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@yrwehere57.bsky.social
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Lifelong liberal, proud feminist, staunch ally 🏳️‍🌈, Mets fan, not a masochist.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here's my suggestion: Don't watch. jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/dont-watch...
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Don’t watch the Bari Weiss version of 60 Minutes
Even if the new show looks and sounds like the old show, remember that it’s now being run by people with a Trump-friendly political agenda and little respect for fact-based journalism.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We all need to be getting our minds right about what we'll do if Trump and his fellow MAGA fascists steal or cancel the midterms.
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yrwehere57.bsky.social @yrwehere57.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
youtu.be/0KpD2nPSHGo?... My favorite song of hers was also her favorite
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Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors First Performance
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"The wrong kind of American: The Trump White House needed me—until the fact I am trans became public." In @theatlantic.com (gift) By my @lawfaremedia.org colleague @juliacurlee.bsky.social . www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 17/08/2026
Yale study: “A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace.” [ysph.yale.edu]
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, and a staggering share of that spending is consumed by administrative middlemen, soaring drug prices, and emergency care for conditions that should have been treated earlier and for less.
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yrwehere57.bsky.social @yrwehere57.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
www.salon.com/2026/07/01/s...
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SCOTUS keeps papering over the antiquated Second Amendment
The Court's conservative majority turns to “history and traditions” to ignore the obvious — again
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yrwehere57.bsky.social @yrwehere57.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
www.salon.com/2026/06/30/a...
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America turns 250. Not everyone is celebrating
On this July Fourth, Americans ask: What does it mean to love a country that won't love you back?
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Royston cartoon in private eye #fascism
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 07/06/2026
Bearing witness has never mattered more and you don’t have to be a journalist to do it. Contrary to what the people counting on your indifference want you to believe, citizenship is a choice to show up and engage with your neighbors, your community, your country. We will not look away. #Velshi
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‘We will not look away’: Velshi on journalism, citizenship, and his move to prime time
Bearing witness has never mattered more than it does right now. And you don't have to be a journalist to bear witness. Darnella Frazier, Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Eugene Goodman, and Febb Burn. History is filled with people who bore witness and held power to count. We will not look away. Because contrary to what the people counting on your indifference want you to believe, citizenship in a democracy is not something you are handed. It is something you do — a choice to show up and engage with your neighbors, your community, your country. And in this moment, your country needs you. The Republic is not lost. It is deeply endangered. And endangered things can be saved — but not by waiting. You have 148 days. One hundred and forty-eight days between this morning and November 3rd — Election Day — to organize, to register voters, to have the conversations that need having, to show up for democracy. See you on The 11th Hour. 
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@spiritbeing.bsky.social @spiritbeing.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Every State that trump accuses of voter fraud and cheating needs to immediately file a lawsuit against him personally and make him prove it. Sue for Billions, you know, like he does. Like he just sued our Government for 10 Billion.
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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social honors Stephen Colbert as the last episode of “The Late Show” airs tonight: “One of the greatest broadcasters of our era.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026
BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tel everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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yrwehere57.bsky.social @yrwehere57.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"Going downtown in Venezuela"? "Operation Midnight Hammer"? Does he have a porn addiction?
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 23/04/2026
Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
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To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City
One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops @usccbofficial.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/03/2026
NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Had to doublecheck the date on this
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 13/02/2026
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
People like Donald get worse if they’re allowed to. His disgusting racism is increasingly blatant and dangerous because the Republicans, with their silence, encourage it. They are complicit in every awful thing they allow their hideous leader to do.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Antonia Hylton @ahylton26.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Our doc is out on YouTube now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pkL...
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Cities Under Siege: Inside a Violent Immigration Chase and a Shattered Family
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no
Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history.
He doesn't care about the life of the mind
OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper.
He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or youngson. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them
— and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he'svery ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other
people, living or dead, like him?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.
A woman in what looks like business attire with a black handbag over her shoulder stands in front of an armed vehicle flipping the bird with both hands. Unfortunately a friend sent this to me, I don’t know who the hero woman is or the photographer
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If my "it's bullshit" isn't convincing enough, here's a good @lawfaremedia.org piece explaining... it's bullshit www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
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Next Up: Letitia James
It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025
Dutch late night TV has its take
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:
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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This was a word AND he cussed 😂
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2025
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/09/2025
I get called radical because I want affordable housing and rational, compassionate immigration policy and gun reform that helps keep kids safe. Radicals like me are never going to kill people for our ideology because that’s literally not our ideology.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump. That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/09/2025
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
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Pope Leo meets LGBTQ+ Catholic advocate and vows continuity with Pope Francis' legacy of welcome
Pope Leo XIV has met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Molly Ivins, dressed in a sort of satin blouse with a neckthing that I'm going to call a scarf?.  She's smiling with every cell in her body.  Beaming radiantly the joy of being righteous and kind at the same time.  Her eyes closed almost to a squint, and every pearly white on display.  Gods bless you, Molly, you were a hell of a person.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Good stuff here from @passantino.bsky.social and @status.news www.status.news/p/trump-puti...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The very definition of “special treatment” from the Trump admin for the most notorious convicted child sex trafficker in America. Why? Because she’s protecting Trump.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Me: "So which country should @aoc.bsky.social go back to?" Mick Mulvaney: "She's an American citizen." Me: "So why did Trump tell her to go back to her country?" I asked former Trump WH chief of staff Mulvaney if he ever challenged his then boss on his racist tweets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolq...
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/04/2025
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
a free-trade agreement that TRUMP HIMSELF NEGOTIATED, and called "the best and most important trade deal ever made by the USA"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Jennings: This salute trutherism is outrageous.  Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!
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@cohencidents.bsky.social @cohencidents.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
For all of those who have posted my cartoon with my signature cut off, here is the original.
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