@angelajoym.bsky.social
Grandmother, walker, reader, advocate. I have deja vu and amnesia at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 election by gerrymandering congressional districts hit a massive roadblock Tuesday: California voters.
California Voters Overwhelmingly Approve New Map, Countering Trump’s Gerrymander Push
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 election by gerrymandering congressional districts hit a massive roadblock Tuesday: California voters.
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Unbelievable cruelty
According to the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits, there are more than enough funds to pay for the program in November
But Trump refuses to do it
Leaving the lives of 42 million Americans-16 million of them children-hanging by a thread
According to the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits, there are more than enough funds to pay for the program in November
But Trump refuses to do it
Leaving the lives of 42 million Americans-16 million of them children-hanging by a thread
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Unbelievable cruelty
According to the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits, there are more than enough funds to pay for the program in November
But Trump refuses to do it
Leaving the lives of 42 million Americans-16 million of them children-hanging by a thread
According to the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits, there are more than enough funds to pay for the program in November
But Trump refuses to do it
Leaving the lives of 42 million Americans-16 million of them children-hanging by a thread
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REMINDER: It's now 287 days since Trump was sworn in but he has still NOT released the complete Jeffrey Epstein file. What is Trump hiding?
November 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
REMINDER: It's now 287 days since Trump was sworn in but he has still NOT released the complete Jeffrey Epstein file. What is Trump hiding?
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(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...
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“If you’re watching television and the words ‘woke and weaponized’ come out of a politician’s mouth, you can know that this is coming ... from the strategies we’re putting out,” Russ Vought boasted in a recording obtained by @propublica.org
What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“If you’re watching television and the words ‘woke and weaponized’ come out of a politician’s mouth, you can know that this is coming ... from the strategies we’re putting out,” Russ Vought boasted in a recording obtained by @propublica.org
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"I had Republican colleagues in the House that told me about how they fear for their lives or the safety of their families with the threats that they're getting."
"From their own political base, I want to emphasize that."
@kim.senate.gov joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:
"From their own political base, I want to emphasize that."
@kim.senate.gov joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:
October 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"I had Republican colleagues in the House that told me about how they fear for their lives or the safety of their families with the threats that they're getting."
"From their own political base, I want to emphasize that."
@kim.senate.gov joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:
"From their own political base, I want to emphasize that."
@kim.senate.gov joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:
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September 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Arizona! If you’re in District 07—Pima, Yuma, La Paz, Cochise, and Maricopa counties, please make sure you’re registered to vote in the special election.
If not, you can register by 8/25.🗳️
Every voter counts!
Cada votante importa!
🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵
If not, you can register by 8/25.🗳️
Every voter counts!
Cada votante importa!
🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵
August 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Arizona! If you’re in District 07—Pima, Yuma, La Paz, Cochise, and Maricopa counties, please make sure you’re registered to vote in the special election.
If not, you can register by 8/25.🗳️
Every voter counts!
Cada votante importa!
🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵
If not, you can register by 8/25.🗳️
Every voter counts!
Cada votante importa!
🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵🏜️🌵
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
August 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
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New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism"
"Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
"Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
"Competitive authoritarianism" and America's slide toward it
You can still vote. It just might not mean much.
www.publicnotice.co
August 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism"
"Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
"Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"
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Congress has the power to fix our gerrymandering problem in Texas and throughout the country. The For the People Act “would have stopped what’s going on right now dead in its tracks,” says @mawaldman.bsky.social:
How to Avoid a Gerrymandering War
The current congressional map is flawed, but relatively balanced. That fragile equilibrium is now at risk.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Congress has the power to fix our gerrymandering problem in Texas and throughout the country. The For the People Act “would have stopped what’s going on right now dead in its tracks,” says @mawaldman.bsky.social:
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NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...
www.propublica.org
August 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
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American elections withstood great pressure in 2020, 2022, and 2024. Doing so again will take vigilance, courage, and ferocious determination to defend democracy.
bit.ly/46ETsQp
bit.ly/46ETsQp
Trump’s Anti-Voter Agenda Crystallizes
The administration is now the primary threat to election integrity.
www.brennancenter.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
American elections withstood great pressure in 2020, 2022, and 2024. Doing so again will take vigilance, courage, and ferocious determination to defend democracy.
bit.ly/46ETsQp
bit.ly/46ETsQp
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Worth reading. Scott Pelley’s Commencement speech at Wake Forest commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/...
