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Teri Kleine
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Here because I need a place to both scream into the void and also find hope
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
November 23, 2025
November 23, 2025
“Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
November 2, 2025
November 2, 2025
Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes for more than two hours, mainstreaming the podcaster whose praise for Hitler, vows to kill Jew...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 24, 2025
October 24, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has canceled House business again next week, meaning that over the last 17 weeks, the House of Representatives will have worked on Capitol Hill for just 20 days.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 23, 2025
October 23, 2025
Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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jeff-merkley.bsky.social
I’m holding the floor to say HELL NO to Trump’s attacks on our Constitution and our communities.

www.youtube.com/live/H1VL5Po...
LIVE: Senator Merkley holds floor to 'protest Trump’s threats to Democracy'
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
terijk.bsky.social
No Kings, Trenton NJ
Demonstrators in Trenton Demonstrators in Trenton Demonstrators in Trenton Demonstrator in Trenton
October 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I made this true story comic to show protesters how sneaky agitators are. Don’t let them rile you, and Hold the Line.
October 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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indivisible.org
While Trump escalates his attacks on our freedoms with occupations of our cities and secret police forces terrorizing our communities, normal everyday people across the nation are showing up every single day with courage and defiance. Join your local peaceful protest: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Laura N. Rodríguez Presa on Twitter: “A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.”
October 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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cmyeaton.bsky.social
The government shutdown interrupted CDC's disease updates, so Team Force of Infection spent our Saturday going to the websites of all 50 health departments to check on Covid-19, flu and RSV. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/cdc-data-i...
CDC data interrupted, so we went state by state
A look at Covid-19, flu and RSV trends in each state
caitlinrivers.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 2, 2025
October 2, 2025
At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025
Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
September 29, 2025
September 29, 2025
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) left a meeting with President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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willbunch.bsky.social
I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded

These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it
September 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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kim.senate.gov
Americans’ healthcare premiums are about to go up hundreds of dollars because Republicans in Congress care more about tax breaks for billionaires than healthcare for our families.

They can do something about it, but they're not.
Families on Obamacare brace for higher health care premiums next year
Tax credits made ACA plans affordable for middle-class families. They're set to expire at the end of this year.
www.nbcnews.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
September 12, 2025
September 12, 2025
Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusatio...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
September 4, 2025
September 4, 2025 (Thursday)
Senators challenged the decisions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
An idea:
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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axidentaliberal.bsky.social
At this point, these NASA employees fully understand that signing a letter like this means the Trump administration will likely fire them and even perhaps go after them personally

Yet rather than remain silent, they chose to speak up

They are heroes, one and all
luckytran.com Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 21
NEW: Hundreds of NASA employees have filed a letter of formal dissent.

"We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire."
The Voyager Declaration Dear Interim Administrator Duffy, In light of your recent appointment as Interim NASA Administrator, we bring to your attention recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission. We, the signatories of this letter, dissent from these policies, and raise these concerns because we believe strongly in the importance of NASA's mission, which we are dedicated to uphold. Major programmatic shifts at NASA must be implemented strategically so that risks are managed carefully. Instead, the last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce. We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. These cuts are arbitrary and have been enacted in defiance of congressional appropriations law The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire. Our Shared Commitment to Dissentin� Opinions We share a commitment to dissenting views in accordance with NASA Policy Directive 1000.0C, NASA supports full and open discussion of issues of any nature (e.g., programmatic, institutional), including alternative and divergent views. Diverse views are to be fostered and respected in an environment of integrity and trust with no suppression or retribution. (NPD 1000.0C, Section 3.5.5) Employees across the agency have raised concerns about recent actions to NASA leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures. We choose to write to you directly because: (I) as Interim Administrator, you are the final step in the chain of Technical Authority, and (2) the issues we raise are agency-wide, rather than project-specific. As defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120 5F, Formal Dissent is "a substantive disagreement with a decision or action that an indiv… • We dissent to changes to NASA's Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance. The culture of organizational silence promoted at NASA over the last six months already represents a dangerous tum away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster. Changes to the system of Technical Authority, as suggested would be made in the June 25th NASA Town Hall, should be made only in the interests of improving safety, not in anticipation of future budget cuts. • We dissent to the closing out of missions for which Congress has appropriated funding because it represents a permanent loss of capability to the United States both in space and on Eatlh. Once operational spacecraft are decommissioned, they cannot be turned back on. Additionally, cancelling missions in development threatens to end the next generation of crucial observations. • We dissent to implementing indiscriminate cuts to NASA science and aeronautics research because this will leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides. Basic research in space science, aeronautics, and the stewardship of the Earth are inherently governmental functions that cannot and will not be taken up by the private sector. Furthermore, NASA has a nearly threefold return on investment in economic activity, and supports national security by ensuring the United States maintains its lead in science and technology. • We dissent to NASA's non-strategic staffing reductions because they will jeopardize NASA's core mission. Thousands of NASA civil servant employees have already been terminated, resigned or retired early, taking with them highly specialized, irreplaceable knowledge crucial to carrying out NASA's mission. • We dissent to canceling NASA participation in international missions because in doing so, NASA is abandoning America's allies. To date, 55 nations have signed on to the Artemis Accords, and withdrawing support from missions with our long-s… We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and EPA who have released similar statements concerning the administration's actions at their respective agencies. We dedicate this letter to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. Their legacies underpin every conversation about our shared commitment to safety and dissenting opinions at NASA.
July 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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greenpeace.eu
Exxon spending tens of thousands of euro per week to sponsor Politico's 'sustainability' and the widely read (free) 'playbook' newsletters, pushing for more focus on plastic *recycling* instead of reducing plastic production

For oil & gas companies, plastic is a way to keep drilling and polluting
screenshot of the title of Politico's 'Brussels Playbook' newsletter, with Exxon's logo as sponsor screenshot of the title of Politico's 'Morning sustainability' newsletter, with Exxon's logo as sponsor
July 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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atnj.org
All Democratic Congress members from New Jersey call on Kean, Van Drew and Smith to join them in urging the Republican regime not to use Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to hold undocumented immigrants.
New Jersey Congressional Democrats COndemn Decision to Detain Undocumented immigrants at Join Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst We call on our Republican colleagues in New Jersey to join us in urging the administration to immediately reverse this action. Signed by NJ Senators and all D Reps.
July 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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miafarrow.bsky.social
US has wasted hundreds of thousands of vaccines meant for Africa. They have expired instead of being distributed as before Trump .
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
US has wasted hundreds of thousands of vaccines meant for Africa, health officials there say
The expiration of shots the Biden administration promised to send comes after President Donald Trump cut deeply into foreign aid.
www.politico.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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booker.senate.gov
What are Republicans afraid of? Why won't they hear the truth about Trump's unfit nominee, Emil Bove?

Americans deserve the truth.
July 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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gfriedma.bsky.social
SCOTUS rides to Trump's rescue, and our loss
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July 15, 2025
Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court’s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while th...
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July 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM