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beknd.bsky.social
Where is Lisa Murkowski when Donald Trump is supposedly going to give up Alaskan minerals to Putin. How was that deal she made with Trump that screwed the American people of health care among other things...
August 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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democracydocket.com
NEW: Republicans are quietly working to install voting conspiracy theorists to local election boards in two of Georgia’s largest, bluest counties, laying the foundation to subvert the state’s 2026 midterm election.

From: @jenrice.bsky.social
Ahead of 2026, Georgia Republicans Are Quietly Installing Election Conspiracy Theorists on Local Boards
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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motherjones.com
In February alone, the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youth—who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers—received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

Now the Trump administration is shuttering this critical resource.
The Trump administration is shutting down the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youth
"This is a death sentence potentially to thousands of youth across the United States."
www.motherjones.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: The national suicide prevention hotline will no longer work with the Trevor Project or provide specialized support to LGBTQ callers under a new Trump administration directive effective July 17. nyti.ms/444VrdN
Text reads: "Trump Administration Will End LGBTQ Suicide Prevention Service" over a photo of someone wearing a headset. Photo by Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
June 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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politico.com
The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”
Deseret News condemns Lee’s posts about Minnesota shooting
The editorial board of the Utah-based publication said the Utah senator cast a “poor light”’ on the Beehive State.
www.politico.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
beknd.bsky.social
The largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history is being buried in the fine print of a Senate budget bill.

120 million acres; wilderness, forests, sacred tribal sites, wildlife corridors, all up for grabs.
-No hearings
-No public input
-No guarantee any of it goes to affordable housing
June 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
beknd.bsky.social
Boycott Trump's military parade. Do not watch the news. Go outside and take a walk or spend time with friends. Don't give him the TV ratings!
June 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
beknd.bsky.social
Donald Trump is looking for a moment when he can do the instruction act or martial law. Is the LA protest that moment?
June 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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newrepublic.com
People around the world are starving now because of Musk’s cuts. They are dying of disease because of Musk’s cuts. They are being born with diseases they will carry with them for the rest of their lives because of Musk’s cuts. https://trib.al/SYA9PjR
Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.
trib.al
June 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people’s web browsing on Android devices.

Here are a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy:
Meta found a new way to violate your privacy. Here’s what you can do.
Even hardened digital privacy veterans said they were surprised by Meta’s scuzzy tactics.
wapo.st
June 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Trump shares ally's plan to 'release terrorists near homes of Supreme Court justices'

www.rawstory.com/trump-chevy-...
Trump shares ally's plan to 'release terrorists near homes of Supreme Court justices'
Donald Trump has been lashing out at the Supreme Court since it handed him a loss on the issue of immigration, and on Saturday he went as far as to distribute a MAGA lawyer's plan to "release 'terrori...
www.rawstory.com
May 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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ifindkarma.bsky.social
“DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars… Not billion. Half a trillion, $500 billion… In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.” @joshtpm.bsky.social
Talking Points Memo: IRS Predicts DOGE [and Elon Musk] Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA By Josh Marshall, March 23 2025 The Washington Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. This, to be clear, is not a final tally. It’s not April 15th yet. It’s a projection based on historical data, the number of people who’ve filed, paid owed amounts of tax, etc. It’s worth taking a moment to put this number into some context in case half a trillion dollars doesn’t do it for you. Non-defense discretionary spending is the cost to fund the U.S. government once you take out mandatory spending (mostly Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and the cost of the U.S. military. For 2023 that number was $917 billion. So that’s most of the stuff we think of as the government, apart from those payment programs and the military. In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.
March 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
beknd.bsky.social
I don't know if I have any international followers, but please have your countries come to our aid. Thank you from America.
May 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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thejenniwren.teamlh.social
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NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.

Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
May 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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nytimes.com
Virginia Giuffre, who was the first of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims to go public — accusing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of recruiting her to join their sex trafficking ring — and who sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault, died on Friday. She was 41.
Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41
She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their sex-trafficking ring and sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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isaiahrmartin.bsky.social
Has anyone noticed that the Republican discourse about North Carolina’s storm recovery vanished after the election? Nothing. Not a peep from them.

Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK!

Crazy how that works!
April 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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gmf1369.bsky.social
#GVerse #LFG #ListenUp:
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.bsky.social finally saying it out loud. We are on our own. It is up to us. And it’s close to time to take to the streets.

Repost!!!
April 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter. While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims. Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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digitalwarrior.bsky.social
It’s now or never.
GOP is ramming thru a $7 trillion tax break for billionaires—while slashing Medicaid, food stamps, & veterans’ health care.

Hakeem Jeffries is calling for a 1-on-1 debate to expose the truth. It’s up to you to spread the word.

#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
April 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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tahoeboulder.bsky.social
I want to post this again. DOJ had sent Marshals to her home (they were called off) to warn her not to testify yesterday. She testified anyway. Bondi's DOJ is a weapon.

Oyer testified anyway. Keep repeating that. She did it anyway.

F--k Bondi.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Armed agents almost sent to home of DoJ official ‘fired over Mel Gibson case’
US marshals sent to deliver letter warning Liz Oyer about testifying to Congress over actor’s gun case, lawyer says
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.
April 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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porpentina2017.bsky.social
I posted this video earlier, but now I have a clean copy of it. Meet Bernard Marks. He is 87 & attended a Sacramento town hall where he confronts a top U.S. immigration law enforcement official & the Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones. He is the energy we all need. We ALL must standup to fascism.
March 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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debbie156.bsky.social
They wanted Russia looped in. They’re Russian agents. They work for Putin. That’s exactly why they have Russian emails & phone numbers.
These clowns are destroying our country & putting us at risk daily FOR Putin.
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
March 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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loudthorpe.bsky.social
Signaling the bombing of civilians is conclusive evidence of war crimes.
March 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
beknd.bsky.social
And we are here folks. This is not the time to sit back, we MUST fight now!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 17
Dictator shit
March 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM