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Hazel’s mom
@mvde1975.bsky.social
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Auteur/Author 💙📚 • mom of three and my sweet dog Hazel ❤️ • Dutch girl 🇳🇱 in the USA • Disappointed and scared after November 5, 2024 • #voteblue
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Screenshot from the NYT article: February 18 The Justice Department asked a court to freeze a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's decision during the Biden administration to tighten one of is most important air-qually standards, the limit on soot. The E.P.A. found in 2021 that the new standard would save thousands of lives and that the health benefits would outweigh the cost of compliance. The Trump administration put the ligation on hold in preparation for rolling back the regulation. Sarah Buckley, Environment and Natural Resources Division: We made blanket requests to courts to put cases on hold where we were Screenshot from the NYT article: February 18 Sarah Buckley, Environment and Natural Resources Division: We made blanket requests to courts to put cases on hold where we were defending E.P.A. rules. The soot case was a real gut punch to me. Soot pollution is a major public health problem. The rule we were defending would reduce the number of people getting sick and dying, from pollution-caused diseases, by a lot. We'd just had oral argument in December. I thought we were going to win. It felt like victory was being snatched away. Screenshot from the NYT article: May 28 Trump pardoned a series of white-collar offenders, including Charles Scott, who had been convicted last year in Ohio of helping the chief executive of his company manipulate i?s stock value. Prosecutor, Ohio: Scott was sentenced to 42 months for a multimillion-dollar fraud. His family was wealthy. He spent all of two weeks in jail. That put a damper on a lot of the work we were doing, to know that someone who defrauded everyday folks in Ohio was able to find their way to a pardon. Afterward, defense attorneys are telling us they can't get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because Screenshot from the NYT article: May 28 of two weeks in jail. That put a damper on a lot of the work we were doing, to know that someone who defrauded everyday folks in Ohio was able to find their way to a pardon. Afterward, defense attorneys are telling us they can't get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they're better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump's attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon. Alexis Loeb, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section:
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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From the NYT. Democrats have a conscience and a soul, Republicans have not. It’s like negotiating with the devil. You always lose. Please focus on the real fight: freeing the US from this evil regime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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VOTE!!🗳️ (if you haven’t already)
More voting information for New Jersey:
www.nj.gov/state/electi...
It’s a picture of Yoda with the text: “Vote you must” “Or complain you can not”
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I found the part about self-censorship chilling.
A screenshot from the Politico article where I highlighted the part the author writes about self-censorship and how this is done more thoroughly then the government could ever do.
October 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Thanks for the heads up. I changed it to no-one. I changed it right away. See screenshot if you want to know where you have to go to change it.
A screenshot of the settings page of Instagram, where you can change your live location.
August 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Really disturbing ad, especially because it’s happening in real life 😔.
(Found on insta account of @jesscraven101.bsky.social)
June 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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In Lambertsville, NJ
#protest #indivisible #handsoff
Photo of a group of protesters. Photo of a protester with a puppet and some pins and the text: Pin cushion therapy. Protester with a sign that reads: “I’ve seen smarter cabinets at IKEA.”
April 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Screenshot with part of the article I linked in my first post: “Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has targeted academic institutions that challenged his ethnonationalist agenda. In 2018, Central European University announced that his government was forcing the school out of the country. He then restructured public universities, transferring their control to government-aligned foundations, allowing only those friendly to the government to dominate decision making and funding. Academic programs were banned, and university curriculums were reshaped to fit a nationalist and conservative ideology. The global standing and quality of Hungarian research and science was degraded, and the nation's academic community was diminished.”
April 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Screenshot with part of the article I linked in my first post: “In the United States we have long celebrated the freedom of thought and expression to challenge authority, conventional wisdom and earlier research. The ability to voice or dispute contentious political or scientific ideas has made U.S. universities engines of innovation and creativity. We run the risk of jeopardizing our future as global leaders, as creators, as critical thinkers and as a free society. If we threaten our international community and take rights away from individuals who say things the government doesn't like, we all lose. What begins with international students will not end with them.”
April 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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From a post of @chrismurphyct.bsky.social 04/02/2025:
Senator Chris Murphy posted 04/02/25 to explain what Trump's tariffs are really all about: Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naïve. No, tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won't understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That's because they don't. They aren't designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool. 3/ You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers. They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature. Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects. 4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent. Our own revolution was spurred by the King's use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self-governance. The King's message was simple: stop protesting and I'll stop taxing. 5/ Trump knows that he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by using spending and taxation in the same way. He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges. 6/ Healthy democracies rely on an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent state/local government to counterbalance a powerful federal government. 7/ But the private sector also plays a rule to protect democracy. Independent industry has power. The tariffs are Trump's tool to erode that independence. Now, one by one, every industry or company will need to pledge loyalty to Trump in order to get sanctions relief. 8/ What could Trump demand as part of a quiet loyalty pledge? Public shows of support from executives
April 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Here the thread in an easy to read format from @jannetteb.bsky.social
#tariffs #nasdaq
April 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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March 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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It’s a long text about DEI. I think there is an app which can be used to read this for you. If not please let me know.
March 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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We only need 3.5%
A picture of the American flag with 3.5% written in it. And the text: “To overthrow a tyrant, use the 3.5% solution. We need to mobilize about 12 million people to assert popular, democratic power on the government. Mass non-violent demonstrations are so visible that nobody can ignore them.
February 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Like in the TV comedy The Good Place (which is actually the Bad place).
A photo of seizoen 1 of the TV serie “The Good Place” It says: Welcome to the good place. Everything is fine.
February 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I saw I good comment on this article:
A comment from an article in the NYT where it lists all the mistakes made by the fake department of Elon Musk. Including the firing of the people who watch over the nuclear arsenal.
February 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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From @newslit.org
January 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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My word of the year is avant-garde
January 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Here is my dog 🐶

#dogsofbluesky
Mixed breed dog looking into the camera. Standing on all four legs. Outside.
November 12, 2024 at 12:19 PM