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northernlight2024.bsky.social

@northernlight2024.bsky.social
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Retired public policy analyst, philosophy major; enthusiastic about almost anything, except paperwork. I am “living with” two maladies, and doing well. Studying to be a Feldenkrais practitioner, and still finding paths toward tikkun olam.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
There are now massive sabotage forces infiltrating Bluesky. Purity narratives will only increase. Because 1) systematically propagated by bots and geopolitical actors and 2) then these narratives are pushed by the people they were meant to radicalize. Geopolitical actors know what they’re doing!
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Plea for fellow reporters: can we stop reflexively referring to everyone the feds randomly arrest as “undocumented” or “in the country illegally?” We frankly have no idea who they’re detaining or what their status is most of the time, and there are *many* reports of people with status being detained
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Are you listening, @kenmartin.bsky.social and @democrats.org? Kowtowing to the antisemitic far left has left American Jews, the 2nd most reliable Democratic voting bloc after Black Americans, feeling politically homeless. Get the party's shit together.
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👻 Spooky Cat War 👻 @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
oh shit oh fuck
The deli/weapons of mass destruction section at the grocery store
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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I think both these things can be true: -Moves by Trump himself are 99% performative, destructive, bluffing, bigoted, bottomlessly stupid, usually fail even on their own terms. -Meanwhile what Musk, Vought, FBI/DOJ/State et al are doing is genuinely ominous IMO.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A VA psychologist friend reached out today. Her job is at a VA in the heartland. Her job, in my view, is helping veterans with post traumatic stress stay alive. She is one of the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who has been encouraged to resign… open.substack.com/pub/jaketapp...
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Taking an axe to the federal government
I heard from a VA psychologist friend today...
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🔥 The newest Rep from Maryland came out swinging at todays press conference… Rep. Elfreth: "Elon Musk has called USAID a criminal organization, and yet, he is the one who came in the dark of night in a takeover that is illegal."
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David Hackney @davidnhackney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A reminder and reassurance that Saint Paul has had a Separation Ordinance on the books since 2004. No employee of the City, including SPPD officers will ever ask for a resident's immigration status. We do not and will not enforce federal immigration policy. www.twincities.com/2016/11/20/c...
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Chris Coleman: What ‘sanctuary city’ means, and doesn’t mean, in St. Paul
Words matter. But they also can confuse. In the aftermath of the presidential election, the phrase “sanctuary city” has found its way into the national conversation. The problem is that there is no…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Now would be a good time to freeze your credit, if you haven’t done so.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
musk is running the govt. Trump is a feeble figurehead
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RememberTheRambutan @rememberrambutan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Let the young people in your life know that Costco has generic planb for $5.99. You don’t need a membership to go to the pharmacy there.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
YES! Bigger guns!
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Call him before Congress, start reading out his SSN and those of everyone in his family, and ask him when he wants it to stop.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Honestly someone needs to let the dean of the college know that one of their students is actively violating several federal laws. I am certain that violates the student code of conduct and university disciplinary action might be the only enforcement mechanism we have right now
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
And 👏👏👏
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Please be careful and protect sources, esp civil servants holding on to protect us
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Today’s front page of the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada and they nailed it 🤣🎯
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Is MSM/Fox running this? These non-feds have access to all of our private data. They only take orders from musk. They have no security clearances and are not carrying out any laws. They are cyber terrorists, except that musk/trump let them in the front door This needs to be all over news outlets
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This. Shut Congress down, both houses.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
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Elon Musk’s Bureaucratic Coup
Welcome to the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the United States government.
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Oh, wow; I thought she actually said this; then I read “Borowitz” I mean, it’s not out of the realm of possibility
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I know you are likely on edge right now. You might even be terrified. I say this with as much conviction and authenticity as I can muster: This is not going to work out well for Donald Trump in the end. The NY FBI is leading the way with their refusal to comply. This will become contagious.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 03/02/2025
"One Trump official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Mr. Musk was widely seen as operating with a level of autonomy that almost no one can control."
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Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government (Gift Article)
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A group of uncleared, unvetted, civilians have gained access to all of my federal records including military personnel, retirement and disability. They are reportedly feeding them into AI. I want them arrested and charged with federal crimes. Right fucking now! How is this even a discussion?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2025
Murphy: "That's just fancy talk to say, 'we're gonna give money to people who pledge loyalty to Trump, and we're not gonna give money to people who don't pledge loyalty.' Today it may be government contracts, but tomorrow it may be your tax refund."
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Al Gore pitched a sovereign wealth fund once, but he called it a “lockbox.” And it existed bc they’d taxed the wealthy a tiny bit, balanced the budget and had a surplus. And he only wanted the fund to protect Social Security for Americans who weren’t millionaires. So the GOP mocked it.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Brief break from hawking The Onion to tell everyone I just subscribed to Wired. Please support publications who do brave work right now. www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dems’ focus areas in the House. It’s not complete, in terms of describing strategies; but that may not be appropriate to put in this kind of semi-public document, anyway. But it describes the scope, and lists some of the leads/actions Note Ariella’s suggestion to respectfully engage with them
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated
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202-224-3121 - Call Your MoC @ferrinson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT: SENATE STATE OFFICE VISIT TOOLKIT
WE CHOOSE TO FIGHT: STATE OFFICE VISIT TOOLKIT Register your event: https://indivisi.org/register-choose-to-fight TOOLKIT CONTENTS: WHAT’S HAPPENING? THE ASK HOW TO PLAN YOUR SENATE STATE OFFICE VI...
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.” - Ezra Klein
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Yes! Finally!
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Harry Sisson @harryjsisson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Here’s what Trump does: 1. Creates a crisis that hurts a lot of people 2. Frames the crisis as a good thing 3. The crisis gets really bad 4. Trump then reverses his bad decision and takes credit for ending the crisis he created 5. MAGA eats it up Every. Single. Time.
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northernlight2024.bsky.social @northernlight2024.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Oh geez.. insane
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.
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The Hate Won’t Win. #IAmAmerica 🇺🇸 @pam327.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You search <yourstate> attorney general. The link is different for each state. There should be another link on the landing page for complaints. I filed under “privacy”. The link for NC is: ncdoj.gov/contact-doj/
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Contact for the North Carolina Department of Justice
Contact for the North Carolina Department of Justice. Please note that this is for non-emergency communication and is not monitored 24 hours a day.
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 03/02/2025
DT knows nothing. So @claudia_shein used that to her advantage, and got the tariff delayed by a month. Mexico already has 15K troops at the border. prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i... DT felt he won by requesting 10K troops at the border, who are already there www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/t...
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