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Paula Marie Young, J.D., LL.M.

@paulamarieyoung.bsky.social
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International dispute resolution expert; mediator; author; retired law professor; and online coach. Progressive politically.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hegseth announces all US troops will get one day off to vote in October #TheHill twp.ai/4hwTZR
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I give us an A+ on the government, on economics, on everything." -Donald Trump, October 1 [Chart via Heather Long]
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are now seeing why gop tried so hard to rig the elections via redistricting
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
LOSS: A court dismissed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new gerrymander that dismantled the state’s lone majority-Black district. The court said it must presume the legislature acted in good faith when assessing discriminatory intent — a standard that makes proving discrimination near impossible.
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WilliamHaugh @williamhaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social #ElectionProtection
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
989 billionaires are now worth 22% of our GDP. We have more wealth concentration than the gilded age.
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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Covid fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow” Published Sept 30, 2026 theconversation.com/covid-fatigu...
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Covid fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow
Everyday activities can require enormous effort for people living with post-COVID fatigue. This study examines the brain mechanisms that may contribute to fatigue.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In terms of consequences, the changes would have two effects. First, they would eliminate existing demographic data that we use for things like estimating racial inequality. That is by design, of course. Second, it would make the Census less accurate by discouraging non-citizens from participating.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump administration claims the constitution is "colorblind" so there is no reason to ask about race. But thats not true! There are multiple places the constitution focuses on race that help to explain why it became a part of every set of Census questions donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-2030-c...
The first was the language in the Constitution to separate “free persons” from “other persons,” the euphemism used in Article 1 for enslaved persons. The first census statute translated “free persons” to “whites” and “other free persons” for the actual census form, and by the 1820 census Congress had added age and sex categories to distinguish the “free colored” population and the enslaved population (presumed to be “colored”).

The second was the mandate to exclude “Indians not taxed” from the “actual enumeration,” such that American population history has had to reconstruct the demography of the indigenous population from non census sources from 1790 to 1890, when the Census Office did begin to conduct censuses of the “Indian population.”
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump administration stripped tens of millions of dollars in U.S. military assistance from European and Middle Eastern countries. The funds will instead go to right-wing governments in Latin America including Panama, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. ... TAT: [Foreign policy | Undermining democracy]
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Trump defies Democrats, diverts aid for Europe to Latin America instead
The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars that Congress approved for countries affected by the war in Ukraine.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Under Donald Trump, health insurance now costs more than a mortgage for many Americans.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pulte is the most shameless, but the overall picture is bad. We now have Inspector Generals who are party members, or previously worked for the people they are supposed to be investigating. Career IG officials know they will be fired for doing their job. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
After he fired the Veteran’s Administration Inspector General, Trump replaced him with another of his appointees, Cheryl Mason, who was a senior adviser to the Secretary of VA she was not tasked with overseeing. The new IG soon stopped issuing alerts about problems in VA after her former boss complained they were distracting, and no longer allows staff to brief Congressional committees on forthcoming reports, weakening the ability of Congress to exert oversight. A staffer in her office said: “If you believe in independent oversight, that’s not what we were doing…It’s got all the agents worried about doing anything that puts us on anyone’s radar.” Staff who raise concerns with Mason say they are likely to be labeled “a resister, and they are totally blackballed.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The same guy who has been using government records to launch phony investigations is firing the people who do actual investigations after the investigated him.
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the David Hearn reflecting pool case the judge noted that Trump wanted Hearn (an innocent man) prosecuted “especially since … Hearn has donated to ActBlue, a Democratic-affiliated fundraising platform” & because Trump dislikes Hearn's lawyer, Norm Eisen. IMPEACH/CONVICT/REMOVE!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
Republicans are pulling money out of North Carolina to defend KANSAS. That’s bleak af for them and I Iove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New York accuses Polymarket of running illegal gambling operation in new lawsuit #TheHill
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New York accuses Polymarket of running illegal gambling operation in new lawsuit
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“[A]n aircraft using a deregistered aircraft registration flying along the state’s southern border, occasionally doing loops around border towns like San Luis and Nogales.” Secret surveillance drones on a peaceful border? 70 miles from my house? These bozos in Washington really have lost the plot.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: A judge ruled that ICE must improve the inhumane conditions at the immigration detention center at 26 Federal Plaza. This is good news. Our fight isn't over until every abusive detention facility is shut down for good.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
Hours after the decision came down, flight data shows an ICE charter jet landed in two known third-country removal “host” countries in Africa, while another appeared to be heading toward the continent, raising the possibility that other immigrants may have been or are about to be removed unlawfully.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid. Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminder that Donald Trump, Jr.’s venture capital firm is a major investor in Polymarket. He is also an adviser to Kalshi. Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators are suing states attempting to regulate prediction markets and Trump himself has said the platforms will “thrive” under his administration.
