Mary Bennett Newbould
@mbnewbould.bsky.social
Connecticut born, Virginia bred, loving the PNW. Ike Skelton staffer, teacher, mom, and Abuela.
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Washington has one of the best voting systems in the country. Now is the time to return your ballot if you haven't already. Voting is power!
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Washington has one of the best voting systems in the country. Now is the time to return your ballot if you haven't already. Voting is power!
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Individual justices may wobble but the Roberts' court as a whole is aiding and abetting the destruction of public health, biomedical research and healthcare in this country. This is John Roberts' legacy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
John Roberts Is a Threat to the Health of Every American
The Supreme Court chief is complicit in the destruction of the federal government’s public health infrastructure.
www.thenation.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Individual justices may wobble but the Roberts' court as a whole is aiding and abetting the destruction of public health, biomedical research and healthcare in this country. This is John Roberts' legacy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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"We are holding the food hostage until you also give up on the healthcare"
"We are holding the food hostage until you also give up on the healthcare"
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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"We are holding the food hostage until you also give up on the healthcare"
"We are holding the food hostage until you also give up on the healthcare"
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🚨 MARYLAND: Your local leaders must hear from you ASAP. The only way Trump’s redistricting coup works is if blue states sit back and do nothing. Demand that your elected officials move forward to unrig the midterm maps and level the playing field before it’s too late: indivisible.org/resource/red...
Maryland’s Democratic Senate president blocks anti-Trump redistricting fight
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, two of the state’s top Democrats, want a special session to redistrict. Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said no.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🚨 MARYLAND: Your local leaders must hear from you ASAP. The only way Trump’s redistricting coup works is if blue states sit back and do nothing. Demand that your elected officials move forward to unrig the midterm maps and level the playing field before it’s too late: indivisible.org/resource/red...
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In 2010, the Supreme Corruption ruled that Corporations are PEOPLE. They have first amendment rights to donate as much as they want bc corporations are PEOPLE.
14 years later.. fascism was fully established.
14 years later.. fascism was fully established.
October 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In 2010, the Supreme Corruption ruled that Corporations are PEOPLE. They have first amendment rights to donate as much as they want bc corporations are PEOPLE.
14 years later.. fascism was fully established.
14 years later.. fascism was fully established.
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Zohran Mamdani rallies with Bernie Sanders and AOC in New York
YouTube video by Associated Press
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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“What’s up?” is the Bluesky prompt for posts.
Our benefits and lifelines are “what’s up” on Nov 1.
As the regime continues to spend lavishly (and anonymously) on “ballrooms,” illegal bombings, and Trump himself,
Americans are struggling:
food, healthcare, jobs, ICE…
Cruelty is the point.
Vote 🗳️
Our benefits and lifelines are “what’s up” on Nov 1.
As the regime continues to spend lavishly (and anonymously) on “ballrooms,” illegal bombings, and Trump himself,
Americans are struggling:
food, healthcare, jobs, ICE…
Cruelty is the point.
Vote 🗳️
October 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“What’s up?” is the Bluesky prompt for posts.
Our benefits and lifelines are “what’s up” on Nov 1.
As the regime continues to spend lavishly (and anonymously) on “ballrooms,” illegal bombings, and Trump himself,
Americans are struggling:
food, healthcare, jobs, ICE…
Cruelty is the point.
Vote 🗳️
Our benefits and lifelines are “what’s up” on Nov 1.
As the regime continues to spend lavishly (and anonymously) on “ballrooms,” illegal bombings, and Trump himself,
Americans are struggling:
food, healthcare, jobs, ICE…
Cruelty is the point.
Vote 🗳️
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The Coast Guard works for ICE now.
Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI.
My exclusive for Rolling Stone:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI.
My exclusive for Rolling Stone:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
ICE Is Constantly Using Coast Guard Planes to Move Immigrants
Donald Trump’s deportation henchmen appear to have dramatically increased the use of Coast Guard aircraft to transport immigrants.
www.rollingstone.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Coast Guard works for ICE now.
Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI.
My exclusive for Rolling Stone:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI.
My exclusive for Rolling Stone:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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"...reaching with one hand to embrace his young child who is in the back in his car seat.
“Mommy’s coming,” he said.
The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..."
