mabrogan
@ukesurfer.bsky.social
Clawhammer banjo and ukulele and democracy and peace and compassion.
This was a headline from the morning newsletter from the nytimes, September 24, 2025.
“Can the Justice Department Stay Independent Under Trump?”
Nuff said.
“Can the Justice Department Stay Independent Under Trump?”
Nuff said.
September 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This was a headline from the morning newsletter from the nytimes, September 24, 2025.
“Can the Justice Department Stay Independent Under Trump?”
Nuff said.
“Can the Justice Department Stay Independent Under Trump?”
Nuff said.
Go Back and Fetch It
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Go Back and Fetch It
A discussion with Kristina Gaddy about her forthcoming book with Rhiannon Giddens; a collection of transcribed music from Black artists from 1687 to the Civil War
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September 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Go Back and Fetch It
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What we’re seeing is felon/GOP frenetically trying to bury the skeleton of Epstein along with the felon/GOP’s Big Ugly Bill & the fact that felon/GOP haven’t lowered Americans’ high cost of living! Also, don’t kid yourself about the tariffs. The costs business are eating are shifting to consumers!!!
July 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What we’re seeing is felon/GOP frenetically trying to bury the skeleton of Epstein along with the felon/GOP’s Big Ugly Bill & the fact that felon/GOP haven’t lowered Americans’ high cost of living! Also, don’t kid yourself about the tariffs. The costs business are eating are shifting to consumers!!!
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The world must be set free.
July 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The world must be set free.
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I need this book! Lol 😅🤣😂
July 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I need this book! Lol 😅🤣😂
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July 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Nearly all of the members of the City Commission in Key West, FL, voted to cancel the agreement between the city’s police and ICE. This would mean that the Key West Police Department will no longer hold detainees for ICE, or share arrest data with them.
More here:
More here:
Great News, Unless You’re Trump
Protests against the big evil bill, Key West stands up to the Trump regime, and more
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July 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nearly all of the members of the City Commission in Key West, FL, voted to cancel the agreement between the city’s police and ICE. This would mean that the Key West Police Department will no longer hold detainees for ICE, or share arrest data with them.
More here:
More here:
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Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS.
How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.
I’ve got a bill to get it done.
How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.
I’ve got a bill to get it done.
Social Security's insolvency date is now a year earlier. Here's how it could impact your benefits.
Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll taxes.
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June 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS.
How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.
I’ve got a bill to get it done.
How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.
I’ve got a bill to get it done.
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Something I am thinking about right now is that a 3 million dollar program that allows abused women to take their pets with them to domestic violence shelters is about to be cut because “we don’t have the money” but the government is about to spend 1000000000x more than that to bomb people
June 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Something I am thinking about right now is that a 3 million dollar program that allows abused women to take their pets with them to domestic violence shelters is about to be cut because “we don’t have the money” but the government is about to spend 1000000000x more than that to bomb people
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We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.
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If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.
June 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
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I pulled all the key moments from yesterday’s House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on the censorship lie together at this link:
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If you enjoyed my work yesterday- it’s all down to my great team @americansunlight.org. We’d welcome your support 🙏
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If you enjoyed my work yesterday- it’s all down to my great team @americansunlight.org. We’d welcome your support 🙏
Calling BS on Republicans' Free Speech Hypocrisy
Everything's a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.
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April 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I pulled all the key moments from yesterday’s House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on the censorship lie together at this link:
open.substack.com/pub/american...
If you enjoyed my work yesterday- it’s all down to my great team @americansunlight.org. We’d welcome your support 🙏
open.substack.com/pub/american...
If you enjoyed my work yesterday- it’s all down to my great team @americansunlight.org. We’d welcome your support 🙏
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Trump is the most economically illiterate President of my lifetime. Which is particularly disturbing when you consider that his supporters love him because he’s, in their view, a business genius.
April 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Trump is the most economically illiterate President of my lifetime. Which is particularly disturbing when you consider that his supporters love him because he’s, in their view, a business genius.
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“Authorities scrambled haphazardly, accountability and oversight were inconsistent at best, and along the way, they likely violated the law, not to mention the rights of a vulnerable, lawful immigrant who’s been through hell.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-ice-tr...
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How ICE Tried—and Failed—to Send a Torture Victim to Mexico
An asylum seeker from Colombia had a court order preventing her deportation. Immigration agents didn’t seem to care.
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April 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“Authorities scrambled haphazardly, accountability and oversight were inconsistent at best, and along the way, they likely violated the law, not to mention the rights of a vulnerable, lawful immigrant who’s been through hell.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-ice-tr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-ice-tr...