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Sandy Skipper

@sandyskipper.bsky.social
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(Retired) HADD Inc. National Director, Consumer Advocacy & Protection. Progressive #PeopleBeforeProfits Opinions expressed are solely my own. #EndForcedArbitration

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Greenback Ceiling (girlbosses blocked from grifting)
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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Update: per an October 11th 2026 FEC filing, the TFM/"Democrats for Mike Rogers" Super PAC spent over four million additional dollars on the Michigan Senate race over the weekend, bringing the total spent to date to $4,376,550. (The receipts are out of order, the highest total is on page 3.)
page 1 of report of independent expenditures from October 11th 2026 by TFM/Democrats for Mike Rogerspage 2 of report of independent expenditures from October 11th 2026 by TFM/Democrats for Mike Rogerspage 3 of report of independent expenditures from October 11th 2026 by TFM/Democrats for Mike Rogerspage 4 of report of independent expenditures from October 11th 2026 by TFM/Democrats for Mike Rogers
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
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Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health The British government must be honest about the scale of the threat posed by climate and nature breakdown, researchers have said, after nine out of 10 people surveyed after watching a briefing on the issue felt more motivated to act. Last November, in the “first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing”, nine experts gave stark assessments in Westminster Hall in London of the scale of the changes needed in the UK to adapt to the rapidly changing climate and ecological landscape. Continue reading...
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another R who ALWAYS does exactly what Trump wants, but who likes to talk as if he was this independent voice of reason who disagrees with his Dear Leader. The lack of courage of these guys, their actions consistently supporting Trump while they pretend to be moderate, is stunning
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Vandal thrilled to have inflicted permanent damage on life-saving institution. "Look how powerful I am, how much attention I've gotten." The only thing that matters to these little men is the thrill of feeling important. Like Hegseth preening on a stage in front of a flag.
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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 01/10/2026
New filing: "U.S. v. Trump (mar-a-lago docs)" Doc #808: PAPERLESS ORDER striking for lack of conferral 806 Motion to Intervene and Seek Clarification of Court Order. S.D. Fla. L.R. 88.9(a). Signed by Judge Aileen M. Cannon… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL67490070
The entry's text: PAPERLESS ORDER striking for lack of conferral 806 Motion to Intervene and Seek Clarification of Court Order. S.D. Fla. L.R. 88.9(a). Signed by Judge Aileen M. Cannon on 10/1/2026. (sm1) (Entered: 10/01/2026)
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Imagine Rubio's response if Joe Biden had done this to FOX News. He'd have blown a gasket, worst tyranny ever Rubio has gone way beyond situational morality, it's just "what's in the interest of my tribe?" Like other Trumpy's, Rubio's position amounts to this: Free speech for me, not for thee.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Maddy Kelly is one of the funniest stand ups in the world today, and this bit is amazingly powerful. If I had the power to make this happen, I would love for like 50 million people to watch it.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gee, who could have predicted that the President who put the tech bro oligarchs at the front of the stage during his inauguration (in front of the Cabinet and world leaders) would favor an economy run for the benefit of the richest people in the country?
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wow- this Paramount/WBD thing just keeps getting worse by the minute. Elon Musk, the Ellison's and all that Saudi money is a nightmare.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
Deb Robertson has become a leading advocate for end-of-life options in Illinois.
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She lived to see ‘Deb’s law’ take effect. Now she can choose how she dies
Deb Robertson has become a leading advocate for end-of-life options in Illinois. After being diagnosed with a rare cancer, she pushed for a law allowing terminally ill patients to use lethal prescriptions to end their lives.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's sad when one of the only voices in the culture still taking a stand against corporate corruption and domination is a mute chaotic cartoon coyote who communicates through limited signs, but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing! LOVED this movie
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 22/09/2026
The Pennsylvania measles outbreak “seems to be accelerating,” one infectious disease specialist told me. “And we’re seeing, actually, types of measles we’ve never seen before.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of disease
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even if you think you know the whole Kennedy Center story, this is enlightening and enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The war has been over for months, and also, the jet-fuel depot at the airport in Riyadh just blew up. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Air Attack Sets Fuel Depot Ablaze at Airport in Saudi Capital
The assault came as the kingdom has been targeted by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and by drones from Iraq.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey, I don't go to X anymore. Is the self proclaimed First Amendment Absolutist going crazy speaking out against this?
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think this is like "expanding the national debt is bad," and "avoid endless wars in the Middle East," it's one of those rules that Rs and most media think only apply to Democrats.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NYT pays a visit to some outposts in Trump's far-flung archipelago of concentration camps, this time in Africa. An eye-opener. And a solid demonstration of the moral depravity behind these policies.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportations
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If MAGA wanted a Department of War instead of Defense, why not just call it the Environmental Reaping Agency? Why have the now ironic word "Protection" in the title if they're going to do stuff like this?
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When the Supreme Court makes enormous decisions with almost no explanation, without the benefit of full briefing and argument, it moves further and further from any notion that it is acting pursuant to law and it's more openly about power -- these actions advance our side's agenda
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Police have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the Black woman found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi
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Mississippi police make arrest in Tasia Fortune case after medical examiner rules death a homicide | CNN
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medic...
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Fred Baliad @fredbaliad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Watch Consumer Confidential With your host @davidlaz.bsky.social Saturday at 2pm on the KTLA+ app.
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Stephanie Kemmerer @doubtisthewayout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The Man Who Wasted His Survival on 9/11" He was taking his son to kindergarten while 658 of his employees died horrifically. He started a fund to help their families then befriended Epstein & Trump. No amount of charity can fix the evil he has done. He should have been in the office that day
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Such an honor to represent @blumenthal.senate.gov ; @durbin.senate.gov amd @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social as amici in this extremely important civil rights and consumer protection case. Roblox & Discord want to force a sexual assault case into secretive arbitration. Congress intended to stop this
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reading this thread may leave you profoundly worried, but we all need to know about this development in the corporate surveillance state.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reading this exchange between @gregsargent.bsky.social and @amandamarcotte.bsky.social made me feel better informed and more hopeful, real insight.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All these Congressional R's banging on about debt when we have a Democratic president are now silent as Trump proposes to increase the debt by over $1 trillion as a bribe if his party wins the mid-terms. Not a peep from any of these supposed budget hawks
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Sandy Skipper @sandyskipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A great piece on David Marchant and OffshoreAlert. Fake Banks and Empty Suits: The Art of Exposing the Offshore Elite by Jess B, Investigator medium.com/illumination...
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Fake Banks and Empty Suits: The Art of Exposing the Offshore Elite
Journalist David Marchant on 30 years of dodging lawsuits and putting fraudsters behind bars
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Sandy Skipper @sandyskipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A great piece on David Marchant and OffshoreAlert. Fake Banks and Empty Suits: The Art of Exposing the Offshore Elite by Jess B, Investigator medium.com/illumination...
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Fake Banks and Empty Suits: The Art of Exposing the Offshore Elite
Journalist David Marchant on 30 years of dodging lawsuits and putting fraudsters behind bars
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SCOOP @telliotter.bsky.social and I identified the authors of the bogus noncitizen voting Census report and how they used bad data to make faulty conclusions They include a former DOGE guy (of course) and two people from AFPI, a Trump-aligned think tank www.wired.com/story/a-us-c...
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A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
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15 Former Republican Congressmen Join Democrats In Opposition To Trump's Plan To Disrupt Mail Voting
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's almost like some Americans don't like rampant corruption, building personal monuments for a narcissist, attacking our closest allies and sucking up to Russia and North Korea, starting a huge war with no plan and losing it, sending an untrained military force into our cities, increasing prices
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 07/09/2026
Mean questions for Republicans:
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gee, I don't know. I mean, isn't it a reasonable possibility that the ONLY reason people wouldn't want to live next to a LOUD facility that increases their utility bills and takes most of the drinking water must be that they were under the control of Chinese communists?
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The value of independent media. This is why oligarchs have been purchasing press outlets, to try to prevent actual journalists from reporting on abuses by the powerful. Trump has always screamed about "fake news" to try to keep people from reading exactly THIS kind of story
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
IMHO, it should be a scandal that the U.S. government constantly posts AI slop pictures of military equipment. First one tried to be a KC-46, but it has misshapen blobs on the fuselage. Second one is a frankenship, silhouette is closet to a Soviet Krivak frigate with WWII-era US guns bolted on.

