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@marysarkes.bsky.social
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Twice retired, science, engineering, math; fiber arts; avid reader of history and mystery; ardent supporter of our public libraries; firm believer that all people are equal in the eyes of the Creator, and no one is above the law.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Minnesota, you have an opportunity to select an extraordinary person and public servant as your next U.S. senator. Please take it!
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wait, what? "Stopped?"
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MaryNutcracker @marynutcracker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Sue, M.Ed. Truth And Justice. For All. 🐸 😻💪🇺🇸 🗺☘️ 🇺🇦 @suetoyou.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#TheEpsteinClass
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great question 👇
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What Timothy Snyder says here cannot be over-emphasized. Democrats must not only win, but immediately – announcing on 4 Nov. and beginning on 3 Jan., they *must* legislate and execute anti-corruption – even if Trump vetos them. We must become the party of anti-corruption and social mobility.
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Will It Matter If Democrats Win the Midterms?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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💙Matthew U.💙 @match74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Absofreakinlutely They Should......
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Truth 👇
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow! Can we clone this man? Asking for every American City! 😍
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is $2 billion richer than he was when he was elected in 2024. His family is making hundreds of millions off his presidency. Meanwhile, the American people are struggling to get by. You do the math. It’s blatant corruption.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This 👇 👇 👇
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Federal Government has no role whatsoever in conducting elections. The Constitution is plain on this matter. We don't need the Supreme Court, in their unmitigated arrogance, to "interpret" it for us.
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🥹😍🤩✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👀🗣️🫦✌🏽🔥💟💙💟💙💟💙
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Damn right! 👇
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Since Trump claims that it was “the military” that requested to use the arch to store sniper ammo & drones, these are the times when a Democratic majority could bring Gen. Dan Caine before Congress to find out from him if that is true & why. As usual, Republicans will do nothing.
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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MS NOW Public Relations @msnowcomms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@ms.now statement on its journalists being denied access to the White House grounds:
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/09/2026
Bless these folks!
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Bless The Americans Who Formed A Human Chain Around The Kennedy Center
Dear Humans,
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Insane! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 14/09/2026
We know Trump's taxes were being audited when he got the corrupt deal with IRS to drop audits. We know he owed at least $100 million in underpaid taxes on one property alone. So, yes, we know Trump's IRS audit deal is a constitutional violation.
citizensforethics.org
Trump’s IRS deal violates the Domestic Emoluments Clause - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The collusive IRS deal that President Trump entered constitutes a violation of the Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"US foreign policy now hardly exists. It’s been replaced by random whims blurted out by an ignorant, easily confused amateur, who hasn’t done his homework, hasn’t thought through the implications of his declarations, and might very well change his mind without warning..." www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
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Trump stumbles into an international incident of his own making in Ireland
The underlying issue is best approached with a nuanced understanding of history, culture, diplomacy and regional politics. Trump skipped all that.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They are supposed to be doing the jobs they are getting paid by taxpayers to do, not using their positions and government resources to fly around the country doing partisan political campaign events.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm trying to add 500 Democracy Docket subscribers this weekend. Democracy Docket will never send you spam or sell your email address. It's not on Substack or ActBlue. Free and premium options available. Link and thanks! demdock.com/4w6emld
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Talarico: Scripture tells us that you can’t love God and hate other people. You can’t love God and abuse the immigrant. You can’t love God and oppress the poor.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Talarico: We often think of Jesus as gentle, polite, and kind — which he certainly was. But when his neighbors were being hurt by powerful people, he didn’t stay in his room and pray. He walked into the seat of power and flipped over the tables of injustice.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Watch my banned interview with Jimmy Kimmel on YouTube: youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jimmy Kimmel: Why are they so scared of you? James Talarico: Well, they’re worried that we’re going to win this race in Texas. But we are the underdogs until the last vote is counted.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This piece by Colson Whitehead is one of my favorite things ever written. I've shared it many times with folks over the years. It was published two months after 9/11, and I believe it's one of the greatest things ever put to pen about grief, memory, and time. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...
I started building my New York on the uptown No. 1 train. My first city memory is of looking out a subway window as the train erupted from the tunnel on the way to 125th Street and palsied up onto the elevated tracks. It's the early 70's, so everything is filthy. Which means everything is still filthy, because that is my city and I'm sticking to it. I still call it the Pan Am Building, not out of affectation, but because that's what it is. For that new transplant from Des Moines, who is starting her first week of work at a Park Avenue South insurance firm, that colossus squatting over Grand Central is the Met Life Building, and for her it always will be. She is wrong, of course -- when I look up there, I clearly see the gigantic letters spelling out Pan Am, don't I? And of course I am wrong, in the eyes of the old-timers who maintain the myth that there was a time before Pan Am.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/09/2026
"One lesson of the twenty-first century, so far, may be that unintended consequences are inevitable, and it may be well to recall Otto von Bismarck’s wry observation that 'Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.'"
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On 9/11, the Political Was Personal
Our individual reactions seemed rational. Our political reactions, perhaps less so.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
VOTE EARLY! If your county election office isn't online, THEN CALL! Find out when & where to VOTE EARLY. If there's a line, it's shorter. You're less likely to have weather issues. PLEASE VOTE EARLY!!! Pass. It. On. 😎✨
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love, love, love this. ht: @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Agree 💯% With Bernie.......
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We need a constitutional amendment that gives the people the power to remove a sitting president if Congress refuses to do the job. This is getting ridiculous.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
* CARNEY SAYS U.S. TERMS IN TRADE TALKS MEANT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES EITHER WOULD BECOME U.S. SUBSIDIARIES OR BE WOUND DOWN * CANADA SAYS WE CAN START HAVING TRADE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE U.S. WHEN "AMERICANS STOP DOING MEMES, STOP THROWING SHADE, STOP TRYING TO BE TOUGH AND START BEING SERIOUS"
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 31/08/2026
Republicans and Trump claiming ICE is going after violent criminals is an outright lie, and the numbers prove it. 800 people a day were arrested last month with NO criminal record. We can force a change using our voices and our VOTES.
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ICE arrested a record number of people without criminal records in summer enforcement surge, new data shows
The surge in arrests comes as the White House pushes ICE to hit a target of 2,000 per day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.
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Katie @staunchcharacter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is a reminder that Trump couldn't do most of what he's doing without the support and enabling from the Republicans in Congress. They are all traitors, willfully harming America.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026
Katie Phang on the Pentagon secretly hiring MAGA influencers: "I sincerely doubt they're working for free. So does that mean that my taxpayer money is going to fund a conservative influencer to push Kegsbreath and convicted felon Donald Trump's bullshit?"
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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