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
“Mommy’s coming,” he said.
The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..."
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
‘Mommy’s coming’: Video shows what happened before ICE arrested parent outside Oregon preschool
Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, 38, was arrested by immigration authorities last week.
www.oregonlive.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"...reaching with one hand to embrace his young child who is in the back in his car seat.
“Mommy’s coming,” he said.
The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..."
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
“Mommy’s coming,” he said.
The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..."
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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Illinois will always hold bullies like Secretary McMahon and Donald Trump accountable.
The Department of Education will now release school funding after fierce advocacy from governors and advocates alike.
I'll continue to show up and speak out.
The Department of Education will now release school funding after fierce advocacy from governors and advocates alike.
I'll continue to show up and speak out.
Education Department releasing billions in remaining withheld grant money for schools
The Trump administration is releasing billions of dollars in grants to schools for adult literacy, English language instruction and other programs, the Education Department said Friday.
www.cbsnews.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Illinois will always hold bullies like Secretary McMahon and Donald Trump accountable.
The Department of Education will now release school funding after fierce advocacy from governors and advocates alike.
I'll continue to show up and speak out.
The Department of Education will now release school funding after fierce advocacy from governors and advocates alike.
I'll continue to show up and speak out.
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More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
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I wish Elon would stop making sense so I did not have to agree with him so much this week.
July 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I wish Elon would stop making sense so I did not have to agree with him so much this week.
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House Republicans wanted the Senate to fix their megabill.
Instead, GOP senators made steeper cuts to Medicaid, hastened cuts to wind and solar energy tax credits and added hundreds of billions of dollars more to the deficit.
Instead, GOP senators made steeper cuts to Medicaid, hastened cuts to wind and solar energy tax credits and added hundreds of billions of dollars more to the deficit.
House Republicans wanted the Senate to fix their megabill. They 'miscalculated.'
How GOP senators put a big, beautiful stamp on President Donald Trump's signature legislation
www.politico.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
House Republicans wanted the Senate to fix their megabill.
Instead, GOP senators made steeper cuts to Medicaid, hastened cuts to wind and solar energy tax credits and added hundreds of billions of dollars more to the deficit.
Instead, GOP senators made steeper cuts to Medicaid, hastened cuts to wind and solar energy tax credits and added hundreds of billions of dollars more to the deficit.
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This Trump proposal disregards the safety of the men and women of the FBI.
Statement from Team MD: (2/2)
Statement from Team MD: (2/2)
July 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This Trump proposal disregards the safety of the men and women of the FBI.
Statement from Team MD: (2/2)
Statement from Team MD: (2/2)
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Let me be clear: I will oppose the use of any funds to move the FBI HQ to a location other than the Greenbelt site which was selected after exhaustive review because, unlike the Reagan Building, it is a secure location that meets the FBI's mission requirements. (1/2)
July 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Let me be clear: I will oppose the use of any funds to move the FBI HQ to a location other than the Greenbelt site which was selected after exhaustive review because, unlike the Reagan Building, it is a secure location that meets the FBI's mission requirements. (1/2)
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The Senate passed Trump’s Big Bad Betrayal Bill, which will:
Kick 17 million people off of their health care.
Make energy bills go up $400/year.
And give a $1 trillion tax break to billionaires.
I’m a HELL NO.
Kick 17 million people off of their health care.
Make energy bills go up $400/year.
And give a $1 trillion tax break to billionaires.
I’m a HELL NO.
July 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The Senate passed Trump’s Big Bad Betrayal Bill, which will:
Kick 17 million people off of their health care.
Make energy bills go up $400/year.
And give a $1 trillion tax break to billionaires.
I’m a HELL NO.
Kick 17 million people off of their health care.
Make energy bills go up $400/year.
And give a $1 trillion tax break to billionaires.
I’m a HELL NO.
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Republicans are rushing to pass Trump’s Tax Scam because they’re afraid of pushback.
If you’re represented by a Republican, they need to hear from you ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or join a phonebank to contact voters in key GOP districts and turn up the heat on their representatives. 👇
If you’re represented by a Republican, they need to hear from you ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or join a phonebank to contact voters in key GOP districts and turn up the heat on their representatives. 👇
Phone Bank to Save Medicaid! · MoveOn
Congress will soon vote on whether to advance a budget resolution that would take away nearly a trillion dollars of support and assistance from everyday people, including the largest proposed cuts to ...
www.mobilize.us
July 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Republicans are rushing to pass Trump’s Tax Scam because they’re afraid of pushback.
