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Marie Henselder

@mhenselder.bsky.social
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Aspire to be a wise person who acts with moral will and moral skill to do right by others. Motto “If it is to be, it is up to me.” Retired ObGyn

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/10/2026
The GOP wants SCOTUS to allow citizenship-based voter removals right up until Election Day. But voting rights groups stress that a decades-old federal protection against late purges was actually put in place to protect eligible citizens from erroneous removals: demdock.com/3W9t6Tf
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
New from me: Michael Lewis provides a timely reminder that even the heroic federal employees who tried to block DOGE grifters could only do so much. If DOGE could not be stopped at the time, accountability must be on the agenda for the future. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...
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Blockers and Grifters
What Michael Lewis Reveals About DOGE’s War on Civil Servants
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Great News!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/10/2026
NEW: Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots were thrown out in June's primary — most for arriving too late. Midterm voting starts TODAY. Don't let your ballot be next. Mail it by Oct. 27 or use a drop-off location. Here's what you need to know:
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California early voting starts today. Here’s what you need to know
Californians are voting amid an unusually turbulent fight over how ballots are cast, delivered, counted and protected.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Domestic abuse is so widespread an issue that a major employer is incorporating employees' need to deal with it into their employee benefits. Union rep: "said domestic violence and abuse affected the lives of at least one in five women, and he urged other employers to introduce similar support."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The American president is doing everything he can to aide and go into business with a country waging hybrid war on NATO allies. Impeach him for that.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Authoritarians have the same story the world over. As odious as it is, this also means we can and should be well equipped to counter it. How to beat back right wing populism, the down under edition:
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 05/10/2026
The prevailing feeling among Gen Z women is one of disillusionment with a political establishment rarely willing to get radical with their solutions to a growing affordability crisis. This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between @statesnewsroom.com and The 19th.
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Gen Z women want politicians who can make the 'American dream' feel attainable
Affordability is the top issue for Gen Z women. But few candidates are appealing to them with a message strong enough to cut through the noise.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I questioned the government chatbot about Trump’s attacks on voting. Here’s what it said. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-17907830690...
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Even Trump's AI won't back his election lies
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 30/09/2026
An amazingly deeply researched piece on SCOTUS corruption, Big Oil, and killing climate action by @mlavelle.bsky.social. Must read. Exxon manipulating the outcome in plain sight.
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Alito’s Recusal From Climate Case: Too Little, Too Late? - Inside Climate News
Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership o...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Update on this: ICE took down these reviews, which they initially posted. The site where they were now just says "not found." But @prospect.org downloaded the files when they were first available, and you can read them at our story.
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Marie Henselder @mhenselder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is horrifying that our nation is perpetrating these atrocities💔. Americans better wake up!
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 30/09/2026
Up to 25,000 people have been deported under this Administration’s cruel third-country deportations.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 30/09/2026
1/ This year, The 19th is partnering with YouGov for our annual State of Our Nation poll, shedding light on issues that impact women and LGBTQ+ people and helping us better understand our country. Let us tell you more about it. 🧵
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 30/09/2026
7/ You can learn more about our methodology and see what we’ve found so far here:
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The State of Our Nation
This is The 19th’s fifth annual poll gauging attitudes on the issues impacting women and LGBTQ+ people.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/09/2026
In another embarrassing setback for Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, he now faces a lawsuit from his own voters. Several voters are demanding he pay $80 million in damages after he tried and failed to force voters to use a gerrymandered map for the midterms: demdock.com/4AdCmWa
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/09/2026
NEW: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mounted a failing defense of President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict mail voting after the majority of the Court refused to let the restrictions take effect before the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Alito, Thomas stand by Trump mail voting rule the rest of Supreme Court rejected
In a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, Alito offered the high court’s only defense of Trump’s attempt to clamp down on mail voting just weeks before the midterms.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is the Big Lie of the moment, that there's some middle ground that does anything but embolden the fascists. If we can toss aside the group they're most performatively tormenting, people assume we won't fight for them. We need to articulate, defend, and enact our moral vision of the universe.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
To mark 25 years since 9/11, ICE is quietly dropping $100M+ on "ERO ONE"—building a real-time intel apparatus to turn surveillance feeds into target lists. Veterans are sounding the alarm on how GWOT tools are coming home with zero guardrails.
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OP-ED: The $100 Million Hole in ICE's Deportation Machine
A procurement notice describes the one capability ICE doesn't have yet: a standing near-real-time intelligence enterprise to turn its surveillance into target lists.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Such awful reporting--the Smithsonian charter, which dates to the 1840s, is designed to prevent the sort of political meddling that Trump is now attempting.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just to note: we definitely already have concentration camps. Gitmo may not meet your definition (it does mine), but Camp East Montana, Dilley, and so many others, including Delaney Hall and the Baldwin ICE camp here in Michigan, clearly meet any fair rubric for a concentration camp.
