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Katya Rynearson

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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a woman is making a face in front of an american flag .
ALT: a woman is making a face in front of an american flag .
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Nicole Sandler @nicolesandler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Image of the day. Great job Dump!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/04/2025
Comedy is legal on this platform. #handsoff
Susanne Ure on Bluesky: “#HandsOff protest. Ottawa, Canada.” (above an AI image of Trump running away from a beaver holding a hockey stick, a goose, and a moose with the Canadian flag displayed in the background)Dutchess Prim on Bluesky: “These signs are amazing!
#handsoff” (above an image of a person holding a protest sign that reads “WISCONSIN HATES ELON SO MUCH IT COULD BE ONE OF HIS KIDS)Stephanie "LB" on Bluesky: (an image of a person holding a protest sign that reads “I WAS ACCIDENTALLY ADDED TO THIS PROTEST BY A SIGNAL GROUP CHAT”)Mark Jacob on Bluesky: “This embroidery in Evanston, IL, isn't the quickest-reading sign of the #HandsOff protests, but it sure does capture the public mood.” (above an image of a person holding a big embroidery design that reads “I’M SO ANGRY I STITCHED THIS JUST SO I COULD STAB SOMETHING 3,000 TIMES”)
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We are right before, or have already crossed the ‘Lehman Moment’ - something has to give - either Trump fires his economic advisors and rolls back the tariffs or Trump resigns.
What Is a ‘Lehman Moment’?
The term “Lehman Moment” refers to a situation in which the problems of one company or one seemingly minor component of the economy turn out to be so large that they become everyone’s problem.

The term is a reference to the 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, then the eighth-largest investment bank in the United States. The bankruptcy triggered a huge stock market downturn and put such pressure on the rest of the financial industry that the federal government stepped in with a $700 billion program of bailouts and arranged mergers to stabilize the financial system.
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And the problem was not limited to the U.S. It spread globally and became the 2008 global financial crisis.
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William Cooper, Author @wcooperbooks.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Today's *real* headline that @theonion.com wouldn't have even tried: The President of the United States has placed a tariff on a remote island of penguins.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/04/2025
“Let’s also be real: These tariffs are another tool to advance the authoritarian agenda at home.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Musk is trying to buy votes in Wisconsin. Resend this if you’re from Wisconsin and you’re not for sale.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/03/2025
No matter what side of the aisle you are on, you should be appalled that a billionaire thinks he has the right to buy elections like this.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2025
Trump’s new executive order is a dangerous attempt to restrict who gets a voice in our democracy, making it harder for millions to cast a ballot and be heard. Instead of voters choosing their leaders, it paves the way for MAGA extremists to decide who gets to participate in the first place.
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Trump’s New Executive Order (EO) to Silence Americans: What You Need to Know
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Lise 💙🦋 @lisegal95.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This!! 👇👇👇👇
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
How many people out there believe an unelected billionaire who is only willing to discuss looting Social Security on Fox News and not under oath in front of Congress? 🤔 Anyone? K, cool. Me neither. #HandsOffSocialSecurity #ThisIsAScam
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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Seeing Rumeysa Ozturk snatched off the street by masked thugs evoked the actions of so many tyrannies: The Basij is Iran, Mukhabarat in Egypt or Syria, Mano Blanca in Guatemala & El Salvador, FRAPH in Haiti. They're practicing on foreigners, they'll move onto citizens soon enough.
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Rep. Jerry Nadler @nadler.house.gov · 27/03/2025
I have a message for Texas: Don’t mess with New York. Today, a court upheld New York's shield law and shut down Texas’ absurd attempt to criminalize essential medical care.
