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Democrat | Liberal | Anti-Fascist | Resister | 100% Pro-Choice | Politics Junkie | First Gen of Spanish & Cuban Parents | Video Gamer (BG3, Fallout, LOU, Mass Effect, Horizon) | Cosplayer | 3D Printing Nerd | Costume/Prop Maker | Fur Mom to Two Doxies |
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What’s up Blue Sky! Fellow Resister and twitter refugee here, ready to fight fascism. Let’s connect and commiserate.
Words that are strong enough to condemn this fuckery do not exist - SHAME!
A 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer was deported with her undocumented parents last month

The Texas Civil Rights Project blurred the photograph for safety purposes.

Full story: www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
March 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Ouch. Republican Representative Tom Barrett held a tele-town hall with his constituents in his swing district in Michigan on Monday and ran a survey asking if they support DOGE.

70% of the participants said they do not.
March 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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What is he hawking today?
March 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.
March 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Such amazing photos of my Jaheira cosplay by the supremely talented @worldofgwendana.bsky.social Truly a pleasure to spend the day with @ragingbabyseals and her outstanding Alfira.
March 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I interviewed the extraordinary Vladimir Kara -Murza, the Russian dissident released from prison last year. He also won the Pulitzer last year for the columns he wrote from jail. Despite everything, he remains an optimist
Listen:
pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/vla...
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian Imprisonment and Fighting for Democracy | Pulitzer on the Road
On this first episode of season two of the Pulitzer on the Road podcast, 2024 Commentary winner Vladimir Kara-Murza is in conversation with Pulitzer Board member and 2004 General Nonfiction winner Ann...
pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org
March 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
So…..fraud and waste? Eh?!?!
March 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
March 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Aside from the startling number of airline collisions... The state of the FAA is "complete chaos."

Contributing factors include depleted teams, low morale, confusing directives, and the sudden insertion of both Elon Musk and Ted Malaska, a SpaceX engineer.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The FAA’s Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know
The agency responsible for air safety is facing deep cuts and interference by Elon Musk.
www.theatlantic.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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For the Sunday edition of @status.news, I spoke with @davidenrich.bsky.social about his new book, "Murder the Truth," and how powerful right-wing forces are working to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan. www.status.news/p/new-york-t...
Sullivan Under Siege
A coordinated effort to dismantle press protections is gaining momentum, as journalist David Enrich explains in his new book on the fight to overturn NYT v. Sullivan.
www.status.news
March 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The Social Security Administration “eliminated” its civil rights office on Tuesday — a deputy commissioner-level office with several statutorily required functions within the agency — because it was “duplicative,” the acting commissioner said in a statement.
The Social Security Administration "eliminated" its civil rights office
"Please wait for instructions from the agency to ... report harassment."
www.lawdork.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Is it bad if only 78 percent of Trump-loyal Republicans view democracy positively but 55 percent view an unchecked strongman positively? Asking for a fairly large nation.
Gift link: wapo.st/4hLudP3
February 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.
February 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Is Trump KGB story fact or fiction? Trump KGB story rapidly disappearing online per Daily Kos:
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Magic Disappearing DB Story About Spy Chief Allegations Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987.
So earlier today, the Daily Beast’s Isabel van Brugen published a bombshell story about allegations by Kazakh Spy Chief Alnur Mussayev that the KGB had recruited Donald Trump as a Soviet Asset way bac...
www.dailykos.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants.

nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...
February 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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In the early 20th century witnessed the rise of history’s most destructive authoritarian regimes. Adolf Hitler, propelled by ultranationalist fervor and a vision of global domination, led Nazi Germany into a catastrophic war that reshaped the geopolitical landscape.
open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...
Who Saved the World from Hitler—And Who’s Left to Save It If America Goes Full Fascist?
A Look at the Players of the Past and the Uncertain Future
open.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Zombie Ronald Reagan doesn't like this
Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias.

This cause was once championed by *Republicans.*

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will they say now?
newrepublic.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr., one-time environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programs
He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health.
www.motherjones.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM