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Kathryn Delaney

@kldelaney.bsky.social
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Retiree, current volunteer. Curious about everything.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 13h
Congress appropriated taxpayer dollars to honor officers killed in the line of duty. Donald Trump used that money for campaign ads. If you need a clearer illustration of who he is and what he values, you won't find one.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall.”👶
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 15h
it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 19h
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 19h
She was born in Jacksonville, FL. And she’s a fellow Gator. UF political science degree. Same as me, in fact. JD should be ashamed of himself.
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥💥BOOM💥💥 "Jack Smith Found Proof "Beyond Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt" How fucking stupid is it of Senate Republicans to do this 6 weeks before election?? Thanks, douchebags! 🤣🤣🤣 l.smartnews.com/p-8ABCwG1W/I...
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Jack Smith Found Proof Beyond “Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt (The New Republic)
Former special counsel Jack Smith swears that President Donald Trump committed “serious crimes.” In his opening remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tue...
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ukraine is conducting a daring and heroic mission to bring aid to the residents in Russian-occupied Oleshky. So far 4,000 kg of food, water and medicine have been delivered to 100 locations. It's a race against time as Russia targets aid drops and civilians.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Ellison's Project Jupiter in Doña Ana Co, New Mexico, is looking to be a train wreck of the highest order. And now Oracle is invoking force majeure to try to stem the damage. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Oracle Cites ‘Force Majeure’ to Shield Itself on Controversial Data Center
Oracle Corp. is moving to shield itself from racking up expenses on a massive data center being built in New Mexico, adding a fresh wrinkle to a project beset by opposition and regulatory setbacks.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Murphy: "On April 30 -- a Thursday -- Reynolds makes an $8m donation. On Saturday, they have lunch w/POTUS & tell him they want a change in rules for flavored vapes. The president calls FDA commissioner & HHS sec, & on Tuesday new guidance is issued paving way to the sale of flavored vapes ... "
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
… Literally RNC Comms Director Zach Kraft warning that Democrats want “full-blown communism” on a split screen with Trump palling around with the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please share the information about Oleshky everywhere you can! ​Russia is starving residents of the town and nearby villages by denying food supplies and evacuation. People in Oleshky need help, or else they won't survive the winter!
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Zach @zachlj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Combined with the plan to exclusively resettle White Afrikaners under the presidential determination number, it’s almost impossible to overstate the degree to which full on, blood and soil, white nationalism is the operating principle for this evil regime.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FLAG MS NOW: Trump aides are now exploring attaching Trump's name to Ford's Theatre. The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned by aides as one of the federal properties that could somehow carry Trump's name.
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 22/09/2026
The Paramount deal would put CBS and CNN under one roof—the kind of concentrated media power Lewis F. Powell Jr.'s 1971 memo urged corporate America to build around institutions shaping public opinion. CBS executives later joined the Chamber effort to act on it.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE officers reportedly shot and wounded a man today in Austin. Details still coming in. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is grim news for medical research funding and science if it comes to pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"A fake bipartisan oversight committee won’t save CNN. We have all the evidence we need from the Ellisons’ destruction of CBS about what they do to warp journalism at Donald Trump’s request." Press freedom group Free Press opposes a settlement deal between the state AGs and Paramount.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Among the terms on table are “independent content monitoring of CNN” As anyone who has actually worked in a newsroom knows, this is a bullsh*t idea. CNN will get the CBS News treatment no matter what some content board says or does. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Paramount and California AG Bonta Reportedly in ‘Advanced Talks’ to Settle Antitrust Suit
Paramount Skydance is in "advanced talks" with California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle the 12-state antitrust suit that's holding up its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, the WSJ reported.
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Gail Fredlund @walk94.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do this Democrats
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2026
Donald Trump and every member of Congress should be working for the American people — NOT their stock portfolio.
TRUMP HAS MADE MORE TRADES THAN ALL OF CONGRESS COMBINED. TRUMP: 28,700. HOUSE: 19,400. SENATE: 2,900
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI is unpopular. The public overwhelmingly supports aggressive AI regulation; it overwhelmingly opposes further investment in AI infrastructure. Naturally, Dems are telling frontline members to ̶d̶o̶ ̶p̶o̶p̶u̶l̶a̶r̶i̶s̶m̶ curl into the fetal position to appease the mean tech men. There is another way.
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A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics
You can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 18/09/2026
Record net assets of 778 million and a 40 million profit in 2024. Then the takeover, and inside seven months program revenue fell 16 million with pledges down another 30 million. He broke it, then billed the wreckage as proof he is the one who can fix it.
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Tax forms expose exactly how Trump tanked the Kennedy Center
Newly filed financial records and IRS data reveal significant revenue declines and management shifts impacting the Kennedy Center's finances. The un-redacted figures outline the contrast between prior...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is eugenics
Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.
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Kathryn Delaney @kldelaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dear @housedemocrats.bsky.social. Just this weekend, I was arguing for holding our noses and voting for Dem candidates in the hope of pulling them to the “leave trans in peace” side. No more. You’re losing more lifetime supporters over this than you can gain of fickle Rs. Stop this BS now!
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: Rep. Beatty asks that a federal judge make it crystal clear that Kennedy Center cannot be demolished and requests an emergency hearing to make it happen "The Kennedy Center is a sacred, living memorial to President Kennedy — not collateral damage in placating Trump's ego."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Doesn't Canada make a lot of the parts for military aircraft? Don't we kind of need those?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Unlike WaPo and NYT, Rolling Stone has an accurate headline
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