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@julievaillancourt.bsky.social
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Happiest hiking in the forest, climbing and kayaking. Love the quiet of the natural world, birds and bird song, all creatures big and small.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Be like Rosemary #HandsOff #April5
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 01/04/2025
Nice people made the best Nazis. My mother spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves, chose not to focus on politics... They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. Naomi Shulman www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not The Moment To Remain Silent
Naomi Shulman makes the post-election case for speaking out.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I was very upset to learn of the death of Kanzi, the Bonobo ape last week. One of the most remarkable experiences of my life was making music with Kanzi and Panbanisha, two extraordinary Bonobo apes - pg petergabriel.com/news/kanzi/ Photo courtesy of Ape Initiative
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
After Hitler came to power, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was a Lutheran theologian and pastor, became an anti-Nazi dissident. The Nazis hanged him in 1945. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil." #AcademicFreedom 7/n
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RogueFEMA @roguefema.altgov.info · 23/03/2025
This article captures the true breadth of what is happening to our fed counterparts across government (no subscription required to read). Please help get these stories out into the public.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
AOC: Do you know which coloradans did vote to cut medicare and jack up health care cost? Every single Republican representative from Colorado. Don't you worry, I was just at Gabe Evans' district, and 11,000 of his constituents would like a word
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in DenverZoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background
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RogueFEMA @roguefema.altgov.info · 21/03/2025
Ever see the show "The Leftovers"? It's time for every one of these evil motherfuckers and their asshole MAGA supporters to just disappear.
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Cliff Cash Comedy @cliffcashcomedy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS! Please tag Rachel Maddow 10,000 times (I love her) then tag all the shitty people in the media that we do not love. We will not stop. We will NOT go away. Don’t be afraid of Trump. Be afraid of us. Do your fvcking job or expect us on your door step youtu.be/qM633wuZEFc?...
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MASSIVE crowd marching on The media (make it viral)
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Retired service band members united to play in concert with young musicians after their show was canceled due to President Trump’s executive order ending DEI programs. cbsn.ws/4iaHcKm
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skylineA vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 14/03/2025
Today in As The World Burns www.yahoo.com/news/researc...
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Researchers stunned after discovering cause of massive animal die-off along coastline: 'It was a gut punch'
"Wait a minute, this can’t be right."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Every. Single. Word. 🎯 🎯 🎯 shorturl.at/SKwi7
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Frenchman Sears Trumps "Court Of Nero" In Scathing, Must-Read Speech
Every now and again a piece of rhetoric perfectly encapsulates the time. The Gettysburg address was one such work. Legend has it that Abraham Lincoln hastily scribbed out the framework of the speech o...
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Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We'll have to reinstate the Weather Rock here at the ranger station. Don't worry, as long as funding holds out, we'll point a webcam at it for your trip-planning purposes.
If the stone is wet, it's raining. If the stone casts a shadow, it's sunny. If the stone is gone, it's a hurricane.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/03/2025
strong agree thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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X Threatens Our Democracy. Canada Should Ban It | The Tyee
The risks of election interference, misinformation and attempts to support a US takeover are too great.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Two words. STATE TV
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Polluters get a free ride to pollute as US Supreme Court guts E.P.A.’s ability to enforce strict water quality standards under the Clean Water Act, with major implications for offshore Pollution regulation. www.onegreenplanet.org/news/supreme...
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Supreme Court Ruling Weakens Water Protections, Raising Environmental Concerns
The Supreme Court’s latest ruling limits the E.P.A.’s power to enforce water quality laws, raising concerns over rising pollution levels
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Serafina 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @serafina2112.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Fuck you to every soulless motherfucker who voted for this. May your religious asses rot in the hell you believe in.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/03/2025
Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime | Lawrence Douglas
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Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime | Lawrence Douglas
As the White House handpicks members of the press pool, questions for the president amount to fluffy valentines
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is where we are, America.
Two social media posts on Twitter. The first post by Nick is (@ikisnick
), posted 17 hours ago, reads: 'The American people have not thanked us even once for putting more sewage in their water.' The post includes a photo of a man in a dark suit and red tie, sitting on a yellow upholstered chair, gesturing with his hand. The second post, quoted below, is by More Perfect Union (@M
...), posted 19 hours ago, stating: 'BREAKING: The Supreme Court just weakened the Clean Water Act’s limitations on raw sewage discharge into our water in a 5-4 ruling.'
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Wait till the White House starts directing the Marshals Service not to protect judges who rule against the Administration. I’d bet good money that’ll happen at some point.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
No one holds his voters in more contempt than Trump. Watch his speeches. He often mocks them to their faces and then laughs at how these morons cheer on their own bully. It's related to why violent men reserve their worst abuses for their wives. Punishing people for loving you is part of it.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/03/2025
How many Gold Cards will Donald Trump have to sell to offset $4.6 trillion in tax giveaways to billionaires and giant corporations?
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 03/03/2025
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Julie @julievaillancourt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Can somebody please stop this madness?!. 😩 apple.news/AECh2IkXkQAi...
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Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber — Guardian US
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
God I love GREEN DAY!!!
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Michele/Meidas Fan @michelemanziano.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...
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VigilantGrandma @vigilantgrandma.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Take to the streets
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mbcon.bsky.social @mbcon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Donald Trump is nothing more that Putin’s bitch. If President Zelensky refuses to bow to Putin, he sure as hell isn’t going to bow to Putin’s little bitch.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Capitol Police arrested a group of peaceful protesters who demonstrated today in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of USAID workers. The president has made his message clear: disagree with them, and they will come after you.
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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/02/2025
PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2025
NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
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Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In
Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”
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Lainey 🇨🇦 @emewm.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Very sad. I am still shocked by JD Vance's words.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 13/02/2025
NEW: The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. The Tribune and ProPublica spoke to the relatives of three of them, who say that they have been left entirely in the dark about their loved ones.
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U.S. claims migrants held at Guantanamo are “worst of the worst.” Their families say otherwise.
The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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