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@weard.bsky.social
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Retired High School English/writing workshop instructor. Author and illusrator, children’s books. Portrait artist. Printmaker. Yellow Dog Democrat, now independent. Reside in the incredibly king gerrymandered state of NC.

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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One week out, and this is where “I’ll do it later” starts costing people. If somebody in your family keeps saying they’ll get around to it, call them. If your coworker just moved and has been meaning to update everything, remind them.
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 20h
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Block by Block - Phone Bank with SURJ! (Let’s block MAGA & send progressive champions to Congress!)” - www.mobilize.us/surj/event/1...
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Block by Block - Phone Bank with SURJ! (Let’s block MAGA & send progressive champions to Congress!) · Showing Up for Racial Justice
## Candidate Schedule: - **Cooper for NC Senate** - 9/1, 9/28, 10/10, 10/15, 11/1, 11/3 - **Ossoff for GA Senate** - 9/3, 9/26, 10/25, 10/31, 11/3 - **Jackson for ME Senate** - 10/6 - **Colom for MS ...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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She Won: The Investigative Blueprint for State Attorneys General & How To Secure the Midterms
Today, the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA) is hosting its Fall Policy Conference in Detroit, Michigan, from September 9–10, 2026, and we need those state attorneys general to receive t...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi” - sign up now to www.mobilize.us/surj/event/1...
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How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi · Showing Up for Racial Justice
How are authoritarians able to win over so many white people? And convince them that they’re better off with fewer rights and economic instability? And what will it take to beat them at their own game...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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PG RANT DROP - Their Agenda Is Trash
There’s a reason Republican representatives are hiding from their voters….
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Aaron - Modern-Day Mystic (@theeverydaymystic)
Texas has blood on their hands in so many ways. Not the least of which is this.
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talerico
Get AUTHOR KRISTEN STAFFORD -HOWE in your inbox
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Please listen: “We are running out of time. The fox is in the henhouse. They’re here”‼️ 🦊
My personal Substack is about democracy & politics in America and around the world! And a little entertainment to let the Light in! 🕯️
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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
No election fraud to be seen here.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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James Talarico (@jamestalarico)
I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 am. I wish they would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish they...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Truth Matters (@politicsusa46)
Every now and again a Republican stands up to say ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’ Rep Greg Murphy MD did just that, and boy did he light them up! If only he and his colleagues would light up Dr Trump, or is it ...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Leah (@theleahfiles)
I figured out what they are doing with the dollar. They are swapping it. Push the old one out, pull a new one in, and the new one hurts Americans and pays the elite every time it moves. Here is how i...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Heather Cox Richardson and Allison Gill
A recording from Allison Gill's live video
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (@repraskin)
House Republicans are absurdly trying to cement their stacked and packed MAGA Supreme Court majority into the Constitution and strip away yet another basic power the Framers gave to Congress. After sy...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Jess Craven (@jesscraven101)
Cities dumped Flock cameras over surveillance abuse, then signed with Axon instead. Same tracking tech, different logo. Oh, and Trump bought up to $5 million in Axon stock two weeks before ICE hande...
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Criminals are Terrified of Accountability! And Accountability Better Happen!
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Standing up to Trump is not just principled, it's easy. All the networks, and law firms, and Universities could have done the same, but went with fascism and appeasement of a toddler.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Absolutely agree. This is the slow and steady rise of ignorance, stupidity, and incompetence. Shameful.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The President of the United States is a traitor and a rapist.
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BethE🦋 @beth-e.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social Heard this report on NPR today. Fracking operations are pumping waste water into ground & threatening water source for Marietta, Ohio citizens. Community want a moratorium but OH government continuesapproving more wells. OHIO resist! www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...
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Why is toxic wastewater bubbling up from underneath this Ohio city?
Highly toxic wastewater from America’s fracking boom is buried in deep underground wells. But in some places that toxic waste is bubbling upwards -- threatening local drinking water. How Marietta, Ohi...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court blocked state officials from using Republicans’ new congressional gerrymander in this year’s midterms, after a grueling, nearly year-long battle by voters to have the final say on a map drawn up at Donald Trump’s request. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri Supreme Court blocks GOP gerrymander, gives voters final say
Read more here.
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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WHAT PUTIN HAS ON TRUMP
On August 12th, 2025, Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin possesses a comprehensive kompromat file on Donald J.