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New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation that puts residents at risk
Prediction market platforms have argued states do not have the authority to govern them because they are already regulat
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
COVlD-associated hospitalizations are exploding in NYC. This is quite serious. Due to vaccinations and prior mortality, the acute effects of infection are often less obviously apparent in 2026. It's a testament to the high transmission. Screenshot from @datareport.bsky.social via the devil app.
graph, steep rise in C19 hospitalizations
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Paula Marie Young, J.D., LL.M. @paulamarieyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Targeting women's reproductive rights yet again.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The price of a gallon of diesel in Des Moines is nearly the same as the hourly minimum wage in Iowa…
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're living through the part of the movie where the scientists are sounding the alarm, begging people to pay attention, and everyone keeps pretending nothing is happening.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Running into the teeth of American greed is never, ever a good idea.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
it's amusing that JD Vance went all the way to Iowa to campaign for Republicans, only to have the most prominent Republican on the ticket in the state stiff him because he's so toxic
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hell no to Prop 39, California! It would impose a mandate to provide government ID in voting to "solve" the virtually nonexistent problem of voter fraud while it would "cost state and local governments “tens of millions of dollars to low hundreds of millions of dollars” to implement."
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California voters are most interested in this proposition — it’s not the billionaire tax
This California ballot measure, pitched by two Republican lawmakers, will be under consideration at a highly charged and contentious moment for voting rights.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
..whether to buy into companies with potentially unprecedented risk profiles" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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The A.I. Industry’s New Worry: ‘Liability Exposure’ (Gift Article)
The prospect of artificial intelligence tools being used to do significant harm presents the companies and their leaders with a legal challenge.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One reason for slowing down AI R&D and appealing to government oversight of AI is to socialize the liability risk "What kind of legal liability might an A.I. lab like OpenAI or Anthropic face if its products were to run amok & cause great harm? Investors in either’s I.P.O. would need to weigh ..
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Resist Republicans in Florida @flwillregret22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So WE Are PAYING for them to have VACATION until almost DECEMBER 😡😡😡😡 BREAKING- the House cancels tomorrow votes and will begin its recess early. After tonight, the House won’t return until after the November midterm elections
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WSJ: American oil executives warned for months that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz was bound to cause a fuel crisis. Now, they say it is here. Trump doesn't half ass anything, he fucks it up all the way. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/09/2026
The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the procedure is unconstitutional.
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Texas abortion ban caused pregnant woman's death, lawsuit claims
The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an ​abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the ‌procedure is unconstitutional.
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Tamela Ehlinger 🇩🇰🇨🇦🇵🇦🇲🇽🇳🇴🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦 @tamela.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We will and at the same time, we will tear down or blow up everything that vile orange-hued pedophile puts up He does not own the WH or anything else. We The People OWN all of it!
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Paula Marie Young, J.D., LL.M. @paulamarieyoung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fool me once . . . .
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
House Republicans have stepped up congressional investigations of major labour unions, including the American Federation of Teachers, United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers, based largely on allegations from conservative advocacy groups tha... TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]
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House Republicans ramp up labor union investigations before midterms
Inquiries come after conservative thinktanks claim unions are using member dues to support Democratic causes
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Paula Marie Young, J.D., LL.M. @paulamarieyoung.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Now Apple.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
FFS! #Pinks
For those keeping score at home, the United States is now without an Army Secretary, Army Deputy Secretary, and Senate-confirmed Army Chief of Staff -- all in the midst of an ongoing War with Iran that everyone in D.C. has quietly conceded Trump already lost.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Me: White collar crime used to be illegal Kids in 2040: But that's the whole economy now Me: I know. I know...
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My level of concern about the US mid-term election is probably an 8 out of 10 now. This has nothing to do with the electorate and polls showing the GOP in trouble, it has everything to do with efforts to rig the election by a powerful President, those under his control, and a pliant Supreme Court.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Suddenly due process matters.
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Real Blue Patriot @realbluepatriot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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