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Michele F.

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Anti-Trump RN Democrat Politics watcher

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The President may be brought low this fall not by the Democrats who would crawl over broken glass to defeat him but by the very voters who sent him back to the White House in the first place. Iran, it seems, may finally have done what Jan 6 and all the rest of Trump’s countless misdeeds could not.”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
September 26, 2026
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Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy National Public Lands Day! 🌅 From the Rio Grande to the top of our mountains, our national parks, and the forest lands and acequias that have sustained our communities for generations, these lands are part of who we are. Public lands are our lands. And we will keep fighting to protect them!
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
So gas is getting more expensive, and Trump is making cars less fuel-efficient. Brilliant strategy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Trump lies: "Oil will come dropping down as soon as Iran gives up, as soon as the war is over, which will be soon. Prices for groceries have come way down for Biden. Almost every price has come way down. And remember one thing -- oil is less expensive now than it was under the Biden administration."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So basically Trump is telling MAGA voters not to vote for Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in November because she is a “back stabber” for criticizing him.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder of that time you were all over the news just because you were horribly incompetent in your national security job
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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The number one concern is they are going to roll back access to medication abortion." @mintimm.bsky.social shares the outcomes if the Senate confirms President Trump's FDA nominee, who holds a record of attacking reproductive rights.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Tillis: "Folks, this was stupid on stilts ... to have a Russian oligarch who's actually traveled in a delegation to Beijing fund some sort of island wedding for a very wealthy family that also happens to be related to the president? Come on, guys, this is this is amateur hour"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Look who's traveling with Trump again today! #TravelWithNatalie (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)
pic of the lovely Ms Harp with an umbrella walking to board AF1
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 27, 1972. Workers represented by the United Auto Workers at the General Motors plant Norwood in Norwood, Ohio, ended their strike after 174 days. Let's talk how workers fought the horrors of automation and the speed-up in American auto!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“I am so devastated that Christians like Tim Tebow made me trust in something that has taken so much money from me. This is evil, especially because I’m disabled on a limited income.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Gospel of high yields: Inside Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar
Life Surge pairs Christian celebs with hard-sell pitches. Some attendees ended up deep in debt.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Talarico's instincts as a campaigner are formidable. www.usatoday.com/story/news/s...
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Talarico calls Paxton, leaves voicemail inviting him to debate
In a 40-second video posted to X, Talarico calls Republican Ken Paxton, but the call apparently goes to voicemail — Paxton does not appear to answer.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Because if Americans disapprove of Trump, then we really need to get rid of this democracy nonsense... bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
👇🏽Exactly as many warned. Their cruel racist deportations of innocent people aren’t freeing up jobs, they’re hurting the economy. Immigrants are not the problem. Greedy corporate oligarchs — and the politicians they own — are.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 02/09/2026
Nationwide, it's clear ICE doesn't care about the health of the people they detain. The lack of accountability is unacceptable. At Delaney Hall and other facilities, people are suffering without proper medical care. They deserve so much better – that's what I'm fighting for.
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ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 02/09/2026
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. It is not close. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us. This is why I launched the End Corruption Caucus with my colleagues Jason Crow and AOC. www.axios.com/2026/09/02/g...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump's secret police moves to create an enemies list for the White House. The database would have all US voters, their party affiliations and their political preferences. Now for the question: what does any of this have to do with immigration enforcement? www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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A number of pundits, especially Republican pundits, interpreted Trump’s win in 2024 as a permanent political realignment proving that post–World War II liberalism was dead.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A GOP panic button Here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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GOP Hits Panic Button as Trump Collapses in Texas Poll
Podcast Episode · Scott MacFarlane Reports · September 3 · 8m
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 03/09/2026
More from my review of The Nerd Reich:
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 03/09/2026
Mike Johnson abruptly cancels final weeks of House votes amid panic over midterm elections
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Mike Johnson cancels final weeks of House votes amid panic over midterm elections
The House will only work four days before the midterm elections after it took a monthlong recess
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
It’s impossible to calculate how much of what I’ve been able to accomplish is because of women like Gloria Steinem. Rest in power. www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...
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Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92
At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In case anyone thought this war wasn’t all about Trump and his fragile ego, he’s telling you in writing it’s all about Trump and his fragile ego.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 03/09/2026
I am heartbroken by the news of Gloria Steinem’s passing. Author, activist, trailblazer, icon. An organizer and a challenger of the status quo. Her work inspired a generation and will leave a lasting impact. May we recommit ourselves to the ideals of feminism—of true equality and justice for all.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social is simply 1 of the greatest, most inspirational candidates to emerge in years, running against Ken Paxton, one of the most disgracefully corrupt politicians of all-time. So the Texas GOP responds by doing what comes naturally to them, of course: CHEATING! 🤮
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In July, a new ICE agent with a history of domestic violence and mental illness killed a man in Maine who even ICE admits posed no threat to him. Now we know that internal whistleblowers at ICE were sounding the alarm about the agency utterly disregarding normal hiring rules.
In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a dire warning.

