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Vermonter MHC Grad Mom of 3 young adults Cat lover LGBTQ Ally Committed to preserving our rights, freedoms, and Democracy

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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
presswatchers.org/2025/05/the-...
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The truth about Donald Trump rarely makes it into the news | Press Watch
Mainstream journalists are depriving their audiences of crucial context
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Same Nazis, faster transport.
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Are Any of Us Safe Now?
The Trump administration claims the power to punish “offenders” with no due process.
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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There Will Be More Kilmar Abrego Garcias
A dark day in American history—and what the hell comes next.
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
With 47s refusal to comply with the Supreme Court’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia the US has entered a dictatorship under a terrorist state. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We’re fucking doomed…
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
From the Boston protests today. 🤣
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Ahhh…that lovely taste of “Liberation”…
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Want to join me for this Hands Off event?
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Persistent Peach @vtpeach.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I’m sure things will be different this time… 🙄
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 04/03/2025
Trump promised to leave Social Security alone, but his actions speak louder than his words, Times columnist Michael Hiltzik writes.
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Commentary: Trump, the GOP and DOGE have launched their attack on Social Security. You should start worrying now
Trump promised to leave Social Security alone, but his actions speak louder than his words
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/02/2025
US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’
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US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’
USAid cuts to clinics dispensing antiretroviral drugs will be ‘death sentence for mothers and children’, expert warns Sweeping notices of termination of funding have been received by organisations working with HIV and Aids across Africa, with dire…
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 18/02/2025
There’s no chance that Musk and his lapdogs will be yanked from their posts, since the point of DOGE is not really to reform government spending and accountability at all.
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DOGE Is a Massive Scam—Even on Its Own Terms
Even if you believe that Musk is trying to root out waste and fraud (and you really shouldn't), he and his dweeby hatchet bros are only making things more corrupt and expensive.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/02/2025
More than 60 major moves that President Trump and his administration have made in his first 23 days, including executive orders and agency memos, have aligned with proposals in the Project 2025 blueprint, according to a New York Times analysis.
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How Trump’s Directives Echo Project 2025
President Trump attempted during his campaign to distance himself from the right-wing blueprint to overhaul the federal government, but many of his administration’s actions so far have mirrored it.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 13/02/2025
"So, you see, it's not really about saving money," said Sunny Hostin. "I think there's a much more nefarious reason."
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'That's what they're doing': The View shares terrifying theory for Musk's education cuts
Donald Trump's special government employee Elon Musk is turning his focus on cutting the Department of Education — which the co-hosts of "The View" agreed will hurt the country for generations. Musk h...
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technausea @technausea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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steveperkins62.bsky.social @steveperkins62.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Yowiman @yowiman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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RNS @rns.org · 06/02/2025
OPINION: The responsibility of government is for the common good, but Trump can only see what he wants to destroy. He is a political terrorist, a destroyer of worlds. He has no plan. Nothing to replace the programs he destroys. No experts to replace those he fires.
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Trump, the destroyer of worlds
(RNS) — The truly powerful are creators not destroyers, builders not demolishers, life-givers not killers, fixers not complainers, nurturers not bullies.
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e.g. Alice B. Lastname @starpeople.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Civil Liberties Complaint, go get em!!!
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 05/02/2025
Like his plans to annex Canada and Greenland, Trump’s proposed conquest of Gaza is not a serious policy, but a window into a doddering mind detached from reality.
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Trump’s Phony Trade Wars Are Evidence of American Imperial Decline
President’s bullying of allies yields symbolic results—but betrays substantive weakness.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Let me emphasize: Elon Musk has not been confirmed by Congress. His “department” was never actually enacted. No one other than Trump has given him any authority. Democrats and any Republicans with a spine need to step in and stop this madness. Call your rep now (202) 224-3121
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Where we are right now, we have never been. Where we are going, no sane citizen of this country ever wanted to go. This is a profoundly dangerous and destructive moment for which we are unprepared. The worst fears and predictions about what Trump 2.0 would be like are coming true and being exceeded.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
1 Do not obey in advance. 2 Defend institutions. … 15 Contribute to good causes. 16 Learn from peers in other countries. 17 Listen for dangerous words. 18 Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. 19 Be a patriot. 20 Be as courageous as you can. @timothysnyder.bsky.social #OnTyranny #DoNotObeyInAdvance
ON TYRANNY
TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
BY TIMOTHY SNYDER quote
1. Do not obey in advance
2. Defend institutions.
3. Beware the one party state
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world
5. Remember professional ethics.
6. Be wary of paramilitaries.
7. Be reflective if you must be armed.
8. Stand out.
9. Be kind to our language.
10. Believe in truth.
11 . Investigate.
12. Make eye contact and small talk.
13. Practice corporeal politics.
14. Establish a private life,
15. Contribute to good causes.
16. Learn from peers in other countries.
17. Listen for dangerous words.
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
19. Be a patriot.
20. Be as courageous as you can.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/02/2025
“What started as a purge of the security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as technical units aligned w/ oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at Treasury, block outside access to personnel records, & take offline comms networks.”
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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
You elected the Congress. You did so as part of a deal we have had with each other since 1788 that the people we chose for that Congress would make our laws and control our national budgets. And now a group of people are illegally trying to strip away your power.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A key bit from today’s column (www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...):
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Bodies are still being pulled from the Potomac. The President and extreme MAGA Republicans are blaming women and people of color for the deadly plane crash. At the same time, they are dismantling the Federal Aviation Administration as we know it. Disgusting.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The guy from The Apprentice, who hired a Fox weekend host to run the Pentagon and a cast member from the Real World to run the FAA (the two agencies associated with the incident) says the real cause of a deadly plain crash is DEI.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr." he is accepted immediately.
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Emily 👉😎👉 PRGE @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 28/01/2025
@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/01/2025
Medicaid portals down in all 50 states. Section 8 funding is at risk in the dead of winter. Head start & university grants are at risk of cancellation. Oh, & eggs are more expensive now than they were 3 months ago. This is what happens when a fascist comes to power. Hope you're happy MAGA voters.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/01/2025
I know we don’t have the votes, but this demands articles of impeachment. When we found out Trump violated the impoundment control act for withholding Ukraine aid, we IMMEDIATELY began impeachment discussions. This is like that but GOVERNMENT WIDE. This requires more than letters and lip service.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Important follow-up on my pinned report and my recent post about the takeover at OPM: The Washington Post has confirmed the claims below. There is indeed a takeover of the federal government happening that is being coordinated by people outside the government who have gotten access to U.S. servers.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
There it is
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is absolutely insane. SNAP? FAFSA? Millions are about to suffer. This could very well crash the economy. Halt of all financil aid in the United States. www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I called my reps. Join me?
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