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David Sirota

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This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

Boston Strong #NoKings

October 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM

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Ronan Farrow

@ronanfarrow.bsky.social

The far right in America today: a quick primer. #Politics #Democracy

September 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

Coolidge Corner Boston #NoKings

June 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM

Jan S

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Giving TACO Tuesday a whole new meaning

May 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

I’m worried about Social Security, tariffs, insider trading, education, etc - but the biggest thing right now - every day media, Congress, church leaders should be hollering about - is the illegal imprisonment of people on El Salvador /1

April 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM

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The Sgt Joker

@thesgtjoker.bsky.social

The same Republicans who blocked funding for Veterans Suicide Prevention, Health Benefits, Wounded Veterans Job Security, Veterans Retraining, Disabled Veterans Home Accessibility, and the Veterans Business Center are the same Republicans who found $113 MILLION for Trump's birthday parade.

a large group of soldiers are marching in formation

ALT: a large group of soldiers are marching in formation

media.tenor.com

April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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American Library Association

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services.

The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

We're suing Trump to save library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

April 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Ken Martin

@kenmartin.bsky.social

We’re launching the People’s Cabinet—a group of leaders, experts, and everyday Americans who will cut through Trump’s lies and speak directly to the people.

Stay tuned for more.

April 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

If true - this is crazy!!!

Lara (Laura_without_the_u) @getupswinging.bsky.social · Apr 4

@mrglobaltoo.bsky.social made a video about this.

This Is NUTS. Must See! Please Share.

youtu.be/TBppo_C6XLM?...

Something Very Fishy Is Happenimg With Our Petroleum Reserve

YouTube video by Mr Global

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April 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

Abbreviated Cory Booker “We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

April 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM

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Congressman Stephen F. Lynch

@lynch.house.gov

March 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

Must read part 2

Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Feb 20

should sometimes, but we'd be damned if anyone was ever going to come in from the outside and divide our family. He told me about all the ways I could make my life better through honorable service to my country. He told me that America rewards those who take on the task of upholding America's ideals. In the end, he gave me back my hope that I could be something more than the circumstances I was born into. He helped me see that likely I would not be a brain surgeon, but if I worked hard, I could get to a place where one of my kids could be if they wanted it.
That young man's words, combined with everything l'd seen and learned of America to that point, are why I signed my contract and eventually stepped on those yellow footprints. I saw America as a land where people from all backgrounds sat around the table and hashed things out. Where we listened to each other and found ways to solve our common problems. Where 95% of us realized that we were all in the same boat, struggling to get by and just wanting things to be a little better for the people we care about. Where it didn't matter where you came from or how you got here, if you were willing to roll up your sleeves and pitch in.
I was in boot camp, 3 weeks away from becoming a United States Marine, when America was attacked on September 11, 2001. I watched in horror as our country bled before the world because of what we stood for. I stood in a room with 80 of my brothers, young men like me trying to have a better life, as the realization set in that things had just gotten very real. That we were about to be called upon to do everything we were training for. That the benefits of service would still come for most of us, but that some of us would have that dream cut short to make sure the world knew that America would not be felled, no matter how many towers toppled. Not one of us shrank from that responsibility. Few if any of us really signed up because we wanted to kill, but if they wanted the fight, we'd be all too…

the people around me were men, women, gay, straight, trans, republican, democrat, geniuses, or ASVAB waivers. I cared that they survived. I cared that they made it back to their children. When I put together targeting packages to bring to justice terrorists who would kidnap Iraqi children and leave their dismembered bodies on their parents' porches in trash bags because they had the audacity to vote, I didn't care what their nationality was, or give a single thought to their racial or gender identity. I cared that we killed or captured them so their fight against what America stands for would be over, no matter who they were.
THAT is the American way. "We don't care who you are if you're willing to work towards a better tomorrow." THAT is the America that I've been inspired by and proud to serve throughout my career.
At this point, I no longer see the ideals I have committed my life to serving reflected in any of our leaders in Washington. Foreign influence in our social media drives us deeper and deeper into corners so that we're more and more willing to fight ourselves. Politicians, who are aware of these efforts to divide us and the effects they are having, lean into dividing the electorate, rather than putting their collective feet down to do something to keep America united.
America's enemies have long known that a united America cannot be laid low, but a divided America will cannibalize itself for you. Above all, I did not make sure terrorists met their makers so that I could watch one lead and then attack my country. I didn't swear my life and watch friends lose theirs so that I could watch that same terrorist free America's domestic enemies from prison while he tried to overthrow our country again. I certainly didn't risk life and limb only to come home and watch cowards and collaborators in Congress standby and watch this happen while neglecting their own oaths, while a disgrace to everything the Marine Corps stands for cheers for a dictator while serving a…

fulfill his dream of declaring any votes he doesn't like as "compromised." Donald Trump doesn't care about DEl. He cares about being able to install racists at the State Department and DOGE, to continue his lifelong fight against justice for African Americans (and now Africans). Donald Trump could care less about immigrants. He cares about keeping billionaires happy on the backs of the poor.
Amazingly, Donald Trump is the least important part of all of this. He's a tool being used to achieve a goal because he doesn't have enough interest in anything beyond himself to say "no" when he's asked to be the lever used to fell our Constitutional Republic. Maybe it was his "bone spurs" that kept him from being the next Smedley Butler, who had the spine and fortitude to not only resist, but to expose the Business Plot in 1933... Damn those Russian assets on Epstein Island and whatever evidence they must have managed to collect on POTUS...
After much soul searching, I can no longer serve my own interests by staying in
a job that I love, as doing so would mean continuing to execute the orders of leaders who continue to betray us in a bid to steal the might and treasure of the United States Government. I'm a 6'3" white straight-passing disabled veteran. | could easily "go along to get along" and probably even attain enough status and privilege to enrich myself via the downfall of American Democracy... But I won't.
I'm not the President. I don't pay lip service to the Constitution or my love of country. I live it. It's in the very core of my soul. For these reasons, I resign my position as the Director of the NIH Executive Secretariat effective at midnight, February 28, 2025.
Semper Fidelis,
Digitally signed by
Nathaniel J. Nathaniel J. Brought
Brought-S Date: 2025.02.18
19:19:08-05'00'
Nathaniel J. Brought, Director, ES, NIH

February 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

Must read

Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Feb 20

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

February 18, 2024
TO:
Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH
CC:
John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH
Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH
FROM:
Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH
SUBJECT: Resignation
Dear Dr. Memoli,
On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment:
I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included:
• For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual

nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system.
• Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats.
• Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them.
• Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn.
• Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity.
I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind.
As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha…

February 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @govmaurahealey.bsky.social please try to get these for Massachusetts residents

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Feb 18

The Trump administration is weighing whether to destroy $500 million in stockpiled covid tests, @lenasun.bsky.social + Carolyn Johnson scoop.

The effort comes after Trump rescinded a Biden executive order to ensure the nation would have ample covid tests on hand.

U.S. weighs destroying $500 million in stockpiled covid tests

The government is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households and has been considering destroying 160 million tests.

www.washingtonpost.com

February 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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Tori Bedford

@bedford.bsky.social

Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.

"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @gbhnews.bsky.social. "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."

February 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

For anyone from Boston or thinking of visiting Boston - this is outrageous

Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social · Feb 18

Trump closed the Kennedy Library.

DotNews @dotnews.bsky.social · Feb 18

The JFK Library and Museum in #Dorchester announced that it is "temporarily closed until further notice" — sources tell @dotnews.bsky.social it's due to an Trump executive order impacting federal probationary workers

February 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

@alexwinter.com was in Boston today for #TeslaTakedown - was disappointed in numbers - but we were dedicated and passionate - it’s a start - we will prevail

February 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

There’s a T dealer in Boston - Pridential Center

February 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM

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Maarten Schenk

@mschenk.bsky.social

First they came for the fact checkers...

...and then, well, accounts differ about who they came for next or if they even came and who "they" even were... we're not really sure, but we do have *strong* opinions about it!

January 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM

Jan S

@jan-s.bsky.social

If US gov is muting important health information - where do we go for updates? Blue state health departments? There needs to be some reliable group that starts pumping that information out. #health #disease #vaccines

January 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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