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MCoussens

@mcoussens.bsky.social
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Just a 60-plus year-old chick trying to stay sane in this crazy political environment while trying to do something about it

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MCoussens @mcoussens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On this Cornell thing, go back and watch the Jody Foster movie The Accused. Prosecute not only those who participated but also those who watched and did nothing- rather than blaming the victim. Being “loose & high does not excuse the behavior of these adult who should be held accountable.
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Lavender🎀Honey @lavenderhoney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That sound you’re hearing is the lawyers for Olympian David Hearn running to the courthouse and filing a civil rights action against the Trump administration for falsely accusing him of vandalizing the reflecting pool
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My Latest: The Trump administration has a whistleblower — and they’re sounding the alarm about the U.S. Postal Service. newsletters.democracydocket.com/the-real-sca...
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The real scandal in the USPS whistleblower story is hidden in a court filing
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2026
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 05/08/2026
Marine One took off from the White House Tuesday afternoon, but air-traffic controllers hadn’t halted commercial flights at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport as required under safety protocols, people familiar with the matter said.
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Exclusive | FAA Investigates Marine One Safety Incident in Washington
The president’s helicopter took off from the White House despite commercial traffic flying at Reagan National Airport.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/07/2026
Last July, the Trump administration quietly scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, also known as FoodNet, shrinking the required surveillance to just two pathogens. One of the pathogens they made optional for states to report: the parasite Cyclospora. (Published Nov. 2025)
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
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MCoussens @mcoussens.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Just saw John Mulaney at Wrigley, with warmups Richard Kind, Fred Armesan, and David Letterman! John ripped RFK Jr good in it. Several times.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We are in deep trouble
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/07/2026
The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.
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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Major Watson said “No”. This is a read about our hero and our hope. We all need to say, “No”. No more shit from this administration that lies to us, steals from us, murders us, taxes us, then gives us nothing for our money except war and more lies. #ProudBlue open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
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SOMEONE WHO SAID NO
The Courage of Major Jason Watson's Dissent
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 01/07/2026
In the first year of his presidency, Trump made more money than in the rest of his life combined. A total of $2.2 billion from the presidency. Meanwhile, most Americans worked hard to just break even. This is the cost of corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
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Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
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Marlena (#felon47 is NOT my President) ❌👑 @ohpleeznotagain.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#ProudBlue SCOTUS literally handed the convicted felon‘s head to E. Jean Carroll by ruling he HAS to pay her $5 million dollars!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"No one gives a shit about housing." Only ballrooms.
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MCoussens @mcoussens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
With the DC reflection pool full of algae the irony of 47s spouting in his first run that he planned to drain the swamp is hard not to apply lol
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MCoussens @mcoussens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The most inspirational speech I have seen in a long while. youtu.be/vBDSP0cAxiM?...
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Michelle Obama speaks at Obama Center opening ceremony in Chicago | FULL SPEECH
YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago
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MCoussens @mcoussens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A relative on Trump: Well, at least he is getting a lot done”. I mean, sure if you mean setting the country back 100 years. So frustrating.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There's a lot of good ideas here, but it doesn't address what I think is our biggest unsolvable problem: That half of Americans believe ridiculous, easily disprovable lies, and call anyone a liar who tries to tell them the truth. How do we get around the alternate realities thing?
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MCoussens @mcoussens.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Pride night at the Cubs game. Too bad they didn’t make Matt Shaw wear a pride jersey. #hesacharliekirklover
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I love this so much!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026
President Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. That means it has now been one week since he has appeared publicly for anything besides a pre-taped interview. His last public event was his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, one day after his trip to Walter Reed.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Kilmar Abrego Garcia never asked for this. He was illegally arrested and deported to a gulag by the Trump administration Then-when a judge ordered him to be brought back-he was illegally arrested and prosecuted by Trump again He is perhaps the most unassuming, unlikely hero we’ve ever known
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MCoussens @mcoussens.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Be sure to read the fine print. My painted plate from a recent craft night with friends.
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MCoussens @mcoussens.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I couldn’t agree more.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Maybe the upside of all this transactionalism is that they abandon it the minute it's not self-serving enough.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/05/2026
If Trump tries blaming Biden or Obama for the next major virus outbreak, remind people that HIS administration pushed cuts to the CDC, emergency preparedness, biomedical research and the NIH while outbreaks were already popping up and hospitals were already stretched thin. 1/2
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 15/05/2026
$1.7 billion in taxpayer money could go to Trump allies claiming they were “aggrieved” by investigations while families are stretched thin and struggling to stay afloat. And somehow they always take care of their own. #SheShed
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/04/2026
Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Just a Friendly Reminder….
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/04/2026
Chlorine dioxide, a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching. Pressurized pure oxygen. Raw camel milk. Under RFK Jr., the FDA took down a webpage warning about these and other dangerous remedies claiming to treat autism.
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments
The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Good morning My coffee tastes a bit better waking up to this
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Yes, sir, that is correct. You are supposed to get Congressional approval before going to war. It appears that you know that. Stop this illegal war.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Meanwhile…Trump says we’re in an economic golden age. Tired of winning yet?
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If I had a kid who died in this moronic shambolic fucking war I'd be murderous.
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Danielle ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🔥2022 James Talarico to Biden & Washington Dems: “Start using every tool in the toolbox to protect our freedom…. Be brave, be bold, be big. Be a little less Washington, and a little more Texas…. Fascism can’t be stopped by playing nice or playing safe.”
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Former DOGE staffer Justin Fox testified that his job at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was flagging grants tied to “DEI” so they could be canceled under Trump’s executive order. One problem: he admitted he didn’t actually know what DEI meant! #ProudBlue 📹: 404 Media/TT & IG
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Lorie @ppattycat2.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Billions have already been spent in the Iran war. More will be spent. Pentagon costs were at a staggering $5.6B in munitions in the first two days. Start asking yourself if you know the reasons why. #IranWar #SheShed Story ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-lea...
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Pentagon Leak Reveals Staggering Cost of Trump’s War
The military burned through billions in munitions in just the first two days of Operation Epic Fury.
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Athena Gabriel ❌👑 @athenagabriel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Average $3.48 a gallon. Every state. Today. That’s the AAA national average — March 9, 2026 — while Trump regimes Iran war rages with no end in sight. He said he’d lower prices on Day 1. He lied again!! #TrumpsGasProblem​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Imagine an entire political party standing and cheering because they passed a law which gives tax breaks to billionaires and paid for it by starving children
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
President Trump claimed he inherited a "stagnant economy" and it's now "roaring like never before." Growth in 2025, 2.2%, was lower than in every single year of the Biden administration.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 11/02/2026
In just a few moments, I will vote against the so-called SAVE America Act and I am a strong no. That's because this bill would place unnecessary burdens on millions of women and eligible citizens to register to vote and make their voices heard. It is un-American & undermines our democracy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Breaking MS NOW: Some of the Epstein docs the DOJ invited members of Congress to view are STILL redacted, despite promises otherwise. Raskin says DOJ's reading room has just four computers. It would take seven years to get through the files in the current conditions established by the DOJ.
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Lawmakers say some Epstein files remain redacted despite DOJ's pledge
Reps. Jamie Raskin and Jared Moskowitz told reporters key documents retained redactions despite the DOJ's pledge that members of Congress could view the full files.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/02/2026
Just gonna drop this photo of January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang destroying a "Prosecute ICE" sculpture in Minneapolis. He's been arrested for this, btw.
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