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Rainyknits

@rainyknits.bsky.social
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Knitter, learner, servant to cats. 3rd gen NYC transplanted to Green Bay. Post and Twitter refugee. 🌊🌻🧶

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 29/09/2026
From losing Medicaid and SNAP to family separations and ICE in schools, children are among the most affected by the administration's immigration policies.
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How Trump's immigration crackdown is harming children — including U.S. citizens
From losing Medicaid and SNAP to family separations and ICE in schools, children are among the most affected by the administration's immigration policies.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Underly says it’s urgent to fix Wisconsin's school funding formula wisconsinexaminer.co... #wipolitics
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Underly says it’s urgent to fix the school funding formula but timing will depend on the election • Wisconsin Examiner
Underly delivered the address less than six weeks before the elections when voters will decide who she will be working with.
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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...
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What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@rickhasen.bsky.social on the "disgusting gall" of the timing game the federal government is playing to restrict mail voting — first saying that its' too premature to rule against Trump, running out the clock, and now saying it's too late. electionlawblog.org/2026/in-temp...
"This should be the end of the matter, but it’s important to point out the disgusting gall of the United States in its timing arguments. For months the US argued that it was premature to seek relief because USPS and DHS had not yet issued their final rules. USPS waited until just weeks before ballots go out to put out their final rule, and even today they have no timetable for getting the portal up for states to submit the required information. And yet…..now the government has the chutzpah to argue that the relief comes too late."
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 28/08/2026
I think it's grimly amusing that the only food that won't kill you these days in America is the ultra processed neon-colored stuff.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
USPS can't even deliver my utility bill on time Now we're told it's going to screen every mail-in voter & every ballot in the country? Not happening. It's grossly unconstitutional, & we @democracydefendersfund.org & partners have gone to court to stop it I explained on @cnn.com -TN
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Joan (Knatcal) Danielson @jed28.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's BEYOND BIZARRE to treat RAPE😡on the same level as a WORKPLACE🤕INJURY. "US Navy Captain Padilla entered Elsie Dominguez's locked room at night to rape her. BUT Judge Edward Kiel of New Jersey agreed with Trump's DOJ & ruled her rape must be treated as a workers’ comp claim." WGTC VOTE💙 #Pinks
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Judge rules alleged rape of US Navy civilian engineer by ship’s captain was ‘within her duties’, should be treated as a ‘work injury’ - NewsBreak
Judge rules that it should be treated like a dislocated shoulder.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I can’t afford Starbucks. I go to coffee shops and restaurants using gift cards people have given to me. Sewing clothes rather than donating.
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swell @swellschultz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"christians"
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Linda D @busia11182020.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It really seems that his objective is to destroy our country.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Rainyknits @rainyknits.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's so shiny!!
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Falcon 801 @falcon801.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/07/2026
This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nazi Musk’s DOGE has been officially shut down after all this time and experts believe that it actually increased the deficit. It was a fraud scheme from the very beginning in order to eliminate his own corrupt obstacles, it was never meant to eliminate debt or do any good.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Whether the shooting was justified isn't the only thing haunting me. The other issue is why we've reached a place where soldiers are patrolling American streets at all. Freedom doesn't disappear all at once. It asks us to get used to one unacceptable thing after another. .
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National Guard members on patrol in Memphis fatally shoot man during pursuit, police say
Tennessee National Guard members assigned by the Trump administration to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis fatally shot a man who authorities say turned toward the soldiers with a gun during a downto...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2026
Wow! What a colossal waste of time and taxpayer money. DOGE was the waste, fraud, and abuse. They blew up people’s careers, hollowed out federal agencies, and now the Trump administration is rehiring because they realized the US government needs people in order to function.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the lie that universal healthcare and raising the minimum wage will somehow “cripple the economy” but billionaires not paying the same tax rate as the rest of us is somehow “healthy for the economy.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/06/2026
NEW: Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane. By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
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Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.
Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very...
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Rainyknits @rainyknits.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As someone who gets motion sick even when just climbing stairs , I can't wait to try this feature on my iPad!
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Michelle Obama appreciation post, our forever First Lady. 💙
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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Dept of Interior claims that the algae in the reflecting pool is left over from rarely used pipes No. Painting the pool dark blue means that it absorbs heat much faster than if it were a light color. Warmer = faster algae growth That's why you don't see black swimming pools Science!
algae in reflecting pool
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/06/2026
Adriana Zapata is a torture survivor with diabetes and other complex medical needs. ICE sent her to the Democratic Republic of Congo—a place she has never been, doesn’t speak the language, and is not safe. This judge is going to hell. gothamist.com/news/judge-r...
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Judge reverses order to return Colombian woman with NJ ties from Congo
Adriana Zapata was detained on her way to stay with family in New Jersey. A judge says she can't return to her home country for fear of torture there.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
So basically the deal is just nothing?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Trump has not merely thrown immigrants, minorities, and the most vulnerable among us to the lions. He has ravaged the very soul of the American people...put the nation itself in a cage match with its own worst vices. It was a total knockout." Good @aselrod.bsky.social on the real toll of Trumpism:
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Grok, how do you give one of the worst regimes on earth control of the Middle East's most important waterway?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Total lifetime charitable giving by these five parasites is ~$10 billion, or 0.4% of current net wealth, equivalent to the median American donating a total of $771 since they were born. (The parasites have another ~$30 billion in fake "philanthropy," money sent to tax-avoidance funds they control.)
Elon Musk
$1,273B
Larry Page
$314B
Sergey Brin
$292B
Jeff Bezos
$267B
Larry Ellison
$247B
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
ICE observers in Minneapolis have begun receiving visits from FBI agents sent to intimidate them. A close friend-combat vet, mother, no criminal record-who was a volunteer observer during the ICE crisis, had a visit and was threatened for taking photos and videoed, claiming that filming was illegal.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The power data centers use has made utilities go through the roof. Data centers use 5 to 8 million gallons of water a day, Virginia is under an extreme drought. Fauquier County is under a severe water shortage. Thank you @repsuhas.bsky.social .
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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Think about this for a minute.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
John Cornyn has been in office longer than I’ve been alive. He’s had 40 years to lower the cost of housing, healthcare, groceries, utilities, and gas. What’s the hold up?
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Listen up, assholes. If you want people to have more kids, you are going to have to structure society to have more positives, more security, more hope for a good future. You’re not doing ANYTHING that signals ANY of that. In fact, you’re doing the OPPOSITE.
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Not exactly a “loaves and fishes” kinda Christian, eh.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The blatantly partisan U.S. Supreme Court rulings to steal Black political power and empower the dictator are legal too. But that doesn’t make them right, and they won’t survive the real justice that is coming.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Mike Johnson, like Sam Alito wants you to believe that the Reconstruction Amendments and the Voting Rights Act were designed to protect white men from discrimination. It’s obnoxious, racist and wrong.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
ICE is a lawless thug army.
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10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies
A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face dep...
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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
These aren’t just Trump policies, these are REPUBLICAN policies. Republicans at the state and national level have ALL been 100% on board with everything Trump has done. The tariffs, the immigration brutality, the aggressive use of the military with zero oversight, even the ballroom.
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