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Global Consultant / IT Program Manager, Supporting Democracy & The Rule of Law!

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just kas @karenschmitt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Let it be, let it be! 🙏🏼
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 21/01/2026
At Davos, Trump called the liberation of Europe “stupid” & allies “ungrateful.” As a former U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council member, I find this rhetoric dangerous. It recasts the defeat of fascism as a failed real estate deal & undermines the alliances that have kept the world stable for 80 years.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Trump here makes clear that he executed an official act—a pardon—with an expectation of "LOYALTY" from the recipient of the act, with his definition of LOYALTY as he executed the act being that the recipient of it would either never run for Congress again or not run as a Democrat.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Confesses to Impeachable Offense on Social Media, Revealing That He Pardoned a Democratic Congressman to Try to Illicitly Gain a GOP House Seat, Retain His GOP Majority in Congress, and Stave Off a 2027 House Impeachment
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 29/11/2025
Trump's Ukraine "peace" plan is a profit scheme: let Russia keep stolen territory, rebuild for U.S. gain. That's not defending democracy-it's selling it off.
thedailybeast.com
Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks
A Wall Street Journal report details how profit is at the center of Trump’s “peace” talks.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
(PS) For those counting at home, this will be the SECOND illegal war Trump has STARTED (Iran). This does not count his THREE very seriously THREATENED wars against Greenland, Panama and Mexico. He has ENDED a grand total of ZERO wars. And he is demanding the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Republicans say Democratic lawmakers are causing discord and distrust by reminding service members to follow their oath. I think what's bringing discord and distrust is the America first movement online is a bunch of bot farms coming from Nigeria, Russia, and Iran.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound up)🧵1 DAY 11 NOVEMBER 2O25 🇺🇸VETERANS DAY 🇺🇸 In case you missed this or if you've seen it'sworth seeing again Our VETERANS Deserve Better They should be honored & given the best Healthcare & Benefits Here is President Obama today THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 🇺🇸
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 08/11/2025
The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/snap...
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Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/11/2025
Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This dilapidated jackass spent years poking fun at President Biden's physical condition, and now droopy mouth sleepy don is falling apart. Karma is truly something to behold.
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Deeds Not Words @nodderuf.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1–1,056
To download a free PDF of this entire list, click here. - - -Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinnin...
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
As news breaks that Trump is federalizing the Illinois National Guard, keep in mind that ICE is already terrorizing Chicagoans. ICE raided an apartment complex, which led to American citizens being pulled out of their homes and children being zip-tied together.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just an FYI: We’re not facing a “government shutdown.” This is a Trump-MAGA Republican shutdown. Call it what it is.
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Steve Harmon @stevenrharmon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Another Catholic perspective in NCR: www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
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Bishop Barron paints Charlie Kirk as Christlike. That's not based in reality.
Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to be shot, but we shouldn't make him into a martyr or an example of Christian compassion and discourse. But that's what Bishop Robert Barron has tried to do, writes Tulio ...
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just kas @karenschmitt.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Agree!
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just kas @karenschmitt.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Constant corruption in the current administration! Like nothing we’ve ever seen before!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing how the extreme wealth concentration is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires. Kudos to Pope Leo for speaking out. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/09/2025
RFK Jr. and Trump tell us they want to Make America Healthy Again. Great slogan. I agree. Unfortunately, they are doing the exact opposite. Vaccines work. They are safe. They save lives. No more conspiracy theories.  Kennedy must resign.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/09/2025
Dangerously, President Trump and HHS Sec. Kennedy are wreaking havoc on our already broken and dysfunctional healthcare system. You don’t make America healthy again by throwing 15 million people off of their health care and undermining science. Secretary Kennedy must resign.
