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Kate
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Lousy typist. Excellent speller. Not a cheerleader. Bridge 'n tunnel girl and damn proud of it. NO DMs! Go Celtics!☘️
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mistygriffin.bsky.social
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social I so much appreciate your voice of reason. Please say a word for abused kids trapped in strict religions. No one seems to care 😢

#EveryChildSafeAct

Sign the Petition! ✍️⬇️ sign.moveon.org/petitions/protect-kids-in-cults-homeschools-high-control-religious-environments
January 26, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
apphouse50.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov Just. Go. Away. Move to Israel.
February 2, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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patti3333.bsky.social
ENOUGH!

Americans shouldn’t be murdered by their own government for peacefully protesting.

Children shouldn’t be kidnapped off the street.

@schumer.senate.gov must stop Democrats from voting to give ICE more money.

📞 Call Schumer NOW: 202-224-3121
#NoWarrantNoICE
January 28, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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daangrypacifist.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
For years, we have been lectured on the importance of major news outlets — about how their integrity prevents our democracy from dying in darkness. Yet Donald Trump just stood on a well-lit global stage and declared his intention to abuse the criminal justice system to destroy electoral democracy.
Donald Trump just announced breaking news. The legacy media ignored it.
Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponen...
www.democracydocket.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 PM
apphouse50.bsky.social
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 1:20 AM
apphouse50.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
January 24, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
WARNING to ST. Paul: ICE is going door to door with weapons drawn.
January 11, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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jsweetli.bsky.social
As ICE kills one and shoots two others in two days, Schumer and Jeffries are afraid of not agreeing to increase ICE funding
January 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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thewatchdogco.bsky.social
Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation.

Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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jct212.bsky.social
All I wanted for Christmas was for the Ravens to win and for Aaron Rodgers to be embarrassed in one of the more critical games of his career

Thanks Santa!
December 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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jpgorman.bsky.social
It is so cool that Aaron Rodgers became a super huge actual loser after he turned to the dark side. Ever since he wigged out about that Covid vaccine, made himself a martyr, and chose up sides with RFK Jr., he just can't stop losing and letting people down. Great lesson for the kids, thanks man.
December 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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ralistelvanni.bsky.social
I canceled Paramount Plus when they canceled Colbert but now is another good reason!
adamkinzinger.substack.com Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Dec 22
Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus

Censorship. Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
Disgusting.

edition.cnn.com/2025/12/19/p...
Kennedy Center gets new signage bearing Trump’s name | CNN Politics
New signage is being installed at Washington, DC’s performing arts center on Friday to include President Donald Trump’s name.
edition.cnn.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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thewatchdogco.bsky.social
We did it! We got enough signatures to force a vote on extending ACA subsidies. Imagine how furious Mike Johnson is going to be when we pass this!

Now is the time to pressure your Members of Congress and help us get it done!
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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granuailynn.bsky.social
And will anyone be surprised that "unanimous" vote was only b/c they MUTED A WOC & prevented her vote??
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repbeatty.bsky.social Rep. Joyce Beatty @repbeatty.bsky.social · Dec 18
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
For those who thankfully have left Twitter, just know the site under Musk now fully belongs to Nazis and white nationalists.

This the present and future of the GOP btw. White supremacy, misogyny, cruelty & a delight in violence.

It's going to be an ugly rough road ahead but we have the majority.
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM