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Joanne Boyer

@wisdomvoices.bsky.social
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Writer, Author, Proud Progressive, History Lover, Time Traveler and All-Around Nice Person. Also loves EFC

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14h
If you’ve been waiting to get involved in the midterms, now is the time! We’ve got lots of ways that you can make a difference from anywhere over these final four weeks: indivisible2026.org?utm_source=b...
(over an image of a map of the US that shows Indivisible’s nine Senate target states and 31 House target districts for the midterm elections) It’s time to win the midterms.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Wolfers: Imagine we had a female president who was so idiosyncratic and so moody and whose policy decisions were up and down like crazy... Could you just imagine the coverage? It’s utterly bizarre what we allow to happen.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Senate Republicans just pulled their super PAC spending out of North Carolina and moved it to Kansas. That tells you way more about the state of the midterms than the polls or the talking-head spin. Blue wave incoming.
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Joanne Boyer @wisdomvoices.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Say it with me folks (you too @hartmannreport.com): Medicare ADVANTAGE is NOT Medicare...and when we say Medicare For All - private insurers are not part of it. www.startribune.com/blue-cross-m...
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Blue Cross and other insurers eliminate Medicare plans for 320K Minnesotans
HealthPartners, Medica and UnitedHealthcare also overhauling their plans for 2027 amid a tumultuous Medicare Advantage market.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 30/09/2026
The easiest way for organizers to operate may be simply to connect the much-despised oligarchs with the increasingly-despised data centers and in turn with every climate disaster that now unfolds, writes @billmckibben.bsky.social.
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Welcome to the Plunderdome: How Big Tech Sold Out Its Climate Pledges to Power AI
​Amazon and the rest of the once aspirationally green tech industry are adding 19th-century smoking chimneys to their facilities in order to churn out more Compute, the 21st century equivalent of wool or steel.
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Health Care is a Human Right @singlepayerforall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 24/09/2026
First the strongman’s friends acquire the newsrooms, then the coverage softens, then the elections start experiencing “anomalies,” and by the time most people notice, there’s nobody left on the air to expose the oligarchs and fascists, writes @hartmannreport.com
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Why the Ellison Takeover of CNN Is Such Bad News for US Democracy
​The simple reality is that in every country that’s slid from democracy into strongman rule over the past half-century, the first step was capture of the media by friends of the regime.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's Newsom and Bonta.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 21/09/2026
The Swarm of Corporate Executives Is the AI Threat We Should Be Most Frightened of
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The Swarm of Corporate Executives Is the AI Threat We Should Be Most Frightened of
We need better AI safety. We need better monitoring. We need stronger safeguards. We need independent oversight. But we also need to confront corporate power.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Success this time comes down to two things: did we drive the largest early vote in the history of the republic, and did we recruit and train a grassroots force capable of repelling Trump’s sabotage? #NoKings
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Joanne Boyer @wisdomvoices.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Liking the guy more and more. #EFC
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.
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Joanne Boyer @wisdomvoices.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine if the leadership of the @democrats.org actually had the courage to say and ability articulate the message about data centers like he does. 👇
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classacthr73.bsky.social @classacthr73.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Our democracy is crumbling around us because we haven't exercised citizenship to the level of rigor that we need to. We can't continue with business as usual. Pressure your institutional leaders, faith leaders, etc to exercise a higher level of citizenship. - @sifill.bsky.social #ClassACTHR73Forum
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Justice Sotomayor in 2024:
< A Trump v. United States
dissenting). *685 The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?
Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2026
One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 11/09/2026
America has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in money, credibility, and blood. We must remember the lies, and tell our children about them so that memory isn’t lost... hartmannreport.com/p/911-americ...
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9/11: America Can’t Let the War Lies Go Down the Memory Hole Again
America has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in money, credibility, and blood. We must remember the lies, and tell our children about them so that memory isn’t lost...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 10/09/2026
We Need a President Who Wants to Build a Better Country, Not a Bigger Ballroom
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We Need a President Who Wants to Build a Better Country, Not a Bigger Ballroom
Trump understands how to wield power. His objectives and motivations are all wrong, but we need a president who will to exert executive authority in the name of the common good and a brighter future for our nation.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 04/09/2026
This November, working people must vote like our jobs, our freedoms, and our families’ futures depend on it, because they do, writes @afscmepres.bsky.social.
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This Labor Day, Ask Yourself: Whose Side Are You On?
​Standing together is how we take on billionaires and anti-worker politicians. It is how we protect our jobs, our freedoms, and the spirit of Labor Day itself.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They have every intention of rigging this election and trying to steal it And these are the same people who spent a decade falsely claiming elections are rigged It's the biggest, longest con in U.S. political history, and the whole country is its victim
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USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“of all the tragic consequences of reelecting a narcissistic criminal obsessed with wealth and power, one strikes me as the most corrosive: The nation’s inability to focus on the real and profound problems that beset our world.” www.americaamerica.news/p/will-futur...
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Will Future Generations Blame Us All?
Or will they recognize that most of us were mad as hell and refused to take it?
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Joanne Boyer @wisdomvoices.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And they'd do it again?
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s so sad what Trump has done to this iconic space.
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Joanne Boyer @wisdomvoices.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Meanwhile...
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lindaisee.bsky.social @lindaisee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Corporate media and sound bite interviews will NOT clarify the confusion around all the mail in ballot cases. Take the time to read THIS post (it is a long explanation) and you will be enlightened and terrified at what SCOTUS could do. Thank you, Joyce!!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
MN Gov dandidate Demuth stumbles & bumbles when asked about Trump's tariffs: "You know, tariffs definitely have a purpose & my hope as we look forward even w/Canada is that those talks would resume & we could make things more affordable for Minnesota as we're looking to set that bordering piece too"
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 25/08/2026
They’ve reportedly tried to keep Natalie Harp away from Trump. The frightening question is what they know that we don’t… hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-inn...
