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Melissa Weeks

@mamabearvt.bsky.social
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Fierce advocate for rights, freedoms and equality for every single one of us and quite tired of the patriarchy. Also a dog, whale and nature lover and a big fan of science and facts.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And what will be in their goodie bags? Take a look.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28
a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Yep. Trump asked “what the hell do you have to lose” by electing me, and, now, we are getting another reminder that the answer is “a lot.”
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Chris Wright is genuinely a con man selling climate denial to the world in order to enrich himself and his gas industry friends. This should be a much bigger story.
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Trump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gas
Debunking some of Chris Wright's most egregious lies
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Matt Sutkoski @mattweathervt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Matt's Weather Rapport: The western U.S. has been strangely warm all winter. Things really got out of hand as February closed and March began. Now the heat is spreading east. Severe storms, too. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2026/03/abru...
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Abrupt Spring: Weird Summer Heat Spreading Across Much Of The U.S. Way Too Early. Severe Weather, Too!
We didn't see forecast maps like this much during the winter. High chances of well above normal  temperatures in the East between March 8-12...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Wow!! Paxton - who is a candidate for the same Senate race, as Crockett, just got the Texas Supreme Court to pause the extension of time for Democratic voters to vote in Dallas, an extension a lower court granted for 2 hours because of confusion all day. Paxton clearly wants to make trouble.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
More detail here: www.ms.now/news/justice...
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Justice Department rescinds Biden-era ‘no-knock’ warrant policy
Policy launched after the police killing of Breonna Taylor restricted when law enforcement could burst into a home without knocking.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is what happens when the Secretary of HHS is a guy who snorts cocaine off of a toilet seat
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Deputy Attorney General just rescinded the policy against no knock warrants in most cases. That policy was an important public safety measure. Restricting their use saved lives. Breonna Taylor died because of one. www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/u...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
WOWO. When Cory Booker asks Noem abt a warehouse she paid 2X what it was worth. She tries to filibuster. He describes that DHS refused to set up a meeting with a GOP town board that doesn't want that warehouse.
Split screen of Cory Booker and Kristi NOem.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump admin is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the U.S. once helped build and accessed at a fraction of the cost, according to three officials briefed on the proposal.
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After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it
HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20/02/2026
The Republican Party of Wisconsin filed a disturbing amicus brief in support of the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking access to the state’s unredacted voter registration data. Amongst many, many unhinged claims, the filing framed anyone opposing the department’s demand as corrupt and dishonest.
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In unhinged brief, Wisconsin GOP compares not giving the Trump DOJ voters' personal data to Jim Crow
The Wisconsin GOP delivered a culture war-addled screed complete with typographical errors, segregation-era comparisons, anti-immigrant panic and ad hominem attacks.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The US economy grew at a 1.4% annual rate in the final three months of the year, down sharply from a 4.4% rate in the third quarter, partly because of the prolonged government shutdown. @bencasselman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b...
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U.S. Economy Grew Modestly at End of 2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Stephen Colbert and the First Amendment
As if CBS hasn’t drawn enough fire for tampering with 60 Minutes’ journalistic integrity, on Monday, Stephen Colbert shared that he was told by the network’s lawyers that he couldn’t have Texas Democr...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports ... why no criminal investigation??? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
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Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department’s headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had touched them inappropriately. One incident was recorded on camera. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
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Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
RFK Jr/MAHA disciples, you got PLAYED. And everyone else saw it coming except you.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:
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Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts
Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of ten states with similar prohibitions.
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AILA @aila.org · 19/02/2026
NEW: AILA is launching A Better Way on Immigration, a series of policy briefs evaluating the first year of the Trump Administration’s policies, showing the impact on Americans and presenting a forward-looking vision for immigration policy. bit.ly/4tItZOW
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Think Immigration: Trump’s Chaotic Policies Show America Needs a Better Way Forward
AILA Directors of Government Relations Greg Chen and Shev Dalal-Dheini introduce AILA’s A Better Way on Immigration policy brief series about the Trump Administration’s destructive changes to the immi...
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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 19/02/2026
This doesn’t have to be our normal. We released a comprehensive analysis of gun violence in 2025 using EveryShot—our AI tool that tracks incidents of gun violence across the country in near-real time based on public media reports.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 19/02/2026
The threat of detention warehouses harkens back to one of our most shameful periods as a nation, when warehouses were used for Japanese American incarceration in the 1940s, which caused immense suffering and generational trauma. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 19/02/2026
in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.
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Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing
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Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long
An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 19/02/2026
Besides posing an existential threat to our favorite nonprofit bookmobile, Antelope Lending Library (which is probably at the top of the list of reasons library haters are attacking bookmobiles).... The library haters squatting in the Iowa Statehouse are at it again. action.everylibrary.org/hf2324
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SEND AN EMAIL: Save Iowa Bookmobiles - Oppose HF2324
Help support libraries across the country by taking action today!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/02/2026
This is not normal.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · 19/02/2026
TODAY: A Texas appeals court is hearing arguments in a civil lawsuit brought by the State of Texas against our client Maria Rojas, a Houston-based midwife.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
NEW: Kathy Ruemmler shared nonpublic details with Jeffrey Epstein about the White House probe into a 2012 prostitution scandal that engulfed the Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel, emails show www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Goldman Lawyer, Epstein Conferred on Secret Service Prostitution Scandal
In a series of 2014 emails, the wealthy financier gave advice to the former White House counsel as the Colombian incident blew up.
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI
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The President is Lying to the Public
YouTube video by Governor Wes Moore
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
⚠️ Trump administration plans to build a 5,000-person, 350-acre military base in Gaza
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Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show
Exclusive: approximately 350-acre compound planned as base for multinational force, according to records reviewed by the Guardian
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In DHS hearing Eric Swalwell erroneously says [only] two people have been killed. Todd Lyons erroneously calls Kristi Noem an elected official (while refusing to deny that Renee Good was a terrorist). www.c-span.org/event/house-...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Police are using Flock cameras from Texas school districts to assist ICE.
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Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown
Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Very, very bad
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/02/2026
A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks.
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Governor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · 10/02/2026
First the Trump Administration worked to erase transgender history from the Stonewall Monument and now they have secretly removed the pride flag — a shameful attempt to erase our LGBTQ history. I will not let this administration rollback the rights we fought so hard for.
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LGBTQ Pride flag removed from NYC Stonewall National Monument after Trump admin. directive
Apparently following orders from a Jan. 21 memo from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the large pride flag was removed over the weekend.
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
On Monday evening, Rachel Maddow spotlighted this group working out of Baltimore. Just another in a long list of unsung, American heroes. Donate to their project! www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
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Project Salt Box: How citizen sleuths are monitoring ICE in Maryland
Inside their homes scattered around the Baltimore area, the group of watchdogs is unearthing records, like property filings, contracts, and government procurements, that are otherwise overlooked.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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Women’s March @womensmarch.com · 26/01/2026
Keep spreading the truth about what happened to Alex Pretti.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/01/2026
Read this if you still need proof that Trump is going to try and rig the midterms👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
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Governor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · 25/01/2026
Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In criticizing a lack of transparency and questionable tactics, police chiefs from Minnesota to Maine are talking about ICE/CBP the way civilians often talk about the police.
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