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Mary Wasmuth

@maryawasmuth.bsky.social
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Solid-blue boomer who'd looked forward to a fancy-free retirement. But here we are. “The only recognizable feature of hope is action.” Grace Paley

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10h
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13h
This is about climate change
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Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition @miracoalition.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Roughly 15,000 documented immigrants in New England will lose full Medicaid coverage on Thursday, the most recent in a series of deep purges mandated by Congress’s Big, Beautiful Bill." ow.ly/7ujg50ZTYOW
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These New England immigrants arrived legally. Now, thousands will lose Medicaid benefits. - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts alone, 7,300 people are expected to lose access to full Medicaid coverage Thursday.
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Indivisible Mass Coalition @indivisiblemass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible ❌👑 @ruwmi.bsky.social · 15h
ICEtrocities West Springfield, MA
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 15h
Can't believe trump would be bribing voters after Susan Collins assured us that he learned his lesson when she voted to acquit him in the Senate after he was impeached for trying to bribe Ukraine.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h
Just one day after another of cartoonish villainy
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h
literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16h
This guy is really good, not just for Maine news but for how to put together a news story so you understand the context.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h
Just made donations to three Ohio campaigns I care about. If you can, please pick some candidates in close races and do the same.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h
Data centers on the gubernatorial ballot in Ohio. Acton against, Ramaswamy for (and personally invested in). www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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Ramaswamy is in bed with data center owners. He'll get richer at your expense | Amy Acton
Amy Acton: Vivek Ramaswamy is bought and paid for by data center owners. He'll never get everyday Ohioans like I do.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 17h
ICE's shameless stupid cruelty continues unabated. Here's a truly wrenching account from our wonderful local Vermont newspaper, which I imagine could be multiplied a thousandfold every day across America. Many thanks to Liza Cochran, its author bravelittlevoices.substack.com/p/terror-in-...
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Terror in the Backyard:
ICE’s Shadow Surge in Vermont
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18h
Forget AI. The innovation of the century is that someone finally invented a technology that could fact-check Donald Trump at scale: gas pumps.
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What if Democrats let Elon Musk and the massive forces of capital buy this election?
It’s not victim-blaming to say that we must blame the villains if we want to make voters heroes.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 21h
Tom Tiffany tried to overturn the 2020 election and throw out your votes. Now, MAGA billionaires are spending millions to make him the governor ahead of the 2028 election. Tiffany tried to throw out your votes once. We can’t give him another chance.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21h
Trumpster motto: “no conflict, no interest.”
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Journalists (and also non-journalists), please read this important statement and consider signing it Democracy is on the line
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23h
Spent all that money rehabbing his bugged jet only to not use it. Just plundering the public constantly. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Stops Using Luxurious But Defenseless Jet He Solicited From Qatar
The president has for his five most recent trips, including Friday’s, used the real Air Force One built for that purpose. The White House refuses to explain the switch.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TIRED: Defund the police WIRED: Defund the police widows and orphans
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“I will get my chisel and I will be right over there with everybody, tearing it down.” So proud of Third Act colleagues in the nation's capitol who organized a big protest against the proposed Arch www.arlnow.com/2026/10/01/c...
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Crowds, lawmakers protest Trump’s arch in Memorial Circle | ARLnow.com
A crowd of protesters joined several members of Congress and local officials this morning (Thursday) to protest plans for a towering arch in Memorial Circle. Speakers including U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very good points from @mjtoma.bsky.social here: Any movement (and president!) that are nutball enough to go down Eric Schmitt-style rabbit holes will be willing to steal the election and much worse. This humiliation won't dissuade them in the slightest: newrepublic.com/post/216176/...
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Eric Schmitt’s a Joke. The Assaults on Jack Smith Are Anything But.
The Missouri senator and other Republicans made fools of themselves Tuesday. But that won’t stop them lying about—and trying to destroy—Donald Trump’s prosecutor.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s always shocking to me when RCV supporters back top two because it fixes nothing that RCV fixes and creates new problems. No on 3
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big development: Dems are growing increasingly bullish on sweeping the big House races in South Texas. A DCCC official tells me internal polling shows Trump's approval cratering in key districts there: TX-15: 36% TX-28: 28% TX-34: 35% This and much more on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Trump’s Weird Tirade on Midterms Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness
As Trump’s monologue about his Texas midterm convention exposes a problem for the GOP, a Democratic operative argues that his collapse in South Texas is a real tell about what’s coming.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump on global warming: "That didn't work out because the planet got cooler. In fact, you know the ice that was melting? It right now just set a record. It's the biggest ice cube that's ever been in the history of the world ... they're doing the scam with data centers, by the way."
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every Dems’s dream stump speech
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our tax dollars at work. VOTE
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Engage the base. Persuade the middle. Marginalize the opposition by exposing precisely the slime they are. Go Angie!
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Mary Wasmuth @maryawasmuth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🧵Many thanks for pushback on this horrendous ad.
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Straight Outta Cortisol @silvawolves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From the Maine Democratic Party via Facebook. #MEPolitics
Screenshot of a Facebook post from the Maine Democratic Party just after 10am on 10/1/2026:
“Bobby Charles' campaign reported 46 contributions over Maine's legal limit, totaling more than $25,000 in apparent illegal donations.

Today, Maine Democrats filed a formal complaint with the Ethics Commission. Mainers deserve answers, and Charles needs to return the money.”

There is a picture of Bobby Charles with photo credit to Rich Abrahamson with the words: 
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Maine Democrats file formal ethics complaint on Bobby Charles’ multiple campaign finance violations” over the picture.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 01/10/2026
Even more vividly, Republicans are outspending Democrats in both #OHSen & #NCSen, but Democrats are nonetheless airing *more* ads. Why? Because, by law, candidates pay the cheapest ad rates, while super PACs pay market rates—and GOP spending is heavily reliant on super PACs.
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