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SER617

@ser617.bsky.social
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NYer by birth, Bostonian by choice, fair weather Mainer. Big fan of democracy, public service and the Constitution. Not obedient in advance or in the ordinary course. 💙

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Pine Tree Activism @pinetreeactivism.org · 06/08/2026
======================= ORGANIZED PEOPLE CAN BEAT ORGANIZED MONEY ======================= Organize for Troy Jackson. Support Troy Jackson. Elect Troy Jackson. Mainers, let's make it happen. #JACKSONforMAINE #MEpolitics #VOTEherOUT
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A staggering 55 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. But the agency's official death toll record-keeping doesn't account for people like Prisciliano, whose health deteriorated in detention but died shortly after the agency released him from custody to be hospitalized.
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The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.
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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Memphis, TODAY is the day to elect my friend, my brother in service Justin J. Pearson! We need Rep. Pearson in Washington to protect voting rights, fight for racial justice, and ensure all of us have access to clean air and water.
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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CNN is their next target, get ready. Their goal is full blown STATE MEDIA for TV.
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 11/06/2026
The stuff of movies #NYK
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick" Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform. There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record. The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
No words. #BookSky
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Trump took another cognitive/dementia test at Walter Reed. They don’t just give these things out for fun, and it’s definitely not normal to take them several times a year if there’s no concern. He was also seen by 22 specialists and got a chest CT. And they released the results 11 pm Friday. 🤔
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KMG365 @starbucksgirl51.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“I don’t want him to say he’s sorry, Like, stand on what you believe in, but it can’t be a problem when I stand on what I believe in” This is the problem w/MAGA. They wanna speak their beliefs, while getting mad when people that don't agree say what they believe www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
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Abdul Carter: "Some things are bigger than football"
"Stand on what you believe in, but it can't be a problem when I stand on what I believe in."
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is a really interesting idea. And we should 100% think big going forward.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New episode of #SistersInLaw is here. We break down court findings of DOJ misconduct before the grand jury and explain how it is supposed to work. You can listen here. www.politicon.com/podcast-epis...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New episode of #SistersInLaw up now. @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social @jillwine-banks.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social & I take an in-depth look at Trump‘s corruption of the justice department to try and exact personal revenge on enemies. www.politicon.com/podcast-epis...
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Pine Tree Activism @pinetreeactivism.org · 30/05/2026
Amen. Troy nails it. #MEpolitics
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Paxton Pardoned a Pedophile
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SER617 @ser617.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Watching Stephen Colbert sing "Hello Goodbye" with Paul McCartney is an unexpected tearjerker, a swan song for all the nice things we can't have anymore because of the bone-deep corruption of Trump/GOP, the insanely greedy TechBros, and the profoundly immoral and incompetent Nepo Billionaires.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Supreme Court and GOP are about to make redistricting a complete mess nationwide. It’s going to become pure tit for tat. Some seats flip red, some flip blue, and by the time the dust settles everything just evens out. But the whole country will be gerrymandered in the process.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
He hates comedy because it speaks truth to power & a malignant narcissist can't handle that. Period. End of story. With many thanks to: @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @latenightseth.bsky.social @thedailyshow.com 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Down the street from our house. (A place that has "normal" prices for the area.) Our cars are EVs, but still....
Gas station price list:
 Regular $5.49
 Extra $5.79
 Supreme $6.29
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
They don’t want us talking about this. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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A Pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell? Absolutely the Fuck Not.
You don’t reward someone who delivered children to predators. You lock them the fuck away.
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gbhnews @gbhnews.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“If he met the loving, brilliant, and dedicated parents that I’ve met here today, he would certainly not be saying something as obscene and offensive as Black children needing to be re-parented and re-homed,” Rep. told reporters. “I mean, just reprehensible.” bit.ly/4mOFgu1
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‘Reprehensible’: Pressley calls out RFK Jr.’s comments regarding Black children
Democrats in Congress have been criticizing Kennedy over his past comments about wellness farms where some Black children could be “re-parented.”
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
When he launched this war, the President vowed regime change and “unconditional surrender.” What has he gotten? We went from Ayatollah Khamenei to Ayatollah Khameini Jr. - and are now negotiating over a 10-point plan written by the Iranians.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Anyway I wonder if politicians are statistically more likely to be rapists, whether the sort of sociopathy that leads to politics is characteristic or rapists, or just more likely to be detected/reported
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The DoJ tried to tell us there's 'nothing in there,' but Gloria Horton-Young's examination of the latest Epstein files revelations finds quite the opposite. Missing records, vanished evidence, and shifting answers, all punctuated by the Attorney General’s firing.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
There's 'Nothing In There', They Said...
