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K Ruud

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Grandmother, IC retiree, dog and cat mom, crafter, #resist

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
SEN. WARREN: "They cut taxes and they always say ‘it's really going to pay off for you’ — every time academics come back say ‘What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.’.. this is the 20.0 version of this.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime is set to open open an ICE facility for migrant kids at an airport in Alexandria, Louisiana, to speed up deportations. abcnews.com/US/democrats...
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Democrats press HHS over legal representation of migrant children
Congressional Democrats are pressing health officials following the government's decision to end a contract with groups that provide legal support to migrant children.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sen Van Hollen shuts down Netanyahu’s vicious lies about Mayor Mamdani
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 23/09/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The view from there: SNL UK's "Weekend Update" tackles Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour.
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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The jewish NFL owners who reportedly backed Robert Kraft’s push to remove Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour have been revealed: ✔️David Tepper Carolina Panthers ✔️Arthur Blank from the Atlanta Falcons ✔️Jeffrey Lurie from the Philadelphia Eagles TMZ Via @theAxisofTruth (Telegram)
The jewish NFL owners who reportedly backed Robert Kraft’s push to remove Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour have been revealed:

✔️David Tepper
 Carolina Panthers

✔️Arthur Blank from the  
Atlanta Falcons

✔️Jeffrey Lurie from the    
     Philadelphia Eagles

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🔥@theAxisofTruth
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
RFK Jr. received "more than $250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in Washington, D.C. from Gavin de Becker..." de Becker has been described as Jeff Bezo's "top security staffer" www.wsj.com/politics/rfk...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. Got Free Flights to Fiji and Greece From a Top Donor
The health secretary disclosed over $250,000 in gifts from security specialist Gavin de Becker.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The corruption never ends.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was not losing “hundreds of millions” or “sometimes hundreds of billions,” as Trump claimed on Wednesday. In 2024, the Kennedy Center reported more than $306 million in revenue and $558 million in net assets, according to that year’s tax return.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email. (Published May)
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Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A massive diesel spill at a New Jersey data center has dumped roughly 5,000 gallons of fuel into wetlands connected to the Meadowlands. Local officials say a “computer glitch” caused the backup generator system to keep calling for fuel. The diesel entered Anderson Creek,
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He’s got a point!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Insane. The most corrupt president in American history, with no close 2nd. 🏆 🇺🇸
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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Michelle Obama gets a big welcome at the #USOpen #OurForEverFirstLady
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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know ANYONE on the Right who fact checks.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
NEW: A new audit by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterms.
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U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds
An inspector general’s audit found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterm...
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They have bought our government.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 10/09/2026
This guy is a senator up for re-election, and he had multiple patients arrested for unpaid medical fees as low as $114 and ranging up to a few thousand dollars. One women who couldn’t pay had lost twins. She asked fees to be waived. Her request was denied. He’s a millionaire.
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 04/09/2026
Worth a read— 36% reduction in staff during this regime. Three weeks after the Trump administration announced the largest expansion of hunting and fishing opportunities in USFWS history, new records reveal FWS has lost more than one-third of its staff between 2024 and 2026.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Has Lost 36% of Its Workforce Under the Second Trump Administration
Meanwhile, even with fewer staff, the agency just completed the largest expansion of hunting and fishing access in its entire history
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SisiiRose (on IG/Tt), an indigenous woman was brutally taken down by ICE. The traser was stuck in her bone, her BONE! She was maced in the face and throat! When will enough be enough? Now is the time! Stand up! #ProudBlue #GTS 📹: statuscoup/IG
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NorthSquatch-News 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @northsquatch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Every news channel should be screaming about his corruption, but the rich protect the rich.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump and McMahon's "revamping" of the federal student loan system forced borrowers into expensive repayment programs. And for what? To pay for $1 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations. I write about this hidden affordability crisis in my column ⬇️ www.aft.org/column/stude...
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Student debt: The hidden affordability crisis
This is a five-alarm fire exacerbating America’s affordability crisis.Summer should be a time to take a well-earned vacation and enjoy being with family and friends. But for millions of Americans, sum...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/08/2026
This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
remember the memo from OLC saying the Presidential Records Act was unconstitutional and they could just fire up the shredders. That one is now on hold, but OLC today issued a new power-grabbing wide-ranging memo saying executive privilege applies to communications with third parties outside of govt
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're suing to stop the admin. from de-professionalizing nursing, architecture, social work, teaching and other careers. Trump's tax bill for the rich eviscerated education access for poor and working-class students who deserve the opportunity to pursue their dreams, too. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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‘We Are Professionals’: Coalition of Unions Sue to Block New Student Loan Rule that Will Hurt Patient Care and Worsen Staffing Crises
WASHINGTON—A coalition of unions representing hundreds of thousands of public service and healthcare workers filed a lawsuit this week challenging the Department of Education’s new Reimagining and Imp...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Eerily similar to the verbiage on the Access Hollywood tape, except instead of bragging about assaulting women he’s talking about pilfering historical artifacts, most of which we will likely never see again.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Wyden released a sweeping Senate report alleging several of the largest banks of having “been willing to turn a blind eye” to Epstein’s financial activity.
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60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Didn’t Air After Sharyn Alfonsi Exit, Dem Senator Claims
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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The Economist @economist.com · 05/08/2026
America’s ambassador to Italy has spent much of the summer hosting parties on his $450m superyacht. That has some critics questioning whether displays of fabulous wealth make for good diplomacy
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In Italy, America does business on the ambassador’s yacht
A billionaire diplomat’s floating statecraft
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2026
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)
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An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
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This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Judge rules that Medicare can move ahead with taking the healthcare of the severely & potentially terminally ill until such time as they can show they are more ill ot dead. Judge says case may prevail after enacted & bodies stack up. Oz celebrates oligarch windfall www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
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Judge declines to block strict work rule for sick patients on Medicaid
The case challenging Mehmet Oz's "faithfulness to Congressional intent” will continue.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration urges Supreme Court to allow order targeting mail-in voting to proceed for now, before midterms.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bombing elementary schools always brought happy tears to Lindsey’s eyes.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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The Supreme Court shrunk clean water protections in the West. Colorado and New Mexico are restoring them
The ruling left many wetlands in streams vulnerable in the West, where waters can run dry for portions of the year but are still important for the overall ecosystem.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Under Trump: -Household electricity costs are up 18% -Ground beef prices are up 22% -Gas prices are up 40% -ACA out-of-pocket premiums are up 58% -Inflation is at a three-year high Tired of "winning" yet?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@connectwithjacob on IG On the six-month anniversary of Alex Pretti's death at the hands of ICE agents in Minneapolis, his mother, Susan Pretti, shared an emotional message. "Please never forget Alex and what he believed in: equality and peace for all." #sayhisnamealexpretti #abolishice #Pinks
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The White House posted on Facebook claiming that 198 Democrats voted against banning members of Congress from trading stocks while in office. What they don’t tell you is that House Republicans attached the SAVE Act to the bill.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hegseth blocks promotions of seven Navy officers, five of them women or people of color, a highly unusual move that means that for the first time in more than a decade no female active-duty naval officers are likely to be promoted to admiral. @gregjaffe.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
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Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The new iteration of AIPAC is targeting Black Michigan voters with ads faking a non-existent Obama endorsement in the Senate primary. Abdul El Sayed responded in an interview on The Joy Reid Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrd...
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The TJRS Abdul El Sayed Interview: Fund Schools and Healthcare, Not Bombs | The Joy Reid Show
YouTube video by The Joy Reid Show
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