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Sandy Lee Spoelstra

@spooley2.bsky.social
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Resister. Retired RN Scientist NIH in aging & cancer. Daughter Mom Grandma who loves golf’s⛳️ pickleball 🏓 runs🏃‍♀️bikes🚲& loves wine 🍷. Advocate for disabled vulnerable disadvantaged humans 🙏😇💙🦋🙌

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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@joe-scarborough.bsky.social How about focusing on The War, The Economy more than reporters being kicked out of the White House—we all expected it to happen—move on!!!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Kids playing road hockey on the brand-new Gordie Howe International Bridge 🏒🇨🇦 Canada celebrated the opening the only way we know how with hockey on the deck of the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America. Built by Canadians, paid for by Canadians.🤝🇨🇦 🎥 Gray_Mackenzie on 𝕏 🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
MUST READ…and share widely across all your contacts regardless if vote RED or BLUE but especially INDEPENDENT!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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💙🏳️‍🌈 Kh’ymm (aka Goldie) 🏳️‍🌈💙 @thegoldfishmind.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social turned decades of studying democracy into a nightly act of devotion, writing alone past midnight, no sponsors, no noise, just truth and care. She’s given millions a place to breathe, to understand, to feel less alone. Grateful for her light in the dark. TYSM HCR! #Pinks
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#RiseupSingout #nokings Icon Patti Smith with “People Have the Power# to dream, to vote, to rule!!! She is right!!!!! We the people have the power! Use your voice!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Fonda: This isn’t the first time that Americans’ rights have come under attack. But this time, what is really different from the last century is that the attacks are coming from every part of the government: the executive, the legislative, and the Supreme Court.
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
JUNE 14th President Obama Appreciation Day. #CivilRights
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#RiseupSingout #NoKings The Minneapolis Minnesota Singing Resistance the epicenter of the music 🎶 resistance ❤️💙💜💛💚
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#riseupsingout #NoKings Every child deserves a home, to go to school, to feel safe. Harming the children must end! Family separation is wrong! Children must not be in detention!
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Rise Up, Sing Out Grand Rapids Watch Party” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Rise Up, Sing Out Grand Rapids Watch Party · No Kings
On June 14, join us for Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment — an uplifting evening of music, community, and action. Hosted by the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA), this special...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2026
‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Wesley powers, and maybe veteran who served in combat was sprayed with chemical agents, brutalized and then detained in overcrowded & horrific conditions and denied his rights. If this can happen to him, it can happen to any of us! Call your 2 Senators & your Congressional rep at 202-224-3121. 🧵
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Bari Weiss orders Stephen Colbert not to run interview with Texas Presbyterian minister running for US Senate seat, because he appears to be criticizing Trump. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Colbert accuses Trump administration of censorship after CBS pulls interview
Host says lawyers barred him from discussing decision to drop Texas Democrat segment amid FCC rules scrutiny
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Lovely rendition of “America, the Beautiful” by Brandi Carlile. Brought back memories of being inspired by my country without a tyrant trying to destroy it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We are failing our kids
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/10/2025
Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#epsteincoverup
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
King Charles III has officially stripped Prince Andrew of his remaining royal title of Prince and his home over his ties with Epstein! #KingCharles #PrinceAndrew #Monarchy #USDemocracy #Pinks www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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King Charles III strips brother Andrew of titles and his home
King Charles III has moved to strip his younger brother Andrew of his titles and honours, and force him out of his home, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, over his ties with the late sex offender Je...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/10/2025
Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I'm attending Frontline for Freedom's event, “Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed” - sign up now to join m www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed · No Kings
Trump’s new “Compact to All Higher Ed” is a direct attack on students, faculty, and academic freedom. **Join Public Citizen and national partners, for a timely discussion on Trump’s new “Compact to Al...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Why did the Marine Corps decide to fire live artillery shells across California’s major interstate freeway on Saturday? robertreich.substack.com/p/the-othe…
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The Other Demonstration on Saturday
Friends,
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration. The mishap, during a Marine Corps celebration attended by the Vance and Hesgeth underscores safety concerns that Gov. Newsom voiced before Saturday’s event at Camp Pendleton. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/10/2025
Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."
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Michigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Michigan farmers stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in exports to China this year thanks to Donald Trump. And at the same time, his reckless trade war is driving up the costs on everything they need to run their farms. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...
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American farmers are hurting. Trump's trade war is making it worse
Farmers are struggling this fall despite a bountiful harvest. Production costs are high, crop prices are low and the trade war has closed off one of their biggest markets.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The Trump Administration made a deal with El Salvador that threatened years of U.S. law enforcement work to fight MS-13 so they could send people to CECOT—one of the most inhumane prisons in the world.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/10/2025
Can’t say I’ve seen too many palm trees here in Illinois. Maybe in the President’s home state of Florida though.
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Trump and White House Busted Using Red State Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago
The president posted the deceptive high-octane ICE raid video to his own social media account.
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
WTAF 😱
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Oh wow
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#nokingsprotest Grand Rapids Michigan. Peaceful exuberant crowd of thousands! Great signs 🪧! Collective action feels good 👍
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 17/10/2025
More reason to get the truth on what became of the $50K. Administration stories don’t add up.
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CLC Calls for Investigation Into Senior DHS Official Tom Homan’s Financial Disclosures
One of the highest-ranking members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — the Trump administration's so-called border czar — appears to be hiding information from the public.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Either Mike Johnson doesn't read the news or he's lying. He should read this story about a 10 year old US citizen with brain cancer who you and Trump deported away from her doctors. This is what your "mass deportations" are doing.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
In the richest city in America, we cannot simply accept that 500,000 kids go to bed hungry every night.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 17/10/2025
This report is absolutely shocking. ICE does not have the authority to detain US citizens during immigration enforcement — full stop. The Trump administration is out of control, violating the rights of American citizens. They must be held accountable. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 17/10/2025
Federal resources aren’t campaign tools. Secretary Kristi Noem's new TSA video crosses the line, violating the Hatch Act with blatant political messaging. We’re urging California airports to stand firm against this unlawful federal pressure and refrain from airing the video.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17/10/2025
The people around Donald Trump are taking advantage of his diminished capacity to break the law. Whatever they do now, we won’t forget — and we will hold them accountable.
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Beyond the fact that this energy infrastructure funding has already been appropriated to our state and is owed to Arizonans, protecting solar projects and lower electricity bills is personal to me. azmirror.com/briefs/arizo...
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Arizona challenges EPA decision ending $156 million in solar funding | Arizona Mirror
Arizona EPA lawsuit Solar for All program challenges termination of $156 million in grants for clean energy
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/10/2025
Jeffries: “ And then you got Karoline Leavitt, who's sick. She's out of control. And I'm not sure whether she's just demented, ignorant, a stone-cold liar, or all of the above"
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/10/2025
You understand the assignment, California— VOTE YES ON PROP 50
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thanks to everyone for always keeping those cameras rolling and sharing the videos online. Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will now be required to wear body cameras, following a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/10/2025
Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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60000
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Bernie Sanders
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Number of Donations
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50000
Elizabeth Warren
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75Hakeem Jeffries
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Nancy Pelosi
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Suzan DelBene
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1500
1000
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25
50
75
Donor Age
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