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RockDems VA @rockdemsva.bsky.social · 2h

"Find the blockers between us and what we want, Elon told his young followers. Find the blockers and eliminate them... Doge wanted the data."

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 4h

This is a long read, explaining how Tr"mp's DOGE forced a massive, illegal transfer of data from the IRS to the Department of Homeland Security. This resulted in the illegal hunting, kidnapping, and detention of tens of thousands of law-abiding, tax-paying immigrants. It's absolutely horrific.

theguardian.com

‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington

When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not a big CATO fan but this is compelling and well worth watching and considering. youtu.be/hrYleZr-BK4?...

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Your Verdict Counts - the Power of the Juror

YouTube video by The Cato Institute

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I ran for VA HouseofDels in 2023, I heard all the time "I'm a Republican who votes Democratic." Same thing is happening x10 in CD-1 w/Shannon Taylor & CD-5 w/Tom Perriello. Responsible, good governance Republicans in Hanover & surrounding counties have had it w/the cruelty, chaos & corruption.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This piece highlights that despite the success of those of us pushing back on AI mania, some bad experiments are being performed on children with AI tools. Superintendent and administrators appear especially vulnerable to industry talking points.

npr.org

Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In broad terms, reform ideas in the US break down into anti-party (or party weakening) and pro-party (i.e. multi-party). Anti-party reforms have superficial appeal but frankly don't work. Pro-party reforms aim to produce more coherent and more legible choices on the ballot, which is what does work.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR

wapo.st

U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is what having a weak Congressional (Republican) majority means. He can do whatever he wants. Zero accountability. Zero rule of law.

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop trying to make Rahm happen.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not surprising but outrageous, ominous and very damaging nevertheless. Congressional Republicans are giving away the farm. "An independent federal council helmed by Trump appointees abruptly cut off historic reviews w/local governments for the president’s planned 250-ft tall arch along thePotomac."

politico.com

Trump officials sideline local historians in arch review

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation made the stunning move after D.C. and Virginia balked over the project's potential harms.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yup. One of those good old boy white people is right here in Hanover County. Serves in the Virginia House of Delegates and protected by the local Republican party & all the local Republican electeds, including law enforcement. Electoral & voter fraud is okay for them but not for the little people.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Russ Thurlow Vought—has once again—withheld 810 million dollars of appropriated money at the end of the year. It is called a pocket recission, www.politico.com/news/2026/09....

politico.com

Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress

Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is shameful that many of the people who worked to help clean up after 9/11 in New York are being treated this way. Absolutely shameful. They deserve so much better. "They are among the thousands of cleanup crews who rushed to the destruction in lower Manhattan following the attacks of 9/11."

npr.org

They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE

After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.

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henricodems.bsky.social @henricodems.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's what Rob Wittman has ACTUALLY done to kids and parents: ❌ Cut their food ❌ Cut their health care ❌ Raised prices on housing, food, clothing, fuel, etc But yeah, feel free to read his 🤪 list of "accomplishments." 🤪 wittmanforms.house.gov/news/email/s...

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Representative Rob Wittman

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hegseth continues to manipulate the numbers of dead and wounded in the Iran War. The tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from DOD. That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database.

washingtonpost.com

Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war

With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.

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hanovervadems.bsky.social @hanovervadems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great new ad from @shannontaylorva.com! "Politicians in both parties are cheating the system, getting rich by trading stock while getting information only they have, personally profiting when corporations rip us off."

youtu.be

Taught Me

YouTube video by Shannon Taylor for Virginia

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026

Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

motherjones.com

AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Vouchers do NOT include federal protections, or any protections or guarantees of a proper education, for students with disabilities or any other students. Vouchers don't bring better educational results, either.

hechingerreport.org

Parents of students with disabilities find private school vouchers come with a catch

Federal protections for students in special education don’t apply to private schools, but parents aren’t always informed

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good. All other media outlets should refuse to cover briefings and press releases coming from the White House until all attacks on freedom of the press and the 1st Amendment end.

axios.com

CNN, MS NOW, Politico sues White House over blocked access

The outlets will argue their First Amendment rights were violated by the ban.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The sad thing is I thought this already happened. There will be so much to un-do and re-build.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Wittman Watch @wittmanwatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reminder: Rob Wittman is Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee WHICH OVERSEES DEFENSE CONTRACTS. He uses #VA01's seat in Congress to enrich himself, his donors, and his party bosses - and never to help the people who live in our district.

open.substack.com

Seniority is not power

We can't afford to keep Rob Wittman in Congress

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

apnews.com

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026

“The secretive, close relationship between the son of a sitting U.S. President and a member of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s inner circle raises serious national security and public corruption concerns,” Rep. Robert Garcia wrote.

propublica.org

Top Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded Wedding

Rep. Robert Garcia said the revelations that Umar Kremlev had bankrolled the wedding raise “serious national security and public corruption concerns” and requested the president’s son provide financia...

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I started my new substack, gulp, 3 months ago. Below is my inaugural post. I'm going to have a new post out soon, a meta one, explaining why it's taken so long for me to write the next post. In the meantime, please subscribe--it's free!

rachellevy.substack.com

Welcome to my new blog, I mean, substack!

Hey, everyone!

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Knock, knock, knocking doors in Hanover today, Kersey Creek Precinct, getting the word out about @shannontaylorva.com, the @hanovervadems.bsky.social and #NoOnWittman. This weekend and every weekend untill the job is done. You, too, can knock doors in Hanover! Comment below or PM me.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"On Saturday, Fleisher and other activists who are a part of RVA Indivisible are gathering at a busy intersection by RIC to act as a witness to the deportation flights and to “demand an end to these cruel and unlawful deportations....at the corner of Williamsburg Road and Airport Drive in Sandston."

henricocitizen.com

Planned Saturday protest seeks end to ongoing deportation flights at RIC

This year, on his way to the library or the gym, Varina resident Paul Fleisher witnessed unmarked airplanes as well as planes with company logos that aren’t featured as commercial carriers at Richmond...

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