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Nicole Murray

@nemurray.bsky.social
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Adirondack resident with a vested interest in politics, the environment, 22q Deletion Syndrome, congenital heart disease research, mental health, and funny memes.

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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hell of a photo
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Remarkable scenes at Belaya airfield in Irkutsk, Russia. Ukraine has launched a devastating attack on Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers. The base is over 4000 km from Ukraine, but $500 drones are currently wiping out $100 million planes. Russia’s Pearl Harbor.
Plumes of thick black smoke are seen on the horizon at drones strike the Russian bombers. The photo was first published by security analyst and journalist, Jimmy Rushton on X at 12.50 BST on June 1.
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Nicole Murray @nemurray.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Medicaid is critical for northern New York. www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/nort...
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North Country coalition speaks out on potential Medicaid cuts
In the North Country, nearly one in three residents rely on Medicaid, making it a crucial part of the healthcare system.
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Nicole Murray @nemurray.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Adirondack Tourism Officials Try to Lure Back Canadian Visitors" www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/adir...
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Adirondack tourism officials try to lure back Canadian visitors
As Canadian tourism to the U.S. plummets due to politics, local officials are fighting back with a message of love and friendship
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 05/05/2025
🧵 NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night. Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.” She’s a constituent. Not a threat. Fascism again.
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Nicole Murray @nemurray.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"Tariffs on tulips: An Adirondack business hit hard by trade policies" www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/tari...
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Tariffs on tulips: An Adirondack business hit hard by trade policies
Adirondack business Ampersand Bulb Co. has turned to letters to representatives and social media to tell her story of a business hit hard by Trump's tariffs.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 22/04/2025
We've read your comments about the eugenics undertones in Trump and RFK Jr.’s rhetoric. As public health experts, we share your concerns. Let’s take a moment to break this down. 🧵
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Nicole Murray @nemurray.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Border crossings down at Champlain suncommunitynews.com/news/117391/...
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Champlain border crossings down 31 percent in March
PLATTSBURGH | As it continues to monitor cross-border tariff impacts, the North Country Chamber of Commerce has announced that local border car crossings were down 31 percent in March.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
First, they said they’ll send undocumented immigrants with no due process to a foreign prison camp. Next, they said any immigrant — documented or not. Now, they say it’s citizens. And that once they send you even on accident, they can’t bring you back.
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Rogue SSA @alt-ssa.altgov.info · 13/04/2025
🧵 I just want to clear up some misconceptions about what Social Security actually is and how it works. You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.
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Nicole Murray @nemurray.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Really good article discussing how the current political climate may affect North Country schools. www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/how-...
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How would dismantling the education department impact Northern NY?
A proposal to eliminate the federal Department of Education is in the works, leaving school officials with unknowns about the future.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 12/04/2025
Is X ADA compliant? Asking for, like, a lot of folks who have hearing, vision, and other impairments. Ya know, SSA’s customers.
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Rogue SSA @alt-ssa.altgov.info · 11/04/2025
🧵 We got a pretty nasty load of bad news yesterday on the future of Social Security. It's not hyperbole to say we've passed the point of no return on Trump/DOGE's efforts to kill the agency...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
Donald Trump in a nutshell: doing everything he can to make the ultra-rich even richer. We need to find out if Trump's tariff chaos was used as cover for insider trading.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/04/2025
Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo during a recent private dinner said that Nevadans who participated in the “Hands Off” rallies were just folks looking for “handouts” and that their central message was that they don't want to go back to work. He said he is troubled by the "Hands Off" message.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thanks, Fox “News.”
The image features a text statement with a stylized background. The text reads: "Only in America do regular folks fight against things that would actually help them — like free healthcare, free college, and fair work conditions — just because rich people convinced them it was bad." The words "free healthcare," "free college," and "fair work conditions" are underlined in red. The statement is attributed to a user with the handle @kazecomedy
. At the bottom left, there is a logo or text that says "Engines of Solidarity." The background image shows three people in a stylized, halftone dot pattern, with two of their faces covered by red and blue circles, respectively. The overall tone of the image is critical of societal attitudes in America, suggesting manipulation by the wealthy to oppose social benefits.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Maybe the real tariffs are the friends we made along the way
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It’s all so tragically predictable.
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Adirondack Explorer @adirondackexplorer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Adirondack region saw a spike in tourism in 2024 but a giant question mark hangs over the upcoming summer www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/adir... #canada #tradewar #adirondacks #summer
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Adirondack tourism saw solid gains in 2024 but outlook for summer remains hazy
Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) reports strong gains in Adirondack tourism in 2024, but questions remain for how 2025 will go
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Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Can we talk about this in a per-month metric? I think it might be easier for folks to internalize. It's like having a new $316 bill every single month. That's a lot of groceries.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/04/2025
Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages and other access problems as they attempt to log in to their online Social Security accounts, even as they are being directed to do more of their business with the agency online.
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Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff
The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.
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Rensselaer County Women for Change @renscow4c.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The shuttle that takes folks shopping, etc at my mom’s senior residence was commandeered by a bunch of feisty seniors and they went to the Albany, NY “Hands Off” rally! It was 44°, windy, and raining sideways!
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emily xyz @jerseymaiden.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Saratoga Springs today, about 1000 people showed up in the cold rain - amazing!! I was expecting to find maybe 40 or 50 in front of the post office. Really great, really inspiring, and thanks @maddow.msnbc.com!
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RogueFEMA @roguefema.altgov.info · 06/04/2025
Extremely well said!
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Indivisible ADK/Saratoga @indivisible-adk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The resistance in Albany was powerful today! Thousands came out in the wind & rain to demand Hands Off! pretty much everything. 💯 Check out our Facebook post for more details and photos. #HandsOff #Albany #Resistance #IndivisibleADKSaratoga @indivisible.org
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Indivisible ADK/Saratoga @indivisible-adk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The rain poured. The wind whipped signs into protesters’ faces. It was a chilly 43 degrees. Yet, thousands showed up in Albany today armed with rain gear and signs calling for Hands Off! pretty much everything. #HandsOff #Albany #Resistance #IndivisibleADKSaratoga @indivisible.org
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Susan Miller @susanmiller11.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Estimated 6,000 in Albany, NY @maddow.msnbc.com #handsoff
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It’s a fire sale…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/04/2025
Tariffs will be a potent and unilateral mechanism for reintroducing systematic corruption into our economy. First, Trump can raise or lower tariffs unilaterally. Second, he can grant exemptions, forcing people, corporations, localities, nations, and foreign actors to seek reprieve on bended knee.
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Trump’s tariffs give him a new way to dole out reward and punishment
The president's latest power grab will devastate America's economy—and its democracy.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons. But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs. The people still have the power.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
February 1
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Nicole Murray @nemurray.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New York grapples with economic fallout from U.S.-Canada tariff dispute www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/trum...
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New York grapples with economic fallout from U.S.-Canada tariff dispute
North Country Chamber leader Garry Douglas looks ahead to rebuilding economic ties and restoring cross-border cooperation with Canadians.
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 01/04/2025
🧵 time so buckle up! So let’s talk about the claim that Muskrat made about SSA giving Social Security Numbers (SSNs) to noncitizens. To be clear, since he did not make this distinction, the chart he showed does NOT mean those people received benefits. The chart was specific to SSNs assigned via 1/?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
1. The Social Security Administration and DOGE are GASLIGHTING AMERICANS. They are telling millions of beneficiaries that reports they were closing SSA field offices were fake news. Actually, these closures were PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED and LEASES WERE CANCELED. 🧵
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How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This hasn't gotten enough attention. Very effective questioning by Rep. @crow.house.gov in span of 3 mins 1. exposes how Hegseth endangered servicemembers' lives 2. shows that a scandal upon the scandal is the failure to take responsibility Crow is a U.S. Army veteran (Bronze Star Medal)
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
very important and I've been hearing the same
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AltFormerFed (aka Farmer Fred) @dataprism.altgov.info · 29/03/2025
The kids are counting on you. Be that person. Be an ally. Speak up for that trans kid at the high school like you would if they were your own child because they are all our children. Be available. Reach out. Affirm and amplify. Save a life. #resist with compassion
Having one accepting adult in a LGBTQ+ young person’s life reduces their suicide risk by 40%. 

Be that person. Be an ally. Speak up for the trans kid at the high school like you would if they were your own child because they are all our children. 

Save a life. 
#resist with compassion
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔥Rufus Gifford, former U.S. amb. to Denmark, unloaded on JD Vance for saying Denmark “is not a good ally”: Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
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Blake Gendebien @blakegendebien.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A trade war with Canada will harm the North Country. We need leadership now that is willing to set aside political leanings and deliver for our people.
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SpinachVibe @spinachvibe.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
They're breaking everything so they can say it is broken and eliminate it or privatize it. Any guesses where all the social security taxes collected will go? Inspiring leadership.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Martial Law. It’s the elephant in the room. It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them. It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for. 🧵…
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Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Relax guys, this is all part of the plan… #tariffs #cuts
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yep
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