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Peggy Layne

@peggyl.bsky.social
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Engineer, equity advocate, traveler, crafter, seeker of truth

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
2. ICYMI: A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...
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Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting
A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Comment on the arch. Please!
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"There is no Delcy Rodríguez in Cuba or Iran," Boot said. "I think his success in Venezuela led him astray, thinking that this was a template that could be replicated elsewhere…. And, in fact, it turns out to be a unique set of circumstances." www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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Trump likes a naval blockade. But Iran presents major differences from Venezuela and Cuba
Unlike Cuba or Venezuela, Iran choked off a crucial trade route for energy shipments, meaning the longer the standoff persists, the more the global economy will suffer.
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"Nearly 350 years later, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s grasp of science and military logistics appears considerably worse than Kangxi’s.” Well played, @beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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Pete Hegseth Is America’s New Secretary of Pestilence
Reversing vaccine mandates is a disaster for military readiness.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
According the AG Blanche, “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.” This is some whacked out far-right fantasy. Hard to imagine this theory will hold up in court, but the lives of paid informants who infiltrated hate groups will be at risk. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/feder...
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Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspi...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Trump has ordered attacks in seven countries since returning to office. That’s just one less than the number of wars he asserts he ended and seven more than he actually ended.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...
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Why Attack Iran?
Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We all know the poem, and there is no shade of white that will save you from this murderous regime.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Nothing threatens authoritarian regimes more than act of nonviolent protest — people standing together, choosing empathy and courage, and refusing to be afraid.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The revenge docket strikes again: Fed’l Prosecutors open a criminal investigation into Fed Chair Powell & whether he lied to Congress about building renovations. (Gutsy, coming from they guy who tore down the East Wing) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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Federal Prosecutors Are Said to Have Opened Inquiry Into Fed Chair Powell
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Listen to Powell here. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Tomorrow on my live podcast "History Matters" The Power of Turning Points: January 3, 6, 7...& More Turning points are a chance to rewrite the narrative of history for better & worse. Sometimes...much worse. Join us to discuss the power of NOW. Friday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl6m...
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The Power of Turning Points: January 3, 6, 7...and More
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/12/2025
Senate News: Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into their latest government funding bill that would make it easier to sell off public lands and national parks, and may have the votes to do it. If you care about protecting your public lands, now’s the time to make it known.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Unavoidable conclusion: SCOTUS has put 1 man in America above the law & created a king. Not the first time a case has been decided wrong. The fix for democracy lies, as it did in Dred Scott, with fixing a broken decision. Hopefully this one won’t require a civil war. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Yesterday, the Trump admin opened up all 1.6 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Reguge's Coastal Plain to oil and gas drilling. This land has never been developed. It's sacred wilderness.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Got a news tip about the Census Bureau or Postal Service? I'm a @npr.org correspondent who can be reached on Signal at hansi.01 (please use a nonwork device), and here’s my latest article:
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A major census test begins recruiting workers as some warn about delays
The Census Bureau is looking for temporary workers to carry out next year's major field test of the 2030 census in six states, as the national head count's advocates raise concerns about preparations.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/10/2025
President Donald Trump’s administration has terminated $352 million in grants and contracts this year to the Research Triangle Institute, the United States’s third largest independent research organization, a report estimates.
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Cuts in global health and climate hit Research Triangle Institute hard
“Financial drubbing” underscores reliance of some independent research organizations on federal funding
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 09/10/2025
My statement with @markwarner.bsky.social on the Trump Administration’s malicious prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James:
"A few weeks ago, Trump forced Erik Siebert, a highly-qualified prosecutor with a sterling reputation, to resign as interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia because he refused to bring trumped-up charges against James. Then, Trump installed to lead the Eastern District his personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan—a Florida insurance lawyer who is not licensed to practice law in Virginia and had prosecuted exactly zero cases in her life. By putting someone so unqualified in charge of one of the most important law enforcement offices in the country, Trump has made clear that he doesn’t care about keeping Virginians safe, only about weaponizing the justice system to punish his political opponents...""...To prosecutors across America: the integrity of our justice system depends on your courage to resist political interference. History will remember those who stood firm in defense of the rule of law, and those who allowed themselves to be complicit in corrupt, politically-motivated prosecutions."
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
bsky.app/profile/govp... Life during wartime. Chicago is now occupied territory.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hey folks: Many of you have been asking for a syllabus for "America at 250" -- the lecture course I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Here you go (scroll down to the bottom): president.yale.edu/committees-p...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is where we are. Say it plain. He's trying to become a dictator. Turning the military against Americans who oppose him is a pretty sure sign, folks.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Very illegal.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2025
NEW: Far-right sheriffs and election deniers are teaming up to police elections and sow doubt about their integrity. From seizing voting machines to patrolling ballot boxes, their tactics offer a glimpse into how Trump could use them to subvert elections, @jesspish.bsky.social writes.
