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Deb Howitt

@phyllae.bsky.social
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Canadian, retired M.Ed, liberal, woke. Value truth, science, facts! Books, cats, nature, love all make my world a better place.

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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
What Jesse Waters was saying about vengeance was nothing. This guy is suggesting that we kill the homeless. What the hell America?
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Trump recently ordered the Department of the Interior to halt work on a huge wind farm. 1,000 union workers had already completed 80% of the project. Now they're fired. He made sure the oil and gas billionaires got their tax breaks, though. Happy Labor Day, I guess.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
A rush of people converge at 14 & U
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2025
Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, had been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Robert Mueller’s Has Parkinson's And Can’t Testify Before Congress, Report Says
Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, had been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Opiniongirl @opiniongirl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Dear God, please make it stop just make it stop
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
📣 RE-UP! SHARE! *Do not stop talking about this* 60 Minutes Australia has been far ahead of U.S. broadcast media in featuring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell — a year ago! 📺 youtu.be/VQOOxOl9l80?... #LetSurvivorsTestify 🚨 📺 60 Minutes Australia Epstein Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes Australia
YouTube video by 60 Minutes Australia
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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
It’s weird so many liberals shoot the messenger on this. It’s as clear day to me that as far as post democracy, we are just about all the way there. I wonder if so much of the denial is folks are taught that Jim Crow was about water fountains and not violent political and economic repression.
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Selene Miranda, MSW @selenemiranda.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
www.motherjones.com #MotherJones current issue:
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Oh, JD’s just practicing for when he gets handed the big job.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
“Law firms that once proudly contributed thousands of hours of pro bono work to a host of causes ... have withdrawn from such work because it is disfavored by the Administration,” the American Bar Association wrote in its lawsuit.
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Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration
Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights and...
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 10/08/2025
Virginia Giuffre fought for survivors until the day she died. Her abusers still walk free. Her story must be told. Honor her life by making sure the world hears it. open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
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Remembering Virginia Giuffre
Daughter, Sister, Mother, Survivor, and Fierce Advocate
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Janet Nestor @janetnestor.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Letting go of ego is not always easy, but it is good for us and good for the world. The less ego, the more compassion and empathy.
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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Deb Howitt @phyllae.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
How crass tacky can you get? Even used car salesmen are a step up from felon 47.
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Raelee May Carpenter, Capitalism's Folk Devil @raeleemaycarpenter.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Sign on a telephone post: Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Fifty-one years ago today.
Nixon's resignation letter.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
It makes sense once you realize that every accusation is a confession.
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Reproductive Freedom for All @reproductivefreedomforall.org · 08/08/2025
YOU should get to decide if, when, and how to grow your family. We are fighting to make it so.
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Kate Good @kategood.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I envision him sitting the oval office screaming "More gold! I said MORE GOLD DAMMIT!!!" And staff members furiously ordering all the tacky crap they can find off of Temu with 2 day shipping.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
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🇺🇸💙💙🤔🤨CJ🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
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The FBI As We Knew It is Gone
It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.
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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no. www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...
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Mike Johnson hit with new accusation showing ‘clear-cut violation’ of federal law
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign ...
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Book Cover of the Day:
FIELDBOOK OF
* WILD BIRDS * AND THEIR MUSIC
F. SCHUYLER MATHEWS
Brown cover with gold lettering and decoration of a bird singing in brambled foliage
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This man represents all the symptoms of a psychopath... he is an indictment of a system that allows a person like him to govern.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/08/2025
NEWS: Sarcone’s investigation against one of Trump’s longtime targets, NYAG Letitia James, went public on Friday, but Sarcone may not have his own house in order, according to a recent bar complaint accusing him of “potentially illegal conduct.”
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Prosecutor Probing NYAG Hit With Bar Complaint for "Potentially Illegal Conduct"
The subject of the complaint is Trump's man in Albany: John Sarcone, who is now targeting the New York AG who won a half-billion dollar verdict against his boss.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/08/2025
BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York. ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We're not going to stop asking for the release of the #EpsteinFiles. Though at times I have a bad feeling they've mostly cleaned out 1 person's name. This is war. Plain and simple.
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Deb Howitt @phyllae.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Yep and biggest danger now is felon 47 has the nuclear codes! He wanted to nuke hurricanes last term....
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/08/2025
How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.
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Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True
How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.
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Deb Howitt @phyllae.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
DHS had gone through their entire funds until the BBBill passed awarding them more. They spent it on ICE agents bounties and Noem's trips to Egypt and Argentina and xcountry flights for photo ops fighting illegal women & kids
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S: 

Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier.
Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready."
Five stars. Will absolutely return.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/07/2025
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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She/her @saintlyred88.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Let’s add this shall we #EpsteinList
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social. 👁️
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/06/2025
Big flip opportunity for Dems just dropped
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Everyone should do this--speak out against the big ugly bill. Senate offices are closed, but their inboxes aren't. Let's get 1,000 more out by midnight: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Your Senators: Don't cut health care & food assistance to give another tax cut to the rich
Contact Congress today!
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I need this right now
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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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