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Staci Berger ❌👑

@staciberger.bsky.social
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Pres & CEO @hcdnnj.bsky.social; Proud Mom, Progressive Dem & Good Troublemaker w @pwaydems.bsky.social; Pway 3-9 MCDO Rep; Posts are mine, shares (or whatever we are calling them here) are not endorsements.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026
MAINERS: Early voting starts TODAY! Voting early is the best way to make sure your ballot is safe from suppression efforts and election sabotage. Make your early voting plan today! Not in Maine? Help drive historic early vote turnout by sharing this post.
(around images of the state of Maine, a lighthouse, a lobster, and a pine cone) IN-PERSON EARLY VOTING STARTS IN MAINE TODAY

VOTE EARLY OCTOBER 4-29

SHARE THIS & SPREAD THE WORD!
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026
Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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drmaB🎃🎃!🍁🍂 @drmag00.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A friend sent me this blog post (she is not the author) about cavassing in elections, the joys, the heartache, and the challenges. It's really wonderful. @seedthevote.bsky.social suegranzellateacher.substack.com/p/discomfort...
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Discomfort, be damned!
Democracy, one door at a time
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 01/10/2026
We discuss how ordinary people can reclaim their power, fight for freedom, and reimagine democracy, inspired by a new book, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times, with Skye Perryman, Democracy Fwd, @democracyforward.org.
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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 01/10/2026
We cover the push for healthy school meals for all, highlighting a congressional briefing and the urgent need for robust policies as millions face SNAP cuts with Alexis Bylander, Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), @fracposts.bsky.social.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Women standing up for women.
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICYMI: Those Trump TV ads were paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Democrats disclose. A senior legal counsel for ethics at the Campaign Legal Center tells @statesnewsroom.com DC they appear to violate the Hatch Act. @jonshorman.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call ...
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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NOPE: Remember we told you the Trump administration decided to cancel $810 million in funding w/out Congress' approval? Government watchdog GAO says they can't do that. @jennifershutt.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/cong...
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Congressional watchdog says Trump administration can’t defy lawmakers to revoke $810M
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration must spend the $810 million that it said last week it planned to cancel, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Offic...
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Women, Trump hates you. Stop voting for your abuser. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Justice Dept. Unlawfully Withheld Grants to Combat Domestic Violence, Judge Rules
Judge Melissa R. DuBose said the department had placed arbitrary conditions on grants created by the Violence Against Women Act.
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NLIHC @nlihc.org · 28/09/2026
Memo: Administration Plans to Cancel Nearly $1B in Spending; Urge Leaders to Join Olmstead Statement; Court Vacates PRWORA Notices from HUD; and More: mailchi.mp/nlihc/memo_092826
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Eviction isn’t just a housing issue; it’s an education issue, it’s an economic mobility issue, it’s a neighborhood stability issue.” saportareport.com/atlanta-take...
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Princeton University says Atlanta has the most eviction filings in the country - SaportaReport
Read Princeton University says Atlanta has the most eviction filings in the country by Gabi Hart for SaportaReport here.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🤷🏼 That was fast — “Federal Judge Timothy Kelly has ordered Trump to temporarily reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House… revocation of reporters’ press badges was done without ‘constitutionally adequate due process.’”
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Judge orders Trump administration to reinstate White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico | CNN Politics
Federal Judge Timothy Kelly has ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House after they were banned from the premises by President Don...
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NLIHC @nlihc.org · 23/09/2026
Next week, on 9/30 @ 11:30 am ET, #NLIHC President & CEO, Renee M. Willis will close out #2026HousingMatters. Don’t miss her inspiring closing remarks or this conference—learn more: tr.ee/eALwaz
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
Happy 100th, John Coltrane 🎷

