Mari Bilderback
@atwoodtoldus.bsky.social
As Left as you can get. Ultra Progressive Social Democrat. Wife, mother. Public health servant leader.
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Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well...
Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.
We called the auditor.
He resigned in August.
That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.
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Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.
We called the auditor.
He resigned in August.
That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.
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Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma May Have Violated SEC Rules After Another Filing Discrepancy
Alt5 Sigma told regulators its accountant resigned in November, while he says he notified the company three months earlier.
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well...
Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.
We called the auditor.
He resigned in August.
That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.
1/
Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.
We called the auditor.
He resigned in August.
That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.
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When Roe v. Wade was overturned, and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time.
Reporter Nina Martin spends time with abortion rights groups following how they’ve adapted to one of the nation’s strictest anti-abortion policies.
Reporter Nina Martin spends time with abortion rights groups following how they’ve adapted to one of the nation’s strictest anti-abortion policies.
After banning abortion, Alabama threatened to prosecute the helpers
When Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time.
www.motherjones.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When Roe v. Wade was overturned, and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time.
Reporter Nina Martin spends time with abortion rights groups following how they’ve adapted to one of the nation’s strictest anti-abortion policies.
Reporter Nina Martin spends time with abortion rights groups following how they’ve adapted to one of the nation’s strictest anti-abortion policies.
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Quick Note: OU’s suspension of a trans TA was *not* because of a disagreement over the grading of a pretty terrible paper.
Instead, the TA is another victim of TPUSA, Chris Rufo, and their ilk’s goal to punish everyday Americans for having the audacity to be trans while existing in public
Instead, the TA is another victim of TPUSA, Chris Rufo, and their ilk’s goal to punish everyday Americans for having the audacity to be trans while existing in public
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Quick Note: OU’s suspension of a trans TA was *not* because of a disagreement over the grading of a pretty terrible paper.
Instead, the TA is another victim of TPUSA, Chris Rufo, and their ilk’s goal to punish everyday Americans for having the audacity to be trans while existing in public
Instead, the TA is another victim of TPUSA, Chris Rufo, and their ilk’s goal to punish everyday Americans for having the audacity to be trans while existing in public
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“If I have the power to do it, I’m not sure that I do, but if I do, I would denaturalize, absolutely.”
Trump Says He’d ‘Absolutely’ Denaturalize Americans
The president, whose own mother was a naturalized citizen, doubled down on his vow to strip some Americans of their citizenship.
trib.al
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“If I have the power to do it, I’m not sure that I do, but if I do, I would denaturalize, absolutely.”
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David Sacks, one of the Trump administration’s top technology officials, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
David Sacks, one of the Trump administration’s top technology officials, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
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Trump’s recent decision to deny disaster aid to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost local residents tens of millions of dollars. It will hit a working-class region that voted overwhelmingly for Trump last year, helping him win the crucial swing state.
Electricity prices jump after Trump rejects disaster aid for Michigan utilities
The president denied the state’s request for federal aid to rebuild power lines after a fierce ice storm last March, a move that could force thousands of rural electricity customers to pay the entire ...
www.politico.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Trump’s recent decision to deny disaster aid to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost local residents tens of millions of dollars. It will hit a working-class region that voted overwhelmingly for Trump last year, helping him win the crucial swing state.
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“NYPD violently cracked down on protestors and press today as people tried to stop ICE vans from leaving to take community members. NYPD pepper-spraying, shoving, and even throwing the items used to block the vans back at people.”
Credit: Heroichira on IG
Credit: Heroichira on IG
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“NYPD violently cracked down on protestors and press today as people tried to stop ICE vans from leaving to take community members. NYPD pepper-spraying, shoving, and even throwing the items used to block the vans back at people.”
Credit: Heroichira on IG
Credit: Heroichira on IG
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President Obama served food at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving.
The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.
How far we’ve fallen.
The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.
How far we’ve fallen.
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
President Obama served food at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving.
The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.
How far we’ve fallen.
The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.
How far we’ve fallen.
