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Lauren

@tripsgracefully.bsky.social
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I work in the live music industry. I think a lot about music, books, nature and the precarious state of American democracy. 🇺🇦☮️

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 30/01/2026
If the president cannot be sued while in office, then the president should not be able to file suit while in office. Fair is fair.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Yes, it’s astonishing that Kristi Noem still has her job after the deaths, lies, and failures on her watch. But the American people have the final say when it comes to holding this entire administration - from the president on down - accountable for its cruelty and corruption.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/01/2026
Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 18/01/2026
The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
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DebJordan Kauble @debjordan-kauble.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Is administration is full of ignorant liars.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"Mr. President, you have been duly warned—now by the GOP."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around. America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 01/01/2026
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
Screenshot of a tweet by James Tate reading, “An educated populace is a threat to power.” The tweet includes a quoted graphic stating that ICE is offering a $45,000 signing bonus and $100,000 starting salary, compared to a teacher earning $55,000 in their eighth year with a master’s degree, arguing that education has been intentionally defunded.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS, and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/12/2025
McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Because it’s a smash and grab.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/12/2025
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 05/12/2025
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Ms. Brown speaking the truth 🔥
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Charlie Brown with Lucy holding the football. It says we'll vote on the ACA subsidies in December
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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AnnieForTruth @anniefortruth1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Facts matter…this is true. 💙
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/10/2025
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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I've got a dad back @dadback.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I don't need to use chatGPT because as a cis white man, I already say things with 100% confidence and 60% accuracy
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 23/10/2025
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 23/10/2025
Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Solidarity is the only way
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/10/2025
His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2025
It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/07/2025
NEW: Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. With @texastribune.org
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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