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Mary W.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 6h
Vouchers began as an attempt to resist school desegregation. The legacy of vouchers is one of exacerbating inequality by redirecting public funds away from our public schools. Civil rights orgs are speaking out, urging governors to reject Trump's voucher scheme. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
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Civil Rights Organizations Urge Governors to Reject the Trump Administration’s Federal Private School Voucher Scheme
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Advancement Project, and 14 other civil rights organizations yesterday urged governors in all fifty states and the District of Columbia to reject the invitation for t...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10h
VICTORY: a unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to stay sanctions on Trump & Co. over his $1.8B slush fund He sued his own govt & his own DOJ agreed to the payout. The court wasn't buying it! @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are proud to rep the 35 frm fed judges who blew the whistle 👇 -TN
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Truthout @truthout.org · 6h
The Trump administration has finalized the rollback of a major standard that will mean cars are less fuel efficient, in the midst of the climate crisis and as the price of fuel continues to rise.
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Trump Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards Will Deal Blows to Climate and Health
“There’s nothing Trump won’t sacrifice on the altar of fealty to Big Oil and auto polluters,” said one critic.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 7h
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & Jacobson Lawyers Group just sued HUD for 10 housing nonprofits Trump's HUD delayed their grants for months while they kept helping families facing foreclosure. Then it canceled $56M outright Unlawful & unkind in equal measure -- See you in court👇 -TN
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
Amazing community note on threads
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 11h
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6h
Eric Schmitt’s Hawks-Hawkeyes blunder and the politician he’s become missouriindependent.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Commentary: Eric Schmitt’s Hawks-Hawkeyes blunder and the politician he’s become • Missouri Independent
Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over a Hawks-Hawkeyes mix-up, highlighting how his political style has changed.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 6h
Eric Schmitt is a dishonest hack and incredible POS and after years of him attacking me & my team I’m happy to see people realize it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-li...
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A Litigation Playbook for Narrative Warfare
Eric Schmitt’s “The Last Line of Defense” casts courts as stages for political spectacle rather than forums for justice—and rewrites the evidentiary record along the way.
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Mary W. @marywa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow!
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I vant to be leafed alone” 🍂 IG: @dognamedstella www.instagram.com/dognamedstel...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We could’ve had a woman who prosecuted rapists as a president. Instead, we got a rapist as a president. 
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After further reporting by @nataliaecm.bsky.social, we now know this error affected at least 200,000 should-be Texas voters. What a mess.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Frances Kelsey saved thousands of lives by resisting pressure to approve thalidomide in the US. There have been tens to hundreds of thousands of preventable Covid-19 deaths caused by the anti-public health movement that Bhattacharya helped to lead.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning.” Connecting the dots between cuts and public sector failures is often difficult, but we are seeing the damage in public health. The only category of employee growing at CDC are political appointees.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All the wrong people have all the money
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Moscow is moving to expand its capacity to make tens of thousands of the killer drones it deploys in attacks on Ukrainian cities, according to plans from a Russian state company obtained by POLITICO. 🔗 politico.eu/article/russ...
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Missouri Democrats @missouridemocrats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Republican politicians don't care how they do it, they want to erode away your rights as citizens until only they hold the power. How much of your tax money was just wasted trying to ignore the constitutional right of Missouri citizens to do a referendum?
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧵 ICE spokesperson messaged me in July about its new facility for kids in Alexandria, Louisiana. ICE is sanitizing, calling it a 'staging facility.' Kids prison camp is inside an airport to speed deportations. Intention is to deport kids as quickly as possible, putting them at risk of trafficking.
🧵 ICE spokesperson messaged me in July about its new facility for migrant kids in Alexandria, Louisiana. ICE is sanitizing, calling it a 'staging facility.' The camp is inside an airport to speed deportations. Intention is to deport kids as quickly as possible, putting them at risk of trafficking. ICE: An ICE spokesperson emailed in response to an inquiry from Impactivize, but did not address questions about the nonprofit status of LaSalle Family Foundation. ICE spokesperson wrote: “Allegations ICE has plans to open a detention facility at England Airpark are false. England Airpark is a staging facility for deportations. A staging facility is where illegal aliens await their deportation flight to their destination country or transfer to a detention facility.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Sue Gibson @suegibson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The damage these two men have done and will continue to do is without parallel in American history.…Russell Vought and RFK Jr. are out-of-control zealots with no rational policy goals. To treat them otherwise is to invest their deep sociopathy with credibility.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.
If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇺🇸🇺🇦 US State Department launches $25 million program to search, return, and reintegration of Ukrainian children A implementing organization has already been selected for the first part of the program – the reintegration of children returned from the occupied territories of Ukraine and Russia.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
25 years after 9/11, US counterterrorism tools have been repurposed for immigration enforcement New analysis from our Muzaffar Chishti & @colleenputzelkav.bsky.social examine the links: bit.ly/4xNoVtE
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2/ That watchdog is called the CFPB, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. ProPublica found that after Trump officials took control, Experian's error-fixing rate collapsed and TransUnion's got cut in half. propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-cfpb-experian-transunion
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Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB
The credit bureaus have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/ A Colorado woman's credit score dropped 85 points over a $240K debt that wasn't even hers. She proved it. The credit bureaus still wouldn't fix it. Why? Because the federal watchdog that used to force them to is being quietly dismantled from the inside #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 24/09/2026
Me: How could things get any worse? News: Hold my beer.
200,000 barrels of radioactive waste found on the Atlantic Ocean floor.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Raw Story: RFK Jr's security costs were partly covered by money to fight Black infant deaths by shifting about $12 million from the Office of Minority Health to help pay for Kennedy's protection. Nothing says pro-life quite like stealing from helpless black babies. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Money given to the wealthy gets hoarded. Money given to workers gets spent. On rent. On groceries. On local businesses. On their kids. It immediately cycles back through the economy and creates more growth than any tax cut for the rich ever could. Higher wages help everyone.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That cover art is genius
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've officially made it - getting a shout out in the latest Iran Lego video trolling of Trump. That's almost up there with being officially banned by Vladimir Putin or having Patti Smith let me use People Have the Power for my 2017 leadership campaign. What a strange world. youtu.be/HmI2VE-IoV8?...
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Carney DESTROYS Trump's Trade Demands in Brutal Message to America... LEGO Bill Clinton
YouTube video by IRAN LEGO NEWS
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#StayReadyCrew If you live near an Aldi this might be a good chance for you to get ahead of the price increases & possible shortages coming this Fall/Winter. The price decrease is temporary...so far. It will run from 9/23-11/3. www.usatoday.com/story/grocer...
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Aldi is cutting prices on a third of its products. Here's when
The grocery chain said the price cuts are expected to save customers $86 million.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Iranian advisers helped Houthis seize Yemen’s Red Sea coast in less than 48 hours, sources tell AP
Iranian Revolutionary Guard advisers helped seize Yemen's Red Sea coast from pro-government forces.
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Mary W. @marywa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a stressful experience! Am glad that my mother taught me to always carry my toiletry bag and a change of underwear on the plane.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We're doing everything in our power to destroy it..." bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yet another way in which Trump's corruption (pardoning cronies) specifically harms everyday Americans (freeing them from paying $1.7 billion—BILLION—owed to victims).
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They’ll need to find someone nicer than me…
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