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Trump’s Inner Circle Panics Over “Natalie” as the Rasputin Parallel Gets Real
They’ve reportedly tried to keep Natalie Harp away from Trump. The frightening question is what they know that we don’t…
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/08/2026
Four Annunciation families recorded their lives in the year following a mass shooting that left two children dead and injured dozens more.
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The Annunciation diaries: Four families reflect on life in the year following the mass shooting in video diaries
As the first anniversary of the Annunciation school shooting approaches, four families take us inside their lives in the year following the tragedy.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23/08/2026
Why I have decided to quit supporting Liverpool after 50 years
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Why I have decided to quit supporting Liverpool after 50 years
Jeff Bezos’s links to Israel and his gutting of the Washington Post should be a wake-up call to all fans
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Megan MacKay🇨🇦 @mmmegan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
most americans are probably not tracking this story, but fyi the cultural temperature up here around this issue is still best described as “seething” and “intense”
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The Lever @levernews.com · 21/08/2026
Full story: www.levernews.com/private-pris...
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Private Prison Giant Gave Trump-aligned Super PAC $1.4 Million After Landing Mega ICE Contracts
GEO Group made the donation weeks after securing two five-year immigration detention-center contracts expected to generate more than $160 million annually.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/08/2026
🗳️ Want to know the truth about the DOJ's election monitors? “These monitors will not be judged on honest reports of what is happening at the polls,” Marc Elias writes. “They will be expected to generate information that can be weaponized against voters and election officials.”
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DOJ is 0-23 in court, so now it’s sending 1,000 monitors to the polls
Donald Trump's Justice Department took a major step toward subverting elections this fall.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home after our reporting exposing the horrific conditions soldiers faced overseas. We did it. You did it. This is the power of independent media. Subscribe to support my work: www.youtube.com/@aaronparnas1
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Health Care Voices @healthcarevoices.org · 19/08/2026
Why family health insurance costs are hitting $27,000 this year and leaving millions behind. @wendellpotter.bsky.social, former insurance exec, explains the harsh reality of why average families are struggling to keep coverage in the latest ep of #CareTalk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiwR...
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Why health insurance is a luxury you can't afford #healthcare #money #costofliving
YouTube video by Health Care Voices
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/08/2026
It doesn’t matter where you live, how much time you’ve got to help out, or if you’ve never volunteered before. There are actions you can take RIGHT NOW to stop Trump’s election sabotage. Join tonight’s election protection training to learn how you can start making an impact on the midterms.
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Hands Off Our Vote: Election Protection 101 & 201 · Indivisible
Calling all activists who are ready to demand Hands Off Our Vote! This August, Indivisible is holding two trainings on election protection: the actions you and those around you can take to ensure ever...
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 18/08/2026
Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday signed an executive order that will further delay any prospect of copper and nickel mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Read more: bit.ly/4xNGdqU 📷️ Bob King/For The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I am almost without words for what has become of this once proud newspaper. I will only say this: Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 17/08/2026
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has condemned a Florida-based political group after its members secretly recorded interactions with poll workers at several Minneapolis polling places during Tuesday’s primary election.
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Minnesota elections chief condemns hidden-camera polling place videos
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon denounced the conduct of a group who impersonated voters at Minneapolis polling places during Tuesday’s primary. The group defended the videos as an effort to test Minnesota’s election laws.
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Joanne Boyer @wisdomvoices.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If only someone had warned us???!!
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
With the horrific news about ICE using torture gloves, we're reminded of police use of cattle prods against voting rights activists in the 1960s -- as in 📷 of Roy Wilkins & Medgar Evers, 11 days before Evers was murdered 💔 #TeachTruth about policing history 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ev...
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Medgar Evers
Profile. By Dernoral Davis. Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925—June 12, 1963), Civil Rights Movement activist in Mississippi.
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Joanne Boyer @wisdomvoices.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"As much as I would like to say that when Donald Trump leaves everything will go back to normal, well, 70 million people voted for it," he said. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Canadians are still boycotting US travel. Here's where they're going instead
From exploring their own backyard to travelling abroad, many Canadians are spending their money elsewhere to send a message to the US president.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 12/08/2026
AI may soon be able to produce election results in seconds. That does not mean it should.
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A Democracy Cannot Run on an AI Model
AI is already inside election administration; before it moves deeper into the count, results have to stay verifiable.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 11/08/2026
From Teddy Roosevelt to Navalny and Zelenskyy, history shows that exposing corrupt elites can mobilize voters and topple entrenched power… hartmannreport.com/p/how-democr...
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How Democrats Can Turn Trump’s Corruption Into a Political Revolution
From Teddy Roosevelt to Navalny and Zelenskyy, history shows that exposing corrupt elites can mobilize voters and topple entrenched power.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Who could have known that taxing the extremely rich would be an easy way to fund a massive expansion of the welfare states? Who, I ask, who?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Thug Life Meme
ALT: Franklin D. Roosevelt Thug Life Meme
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 08/08/2026
As a practicing physician assistant who has spent years advocating for Medicare for All and working in electoral politics, I've heard the same warning over and over: Don't run on single-payer. Michigan suggests that conventional wisdom deserves another look.
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Michigan Just Put Medicare for All on the Ballot, and Voters Said Yes
In the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, Abdul El-Sayed put guaranteed healthcare at the center of a statewide campaign and let voters decide. They decided.
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