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Emma

@lavinemma.bsky.social
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Healthcare worker. Pro-science, pro-choice, pro-Democracy, support our military&veterans, our teachers, happily married, mom of 2 and a a dog🐕. No DM

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Emma @lavinemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We are very far from it used to be before February last year, before the war 👇
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JUST IN: Judge Joseph Laplante (GWBush/NH) refuses to block NH state law deleting student IDs from approved list to obtain ballot, but partially blocks broader SecState guidance that student IDs can't be used as part of the registration/voting process. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Tea4Me @tea-n-me.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My theory as well. Let’s lead with kindness, it’s not that hard.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026
Have some journalistic jealousy over this look into the crop of new DOJ Civil Rights Division hires from @glennthrush.bsky.social:
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Joab @joabshammah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He did it, with our money. Like he is supposed to. I know these days ppl who just do their actual duties are rare. LOL I like him and his style of governance. Stay out of the way and let the money do what we the ppl want it to! Normal.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The mind-boggling criminal past of the new Trump DOJ recruits
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The mind-boggling criminal past of the new Trump DOJ recruits
Mass departures of veteran career lawyers have forced the Justice Department to lower its hiring bars, opening the doors to figures with highly controversial and legally compromised histories.
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Emma @lavinemma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Sign the Petition
Create a Single-Payer Healthcare System in the United States
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/09/2026
To understand what foreign operations against U.S. elections may look like in 2026, we reviewed public threat analysis reports from technology and nongovernmental organizations. bit.ly/4AzddFy
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AI Is Changing Foreign Election Influence
Threat reports from tech firms and independent monitors offer a glimpse of how foreign adversaries are changing tactics.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She was sexually assaulted by an LSU football player So glad her story is being heard
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 25/09/2026
The claim that the debt ridden company is going to be making more expensive content than the two predecessors (while preserving jobs) is more than questionable. The logic of nearly all such consolidations in declining markets is to sell less for more, while cutting costs (jobs) on a large scale.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 25/09/2026
"The combined company is expected to have about $80 billion in debt ⁠after the deal closes." This kind of debt ridden agglomeration is a proven recipe for failure. Ironically "WarnerDiscovery" had to be sold because it was a debt ridden agglomeration that was failing.
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Paramount seeks $7.5 billion debt raise to fund Warner Bros deal
Paramount Skydance said on Thursday it has launched a syndication for a proposed $7.5 billion ​senior secured term loan, part of a ‌broader financing package to fund its acquisition of Warner Bros Dis...
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: Major corporations—including Microsoft, General Motors, Home Depot, Koch Industries, GEO Group, Altria Group, BNSF Rail, 1-800 Contacts and Zillow—have donated to multiple attorney general candidates with a record of election denialism, according to CREW analysis.
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Corporations are backing election deniers running for attorney general - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Major corporations have donated to multiple attorney general candidates with a record of election denialism.
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🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️ @buckivotesblue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well played! 👏👏👏 #Blues
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Shane Goldmacher @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW: Trump calls his $400 million super PAC “my money that I control.” Yet federal officeholders are legally barred from directing soft-money groups. A new FEC complaint accuses Trump of violating law. W/ Maggie Haberman: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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Trump’s Open Claims That He Directs Super PAC Spending Draw Watchdog Complaint
Federal law bars those holding federal office from directing spending decisions for a political organization with no contribution limits.
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Larry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration is reportedly considering 12 data center projects on federal public lands. The data center locations include 17,600 acres in Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Arizona.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
75% of truckers and 75% of farmers and ranchers voted for Trump. For this. And a ballroom and triumphal arch.
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@JusJerri 💙✌💫🐾 ✨️ @italiano727.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🤬🤬🤬👇
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Lisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump admin. has approved a $2.8B sale of heavy bombs to Israel, according to a U.S. official The proposed sale would include 40K one-ton bombs whose use by Israel in Gaza & Lebanon has drawn international anger because of the civilian harm caused by their wide blast radius. #Blues #SheShed
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Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs (Gift Article)
The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Once again for the people in the back. Bari does not have any talent. She can throw a good party and chat you up but good, and people mistake that for ability. It was fine enough to open her empty vessel of a newsletter. It can't run a real organization.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets
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Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸 @sisterswendy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This fascist regime hates all women and girls, but the caged female immigrants are especially vulnerable to the brutality of these monsters. ICE can freely act out their misogyny in any torturous & cruel way they desire with zero repercussions under Nazis' Trump & Stephen Miller. #VoteBlue #SheShed
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WTAF … You cannot make this shit up‼️ what a fucking clown show
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2026
After a 2011 sexual abuse scandal, the national sports organization AAU pledged to implement “historic child protection measures” for the hundreds of thousands of kids in its care. But ProPublica and @washingtonpost.com found that most of these reforms were never implemented.
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A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athlete...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
congrats to truckers for trump, who are getting exactly what they voted for
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 15/09/2026
A federal judge has ruled that a senior aide to former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem deliberately destroyed messages in the middle of active litigation, marking the second time in months a top Noem official has been caught wiping communications tied to the disaster response agency.
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Explosive court finding as more misconduct revelations exposed for Kristi Noem's aides
A federal judge has ruled that a senior aide to former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem deliberately destroyed messages in the middle of active litigation, marking the second time in months a top Noem official has been caught wiping communications tied to the disaster response agency.Accordin...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has DENIED Trump's bid to continue with his USPS vote by mail restrictions! HUGE WIN.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 14/09/2026
A new report that President Donald Trump's attempted takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has pushed the institution toward bankruptcy was met with disgust Sunday night.
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Disgust as Trump tips Kennedy Center toward bankruptcy with 'mafia-like MAGA hit'
A new report that President Donald Trump's attempted takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has pushed the institution toward bankruptcy was met with disgust Sunday night. The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday because it cannot m...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership.
Chart: Annual US measles cases
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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 25/08/2026
Canada is preparing targeted retaliation after Trump escalated the trade war with 50% tariff threats. Trump’s response? 🤦🏻‍♀️ Rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” 🤣 Bc apparently when you’re losing a trade war, you rename the lake. 😂🤣 #SheShed
WHEN YOU'RE
LOSING A TRADE WAR...
LAKE AMERICA?
NOPE.
LAKE
• ONTARIO
JUST RENAME THE LAKE?
#She Shed
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026
NEWS: Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, according to state health officials. They are Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in 35 years and the first reported measles deaths in the U.S. this year.
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
BREAKING—Second measles death reported in Texas. As of Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services said 481+ cases of measles had been confirmed, a 14% jump over last week. 56 hospitalized with measles in the area since late January. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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A second child has died in the Texas measles outbreak
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to attend the child's funeral, which is scheduled for Sunday.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Before COVID 2019, Russia & far-right were pushing vaccination disinformation about measles. Patterns are undeniable. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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Russia trolls 'spreading vaccination misinformation' to create discord
Troll accounts that tried to influence the US election also tweeted about vaccines, a study says.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II.
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A family member of a service member currently deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln shared messages with MeidasTouch detailing months without milk, meat arriving rotten, and a deployment with no end in sight.
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Rotten Meat, No Milk: Troops Detail Life Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
Text messages shared with MeidasTouch by a family member of a service member currently deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln paint a bleak picture of daily
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Forbes @forbes.com · 12/08/2026
The USS Abraham Lincoln is supporting military operations in the Middle East against Iran.
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Mental Health Crisis Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln—As U.S. Sailors Mark More Than 260 Days At Sea
The USS Abraham Lincoln is supporting military operations in the Middle East against Iran.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a very worrying story. Ecuadorian fishermen are being attacked and killed, and the perpetrators seem to be either the U.S. military engaged in clandestine operations or an American mercenary company working for Bukele or another Central American country.
Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say, spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.