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Tracey Tully @traceytully.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An investigation into NJ Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell’s conduct has engulfed state politics. Here are details about an anonymous one-page complaint, mailed May 6, that set the scandal in motion. Dr. Caldwell has strenuously denied the claims, calling them “inaccurate, misleading and completely false.”
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Anonymous Letter Set Investigation Into a Lieutenant Governor in Motion (Gift Article)
The letter claimed that Dale Caldwell, New Jersey’s lieutenant governor, brought “uninvited female guests” to events. Mr. Caldwell said the complaint rested on “misinformation.”
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: We’re suing on behalf of unions, local govts, and nonprofits to stop the Trump-Vance admin from illegally reshaping the USDA. This unlawful move threatens the loss of thousands of USDA workers and disrupts critical services including food safety, fighting wildfires, and supporting farmers.
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Unions Lead Filing of New Lawsuit to Stop USDA Reorganization
New Complaint and Renewed Preliminary Injunction Motion Filed After the Court Ruled the Challenge to USDA’s Reorganization Belongs in its Own Case
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 09/09/2026
If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in sports or bathrooms.
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
danger, safety, fairness those are the enemy's words, you don't need to say them! it's dangerous for trans kids to not be accepted, it's unsafe for them not to have access to gender affirming care, it's unfair that we don't let some people be who they are
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We broke records for the biggest mobilizations in American history Now it’s time to break the record for the largest early vote turnout in history
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A clarifying thing about the trump vance era is that, I would argue, there aren’t that many bubbles left! The president and his party are making sure of that I live in a cincy suburb you prob have never heard of, there’s no reason for me to be rock-throwing distance away from the site of…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026
Over and over, 3M scientist Kris Hansen found PFOS, a chemical her company made, in people’s blood. Her bosses doubted her work: How could it be everywhere? Finally, she found one batch of blood samples without PFOS — but with it came a devastating revelation. Full episode: propub.li/4gVmPRQ
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AOC is propagating dangerous nonsense about MAHA: That it’s “not partisan,” driven by legitimate concerns. No. Stop it. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right, channeling vague grievances into a radical project. I spelled this out here:
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The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation
MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Which is worse: a corrupt domestic or a corrupt foreign government stealing a country's wealth? For these MAGA Venezuelans who cheered Maduro's capture they like the orange one draining their country of its natural resources so oil billionaires can make more money www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Meant It Literally When He Said He Was Taking the Oil
The Venezuela operation is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Marie Henselder @mhenselder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sounds like ‘equal justice’ under their law🤷🏻‍♀️
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The Halfway Post @halfwaypost.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
BREAKING: Legal scholars say Trump’s ICE deportation policies can be used by a Democratic president to arrest Elon Musk on the street by masked agents in an unmarked van, hold him in a concentration camp for weeks, confiscate all his money, and deport him to Sudan.
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Marie Henselder @mhenselder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fight for Democracy. Send an email to the USPS Board of Governors to oppose Trump's anti-democracy executive order. share.nwmd.social/s/SSHYzSHR
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USPS Board of Governors Fight for Democracy
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🗳️ Vote by your values, not just by names. 🗣️ Endorsements can reveal where candidates truly stand on the issues that matter most. 👀 Find your personalized ballot at BlueVoterGuide.org and identify candidates who share your beliefs. #BlueVoterGuide #September2026
Person holding a giant pencil marking colorful checked items on an oversized clipboard checklist.
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USDemocracy @usdemocracy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A Trump donor gave nearly $2 million to his 2024 campaign fund. Months later, Trump pardoned him. That pardon spared prison & wiped out financial penalties. The No Payoffs For Pardons Act says what should be obvious: money can’t buy a get-out-of-jail-free card. #CostOfCorruption #USDemocracy
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not making us safer.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wrote about how you can lose three massive antitrust cases in a row and more than double your value anyway www.platformer.news/google-ad-te...
The Justice Department sued Google over search in 2020, and won. Judge Amit Mehta found that Google illegally maintained its monopoly, then declined to force the sale of Chrome, declined to ban the payments to Apple that had given rise to the monopoly in the first place, and ordered a data-sharing regime that was, when the court last addressed its timing in May, still months from taking effect. He wrote that courts "must approach the task of crafting remedies with a healthy dose of humility." Or an unhealthy one, even.

When the Justice Department filed its ad-tech case against Google in 2023, Google was worth $1.7 trillion. Three years later, it's worth $4.1 trillion. In between, Google was found liable for antitrust violations in three federal cases. The company has never been more valuable, and while it has fallen off the AI frontier, by most measures the company is thriving.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” federal prosecutor Matthew Evans wrote in a remarkably candid account of internal deliberations. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.”
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.
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Marie Henselder @mhenselder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😂 DOTLM is 🎯
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange
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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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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.
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