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Pat Jones

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Retired high school and college English teacher

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Pat Jones @pksjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hegseth appears to have watched the movie "Patton" a few times too many. Having seen only clips from the movie, I observe his prancing angrily and belligerently back and forth across the stage with the flag as a backdrop. He missed his calling. He should have been an actor. He's no Sec of State.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I missed this in the Constitution.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Midwest
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exstntlnhlstgrl.bsky.social @exstntlnhlstgrl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything is for sale. Everything.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donate to his Super PAC? He'll pardon your crimes. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll appoint you to a government position. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll grant you favorable regulatory rulings that help boost your bottom line. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
The White House is using funds meant to protect the country from terror attacks to illegally fund campaign commercials. Another flagrant example of how this administration’s rampant corruption and lawlessness hurt our national security.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 27/09/2026
Students with disabilities (and their parents and guardians) rely on federal protections when schools fail them. But now cuts to the Education Department’s civil rights office have left thousands of complaints dismissed without investigation. theconversation.com/what-civil-r...
theconversation.com
What civil rights enforcement cuts mean for students with disabilities – fewer staff, closed offices, longer waits
Filing a civil rights complaint with the Office of Civil Rights can be parents’ last stop. Following cuts and restructuring, this federal office is no longer serving that same resource.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Because if Americans disapprove of Trump, then we really need to get rid of this democracy nonsense... bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
WELKER: Did President Xi actually commit to stop China's support of Iran with this war? MIKE WALTZ: They've had, uh, good, strong, and I think fulsome conversations about that support, but I'll leave that to the president to detail (So, no!)
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian Defenders managed to carry out one of the largest drone operations to deliver food to residents of occupied #Oleshky, where Russia has created a humanitarian catastrophe&continues to hold around 2,000 residents hostage,including nearly 50 children 📹Kherson Regional Military Administration
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"
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Rep. Adam Smith @adamsmith.house.gov · 24/09/2026
Trump aspires to be Kim Jong Un or President Xi or Putin to lead a country where he's the absolute dictator.
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 19/09/2026
Because of Trump's Big Ugly Bill, over 2,010 Americans in my district were kicked off SNAP. We need to reverse these cuts and make sure everyone has the food assistance they need. #SaveOurSnap
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump is so desperate to distract people from his failures that he’s releasing videos of birds and calling them UFOs.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New at PN, @schaller67.bsky.social: "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national govt?" 🧾 t2m.co/xHakyh21
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "When I said with Jesse Watters that I'd rather have good roads and good schools than have a billionaire make a second billion, I know that resonated with a lot of folks who might not agree with everything else I had to say."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration suffered its 24th straight court loss in its voter roll grab Thursday, after a federal judge in Vermont denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to access Green Mountain State voters’ unredacted personal data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ is 0-24 in its voter roll grab after Vermont demand rejected
So far, the DOJ has lost every one of its case to have been decided — and it also lost an appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pennsylvania officials are now reporting two more measles deaths, bringing the total to four this year. RFK Jr. continues to dispute the numbers, claiming there have been zero, despite Pennsylvania health officials confirming the cases.
pa.gov
DOH Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths
DOH Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
89% of Americans say corruption is widespread in government. That includes 83% of Republicans, 90% of independents, and 91% of Democrats. We can all agree: SOMETHING must be done to stop this corruption.
cnn.com
Analysis: Two new things in the shocking US government corruption numbers | CNN Politics
It is not news, or surprising, that Americans are worried about government corruption.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Adam Schiff @adamschiff.com · 15/09/2026
🚨 Today is National Voter Registration Day. Are you registered to vote? Election Day is less than 50 days away. We need your vote to: 🗳️ Address the cost of living 🗳️ Put a check on the President, and 🗳️ Flip the House and Senate Register to vote at iwillvote.com.
iwillvote.com
I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Facility staff said detainees were not locked in the enclosures, but federal investigators found locking mechanisms on them..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
nytimes.com
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Used Small Cages to Confine Migrants, DHS Watchdog Report Says
The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog provided new details about conditions at the now-shuttered Florida detention center.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Me predicting weeks ago that Trump was going to blame Ukraine for diesel prices and that he would publicly demand that Zelenskyy stop bombing Russian refineries, which happened today.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No wonder the cavier was so yummy..
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
She’s the perfect wife for Junior. Both seem completely narcissistic, self-absorbed, craving constant attention, greedy and immoral.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The video of this is genuinely unsettling. He literally appears to have no idea what the journalist is talking about when she mentions January 6—even when she clarifies that she is talking about 2021 and about the rioters at the Capitol that day. He looks at her blankly. Scary.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Makes me wish we had one. Or, maybe, just one that isn't monumentally stupid.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is an admission of Cheating….
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 14/09/2026
Why is a Russian oligarch footing the bill for Donald Jr.'s wedding? Is the Trump family not making enough money off their crypto grift and other schemes? Do they need to sell out American interests to Russia for a cheap buck as well?
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Trueharmony @trueharmony.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is how he answers a reporter.
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Rep. Adam Smith @adamsmith.house.gov · 14/09/2026
Everything about the president’s acceptance of the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747 now being used as Air Force One is deeply troubling. @democrats-armedservices.house.gov
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Mark Clemens @markclemens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not sure the guy that bankrupted 6 companies is the right guy to make this decision.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mike Johnson never has had any moral center. He has no love for any part of the Bible that doesn't include stoning. And Herrera is the R trying to replace the guy who cheated on his wife with a staffer he drove to suicide. This is who the GOP is.
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oligarchssuck.bsky.social @oligarchssuck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Worst president ever with worst cabinet ever with negotiators who are serving Putin.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why the sour puss? A woman he can’t lunge at or insult? Holding it in is a real bitch, eh?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump has not once called on Putin to stop bombing civilian population centers, which he targets daily. Witkoff & Kushner never said that to Putin. We cut off Patriots to Ukraine for air defense. But now he demands Ukraine stop bombing refineries while Russia murders civilians.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here’s what I mean. There was a time where Marshall would be able to mount a defense of the tariffs (as indefensible as they are) but he’s got like, at most, two sentences. bsky.app/profile/theb...
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Pat Jones @pksjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social What an outstanding program this evening! Thank you for providing such clarity on issues that were, and still are, horrors that still afflict our American society. Bigotry has never gone away.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 12/09/2026
Trump wants $1.5 trillion for war. But not a cent more for child care. I'm tossing his budget into the trash.
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