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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10...
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Pete Hegseth’s self-absorbed hunger for power, attention, and violence is disgusting and beneath the office he holds. He is not fit to lead.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-9-...
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October 9, 2026
Late Wednesday afternoon, Dana Mattioli, Drew Hinshaw, Rebecca Ballhaus, and Joe Parkinson of the Wall Street Journal reported on the tawdry grifting of Kimberly Guilfoyle, former fiancee of Donald Tr...
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s a Constitutional violation! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-1-...
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Easy to believe people have gone mad: Now, in 2026, Christian nationalists, whose ideas are powerful in the Trump administration, want to repeal women’s right to vote. They say that voting should be by household and that women must defer to men. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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August 18, 2026
On August 18, 1920, the Tennessee legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The FCC has no business deciding who is a journalist and what counts as real news. We cannot allow local stations to become collateral damage in the FCC's political games.
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'A putz': Michael Steele slams Trump FCC Commissioner's latest ABC attack
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Your local newsroom used to decide what you got to watch. Now that decision increasingly runs through whether it pleases the White House, and without a consumer protection measure like the national ownership cap in place, it will only get worse.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
They openly admit their election crimes & are actively doing everything they can to undermine & outright steal the Midterm Elections. Any surprise he fired the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission? He knows if he loses he's headed for a 3rd Impeachment & an orange jumpsuit. 🤞 👍
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Trump is surrounded by evil people because he is not smart enough to think of ways to ruin everything, but that is what he is doing. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 25, 2026
It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Education Secretary Linda McMahon, apparently rigged the competition to cut out a 17-year-old Indian immigrant in favor of a homeschooled blonde girl from Wyoming, open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 27, 2026
On July 22, Sam Fortier of NOTUS reported that the Trump-appointed judges of the Presidential 1776 Award competition, emceed by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, apparently rigged the competition to ...
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Please watch! www.facebook.com/share/v/1bW8...
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Kansans should vote NO on the Constitutional amendment www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
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Kansans Will Vote on an Elected Supreme Court. The Target: Abortion.
Frustrated by the appointed court’s support of abortion rights, which has been affirmed resoundingly by voters, Republicans are pushing an Aug. 4 referendum to elect Kansas justices.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Republican greed and path of destruction is endless open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 14, 2026
In August 1870 a U.S.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Republican Party’s message four months before the midterms appears to be, “You’re not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 10, 2026
Presumably afraid of investigations into his actions, President Donald J.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just as administration officials are tearing up the scientific research Americans have built over the last 80 years, Hegseth is also tearing up the U.S. military, which Americans have built with their blood and treasure since 1775. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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June 27, 2026
Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created the idea there was an emergency, ignored experts, bypassed normal procedures to give a wildly inflated contract to a crony,...
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
So disheartening that pur country continues this inhumane march to the bottom. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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May 26, 2026
Yesterday, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) along with demonstrators outside Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed detention center in Newark, New Jer...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/05/2026
Tillis: "To call Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He's gonna be an anchor on our caucus"
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/05/2026
Lest we forget: Obama secured the Iran deal without starting a war, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, or losing a single American life. But please, tell me more about how “toughness” requires body bags.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump’s tariffs, along with deportations of farm workers and cancelling of foreign food aid programs, led farm bankruptcies to rise 46% in 2025 from the previous year. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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May 11, 2026
The story of the Trump Mobile phone seems a microcosm of the Trump administration.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The likely SSI cut will affect adults with disabilities such as Down syndrome and severe autism still living at home with their low-income parents, also older people with health or financial problems who had to move in with their adult children on tight budgets. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
putting your name on everything is also what dictators do. Personality cults have rules and a main one is that the leader must be omnipotent and omnipresent. Whether it is his face on buildings and currency, or places and objects named after him open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
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Why Autocrats Need Bunkers; David Pepper on Fallout from Trump's Recklessness
Sat. 8pmET Live with Anat Shenker-Osorio; Lucid 5th Anniv Discounts
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Democrats have put forward multiple standalone bills to fund TSA (and FEMA and the Coast Guard), which Republicans have blocked six times as of March 20. They want DHS fully funded: no concessions, no conditions, no accountability. open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
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Tuesday Briefing: TSA, Explained
This is the biggest story right now. Here’s what’s actually happening and what it means.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is what I describe as their "Dear Leader" problem...
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Snyder explicitly states:“A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States.” This is aided by “the disabling of counter-terror.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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The Threat of Retaliation in America
The Trump regime's actions are making America less safe. They are exploiting fear to seize more power. We should not be intimidated.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Trump “will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.” He can’t even do that in the USA. Delusional leaders should be impeached and removed.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
when regenerative and organic farms produce lower yields than conventional farms, as they usually do, they drive more deforestation as well as malnutrition. They’re also driving habitat destruction, so they’re destroying biodiversity. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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RFK Jr.’s Junk Science Diet
His MAHA ideas about food are built on some of the same lies as his antivax campaign.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say open.substack.com/pub/defiance...
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Five reasons Trump has left America vulnerable to a terrorist attack by Iran.
The administration appears to have done no "defensive" prep for war. And it's spent a year shifting counterterrorism personnel to domestic immigration enforcement.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Do we want to continue forever wars financed with borrowed money and fought by service members whose sacrifices stand in stark contrast to the cowardice of our billionaire class? Trump Wants You to Get Used to This. Don’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This. Don’t.
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Retired Principal @tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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