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Sofia Wren

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Use your voice 🦋 Writer. Artist. Mender. Safe space. Professional writing coach, editor and digital organization enthusiast. Lover of the 🌎 flow.page/sofiawrencoaching

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Tee Vixen Sutton @vixenbite.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Wuht???
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truthbytwoheart aka truthbytwo music @truthbytwoheart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
There is a special place in hell for lawmakers who cut benefits and safety net programs designed to help poor people while protecting the interests of the rich.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
seems like this should be a big deal. apnews.com/article/pale...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The next Democratic president can just impound the billions of extra ICE funding on day one, right? Withhold it without any explanation? Since that’s a thing presidents can do now?
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A big reason Dems don't control the House right now—and this murderous spending bill is possible—is Andrew Cuomo, who fucked New York's congressional redistricting as governor and helped lose us seats in Congress. www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...
It all goes back to some tangled ancient history: When Cuomo was running for governor in 2010, he pledged to end “hyper-partisan” redistricting. Two years later he used the census-mandated redrawing of district lines as a chit in state budget negotiations. Cuomo got a new pension tier that lowered payments for some unionized state employees; in exchange, incumbent state legislators got the ability to create districts that would favor their reelection. The drawing of new congressional districts was punted 10 years down the road and placed in the hands of an unwieldy, supposedly “independent” commission. This year, when New York Republicans stalled the commission’s work, they essentially pushed redistricting into the state’s courts.

