Jan Fortney
@fromfilley.bsky.social
Love a great story, October, my pets, a working government, follower of all things political, make you think conversations, fantastic foods, good people.
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comments that resulted in threats aimed at many of us in the WH Press Corps.
I’ll never forget that moment of kindness from Jimmy. It spoke volumes. Make no mistake, our right to free speech is under attack in this country. This right must be defended as it is essential to the American way of life.
I’ll never forget that moment of kindness from Jimmy. It spoke volumes. Make no mistake, our right to free speech is under attack in this country. This right must be defended as it is essential to the American way of life.
September 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
comments that resulted in threats aimed at many of us in the WH Press Corps.
I’ll never forget that moment of kindness from Jimmy. It spoke volumes. Make no mistake, our right to free speech is under attack in this country. This right must be defended as it is essential to the American way of life.
I’ll never forget that moment of kindness from Jimmy. It spoke volumes. Make no mistake, our right to free speech is under attack in this country. This right must be defended as it is essential to the American way of life.
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If we had good government, they would be of the Democratic Party, like Ann Richards
July 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If we had good government, they would be of the Democratic Party, like Ann Richards
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"The town Select Board is reviewing claims the ICE processing center is being used as detention center against their zoning code by keeping detainees in inadequate conditions for longer than a few hours, as originally intended..."
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/b...
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/b...
Calls to investigate ICE facility in Mass. over claims it's overcrowded
There are growing calls to hold U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountable for the conditions and treatment of detainees at their main office for New England.
www.nbcboston.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"The town Select Board is reviewing claims the ICE processing center is being used as detention center against their zoning code by keeping detainees in inadequate conditions for longer than a few hours, as originally intended..."
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/b...
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/b...
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Youngstown can’t get Rulli, Husted, or Moreno to return a call—let alone face voters at a town hall.
But that’s not stopping us from raising our voices loud and clear. You *will* hear them in D.C.
Thank you @governorwalz.mn.gov for showing up for us when MAGA cowards won’t.
#Ohio
But that’s not stopping us from raising our voices loud and clear. You *will* hear them in D.C.
Thank you @governorwalz.mn.gov for showing up for us when MAGA cowards won’t.
#Ohio
April 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Youngstown can’t get Rulli, Husted, or Moreno to return a call—let alone face voters at a town hall.
But that’s not stopping us from raising our voices loud and clear. You *will* hear them in D.C.
Thank you @governorwalz.mn.gov for showing up for us when MAGA cowards won’t.
#Ohio
But that’s not stopping us from raising our voices loud and clear. You *will* hear them in D.C.
Thank you @governorwalz.mn.gov for showing up for us when MAGA cowards won’t.
#Ohio
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BREAKING: Speaker Hakeem Jeffries just threw DOWN the gauntlet—challenging Trump’s little Johnson to a one-on-one debate TOMORROW on the GOP’s extremist budget.
Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families.
We. The. People. Are. Watching.
Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families.
We. The. People. Are. Watching.
April 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
BREAKING: Speaker Hakeem Jeffries just threw DOWN the gauntlet—challenging Trump’s little Johnson to a one-on-one debate TOMORROW on the GOP’s extremist budget.
Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families.
We. The. People. Are. Watching.
Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families.
We. The. People. Are. Watching.
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🤣🤣🤣 Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Being Cyberbullied by Gamers #StopElonMusk www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-ra... via @thedailybeast
Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Being Cyberbullied by Gamers
“YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE AND IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY”
www.thedailybeast.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🤣🤣🤣 Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Being Cyberbullied by Gamers #StopElonMusk www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-ra... via @thedailybeast
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Thank you @ossoff.senate.gov for voting no.
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Thank you @ossoff.senate.gov for voting no.
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Republican culture wars don’t help the people!
“I appear to live rent free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. I wish that they would spend even a fraction of the time that they spend thinking about me, thinking about how to lower costs for American families.” — @mcbride.house.gov
“I appear to live rent free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. I wish that they would spend even a fraction of the time that they spend thinking about me, thinking about how to lower costs for American families.” — @mcbride.house.gov
March 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Republican culture wars don’t help the people!
“I appear to live rent free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. I wish that they would spend even a fraction of the time that they spend thinking about me, thinking about how to lower costs for American families.” — @mcbride.house.gov
“I appear to live rent free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. I wish that they would spend even a fraction of the time that they spend thinking about me, thinking about how to lower costs for American families.” — @mcbride.house.gov
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I am glad that people are showing their disdain for this administration's horrible policies.
Bonus: Check out the video showing Vance getting booed: x.com/Andrew__Roth...
It👏🏽 was 👏🏽 glorious!
#DemVoice1 #DemsUnited
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
Bonus: Check out the video showing Vance getting booed: x.com/Andrew__Roth...
It👏🏽 was 👏🏽 glorious!
#DemVoice1 #DemsUnited
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
Attendees could be heard booing loudly after noticing Vance, with the boos increasing in intensity as more concert-goers noticed him.
Vance loudly booed for 30 seconds straight by Kennedy Center crowd
Vice President JD Vance recently got an icy reception at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after attendees spotted him sitting down in a VIP box with Second Lady Usha Vance.Guardian reporter ...
www.rawstory.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I am glad that people are showing their disdain for this administration's horrible policies.
Bonus: Check out the video showing Vance getting booed: x.com/Andrew__Roth...
It👏🏽 was 👏🏽 glorious!
#DemVoice1 #DemsUnited
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
Bonus: Check out the video showing Vance getting booed: x.com/Andrew__Roth...
It👏🏽 was 👏🏽 glorious!