U.S. Central Command
@CENTCOM
A U.S. Air Force KC-46 Pegasus receives fuel from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker while flying over the Middle East.COMING SOON: NUCLEAR-POWERED CARGO SHIPS 🚨

@USDOT
 is working to fast-track construction of a new fleet of vessels to change the game and DOMINATE China 

THAT MEANS:
📦 MORE CARGO (no internal fuel tanks)
🚢 FASTER SHIPS (up to 75% faster crossings)
🌐 ZERO EMISSIONS (20 years of continuous power without refueling)

The first NUCLEAR-POWERED vessel is set to be built in 2028 🇺🇸
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
An unqualified person trying to feed false and inflammatory information to the President, for him to make government policy based on it, is problematic. Since he's a narcissist who melts at attention from an attractive woman and people who suck up to him, she is actually steering govt communications
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There is no way I could ever watch this enough times.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
1/ Now Trump and Hegseth are going after the military press bc they cannot abide by people that tell them what’s up, only sycophants like Natalie www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference
The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bobby has shown us repeatedly that the most important thing to him is attention, clicks. He acts like each day he wakes with this question: "what can I say or do today that will get me the most attention?" So the LIE about polio will kill people, but it meets Bobby's prime directive - look at me!
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm very excited to be a part of their terrific and extremely substantive program, and I hope a lot of people choose to attend it.
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It drives me up the wall whenever some reporter repeats Musk's claim to be a "free speech absolutist," as he censors facts that reflect badly on the guy in charge of giving enormous govt contracts to Musk's businesses
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16/08/2026
Police in Kentucky report one person has died and four others were injured in a shooting at a park.
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1 killed, 4 injured in shooting at park in Kentucky
Police in Kentucky report one person has died and four others were injured in a shooting at a park. Officers responded to shots fired at Charles Young Park in Lexington just before 7 p.m.
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David Lazarus @davidlaz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The NYT Magazine cover story on Oracle's Larry Ellison spells out in detail what I've been talking about on #KTLA for months: The trillions being invested in AI make no sense when the industry is targeting billions in future profit. The math just doesn't pencil out
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Image someone is arrested for fentanyl possession, we know who sold it and know they're still selling it to anyone who wants it, but no action is taken against the dealer, not even suspending their billions in gov't contracts. Somehow, that's fine when people keep using xAI to generate CSAM.
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Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.
A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
nightmare material
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