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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. We will continue the fight to stop this unlawful policy once and for all.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Elon Musk is the biggest, most dangerous data broker in the United States and Republicans in the House and Senate handed him the data on a silver platter.

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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Privacy isn't just a nice-to-have. It’s a requirement in order to be safe and control our own lives.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Democrat Senator Sarah Trone Garriot is running to defeat MAGA Republican Zach Nunn in Iowa #03 in 2026. Follow Sarah and support her campaign!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Rubio has like 9 jobs right now and he couldn’t even handle the first one.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trump cult members wear blue suits and red ties. It's mandatory. Marco Rubio didn't get the memo. He looks sad about it.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Please add Iowa MAGA Republican Senator Joni Ernst to this list. Her blind devotion to Elon Musk and the DOGE scam is criminal. She's also up for reelection in 2026. Here's hoping Iowa votes her criminal ass right out of office.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Iowans are mad as hell at Senator Chuck Grassley. His complete disrespect for the work people of Iowa put into paying for their Social Security retirement benefits is insulting. I love a truth speaking out-spoken Iowa mom.

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God @thegodshow.com · 25/04/2025

Hi, I'm God. Human beings should not be thrown into prisons without due process. Even Jesus got a hearing.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

When Iowa has multiple tornados and we will, and the recovery cost exceeds what Governor Kim Reynolds is willing to provide, Iowans will be SOL. When poor states have no funds for storm victims, those survivors will be SOL too.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/04/2025

BREAKING: 12 states sue Trump in the U.S. Court of International Trade to block his massive tariffs, accusing him of illegally imposing tax hikes on Americans and violating the Constitution.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Another hit to Iowa farmers and growers who grow local, healthy food to feed local, healthy public school students. @SenJoniErnst and @ChuckGrassley don't give a rat's ass about Iowa growers, Iowa business, Iowa schools, or Iowa children. #MAGA sucks

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climate refugee @a-climate-refugee.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

And Grassley’s HAWKEYE PAC contributed a total of $10,000 to JONI FOR IOWA on December 18, 2024. I have screenshots of those as well.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Would you look at that, Iowans? Musk continues to buy Iowa's Senior Republican Senator Chuck Grassley off with campaign contributions. Quid Pro Quo.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

How many times does the U.S. Secretary of Defense get to use an unsecured public platform like Signal to share classified defense information with his wife, his brother, and his personal attorney before Pete Hegseth is fired? Every day Hegseth is in office, the American people are in danger.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Come on out, Iowans of District 02, and meet Rep. Ashley Hinson face to face on Thursday, April 24th, 9:00 am in Mason City at the NIACC Auditorium. Ask some tough questions. Hold Hinson accountable.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/04/2025

Senator Van Hollen’s commitment to the Abrego Garcia case isn’t performative. Wearing an overnight maxi pad on your ear after an “assassination attempt” is performative.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/04/2025

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2025

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If Joe Biden had intentionally crashed the stock market, created a global economic crisis, and wiped out $10 TRILLION in market value, Speaker Johnson would not be demanding we give him "space." Mike Johnson is a craven coward and the worst kind of bootlicker.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The same damage being done to the stock market is being done to our health, securities & environment, there just isn't a stock ticker to show how bad it is for the others.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If we made a list of Republican members of Congress and Trump's Administration who do NOT have ties to Jeffrey Epstein, it would be a very short list. #CorruptGOP

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and the Iowa GOP don't understand what Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion means or they just don't care. But ALL of them, benefit from DEI policies like these. Working against their own best interests, and the interests of their families and friends is just plain dumb.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Can you impeach a president for deliberately destroying the U.S. economy?

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If a deranged president intentionally destroying the country's economy with a ludicrous obsession (and misunderstanding) of tariffs *isn't* justification for invoking the 25th Amendment, I honestly can't imagine any scenario that would be.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This is very smart www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This is a good question for the MAGA Senator who voted to confirm a known alcoholic, unqualified, serial sex abuser to lead our military. This is a question for Senator Joni Ernst.

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Iowa Democrats @iowademocrats.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

ICYMI: Chuck Grassley & Joni Ernst voted to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s $5 cap on overdraft fees. This is the opposite of lowering costs.

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Frank Smith @avalanchepass.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Gov. Kim Reynolds has zero capacity to address these losses and Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley have less than zero. Add in the losses from the food program and next will be losses to U of I for any DEI nonsense. It will devastate the entire Eastern Iowa corridor.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Keep talking about Signalgate. Give them no peace.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Look at that, Iowans. Good 'ol Pete Hegseth supporter, @senjoniernst.bsky.social, is up for reelection in 2026. Ernst knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, unqualified, serial sexual abuser, and maggot but she voted to confirm him anyway.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

On the bright side, the countries formerly known as America's allies now have a really nice excuse to stop sharing information -- that it'll just end up in some drunken cabinet member's cell phone.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/03/2025

Top intelligence committees need to begin an investigation into Pete Hegseth's epic Signal chat mishap. ASAP. There should be televised hearings so all Americans have transparency on how such an enormous breach of national security could take place in first place.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

What could possibly go wrong for student loan borrowers, @senjoniernst.bsky.social? This is a ludicrous decision designed to create chaos and strife for borrowers.

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It's a powerful tool to save taxpayer money too.

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Blog for Iowa @blogforiowa.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hampton, IA today. In case you're one of those that still thinks Chuck used to be a good guy... Listen to Chuck remind the crowd he was the ONLY MOC WHO VOTED AGAINST establishing the Dept. of Education in 1979. Said he would vote THE SAME today. There you have it #iowa #resist #grassley

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Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley answers question about U.S. Department of Education at town hall

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Raymond Baker @raybake.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Trickle down economics NEVER trickle down, @senjoniernst.bsky.social. Making the lowest income Americans pay MORE to give the highest income Americans tax breaks is straight up sure to cause a blue wave in 2026. Go ahead. Test us, Senator.

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Many thanks to @charlesgaba.com for allowing me to publish his analysis of how many Iowans in each Congressional district are at risk of losing their health care coverage (either through Medicaid or an ACA plan) under the House GOP budget blueprint: www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/03/18/h...

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How many Iowans could lose health care coverage under House GOP plan

Charles Gaba shows how many Iowans in each Congressional district could lose coverage under Medicaid or an Affordable Care Act plan.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 18/03/2025

🚨 NEW: VoteVets is launching a six-figure ad blitz across TV, streaming, digital, and billboards—exposing GOP Veterans dodging constituents while Musk’s DOGE fires thousands of Veterans. They promised to fight for Veterans—now they’re silent. Stop Elon’s war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

When Donald Trump lawlessly went after ordinary Americans, Chief Justice John Roberts didn't care. But now that Trump is taking aim at Roberts' fellow judges, Roberts suddenly cares. It's always the same with conservatives, they don't care until something affects them.

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