Did you know his masterpiece “A Love Supreme” was recorded in a single session at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ? Trane's thank-you to God, made right here in Jersey.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The doctor and the hospital who signed his release needs to lose his license to practice medicine and be sued for malpractice.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do?
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 18/09/2026
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol makes 1,700x more than the average barista. That same CEO claims a $9 coffee is affordable and commutes to work in a private jet. Meanwhile, many baristas struggle to afford getting to work. We're joining sbworkersunited.org in a Starbucks boycott.
Boycott Starbucks No Contract? No coffee. Period. Boycottstarbucks.net
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nature is healing: A poacher hunting rhinos was ambushed by a herd of elephants and trampled to death.
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Poacher sneaking up on rhinos ambushed and trampled to death by elephants
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026
Anti-trans bigotry is electoral disaster for Democrats. They will lose if they follow the consultant class off this cliff
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Spectacular Republican losses prove MAGA's transphobic playbook doesn't win elections
<p>Across the country, voters chose inclusion, empathy, and competence over cruelty and division.</p>
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Earlier this year, Kanye West “performed at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and Raymond James Stadium without issue, despite his affinities for Adolf Hitler, the Nazi regime, and his long history of antisemitic remarks.” newrepublic.com/post/215395/...
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NFL Owners Band Together to Boot Macklemore From Ed Sheeran’s Tour
The musician was pulled after he called for a “Free Palestine.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026
it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A must read--an infuriating read--from @Timodc. "Eissa is in an ICE processing center...The Kafkaesque nightmare we are putting this family through is hard to wrap your arms around. They are stranded there with no way out, no charges, no trial, no jury." www.thebulwark.com/p/marco-rubi...
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Marco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s Sins
America gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Abortion is healthcare. Deaths from ectopic pregnancy increased in states with abortion bans than others. An untreated ectopic pregnancy causes bleeding, fallopian tube rupture, death. www.propublica.org/article/ecto... #pinks
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/09/2026
NO THE FUCK I DID NOT!!!
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Staci Berger ❌👑 @staciberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Heroes.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 10/09/2026
Booooooooooo. Fuck this
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Also, TODAY WISH RUBY BRIDGES a very Happy 72nd Birthday today...🎂💙 Ruby at the tender age of just 6 years old because the first black child to integrate an all-white school school in New Orleans Walk in her shoes ..try to imagine..she never missed a day of school She is Still Active Today
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went on to win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.

None of those victories were guaranteed. And none are permanent.

We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.

Happy Labor Day, New York. The future of worker power is ours to build. Learn more at nyc.gov/workerpower.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Edith Golub and the @beaconfordemocracy.bsky.social -resisting every week!!!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/09/2026
He was a TPS holder, legally living in the United States, until Trump ended the program in late July, throwing his future into uncertainty. #ICEOutNow Since 2024, Springfield has been targeted by a political campaign built on lies about its Haitian community.
WE STAND WITH SPRINGFIELD. Haitian college student PIERRE DAMAS BEL died by suicide after being forced to wear an ICE ankle monitor. ICE OUT OF AMERICA.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/09/2026
#PierreDamasBel should be here today, getting ready to start his first week of college. Instead, on Monday, August 31, Pierre died by suicide after being forced to wear an ICE ankle monitor.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Good Riddance, Seth Moulton: You Got What You Deserved
The congressman who got drubbed by Ed Markey on Tuesday tried to distance himself from the base. That just doesn’t work anymore.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AOC: Let’s put a data center in each one of Donald Trump’s golf courses. Let’s put one in New Jersey on his golf course. Put one in Mar-a-Lago. The only reason I don’t say put one on the White House lawn is because he’ll be out of there soon. If he loves them so much, he can have them.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/09/2026
🎥 NEW: Marc Elias is breaking down two major allegations from a bombshell whistleblower complaint 👇 1️⃣ USPS defied court orders while developing its new mail ballot portal. 2️⃣ The system is designed so that if just one ballot in a batch of thousands can't be verified, the entire batch gets rejected.
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BREAKING: Whistleblower Exposes Trump's Secret USPS Plan to Reject Thousands of Ballots at Once
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 30/08/2026
The US national debt is now over $40 trillion because of decades of Republican tax breaks for billionaires and corporations. This whole time, we could’ve instead invested in universal healthcare and childcare, boosting our economy. GOP “fiscal responsibility" is a joke.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"The largest planned AI data center in New Jersey is accused of violating federal law... "Located roughly a mile from two schools... "Running dozens of tractor-trailer-size gas-powered generators... "None have permits... floodlightnews.org/new-jersey-d...
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law'
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2026
When we fight back, we win ❤️✊🧪
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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New Jersey Monitor @newjerseymonitor.com · 26/08/2026
NJ residents share stories of masked ICE agents in push to retain mask ban newjerseymonitor.com/2026/08/26/n...
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NJ residents share stories of masked ICE agents in push to retain mask ban • New Jersey Monitor
New Jersey wants a judge to reject a Trump administration push to overturn a state law barring ICE agents from wearing masks.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry 😭😢 Dear Heaven, You have the wrong list. We know you want to see the people we love, but PLEASE! We need more time ❤️‍🩹 Sending so much love and healing to The Muppets, to the loved ones of Tim Curry. I can hear his voice. Thank you for your joyful human performance, good sir ❣️
Tim Curry and his best muppet palTim Curry in The Muppet Treasure Island
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Staci Berger ❌👑 @staciberger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Justice for Alex Pretti and all victims of ICE!
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This interview with the family of Alex Pretti is worth your time. Alex was their hero. He was a good man who led a life of service to others. We need to keep fighting for Alex, his family, and all the people ICE has hurt with their lawlessness. abcnews.com/US/family-al...
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Family of Alex Pretti speaks out in exclusive interview: 'They murdered our child'
Alex Pretti, an American citizen and ICU nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.
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