One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead. The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-speaking assailants wearing matching uniforms with American flag patches, but without any clear insignia to link them to an official government force.

Some of the surviving fishermen said they had been hauled out of the water, questioned and then handed over to El Salvador’s navy before being released. The Pentagon has denied involvement, as has the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors have also said that a plane followed and seemingly surveilled them before the strikes.

The New York Times analyzed flight data and found that a maritime patrol plane — based out of a military base in El Salvador — flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The pilots onboard spoke English with American accents, according to air traffic control communication recordings.
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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Health insurers are dumping Medicare Advantage plans. Here’s how many seniors could be affected. — MarketWatch
Coverage changes could leave rural markets with fewer choices
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
WOW. The Trump administration plans to spend at least $900 million for construction projects on the White House grounds, a significantly larger price tag than has been previously reported and one that would be covered primarily by taxpayers wapo.st/4xe1GJT
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Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction
The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Marco Rubio & Scott Bessent, Stephen Miller, Steven Cheung, & the traveling press, were "kept in the dark" about Iran’s threat to Air Force One, two anonymous officials told Times reporter Haberman. Trump left them to be the decoy for his escape & boarded a military jet via catering truck.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
😱🥲🥲💔
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 12/08/2026
Trump is simply stealing tax money to build himself a golden palace
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wake up to this Every day "What have we become ?" ICE LAWLESSNESS ICE BRUTALITY ICE CRUELTY They'll use this on INNOCENT PEOPLE and what, Women and Children ? What !! Better than shooting them dead in the street? This is wrong
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Hopeless sailors try to hurl themselves overboard amid deployment without end: report
Sailors have reportedly attempted to go overboard from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during an open-ended deployment that is now nearing nine months at sea.Annabelle Loma has spoken with he...
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