Andrew Mortensen
@moretension.bsky.social
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the people whose opinions I want are those who have lived in countries under the transition to authoritarianism, and I have not met one who is confused about what is going on in the US right now. If you teach history at Penn and don’t understand that, it’s time to quit.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
the people whose opinions I want are those who have lived in countries under the transition to authoritarianism, and I have not met one who is confused about what is going on in the US right now. If you teach history at Penn and don’t understand that, it’s time to quit.
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🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
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I’m voting no on this spending bill that will put basic health care further out of reach for millions of families.
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I’m voting no on this spending bill that will put basic health care further out of reach for millions of families.
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Americans can’t afford food and they can’t afford health care. We are in a cost-of-living crisis of Republicans’ making and we must address it now – not at a later, undisclosed date. Any deal that doesn’t address the cost of health care doesn’t work for the American people. We have to keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Americans can’t afford food and they can’t afford health care. We are in a cost-of-living crisis of Republicans’ making and we must address it now – not at a later, undisclosed date. Any deal that doesn’t address the cost of health care doesn’t work for the American people. We have to keep fighting.
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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Michiganders are receiving their outrageously high premiums caused by the Republican health care crisis and they can't afford it.
It is time they work with Democrats to lower health care costs and extend ACA tax credits.
It is time they work with Democrats to lower health care costs and extend ACA tax credits.
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Michiganders are receiving their outrageously high premiums caused by the Republican health care crisis and they can't afford it.
It is time they work with Democrats to lower health care costs and extend ACA tax credits.
It is time they work with Democrats to lower health care costs and extend ACA tax credits.
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Let’s be clear: The Trump Administration has the resources and the legal authority to fully fund SNAP benefits. Not only do they have the ability, but they have also been ordered by a court to do so. And they are still choosing not to.
House Democrats Respond to Trump's Illegal SNAP Cuts
YouTube video by House Democrats
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Let’s be clear: The Trump Administration has the resources and the legal authority to fully fund SNAP benefits. Not only do they have the ability, but they have also been ordered by a court to do so. And they are still choosing not to.
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You can now visit Healthcare.gov to see how much your health care premiums will cost next year. Unfortunately many will see their costs skyrocket.
October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You can now visit Healthcare.gov to see how much your health care premiums will cost next year. Unfortunately many will see their costs skyrocket.
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Republicans say they're not going to cut Social Security, yet they've closed 1000 offices, fired 7000 people, cut off phone services that seniors rely on, threatened to shut it down, and said it wouldn't matter if someone missed a month's payment.
April 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Republicans say they're not going to cut Social Security, yet they've closed 1000 offices, fired 7000 people, cut off phone services that seniors rely on, threatened to shut it down, and said it wouldn't matter if someone missed a month's payment.
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if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.
April 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.
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your anger is warranted because all of this was avoidable.
April 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
your anger is warranted because all of this was avoidable.
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Asheville was beautiful last night, I needed that. Shit’s awful for a lot of folks right now, your friends and family are going to talk about the economy when you see or call them this week. Make sure you still talk to them about Palestine. Make sure you talk about protecting trans lives.
April 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Asheville was beautiful last night, I needed that. Shit’s awful for a lot of folks right now, your friends and family are going to talk about the economy when you see or call them this week. Make sure you still talk to them about Palestine. Make sure you talk about protecting trans lives.
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History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
March 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
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This is a video of PBS travel guy Rick Steves at the Edmonds WA Hands Off event, giving a speech which I think is one of the BEST explanations I've seen for the average person of what is going on now and it is 🔥🔥🔥. You are going to want to watch this. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...
Hands Off National Day of Protest - Edmonds, WA
YouTube video by R
youtu.be
April 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is a video of PBS travel guy Rick Steves at the Edmonds WA Hands Off event, giving a speech which I think is one of the BEST explanations I've seen for the average person of what is going on now and it is 🔥🔥🔥. You are going to want to watch this. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...
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hey while we’re joining hands, thanks also to everybody who stayed home with their kids and kept their friends’ kids so their partners could go march. necessary work.
April 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
hey while we’re joining hands, thanks also to everybody who stayed home with their kids and kept their friends’ kids so their partners could go march. necessary work.
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Look up the name of any "red state" right now, and you get to see pictures of lots of people protesting Republicans
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Look up the name of any "red state" right now, and you get to see pictures of lots of people protesting Republicans
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Trump and Musk's latest cuts take food away from children and business away from farmers. www.wxyz.com/news/region/...
Local food banks forced to adjust to USDA changes to meet need
The USDA pausing nearly 500 million dollars in funding for a food delivery program nationwide has local food banks and their partners pivoting to meet the need.
www.wxyz.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Trump and Musk's latest cuts take food away from children and business away from farmers. www.wxyz.com/news/region/...
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Trans rights are human rights. No exceptions.
March 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trans rights are human rights. No exceptions.
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69 million American women unable to register to vote simply because they changed their last name after marriage, like myself.
That’s what the Republican SAVE Act would do.
My @demwomencaucus.bsky.social
colleagues and I won’t stand for this.
That’s what the Republican SAVE Act would do.
My @demwomencaucus.bsky.social
colleagues and I won’t stand for this.
March 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
69 million American women unable to register to vote simply because they changed their last name after marriage, like myself.
That’s what the Republican SAVE Act would do.
My @demwomencaucus.bsky.social
colleagues and I won’t stand for this.
That’s what the Republican SAVE Act would do.
My @demwomencaucus.bsky.social
colleagues and I won’t stand for this.
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In the middle of a growing measles outbreak, Trump and Musk canceled funding to track and respond to infectious diseases.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In the middle of a growing measles outbreak, Trump and Musk canceled funding to track and respond to infectious diseases.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported.
It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
In case you missed it: the Pentagon--that's Hegseth--got warned about using Signal a week ago.
March 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported.
It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.
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One of last surviving Tuskegee Airmen criticizes Trump's DEI purge: 'I’ll tell him to his face'
One of last surviving Tuskegee Airmen criticizes Trump's DEI purge: 'I’ll tell him to his face'
"(They said) We were inferior to the white man. We were nothing,” Harvey said. “So we showed them.”
on.nbc10.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
One of last surviving Tuskegee Airmen criticizes Trump's DEI purge: 'I’ll tell him to his face'
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What horseshit from DOD that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them and then got caught and now they're scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.
March 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What horseshit from DOD that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them and then got caught and now they're scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.