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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 2d

They showed up in North Kingstown, too! #rhodeisland #nokings

American flags and lots of people for no kings protest.

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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 2d

Whole lotta love for America and democracy in little North Kingstown #rhodeisland #NoKings

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

www.nytimes.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · Sep 15

On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com

My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him

www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...

The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium

My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.

www.statnews.com

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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · Sep 10

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Aug 22

"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy. It’s more than policy, though. It’s woven into the fabric of this country since its inception."

Read our latest op-ed from @thetattooedjew.com ⤵️

From Famine in Gaza to Trump Cutting SNAP, Child Hunger is An American Pastime

"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."

www.teenvogue.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 21

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found.

Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

projects.propublica.org

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dems should fight on every front.

If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts.

We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File.

Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · Jul 25

I should be working. Instead, Republicans sent me home to protect pedophiles.

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WHO @who.int · Jul 18

People are getting killed trying to get food.

877 people have died and 5666 were injured in #Gaza trying to get food in recent weeks.

As of 15 July, 877 fatalities and 5666 injuries have been reported among people trying to access food supplies. Image of an empty bowl and spoon against black background.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

www.theatlantic.com

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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · Jul 15

“When an ethnic group has nowhere to go and is constantly displaced from one so-called safe zone to another, relentlessly bombed and starved, ethnic cleansing can morph into genocide.”

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

www.nytimes.com

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 10

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · Jul 2

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jun 30

Republicans are putting 17 million lives at risk in their “Big Beautiful Bill.”

These are more than just numbers. These are real people who deserve to live a life without worrying they will go broke if they need health care.

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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · Jun 29

5calls.org

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Jun 27

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

www.nytimes.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · Jun 28

That ought to do it

A bar graph showing that Republicans are cutting over $800 billion from Medicaid, compared to the $25 billion rural Hospital relief fund they think will be enough to cover those cuts.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Jun 22

By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · Jun 22

Pete Hegseth repeated claims by Trump that US strikes had completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities even as the Pentagon acknowledged it was too early to provide a full damage assessment @theguardian.com latest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hegseth claims US ‘obliterated’ Iranian nuclear sites despite lack of assessment

US defense secretary praises Trump at first news briefing but Pentagon says it is too early for full damage assessment

www.theguardian.com

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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · Jun 21

second snapping turtle this week plus a snail on a leaf

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · Jun 17

In recent weeks the Trump regime arrested, handcuffed/decked:

• Judge
• Member of Congress
• US Senator
• Mayor
• Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC.

Schumer's Sen. Dems have returned the favor by voting with Republicans to gift Trump a massive shady crypto bill to sign making him richer.

Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · Jun 17

GENIUS Act passes Senate 68-30. Took more than a month from the first vote!

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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · Jun 14

It was beautiful — and big! #NoKings

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

We feed you.
They hunt us.

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