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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 47m

🎯 The disturbing motive behind live streaming an execution for Trump and Hegseth. They are continuing to desensitize their base to violence and provide a forum for them to rejoice in it. 🧵

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 10h

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 1h

The text requires counting all "persons" living in the country, which includes citizens, non-citizen legal residents, and undocumented individuals. civilrights.org/resource/fac...

civilrights.org

Facts About the Census

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 1h

The 14th Amendment, Section 2 updated Article I by specifying that representation is based on "counting the whole number of persons in each State", replacing the original 1787 formula that counted enslaved individuals as three-fifths of a person.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 1h

🎁🔗 ICYMI Last month in violation of the constitution, the Trump administration proposed new rules to exclude roughly 16.5 million people from the census including undocumented immigrants and others. This impacts electoral college votes, House seats and federal funding www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | Trump Wants to Decide Who Counts. And Who Doesn’t. (Gift Article)

Rewriting the rules for counting the population is yet another way to marginalize minorities.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 1h

🎯 It takes a special kind of evil to defend #ICE shooting up a car with a 5 year old inside and then have the temerity to attack the Mayor with a string of lies for calling out the reckless violent behavior. MarkWayne Mullin is despicable.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 1h

People forget what a disgusting, carnival atmosphere public hangings were. In 1936, thousands showed up in Owensboro, Kentucky for the last public execution of Rainey Bethea, a Black man charged with rape. We can’t allow Trump and Hegseth to take us back there. www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/14/

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 2h

Excellent news. Trump’s planned arch is an abomination that would disrespect the solemn resting place of our fallen veteran heroes. It must be stopped.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 7h

🎁🔗 Trump lifting sanctions on Russian energy giant Lukoil is a gift to Putin, another betrayal of Ukraine and a potential windfall for Kushner and Witkoff business partners. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

nytimes.com

In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners (Gift Article)

A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12h

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 8h

🔥 ICYMI Watch Jon Ossoff torch Mike Collins. “It’s not just that you’ve hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online. It’s that you’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.”

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 16h

This is sick and depraved barbarism . One more reason to impeach Hegseth.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 20h

😂 “You should be allowed to be a little bit stupid”. Look where that got us. Irony is dead.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am too. Unfortunately Trump’s Ambassadors will likely stay until we have a Democratic president.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This NYT investigative reporting is a bombshell however given Amb. Huckabee’s denial, it’s unlikely to change anything. bsky.app/profile/wend...

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hope so too but why is a lawsuit filed in 2025 not going to trial until 2028?

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No, Donald Trump's claim that he settled eight conflicts is false. Fact-checkers from independent news organizations have thoroughly reviewed his list and determined that his numbers are highly exaggerated.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026

BREAKING: Former President Barack Obama endorses Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate in Maine: "Troy Jackson is running to be your next senator and I'm proud to be on board" Obama cites Jackson’s record on wages, drug prices, school meals, and abortion rights as Democrats target Susan Collins' seat.

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NPR @npr.org · 08/10/2026

In Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can't pay. n.pr/4y9JccS

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Medical debt is crushing hospital patients in LA. Health officials may have a fix

In Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can't pay.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am hopeful that years from now the jurisprudence of Samuel Alito is pushed to the same corners as Plessy and Korematsu. His notion that “religious freedom” requires elevating a brand of Christianity above criticism turns the First Amendment on its head. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book

A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🎁🔗 David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador to Jerusalem Mike Huckabee, “has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)

A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sweet Home Chicago 🎶 The best big city in America for the 10th year in a row! 👏🏽👏🏽

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Whenever republicans want to canonize Regan, remember this.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🎁🔗 ICYMI Trump and OMB Director Russell Vought continue to try to force adherence to its preferred version of history EO through a little-known but legally binding budget mechanism against funding for the Smithsonian using an appropriation footnote. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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Trump’s Unlikely Strategy to Control History: Footnotes

