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Pamela Cooper

@pcoop1960.bsky.social
43K followers 46K following 21K posts

🇺🇸💙🇺🇸married/retired. Gardening, cooking, music-doing my part for #democracy #Antifa #ImpeachTrump #FightOligarchy #WeThePeople 🦋 #NeverForgetJ6 #StandWithUkraine #EndCitizensUnited #MedicareForAll #TaxTheRich #ProChoice #EndGerrymandering #EpsteinFiles

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“Lobbyists will tell you it’s not that bad, urban legend… That absolutely rises to the level a national congressional investigation.” @aoc.bsky.social went with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social to a Red county where a META data center is hurting the water— as xAI impacts Memphis etc
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026
NEW: Donald just STOLE $1.7B from us to pay insurrectionists. I have some important info about this. Please share widely.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Kinda sad they both couldn’t loose.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A downside of working so hard at having a public persona of being a greedy, annoying asshole is that’s how juries will see you.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
He cost every taxpayer too... DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion 2025 fiscal year alone. fortune.com/article/doge...
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DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone | Fortune
Elon Musk’s efforts to slash federal spending are costing the government in lost productivity and tax revenue, workforce and policy experts claim.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/05/2026
What could you do with $1 billion? Feed kids. Lower insulin costs. Let people file taxes for free. Instead, Republicans wants to spend it on a gold-encrusted ballroom.
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What could you do with $1 billion?
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/05/2026
PHOTO 📸 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One enroute to the U.S. following his official visit with President Xi Jinping in China, May 15, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Everyone knows that $1.7 billion is going straight in Trump’s pocket, right?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In 16 months, Trump has swung from a +12 net approval rating to -23. He promised to release the Epstein files, then buried them. He promised no dumb wars and started a new one. At what point does it cease to be incompetence and start to be something else?
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Is Trump Just Full On Sabotaging The Republican Party Now?
All signs point to Trump subconsciously working to set his party up for failure in 2026 and beyond.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Friends, a madman is in charge of the country — but almost no Republican member of Congress, no major CEO or university president or head of a major foundation seems willing to sound the alarm. These people are all cowards. Where are America's leaders? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0vKzRmPos
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Where Are America's Leaders?
On January 6th, 2021, when Trump incited an insurrection, America's corporate leaders rushed to distance themselves from
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
bsky.app/profile/pcoo... This flag is in my front yard 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/05/2026
I wanted a “Live Laugh Love” sign, but accuracy matters.
House with “this is not normal” sign.
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Defend the #Constitution @sundaedivine.lol @bluealltheway.bsky.social
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
cooked him like groceries
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.
In unusual deal, a $1.8 billlion fund that could help Trump allies is created. 
The agreement to end the Trump family’s lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority …
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.
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In unusual deal, a $1.8 billion fund that could help Trump allies is created
The agreement to end the Trump family's lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority to distribute nearly $1.8 billion to those who, like the president, have claimed they have been targets of a
"weaponized" justice system.
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
E.P.A. to End Some Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/c... Not Gift Article. @climatenews.bsky.social @climate.noaa.gov @coveringclimatenow.org @myzerocarbon.org 🤬
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E.P.A. to End Some Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Protect the Right to Vote and Fair Representation ⭑ 5 Calls
On April 29th, the Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling, made along ideological lines, that further diminished the Voting Rights Act (VRA). While …
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Reform FISA Section 702 to Stop Government Surveillance (UPDATED 4/30) ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates April 30, 2026: The Senate and House have both passed a new 45-day clean extension of FISA Section 702, allowing lawmakers to continue …
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
5calls.org/issue/trump-... Everyone use this free & easy App ‼️ Asap ‼️
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Impeach Trump ⭑ 5 Calls
Since Inauguration Day, Trump has consistently upended our constitutional separation of powers to unilaterally control all branches of our government; …
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Grumpy Zeus @grumpyzeus.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Capitol Riot Funding. Trump and every Republican is cheering that they can now use your taxpayer dollars to pay one of their favorite Jan 6th criminals, Robert Keith Packer, pictured below in an official Trump Family approved shirt.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They attacked our Capitol in his name. First he released them from prison. Now he’s rewarding them with millions. They beat the police officers who were protecting the citadel of our democracy, and now they’re going to be millionaires. youtu.be/d0lWyU748cA?...
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Trump DEMANDS Reparations for Jan 6 Rioter: OUT OF YOUR WALLET!
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Monsters Are Gutting America @paularevere.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Patrick Lovell The Producer @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com · 18/05/2026
Any President that sues his own government, while in office, should immediately be impeached
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“It's against the law for the president to in effect sue himself—and then settle for a huge sum. The court has the power to put a stop to these shenanigans and should do so. We are proud to represent over 90 members of Congress in making that request,” said Matt Platkin and Norm Eisen, Democracy Defenders Action, co-counsel for amici.
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... FYI 🤬 #Trump #Corruption 🤬
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Trump dismisses $10bn suit against IRS and creates $1.7bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
Democrats criticize deal as a slush fund that ‘funnels taxpayer dollars’ to Trump’s political allies
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.
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Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector
Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.
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MJdowntheshore @mjdowntheshore.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you don't vote Blue in November, you are supporting this kind of theft of our tax dollars. VOTE Blue.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...
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U.S. creates $1.7B 'lawfare' fund in exchange for Trump dropping $10B IRS suit
Trump sued the IRS in late January over the leak of his tax information by an IRS employee Charles
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026
Trump didn't settle a lawsuit. He dropped the lawsuit so there's no lawsuit to settle. He's just stealing this money. The lawsuit was just for show so he could say he settled a lawsuit.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Someone is really happy about a slush payment for criminals.
Sidney Powell, RTIng news of a slush fund that may reward her fraud.

