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Retired public school teacher who supports democracy and the rule of law

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For the folks who are still in my mentions telling me this was a hoax: The military doesn’t move strategic bombers for funsies. There was clearly specific intelligence that necessitated emptying Fairford of B-1s.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 16h
Impeach his demented ass 👇
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h
Guess which other narcissistic, mentally unstable authoritarian leader called for an arch and a ballroom to be built as grand monuments to his glory. I'm sure it's just a coincidence . . .
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 20h
Seattle Times editorial board complains about $30,000 bonus for Sound Transit head, but apparently had no problem with $50,000 bonuses for three Seattle police command staff (Barnes, Sayles, and Powell), all of them just thank-yous for taking top jobs here.
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Sound Transit CEO's $30,000 bonus shows a big disconnect | Editorial
When private corporations award employees performance bonuses, that’s between the corporation and their shareholders. Not so with a public utility.
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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 23h
This is beyond embarrassing.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h
In the last hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup, documents show.
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 19h
The entire White House is filled with Jeffrey Epstein's friends.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 17h
I'm with Stephen King on this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Abdul El-Sayed on Fox News: "I think about MLK. He said this thing I always think about -- 'If your coalition is not uncomfortable, it's not big enough.' A lot of people wonder why I'm having this conversation with you. It's because there are people out there who I want to have a conversation with."
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 20h
Georg Nagel – awarded this year's medicine prize – was born in 1953. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
Portrait of Georg Nagel. He is wearing a suit and tie, standing in front of a wooden door.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h
Katie Phang: "Todd Blanche wants to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people. He wants to allow the existing redactions and withholdings to stand as a matter of law. He's saying what he has done is legally sufficient. And I am here to say, hell no, it is not."
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Boston Globe did a feature on NWC shortly after I arrived and we started teaching woke DEI stuff
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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"What a democracy cannot—and should not—tolerate is a secretary of defense who trucks in propaganda and wants the people who serve in America’s military to be the armed instrument of his own resentments and biases."
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Boricua405 on X @estadistarebelde1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ArrestTrump #TrumpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinTrials
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 20h
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17h
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18h
PSA: Reports of a possible plague case in Russia have raised concern after a worker at a plague research institute in Siberia died and dozens of people were quarantined.
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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 20h
If they allegedly can’t even remember which victim Jane Doe was, that raises a horrifying question: How many victims were there? HOW. MANY. WERE. THERE? Every survivor deserves to be heard, believed, and protected not identified, hara$sed, or doxxed.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21h
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 04/10/2026
Calling it "super intelligence" will scare people even more than "artificial intelligence." This issue is framed. The name change, intended to make AI sound more dominant and inevitable, will likely harden resistance. Trump steaks, Trump vodka, Trump airlines, Trump casino, Trump intelligence...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"With 32 days to go until the midterm elections, Republicans’ closing strategy is obvious: They’re going all-in on trans. (It seems to have worked for them before, after all.)" - from @elainegodfrey.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The GOP’s Culture-War Hail Mary
Will it work?
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Jen Tantillo @chickstarr65.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Subscribe to The Atlantic if you can. An endless supply of wonderful commentary.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In the last hours of Noem’s tenure, her agency delivered a windfall to a political donor by buying five airplanes from his firm at a substantial markup. @haleaziz.bsky.social @fahrenthold.bsky.social @nicknehamas.bsky.social @tylerpager.bsky.social @nirajc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026
The United Arab Emirates said for the first time on Saturday that the co-pilot who attacked the captain of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv had tried to carry out a “terrorist operation,” as officials worked to uncover the full scope of his motives. Here is what to know about the pilots.
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Who Were the Pilots on the FlyDubai Flight?
The co-pilot’s embrace of extreme Islamist views prompted Omani officials to scrutinize him, according to two people briefed on the investigation.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Funny. I cannot recall any "diplomat" seeing their net worth rise by roughly 📈 $100 million to $200 million since taking the position. Yet Jared Kushner has. So, spare me any BS about his job description. It has nothing to do with diplomacy.
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RN Mayhem @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At an Atlanta Hawks concert!
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Simply caring about victims can change everything.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎯🎯🎯🎯
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A group of interfaith leaders in California is marching 96 miles from an ICE processing center in the Mojave Desert to Downtown L.A. to protest ICE and demand a shutdown of "all detention centers."
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you don't like it, stop voting for Republicans. They control the executive, house, Senate and judiciary. They are the reason your life sucks. www.cbsnews.com/news/snap-be...
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Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
don’t forget, mentioned thousand of times in the Epstein Files.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another NEW development in my case against AG Todd Blanche: he has now filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings, trying to get rid of my case at this stage of the lawsuit. Blanche must be a glutton for punishment because he just recycles the same losing arguments. youtu.be/32RC_CPlZhI?...
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WOW!! AG Blanche BEGS Judge To DISMISS My EPSTEIN LAWSUIT!!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Someone please tell Natalie to keep the incoherent ranting to 500 characters or less.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pennsylvania’s reported measles cases are almost at 1,000 for the year.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a Friendly Reminder…..
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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String Bass Theory @stringbasstheory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
4% are sitting congressmen and SCOTUS justices.
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