Simply Steph
@simplysmay.bsky.social
Vote Blue. Watch out for the rat bastards.
Fighting for my daughter and granddaughter. Fck off to everyone who wants to stop us.
Fighting for my daughter and granddaughter. Fck off to everyone who wants to stop us.
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Democrats blinked. Again. Six weeks into a GOP-made shutdown, they folded without securing ACA subsidies. Republicans saw the collapse coming and instantly pivoted to abortion. Now they're trying to extend Hyde to private insurance.
My latest:
My latest:
Democrats Picked an Insurance Fight They Weren't Willing to Win. Now Abortion Is On the Line—Again (Opinion)
Congressional Democrats face a new dilemma: Vote against affordable health care, or accept a nationwide rollback of abortion coverage.
rewirenewsgroup.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Democrats blinked. Again. Six weeks into a GOP-made shutdown, they folded without securing ACA subsidies. Republicans saw the collapse coming and instantly pivoted to abortion. Now they're trying to extend Hyde to private insurance.
My latest:
My latest:
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The DOJ has been pressing states since May for their registration rolls, which include sensitive personal information of every single voter, claiming the agency wants to ensure compliance with federal voter laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
States Want to Know: Why Does the DOJ Want Their Voter Rolls, Really?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The DOJ has been pressing states since May for their registration rolls, which include sensitive personal information of every single voter, claiming the agency wants to ensure compliance with federal voter laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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NEW: Remember that story we broke a few months ago with
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?
We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?
We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas
Gov. Abbott released 1,400 pages of emails about Elon Musk. Most are blacked out.
Abbott fought for months to keep secret emails between his office and Elon Musk. Now, hundreds of pages have been released.
www.kut.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
NEW: Remember that story we broke a few months ago with
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?
We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas
@propublica.org @texastribune.org?
We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas
I violently hate those intent on these bans. I have disturbing thoughts about what I'd love to do to them all.
Abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I violently hate those intent on these bans. I have disturbing thoughts about what I'd love to do to them all.
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I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
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ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.
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Let’s talk about the other harmful provisions in this bill.
It would make it a crime to help young people travel for abortion care, something that South Carolinians do not want—they want to look out for their communities, family, and friends without the threat of going to jail.
It would make it a crime to help young people travel for abortion care, something that South Carolinians do not want—they want to look out for their communities, family, and friends without the threat of going to jail.
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Let’s talk about the other harmful provisions in this bill.
It would make it a crime to help young people travel for abortion care, something that South Carolinians do not want—they want to look out for their communities, family, and friends without the threat of going to jail.
It would make it a crime to help young people travel for abortion care, something that South Carolinians do not want—they want to look out for their communities, family, and friends without the threat of going to jail.
Gross
Nicki Minaj is set to speak at the United Nations on behalf of the Trump administration.
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Gross
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
There's nothing these fcking pigs won't corrupt.
I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Fifa agrees World Cup matches can be moved at Trump’s request
The president has been warning host cities under Democratic control that he will call on Fifa’s president to switch venues if he deems there is a problem
www.thetimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
There's nothing these fcking pigs won't corrupt.
No CBS either? Shocker.
notably, Fox News is not broadcasting the Khanna/Massie/Greene Epstein news conference live. CNN and MS are.
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
No CBS either? Shocker.
Sounds great
Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces Wieslaw Kukula: “Poland is in a pre-war stage,” Russia has begun preparing for war with Poland. At this time it is conducting cyberattacks & acts of sabotage on Polish soil. Several countries including France have sent jets to boost defences.
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
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..."as many as 115 stations, collectively serving 43 million Americans, are likely to close by mid next year."
John Oliver
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John Oliver
youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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November 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
..."as many as 115 stations, collectively serving 43 million Americans, are likely to close by mid next year."
John Oliver
youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...
John Oliver
youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...
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Today, I’ve listened to three NPR segments on ICE in Charlotte, this was never mentioned.
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today, I’ve listened to three NPR segments on ICE in Charlotte, this was never mentioned.
Explainer here. And we sure as hell need one for this.
A key point here is that DOJ waited until 11/14 to file a notice of appeal of the 11/7 ruling, waited until 11/16 (today) to seek a stay, and in that request is asking for an "administrative stay" by 11/21 of the part of Immergut's order that would end the federalization of the Oregon Nat'l Guard.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Explainer here. And we sure as hell need one for this.
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#SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles
This is happening now
Call your Representatives
202 202 224-3121
America we need a president who will work for Americans
Not a PEDOPHILE PRESIDENT who only cares about protecting himself
Release the Epstein Files
Save Healthcare Insurance subsidies
This is happening now
Call your Representatives
202 202 224-3121
America we need a president who will work for Americans
Not a PEDOPHILE PRESIDENT who only cares about protecting himself
Release the Epstein Files
Save Healthcare Insurance subsidies
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles
This is happening now
Call your Representatives
202 202 224-3121
America we need a president who will work for Americans
Not a PEDOPHILE PRESIDENT who only cares about protecting himself
Release the Epstein Files
Save Healthcare Insurance subsidies
This is happening now
Call your Representatives
202 202 224-3121
America we need a president who will work for Americans
Not a PEDOPHILE PRESIDENT who only cares about protecting himself
Release the Epstein Files
Save Healthcare Insurance subsidies
Ain't that the truth. You're welcome.
New Mexico: The landscape captures your soul and the people seal the deal.
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Ain't that the truth. You're welcome.
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NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
Don't miss this. Great backstory.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Don't miss this. Great backstory.
This sucks. Truly fcking sucks.
AXIOS: “Two of the hottest songs in country music were generated by artificial intelligence,” pitting AI against humans who earn their living as songwriters ..
A “human singer-songwriter .. is #2 ..”
@axios.com
www.axios.com/local/nashvi...
A “human singer-songwriter .. is #2 ..”
@axios.com
www.axios.com/local/nashvi...
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This sucks. Truly fcking sucks.
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I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him.
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
english.elpais.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him.
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...