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Susan Dillon

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Retired English teacher. Catching up with my reading now.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“The idea wasn’t just to retroactively protect ‘the babies of slaves’; it was to prospectively forestall future efforts to deny citizenship based on whatever other non-sovereignty-based criteria might be politically popular in any given moment.” Me on why Trump’s new EO is *still* unconstitutional:
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243. Birthright Citizenship, Redux
President Trump's new attempt to cabin birthright citizenship is a lot narrower than the one the Supreme Court struck down in June. Its key provisions are still unconstitutional.
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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump officials sought court orders to forcibly treat 10 hunger strikers in ICE detention through force-feeding, forced hydration, & involuntary blood draws. 3 detainees underwent the procedures, including an asylum seeker who was force-fed for 8 months. Considered torture by human rights groups.
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‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention
Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"More than 80 children and adolescents have been hospitalized this year for measles complications like pneumonia or brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities. There are no treatments for measles..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...
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Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to the White House. At least 23 people have been shot at by federal immigration agents. And thousands more have been caged, separated from their families, or shipped off to dangerous countries. The cruelty is endless.
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🌈 Drawn&Quoted 🦄 @drawnandquoted.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is addressed to everyone, but especially Americans under the age of 30: Read dystopian novels. Read 1984, and Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, and White Noise, and—fuck—even Hunger Games. So many of you just aren’t getting what’s been happening just because you don’t read.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Appointed himself Jesus Czar
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Blanche’s deep conflicts and cover-ups prove he has no business at the highest levels of government. We need your Senators to reject this nomination. #TrumpsWarOfChoice
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Tell Your Senators: Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General
Contact Congress today!
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Dave The Artist @coloradofaux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Exactly this!… 👇 🔥🔥
ELECTION
- 2026 =
Make it hurt. Make it painful.
Leave no doubt that Donald Trump and
MAGA Republicans have been resoundingly rejected by the American people.
Their defeat needs to be overwhelming and seared in the public memory for all time.
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VOTE
BLUE
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/07/2026
If you're an FBI analyst surging to Atlanta to review records, reach out to me. I'll keep you anonymous. Signal in bio. Please share this post widely.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Susan Dillon @sadillon54.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
MS NOW’s legal analysis is just top-notch. So valuable.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Jack @jackeber.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Sign: “Please be considerate. Someone in your neighborhood is scared of fireworks” with a picture of a dog.
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 25/06/2026
It's dangerously hot across much of Europe right now and we have several months of summer to go. Now, before you need to, is a great time to see where your nearest cooling center is. Here, conspicuously absent a map, is RI: riema.ri.gov/resources/co...
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Cooling Centers | Emergency Management Agency
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
But, since billionaires own all the newspapers ...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is what Trump's done to the people's house: A third of it is rubble. Another third is a cage match. What a metaphor.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Tulips in Netherlands .
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
happy mother’s day to mother earth 🌎💙
A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid WisemanA crisp image of Earth illuminated against black space taken by an Artemis II crew member through the Orion spacecraft window. Credit: NASA
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Susan Dillon @sadillon54.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I’m so sick of everything related to the MET Gala!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Trump administration checking the blocks in quite literal terms ✅️ Ignorance is strength ✅️ War is peace 🟩 Freedom is slavery
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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It's all just overtly blatant. With their grifting there are NO COINCIDENCES.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
White House as a money making machine.
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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
When I am looking to share new personal stories about diseases like measles, I cannot emphasize how many I come across like this one.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Citizens Bank annual shareholder meeting (April 23rd in Providence Rhode Island) to face protesters critical of the bank's financial ties to ICE: www.mobilize.us/southcountyr...
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DE-ICE CITIZENS BANK · South County Rising RI
On April 23, Citizens Bank will be holding their Annual Shareholder Meeting at its headquarters in Providence, RI. In response, a coalition of progressive organizations from the surrounding area will ...
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you need a break from alternating between waiting to see if the world's going to end and watching people say, "Then why don't you DO something", I recommend joining me in watching this woodcock grooving to Stayin' Alive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_jr...
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Woodcock dances to Stayin Alive
YouTube video by Zarlee Woodland
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philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The US Department of War Crimes.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
NEW: Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"A White House spokeswoman called the protests 'Trump derangement therapy sessions.'" The people I met at No Kings were sane and well-adjusted. The people suffering from Trump derangement syndrome are those who work for him, who bow to him, who slavishly praise him. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...
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A Show of Defiance Across the Nation
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
NO KINGS PROTESTS ON MARCH 28 Show the world we object to this administration’s tyranny and lawlessness. I love this map. We are everywhere. Find a protest near you (first comment)
No Kings protest map showing them all over the country
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21/03/2026
A reminder that we don’t need billionaires to pay charity, we need them to pay their damn taxes. Billionaire philanthropy is PR to disguise their tax evasion. Don’t fall for it. Tax billionaires. Save our democracy. Period.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
an old onion headline altered to read WHY DO ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE BAD AT THEIR JOBS KEEP GETTING HIRED BY ME
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
If you're a service member being ordered to prep for deployment for the War in Iran and you have moral and/or ethical misgivings on all this, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the G.I. Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
There is great value in laying out the case as clearly and irrefutably as Dan does here.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
LEFT: What "excursion" meant in 1886. RIGHT: What it apparently means in 2026.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 04/03/2026
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Perfect, perfect, perfect...
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(((Dr. Stephanie Wilson/Freedom Over Fascism))) @freedomoverfascism.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
We need one every week
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.
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