Cuomo made strenuous efforts to steer the state down the ideological middle, which he claimed was a necessity early on—when Republicans controlled a majority of the state senate—but which also enhanced his own power. One byproduct was Cuomo’s nominating of the four relatively conservative judges, including one Republican, who in April voted to tear up the proposed congressional redistricting maps. “What Democrats did to our majority on the highest court would never happen in a Republican-controlled state,” Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney says, which is as close as he will get to blaming Cuomo. “That court made a mess of this, and it put the project in the hands of a Republican in Steuben County. And we got a crappy result.”
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Patty Shenker 🌱🕊️ @pattys06.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“𝘕𝘰 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧.” - 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘍. 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺
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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Now, more than ever, it's important to remember that the majority of humankind is decent. The horrors being inflicted on all of us are being done by a fraction of a fraction. They have to work overtime to convince us that their fucked up views are popular. Don't fall for it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
But “we’re broke”, right? We can’t afford health care, housing, education, etc right? A budget is a moral document. 🇺🇸
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/07/2025
Pursued relentlessly by the government of Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. He left behind an account of his final years—and an admonition to his country and the world.
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Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries
The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I wonder why we aren’t seeing this?
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If you've tuned into CSPAN anytime in the last 2 hours and found yourself slapping the side of the TV, wondering why the screen isn't changing, here's what's happening...
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Carrie Birde @carriebirde.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Clarissa Pinkola Estes urged #women to reconnect with their inner Wild Woman; C.G. Jung, our Shadow; & Lisa Marchiano, Lillith’s #feminine fire. In her 2024 #book, “The Vital Spark”, she explores how we may access our “outlaw energies”, sharing personal experience, themes
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 24/06/2025
New research shows that 4 billion people experienced an additional month of extreme heat over the past year. This, while the fossil fuel industry prospers in profits. It’s time to #MakePollutersPay
aljazeera.com
Climate change adds extra month of extreme heat for 4bn people: Report
The study found that without the phasing out of fossil fuels, temperatures will continue to soar.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We’ve discussed the systemic economic risks, from a fear-based mass deportation campaign, for a while. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGh...
m.youtube.com
Case discussion of systemic risks: mass deportation
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Trump told Republicans at this meeting that there are three things Congress shouldn’t touch if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. “But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill,” one member responded to Trump www.notus.org/congress/rec...
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The Reconciliation Timeline Is Slipping as Trump Struggles to Flip Votes
The president told one group of House Republicans Wednesday that Congress shouldn’t touch three things if they want to win elections: Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2025
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 02/07/2025
Democracies use government as an instrument for the common good. Using a tax bill to destroy and deny health care for 17 million of our people is a sign of authoritarianism.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
No concentration camp should be built in the heart of this important ecosystem. The Everglades is a vital ecosystem to the entire state of Florida. It is extremely sensitive and is already facing a huge set of problems. Keep the Everglades wild, natural and free.
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Trapped O'Brien, Please Free Me From This Prison @radobrien.myatproto.social · 01/11/2023
a man stood outside the white house with a single protest candle every night during the vietnam war.  a reporter came to him one night and said sir do you really believe your little protest will change anything? and he said oh i didnt come here to change them i come here so they dont change me i will not allow the steady
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A new ProPublica data analysis adds empirical weight to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of miscarriage — which occurs in up to 30% of pregnancies — far more dangerous.
propublica.org
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/07/2025
As my mom once told me: the universe is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us! If you're starting to forget that, here are some books to help you remember. ⚛️🔭🧪🧵 Starting with that time space-time was like a bat out of hell www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...
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The Inflationary Universe
This is the compelling, first-hand account of Alan Guth's paradigm-breaking discovery of the origins of the universe—and of his dramatic rise from young...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/07/2025
As I've noted many times by now (including here: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...), ICE is willfully and dishonestly conflating "times our officers were assaulted, including at detention centers and while making arrests" with "threats to our officers in other contexts."
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Only four Republican NO-votes would tank the spending bill. For the sake of 17 million Americans in jeopardy of losing their healthcare, I hope they find the courage.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
AOC: This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt. It militarizes our entire economy. It strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break.. We cannot stand for it. And we will not support it. You should be ashamed
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 02/07/2025
As Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” moves from the Senate to the House, now is the time to make your voice heard. The budget proposal will invoke the largest transfer of wealth from working families to the wealthy in U.S. history. ☎️ Call your representative & ask them to justify the cruelty.
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State of the American Union @bluebeliever2024.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This is a really bad time to be a person who understands history well… Everything may not look exactly the same, but it rhymes.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
You heard Patty. For the sake of women's health and so much more, kill this bill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Sen. Patty Murray: The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
My God. Please make sure everyone you know knows this.
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Sofia Wren @sofiawren.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Notice the difference—mainly only that America didn’t even bother to build them a roof or walls.
Trumps camps vs hitlers camps
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Sofia Wren @sofiawren.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I’m in a bad mood re my stupid senator Ron Johnson voting for this awful budget. My house rep is awesome though and won’t vote for this. If yours is sketchy please yell at them for me
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And just like that, suddenly Ron Johnson doesn’t care about the deficit and will support the Big Bonanza for Billionaires. He’s earned the rubber stamp of approval. KTF = KNOWN TO FOLD. I hope he’s ready to wear it as a badge of honor.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I still struggle with the reality that the USA have become so incredibly cruel to its own people
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 01/07/2025
A national abortion ban is closer than you think. The Senate bill could close one in four abortion providers nationwide. As we saw with Roe, a right only on paper is no right at all
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2025
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
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Politico @politico.com · 01/07/2025
Some House Republicans were counting on the Senate to soften the megabill's most controversial proposals. They did the opposite.
politico.com
Senate Republicans shock the House with a supercharged megabill
How GOP senators put a big, beautiful stamp on President Donald Trump's signature legislation.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/07/2025
It's all horrific but this bit really makes my blood run cold
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
[healthcare for all] AMERICA: hahahahahaha. do you think we’re made of money [concentration camps for everyone that Donald Trump doesn’t like] AMERICA: what could it cost, maybe just all of humanity
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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 01/07/2025
PhD position (Melbourne, Australia) Using mathematical and statistical modelling to develop efficient disease surveillance systems with Oliver Eales, Freya Shearer, Richard Creswell at University of Melbourne More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2327
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered! - $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities). - $45 billion for ICE detention - $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement Grand total: $170.7 billion.
Rapid Response Analysis: “Reconciliation” Spending Provisions Related to Immigration Enforcement and the Border JULY 2025
House & Senate Topline Budget Comparison
Spending Category House of
Representatives
Senate Difference
Construction and maintenance of
border wall, CBP checkpoints, and
CBP facilities
$51.6 billion $51.6 billion None
Border Patrol agents and vehicles,
and Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center improvements.
$8.3 billion $7.8 billion $500 million
decrease
Border technology and vetting $6.3 billion $6.2 billion $100 million
decrease
Operation Stonegarden (funding to
state and local law enforcement
agencies to support border
enforcement)
$450 million $450 million None
Border processing, including for
unaccompanied children, Remain in
Mexico, and expedited removal
$2.2 billion $2.1 billion $100 million
decrease
Prosecutions of noncitizens,
compensating local governments
for incarcerating noncitizens,
combatting drug trafficking,
immigration judges
$2.8 billion $3.3 billion $500 million
increase
Detention capacity expansion $45 billion $45 billion None
Enforcement and removal, including
hiring ICE agents, transportation
costs, and detaining families
$26.7 billion $29.9 billion $3.2 billion increase
Sponsor vetting and sheltering
unaccompanied children
$3.1 billion $0 $3.1 billion decrease
State immigration and border
enforcement cost-reimbursement
funds
$12 billion $13.5 billion $1.5 billion increase
DHS cost-reimbursement fund for
border enforcement
Not included $10.0 billion new
DOD support for immigration and
border enforcement
$5 billion $1.0 billion $4 billion decrease
Total2 $163.3 billion $170.7 billion $7.4 billion increase
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
hey I am posting this because I didn't know it, and so others might not either: but the BBB has NOT PASSED YET-- it's passed the senate & now it must pass the house. It's time to call reps RIGHT NOW. Johnson is going to push the vote ASAP before backlash can form so the calls need to start NOW.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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