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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n...
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Some FEMA staff are put on leave after signing dissent letter
More than 180 current and former FEMA employees signed the letter sent to the FEMA Review Council and Congress warning that FEMA's capacity to respond to a major disaster was dangerously diminished.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 27/06/2025
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is ridiculous apnews.com/article/texa...
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New Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom
Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new state law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
No Kings Philadelphia! We were proud to be among the 80,000 in attendance! #indivisiblephl
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IndivisiblePHL ❌👑 @indivisiblephl.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
If you were among the 80,000+ attendees of #NoKings in Philadelphia today - THANK YOU! To find out what’s Next, text NOKINGS to 59798 (If you attended an event anywhere!) @indivisible.org #IndivisiblePA
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CNN @cnn.com · 13/06/2025
JUST IN: Federal judge blocks Trump executive order that requires proof of US citizenship to vote and limits mail-in ballots
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Federal judge blocks Trump executive order that requires proof of US citizenship to vote and limits mail-in ballots | CNN Politics
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday blocked part of President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to revamp how elections are run in the United States.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Let’s go! NO KINGS! 🚫👑
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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/06/2025
58 years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled on the side of our clients Mildred and Richard Loving, legalizing interracial marriages nationwide. This Loving Day, we honor the generations of families who were torn apart by anti-miscegenation laws and celebrate the couple that changed history.
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
World Pride in DC yesterday. What an amazing day! To all who celebrate, Happy Pride! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/05/2025
Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
apnews.com/article/trum... Federal trade court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law
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Federal trade court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law
A federal trade court is blocking President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/05/2025
A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.
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Record Number of Americans Apply for British Citizenship
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/05/2025
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"The firing of Dr. Hayden is a Kremlineque move to suppress ideas and to send a chill through the leadership of cultural and educational institutions," said PEN America’s Hadar Harris. "The message seems obvious: Comply or be fired." More: pen.org/press-releas...
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Ousting of Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden Sends a Message: Comply or Be Fired - PEN America
PEN America said today it is deeply disturbed by the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, for reasons the White House identified as related to “diversity” programming and her choices...
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is very wrong
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/05/2025
North Carolina voters made their choice, and it's long past time to honor the results. We're proud to fight for fair elections alongside the @aclunc.bsky.social.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/05/2025
Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.
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Salt Lake City and Boise Adopt Official Pride Flags in Response to State Laws
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Dear Canada 🇨🇦 we love you and are proud to have you as our ally to the north. Stay exactly as you are. Trump’s nonsense about merging with the USA is absurd and doesn’t speak for us.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
www.nokings.org
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Nice!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/05/2025
This decision striking down President Trump's unconstitutional executive order reaffirms that our judicial system exists to protect our rights, not carry out his agenda. With our right to legal representation under attack, Perkins Coie fought back and won.
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Judge strikes down Trump order targeting Perkins Coie law firm
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who called the executive order an attack on the American judicial system, said Trump’s directive “violates the Constitution and is thus null and void.”
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 14/03/2025
BREAKING: I just offered an amendment on the floor to give Veterans fired in the Trump-Musk layoffs their jobs back. Every single Republican blocked it. Shame on them for betraying our heroes.
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Just got this text from a friend… it’s coming down the pike people. My favorite part of the tariffs so far are that they just closed my husbands steel plant and he’ll be out of a job at the end of June, due to “unfavorable trade markets” 🤬
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Stay tuned. #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #PeoplesMovement #ImpeachTrump
Image of a white splattered background. At the top is a crown with a red X slashed on it. Below are the words NEXT DAY OF ACTION: JUNE 14th. The 50501 logo is at the bottom.
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
apnews.com/article/army... Army plans for a potential parade on Trump's birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns
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Army plans for a potential parade on Trump's birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns
Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and potentially a...
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
apnews.com/article/trum... Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th-century wartime law
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Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th-century wartime law
A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and say President Donald Trump’s invocation of that law was “unlaw...
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
apnews.com/article/milw... Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
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Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities.
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Canadian Elections are a scathing indictment of the Trump regime. The takeaway for politicians should be: stand up to Trump, and the people will support you. To our neighbors in the north, thank you. Elbows up!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Carney: We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves and above all, we have to take care of each other.
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IndivisiblePHL ❌👑 @indivisiblephl.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Heading into Hurricane Season, we get a clown car of fools with Titles deciding the future of #FEMA. Maybe whatever you believe in Help Us All
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...
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U.S. agriculture isn't nearing a trade war tariff crisis, it's in a 'full-blown crisis already,' farmers say
U.S. agriculture exporters said global backlash to Trump's tariffs is already resulting in canceled orders and farm layoffs.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 28/04/2025
NEW EO 🧵 Within 90 days, the AG and the SecDef, in consultation with the Sec of Homeland Sec and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
worth every second
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 28/04/2025
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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NPR @npr.org · 28/04/2025
At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specialized help?
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Supreme Court to hear school disability discrimination case
At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specia...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🚨NEW: Wisconsin judge threatens to go on strike in support of Judge Hannah Dugan, arrested by the FBI. Monica Isham: “I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE & sent to a concentration camp without the due process the constitutions we swore to support require.”👏
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Wisconsin Judge Monica Isham Threatens Not to Hold Court Over Hannah Dugan Arrest
A picture shows a photo of both Judge Monica Isham and Judge Hannah Dugan side by side.
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Another Saturday, another protest. #indivisible #bluecrew #resist
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
apnews.com/article/inte... ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyer says
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ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyer says
A government lawyer said the federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students after many filed court challenges around the U.S.
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spicylib.bsky.social @spicylib.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...
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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case
Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.
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