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Ann Keisling Smith

@pergamon23.bsky.social
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documentary filmmaker, writer, photographer. Interested in the history of everything.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What they want you to believe: Wildfires = Canada mismanagement. What the data says: 335 million hectares burned globally in 2025. 3,955 fires in Canada in 2026 alone, 1,092,095 hectares in non-EU Europe, Spain, France, USA, South Africa, Australia. This is climate, not a country.
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Jim Obergefell is a leading LBGTQ+ activist, speaker, producer, author, and wine entrepreneur. Here he stories the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case, which guaranteed the marriage rights of same-sex couples across the United States. #WeAreAmerica250
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Leslie McBride @lesliemcbride.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Cool! I just found this on your YouTube channel. I can watch them all with on click! 🙂
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"Many of my colleagues believe that he can't be stopped. I see the force of their positions, but I don't share them. My best guess is that Trump’s Xanadu monstrosity does not get completed, even though it has been engineered to parry every legal and political challenge the system can throw at it."
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Yes, We Can Bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, and No, You Can't Do Anything About It
The administration's cynical, undemocratic agenda becomes clear at oral argument.
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
United States Representative Lori Trahan of Massachusetts recounts the life of A Wang, the Chinese American computer engineer who invented magnetic core memory and embraced an ethic of philanthropy. #WeAreAmerica250
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TopCat @tiffinjames.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I love the comment of @hcrichardson.bsky.social tonight saying that Todd Blanche is the reason why the Epstein files are wrongly redacted and half yet to be released. It would be GREAT if we called all our senators to say no to Blanche and REMIND them THEY voted to release EF and WHERE ARE THEY?
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Politico @politico.com · 03/04/2026
Trump asks Congress to supersize military budget, slash domestic programs
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Trump asks Congress to supersize military budget, slash domestic programs
The president’s fiscal 2027 budget request calls for Republicans to use a partisan process for enacting billions for the Pentagon.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/04/2026
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/04/2026
BREAKING: An investigation found that the Department of Defense has sent out outdated statements about the number of troops wounded or killed in Iran, appearing to engage in a “casualty cover-up." trib.al/0BdA1lY
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Ann Keisling Smith @pergamon23.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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@sarrah_bellus on Threads
Trump rejected it on camera. Mark Zuckerberg has officially banned the ability to copy links on threads related to politics! Look at this. Donald Trump Now try to copy the link…
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Shannypie @shannypie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is amazing. If only democrats would try to explain this to the electorate. It’s a winning message all the way around.
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Cathy - co-owner of 🇨🇦♥️ @cathy-nesbitt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Two of my favourite academics! An absolutely must watch discussion for folks desperate for facts. Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social Can’t wait for the next one! ♥️
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Coop @linjurz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
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Liberty and Justice for All @stacyatthebosco.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social So great!! HCR’s State of the Union could also be used as a primer for anyone who needs to get up to speed. www.youtube.com/live/g_PnMMX...
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Politics Chat, February 24, 2026
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
#MorningVibe In 1954, Edward R. Murrow reminded us that disagreeing with those in power isn’t the same as being disloyal. He warned against letting fear take over & replacing evidence with accusations. This is a call to courage. Freedom doesn’t protect itself.
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Once again, Republicans could stop all this right fucking now, but choose not to.
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done," journalist Garrett Graff wrote: "A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

 ~ Heather Cox Richardson ~
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BobbiefromIL @bkilus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
bsky.app/profile/nash... We must remain outraged at the inhumanity of this Regime. THIS is our defining moment as a Nation. We choose the legacy we leave for our Children.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Why are our taxpayer dollars funding our own torture? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters
Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.
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Dax (David J.) Schwartz @snurri.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16/02/2026
(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits:

