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MevaRaj

@mevaraj.bsky.social
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Wife, mother, musician, writer, teacher, dog lover, photographer, webmaster, artist, political activist, naturalized citizen

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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The problem is that we are already in an illegal war with Iran.
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS HAVERHILL” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS HAVERHILL · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
On this day 110 years ago, Jeannette Rankin, a Montana Republican, was elected to the U.S. House four years before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote nationwide. Notably, since her service, no other woman from Montana has served in Congress. For more, check out haverhilldems.org
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/02/2026
"It seems to me that basically, like an FBI agent filed an affidavit that was just, I guess... the Winnie the Pooh in the tuxedo version of the Sidney Powell fever dream list." @timmiller.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discuss the affidavit supporting the Fulton Co. election raid.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/02/2026
More than 10,000 nurses who have been on strike for a month will return to work at two major New York City hospital systems after voting to approve a new contract. But more than 4,000 strikers were still holding out for a better deal.
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Nurses at 4 N.Y.C. Hospitals Vote to End Strike, but It Continues at One
At Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals, health care workers ratified a deal to end the walkout, but nurses remain on the picket line at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/02/2026
TOMORROW: Minnesota organizers and leaders will share what they’ve learned so we can all be better prepared to organize and protect our neighbors from ICE and CBP deployments: www.crowdcast.io/c/reimagine/...
RESIST AND REIMAGINE: LESSONS FROM MINNESOTA

FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS
REP. ILHAN OMAR (MN-05)
REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL (WA-07)

Bishop Dwayne Royster, Faith in Action
Elianne Farhat, TakeAction MN
Minister JaNaé Imari (Bates), Faith in Minnesota
Bernie Burnham, MN AFL-CIO
Sara Steffens, We Build Progress

