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Pam Stein

@pamzs5.bsky.social
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Community volunteer. Retired lawyer. 🌊 True blue Michigander Minnesotan. 🌲Save the Boundary Waters🌲

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Dr. Matt Klein @drmattklein.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The federal shutdown is irresponsible. Americans deserve stability from their federal government, and Republicans need to get to work.
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Dr. Matt Klein @drmattklein.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It is vital to our communities that the Premium Tax Credit for Health Insurance is extended.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/08/2025
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
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Denmark summons US envoy over Greenland reports – DW – 08/27/2025
Denmark has summoned the US head of mission in Copenhagen over alleged covert US influence efforts in Greenland. The move comes after US President Donald Trump said he wanted the island — and even hin...
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Pam Stein @pamzs5.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in white shirt running toward Annunciation School, scene of apparent school shooting this morning. Devastating news.
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Pam Stein @pamzs5.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Yesterday was the first day of school. Peaceful residential neighborhood in South Minneapolis. Distressing news.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/08/2025
The Second Amendment wasn’t written for executive orders and barbed wire around the Capitol—it was written to ensure a well-regulated militia that answers to the people and their states. Today, that balance is being pulled apart. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
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Who Really Controls the National Guard? The Second Amendment Debate We’ve Ignored
America’s state militias were meant as a check on tyranny. Now they can be federalized at will.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
It's NOT too late
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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A group for chiefs of police have come out against ICE's tactics, like covering their faces and not identifying themselves. When a bunch of cops think you've gone too far, you gotta be doing something really bad. share.google/55sjtGqL1Y5H...
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police calls for more transparency from ICE
The International Association of Chiefs of Police has issued two resolutions focused on ICE agents' use of face masks and heated comments around policing coming from influential leaders. Ari Shapiro s...
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Pam Stein @pamzs5.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Preach.
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Pam Stein @pamzs5.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Helping Paws does excellent work training service dogs. I've followed them for years. A beautiful way to honor the lives of Melissa & Mark Hortman, and sweet Gilbert. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Minnesota service dog nonprofit establishes fund in honor of Melissa and Mark Hortman
The Hortman Heroes Fund — in honor of Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert — will be focused on programs that train service dogs for veterans and first re...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Our voices, raised together, are the most powerful thing on the planet…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2025
"Newsom’s threat to retaliate in kind is not a divisive attack on good governance. It is, instead, the only hope for democracy. Bipartisanship right now is appeasement. Democrats cannot and should not hide behind neutrality and fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic."
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Gavin Newsom's moment
Democrats have found their fight. Newsom is leading the charge.
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MiaMarie @mmkresge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Both of these men are excellent candidates! Love @jdscholten.bsky.social , but @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social will make an excellent senator & likely has a better shot at flipping this seat. Thanks JD for the endorsement of Josh! www.thegazette.com/campaigns-el...
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Scholten drops out of U.S. Senate campaign, endorses fellow Iowa lawmaker Turek
J.D. Scholten is dropping out of the crowded Democratic primary in Iowa's U.S. Senate election, and endorsing fellow Democratic state legislator Josh Turek, who just announced his candidacy this past ...
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AtlantaDon💙🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍🌈💙 @donshantajr.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/08/2025
ALERT: For the first time in the history of the survey, the Office of Personnel Management is CANCELLING the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS). They don’t want you to know how they’re treating federal workers. I really want to create a shadow FEVS…
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A tweet from a sitting member of Congress calling for a violation of the Constitution would have sparked days of outrage in the pre-Trump era. We can’t normalize this dangerous cult.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
85% of voters have serious concerns with lawmakers using non-public information to make millions off trading stocks. We need to keep up the pressure and finally make congressional stock trading a practice of the past. @tiffanymuller.bsky.social and @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social break it down here:
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The President’s directive to find "five more seats” in Congress is a direct threat to democracy. Democratic Governors are standing firm to protect our country’s foundation: free and fair elections. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15/08/2025
⚡️New York museum asks Bondi to arrest Putin during Alaska visit. Beka Museum urged immediate action, highlighting Russian President Vladimir Putin's role in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children and other atrocities committed under his rule.
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New York museum asks Bondi to arrest Putin during Alaska visit
Beka Museum urged immediate action, highlighting Russian President Vladimir Putin's role in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children and other atrocities committed under his rule.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2025
that summit could've been an email
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Jasper 'Lope @jasperlope.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Especially sickening that they refer to removing black people as making DC "BEAUTIFUL".
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 14/08/2025
Mr. Homan, all I have been trying to do is “come visit” your facility. You. Will. Not. Let. Me. Now that your lawyers have admitted in court that you’re abusing your detainees, please explain why you continue to lie to the American people.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally stumble into an insurrection?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2025
A late night message from Gavin Newsom
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MeidasE @ericpere.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is not about crime. It’s about power. (+ distracting from the Epstein file cover-up)
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This seems like it should be disqualifying for a lifelong judge position!
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/07/2025
Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, have driven many of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians to the brink of starvation.
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Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza
Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, have driven many of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians to the brink of starvation.
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 30/07/2025
They confirmed Emil Bove. They know better. They did it anyway. Power now. Regret later. Cowardice dressed up as “leadership.”
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Senate Republicans confirm former Trump lawyer Emil Bove to appeals court post
Senate Republicans backed Bove despite allegations from three whistleblowers about his conduct as an official at the Justice Department.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/07/2025
The confirmation of Emil Bove to the 3rd Circuit is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system. A former Trump lawyer, Bove ordered a 15-year DOJ veteran to lie to a federal judge — then helped fire him for refusing. Now he’s a judge. Corruption in action.
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Emil Bove confirmation is a direct assault on the integrity of our justice system
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/07/2025
"Why Is the World Letting It Happen?": U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children
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“Why Is the World Letting It Happen?”: U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children
Dr. Nick Maynard, a surgeon who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza for the past month, describes a pattern reminiscent of “target practice” visible in the injuries medical staff are treating...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/07/2025
Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger. #protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/07/2025
“It’s getting to be that time” — Trump gives Israel carte blanche to brutalize Gaza
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Pam Stein @pamzs5.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Horrific.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Important reporting from Gaza:
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‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation
Israel’s offensive and aid curbs tip enclave of 2.1mn Palestinians into famine
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This is serious. Very serious.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is the guy who negotiated a corrupt quid pro quo with Eric Adams and forced the resignation of the lawyers who protested. He is a criminal and has demonstrably shown he has no concern for the rule of law, and will break any rule to advance Trump. Installing him to the judiciary is a crisis.
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lovecats8.bsky.social @lovecats8.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Y’all we KNEW this in 2015 and tried to tell you. The only thing that surprises me is that ANYONE in America is surprised Trump has connections to Epstein.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.
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