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Scott Williams

@scottjwms.bsky.social
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Retired teacher and amateur naturalist. The agenda of greed, corruption, environmental disaster, and white nationalism must be stopped! ⚖️🌊

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🎯 @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As always, Inquirer opinion section vastly superior to you-know-that-other-one. (Click through to thread for gift link.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
More than 200 million Americans are under heat advisories this week. That includes workers toiling under the hot sun, in overheated warehouses, and in delivery trucks with no AC. They used to count on OSHA to keep them safe — but Trump has sold out the agency to corporate interests.
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How Trump’s Agenda Could Kill You
After an abysmal jobs report, Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.And Trump’s Labor Department just a
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Trump's view of presidential power has always been simple: The more the better...It’s hard to fault too much those who feel that the Supreme Court should put up a little more hashtag #resistance to the would-be authoritarian we’ve got right this minute." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Trump’s Obsession With Executive Power Will Cost Him
After all, the next Democratic president will have all the same powers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Looking forward to all the schoolchildren in Texas, being taught the Bible under Texas's new Christian nationalist law, finding out that Ken Paxton and his mistress should be stoned to death for committing adultery. Glory!
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Wow, MORE trump corruption: He handed out a $500 million dollar NO-BID contract to build his ballroom! How many MILLIONS in kickbacks is he shoving into his own pockets? Most. Corrupt. President. Ever.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's shocking to realize there are four justices on the Supreme Court who think the Constitution can be overridden by one crazy man's signature on an executive order.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today, I voted YES to release the names of Members of Congress who used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual misconduct and other misconduct cases in Congress. No more abuses of power and no more hiding behind a system that shields perpetrators. We will always fight for justice for survivors—period.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 01/07/2026
The Reflecting Pool is lined with a toxic epoxy that will have "long-lasting effects," according to a new report.
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Trump Reflecting Pool contractor used toxic liner with 'long lasting effects': report
The Reflecting Pool is lined with a toxic epoxy that will have "long-lasting effects," according to a new report.The MeidasTouch News found safety data sheets that revealed the Reflecting Pool is lined with a material that is "toxic to aquatic life with long-lasting effects." The lining was put in a...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/07/2026
The safety data sheets (SDS) for multiple Rhino Linings products reportedly used during the recent renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool warn that their uncured components are “toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects.”
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Safety Sheet for Reflecting Pool Material Warns of Toxicity to Aquatic Life
Document warns that uncured coating materials may be harmful as questions continue after several ducks were found dead
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
MAJOR BREAKING: Thomas Massie will be giving a Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to release of ALL names of U.S. Representatives who have used tax dollars to settle sexual misconduct claims. I support this. Do you?
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
How stupid do you have to be to buy even one word of Trump’s BS about the reflecting pool “vandals”? youtu.be/uWlmSJwc8lU?...
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Dear Ma & Pa MAGA: How Stupid Do You Have to Be?
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“In a United States with liberty for billionaires and justice for none, what are we even celebrating?” Fantastic Sunday piece by my illustrious friend @willbunch.bsky.social: www.inquirer.com/opinion/prai...
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America at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires. | Will Bunch
The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.
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Carolyn A @cshorea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
⬇️ Jon Ossoff 👋👋👋❤️
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Cartoon by @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 28/06/2026
'Ouch': Elena Kagan shocks ex-prosecutor with blistering attack on Trump lawyers
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'Ouch': Elena Kagan shocks ex-prosecutor with blistering attack on Trump lawyers
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance praised Justice Elena Kagan's dissent in the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Temporary Protected Status as a devastating rebuke of the conservative majority — one that forced into print the very comments her colleagues "cannot even bear to repeat."Writing in he...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/06/2026
Why does Trump want to create a national voter registration list? “This effort to create a national voter file that Donald Trump controls is an effort to mass disenfranchise people through paperwork.” Don’t let him get away with it. Join our fight for fair elections: bit.ly/4qskS3m
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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 28/06/2026
Trump's executive orders and Big Ugly Bill have caused chaos and undermined efforts to develop cheap, clean energy projects in PA.
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Trump cuts to clean energy credits upend PA projects
A law signed by the president in 2025 accelerated the phaseout of federal investment tax credits for renewable energy that had been expanded under Biden.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
FYI, I added the link to my thread: bsky.app/profile/gott...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/06/2026
Trump and Republicans’ SNAP cuts have many families worried about how they will feed their kids this summer while school is out. Our community’s food banks are stepping up. I’m grateful for the work they're doing — and I will continue fighting in Congress to restore funding that keeps our kids fed.
