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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Mrs. Ma’am (she/her) @mrs-maam.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

He is giving you time to call your reps! I just called the one for the area where I teach as well.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Phang: If you were scrolling on social media and saw a dog locked up in the middle of the Everglades—in the sun, in the heat, in the humidity—the outrage would be wild, wouldn’t it? But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget

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spooki•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

statement from the Hortmans' two children on how they would like their parents to be remembered:

"If you would like to honor the memory of Mark and Melissa, please consider the following:
• Plant a tree.
• Visit a local park and make use of their amenities, especially a bike trail.
• Pet a dog. A golden retriever is ideal, but any will do.
• Tell your loved ones a cheesy dad joke and laugh about it.
• Bake something — bread for Mark or a cake for Melissa, and share it with someone.
• Try a new hobby and enjoy learning something.
• Stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace.
"Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones a little closer.
Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect. The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18/06/2025

What Eisenhower said over 70 years ago is even more true today.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

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Mrs. Ma’am (she/her) @mrs-maam.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

So, why is eye contact hard? Knowing how much to make, and how to do it without feeling uncomfortable? I’m trying to do hard to make eye contact with someone I’m on stage with this summer and am struggling so much. He is extremely nice and friendly, which makes me feel bad that I’m like this. Help?

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

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Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"

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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says the Trump administration broke the law by withholding funding for the nation’s libraries as part of its federal reorganization plan. The G.A.O. will sue if the administration continues to block funds already approved by Congress.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It would really be great if, when journalists are interviewing Stephen Miller, who goes off a tirade on courts curbing executive power, could ask, What article of the Constitituon grants the power to: 1. Control immigration 2. Regulate international commerce 3. Suspend habeas

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Rebecca Plevin @rebeccaplevin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The government’s own data, which was obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and a team of journalists from Venezuela, showed that officials knew that only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of U.S. crimes and that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations.

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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes

Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

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Willson @rwillson.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Important

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The bill is still a mess but this is a win. Thank you, America. They heard you. House Republicans have dropped the provision that would’ve sold off 500,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 21/05/2025

No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss

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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My statement on the charges filed against me:

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Joe Biden, you’re gonna beat this cancer. You’re a great man with a strong spirit, and you have a family that loves and supports you, not to mention tens of millions of us grateful for your steady, principled leadership.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Maybe let's not play partisan games with a cancer diagnosis, okay? Joe Biden is a public servant. He’s served his country proudly his entire life. He deserves an opportunity to rest, be with his family, and have a fighting chance at recovery. Just be normal, and pray for him.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 16/05/2025

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Coolest couple in the neighborhood. Photo from my collection, 1937.

Black and white photo of a young light skinned black woman in a dark beret and turtleneck sweater, sitting outside of the brick steps of a wooden house porch. Next to her is a shorthaired white cat looking very curiously into the distance, but the cat is restrained by the woman’s hand and also a harness if it should decide to run off and investigate.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 08/05/2025

Somebody somewhere Needs an endless field of flowers Tonight

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Mrs. Ma’am (she/her) @mrs-maam.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Pop-up protest in Springfield, IL, on May 7, 2025. Give DHS Sec. Kristi Noem a good, old-fashioned blue state welcome. #resist @50501movement.bsky.social @50501il.bsky.social

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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Peggy Shinners @pshinkicker61.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Wait for it ……. #HandsOff #WTFAmerica

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

leslie jordan in famous works of art: thread

Leslie Jordan in The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises. But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up. It's up to us to demand something better.

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Kayleigh @kayleighj.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

“We’ve got to remember how we got here—from Selma to Seneca Falls. We are here because of the power of the people. Change does not come from Washington. It comes to Washington.” Powerful words from Cory Booker at the Capitol sit-in right now. It’s up to all us, the people, to bring about change.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1777: Sybil Ludington, age 16, allegedly rode her horse, Star, 40 miles through the night in Putnam County, N.Y., to warn militiamen under her father's command that British troops planned to raid Danbury, Conn. The Continental Army had a supply depot there. /1

Statue of Sybil Ludington on Gleneida Avenue in Carmel, New York by Anna Hyatt Huntington.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

NEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan. "Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."

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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case

Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

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