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@morgysmom.bsky.social
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Military mom, retired scientist, feminist , dog rescuer, fiber artist, traveler, bookworm.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Or consider making a donation to a veterans organization that helps with PTSD. Please consider doing this. It doesn't have to be an either or thing, one could do both fireworks and donate. .
Just a thought! Instead of buying fireworks buy 2 cans of pet food for a shelter animal. Don't make a noise, make a difference.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/06/2025
If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
There’s a difference between “Democratic Socialism” (what @ZohranKMamdani is) and “socialism” (what Trump does) The same people screaming today backed Trump’s tariffs, nationalizing companies, trying to dictate everything private corps/universities do. thedispatch.com/article/trum...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
You know what would encourage people to get more physical activity? No, it is not wearable fitness trackers. It is: 1. A liveable wage so people have time for it 2. Safe parks and other infrastructure for such activity But that’s too hard.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Phang: Vance Boelter received better treatment when taken into custody than Narciso Barranco—a Mexican immigrant working at IHOP, landscaping in the parking lot under the hot sun on a Saturday—who was beaten by Border Patrol agents.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Just to recap: -- Trump admin concedes they don't know if Iran's supply of uranium was destroyed -- Some intel suggests that both the uranium and much of the equipment for developing weapons had already been moved from the targeted sites -- The world is probably less safe than it was on Saturday
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
When Iranian terrorists inevitably strike us in retaliation, remember that the damage, injury, and death will be securely in the hands of Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and this Administration.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/06/2025
If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is friendship and pronounced awleelee
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
What am I worried about? -Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East -cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration) -Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs) -Allied assistance (we’ll need that now) -Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Seems important.
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 22/06/2025
Great news on the Type 1 Diabetes front!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/06/2025
6/5 😊 Some people hear there's “mercury” in thimerosal and worry. But not all mercury is the same. Thimerosal has ethylmercury, cleared quickly. The dangerous kind? Methylmercury, which builds up. 💉 Flu shot ≈ 25 mcg 🐟 Tuna can ≈ 30–50 mcg One clears in days. One lingers. One’s in your sandwich.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Things are pretty fucked up if a mom‘s two sons — both members of the National Guard — had to accompany her to her immigration hearing to make sure she wouldn’t be detained by ICE.
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Still We Rise @lindsaymeyerharley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 16/06/2025
If you have the ability to give, there is a GoFundMe for the Hortman children to cover funeral expenses and home repairs. (shared by a reliable source connected to the family)
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Donate to Support Colin and Sophie After Their Tragic Loss, organized by Patrick Haluptzok
Mark and Melissa Hortman along with their golden retriever Gilbert … Patrick Haluptzok needs your support for Support Colin and Sophie After Their Tragic Loss
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Trump VA is now allowing healthcare providers to discriminate. The latest in yet another policy based on hate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/06/2025
"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."
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RFK Jr.’s War on Vaccines Is Here
Anyone who thinks he’ll stop with COVID shots is deluding themselves. The time to raise hell is now.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
On Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform and their families have made to preserve our freedom. May we always strive to honor the strength and resolve they’ve shown our country.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The results are in! There were my favorite signs from yesterday’s No Kings protests. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Top Signs from No Kings Protests
So many great ones to choose from, but here are my top pics of signs/photos from yesterday’s No Kings protests.
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Margaret Larson @margaretlarson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@nbc.com calls it ‘strong words.’ @cnn.com calls it a ‘stern warning.’ It’s a threat of on-the-spot execution. Media is failing, whitewashing, complicit in normalizing a government that threatens and menaces people daily. They need to WAKE UP NOW.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
(1,10) Never thought my Father’s Day message would begin with the quote below, but these are unusual and dangerous times. "We will shoot you graveyard dead." As I get ready to leave now for a graveyard visit with my daughter Jaime, because of gun violence, those words directly from Florida’s
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Seriously, MSNBC’s David Noriega and Jacob Soboroff were doing such great reporting from the main LA protest, from different spots, that they showed how law enforcement instigated trouble that just wasn’t happening.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14/06/2025
A man holding a sign saying “No Kings” stands in front of tanks flying “Trump” flags, reminiscent of Tiananmen Squre
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Does anyone think these unspeakably evil political assassinations of Democratic lawmakers would’ve occurred without the vicious permission structure erected by Trump, Vance, Rubio, and their MAGAts? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Kent State, where unarmed student protesters were gunned down by National Guard troops, offers stark warning. The federal deployment of military personnel now risks causing the same escalation, tragic error and lasting damage to what’s left of our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...
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Opinion | I Ran the L.A.P.D. I Know What Happens When Troops Are Sent to American Cities.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/06/2025
Farmworkers are hiding because Trump made them targets. Without farmworkers, the crops that feed our nation rot and our tables go empty. This isn’t strong immigration policy — it’s economic sabotage fueled by hate. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hiding in the fields - farm workers fearing deportation stay in California's shadows
Immigration raids on American farms are having ripple effects across the agricultural industry.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
😡😡😡😡
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Read in @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy’s own words about why he did it.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
TODAY 6/14/25, we peacefully make our voices heard... NO KINGS!* 🇺🇸 *Also NO: CONVICTED FELONS/PATHOLOGICAL LIARS/DRAFT DODGERS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS/SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIANS/MALIGNANT NARCISSISTS & ANYONE WHO INCITED AN INSURRECTION IN AN ATTEMPTED COUP AGAINST HIS OWN COUNTRY a/k/a TRAITORS ✊
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
By popular request, linking Mikie Sherrill's "3 kinds of incompetence," which is also superb. Best part is she dings him for his Fox News tactics and then ... those Fox News tactics fail. Second best part is this kicks off her Gubernatorial campaign against a MAGAt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fup...
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Mikie Sherrill Asks Pete Hegseth About 3 Areas Of His 'Incompetence' As Secretary Of Defense
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.
SEC. l203. RESTRICTION ON ENFORCEMENT.
No court of the United States may issue a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order against the Federal Government (other than a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order issued in a case proceeding under title 11, United States Code) if no security is given, in an amount proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by the Federal Government, when the injunction or order is issued pursuant to rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure after the date of enactment of this Act. No court may consider any factor other than the value of the costs and damages sustained when making
its determination of the proper value of such security, and that determination shall be appealable upon issuance of the preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order under an abuse of discretion standard.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My friends, it's not just happening in a galaxy far, far away.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/06/2025
The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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