paid for by cuts to reproductive health care

paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid

paid for by cuts to SNAP

paid for by cuts to clean energy projects

paid for by cuts to obesity prevention

paid for by cuts to disaster response

paid for by cuts to energy tax credits
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)
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The Senate Vote That Could Change Public Lands Forever
This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of public land protections — starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Lincoln’s words I come back to right now are “We cannot escape history…We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it…We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.”
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
Imprison women for making men sympathetic to poors & coloreds!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Jonathan V Last: "In 2023, the economy added 3 million jobs. In 2024, still under Biden, it added 2.2 million jobs. In 2025, under Trump, it added just 181,000 jobs. This is a story about an economy getting throttled by one man's capricious, destructive governance."
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Shock Poll: Americans Miss Joe Biden’s Economy
Here’s what they’re worried about.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 11/02/2026
Trump & his goons are weaponizing the DOJ against anyone who disagrees with them. They're trying to silence any dissent. But the tide is turning. The American people are speaking up and fighting back.
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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
Gary Kasparov:
As I wrote, if you think a massive US Gulag is being built just for illegal immigrants, along with a federal paramilitary force as large as the Marines, you're a fool. Billions in unaccountable cash from Venezuelan oil, shock troops, and detention camps. This is not a drill.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
They are warehousing human beings. Stephen Miller's vision for America is vast warehouses of people in concrete concentration camps, labor camps, death camps. And then CoreCivic and GeoGroup can bill the taxpayer billions for disappearing us into these warehouse gulags.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This well reported piece tracked 23 DHS warehouse purchase/lease attempts, how they have attempted to skirt local regs & officials, & avoid opposition. "'If they are going to house people there, it is a death camp. I don’t say that lightly,' said Arizona Sen. Analise Ortiz." shorturl.at/fmMj9
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MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’
In an apparent attempt to avoid public outcry and scrutiny, ICE has sought to secure these leases in private. So we made a searchable map of every proposed site.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 09/02/2026
Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein. Now we learned that they were in business together. He has no business being our Commerce Secretary. He should resign. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations
Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 09/02/2026
Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.
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Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows
The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.
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Rotorbabe Recordings @rotorbabe25.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Ann Keisling Smith @pergamon23.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This whistle fights fascists www.theverge.com/policy/87495...
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This whistle fights fascists
I print whistles now. You can too.
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Mrs. K (formerly Sarah Watters) @onesarahwatters.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Posting again.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Amid another wave of Trump lies about 2020 election, note today's analysis from elections security expert David Becker on Face the Nation “Not only are our elections not rigged, they're as transparent, verifiable and secure as they’ve ever been, whether you like the outcome or not"
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Really important piece in today's @nytimes.com about possible, disastrous next target of MAGA wrecking ball: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a... H/t to my friend @timothynoah.bsky.social for pioneering on this story: newrepublic.com/article/2010...
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It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
If this is true--it cements the US-Russian alliance. The USA becomes formally the enemy of freedom. Own up to this Republicans.
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NWArkProgressive @arkprogressive.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
In every state this is happening
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
this is the question.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 06/02/2026
A BYU alumnus and two faculty members entered the job fair wearing pro-immigrant T-shirts with messages like “I stand with immigrants" and “The kingdom of God has no borders.” An administrator told them to leave, saying BYU is “politically neutral,” and that if they refused they would be arrested.
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Utahns take to the streets outside of BYU to protest Border Patrol’s presence at campus job fair
Border Patrol's inclusion at a BYU job fair sparks protests off campus, with some demonstrators saying the immigration crackdown doesn't fit with LDS Church principles.
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The original ‘wine moms’ are in Ohio. They’re mobilizing their 600,000-strong network of suburban women to support Haitians in Springfield. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org
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The original ‘wine moms’ are in Ohio. They’re mobilizing to support Haitians in Springfield.
Katie Paris founded Red, Wine & Blue to harness suburban women's political power — now more than 600,000 members are deploying it to oppose ICE in their communities.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The conflict in Minneapolis plays out to a certain degree as a clash between mainstream Christians, led most notably by Catholics and Lutherans, on one hand, and white Evangelicals, especially Southern Baptists, on the other.
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The Religious Left Is a Leader in the ICE Resistance
University of Louisville political scientist David Buckley says liberal religious leaders are playing a key role in Minneapolis and in other efforts to resist Trump.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/01/2026
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is truly incredible. Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.
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