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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Billionaires don’t have a constitutional right to own your government. Today @khanna.house.gov and I unveiled the Abolish Super PACs Act to get money out of politics and restore democracy for, of, and by the people. We must make it harder for billionaires + corporate interests to buy our politics.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Exactly right.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Agents of the state are kidnapping people off the street for exercising their first amendment rights. The definition of fascist behavior.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Imagine foreign spy agencies right now
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two women are working in a kitchen with a sign above them that says kitchen
ALT: two women are working in a kitchen with a sign above them that says kitchen
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"
Declaration of S.Z.F.R. 1. I am a woman from Venezuela and I am in detention at Webb County Detention Center in Laredo Texas. My initials are S.Z.F.R. 2. On March 9 at 7 a.m. I was in my dorm in El Paso and was told to get my things together and I was being transferred to another facility. There was one other woman and 14 men who were also transferred with me. 3. I was supposed to have a merits hearing for my asylum claims on March 10th. 4. They took me to the airport in El Paso and I was put on a plane. Already on the plane were many Venezuelan men and three other Venezuelan women. We flew to Laredo. 5. When we got to Laredo we met up with another group of Venezuelan men. 6. There were at least 10 Venezuelan women on the plane. We arrived March 9 in Laredo and were taken to Webb County Detention Center. 7. Thursday of last week, March13th, we were told to gather our belongings and we were driven toward the airport for about an hour. We were told we were being deported to Venezuela. We never made it to the airport. We were sent back to Webb and told it was because of a plane malfunction. 8. On Friday again we were told to gather our belongings and put on the bus at Webb and sat on the bus for about 15 minutes and then were taken back to Webb. 9. Saturday morning we were again told to gather our belongings and get on the bus. We went to the airport and 8 women were put on the plane with me.When we got on the plane there were already over 50 men on the plane. I could see other migrants walking to the plane but we took off before any additional people boarded. 11. Within a couple of minutes of take off I heard two US government officials talking and they said “there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.” 12. I asked where we were going and we were told that we were going to Venezuela. 13. Several other people on the plane told me they were in immigration proceedings and awaiting court hearings in immigration court. 14. We were not allowed to open our window shades. 15. We landed somewhere for refueling. We were there for many hours. We were arm and leg shackled the whole time. 16. We took off again and landed fairly quickly. I was then told we were in El Salvador. 17. While on the plane the government officials were asking the men to sign a document and they didn’t want to. The government officials were pushing them to sign the documents and threatening them. I heard them discussing the documents and they were about the men admitting they were members of TdA. 18. After we landed but were still on the plane a woman opened the shade. An officer rushed to shut the shade and pushed her down by her shoulders to try and stop her from looking out. The person that pushed her down had HOU-02 on his sleeve. 19. I saw out the window for a minute and I saw men in military uniforms and another plane. I saw men being led off the plane. Since I’ve been back in the U.S. I have seen news coverage and the plane I saw looks like the one I’ve seen on TV with migrants from the U.S. being delivered to El Salvador.20. All the men got off the plane. The remaining women asked what happens to us? I was told that the President of El Salvador would not accept women. I was also told that we were going back to detention in the U.S. 21. We left in the middle of the night and landed in the early morning in Laredo. The 8 women who were on the plane were all returned back to the U.S. /s/ S.Z.F.R. S.Z.F.R.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Blue state governors, take notes please
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
That is TWENTY THOUSAND more people than anticipated !!! 🥳🏆
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism
Bill Kristol praising Sanders and AOC
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
So… the very same Republicans who said they were cutting SNAP because hunger could be “addressed by food banks”, just cut $500 MILLION in funding for… You guessed it. Food banks.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I haven't ever really spoken about this to anyone, but when I was litigating the so-called "comfort women" case, I went to the National Archives to obtain and read the testimonies of women and girls who were held in sex slave camps by the Japanese military following their release. 1/
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Blanche Devereaux II @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I try not to post his face or voice but this video by @thedailyshow.com is pretty good
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Also think about the difference in impact here. If you make under $13k per year, losing $1000 is DEVASTATING. That’s meals you can’t eat, desperately needed medical procedures you can’t get, school supplies your children can’t afford. If you make $3+ million per year, $180k is just a third yacht.
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Letters from A Psychotherapist @jemoyer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Little Fury Fellah @elnosnusk.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In case you doubted that he’s a russian asset, know that VOA was instrumental in keeping the hope of freedoms alive in the Soviet Union and is hated with a passion by putin for exactly that. This is no accident.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What @jimsciutto.bsky.social said 👇🏽 🎯
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 15/03/2025
University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.
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Opinion | Colleges Are Under Attack. They Can Fight Back.
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Kidnapping an activist and jailing him in the middle of the night is a brazen act of authoritarianism. Punishing dissent by revoking legal status is a dangerous precedent to set.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 10/03/2025
ICE just DETAINED a lawful permanent resident and recent grad student in the middle of the night… because Mahmoud exercised his First Amendment rights in a way Donald Trump didn’t like. Straight up authoritarianism.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
if you as an American Jew do not want to be used as the excuse for Trump's destruction of civil liberties and basic democratic protections, the time to speak out is right now
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 05/03/2025
“The fundamental weakness of Weatern civilization is empathy.” —Elon Musk
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
Who's running this country:
MUSK
Donald Trump or
Elon Musk?
Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself.
The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call Your Senators and tell them it's time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk.
No One Elected Elon Musk
FireMusk.org
Common
Cause
Holding Power Accountable
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FUND
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
the richest man in the world has decided that you don't deserve to feel safe when you fly bsky.app/profile/rick...
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water
Reddit post from a terminated federal employee: "The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/02/2025
Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.
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