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Connie VM

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Birder. Boomer. Navy veteran. RN. Ally. Progressive. #Opposition

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Javanka’s mega-resort in Albania has hit the immovable wall of The Flamingo Revolution, with more than 200,000 protesting the destruction of their wetlands AND the corruption. @eczuleger.bsky.social joins me from Albania for the latest incl. what’s next in this battle. youtu.be/hlBmcVevemQ?...
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Trump Family SCRAMBLES as MASSIVE Protests Against IVANKA GROW!!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Trump:
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent in landmark lawsuit on social media safety
The jurors awarded the plaintiff $3 million in damages, finding Meta 70% responsible for harm caused to her, and YouTube responsible for 30%.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Indivisible Lake Norman” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Indivisible Lake Norman · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/01/2026
Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
'A Disgrace': Feds to Slash the Number of Recommended Vaccines, Reports Say www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
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'A Disgrace': Feds to Slash the Number of Recommended Vaccines, Reports Say
Plan for childhood immunization schedule may mirror Denmark's, with announcement expected in 2026
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Trump Promises $1,776 ‘Warrior Dividend’ for Troops—Here’s What Service Members Need to Know
President Donald Trump's one-time $1,776 payment promise for U.S. service members offers questions about which troops actually qualify and how it would impact existing pay and benefits.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Phang: If Maxwell is so worried about the grand jury records coming out, can you imagine the treasure trove of information against Maxwell, Epstein, and others that’s being held in the total Epstein files?
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Amid Uproar, Lawmakers Push to Add Nursing to 'Professional' Programs List www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nurs...
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Amid Uproar, Lawmakers Push to Add Nursing to 'Professional' Programs List
Lawmakers argue that a $100k cap on nursing graduate programs would make it harder for students
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/12/2025
"Congress is finally showing signs of life. Not allowing Trump to ONE WEIRD TRICK his way around the Constitution proves the legislative and judicial branches can stop some of his excesses. We can only hope they continue to stand up as this napping duck gets lamer and lamer." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Habba booted by Senate and judges who did their damn jobs
See! It is possible.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/12/2025
BREAKING: The DOJ has filed its opposition to my motion for expedited processing of the EPSTEIN TRAINING VIDEOS. They're arguing that there's NO WIDESPREAD PUBLIC INTEREST. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-doj-re...
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NEW: DOJ Responded to Our Epstein Training Materials Motion, Arguing There's No Public Interest
They also argue that the existence of the training videos doesn't raise any questions about government integrity!
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Duffy: As people travel through our skies, we want to have the most enjoyable experience for them. Someone might want to come through and do a couple of pull-ups.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Three-time Trump voter on his failure to fix the economy: "My kids' daycare went up. I can't afford the cost of food. Using credit cards for everyday expenses. No money left after their bills are paid. Just a whole bunch of financial mess... I'm very let down. I feel like it's only gotten worse."
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Pentagon Watchdog Finds Hegseth’s Use of Signal Posed Risk to US Personnel
The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military stri...
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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How Many Times Will the Morbidly Rich Crash America Before We Learn?
Why every era ruled by the morbidly rich ends the same way: corruption, collapse, and ordinary people paying the bill....
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Why are we so polarized (II)?
Why We’re So Polarized (II)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... "The American people deserve a government focused on their lives, not on manufacturing foreign wars, abusing law enforcement powers, or installing unqualified loyalists... They deserve transparency, accountability, and leaders who tell the truth."
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Monday Afternoon News Updates - 12/1/25
By Ben Meiselas
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Appeals court upholds ruling that disqualified Alina Habba from serving as New Jersey's top prosecutor
The decision stems from a motion by a defendant who moved to dismiss his case on the grounds that Habba, a former personal lawyer to Trump, was unlawfully appointed.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart... "When the richest Americans want nothing to do with public spaces, those spaces begin to deteriorate. Public airports, public hospitals. Public lines. Public restaurants. Public parks and neighborhoods. Public transportation. Public institutions of any kind."