#DemVoice1 #DemsUnited
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
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Are you a veteran? A POC? A human? This is appalling!
Convicted Felon Donald Trump shows us everyday how much he disrespects vets, especially vets who are LGBTQ, women, and/or POC.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #FuckTrump #TrumpIsACriminal
taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...
Convicted Felon Donald Trump shows us everyday how much he disrespects vets, especially vets who are LGBTQ, women, and/or POC.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #FuckTrump #TrumpIsACriminal
taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...
Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
taskandpurpose.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Are you a veteran? A POC? A human? This is appalling!
Convicted Felon Donald Trump shows us everyday how much he disrespects vets, especially vets who are LGBTQ, women, and/or POC.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #FuckTrump #TrumpIsACriminal
taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...
Convicted Felon Donald Trump shows us everyday how much he disrespects vets, especially vets who are LGBTQ, women, and/or POC.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #FuckTrump #TrumpIsACriminal
taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...
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#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
WI Special Election April 1st
ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Su...
Let’s reelect the trusted incumbent @underlyforwi.bsky.social for
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Her work: underlyforwi.com/accomplishments
TY for sharing 😀
WI Special Election April 1st
ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Su...
Let’s reelect the trusted incumbent @underlyforwi.bsky.social for
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Her work: underlyforwi.com/accomplishments
TY for sharing 😀
March 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
WI Special Election April 1st
ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Su...
Let’s reelect the trusted incumbent @underlyforwi.bsky.social for
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Her work: underlyforwi.com/accomplishments
TY for sharing 😀
WI Special Election April 1st
ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Su...
Let’s reelect the trusted incumbent @underlyforwi.bsky.social for
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Her work: underlyforwi.com/accomplishments
TY for sharing 😀
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March 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Federal workers in limbo. Employees at HHS getting emails telling them to justify their jobs and NIH instructing workers to hold off before responding. Obtained from a source familiar.
February 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Federal workers in limbo. Employees at HHS getting emails telling them to justify their jobs and NIH instructing workers to hold off before responding. Obtained from a source familiar.
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Arizona GOP leaders sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi asking her to reconsider the Justice Department's lawsuit challenging the state's restrictive proof of citizenship for voting law.
Arizona GOP Leaders Ask DOJ to Change Stance on Proof of Citizenship
Read more.
www.democracydocket.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Arizona GOP leaders sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi asking her to reconsider the Justice Department's lawsuit challenging the state's restrictive proof of citizenship for voting law.
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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🧪🌎🦑
The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.
Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk
Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk
February 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🧪🌎🦑
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Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, a former slave, opened one of the first restaurants in Rhode Island with his wife in the 1700s — and America may owe its love for oysters to their efforts
The lost story of the former slave who opened one of Providence’s first restaurants and elevated the oyster - The Boston Globe
The shellfish was considered food for the poor before Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, an emancipated Black man, started serving them to the city’s elite in the 1700s.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, a former slave, opened one of the first restaurants in Rhode Island with his wife in the 1700s — and America may owe its love for oysters to their efforts
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I'll tell you what I didn't get done last week.
I didn't fire every federal employee and/or agency investigating my companies for unethical and illegal conduct.
You?
I didn't fire every federal employee and/or agency investigating my companies for unethical and illegal conduct.
You?
February 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'll tell you what I didn't get done last week.
I didn't fire every federal employee and/or agency investigating my companies for unethical and illegal conduct.
You?
I didn't fire every federal employee and/or agency investigating my companies for unethical and illegal conduct.
You?
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First they came for the federal employees,
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not a federal employee
...
You know the rest of the poem.
Act accordingly.
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not a federal employee
...
You know the rest of the poem.
Act accordingly.
February 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
First they came for the federal employees,
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not a federal employee
...
You know the rest of the poem.
Act accordingly.
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not a federal employee
...
You know the rest of the poem.
Act accordingly.
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February 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
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#MorningVibe
Get your game face on! Contact your Senators at 202*224*3121 to remind them to put country over party.
Tell them that you oppose the felon’s incompetent cabinet picks & that you expect them to as well.
#DemsUnited
#DemCast
Get your game face on! Contact your Senators at 202*224*3121 to remind them to put country over party.
Tell them that you oppose the felon’s incompetent cabinet picks & that you expect them to as well.
#DemsUnited
#DemCast
January 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#MorningVibe
Get your game face on! Contact your Senators at 202*224*3121 to remind them to put country over party.
Tell them that you oppose the felon’s incompetent cabinet picks & that you expect them to as well.
#DemsUnited
#DemCast
Get your game face on! Contact your Senators at 202*224*3121 to remind them to put country over party.
Tell them that you oppose the felon’s incompetent cabinet picks & that you expect them to as well.
#DemsUnited
#DemCast
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Today I proudly took the oath of office to represent the remarkable people of Maryland’s 8th district.
As the new Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, I will defend constitutional democracy and freedom and champion the common good.
Thank you for this high honor.
As the new Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, I will defend constitutional democracy and freedom and champion the common good.
Thank you for this high honor.
January 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Today I proudly took the oath of office to represent the remarkable people of Maryland’s 8th district.
As the new Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, I will defend constitutional democracy and freedom and champion the common good.
Thank you for this high honor.
As the new Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, I will defend constitutional democracy and freedom and champion the common good.
Thank you for this high honor.
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Bravo to Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett for speaking out about how the delegates representing the US Virgin Islands, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico are unable to vote for Speaker of the House.
January 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Bravo to Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett for speaking out about how the delegates representing the US Virgin Islands, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico are unable to vote for Speaker of the House.
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Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
January 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.