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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson

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Founder and ED of Water1st.org, grad of Arizona UNC-Chapel Hill, volleyball and soccer fan, swim mom, lover of coffee, popcorn, & Honduran frijoles. I believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every individual.

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Water1st International @water1st-org.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Public health depends on dignity, stability, and trust. We call on the federal government to exercise restraint and return to immigration enforcement practices that are humane, measured, and consistent with public health evidence. Swipe to read.
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Sounder at Heart @sounderatheart.com · 04/11/2025
Rothrock really created that one though.
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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson @water1stmarla.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Absolutely right. No taxation without representation — that principle built this country. Thank you for taking a stand to defend Arizona’s voice in Congress. (From a fellow native Arizonan and Flinn 💪)
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Let’s be blunt: this is taxation without representation. That’s why, today, alongside Congresswoman-elect Grijalva, we sued the House of Representatives. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Mike Johnson won't swear in Adelita Grijalva. So we're suing.
Arizona's attorney general explains how Johnson is using the newly elected Democrat as a pawn in his shutdown fight, and keeping the Epstein files secret.
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Mike Shaw @zax2000.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Iconic. #NoKings #Seattle
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#nokings #seattle
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
But I was told trump was going to make things cheaper
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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson @water1stmarla.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The impacts of the loss of USAID funding are unthinkable. One of the organizations we partner with in Kenya is facing a devastating crisis with their now-former program to support AIDS orphans, many of whom are HIV positive themselves.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The Trump administration is trying to destroy the Fair Housing Act. The FHA is the third leg of the stool to social equality among the races, so it’s no surprise the white supremacist government wants it gone. It must be saved. My latest in @thenation.com
thenation.com
Trump’s Slumlord Administration Is Gutting the Fair Housing Act
There can’t be true desegregation without ending discrimination in housing—which is precisely why the administration is rolling back enforcement of the FHA.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Yes, Yes, to Ta-Nehisi Coates, you listen."
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2025
First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson @water1stmarla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Looking for Husky volleyball fans on here so I can follow you! 💜🤍 #pointhuskies
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/
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Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was
The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12/09/2025
🎉🎉🎉Shout out to Kaiser Permanente - they recently updated their website to say that they WILL be covering COVID-19 vaccines all of their members 6 months old and up!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you KP - let's hope their announcement kicks off more like it kp.org/covidvaccine
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COVID-19 Vaccine Information | Kaiser Permanente
Get up-to-date information on the COVID-19 vaccine, including how to schedule an appointment and safety and effectiveness.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He's blowing up the economy. He hasn't done squat to help the working class. The Epstein scandal haunts him. He is a weak and failing president with his back against the wall. Keep up the pressure.
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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson @water1stmarla.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I shared this story today with personal friends but thought I’d put it out to the universe because maybe it will be meaningful to others too. This morning I had the gift of spending time with our Bangladesh colleagues. 🌏
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation
thenation.com
The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling
The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Supreme Court has consistently and overwhelmingly been made up of elite, powerful, white men who have interpreted that law in ways that protect people like themselves. The Warren Court was a blip and much of that has been and is being actively undone. This Court is the norm.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I hate these fuckers on the Supreme Court so much I'm almost consumed by it.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 07/09/2025
I will work with any Republicans willing to put science and facts over politics and ideology to push out RFK Jr. That man is a serious threat to public health and American lives. It's never too late to do the right thing. Join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be fired immediately.
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11th Hour with Ali Velshi @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
With Sen. Eric Schmitt’s recent speech defining America as a nation by and for white Christians, the GOP has gone mask-off. @nhannahjones.bsky.social says Schmitt’s vision is “very dangerous” and says "the truth of our history is just so inconvenient" for the MAGA crowd. #Velshi
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‘A very dangerous theory:’ MAGA’s mask-off racist vision of America
At the National Conservatism Conference, GOP Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri shared a shockingly white nationalist vision of American identity and history. Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project, tells Ali Velshi that, in contrast to years of racist “dog whistles” from politicians on the right, Schmitt’s openness is almost “refreshing.” His far-right viewpoint, Hannah-Jones says, isn’t “just about who is being allowed to immigrate into our country now, but what is the very essence of who is an American and therefore who should have the protections of the constitution and full rights as citizens.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is a damning anecdote from Rep Jim McGovern. He tells me that during debate over Trump's big budget bill, House Rs privately admitted to him that it would screw over their own constituents, yet they had to vote for it anyway. Read all of it. He wrecks them: newrepublic.com/article/1999...
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Stephen @bannside.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
As a gun owner in Northern Ireland, I've had to do the following. Apply for a licence. Show reason for owning. Have an interview with a police representative. Show I have an approved gun safe in my house. Agree to my doctor being contacted. I have no issue with any of this.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My message to Donald Trump is very simple.
TEXT: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER'S MESSAGE TO DONALD TRUMP
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 06/09/2025
Take off that Cavalry hat, you draft dodger. You didn’t earn the right to wear it. Stolen valor at its worst.
Trump Truth social post: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning…”

Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR 🚁🚁🚁
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 04/09/2025
Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.
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Confused about your eligibility for the Covid shot? In Washington state, you’re covered
Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/09/2025
6 physicians who are members of Congress calling on RFKJr to resign "You have failed to uphold your promise to follow the science." #FireRFKJr
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/09/2025
Cantwell (D-WA): either you support science / Trump Warp Speed or no? RFK keeps trying to BS that he didn’t cancel good research. RFK: “You’re so wrong on the facts” Cantwell: “You’re a charlatan.” 👏👏👏
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/09/2025
In order to clear the air and prepare the public to understand any falsehoods in Kennedy's announcement, DPH has put together a review of what research truly tells us about ASD, including why the whole notion of an "autism epidemic" is false.
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Risk Factors for Autism Spectrum Disorder: What We Already Know From Scientific Evidence | Defend Public Health
With Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promising to announce what he believes are the causes of autism this month, Defend Public Health is preemptively warning the public not t...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The graph shows what happened when the polio vaccine became available. Deaths and illness stopped. People begged to get it when it became available. Reversing this is what Florida just announced it intends to do.
Graph of polio cases and death rates from 1910 to present. Very high cases of 10-37 per 100,000 population per year, but they literally drop to zero after the polio vaccine became available in the late 1950s.Picture of 30 or 40 people in "iron lungs" after succumbing to polio.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson @water1stmarla.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Arming teachers is not the answer. Even with military backgrounds, teachers aren’t trained for split-second, high-stress shootouts. That’s what law enforcement is for. More guns on campus means more accidents, and police could mistake armed teachers for the shooter.
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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson @water1stmarla.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Big kudos to Denver Public Schools for refusing to back down—even amid threats to their federal funding. Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero made it clear: ‘Equity is not optional—it’s who we are.’ They’re defending dignity and inclusion for all students.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 03/09/2025
Give me a break.   If Trump really cared about law and order, he’d reinstate the millions he cut from crime prevention programs—instead of threatening our cities with military deployments that exploit our troops and undermine readiness.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/09/2025
Easy access: bsky.app/profile/bunn...
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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson @water1stmarla.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I stand with Chicago. 🇺🇸
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Marla *HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER = GIRLS IN SCHOOL* Smith-Nilson @water1stmarla.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@sounderatheart.com Seattle dominated the Leagues Cup—yet not a single photo of our team on ESPN’s site for the tournament. My husband just pulled this up, and wow… the @espn Leagues Cup page looks more like a Messi fan club than actual tournament coverage. Seattle deserves better. ⚽💚💙
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I called this segregationist way back in February: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
A screenshot from the New York Time reads: nytimes #
Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.
White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups.
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Sounder at Heart @sounderatheart.com · 01/09/2025
STORYBOOK SHIT!!!! Paul Rothrock from Capitol Hill puts it to bed.
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