2025: Scott Pelley - Commencement News Archive
Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful North Carolina day for a graduation. Incredible. Thank you, President Wente, Provost Gillespie, members of the Board of Trustees and Kat...
commencement.news.wfu.edu
May 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Worth reading. Scott Pelley’s Commencement speech at Wake Forest commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/...
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The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts say that overhaul could take years and cost hundreds of millions.
Graphics: Here's what it will take to transform the Qatari jet into Air Force One
The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts say that overhaul could take years and cost hundreds of millions.
www.npr.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts say that overhaul could take years and cost hundreds of millions.
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Your School House Rock moment.....🤔
May 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Your School House Rock moment.....🤔
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He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
May 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
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IRS chief Melanie Krause to quit over deal allowing the IRS share data with immigration authorities
so that immigration authorities could access taxpayers’ information.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Losing three IRS agency leaders in three months is “unprecedented”
so that immigration authorities could access taxpayers’ information.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Losing three IRS agency leaders in three months is “unprecedented”
IRS chief to quit over deal to share data with immigration authorities
Melanie Krause is the third leader of the tax agency since Trump took office. She clashed with Treasury officials over taxpayer privacy concerns.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
IRS chief Melanie Krause to quit over deal allowing the IRS share data with immigration authorities
so that immigration authorities could access taxpayers’ information.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Losing three IRS agency leaders in three months is “unprecedented”
so that immigration authorities could access taxpayers’ information.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Losing three IRS agency leaders in three months is “unprecedented”
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This is why we need a well resourced FEMA and NOAA now more than ever before. From CNN: As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/c...
As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024 | CNN
There were 90 declarations of “major disasters” in 2024, making it one of the worst years for disasters declarations in the last three decades.
www.cnn.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is why we need a well resourced FEMA and NOAA now more than ever before. From CNN: As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/c...
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It was less than a month ago when offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were seized.
Elon Musk and his DOGE gang stormed past security and demanded access to NOAA’s IT systems. They forcibly gained access to massive amounts of data — including highly sensitive,…
Elon Musk and his DOGE gang stormed past security and demanded access to NOAA’s IT systems. They forcibly gained access to massive amounts of data — including highly sensitive,…
February 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It was less than a month ago when offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were seized.
Elon Musk and his DOGE gang stormed past security and demanded access to NOAA’s IT systems. They forcibly gained access to massive amounts of data — including highly sensitive,…
Elon Musk and his DOGE gang stormed past security and demanded access to NOAA’s IT systems. They forcibly gained access to massive amounts of data — including highly sensitive,…
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You know why hurricanes have gotten less deadly over the past century? Not because they're less dangerous. Because scientists at NOAA have gotten really good at predicting their tacks, enabling people to get out of harm's way.
Gutting NOAA will kill people.
Gutting NOAA will kill people.
February 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
You know why hurricanes have gotten less deadly over the past century? Not because they're less dangerous. Because scientists at NOAA have gotten really good at predicting their tacks, enabling people to get out of harm's way.
Gutting NOAA will kill people.
Gutting NOAA will kill people.
Interesting interview with one of the 21 DOGE employees who resigned. “DOGE work could 'cross extreme ethical and legal lines,' says former employee” one.npr.org/i/1234145488...
🔊 Listen Now: DOGE work could 'cross extreme ethical and legal lines,' says former employee
Consider This From NPR on NPR One | 10:00
one.npr.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Interesting interview with one of the 21 DOGE employees who resigned. “DOGE work could 'cross extreme ethical and legal lines,' says former employee” one.npr.org/i/1234145488...