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Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone except that fat, lying, child-raping, twice impeached, porn star raw-dogging, Russia-colluding, insurrection-inciting, treasonous, classified documents-stealing felonious, dictator-loving, Constitution-defying MOTHERFUCKER, but I repeat myself.
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone except that fat, lying, child-raping, twice impeached, porn star raw-dogging, Russia-colluding, insurrection-inciting, treasonous, classified documents-stealing felonious, dictator-loving, Constitution-defying MOTHERFUCKER, but I repeat myself.
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If the Soviet Union was a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, then the current United States is a parade of squirrels, hopped up on meth, inside a circle jerk. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
Why Are We Going to War With Venezuela
Seriously - why the fuck are we going to war with Venezuela?
michaelianblack.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If the Soviet Union was a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, then the current United States is a parade of squirrels, hopped up on meth, inside a circle jerk. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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And *major media* should be saying this. Because it’s a journalistic fact. Instead we’re seeing report after report that parrots Trump’s lie—that the only reason this man is in America is because Biden had a no-vetting immigration policy, a Through-the-Looking-Glass perversion of what happened here.
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
And *major media* should be saying this. Because it’s a journalistic fact. Instead we’re seeing report after report that parrots Trump’s lie—that the only reason this man is in America is because Biden had a no-vetting immigration policy, a Through-the-Looking-Glass perversion of what happened here.
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“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
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ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
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After Tierra Walker died, her family was confused by her medical care.
“They didn’t want to offer to end the pregnancy, because the government or someone says you can’t?” her aunt said. “So you’d rather let somebody die?”
“They didn’t want to offer to end the pregnancy, because the government or someone says you can’t?” her aunt said. “So you’d rather let somebody die?”
“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 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
After Tierra Walker died, her family was confused by her medical care.
“They didn’t want to offer to end the pregnancy, because the government or someone says you can’t?” her aunt said. “So you’d rather let somebody die?”
“They didn’t want to offer to end the pregnancy, because the government or someone says you can’t?” her aunt said. “So you’d rather let somebody die?”
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HE IS ABOUT TO GO TO WAR WITH VENEZUELA FOR IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA AND NOW HE PARDONS A DRUG KINGPIN CONVICTED IN 2024 OF IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
www.npr.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
HE IS ABOUT TO GO TO WAR WITH VENEZUELA FOR IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA AND NOW HE PARDONS A DRUG KINGPIN CONVICTED IN 2024 OF IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants - The Guardian
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Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants — Guardian US
Applicants reportedly cited Nazi theorists and other extremists as inspiration for Trump administration roles
apple.news
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants - The Guardian
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apple.news/Ao96GHmI-TSO...
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Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
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Doesn't look like a "dead issue" to me.
It looks to me like an American president sending America's most infamous child sex trafficker a fawning birthday card on which he drew a naked underage girl with her arms pinioned behind her back and then wrote on her belly, "We have something in common."
It looks to me like an American president sending America's most infamous child sex trafficker a fawning birthday card on which he drew a naked underage girl with her arms pinioned behind her back and then wrote on her belly, "We have something in common."
September 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Doesn't look like a "dead issue" to me.
It looks to me like an American president sending America's most infamous child sex trafficker a fawning birthday card on which he drew a naked underage girl with her arms pinioned behind her back and then wrote on her belly, "We have something in common."
It looks to me like an American president sending America's most infamous child sex trafficker a fawning birthday card on which he drew a naked underage girl with her arms pinioned behind her back and then wrote on her belly, "We have something in common."
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The new rulebook for Catholic hospitals says a transgender person must accept their body "as it was created" while denying them the medical care that makes life livable.
It's faith-based cruelty.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/us-catholi...
It's faith-based cruelty.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/us-catholi...
U.S. Catholic bishops double down on anti-trans policies in new hospital rules
The USCCB’s updated health directives ban gender-affirming care and ignore medical experts, leaving trans patients with even fewer options
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The new rulebook for Catholic hospitals says a transgender person must accept their body "as it was created" while denying them the medical care that makes life livable.
It's faith-based cruelty.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/us-catholi...
It's faith-based cruelty.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/us-catholi...