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Sue M.

@purplesgem.bsky.social
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Looking for immunity from some aspects of the Twitter universe. Interested in national & international politics. New York, USA. Supporter/friend of Canada. We need a miracle now or many miracles to save democracy. Sue M.@purplesgem on X Lake Ontario fan

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 13h
"Uneducated cousin fucker" was the perfect start to my day. 🤣🤣🤣 They're too stupid to argue with, so mocking is the only solution.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3h
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 22h
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 6h
Letitia James AND Sally Yates??? AMAZING.
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SDDPHOTO @sddphoto.bsky.social · 12h
Is anyone going to talk about or do anything about the President of the United States suggesting a foreign nation demolish San Diego and LA? Anyone? Congress? Supremes? Psych hospital? Cabinet? GOP?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h
Good news from the Badlands! Today, October 6, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit based on the Pine Ridge Reservation, plans to return 50 bison to nearly 40,000 acres in the Stronghold area of Badlands National Park.
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Lakota nonprofit returning bison to 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park to restore native prairie
Thunder Valley CDC will release 50 bison across 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park on Oct. 6, restoring native prairie ecology and Lakota stewardship.
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Turner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social · 2h
We are saddened to say goodbye to our dear friend, Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint. One of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, we’ll forever be grateful for unforgettable contributions to cinema, her generosity and her humor. Our thoughts are with her loved ones.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 4h
For the first time, we’re partnering with labor unions to speed up and modernize hiring for city jobs. It should be easy, fast, and fair to find a good-paying job serving the city we call home — and after 100 years, we’re due for an update.
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Mamdani Enlists Unions in Push to Overhaul NYC Hiring
A new mayoral task force will study the dysfunctional 143-year-old civil service system and propose changes in Albany.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 7h
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11h
Absolutely 👇
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4h
Attn: A FBI supervisor is blowing the whistle on the Trump administration’s targeting of anti-ICE protesters. Jill Fields states the White House pushed the FBI to investigate people in Los Angeles even after agents determined their actions were protected by the First Amendment.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13h
Agreed.......
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Paulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 12h
Use the 25th Amendment Now
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For the folks who are still in my mentions telling me this was a hoax: The military doesn’t move strategic bombers for funsies. There was clearly specific intelligence that necessitated emptying Fairford of B-1s.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can't believe trump would be bribing voters after Susan Collins assured us that he learned his lesson when she voted to acquit him in the Senate after he was impeached for trying to bribe Ukraine.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So if America is doing great, everyone is richer and in the "golden age" why is that man campaigning to 'Make America Great Again'???
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love that Jack Smith can go out in public without getting booed.
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davidej2025.bsky.social @davidej2025.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the greatest presidents has returned to help defeat the most corrupt person in US history.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed. Do not forget this.
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absurd17.bsky.social @absurd17.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Orange Guy demands that things should look the way he wants. So he has gilded the Oval Office, destroyed the East Wing, and threatens to destroy the Kennedy Center. Remember what he said to his Chief of Staff about disabled veterans? “Nobody wants to see that.”
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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
April 28, 2026 A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
June 23, 2026 archive.ph/oxkp5 White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities and the DOJ seeking public guardianship/conservatorship of homeless veterans.
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Stephen Miller Said to Drive DOJ Memo Eroding Disability Rights
White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based ca...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Disability advocates warn these changes could push more people into institutions by making the support they need at home harder to get. This affects children, adults, and elderly parents. Nobody should have to give up their freedom to get the care they need.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now this administration is weakening the protections that make that possible. This follows a DOJ opinion challenging protections for community-based care and Trump’s push to institutionalize homeless people.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A judge stripped community-integration protections from a federal disability rights regulation at the Trump administration’s request. Disabled Americans fought for decades for the right to live in their own homes and communities.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What an amazing event yesterday! Tom Morello brought together Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, and so many others at the Power to the People festival to speak up against Trump and remind us this country belongs to all of us.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Every act of art is an act of resistance” -Tom Morello
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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Early for #MosaicMonday, but a progress update on my edible Theodora mosaic (made out of fondant on wafer paper)! Think it is almost done ☺️
Photo of sheet of water paper with lots of differently colored pieces of fondant that I colored and cut tesserae out of, and made a mosaic of the empress Theodora with a gold background; I attached the tesserae with edible ‘food glue’
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Trump keeps saying that a 1929-style Great Depression is likely during the second half of his term. Quite the midterm message.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump, having lost much of his leverage, knows he can’t even appear to accomplish much in 2027 and 2028. www.commondreams.org/opinion/dona...
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Five Reasons Trump Might Actually Resign | Common Dreams
Trump, having lost much of his leverage, knows he can’t even appear to accomplish much in 2027 and 2028.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/sanders...
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Warning US Is 'Moving Toward a Surveillance State,' Sanders and AOC Propose Crackdown on Flock Cameras | Common Dreams
"AI-powered cameras are keeping track of our every move and weaponizing this data against working people to make record profits," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My end-of-life patient told me she wanted her favorite Domino's pizza--feta & spinach with Alfredo. So of course, I ordered it to the #ICU. And yes, when she insisted that I sit down & eat a slice with her, I did. Her nurse told me she has never seen anything like this 😊@3wishesprogram.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We've paid enough for his illegal involvement in our government. Nobody wants this bastard in there. We have enough of them right now. Call your representatives.☎️
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seriously 💥
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!
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Les LeMieux @leslemieux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sis and BIL were flying from Seattle to Paris when Schmitt did his faceplant the other day so they missed it. She texted they had lunch today w/ about 15 friends from around the world. Two Aussies swore that the instant Jack Smith mentioned Caitlin Clark they knew Schmitt had fu*ked up royally 😂😂😂
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Way to go, California! Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill yesterday banning law enforcement (ICE) from using electric shock gloves.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Senior leaders at Customs and Border Protection were left out of the decision to use their agency’s funds for a national ad campaign featuring Trump. They found out from a news report. Trump isn’t smart enough to come up with this himself. Our guess? Stephen Miller.
nbcnews.com
CBP leaders cut out of Trump ad buy decision
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott and other leaders at the agency learned from a news report that national ads highlighting Trump were paid for with CBP funds.
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James Baum @toyman81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Vance has always been a phony! As a Vice President he’s a complete zero! No energy, so many excuses, never says anything meaningful! If he’s this bad in a do nothing job, I can’t even imagine how terrible he would be as president!
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NOTE: these positions are now CENTER in the US...
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Mincepies @mincepies8888.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
US Vote deadlines are close Registration ends: Oct 4th - Alaska, Rhode Island, S. Carolina. Oct 5th - Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Texas Help Desk: www.votefromabroad.org Citizens abroad request ballot by e mail. Please repost everywhere to remind other Americans
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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org
Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org
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hardasnails.bsky.social @hardasnails.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CBS Evening News did not even mention the Hawks/Hawkeyes fiasco last night. They were not going to embarrass a GOP senator. It’s pure propaganda.
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