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@shi22.bsky.social
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Shy in Washington. American born abroad. Disappointed in the electorate. Voted AGAINST the orange guy 3x. MS in Education. Former teacher and NGO worker. 🏳️‍🌈Ally.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Wherever you land on the policy, deeply reported signs of a weak US president 1 How Bibi attacked Iran, despite other US presidents stopping him (and Trump tried) 2 How Trump felt getting played by Iran (and Putin) 3 How Bibi distrusted Trump's negotiating skills 4 How Trump needed to claim credit
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How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@bradlander.bsky.social: "I was in a DHS detention for about 3.5 hours... I'm going to sleep at home in my bed tonight, safe with my family. But at Edgardo, who I was trying to accompany, he is in ICE detention. God knows where he's going to sleep tonight. And who knows what state."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Very Well Said…. Let’s Do This!😊💙
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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 25/05/2025
This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
 “I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Nicusor Dan, pro-EU Romanian presidential candidate, has won the elections in Romania. Far-right and pro-Russian candidate George Simion won the first round of elections. Prior to that, an earlier round of Romanian presidential elections was canceled due to Russian interference.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
If we were still a democracy the GOP would not be proceeding with a budget that will hurt virtually every American except a handful of the richest and most powerful. But they don’t work for the voters. They work for their donors.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 18/05/2025
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Yeah, that tracks. @nbcnews.com
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/05/2025
The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/05/2025
She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/05/2025
“the moment when the regime begins to really earn money is also often the moment when they really feel the need to crack down on civil liberties." - @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Busting up big corporations.  Tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics.  Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/05/2025
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 07/05/2025
If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.
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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 07/05/2025
The secretary of wrestling education, Linda McMahon, sent a “scathing” letter to Harvard, telling them that they were no longer eligible to apply for grants, blah blah blah. This is Harvard‘s response. 😂💀
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/05/2025
Neutral Switzerland 🔥 I love this so much…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/05/2025
“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”
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The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education
Two recent cases suggest that the era of secular schools is coming to an end.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📌Hold on, goddammit: If tariffs are so good for our economy, why doesn't the White House want us to see what they are actually costing us??????
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Interesting that if you shop at Whole Foods, a lot of money is spent making it feel like a place that respects workers and embraces progressive values, but it is not. Costco just feels like a warehouse but they treat their workers pretty well and has rejected anti-DEI BS
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/04/2025
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
DOJ-in-Exile, A Further Elaboration talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doj-i...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Judge Boasberg’s opinion in JGG v. Trump (4/16/25) is a masterpiece of judicial reasoning. He explains exactly why our legal system couldn’t survive tolerating willful defiance of clear judicial orders — even if those orders are ultimately overturned on appeal. The Supreme Court will have to agree.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16/04/2025
Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The White House basically gave Boasberg no choice. And unless they start cooperating very quickly, possibly even if they do, they’re looking at criminal contempt like a freight train. That’s going to raise some tricky issues of penalty, but the underlying finding should be secure. What total jerks.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025
JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
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Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Either the U.S. government *is* able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/04/2025
Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.
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Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between the victims and an alleged attacker
Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
When ICE agents descended upon 19-year-old Merwil Guttiérez in New York City, they realized he was not the intended target of their operation — but they arrested the boy anyway. Merwil was, in fact, in the United States legally — from Venezuela, seeking asylum. Merwil’s father, Wilmer Guttiérez,…
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/04/2025
12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime. As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15/04/2025
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.
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US Economy Is Set to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk ...
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