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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/01/2026

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

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Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/06/2025

California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The U.S. now spends more on interest payments on the national debt than on national defense. This is not sustainable.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there, the ICE arrest team STILL took this family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back! This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.

She said the agents didn’t care.

“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” she said. “I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything.”

Marisa said the agents tore apart every square inch of the house and what few belongings they had, seizing their phones, laptops and their life savings in cash as “evidence.”

“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🔥Natl Cancer Institute Employees CAN'T PUBLISH Info on These Topics WITHOUT SPECIAL APPROVAL: Vaccines, fluoride, autism, & 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Sec RFK Jr. 🤬 1/4 www.propublica.org/article/nati...

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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval

Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/03/2025

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades. With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 26/02/2025

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

Pete Hegseth on FOX NEWS with headline chyron that reads: Tracking Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 15/02/2025

While Musk is investigating agencies with his DOGE team, he is hoping you'll forget all the investigations and controversies he has accrued through the last few decades.

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Maile @maile.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Doge is auditing NASA today. This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA. It’s a massive conflict of interest.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 12/02/2025

Her story has shaken up metro Detroit. It's very cold up here and she didn't get the help she needed even after calling the city and multiple agencies. She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas. Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia. I can't stop thinking about her. 💔

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Authoritarians ask Musk to turn over lists of USAID staff The prime minister of Slovakia asked Musk to share information about NGOs and reporters who worked there. In Russia, the state duma speaker said, if USAID is an enemy organization, Russia wants a list, "and we’ll hand it over to the FSB.”

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Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown

Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/02/2025

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’

An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/02/2025

A physician member of the AMA—who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation—is sounding the alarm. “The current admin prohibited all communications of the CDC and other agencies with the public. Now, the public and physicians are left with no info on food recalls or disease outbreaks.“

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I’m a doctor, and I’m appalled at the silence from the American Medical Association

Many physicians feel that our values do not align with the values of our advocacy organization.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

$A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.$

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

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We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests

This is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/01/2025

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

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Skylight Social @skylight.social · 24/01/2025

Here’s how the iOS beta testing works: 👇🏽Use this link to download both TestFlight and Skylight👇🏽 testflight.apple.com/join/s5RmNCGc 👇🏽Use this link to give us feedback on the app👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Only open for 1000 sign ups! Will be adding more soon!

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Join the Skylight Social beta

Available on iOS

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

the number of calls needed to make the point that a given vote will cost them is lower than we think, a powerful argument in favor of focusing our energies. you take issue A. I take B. someone else takes C. we make our weekly rounds. no one has to deal with the whole firehose at once

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Wendy Suares @wsuares.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🚨IMMIGRATION POLICIES IN OK SCHOOLS We asked Supt. Ryan Walters if the Trump administration has asked for ICE raids in schools or to collect the citizenship status of students. WATCH the video for his response. #oklaed #oklahoma www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUEU...

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Superintendent Walters on illegal immigration, ICE raids, and Bibles in schools

YouTube video by KOKH - FOX 25

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Okla City Free Press @freepressokc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A rule requiring schools to verify U.S. citizenship during enrollment was unanimously approved by the Oklahoma State Board of Education on Tuesday with protests outside. | Nuria Marines - Keel reports.

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Citizen check requirement in Okla schools passed by state Board of Ed

A proposed rule that would require schools to ask for proof of U.S. citizenship during enrollment unanimously passed the Oklahoma State Board of Ed Tuesday.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

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PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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OKPapaTom @okpapatom.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We have two special elections in Tulsa County this Spring. House District 74 in #Owasso is one we could flip blue. I know Amy and I know her to be someone who cares about #Tulsa County, and #Oklahoma Support her if you can, vote for verification you live in #HD74 www.facebook.com/share/12ERnM...

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The threat of ICE has tons of people on high alert, the result is claims of ICE seen without firm or specific info people can actually use — & sometimes, no ICE at all. It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.” Be specific!

Spread Information not panic
When reporting or signal boosting potential threats: provide as much information as possible!
S.A.L.U.T.E.
Size/Strength
"5 to 6 Armed Agitators"
Actions/Activity
"Harassing random people on the move"
Location & Direction
"Manhattan, East of Central Park, E 97th St"
Uniform/Clothes
"Dark Jackets, ballcaps"
Time & Date of Observation
"8:32 PM June01"
Equipment & Weapons
"They have Body Armor and Pepper spray"
Not a useful tweet: "proudboys spotted"
"Where? When? What are they doing?
How Many? What are they carrying?"
Use your Judgement!

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025

We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Do read through the 🧵 to get a real sense if his widespread this is and what terms are being censored. Not good.

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Okie Political Memes @okpoliticalmeme.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As more people join BlueSky we need to build this up! Share and comment if you want to be added!! go.bsky.app/MNU5Xe3

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

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God @thegodshow.com · 16/01/2025

The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010. It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.

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