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BlueElayne 🦢🫘🦢
@elayneoforegon.bsky.social
Looking for my 💙 🐸 people.
Here to fight for democracy, equality, human rights & the end of patriarchy.
Lover of cats, wolves, birds, gardening, nature, wild places, hiking, backpacking, reading, writing, art, Oregon & the PNW.
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#RESIST #LEGUMINATI
Pinned
This.
This woman.
She has courage.
She has strength.
Against the odds she shows humor.
Channel her.
The courage of those Georgians and especially of this woman is just amazing.
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First, Trump demanded that the Justice Department put $230 million in his pocket. Now he also wants $10 billion from the IRS.

Among the questions: Will he try to approve a taxpayer-financed payoff to himself?
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Trump files lawsuit against the IRS, seeking $10 billion taxpayer-financed payout
First, the president demanded $230 million from the Justice Department. Now he’s seeking far more from the Internal Revenue Service.
www.ms.now
January 30, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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Federal agents arrest Don Lemon over Minnesota church protest.

This is fascism.

The former CNN anchor has said he was not demonstrating, but reporting as a journalist, during the interruption of a service inside a St. Paul church earlier this month.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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A sad day for Independence and Freedom in America.
#FUCKtRump
BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ has just arrested reporter Don Lemon for reporting on the Minneapolis protests.

Meanwhile, Americans still don’t know the name of the masked federal agents who killed an American citizen on the streets.

This is a blatant attack on our First Amendment rights
January 30, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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"These brave CBP agents were..." Vance shook his head ruefully "...forced the eat some neighborhood pets to stay alive."
"VP JD Vance relayed a 'crazy' story on X about protesters mobbing immigration and Border Patrol officers at a Minneapolis restaurant following Alex Pretti’s killing. But Minneapolis police and the restaurant manager both disputed key parts of the vice president’s account."

by @politico.com
‘A number of crazy stories’
www.politico.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Is this real? Please tell me this is real
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too

the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped:

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Purge the Public Servants
The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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I believe that Christians like me—and people of faith more generally—have a responsibility to stand up to the extremists who use religion to divide our society and undermine our democracy.

My new piece in the Atlantic:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
MAGA’s War on Empathy
This crisis in Minneapolis reveals a deep moral rot at the heart of Trump’s movement.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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The murders of Renée Good, and Alex Pretti are the natural consequence of Trumpism and DHS’s violent and reactionary agency culture.

"They protested.

They're dead.

They got what they deserved."

If you don't believe that is the America you want to live in call your Senators today.
January 29, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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When life gives us Lemons, we must all come to Lemon’s aid. Love him or hate him, Don Lemon is not afraid to speak truth to power, and this will only give him an opportunity to report firsthand this Administration’s efforts to silence him. May this blow up bigly in the “Justice” Department’s faces.
January 30, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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NEW: It’s been over a decade since Alaska significantly increased its funding for public education.

Two school districts are now suing the state for what they say is a long-running failure to give students a “sound basic education.”

By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
Two School Districts Sue, Claiming Alaska Is Failing Its Constitutional Obligation to Fund Public Education
The lawsuit points to the effects of the state’s underfunding, including low proficiency-test scores and dangerous building conditions.
www.propublica.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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They are coming after those of us in independent media because we speak the truth!!
And now apparently they’ve come to arrest Georgia Fort, another independent journalist!

bsky.app/profile/thel...
Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
January 30, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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#FridayMorning Trump’s Spy Chief, Tulsi Gabbard, crashed a Georgia FBI raid in Fulton County, to retrieve voter registration files and data pertaining to the 2020 election interference of Trump.

#BlueSkyVets Trump has been keeping her on the bench!

What are you doing Tulsi?

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1
January 30, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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It's a tie
But it's a great start with 95.3% of voters
January 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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“Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Don Lemon arrested on federal charge for Minnesota church protest
Lemon has said he was at the protest to observe it as a journalist conducting reporting
www.independent.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Really?!?!
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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I really try to keep an even keel, and self-regulate because it’s the only way to be in this for the long haul, but sometimes the fury overtakes you for a bit.
January 30, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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ICE rammed her husband's car—causing near fatal crash into telephone pole.

He's still in the hospital emergency room after "His eye is broken, his back is broken, his knee is broken."

"I have no idea why ICE is after him," says wife—he has valid visa, work permit, asylum case & no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Yes, he is trying to steal the 2026 midterm elections.
Yes, he is planning to run for a third term in 2028.
Yes, you are going to have to do something about it besides post on social media.
Yes, authoritarianism is here.
January 30, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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Despite Trump’s relentless attempts to bury them, a fresh pot of Epstein scandals is starting to boil over.
Despite Tr*mp’s relentless attempts to bury them, a fresh pot of Epstein scandals is starting to boil over - Queerty
It's only a matter of time...
www.queerty.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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The surveillance state of ‘1984’ is here.
Orwell warned us.
January 30, 2026 at 1:16 PM