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Summer break brings hunger worries; Seattle program helps feed kids
As summer break begins for many students, some families are facing added uncertainty about how they will keep food on the table when school meals are no longer
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Scott Williams @scottjwms.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
LOL
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/06/2026
A dangerous heat wave is expected to build from the Midwest to the East Coast this week and last into the Fourth of July weekend. Forecasters warned that temperatures could break records in some areas. trib.al/VDV7GvE
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A ‘Heat Dome’ Could Bring Triple- Digit Temperatures to the Midwest and Eastern U.S.
Forecasters warned that temperatures could break records in some areas. The heat is expected to last into the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/06/2026
Tapper: "I just looked at the State Department's website. They have a Level 4 'Do Not Travel' advisory for Haiti…That doesn't sound safe to me." Mullin: "That advisory is to American citizens traveling to Haiti, not Haitians going back home." Tapper: "It doesn't sound safe."
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 28/06/2026
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went after Vice President JD Vance Saturday over his comments downplaying the Watergate scandal, using the moment to land a pair of pointed jabs at both the vice president and the Republican Party.
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Hillary Clinton takes vicious swipe at JD Vance: 'He doesn't know his history'
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went after Vice President JD Vance Saturday over his comments downplaying the Watergate scandal, using the moment to land a pair of pointed jabs at both the vice president and the Republican Party.Clinton was responding to a New York Times report headlined "...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/06/2026
I love this. The Obamas honoring Nancy Pelosi with a garden in her name is so well deserved. Without Nancy Pelosi, there would be no Affordable Care Act.
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is murder.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Child Rapists allowed freedom to continue crimes against Children.
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Veteran Fighting For Democracy @vetsfight.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Wal-Mart calls the cops on a black woman who they think stole something. In the end nothing was stolen, but the cops riddle the car with bullets as she tries to leave the parking lot. Murdering a baby. Wal-Mart is responsible. The police are responsible and justice must be served.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CANADA COMES TO THE RESCUE OF SOMALIAN REFEREE OMAR ARTAN! 🇨🇦🇸🇴 David Eby, Premier of British Columbia, has announced that his province would welcome Omar Artan. He stated that Artan should be allowed to referee World Cup matches within his jurisdiction, specifically in the host city of Vancouver.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Always remember that the coup never ended. This un-American action, that would imprison everyone involved in a normal and functioning government, should disqualify all involved.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse case
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Referee denied entry. Officials denied entry. Players denied entry. Fans denied entry. The U.S. is proving exactly why it never should’ve been chosen to host the World Cup.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. Here's why: robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sena…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
An Iraqi soccer player was detained for hours when he arrived here for the World Cup. A Somali referee was outright denied entry. Iran's team is not allowed to stay in the U.S. The World Cup is supposed to bring the world together. Instead, Trump is using it as an excuse to be racist and cruel.
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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Farm bankruptcies increased 46%. Who did most farmers vote for? Our choices. Our choices must be favorable to all of us, not some of us. Some of us is a sure ‘nuff get fucked strategy. JMO
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/06/2026
If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/06/2026
BREAKING: The Senate just passed a bill to add an additional $70 billion to ICE and Border Patrol’s already giant budget without any reforms. The House must hold the line and refuse to give ICE a blank check to violate our rights.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We have to end his power in November. It is life or death.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Todd Blanche should NOT be getting confirmed as Attorney General. He should be getting disbarred!
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 04/06/2026
For four months, one man decided we were at war. Today, the House said no. We passed a war powers resolution ordering our troops out of Iran unless Congress votes to keep them there. Not the President alone. Congress. The people’s representatives.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?
The real count is much higher than the public knew.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons. North Korea and Israel. One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide. It isn't North Korea.
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Ma Carol @caroodles.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
One of the most competent politicians we’ve ever had, but stooopid voters screwed us.
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East Traveler @easttraveler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As of today, 196 days have passed since Congress officially passed the law to release the Epstein files. Action AG Todd Blanche continues to break the law while Congress sits on their asses and do NOTHING! Remember this come November!!!
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Release The Epstein Files NOW!😡
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