Despite DOJ's ongoing cover-up, recent scrutiny of the Epstein files has uncovered troubling new revelations
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
and as a dagger to trump he said it with that perfect head of hair
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”
Secret Election Funders (via NYT) 
U.S. politics has seen a stunning increase in dark money donations, undermining promises from the Supreme Court.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
25th.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit filed Monday by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeks to strip voting access from a group of U.S. citizens living abroad. It’s the GOP’s latest move in its growing campaign against overseas voters. \ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In latest attack on overseas voters, Republicans sue Virginia
The RNC is asking the court to take the extraordinary step of blocking these voters entirely — not just going forward, but retroactively.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The agent lied. But DOJ seems to have accepted his story without interrogating it: “video footage of the shooting..raises questions about why it took weeks for the government’s case to fall apart. The video contradicts the agent’s claim..3 assailants had beaten him” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
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Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Not only is he waging an illegal war—he’s threatening war crimes. To the members of our military: remember, you do not have to follow illegal orders.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court just gutted conversion therapy bans across America 8 to 1. The court just gave the green light to a practice the United Nations calls torture.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Nebraska Dems: Don’t fall for the fake candidate put up by the GOP. Vote for independent Dan Osborne for Senate! They're trying to cheat by fooling enough voters. Don't be one of them.
Screenshot of a tweet by Erin Burnett OutFront reporting that a Senate candidate who previously supported Trump and opposed abortion is now running as a Democrat, with Democrats alleging he is a GOP plant. The embedded image shows a man standing at a microphone inside a church-like setting with a cross and curtains behind him, alongside a CNN news banner identifying him as a U.S. Senate candidate from Nebraska.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 31/03/2026
On Trans Day of Visibility, we are reminded just what is at stake. So-called “conversion therapy” is dangerous and has no place in our society. I will continue to stand for affirming and supportive care. No one can erase LGBTQ+ people.
New York Times
Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors
The state and more than 20 others restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under the age of 18.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/03/2026
The U.S. just lifted sanctions on Russian cargo ships and multiple high-profile narcotics figures. Dozens of names were removed from the Specially Designated Nationals list—including vessels tied to major Russian leasing operations and individuals linked to Mexican and Colombian drug networks.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
At some point maybe Congress will be able to do oversight on this admin after we vote out these useless Republican committee chairmen’s majorities.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#WeSayNoKings!! ❌👑
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
House Republicans just rejected the Senate’s bipartisan DHS funding bill the one that would have ended the partial government shutdown and finally paid TSA agents who’ve been working without paychecks for over 40 days.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
thus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth
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the whales will not be watching the new hbo harry potter show. you might think this is because very few whales watch any television at all, but it is actually because jk rowling is a terf ass bitch
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Don't really get the point of all the lifting and MMA stuff if you're going to surrender your dignity to a sieg heiling doof at the first opportunity. Is that the uh, "masculine energy" men are supposedly missing? bsky.app/profile/hada...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 27/03/2026
Trump said the illegal war in Iran would take 4 to 6 weeks. We’re already there, yet he’s asking Congress for $200 billion more—enough for 100 days—and sending ground troops. This is not winding down. This is not a “little detour.” It’s escalation. And Trump has no idea how to end it.
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Trump's Iran war is not winding down. This is not a “little detour.” It’s escalation.
YouTube video by Senator Markey
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/03/2026
It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.
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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
They were never going to stop at abortion. NEVER. It was never about "late term abortions" or about "life" or "protecting kids." And every single one of us who said this were told we were being ridiculous.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Are you tired of all the winning yet? I’m exhausted by it.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/03/2026
This would be funny if so many people hadn’t been killed and the world wasn’t being scrambled as Putin gloats.
- We obliterated all the nukes.
- We had to start bombing because of the nukes
- This is fun! We won already.
- What school?
- We don't need our loser allies trying to help too late. Losers.
- No boots on the ground. It's just a little "excursion"
- War is complete
- Sending in a bunch of Marines
- Israel made us do it
- We forced Israel to do it
- High gas prices are good actually
- So maybe we could use some help
- Why isn't anyone helping?
- We don't need help, we won.
- They are sending help
— If they don't send help I'll blow up
NATO
- We don't want their help. I was just testing.
- Gonna charge reporters with treason if they don't call this a great victory
- Maybe we'll just leave.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Democratic House Rep. Jim McGovern points out that Donald Trump has spent nearly twice the amount of money on his war in Iran in 17 days than the FEMA disaster relief fund. Comforting to those needing help in Nebraska wildfires and Hawaii flooding right now, I’m sure.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Do we need a head of lettuce up next to Hegseth?
Tweet by Acyn quoting comments criticizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s competence, saying he relies on scripted answers and lacks understanding of strategy. The image shows a man in glasses speaking in a hallway interview setting.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/03/2026
“I don’t care if the prices rise—heck, I prefer them that way,” said Kaitlyn Leonardi, who crossed her arms in defiance as she lauded gasoline as “a great product” that had been “too cheap for too long.”
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MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices
FRANKLIN, TN—Insisting that she hoped the spike in oil costs was only the beginning of a long upward trend, MAGA voter Kaitlyn Leonardi told reporters Tuesday that she loved high gas prices. “I don’t ...
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Donald Trump doesn’t care about how much you’re paying at the pump—he’s too busy fighting an unconstitutional, illegal war in Iran. This war must end.
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