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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her)

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I'm gettin' salty up in here | Eclectic Pagan UU Witch | Literary Arts, Literacy & Library Professional, AFSME Local 1067 | Janeite | EWF | Boston Sports Fan 🤷🏻‍♀️ | Feminist Activist | demisexual | Lifelong New Englander, year 9+ in RI notebookwitch.com

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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 19h
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That's actually Jandor Kason. THIS is Kason Jandor...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h
It’s 21 days until the US midterms: This is How We Win My latest for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Americans are voting in three weeks. It’s time to vote out the Trump enablers | Robert Reich
War profiteering, AI grift and tariff shenanigans spell defeat for Trump’s party
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Corporate Media has two choices here: either cover this immigration raid on Rep Omar as if it were a normal action within the rule-of-law OR call it out as an insane attack by Trump on his political enemies. Yet even @huffpost.com is choosing collaboration in this article.
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bobby Kennedy is dead. RFK Jr should be impeached.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The more unpopular he gets, the more he's going to be drawn to Natalie Harp types: mentally unwell sycophants.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 06/10/2026
Michigan congressional candidate Will Lawrence's stark words on AI: "They're saying if this goes well, it's gonna put 20 million people out of work... But if it goes poorly, we might kill everybody by accident."
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate Susan fucking Collins? I do. This double speak nonsense is one of many reasons. listen Suzy-Pay-to-Play, you're not pro-choice if you vote to confirm anti-choice supreme court justices. It's a simple as that.
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well, and most of those other senators who voted for him are openly anti-choice. Susan-fucking-Collins was, as always, talking out both sides of her mouth by saying "oh I'm pro choice! I'm SO pro choice!" and then voting for Kavanaugh. What she SAYS doesn't matter; what she DOES is what counts.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
Your World. Your Merch. Our Money store.theonion.com/products/baby-sh…
'Baby Shits Their Way Through 3rd Halloween Costume Of Night' Onesie
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The double speak and circular nonsense in this clip makes me want reach through the Internet and slap-slap. And guess what Susan-fucking-Collins: you're not actually pro choice if you enable policies and laws that are anti-choice.
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The amount of money she's gifted from her job being a fake moderate. She doesn't need to hold onto the seat in order to pay for insurance (even if it is ridiculously high because she keeps enabling the crappy policies of Trump).
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity.
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, and I donated, too! secure.actblue.com/donate/sc-dd2
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Donate to Scott Colom
Show your support with a contribution.
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sometimes I feel like we're in that moment in Field of Dreams where the daughter & James Earl Jones say, "people will come, Ray" only it's "Democrats will win, Ray." They'll win in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, & even in Mississippi. They'll vote b/c they're sick of tariffs, war, AI, corruption & fascism. 
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Spent some time in Ocean Springs this afternoon talking with seniors about healthcare, the economy and the need for more accountability in Washington. We covered some important issues — and finished with a little ice cream. 🍦 A pretty sweet afternoon! #MississippiMatters
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The article is corrected now. It also clarifies that it's treatable with antibiotics but that treatment wasn't available to the person who died. (Doesn't specify why.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
jfc — I can't, but of course, totally, believe this is the US today. 🤬
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Little things like unregulated AI potentially destroying life on earth as we know it. Data centers using up natural resources, sinking home values & making it impossible to sleep due to noise and light pollution. Jeesh. What is everyone on about, right, JD? 😒🙄🤬
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I donated to the KANSAS Senate race on Friday. KANSAS is in play. hamiltonforkansas.com
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Adam Hamilton for Kansas
Adam’s decision to run as a Democrat for U.S. Senate is rooted in a simple observation: Washington is making life harder for Kansans.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.nola.com/news/courts/...
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How ICE plans to speed deportations by holding children, families beside a Louisiana airport
Government documents, interviews with officials and public testimony shed new light on day-to-day operations within the controversial new facility designed to hold undocumented women, families and una...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tim Snyder is correct: If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money and tackle our corrupt system. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at the airpark site where the Trump Administration is preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold children..." religionnews.com/2026/10/02/a...
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As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil
ALEXANDRIA, La. (RNS and Verite News) — Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations, the facility — which will hold unaccompanied minors and families — is situated beside an air...
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At first, I was like what does this have to do with Pete Hegseth? Because he and Todd Blanche look way too much alike. They both inherited the obsequious dum-dum gene I guess.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
In what promises to be the most consequential showdown over reproductive rights since the end of Roe v. Wade, three states with near-total abortion bans asked the Supreme Court to strike down blue-state laws that have enabled tens of thousands of abortions every year across state lines since 2022.
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Shield laws are working. Now red states want the Supreme Court to end them.
The long-expected constitutional showdown over states’ rights and abortion rights is here.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
29. Who is really weaponizing the DOJ? Who's the real dirtbag?
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
24. As Jack Smith said Tuesday, "grand juries in two separate districts reached this conclusion based on his actions ... Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power."
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love an exquisitely executed juxtaposition. Too bad it's under such treacherous circumstances.
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The Womxn Project @thewomxnproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine the convo w/ SCOTUS bros: "State law need to be overturned!" "We said that the states were the proper place to decide this." "We were wrong! Well, not then, but now that's wrong!"" BREAKING: Republicans File Supreme Court Suit to End Shield Laws jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-p...
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BREAKING: Republicans File Supreme Court Suit to End Shield Laws
9.30.26
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The Womxn Project @thewomxnproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Apparently the Smithfield RI School Committee didn't get the memo as they move to attack trans students at tomorrow's meeting. Lame duck members last shot at hate. New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans
The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.
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Movement For Black Lives @mvmnt4blklives.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October marks National LGBTQIA+ History month, a time for us to celebrate and honor Black Queer, Trans, Gender Non-Conforming, Non-Binary, and Intersex history all month long and beyond! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQIA+ #TGNCI
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 30/09/2026
We'll never have justice for Nolan Wells, for in a just world he'd still be alive. But there must be accountability. We'll never stop saying his name & demanding the answers his family deserves. And we'll never stop fighting for a world where Black men can grow old and thrive.
A graphic that reads: Nolan Wells deserved to grow old.
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
sTatEs RiGhTs!!! 😒😒😒
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...
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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award
Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthol...
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Native News Online @nativenewsonline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two Killed, One Injured in Shooting on MHA Nation; Four Suspects Apprehended The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation is mourning after a shooting Friday evening in New Town, North… nativenewsonline.net/currents/two-k…
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Two Killed, One Injured in Shooting on MHA Nation; Four Suspects Apprehended
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation is mourning after a shooting Friday evening in New Town, North Dakota, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, located in the nortwest part of the state, left two people dead and another injured. The injured victim was transported to Trinity Hospital in Minot, North Dakota. One of the people killed has been identified as Marc Smith Jr., 23, of New Town. Authorities have not publicly identified the second person killed in the shooting. Immediately after the shooting, Three Affiliated Tribes Law Enforcement Services issued a shelter-in-place order as law enforcement officers searched for armed suspects.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
Trump, for over a decade: "I wouldn't give him a state dinner." Now: A full state dinner at the White House for China's Xi Jinping, complete with the arrival ceremony, a gift, and billionaires everywhere.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“In the weeks and months after the war began, Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers spoke in favor of Trump’s decision and called the war 'long overdue.' In April, he said the war had left Iran 'absolutely a toothless wonder'...” www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/p...
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GOP Senate candidate who praised the Iran war now campaigns against the pain it caused | CNN Politics
In 2024, then-Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers stood on camera in a zippered vest in a large grocery store
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.
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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Grover's Scared: The Monster at the End of This Book
ALT: Grover's Scared: The Monster at the End of This Book
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We know, Mike. The facts are plain to see. But WHY is the question. From playoffs to now it's been Yippier than a Muppet Aliens Sesame Street segment.
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Yip
ALT: Yip
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Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her) @notebookwitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Posted 7 months ago and the Mac Jonesing has only gotten more Mac Jonesier. Yeeeesh.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 09/02/2026
drake "mac jones" maye
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pete rogers, professional diaper changer @petemrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
last season drake maye vs this season drake maye
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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone reboot Drake Maye plz.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 26/09/2026
You used to be able to start a war and get popular from it in this country
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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“He’s like the political equivalent of Windows 95 — an operating system without an application in the modern era…I don’t know what counsel he has to offer people who are running in competitive elections in 2026.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...
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Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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neptune45.bsky.social @neptune45.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
abcnews.com/Politics/fed... I remember when trump said use what ever force is necessary, and I am sure he said behind closed doors I will pardon you
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Federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people during Trump's 2nd term
At least 21 people have been shot by federal immigration agents during the second Trump administration, according to an ABC News count.
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