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The Great Secession of the Morbidly Rich Marks a Breaking Point for Democracy’s Survival
What elite isolation reveals about the fragility of modern democracy and the cost of unchecked billionaire power…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached. Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at? Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award
For standing up to tyranny. In honor of attorney Joseph Welch, who represented the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of June 1954.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days. Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend. Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
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The Hidden Costs of Denying Paid Sick Leave
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
open.substack.com/pub/luciantr... "That is one of the problems with condoning the commission of war crimes. Other countries are inclined to employ war crimes such as murder and assassination if war crimes are committed against them."
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There is no such thing as a war crime to Donald Trump
Tomorrow, two of Donald Trump’s loyal underlings, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, will get on an airplane owned by the U.S.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
RFK Jr. Says He's Following 'Gold Standard' Science. Here's What to Know. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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RFK Jr. Says He's Following 'Gold Standard' Science. Here's What to Know.
Scientists say they are often doing just the opposite
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/11/2025
A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/11/2025
BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow. She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Steve Kornacki: Republicans took a political hit in the shutdown. How long will it last?
Since government funding lapsed, the GOP has fallen in the polls and lost at the ballot box. But shutdown history shows the party can turn it around before the midterms.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Trump administration asks for emergency pause on judge's order to fully fund SNAP
The administration has said it cannot draw from money set aside for child nutrition programs, known as Section 32 funding, to pay for SNAP during the government shutdown.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
open.substack.com/pub/populari... "The agency found that Extremity Care products lack scientific backing. One of Extremity Care’s products, Coll-e-Derm, costs $11,051.10 per square inch. Another Extremity Care product, CompleteFT, costs $7,812.38 per square inch."
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UPDATE: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom
Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care – a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars per square inch – donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., Presid...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand. There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise. Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A Journal Promised to Retract a Flawed Autism Study. It's Still Online. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | A Journal Promised to Retract a Flawed Autism Study. It's Still Online.
Junk science leaves an indelible mark
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A Journal Promised to Retract a Flawed Autism Study. It's Still Online. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | A Journal Promised to Retract a Flawed Autism Study. It's Still Online.
Junk science leaves an indelible mark
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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New Pentagon policy undercuts trans troops' ability to ask to stay in the military, AP learns
The Pentagon has rolled out a new policy that will severely undercut the ability for transgender troops who have been banned from the armed forces by the Trump administration to turn to boards of thei...
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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'SNAP Is Everything': Military Families, Vets Prepare for Empty Fridges
A disabled Navy veteran tells Military.com that his family will go hungry as SNAP benefits are slated to expire Nov. 1 due to the government shutdown.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Sean Grayson found guilty of murder in the death of Sonya Massey
Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy, was on trial in the 2024 killing of Massey, a Black mother of two who had called 911 about a possible prowler.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Doctors Muffled as Florida Moves to End Decades of Childhood Vaccination Mandates www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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Doctors Muffled as Florida Moves to End Decades of Childhood Vaccination Mandates
Many are scared to speak up out of fear of losing business or being attacked online
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Key Camp Pendleton Document Has No Approved Artillery Firing Locations West of I-5 www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Key Camp Pendleton Document Has No Approved Artillery Firing Locations West of I-5
Thousands of Southern California motorists planning to travel between San Diego and Orange or Los Angeles counties Saturday afternoon had to change or cancel plans when the state abruptly closed a sec...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025
Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
From Front Lines to Protest Lines: Veterans Speak Out For 'No Kings' Events www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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From Front Lines to Protest Lines: Veterans Speak Out For 'No Kings' Events
"I served this country because I believe in the promise of freedom, equality and democracy,” one veteran said in the lead-up to the Oct. 18 "No Kings" protests nationwide.
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Connie VM @uccelli7.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"After the round prematurely exploded on Saturday, the whole exercise — which was expected to include the firing of approximately 60 155-millimeter shells — was terminated." open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The Other Demonstration on Saturday
Friends,
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history. The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular! So were the signs...
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