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Chris Pierson

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE is removing detainees with final deportation orders from its online tracking system. This makes it nearly impossible for their lawyers and families to contact them, which could prevent them from using all their constitutionally protected legal options. Trump’s cruelty is endless.
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Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator
The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Chris Pierson @justpeacecafe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Music @dominiquefilsaime.bsky.social The Dominique Fils-Aimé Concert at SPACE in Evanston was amazing. The artist's performance was a deeply moving and even spiritual experience. I was excited to learn that she was in the area. I had thought about a road trip to Canada to hear/see her. Perfect!
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/09/2026
Gaza teams recover remains of 55 people nearly 3 years after Israeli strike aje.news/xriul4
Gaza teams recover remains of 55 people nearly 3 years after Israeli strike
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 01/09/2026
Today, we received notice of another death in ICE detention. We also learned that a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant, Pierre Damas Bel, took his own life in Springfield, Ohio, after the Trump Administration ended TPS for Haitians and fitted him with an ankle monitor.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
As the wife of an incredible man who, until recently, was a DACA recipient - a Dreamer - I am proud to be the second signature on the discharge petition that would bring the Dream and Promise Act to the floor for a vote. It’s time for Congress to make the Dream and Promise Act the LAW of the land.
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Joaquin Sapien @jbsapien.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I hope you’ll read the story here: www.propublica.org/article/alic...
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The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for y...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A Michelle Obama Appreciation Post: I deeply admire your elegance, graciousness, beauty, accomplishments, relatability & effortless class. Thank you for being one of the greatest First Ladies of all time!🙏 Much ❤️ from one of your countless fans, Mar🐫
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 19/05/2026
List-making by the State is an authoritarian tactic to target, persecute, and terrorize. PUNTO. Let’s be clear: the federal government does not fund health care for undocumented people.
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Trump demands Medicaid data for deportation. Some states go a step further.
Several states have required their health agencies to take on another job: verifying immigration status among Medicaid recipients and reporting them to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 01/05/2026
In 2026 alone, 18 people have died in ICE detention. Enough is enough! It doesn’t matter who’s in charge of DHS, ICE detention will always be inhumane, inappropriate, inadequate, and deadly. We must put an end to it. Let’s pass my Melt ICE Act and end ALL immigration detention!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander
More than 100,000 absentee ballots had been sent to voters across the state. Some had already been completed and returned.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 29/04/2026
Today's Supreme Court decision is about power. It's about the Trump regime consolidating their power by eroding voting rights and attacking free and fair elections.
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Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act in major redistricting case, voiding Louisiana's congressional map
The Supreme Court rule 6-3 in a decision that has implications for the scope of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We must not become numb to this cruelty and lawlessness. www.ms.now/news/ice-detains-daca-re…
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‘Americans at heart’: ICE detains DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU
Juan Chavez Velasco’s case reflects a growing pattern: The Trump administration is targeting Dreamers who once believed
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Chris Pierson @justpeacecafe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
May he Rest in Power #RIP Thank you, Bernard LaFayette, for your dedicated work in the struggle for freedom and human rights.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 05/03/2026
On this day in 1959, 21 Black teenagers burned to death in a building fire at a segregated and neglected “reform” school in Arkansas after being left alone and locked inside their dorm.
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Mar. 5, 1959 | 21 Black Boys Burned to Death While Locked into Neglected “Reform” School
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/02/2026
Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to exonerate Donald Trump in the Epstein case in exchange for clemency. Journalist @carolecadwalla.bsky.social notes this “naked transactionalism” mirrors Jeffrey Epstein’s own business model of running a “global trade in favors” among the rich and powerful.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 01/02/2026
On this day in 1965, Dr. King led over 250 activists to the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama, to register to vote. All of them were arrested during the peaceful demonstration and charged with parading without a permit.