If you’re represented by a Republican, they need to hear from you ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or join a phonebank to contact voters in key GOP districts and turn up the heat on their representatives. 👇
If you’re represented by a Republican, they need to hear from you ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or join a phonebank to contact voters in key GOP districts and turn up the heat on their representatives. 👇
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“The fight’s not over. Let’s get to work.”
After Senate Republicans passed Trump’s Tax Scam, @repyassansari.bsky.social and @leahgreenberg.bsky.social explain how you can still help stop the GOP from ripping healthcare away from 17 million Americans.
After Senate Republicans passed Trump’s Tax Scam, @repyassansari.bsky.social and @leahgreenberg.bsky.social explain how you can still help stop the GOP from ripping healthcare away from 17 million Americans.
July 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“The fight’s not over. Let’s get to work.”
After Senate Republicans passed Trump’s Tax Scam, @repyassansari.bsky.social and @leahgreenberg.bsky.social explain how you can still help stop the GOP from ripping healthcare away from 17 million Americans.
After Senate Republicans passed Trump’s Tax Scam, @repyassansari.bsky.social and @leahgreenberg.bsky.social explain how you can still help stop the GOP from ripping healthcare away from 17 million Americans.
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The "Big Beautiful Bill" is not something that is going to help the average citizen. In fact, it's not a bill. It's a very large invoice. What a sham!
July 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The "Big Beautiful Bill" is not something that is going to help the average citizen. In fact, it's not a bill. It's a very large invoice. What a sham!
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While the rest of the world, especially China, continues to invest in the modernization of their electrical grids with clean, renewable energy technologies, our dipshit dumbass and his moronic cult are taking us back a century to near complete dependence on coal and fossil fuels.
July 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
While the rest of the world, especially China, continues to invest in the modernization of their electrical grids with clean, renewable energy technologies, our dipshit dumbass and his moronic cult are taking us back a century to near complete dependence on coal and fossil fuels.
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In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.
July 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.
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"It contains a staggering increase in federal immigration enforcement, with only a pittance for immigration courts—a congressional blessing of the WH agenda of arresting every migrant we can now, and figuring out how to get around the courts to deport them later."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-...
This Is a Shameful Way to Make Law
Senate Republicans hope to pass their mega-trillion-dollar spending law this morning. They just have to finish writing it first.
www.thebulwark.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"It contains a staggering increase in federal immigration enforcement, with only a pittance for immigration courts—a congressional blessing of the WH agenda of arresting every migrant we can now, and figuring out how to get around the courts to deport them later."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-...
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Republicans on whether poor Americans can get health care:
Sen. Joni Ernst: “We all are going to die.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell: “They’ll get over it.”
Vice President JD Vance: “Immaterial.”
$1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts. 12 MILLION people kicked off health care. Republicans don’t care.
Sen. Joni Ernst: “We all are going to die.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell: “They’ll get over it.”
Vice President JD Vance: “Immaterial.”
$1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts. 12 MILLION people kicked off health care. Republicans don’t care.
July 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Republicans on whether poor Americans can get health care:
Sen. Joni Ernst: “We all are going to die.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell: “They’ll get over it.”
Vice President JD Vance: “Immaterial.”
$1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts. 12 MILLION people kicked off health care. Republicans don’t care.
Sen. Joni Ernst: “We all are going to die.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell: “They’ll get over it.”
Vice President JD Vance: “Immaterial.”
$1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts. 12 MILLION people kicked off health care. Republicans don’t care.
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ICE raids are leaving fields full of rotting food in California.
Even the documented workers are not showing up.
And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones.
This isn’t border security.
It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.
Even the documented workers are not showing up.
And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones.
This isn’t border security.
It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.
Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk
www.reuters.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
ICE raids are leaving fields full of rotting food in California.
Even the documented workers are not showing up.
And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones.
This isn’t border security.
It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.
Even the documented workers are not showing up.
And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones.
This isn’t border security.
It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.