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“Constitutional” Sheriffs Have Already Shown Us How the Trump Administration Might Attempt To Overthrow Elections
Read more here.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Trump is pledging to stand by NATO, but his Defense Department is cutting all security assistance funding for European countries, including the Baltics. And Trump is criticizing Putin, but he still hasn’t imposed any new sanctions on Russia. He even exempted Russia from his tariffs. wapo.st/4gOO40a
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Opinion | ‘Good luck to all!’ What are U.S. allies supposed to do with that?
On NATO and Russia, Trump’s actions don’t match his words.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/09/2025
“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” From the archives:
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A Permanent Stain on Our History
The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
States are now running info on millions of U.S. voters through the upgraded SAVE system to check citizenship, etc. 33 million voter records have been shared so far — 26M since Aug. 15. That’s even as concerns persist about data accuracy and security. www.npr.org/2025/09/10/n...
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33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check
Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Russia murders pensioners kyivindependent.com/russian-air-...
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'Pure terrorism' — At least 25 killed in Russian air strike on Ukrainian village during pension payouts
The bombing took place around 11 a.m. while local residents lined up to receive pensions, according to officials. The casualties included local pensioners and employees of Ukrposhta, Ukraine's nationa...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
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A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
“The deference and latitude that Congress and the Supreme Court have granted the executive will not necessarily snap back as soon as a new president is in office; dismantled institutions and discarded habits will not magically reconstitute themselves.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
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Opinion | Enough With the Trump Era Compulsion
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Read this, by @jamellebouie.net. These are the stakes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
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Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ―Orwell, 1984
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Trump says the Smithsonian focuses too much on 'how bad slavery was'
A White House official told NBC News that Trump plans to expand his review of museums beyond the Smithsonian, which is based in Washington, D.C.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
They know that they’re a minority. They can’t win a fair election.
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11/08/2025
Donald Trump has personally incited more crime in Washington DC than perhaps anyone else living. He pardoned violent criminals who attacked our Capitol and put them back in American communities. He even made a man who was filmed urging the crowd to kill DC police officers a senior adviser at DOJ.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Tyrants throughout history have used promises of law and order to strip away fundamental human rights and start using the tools of the state to go after their opponents. That's what we saw today with Trump's illegal seizure of control of the DC police. www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-c...
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Why Trump's Chilling Flex of Brute Force is So Disturbing
Our president is a wannabe tyrant, using techniques favored exclusively by leaders in thugocracies across the world.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
He went after LA. He's going after DC. Then he is coming for the rest of America's Democrat-leaning big cities. One goal is power. One goal is racist. And one is to be able to influence future elections. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-c...
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Why Trump's Chilling Flex of Brute Force is So Disturbing
Our president is a wannabe tyrant, using techniques favored exclusively by leaders in thugocracies across the world.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/08/2025
NEW: Voter ID laws don’t solve the problem of voter fraud — they solve the “problem” of high voter turnout. Learn more about how voter ID laws are used to undermine our democracy and you’ll never call voter ID “common sense” again. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
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The Real Cost of Voter ID Laws — And Who Pays the Highest Price
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 12/08/2025
First, Donald Trump used the Marines and the National Guard to support his mass deportation agenda in Los Angeles. Now, he's using similar tactics in D.C. like a tinpot dictator. Don't look away. Don't stay silent. If you do, don't be surprised if it's your city next.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 11/08/2025
Our new explainer breaks down the history of birthright citizenship in the United States — and the consequences of ending it. bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
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Birthright Citizenship Under the U.S. Constitution
The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It seems unhelpful to me that whenever someone says “Trump proposal X would be clearly illegal” a thousand people all chorus in to say “yes but SCOTUS is in the bag, it doesn’t matter.” Sure, the corrupt majority might sign off on anything. But we need to ACT like the law still matters.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/07/2025
UPDATE: Workers at FOUR of the most important US science agencies have now filed letters of dissent against their leadership. After initially delaying their letter due to fears of retaliation, NSF workers have gone ahead anyway, and joined their colleagues at NIH, EPA, and NASA in speaking up.
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Axios @axios.com · 24/07/2025
State Department to burn almost $10 million of contraceptives for poor countries
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Trump administration to burn nearly $10 million in contraceptives for poorer nations
The plans are aligned with the administration's goal of reducing foreign aid and abortion access.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
‘1984’ is upon us If you think cutting $1 trillion from medicaid won’t cost people insurance and make things more expensive you don’t understand how things work
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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️
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Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week
Abrupt termination of satellite data by U.S. Department of Defense sends forecasters scrambling for a fix on the brink of the busiest stretch of the hurricane season
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.
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