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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump is DROPPING his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a $1.776 billion COMPENSAITON FUND for those wrongly targeted and prosecuted by the Biden admin — ABC
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Today Trump "negotiated" with his private criminal defense lawyer—a man he made AG for this corrupt purpose—the theft of $1.8B in taxpayer money so that it could be given to far-right terrorists in open rebellion against America. It's the most corrupt act by a POTUS in history.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/05/2026
There is no way the republicans would be anything less that outraged if Obama had taken almost $2 billion of taxpayer dollars and given it to people he pardoned for trying to steal an election. Every republican in congress who doesn’t speak up and prevent this is complicit
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
93 House Democrats are trying to stop Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
When I met with BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA a couple of weeks ago, I wish I had asked him to show me his VERY WELL made HOLLYWOOD MASK that he wore to sometimes do press conferences while impersonating "Joe Biden"!! Everyone now knows that. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MISSED OPPORTUNITY.
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Trump Administration Live Updates: $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05... Not Gift Article. Headline tells all. 🤬
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Trump Administration Live Updates: $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So incredibly corrupt. A slush fund for his friends who attacked the Capitol, ogles, etc. - and himself. www.kwqc.com/2026/05/18/t...
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
How these AI data centers are getting approved 😳😳😳😡😡😡🤬
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 159 Active Redistricting Cases: 47 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 79 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 77 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 www.democracydocket.com
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The End of the Line … Corrupt Court Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-e...
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The End of the Line … Corrupt Court Edition
The more I speak with people both in the political world and...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/05/2026
"Democratic voters got through to their elected officials on gerrymandering. Now they need to get through to them on the filibuster and on Supreme Court reform." — @joshtpm.bsky.social
publicnotice.co
Josh Marshall on how US democracy can be saved
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Pamela Cooper @pcoop1960.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... FYI about another scam #Trump #Corruption
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Trump moves to dismiss $10bn lawsuit against IRS amid reports he’s considering settlement
Settlement with the US government would create $1.7bn fund to compensate allies for supposed persecution
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Please Check out New awesome starter pack from Helen go.bsky.app/PgCTxAP
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The Secretary of Defense is in Kentucky today. Campaigning for a guy running against a sitting Republican congressman. The day before the primary. Pete Hegseth is stumping for Ed Gallrein, who’s trying to take out Thomas Massie tomorrow because Massie wants the Epstein files released.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@grahamformaine.bsky.social I have faith in you, Buddy 👇
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11diva11 @11diva11.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Add this to the extensive list of crimes for which he must be removed from office. Impeachment Now!
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Bluesky Starter Pack @blueskystarterpack.com · 26/01/2025
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