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Jennifer Bryant — she/her

@mntnmama.bsky.social
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Liberal lifelong Appalachian rabble rouser — happy to dispel myths and collaborate for progress.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2025
The lawsuit may be the most substantive legal effort to require the Education Department to enforce civil rights since 1970, when the NAACP sued the agency for allowing segregation to continue. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social & @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth…
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
47: We support Greenland’s right to determine their own destiny. Next breath: We’re gonna get it, one way or another.
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
47: Here kid, you get a badge! Here, other kid! You get accepted to college (a kid with a 4.4 GPA — he was getting in anyway 👀)
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 05/03/2025
Wow DJ's cancer was likely caused by a chemical he was exposed to? Trump admin this week:
Justice Department is poised to drop suit over alleged cancer-causing pollution
The Justice Department is preparing to drop a landmark lawsuit alleging that emissions from a Louisiana petrochemical plant poses a danger to nearby communities.
March 3, 2025 at 10:10 p.m. EST
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump just gave a shout out to a child with cancer. But Trump's cuts to medical research undermine the research that will save kids like him. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Trump Team Dismantles Efforts to Find a Cure for Cancer and Other Deadly Disorders and Diseases
President Trump’s Administration is imposing a new policy to cap indirect costs for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants at 15 percent, which would cut billions of dollars in funding fo...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"We have to take care of our law enforcement," says Trump, standing inside the building where law enforcement were brutally attacked by a mob of his supporters that he sent to the Capitol.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/03/2025
Trump accuses teachers of secretly turning students trans
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
47: you’re perfect the way God made you… [unless you’re Trans or nonbinary].
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Some kid’s mom is being applauded for ignoring her child’s identity…. My thoughts go out to that child. 🥺
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We have to rid our environment of toxins — the guy who is defunding the EPA and repealing environmental regulations…
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Kid lived after cancer diagnosis - WONDERFUL!!!!! Everyone applauds - even the people who have just defunded the NIH…. 👀
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Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The invited guests being deployed to smear transgender people are paid spokespeople for anti-LGBTQ groups that demand schools dangerously out LGBTQ students without their consent, (2/4)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"Party of law and order." www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
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Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence
Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
47: Bad guys don’t respect the law…. Me: 👀 Uhm…. You’re a FELON…. 😏🤔🙄
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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
i don't understand why the dems aren't raising hell and getting kicked out one by one rn
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Oh, now we're dragging people out of the SOTU. Democrats, your job is not to be quieter because Al Green got dragged out. It's your job to get LOUDER.
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Here’s a source for when your newsfeed pops off with claims of 300 year old folk on social security… apnews.com/article/soci...
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Tens of millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Yeah, but they could have followed Rep Green’s lead and done something more than just leave… 🤔
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump claims he “brought free speech back” after removing a man from exercising his free speech. #StateOfTheUnion
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Wonder what her fashion police boyfriend thinks of MTG wearing a hat in chambers against the dress code? 😏🤔
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Pipeline gas “trillions of foreign dollars in investments”. 10 minutes later, we’ve seen an investment of (some number less than 2trillion)…. 👀🤔
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just going to leave this here... "Efficiency."
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Donald Trump just admitted Elon Musk leads DOGE after telling a federal court that Elon Musk does not lead DOGE. Judge Chutkan, the DOJ lied.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Staggered protest only works if someone else takes up the role Al Green led with
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
US citizenship is for sale, folx.
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Everybody heard him say Elon is in charge of DOGE, right?
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I need someone to take notes on all the things he’s mispronouncing.
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
47 — “Our country will be woke no longer”. Joke’s on you, I’m still here and I’m woke AF.
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Brought back free speech, unless you’re on a college campus…
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/02/2025
NEW: The Associated Press is suing Trump Administration officials in federal court for banning AP reporters from events over the organization continuing to use the name 'Gulf of Mexico.' AP says the ban violates the First and Fifth Amendments.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Great idea. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
They're now cancelling key meetings at the NIH to give the green light for future cancer research
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I grew up in the southern WV coalfields. I’m gonna need some members of Congress to channel the energy of striking miners. Don’t ask to be admitted to government spaces, don’t allow Musk’s hired Pinkerton-esque goons to stop you from assessing his (team’s) actions. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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DOGE software approval alarms Labor Department employees
Elon Musk’s DOGE subordinates received approval to use software at the Labor Department that could be used to transfer large amounts of data, two employees said.
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
So much for “state’s rights”….
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Can you imagine telling people, with pride in your heart, that you work in DC — at the Capitol — but your job is pulling around WV Senator Justice’s dog in a wagon?
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This. It’s amazing how tunnel visioned our press/media is…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/11/2024
Tammy Duckworth on Tulsi Gabbard: "I think she's compromised ... Russian controlled media called her a Russian asset."
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
You don’t need to be Trans/Enby/etc to be made uncomfortable by the folk who spend so much time thinking about other people’s genitals…. #Weird
A blue box with red words that read “I'd like separate bathrooms for
MAGA folk...
I feel unsafe around people who are obsessed with my genitals.”
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
They “didn’t know anything about it”, it “wasn’t theirs”, they “had nothing to do with it”…. But now the cabinet is filling up with people whose hands and minds were ALL over it…. 👀
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Rand Paul says he will not support Trump’s plan to declare an emergency & use the military to deport migrants: “I think it’s a terrible image. That’s not what we use our military for. We never have. I will not support an emergency to put the Army into our cities.”
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Jennifer Bryant — she/her @mntnmama.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We absolutely must stop thinking of people like @morningjoe.bsky.social /Mika as journalists. This move proves that they’ll kiss the ring rather than ask where & how he bought it.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is a proposed law targeting exactly one person: Incoming trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride of Delaware. Nancy Mace is a transphobic, hateful troll who voted with teen rapist Matt Gaetz to depose her own party’s speaker, but the bathrooms. That’s where she’s focused.
Article from The Hill:

Nancy Mace introduces bill to bar trans women from Capitol restrooms
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Leah D. Daughtry @leahdaughtry.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ironic nearly all the voices lamenting the Dem losses and blaming "identity politics" are white men. As though whiteness is not the biggest identity in the country. And accepting zero responsibility for their role in the losses. Esp since they overwhelmingly run all the media and strategy STILL.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year. Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
He not only likes them because they reflect him and his misogyny and violence but he will fight for them because he doesn’t see it as spending his “political capital”. In Trumps world he now owns it all, there are no limits. Anyone who doesn’t understand stand back! www.salon.com/2024/11/19/a...
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Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more
Republicans complain nominees weren't "properly vetted," but don't get that accusations are a feature, not a bug
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