The White House is threatening $190 million in Smithsonian funding.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The top 0.1% of Americans now hold more than six times more wealth than the bottom half.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He’s a good economist and should stick with that.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 NAACP files lawsuit after Harmeet Dhillon , head of DoJ’s civil rights division says she hopes to send 1,000 election monitors to polls. Trump’s AG Todd Blanche confirmed on Fox Sunday that election monitors will be sent to all 50 states. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump administration sued over plans to send election monitors to voting sites

NAACP files lawsuit after head of DoJ’s civil rights division says she hopes to send election monitors to polls

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🎁🔗 On the third anniversary of the deadly 10/7 attacks, this is the story of what the lives of twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman are like now as they try to adjust and “embrace life anew”. They were 26 when they were captured in Kfar Aza, the kibbutz where they lived. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/w...

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For Twin Brothers Abducted in the Oct. 7 Attacks, Adjusting to Freedom Is a New Challenge (Gift Article)

Gali and Ziv Berman were taken hostage when their kibbutz was attacked on Oct. 7, 2023. They were freed a year ago but are still adjusting to freedom and trying to rebuild their lives.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Since early 2025, upward of 300 nonpolitical career employees, representing decades of experience, have left the civil rights division after Harmeet Dhillon repurposed it to pursue Trump’s agenda.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎁🔗 Harmeet Dhillon of DOJ’s civil rights division is apparently recruiting partisans and conspiracy theorists with questionable work histories, lack of education and experience. Their backgrounds are shocking. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks (Gift Article)

The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.

The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why isn’t it 25th Amendment time? Because every Republican in Trump’s cabinet values proximity to power and personal enrichment over the country and the constitution. We also know that if Republicans had impeached him in 2020, we wouldn’t be in this disastrous situation.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎁 Trump’s DHS is not tracking the reckless, violent and cruel detention by #ICE of over 500 American citizens. Thankfully @propublica.org is. Link to their database and investigative reporting in 🧵.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, spare me the bullshit redemption tour. Everyone knew what this was going to be. “Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.” apnews.com/article/thom...

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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎯 @anandwrites.bsky.social 👏🏽 “Cities are unfairly labeled as "problem centers" for homelessness by Trump and others. Urban homelessness is often a reflection of failures in other parts of the country. Cities are holding a lot of people you failed to love and take care of.”

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“…His speeches subtly denigrate the general officer corps and focus on the most impressionable segment of the military, those old enough to have bought into the system but young enough to be naive about its merits.”

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎁🔗 “What is even worse than (Hegseth’s) biblical illiteracy and historical ignorance, is a project about which he seems to be deadly serious: the cultural isolation of the military...” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Hegseth’s One Percent

A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not a fan of Rahm but the reality is the Democrats won’t have the votes to impeach. They should expand the Supreme Court and pass ethics reform otherwise SCOTUS will continue to stop or roll back every step forward. Also with Blanche running DOJ, they won’t be prosecuted.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Respectfully No. This is not what anyone should be thinking. Everyone should be supporting Democratic candidates and planning to vote.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump’s depravity is well documented by what isn’t talked about enough is why Republicans continue to ignore the cheers and claps from MAGA after every obscene comment. Silence is complicity.

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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump blaming Ukraine for high gas prices vs his illegal war in Iran is the latest example of his willingness to use Putin’s propaganda to betray an ally and lie to the American people. Outrageous and shameful. #VoteBlue

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The “fastest growing Ebola outbreak in history” has spread to Kenya. This is devastating. Thousands have lost their lives at a time when the regime has just made massive cuts to USAID in Africa. It’s important we keep talking about Ebola and ensure those fighting it have the support they need:

apnews.com

Kenya confirms first Ebola case imported from Congo after patient dies in Nairobi

Kenya’s Health Ministry has confirmed the country’s first imported Ebola case from Congo. Health Minister Aden Duale said on Tuesday the patient, a Kenyan citizen, arrived in the country Saturday from...

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