized Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke and they won’t say why they picked those 384 people specifically.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Seems awfully relevant and yet I did not know this. Looks like Blanche also represented Igor Fruman, so that's three Trump-Ukraine clients for him, all 2019-2023. Oddly he was at a law firm but still represented Manafort and Epshteyn in his personal capacity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Bl...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's ride. If bet if Paul could have seen 251 years into the future that horse never would have been saddled up.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Looks more and more like the whole US blockade was a sham.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M. Do you see how this works?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
DHS launched a military attack on a Chicago apartment building bc the landlord wanted them to clear out migrant squatters. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This isn’t a reorganization it’s a shutdown. The Trump administration is dissolving the EPA’s entire Office of Research and Development the division responsible for the science behind clean air and water standards.
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The Trump admin is quietly trying to build medical dossiers on all federal employees. Their prescriptions. Therapy appointments. Abortion records. For millions of people (and their families). They won’t say how they’ll use it. But I can venture a guess. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
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Trump administration personnel agency is asking for federal workers' medical records
The Office of Personnel Management is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more.
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