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Susannah K

@spiralgal.bsky.social
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Early childhood mental health professional. Educational equity advocate in my free time. Tired swing state mom

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 02/02/2026
Video shows ICE pulling over a couple for “staring,” who immediately prove they are U.S. citizens. Agents demand the car keys, a Fourth Amendment violation, and falsely claim the driver must be registered to the vehicle. ICE is not authorized to conduct traffic stops in this situation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Zach Rosenberg @zachinflight.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
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Barb's Escape Pod @barbsescapepod.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
THIS. Teenage victims have a completely different set of prejudices to deal with. Trust me, I know. Grooming is probably the least understood aspect of child abuse.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I can’t take election analysts who are spending this week talking about races that’ll be decided in 2026 too seriously when there’s so many decisive elections in 9 days. My selection of the roughly 185 key ones: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:
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I see @SecKennedy was able to attend Charlie Kirk's memorial. It's unfortunate the Secretary of HHS was not able to attend the funeral of Officer David Rose who was killed in the senseless attack on the CDC, one of the agencies within @hhs.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2025
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“Well I don’t like that study because it doesn't give me the result I want’
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Midge, but spooky 🧙 @midgiepie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches
one of those trucks that's a roving billboard (is it just called a roving billboard? I'm not gonna look it up right now). it's got an Onion headline that reads "ICE agent decides he wants kids after seeing incredible love and devotion of parents begging him not to take their child"
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
More people in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont. Coming up on Alaska and North Dakota. Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.) Voice in Congress: Zero. Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/06/2025
One month apart.
A screenshot of a Wired article by Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra, published May 14, 2025, with the headline: "CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers."
A screenshot of a Wired article by Lily Hay Newman, published June 16, 2025, with the headline: "Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses."
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 04/09/2025
SO MANY KIDS used to die Improvements in sanitation and vaccines were big, but pasteurization had a big impact too Pasteurization wasn't mandatory in the US until after WWII (exact year depends on the state)
Chart of childhood mortality ages 0-5, going from 450 per 1000 to close to 0 today
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/08/2025
One thing to understand about America is that our cities have a *million* people of all genders & races who have the energy of the tank man in Tiananmen Square, because they came from communities all over the world that know oppression, that know how to fight authoritarianism, that know solidarity.
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Susannah K @spiralgal.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Call your congress people!
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2025
This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/08/2025
Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984. The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
that the phrases “intentionally destroying the economy” and “worst economic president of our lifetimes” arent being said everywhere right now by dem politicians makes my head want to explode
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This is a song about the government This is "heavy foot"— a song for our times
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 11/08/2025
A rambling and incoherent Trump wants to turn DC into his personal police state despite a 30-year low in crime. He's a pathetic wannabe dictator who wants to distract you from his connection to the Epstein files, skyrocketing costs, and his weak job numbers. Don't let him.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while. Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Don’t look away.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Susan J. Kressly, said "creation of federal immunization policy is ‘no longer a credible process.’”
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 27/06/2025
DO NOT LOOK AWAY ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court
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ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...
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AuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌈🌊☮️ @auntren.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Lmao 🥰 Cynthia Nixon www.instagram.com/reel/DK-aPsy...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/06/2025
"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this." That's what a Reagan-appointed judge said about Trump cancelling hundreds of NIH grants. We can't stop fighting Trump's assault on science, the NIH, and our values.
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Judge orders Trump admin. to restore hundreds of terminated NIH grants
"I've never seen government racial discrimination like this," the judge said.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
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