bit.ly/resistreimagineMN
Feb. 12 @ 7 PM ET

(logos for Faith in Minnesota, MN AFL-CIO, Faith in Action, Indivisible, TakeAction Minnesota, People’s Action, We Build Progress, and Women’s March)
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Tell Beacon Hill: Just say NO to Trump's Regressive Corporate Tax Cuts
Trump’s corporate tax cuts are going to cost Massachusetts nearly half a billion dollars this year alone — on top of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other federal programs we rely...
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota chuffed.org/project/supp...
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Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota
On January 7, 2026 ICE agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good amid a sweeping immigration crackdown. On January 24, ICU Nurse and legal observer Alex Jeffrey Pretti was also shot and killed by ICE a...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/01/2026
The Epstein files aren't going away.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
To: European leaders From: Robert Reich It is impossible to appease a tyrant. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-…
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
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Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good, an American citizen, was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This was a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, a...
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check out haverhilldems.org to check out coming action!
Megaphone with the words, "WE AIN'T BUYING IT" in white on a light blue background
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good morning, my friend! My 2nd every-other-week column for The Post-Gazette appeared in Fri’s edition w/internationally renowned (& local treasure) conductor Jonathan McPhee! Upcoming concerts/info lexingtonsymphony.org, @lexingtonsymphony.bsky.social, maestromcphee (on IG)! Hope you’ll read! 🎶
Screenshot of my column in The Post-Gazette 10/31/25. Interview with internationally renowned conductor and great human being Jonathan McPhee.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/11/2025
“Here in New Jersey, we know that this nation has not ever been, nor will it ever be ruled by kings. We take oaths to a Constitution, not a king.” - Governor-elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social #NoKings
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/11/2025
Gov. Beshear: “The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP
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Drunemeton @drunemeton.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
By seeing an absolutely jaw dropping 10.8 MILLION voters turn out! “Ya gotta give ’em Hope!” — Harvey Milk
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CJ 🪷💛 💀👻🎃🧟‍♀️🦇🕷️ @hot4civics.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Thank you!!
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a large brown bear is standing on its hind legs in a field .
ALT: a large brown bear is standing on its hind legs in a field .
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California Democrats @cademocrats.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Democracy wins! 🗳️💙 Prop 50 has passed thanks to every single person who stood up and spoke out against Trump’s election-rigging scheme tonight. Thank you, California!
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NPR @npr.org · 16/10/2025
A shaky ceasefire is holding. Now the Palestinian territory is in urgent need of a functioning government, order on the streets, and resources to start rebuilding the shattered territory. n.pr/3KP5U7n
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Some of the things Gaza needs: A government, security and tools to rebuild
A shaky ceasefire is holding. Now the Palestinian territory is in urgent need of a functioning government, order on the streets, and resources to start rebuilding the shattered territory.
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Janet Nestor @janetnestor.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Susan Collins' tenure must end next year!
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/10/2025
The Founders counted on Congress being interested in protecting its own powers vis a vis the executive. They certainly didn't foresee a speaker like Mike Johnson. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...
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The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism
Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 16/10/2025
OPINION by @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social co-host @michaelsteele.bsky.social: “Trump-era Republicans do not want to govern for the American people anymore.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | The GOP’s coordinated attack on the No Kings rally is ridiculous
The Republican talking points are out of touch with the reality of Saturday's protests.
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Join us for the Hillie Forum, School Committee edition! For details, see haverhilldems.org.
Poster advertising the Hillie Forum, featuring the at-large school committee candidates on October 20.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The Supreme Court is on the verge of gutting the Voting Rights Act's equal opportunity protections for minority voters — 12 years after they first rolled back its safeguards against voter suppression.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/10/2025
"We’ve been sending up well-tested people for decades, and the country is in worse straits than it’s ever been. It’s a mess right now, and it’s a mess that is, in my opinion, built specifically by the political class. And it’s time to do something different." - @grahamformaine.bsky.social
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NPR @npr.org · 16/10/2025
Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that ongoing violence in the capital of Haiti has forced it to permanently close its Port-au-Prince emergency care center, a city now 90% controlled by gangs. n.pr/3KPQcJ3
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Doctors Without Borders permanently closes its emergency center in Haiti's capital
Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that ongoing violence in the capital of Haiti has forced it to permanently close its Port-au-Prince emergency care center, a city now 90% controlled by gangs.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/10/2025
In the year since Liam Payne’s death, supporters in Argentina have arranged flowers, photos and letters at a cemetery and the hotel where he died, visiting often to take care of it. “Some people come for the events of monthly anniversaries, but we’re always here.”
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The Liam Payne Fans Tending His Memorials
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MS NOW @ms.now · 16/10/2025
WATCH LIVE: Gov. Pritzker holds a presser with former generals on the militarization of U.S. cities www.youtube.com/live/-aRKOlv...
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LIVE: Gov. Pritzker holds presser with fmr. generals on militarization of U.S. cities
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16/10/2025
Let’s chat. Later this afternoon, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social will jump online to discuss the GOP’s panic about Saturday’s peaceful No Kings protests, the ongoing Trump Shutdown, and much more.
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What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders · Indivisible
The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back. The an...
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Joe Segal - Create Positive Solidarity @joesegal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
There's battle lines being drawn And nobody's right if everybody's wrong Young people speaking their minds Are gettin' so much resistance from behind It's time we stop Hey, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down
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Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 07/10/2025
We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴 “Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems
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MS NOW @ms.now · 08/10/2025
Nicolle Wallace reacts to Attorney General Bondi's day of testimony. WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNG...
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'Brazen' 'Shameless' 'Verifiably false': Nicolle SMASHES Pam Bondi's testimony
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2025
If the Democrats win this shutdown fight, "it will show that most Americans care more about helping themselves and each other than they do about choking off the last trickle of aid to undocumented immigrants." www.thebulwark.com/p/when-in-do...
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When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants
No. You’re not experiencing déjà vu. The current Republican government shutdown talking point is the same one they’ve trotted out before.
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Liberal Buddhist @liberalbuddhist.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#Howl-A-Ween #MusicChallenge #nightflight Day 7 Monster youtu.be/tsPdVsIXqzU?...
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Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Decca Records
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
No Kings! Action – Haverhill Democrats haverhilldems.org/no-kings-act... On October 18, 2025, stand with us to demand justice, equality, the rule of law, and the supremacy of our Constitution.
NO KINGS logo - gold crown boldly outlined in black and crossed out with a red X, with the words NO KINGS below the crossed-out crown.
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
@haverhilldemocrats.bsky.social Join us for the HILLIES FORUM, featuring five at-large City Council candidates and a Family Feud-style game on 9/18/2025, 6 PM at the HC Media Studios. See haverhilldems.org.
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Blue Freedom Quest 💙🌊💙🌊 @bluefreedomquest.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Judge blocks Trump's bid to ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Africa www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abreg...
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Judge blocks Trump's bid to ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Africa
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to deport undocumented Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, The Washington Post reported.District Judge Paula Xinis m...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Democrats have a great candidate to flip a Long Island House seat — in MY district! Chris Gallant is a Black Hawk pilot, Army veteran, national guardsman, former air traffic controller & union leader, and volunteer firefighter. He’s also a gay millennial, political newcomer and Long Island native.
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Black Hawk pilot launches challenge to battleground House Republican Nick LaLota
Democratic newcomer Chris Gallant is seeking to unseat the two-term incumbent representing Long Island.
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Concord NH protest disrupted by neo-Nazi group – NBC Boston www.nbcboston.com/news/local/a... The Neo-Nazis are just testing the waters, I believe. We can probably expect more actions like this from them if local police don't respond.
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Anti-Trump protest at NH State House disrupted by neo-Nazi group
Tensions flared in downtown Concord, New Hampshire, over the weekend as a group of masked protesters donning Nazi symbols clashed with bystanders. Concord police are now investigating, and the New Ham...
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“This Is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering – Mother Jones www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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MevaRaj @mevaraj.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...
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Add your name: Congress must reverse Trump's immunity
Trump wants one set of rules for himself and another for the rest of us. We must demand that Congress come together to pass a constitutional amendment that affirms equal justice for all and that no on...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/07/2025
Breaking News: The White House said it would release $5.5 billion in frozen education funds to states, reversing a decision that had sent school districts scrambling. The money will help train and recruit teachers, give extra support for children learning English and fund arts and music education.
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Trump Live Updates: Justice Dept. Concludes Interview With Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell
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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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MS NOW @ms.now · 25/07/2025
BREAKING: Former Congressman George Santos reports to federal prison in New Jersey www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Yes … what have we become?
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Nancy Ann ❌👑 👍🏻🐸 @nancyannn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
People are nothing but commodities to be used, abused and tossed aside. We are all headed for this treatment, as our democracy, and our rights, are destroyed day after day. You thought he’d stop with “criminal” immigrants? 🤣 www.propublica.org/article/nath...
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Andry Hernandez, a gay makeup artist deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison, arrived home to his family after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death." He said prisoners were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, held in dark cells, and served rotten food.
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Venezuelan makeup artist returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention
A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death."
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