The Trump administration, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the law and fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency — and its law enforcement operations — to “grave national security risks.”

Citing an “unprecedented lowering of standards,” the career ICE official said that “systemic breakdowns” had allowed applicants to receive job offers before they had passed basic fingerprint, identity or credit checks in a preliminary vetting process. Political appointees had unjustly skirted background investigations and received national security eligibility.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Jon Husted voted 13 times to continue the Iran war. Now, Ohioans are paying the price.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rest in power glorious, glorious Gloria Steinem  www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Jim Stewartson: This is actual psychosis.

He learned several months ago that dumb has a B when he told someone his brilliant idea for “dumocrats.” This left him a severe narcissistic injury. So he has constructed, through sheer repetition, an alternate reality where “most people don’t know.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As I predicted when Ukraine began striking Russian refineries, Trump is going to blame Ukraine for gas prices & begin to pressure them to stop doing it. Once again, the US will side with Putin against a country fighting for its survival. We’re morally bankrupt under Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/09/2026
Republicans gave the Education Department an extra $1 billion to manage federal student loans. Since then, student loan defaults have hit record highs —and the agency won't tell us how it’s spent the money. I’m pressing for answers.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 03/09/2026
If you didn’t know, now you know that Illinois earned ANOTHER credit upgrade this week. That’s two in just the span of days from Moody’s and S&P. We’re strengthening our reserves, confronting pension obligations, and putting our state on a path to long-term financial security.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/09/2026
RFK Jr.'s policies and the Trump admin's decimation of science in America kills people. Help embolden a Congress that will remove RFK Jr: zurl.co/0vv7S
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The massive nationwide electricity rate hikes aren’t happening simply because utility services have gotten more expensive or customers have been receiving better service. It’s because utility monopolies have bought off the system that’s supposed to keep them in check. Watch.
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The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills
Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin
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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What the dismissive Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell calls Trump and Hegseth "derangement syndrome" is tantamount to asking the American public to totally ignore that a broad range of U.S. military leaders are speaking out against the administration’s plans in Iran.
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🌺Red Hibiscus🌺 @redhibiscus23.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Correct: Abdul El-Sayed was born in Rochester Hills, MI in 1984. Not Egypt. Mike Roger's on the other hand doesn't want to tell Michiganders that he's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom. Sounds familiar? Yeah, that's how Republicans roll
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Obviously we knew Hegseth was bad. Not sure my January 2025 self would've believed: "Pushed a strategically disastrous war of choice vs. Iran that decimated hardware stockpiles, morale, and readiness, while purging competent, dedicated soldiers/leaders out of the Pentagon to sooth his insecurity."
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NPR @npr.org · 01/09/2026
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. n.pr/4xvMl7f
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Laser focused on affordability
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