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Feb. 1, 1965 | Dr. King and Hundreds of Voting Rights Activists Arrested
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It has been more than 30 days since the Department of Justice was required by federal law to make all of the Epstein Files public. According to the DOJ’s own estimates, it has released less than 1% so far. The last time the Department of Justice released any documents was Dec. 23, 2025.
democracydocket.com
The DOJ offers only excuses as the Epstein Files remain secret
Read more here.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/01/2026
Oxfam says the world's billionaires now sit on $18.3 trillion of wealth. This growing inequality warps the global economy and also threatens democracy, says Oxfam executive director Amitabh Behar. "These billionaires are now not happy being rich and richer. They really want now political power."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Dept. of Justice lawsuit seeking unreacted statewide voter registration list. A big victory for our clients -- the NAACP, NAACP-CA/HI and SIREN --and the citizens of California. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...
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🚨 United States v. Weber
Learn more here.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
President Donald Trump said he “should have” ordered the National Guard to seize ballot boxes during the 2020 election, raising fears he will actually do so in the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump: ‘I should have’ seized ballots in 2020 election
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As we begin 2026, a new development threatens to further undermine voting by mail. A recent rule change at the U.S. Postal Service means that postmarks will no longer reflect the date a piece of mail was deposited at a local post office. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/how-...
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How new USPS rules put the right to vote at risk
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The more you know…
Screenshot of an X post by Andrew Côté discussing a large Medicare fraud case and a presidential pardon. Below the text is a screenshot of a Wikipedia-style article excerpt describing a healthcare fraud scheme, with highlighted monetary figures and citations.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
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As Epstein’s cushy jail sentence raised concerns, his lawyers went on charm offensive
The Epstein Files show how his attorneys mixed personal and business relationships with prosecutors who had agreed to settle Epstein’s case.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 09/12/2025
Corruption erodes public trust, undermines democratic institutions, and threatens the rule of law. This International Anti-Corruption Day, we reaffirm our commitment to using every legal tool available to promote accountability and transparency at all levels of government.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars. Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 14/06/2025
On this day in 1910, Louisiana broadened its law against interracial marriage, prohibiting Black and white people from living together and authorizing the state to break up thousands of families.
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Jun. 14, 1910 | Louisiana Broadens Ban on Interracial Marriage By Prohibiting Cohabitation
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/05/2025
Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo
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Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo
Other images displayed by Trump during meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa were false or misleading The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”. “These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by a picture during the contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Continue reading...
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Chris Pierson @justpeacecafe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#PopeLeo #BlackHistory *Both of Leo XIV's maternal grandparents, Joseph Martinez and Louise Baquié, are described as Black or mulatto in several census documents." abcnews.go.com/US/pope-leo-...
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Pope Leo XIV's family tree shows Black roots in New Orleans
Pope Leo XIV's family tree reflects America's complex racial history, according to records obtained by ABC News.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/04/2025
Welcome, @katiephang.bsky.social!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Chris Pierson @justpeacecafe.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I'm with the great folks at the @erbks.bsky.social Englewood Review of Books in Indianapolis. Great people doing amazing work.
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Chris Pierson @justpeacecafe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thank you Senator Corey Booker for standing up for the American people. I'm standing with you. May others ride to stand with you. Photo from 2016.
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Chris Pierson @justpeacecafe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“[Cuomo] was irate over the site, which happened to be championed by his political nemesis” Mayor de Blasio “Cuomo made his displeasure clear in a phone call to the Mets owner [Steve Cohen]. The governor later withheld vaccines from the facility for several weeks.” www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Cuomo held up Citi Field mass vaccine site amid beef with de Blasio
The account, shared by nine people involved in New York’s pandemic response, conflicts with the image Cuomo cultivated as a steady leader in a time of tumult.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 26/03/2025
The US spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. Yet 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford a doctor. Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 07/03/2025
On this day in 1965, police brutally attacked hundreds of civil rights activists during a march in Selma, Alabama, now known as Bloody Sunday.
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Mar. 7, 1965 | AL Law Enforcement Attacks Civil Rights Activists on 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/03/2025
BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration must pay U.S. businesses and nonprofits the congressionally authorized $2B they’re owed for work already completed for USAID. This ruling is a victory for the rule of law. President Trump has a constitutional duty to comply with this order.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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Chris Pierson @justpeacecafe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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'No Other Land' Wins Best Documentary Feature Film | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.
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The Most Relevant Movie in Theaters Is Poised to Make Oscar History. It Would Be a Shameful First.
It swept the critics’ awards and seems like an Oscars lock, yet it still doesn’t have a distributor.
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