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princesssmartass.bsky.social @princesssmartass.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I feel like women should set up a cross-country driving network to deliver prescriptions that can't be mailed anymore.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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DebJordan Kauble @debjordan-kauble.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Is administration is full of ignorant liars.
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princesssmartass.bsky.social @princesssmartass.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
So Congress is gonna hold the Clintons in contempt but haven't yet managed to hold DOJ in contempt for being nearly a month late on releasing the Epstein files?
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princesssmartass.bsky.social @princesssmartass.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Gerrymandering bill FAILS in the Indiana Senate 31-19. SUCK IT FASCISTS!!!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/11/2025
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This wins Bluesky today. It is BRILLIANT!!!!!!!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
gift link - no paywall. very much worth reading: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Truth.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2025
New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein wrote, “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed, and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way." One problem: Kirk's advocacy was laced with racist and bigoted statements.
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No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Ugh dogs are the best. The absolute best.
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Bri4Change @bri4change.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18/06/2025
I'm a human rights lawyer. I have represented immigrants & asylum seekers my entire career. As you see ICE increase its attacks on immigrants, here are steps you as a US citizen can take to be an ally & protect immigrants from ICE and CBP absue. (No paywall) qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-to-pro...
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How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids
Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors
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princesssmartass.bsky.social @princesssmartass.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Indiana Republicans slipped control over IU's Board of Trustees for our Braun-nosing governor into their budget bill. No public debate.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
👀 🚨 Uhm ... From the PEW Research Center Poll today: Americans disapprove of Trump's assault on DEI policies by 9 points: 53-44 He has lost support on immigration and now on this. What's gonna happen to the elite DC/NY media narrative on DEI? www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Graphic of Pew poll showing how majority disapprove off key Trump regime actions including cuts to fed debts and agencies (55-44), increasing tariffs (59-39), and actions to end DEI polices in fed govt (53-44).
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CNN @cnn.com · 24/04/2025
JUST IN: A federal judge has halted parts of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that sought to boost requirements that Americans show documents proving their citizenship when registering to vote. cnn.it/3Yea7Fo
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Federal judge halts Trump administration’s policy of deportation to third countries
In a significant legal blow to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, a federal judge has slammed the brakes on a controversial deportation policy that allowed the deportation of migrants to c...
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Five cabinet members are facing a federal lawsuit over the Trump administration’s signal chat group scandal. The judge assigned to the case is the same judge involved in the Venezuela/El Salvador deportation’s case. abcnews.go.com/US/lawsuit-t...
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Lawsuit over Trump administration's Signal group chat assigned to judge in deportation case
Five Cabinet members are facing a federal lawsuit over the use of Signal to coordinate military strikes in Yemen.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Very Well Said and Accurate….
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
RFK's group set up a fake CDC site full of vaccine disinfo. Very reminiscient of the fake "abortion" websites antis put up, to trick women seeking abortions into being too afraid to do it.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Judge Chuang: The Trump admin's "actions harmed not only Plaintiffs, but also the public interest, because they deprived the public's elected representatives in Congress of their constitutional authority to decide whether, when, and how to close down an agency created by Congress."
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NPR @npr.org · 13/03/2025
JUST IN: Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week, a district judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were terminated unlawfully.
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Thousands of fired federal workers must be offered reinstatement, a judge rules
Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week, a district judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were ter...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/03/2025
NEW: 21 Democratic attorneys general sue Trump after the Education Department fired around half of its workforce. The attorneys general argue the cuts will “incapacitate” the department while causing “immense” damage to the education system.
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21 States Sue Trump to Block Education Department Demolition
Read more here.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
> @ironstache.bsky.social
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/02/2025
Trump's promise of revenge comes at a cost—for you, and your neighbors. Here’s how those targeted are fighting back. Read the full slate of stories here.
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Trump's targets
He promised revenge. Here’s who’s first on his list—and how they’re fighting back.
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princesssmartass.bsky.social @princesssmartass.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Today the institution of higher education where I work is "sunsetting" their Diversity, Equity, and Belonging" efforts. Because First Felon and our state legislature are ignorant tyrants. The Lt. Gov. of Indiana tweeted that they had "schooled those woke liberals" before the bill even passed.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Sounds... efficient? "There are no more civil servants now than there were in the late 1960s, even as the population they serve has grown by two-thirds." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Trump wants to bring back the spoils system of the 19th century.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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What you can do
Revised and expanded
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...
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All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders
We put them all in one place.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New rule: If you're OK with Trump's cabinet picks, you're never allowed to bring up meritocracy again. Ever.
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princesssmartass.bsky.social @princesssmartass.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Immigrations, Congregations, and Ministry in 2025
YouTube video by Wisconsin Council of Churches
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump II has begun. Many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
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What you can do
Ten ways to resist Trump II
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/01/2025
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/01/2025
Attention Jan. 6th rioters: The Pearly Gates do not recognize pardons granted by convicted felons. Regards, God
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
You do NOT have to speak to ICE without a JUDICIAL warrant. If they attempt to enter your home or your workplace, ask for a warrant. Sometimes they will try to use other, non qualifying paperwork. They need a warrant. (2/3)
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The Pipsqueakery @thepipsqueakery.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
If you all are going to convince me to start re-writing posts for here I'm gonna need some dopamine in the form of interactions and followers for this 501c3 rescue and sanctuary. I'm a sucker for dopamine. How to support us: ❤️ linktr.ee/the_pipsqueakery
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/12/2024
Walmart’s defenders argue that the company's low prices are a boon to poor and middle-class families, Rogé Karma writes. But new research suggests that Walmart “makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all”: theatln.tc/Qmsc2qa5
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The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/12/2024
Earlier this month, Joe Biden granted nearly 1,500 Americans executive clemency. “American society tends to favor swift and harsh punishments; it recoils from mercy,” Elizabeth Bruenig writes. Clemency can correct our militant tendency: theatln.tc/p7u3SNZM
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In Praise of Mercy
Clemency is a tool for correcting the vengeful tendency to punish rather than forgive.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
BREAKING: Senate Dems' report on SCOTUS ethics inquiry decries "culture of misconduct," Thomas's gifts, Alito's failure to recuse, and Roberts's refusal to act. New, this morning at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/senate-jud...
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Breaking: Senate Dems' report on SCOTUS ethics inquiry decries "culture of misconduct"
Judiciary Dems' majority staff report calls for Congress to act given that "the justices have allowed ethical misconduct to persist for decades."
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princesssmartass.bsky.social @princesssmartass.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 19/12/2024
Texas is blocking the review of the deaths of pregnant women post-Dobbs to hide the consequences of their deadly law. Rep. Raskin, Rep. SummerLee, Rep. Pressley and I are calling on Texas HHS to explain why they're hiding the deaths of Texas women. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/19/t...
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U.S. House members want answers on Texas’ decision to not review maternal deaths after near-total abortion ban
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas led a letter calling for a briefing on why the state won’t review 2022 and 2023 deaths.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/12/2024
NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Today seems like a good day to debunk the 12 biggest myths about taxing the rich.
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12 Myths About Taxing the Rich | Robert Reich
Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America. Watch More: Do Corporate Tax Cuts Actually Help Americans? ►► https://youtu.be/srJZHQHHT8...
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Last night Timothy Snyder talked with Rachel about the idea of a shadow government to serve as a model and reminder of what is possible from a government of qualified people instead of Fox guests and family members. It came up twice, actually. Here's 1 of 2.
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