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “White People's Work in the Midterm Elections” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/surj/event/1...
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White People's Work in the Midterm Elections · Showing Up for Racial Justice
As we approach the midterm elections and the MAGA movement feels their power slipping, they are turning up the heat on their racist attacks– from terrorizing Haitian and Latino communities to the gutt...
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On this I cannot disagree. Mainstream media and legacy media have been bought and paid for and are willing turning a blind eye to an obvious coverup. No one is willing to go to the hospital and find out the truth? Shameful.
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Leah (@theleahfiles)
Scott Bessent made $3.5 billion crashing the Japanese yen when he worked for George Soros and he just spent upwards of $10 billion of our tax dollars to prop it back up. The yen hit a 40-year low, 1...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Leah (@theleahfiles)
For those who prefer video format, here you are! Is Scott Bessent crashing the dollar? Connections to Epstein, Trump’s role in it all, and what can we do to hedge against it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
Doug Ford: "Jobs number went down in the US last month while Ontario gained 52,000 jobs, more than the entire US combined ... I feel terrible for the people in the US"
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Leah (@theleahfiles)
If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do. I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's cu...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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He Really IS Stark-Raving Mad
This proves it
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Mike Levin (@repmikelevin)
It appears Energy Secretary Chris Wright was being less than truthful when he told me his department canceled billions in clean energy grants based "on merits and unrelated to politics." Apparently a...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Raw America (@rawstory)
BRILLIANT: Protesters are using American flags as blindfolds to cover up Peter Thiel’s AI-powered Flock cameras on street corners across the country. No vandalism, no violence, just creative resistanc...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Abbas Abdulmalik (@abbasabdulmalik)
Professor Jeffrey Sachs says ten US billionaires own the US government, the news media, and social media. They have already destroyed democracy.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked The Pentagon Papers exposing the lies told to the public about the disastrous Viet Nam war, forever becoming a hero in history. Now... someone PLEASE leak #TheEPSTEINFiles & end the biggest coverup scandal of all-time! 🙏
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Why Is Robert Reich Saying These Terrible Things?
Because he's right. And we should all listen.
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ConstantLittleGhost @conslittleghost.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Whenever people state that climate change isn't happening, I point them towards the insurance industry
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 18/08/2026
This omits the many warnings of a “Great Climate Insurance Collapse” recession. That danger is real.
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Opinion | When America’s budget will break, disastrously
It's not too late to avoid a U.S. fiscal cliff catastrophe.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Data centers are a huge political issue everywhere, but maybe nowhere more than Florida: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Could the GOP lose Florida over data centers?
“Party labels are less important when it comes to our homes and way of life.”
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Vote to make this happen.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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‘More drilling means more heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and suffering’
PRIME MINISTER Andy Burnham was urged to stand up to profiteering fossil fuel giants and reject plans to drill Britain’s largest untapped oil field as consultations on them drew to a close today.Labou...
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can you make the world better ???????????????????? @justtheonethatcan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
TRUMP SAYS HIS LIFE WAS BETTER BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT. DUDE, EVERYONE'S LIVES WERE BETTER BEFORE YOU BECAME PRESIDENT.
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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When a Nation Builds More Cells Than Classrooms
Civic Reflection • Public Policy • The Future of Children
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🇺🇲🧡 god bless america 🧡🇺🇲
A president who refuses to send Aid to states that didn't vote for him, is literally an enemy of the state, and the nation
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrat Brandon Dukes has won the Pennsylvania House District 12 special election, flipping a seat Republicans had held since the 1990s.
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Mika Anderson in Mika Anderson
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Leah (@theleahfiles)
One of the most important videos I’ve ever made. Please share so we can get this info out 🙏
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Marc Elias (@marcelias)
EMERGENCY EPISODE: Harmeet Dhillon just announced the DOJ will deploy 1,000 election observers for the midterms. The DOJ wants you to think this is business as usual, but I break down why this deploym...
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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BREAKING: SCOTUS Rejects Trump's E. Jean Carroll Appeal Again, Trump Threatens to Bomb Key US Ally, DHS Bulldozes National Park
Good morning, and happy Monday.
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Weard.bsky.social @weard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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SugarRhi~ (@sugarrhi)
A white former police officer, Christopher Gillum, 41, from North Carolina, was arrested in Florida with hundreds of rounds of ammunition while on his way to allegedly commit a mass shooting targeting...
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