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Therese Flanagan, M.A.

@thereseflanagan.bsky.social
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I'm a Chicagoan & a lifelong Democrat. I am a fighter. I took care of my mom, who had Alzheimer's, for 9 years; I loved her. I kept notes, thinking they may be of help to someone else on the same road. OnForgetting.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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William 🇨🇦 @williampolitics.bsky.social · 8h
only Autocrats fear free and fair elections, vote!
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Ms. Future Hope @msfuturehope.bsky.social · 8h
#VoteBlueToStopTrump #VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare #VoteBlueForAffordability #VoteBlueForHealthcare #VoteBlueForChildcare #VoteBlueForTheRuleOfLaw #VoteBlueForTheConstitution #VoteBlueToProtectOurDemocracy 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
Don't forget that nearly all Republicans in Congress stood by and supported Trump's... -Tax cuts for the rich -Cuts to the social safety net -Iran War -ICE abductions & National Guard deployments -Inflationary tariffs -Blatant corruption His unpopularity is theirs too — and the midterms are here.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
According to the complaint, she was told “the President wants this investigation.” Fields also says agents were pulled off active cartel cases to satisfy political demands, and she faced retaliation for refusing to participate.
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Padilla Announces Troubling New FBI Whistleblower Disclosure: White House Allegedly Directed Kash Patel to Investigate LA Protesters Exercising 1st Amendment Rights - Senator Alex Padilla
Whistleblower reveals White House, DOJ leadership, and FBI leadership pressured FBI employees to illegally investigate protesters of this Administration’s cruel mass deportation agenda FBI leadership ...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Attn: A FBI supervisor is blowing the whistle on the Trump administration’s targeting of anti-ICE protesters. Jill Fields states the White House pushed the FBI to investigate people in Los Angeles even after agents determined their actions were protected by the First Amendment.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Their supposed offense? Using megaphones to warn neighbors about immigration agents and explain their legal rights.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15h
What a comically out of touch response. Maine, please vote this idiot out.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates to lead a "comprehensive independent review" into how the school "prevents and responds to sexual harassment, sexual assault and related misconduct on campus.” abcnews.com/US/cornell-t...
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Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent review
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how Cornell responds to sexual assault cases.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm voting YES on Prop 40, the California billionaire tax. Here's why.
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Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jimmy Kimmel nails it. 🔨
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Mayor Karen Bass @mayor.lacity.gov · 07/10/2026
The role of a president is to protect the country, not to actively threaten it and encourage attacks on American lives. In the face of irresponsible threats, as Angelenos, we know how to stand together and protect our city.
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 07/10/2026
Saying Trump was joking about Californian cities being taken out is called gaslighting. Man couldn’t tell a joke to save himself from the release of the Epstein files. The man who couldn’t make anyone laugh, but is the punch line of every joke, and the most anticipated obituary.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/10/2026
Donald Trump made the bonkers claim in front of a dead silent crowd. trib.al/6IxE4MA
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Trump, 80, Claims Iran War Ended Eight Months Before He Started It
Donald Trump made the bonkers claim in front of a dead silent crowd.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 07/10/2026
This is the President who sent 700 Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles to terrorize diverse communities. His rhetoric isn’t an anomaly or a one-off.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 23h
WATCH: @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social explains how Donald Trump’s comments appearing to welcome a nuclear attack on Los Angeles and San Diego are “exactly why the 25th Amendment was written. #LastWord
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Rep. Zoe Lofgren @lofgren.house.gov · 07/10/2026
Statement from 43 Members of Congress from California regarding Trump’s attacks on Los Angeles and San Diego:
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22h
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 05/10/2026
The President said he’d send you DOGE checks and tariff rebates. He never did. Now he’s lying again. He’s desperately trying to cling to power. Americans don’t need more empty promises. They need real action to make life more affordable.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Phil Collins on Trump’s uniquely abrasive style: “His whole manner is unattractive. Historically, presidents have been eloquent and elegant. Even if you don’t agree with them, you still respect them. But when somebody like Trump is as nasty as he is, you end up feeling dislike for him.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I’ve been sayin it. I’ve been sayin it for 10 damn years! Ain’t I been sayin it?”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Guess which other narcissistic, mentally unstable authoritarian leader called for an arch and a ballroom to be built as grand monuments to his glory. I'm sure it's just a coincidence . . .
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Measles was eliminated back in the year 2000. And now, 26 years later, we’re dealing with it coming roaring back. Pennsylvania has now eclipsed 1,000 cases across 39 counties, with five deaths." Shapiro says amid the outbreak, vaccinations have now doubled.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, spare me the bullshit redemption tour. Everyone knew what this was going to be. “Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.” apnews.com/article/thom...
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Public vulgarity and lewdness are Trump's signature on the campaign trail. These are well recognized as signs of advanced senile dementia.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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LIVE: FBI’s Trump-Epstein Training Videos Finally DISCOVERED…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’d love to see Jack Smith appointed Attorney General by the next Democratic president! 🇺🇸💙
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The Scot 💙🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @thescot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump cut SNAP, food stamps as of 1st October. This guy Jerome is right.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/10/2026
Plague outbreak in Russia from a lab. We MUST ban all commercial flights to and from Russia NOW
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Convicted Felon Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, know with the Midterms around the corner, DELAY is the name of the game
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.
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The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The #WhiteHouse fabric has sustained plenty of damage, unfortunately. More difficult to undo will be the East façade—particularly the East Room's Palladian window—an original feature from 1792—which Trump is destroying to create a second floor corridor to his new ballroom. bsky.app/profile/sund...
Original state of the East Room's Palladian window—a key surviving architectural element of architect James Hoban's original 1792 White House exterior, which Trump is destroying to create a second floor corridor to his new ballroom. Photo taken summer of 2025, prior to demolition of East Wing—during Trump's site survey with first ballroom architect, James C. McCrery at far left. Image © 2025 Associated Press Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/08/05/trump-takes-a-little-walk-on-white-house-roof-after-announcing-200-million-ballroom-plans/Close-up view of the East Room's Palladian window—a key surviving architectural element of architect James Hoban's original 1792 White House exterior, which Trump is destroying to create a second floor corridor to his new ballroom. This view shows the haphazard way the new steel structure for Trump's connecting corridor asymmetrically slams into the 1792 east façade of the White House without any regard for its historic design—wrecking the East Room's original Palladian window. Photo taken August 26, 2026. Image © Brian Finke for New York Magazine Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-white-house-ballroom-helipad-reflecting-pool-supreme-court.html Archived copy: https://archive.ph/dDrfNGeneral view of the East Room's Palladian window—a key surviving architectural element of architect James Hoban's original 1792 White House exterior, which Trump is destroying to create a second floor corridor to his new ballroom. This view shows the haphazard way the new steel structure for Trump's connecting corridor asymmetrically slams into the 1792 east façade of the White House without any regard for its historic design—wrecking the East Room's original Palladian window. Photo taken August 26, 2026. Image © Brian Finke for New York Magazine Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-white-house-ballroom-helipad-reflecting-pool-supreme-court.html Archived copy: https://archive.ph/dDrfN
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 04/10/2026
"We don't die when the body starts to end. Because what we leave is a message, which is left and this will survive us." - Rita Levi-Montalcini, awarded the Nobel Prize 40 years ago for her discovery of growth factors. She was the longest-living laureate, passing away at the age of 103 years.
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