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@sharonvergeldt.bsky.social
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Retired early elementary school teacher. Interests include gardening, reading, family, healthy eating, nature, dogs, birds, kindness, travel. #MichiganWomanForDemocracy

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David Costello @davidcostello.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump Admin has cut aid to Ukraine by roughly 99 percent and shamelessly cozied up to Putin. Even allowing Russia to benefit financially from our costly war with Iran. Good news: Ukraine is becoming more self-reliant and mounting a more effective defence against Russia. Slava Ukraini! #MEpolitics
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The alien files will not make us forget about the Epstein Files. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles now!
WE ARE NOT DROPPING THE EPSTEIN THING in a map of the USA
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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CDC’s Full-Time Cruise Ship Inspectors Were Laid Off One Year Ago amid Record Outbreaks: Report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) experienced significant layoffs almost exactly one year ago despite record outbreaks at the time. A CDC spokesperson te...
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The SAVE America Act puts millions of American citizens, NOT undocumented immigrants, at risk of losing access to the ballot, all in the name of solving a problem that doesn't exist. Demand your senators keep it off the floor. #NoPayToVoteSaveAct
“THE DANGERS OF THE SAVE America ACT: 01-Access to documents- Forces voters to present documents like a passport or birth certificate, which millions of eligible Americans don’t readily have. 02-Undermines Widely Used Voting Methods-Functionally eliminates vote-by-mail and voter drive registrations. 03-Risking Private Information- Forces states to turn over personal voter information to Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security. 04-Disproportionate Harm-Disproportionately harms younger voters, voters of color, and women, especially married women whose names do not match their birth certificate. Rep Joe Morelle NY-25”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Trump regime is a Mafia-style racket. Everything is about the grift.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“This is another instance of Trump lying and just talking out of his ass,” said a U.S. government official who reviewed satellite images of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school. “This clearly was not a failed rocket from the IRGC base.” theintercept.com/2026/03/09/i...
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U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School
“It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation,” CENTCOM told The Intercept.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to. Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
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Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department
“Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...
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Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All
In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.
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Shawn Stuckey @theshawnstuckey.com · 25/02/2026
🇺🇦 We’ve got to be better at keeping promises.
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sharonvergeldt.bsky.social @sharonvergeldt.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Whoa!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
There is no world, no scenario, no imaginable or unimaginable turn of events under which the Trump Administration will not end up regretting this stupefyingly idiotic arrest. Don Lemon today: "I will not stop now, I will not stop ever."
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HarleyQuinn @harleytheequinn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social reported that Lindsey Graham's shutdown is because he wants Senators to be allowed to sue the government for $50 million if their files were leaked.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
January 30, 2026
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January 30, 2026
As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrativ...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Even if you do usually vote Republican, most of us can agree at this point that the administration has gone way, way too far.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“Less than a month after Trump, who has been held liable in court for sexual abuse and has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, returned to office, Ratner was granted the director role on Melania’s documentary.”
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📎Wicked Lizzie🐸 @wicked-lizzie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
@eddsmitty.bsky.social Mr. Eddie would you share this with your followers? It's a website to send a #LoveNote to Minnesota. People can also scroll to the bottom to send a note to the ladies running the site. 💙✊️ www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-...
standwithminnesota.com
Send a Love Note — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately. Or Democrats will initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Walz: "You kill a man, and then you just leave? You're law enforcement -- you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not gonna clean up our mess?'"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Stephen Miller called the victim, an ICU nurse at the VA filming ICE, a “domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.” Greg Bovino said he “wanted to massacre law enforcement.” You saw the videos. How can any Republican not call for their resignations?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This. A handful of Americans have the power to stop this NOW, and they are refusing to.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Noem: "An individual approached US border patrol officers... The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently." Video footage from multiple angles proves that this is outright bullshit. Alex Pretti did not approach ICE officers nor did he react violently.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Even Tim sees it
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Cardinal Tobin said he was struck by voices in the Trump administration who seemed to be advancing a moral framework he described as 'almost a Darwinian calculus that the powerful survive and the weak don’t deserve to.' 'I would say that’s less than human'...” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
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Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy
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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.northsky.social · 19/01/2026
I’m the one in the brown hat. What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs. Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car. #AbolishICE
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"US Archbishop of the Military Services Timothy Broglio: US military personnel could disobey ‘immoral’ orders against Greenland" www.thetablet.co.uk/news/broglio...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of US tariffs, according to new research that contradicts a key claim by Trump... The new research suggests the impact of tariffs is likely to show up over time in the form of higher US consumer prices..." www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
wsj.com
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
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reclaimourflag.bsky.social @reclaimourflag.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is very important. Reclaiming our American flag - whose symbolism has been hijacked by Trump and MAGA - is one of the battles for America’s aspirational democracy. cc: @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/01/2026
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN. This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?
Stephen Miller • @StephenM
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Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority” He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
One point I’ve been banging on about in interviews the last few weeks is that the mere threat of the use of force by the U.S. President is illegal both under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter but also the U.S. Constitution by virtue of the Take Care Clause.
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sharonvergeldt.bsky.social @sharonvergeldt.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
liberalcurrents.com
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
As Administration officials seem to be struggling with this, let us say it again: it is illegal to use the U.S. military to invade a foreign country without the authorization of Congress and is a violation of international law. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Just as the Nazis successfully rewrote the history of their failed putsch, so Trump is feverishly recrafting the history of Jan 6, using all the levers of power to do so. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history
President and Republican allies have tried to make sure the deadly attack on the Capitol has been erased from memory
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Some House Democrats have printed out images of the Jan 6 plaque … and hung the images outside of their offices ====>
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This will devastate millions of families who rely on these services to survive. Make no mistake: this has nothing to do with supposed "fraud" or any other excuse Trump whips up. This is about enacting revenge on states that stand up to him and his cruel agenda.
huffpost.com
Trump Admin Says It's Cutting Welfare Funds To Blue States Over Alleged Minnesota Fraud
The cuts to several states come amid an escalating fraud fallout fueled by a dubious YouTube investigation of Minnesota
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/01/2026
Trump is incoherently ranting and raving during this speech to House Republicans, who are sitting in silence as his brain flits around wildly
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lordfarquadhontas.bsky.social @lordfarquadhontas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Never forget.
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Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
h/t @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Yes. Let Jack Smith testify publicly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/01/2026
MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela
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