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MJLiben

@mjliben.bsky.social
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Passionate about democracy and radically improved reading outcomes for kids (see them as tightly linked). Love my dogs and goats, my unruly husband and chickens too. 📚🕺 🐕 🐐 🐓

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pledge to help get out the vote this year act.indivisible.org/signup/2026-...
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Pledge to help get out the vote this year
Sign the pledge to commit to take at least one action to get out the vote for Democrats! After you sign, you’ll receive digests every one to two weeks with opportunities to help get out the vote for o...
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GOP senator’s medical practice had 81 people arrested over unpaid bills: report
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
63 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the first historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They understood that equal economic and voting rights were the path to ending racial inequality in America.
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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I hope it’s clear to everyone who cares about the survival of our democracy that we need massive turnout and landslide margins to counteract the lies and cries of fraud that are coming after the midterm vote.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Much as I hate to give Kanter the time, nobody here will support him anyway. Sky players kept Tasha away from him
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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The Downballot releases our latest House 'hexmap,' updated for redistricting
By making every district the same size, we eliminate that misleading sea of red
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/07/2026
NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
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anti-zionist dog 🇵🇸 @puppydoggaming.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Election results:
Everyone gets a Puppy: 49.9%
Diarrhea Forever: 50.1%
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
victory lapping on this one
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is really good news. Over the years, some of my favorite students suffered terribly from sickle cell, and missed tons of school when they had attacks. Could we make this free for all? Could we be that righteous? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Louisiana man becomes first in region functionally cured of sickle cell disease
Daniel Cressy, 23, says path leading to completion of curative gene therapy is his ‘greatest blessing’
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Make Yourself Expensive: A Field Guide to Shrinking Your Data Footprint
Asked under oath last week whether he would commit to not buying Americans’ location data without a warrant, the Director of the FBI declined.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
holy metaphor alert Batman
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is a funny dis. Appreciate the laugh in mostly unfunny times!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A reminder that after dramatically scaling-back its Victory Day parade in Moscow on 9 May, the Kremlin completely cancelled its main Russia Day celebrations on Red Square today. This suggests serious stress inside the Kremlin.
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Growing Cracks in Putin’s Dictatorship
Predictions of Putin’s demise have been wrong many times before, but something is happening in Russia now that deserves more attention.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ummm
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Watch this and weep for us. But if you’re in #Ohio - Holy Toledo!! Fight like hell to get the vote out so this racist POS doesn’t win!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You Can't Keep A Good Book Down.......💪🏻
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026
Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption
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Lyn @lynisalot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
An FBI agent told me to my face once that there were so many moving pieces, that I would likely end up with more charges than my trafficker. Full disclosure, this is the america ive always known.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Let's prioritize installing solar panels on structures like car parks and building rooftops instead of agricultural land, as this approach embodies sustainable development.
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Well, this sums up the we’re-still-with-them camp too. Students For Trump Co-Founder Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges, Allegedly Yelled “Do You Want To Die Today?” - defector.com/students-for...
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Students For Trump Co-Founder Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges, Allegedly Yelled "Do You Want To Die Today?" | Defector
Ryan Fournier, the co-founder and chairman of the group Students for Trump, was arrested early Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C., after he allegedly assaulted and threatened a woman, according to do...
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If this doesn’t just sum all the chaos up.
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Coming to a neighborhood near you. Unless we fight like hell.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Pat Ryan goes off on House Republicans pulling the War Powers vote, calling them “Chickenhawk motherfuckers.”
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This.
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is very good news www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...
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Media Matters secures complete and total victory against the Federal Trade Commission
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
James Comey has been keeping busy waiting for his upcoming trial.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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CtlAltDel @ctlaltdel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The eyewatering hypocrisy writes itself.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/04/2026
KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.
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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Should be part of his next test.
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is a GOOD cartoon.
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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"Democrats can pull victory from the jaws of defeat by coalescing around Porter."
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Are we great yet⁉️ #Pinks
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Sure hope every American hears this doozy’
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
These comments sting but I can’t really argue with them. Non-Americans Are Brutally Honest About Americans Who Don't Support Trump, And It's Devastating - BuzzFeed
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MJLiben @mjliben.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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They Were Told to Go Home
Instead, they kept walking in circles until the world had to look.
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