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RFK Jr. Must Resign | Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 03/09/2025
What we’re witnessing in this country is textbook authoritarianism. Trump thrives on targeting those who are least able to defend themselves, exerting control and cruelty to tighten his grip on power. To think it ends here is naive. We cannot let this go on any further.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
32 USC § 502(f)(2) would violate Article IV of the Constitution if applied to support deployment of un-federalized out-of-state National Guard troops into a state that didn’t want those troops there, as with Trump’s proposed use of the Texas National Guard to invade Illinois
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Donald Trump's tariffs are forcing prices to rise. Here's what we learned today: John Deere announced layoffs. PepsiCo will increase prices by 10%. Sony is raising PS5 prices in the U.S. by $50 across all models. Electric bills are up 10% so far this year.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
It’s not just idiotic but evil to pressure history-preserving institutions like the Smithsonian to whitewash ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ but that’s exactly what Trump is doing: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
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Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Trump just vowed to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines, citing debunked lies about voter fraud. Anyone that wants to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump pledges to scrap mail ballots and voting machines before 2026 midterms
Announcement on Truth Social comes after Putin told Trump US elections were rigged because of postal ballots
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Great reporting by the NYT. It underscores that if you're planning to move this decade, you should think twice before moving anywhere that often experiences extreme weather—as the feds now have far less ability to track it to protect you from death or property loss. Why? Because Trump hates America.
nytimes.com
Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Under Reagan's tax cuts, the average tax cut for the top 1% was 68x larger than the average cut for middle-class households. Under Bush's tax cuts, it was 16x larger. And under Trump, 36x larger.  The GOP has always governed for the privileged few.
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Howdy @icandie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
No tax on cash tips. Only if you make under $25,000 a year and itemize your deductions, losing the $15,000 standard deduction. In other words, you’ve been conned. The whole BBB is a con job!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
It's midnight in Washington, and in case you're catching up... Tonight Republicans have blocked amendments that would: - Protect food assistance for veterans and families with children - Stop tax cuts for multi-billionaires - Save 20 million people from losing healthcare (Thread 🧵)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat.
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
16 million Americans are about to lose their healthcare, but go buy my gross perfume…
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
I mean this is just unbelievable — they don't even know what's in THEIR OWN DAMN BILL. This provision guts renewable energy and they have no clue know where it came from?? This entire process is rotten to its core.
nbcnews.com
A megabill mystery: New solar and wind tax comes as a surprise to Republican senators
"I don't know where it came from," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Budget Committee, told NBC News after he released the 940-page legislation.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
For over 15 hours, we've been offering amendment after amendment to try to change this abomination of a bill. Republicans have blocked us at every turn. They are hellbent on ripping health care from millions to give tax cuts to billionaires. We will fight them to the bitter end.
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We are fighting this abomination of a bill to the bitter end
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
(🚨) BREAKING: Trump-Netanyahu War of Choice in Middle East Has Now Officially Endangered You and Your Family, As Major U.S. Cities Go on High Alert
foxnews.com
Major US cities on high alert following airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities
Law enforcement in NYC and DC coordinate with federal partners to enhance security at sensitive locations following Iranian airstrikes, implementing patrols and cyber monitoring
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Trump wore his campaign hat in the situation room forever associating MAGA with the bombing of Iran
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A single person — Donald Trump — has released the dogs of war and done it without the consent of Congress, our allies, or even a clear explanation to the American people. Anyone who has doubted Trump’s intention to replace our democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/06/2025
At a time when expertise and experience is critical, Donald Trump put a 22-year-old with no relevant experience in charge of counterterrorism and is taking advice from Laura Loomer on our national security team. That’s not leadership. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Attacking Iran fits with Trump’s desire to divert attention from his failures at home: his losses in the courts, his unpopular budget bill, millions of people protesting against his authoritarianism. When he feels humiliated, he gets reckless. Understand what's going on.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 23/06/2025
As an appointee in the Obama and Biden administrations, I saw firsthand the importance of experience and expertise in our foreign diplomacy. And I have no doubt that there’s a straight line between Donald Trump’s reckless withdrawal from the Iran Deal without a plan and the situation we’re in now.
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