rgaston5.bsky.social
@rgaston5.bsky.social
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children.
This is so heartbreaking 💔
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction.
New Report Finds Efforts to Slow Climate Change Are Working—Just Not Fast Enough
By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction.
wrd.cm
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org

We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
June 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Senator @ossoff.senate.gov lays out the depths of Trump’s depraved corruption and says @SpeakerJohnson and other congressional Republicans are complicit.

cc: @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty
May 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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"CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades"

www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...
CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades | CNN Politics
Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views ...
www.cnn.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Social Security employees are feeling "overwhelmed" and wait times for phone services are up as workforce cuts from the Trump administration are being felt throughout the agency.
Employee cuts at Social Security are leaving remaining workers struggling to keep up
Social Security employees are feeling "overwhelmed" and wait times for phone services are up as workforce cuts from the Trump administration are being felt throughout the agency.
www.npr.org
April 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Trump suffered at least 11 legal setbacks this week….”
April 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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"Mr. Trump started his term with the second-lowest approval rating for a president in modern history.

The only recent president to have started in a worse position was Mr. Trump the first time he took office..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/u...
Trump’s Approval Rating Has Been Falling Steadily, Polling Average Shows
President Trump’s approval rating has sunk to about 45 percent, down from 52 percent one week after he took office.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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there is no plan(et) b.
April 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office.

Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Q: "When you were a Navy pilot, what would have happened to you if you had shared a battle plan with a family member?"

Sen. Mark Kelly: "I would have gotten fired. I would probably have been prosecuted...This is the most sensative information we have."
April 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
April 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.

The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
April 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This is naked corruption that uses federal policy to pour money into the pockets of the President's largest campaign donor. Forcing the nation's 70-some million Social Security recipients to sign up for the website owned by a Nazi saluting billionaire is outrageous.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Apr 11
SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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These are precedented times. The cradle of liberty has witnessed the revolutionary spirit of generations of Bostonians. Boston has taken on tyrants before, and we’ll do it again.
#boston #silencedogood #nokings #resist
April 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"
April 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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This is what organizing over 1,200 events in a few weeks looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

Join the more than half a million of us who will be taking to the streets tomorrow to stand up against Trump’s unprecedented power grab: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  @msnbc.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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1,187 Hands Off! protests across EVERY state this Saturday.

117 in CA.
61 in NY.
55 in MI
51 in OH.
42 in TX
17 in MT.
14 in AK
5 in HI!

And in Ottawa. Guadalajara. Amsterdam. Berlin. London. Lisbon. Lyon.

Saturday is gonna be historic. Are you showing up? What's your sign gonna say?
Over 350,000 people are signed up.

More than 1,000 events are planned in all 50 states and multiple countries.

We hope to see you in the streets on Saturday: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...
April 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Help us get the word out for Hands Off! on April 5

Help us spread the word about this Saturday's Hands Off! mass mobilization! These quarter-page fliers are designed to be printed out and tacked up in public places, left at cafes, or handed out. Share them by email or social media and ask everyone…
Help us get the word out for Hands Off! on April 5
Help us spread the word about this Saturday's Hands Off! mass mobilization! These quarter-page fliers are designed to be printed out and tacked up in public places, left at cafes, or handed out. Share them by email or social media and ask everyone to reshare. Let's show our power! Click here to download a PDF of the flier.
indivisibleeb.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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They’re not even hiding it:

By cutting phone lines and closing offices, Republican billionaires are setting up Social Security for failure. And when your check doesn’t show up, there will be no one to call.

This is their plan to end Social Security.
March 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The courts are preventing tyranny at this point
In a big win for millions of Americans, a federal court granted our request to block DOGE’s unlawful access to private data from the Social Security Administration.
March 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM