Liz Hughes
@inventingliz.bsky.social
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Mom through adoption, perpetual do-gooder, wannabe world-traveler, life-long learner, soon-to-be empty nester so I'm looking for new hobbies! Opinions are my own. #bospoli #mapoli
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muellershewrote.com
The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.
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andrewjweinstein.com
It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity
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nstenhouse.bsky.social
Just like shutting down USAID, mindlessly cancelling grants en masse has some pretty fucking real consequences
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
I am honestly unsure at this point if the government will ever open back up in its previous form. The RIFs coupled with what will likely be massive nationwide protests on the 18th is, I think, going to push Miller and co. into trying to create an alternate structure to consolidate more power.
sarapartridge.bsky.social
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
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ruthz.bsky.social
It’s time to post this quote again…

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

― James Baldwin
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peterbakernyt.bsky.social
When Trump team pushed to investigate Soros, it cited a watchdog group report. But the group's own leader says "we actually did not make either of those claims that a prosecutor would need to make.” @fahrenthold.bsky.social @aduehren.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism
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andrewqmr.bsky.social
This isn't a free lunch. Police departments take these grants from the feds and then use them to burden the state with low-level drug cases. A complete waste of resources that could go toward programs that actually reduce overdoses.
East Bridgewater police land $30K grant for new undercover vehicle
The East Bridgewater Police Department has received $30,000 in federal funding to purchase a new undercover vehicle.
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Meanwhile the White House just illegally laid off dozens of CDC researchers and scientists during the shutdown.
Tweet by Dan Pfeiffer: “Anti-vax in the streets, pro-vax in the sheets.”
Below is Kaitlan Collins’ tweet showing a photo of a White House medical memorandum dated October 10, 2025, stating that President Donald Trump received his flu shot and COVID booster at Walter Reed.
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resist.bot
🖋️ “Stop Tres Sec Bessent’s Argentina Hedge Fund Bailout” hit 250 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PHFQHT to 50409
Stop Tres Sec Bessent’s Argentina Hedge Fund Bailout
Text SIGN PHFQHT to 50409 — Congress must investigate the $20 billion Treasury bailout of Argentina’s collapsing economy — a decision that appears to benefit hedge-fund insiders far more than American taxpayers. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a former hedge-fund manager himself, authorized the use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund to prop up Argentina’s currency just weeks before that country’s elections. The official rationale — “stabilizing the peso” — collapses under basic economic scrutiny. As former IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld warned, Latin America is a “museum of failed exchange-rate-based stabilizations.” These programs always end the same way: the currency falls, reserves evaporate, and foreign loans vanish into capital flight. Experts like Matthew Klein have described this mechanism precisely — outside aid flows into Argentina, only to flow straight back out as investors and well-connected funds use the artificial peso support to sell at inflated prices and retreat to safety. Reporting from Popular Information and other outlets shows that one of Bessent’s old hedge-fund colleagues, Rob Citrone, lobbied for the bailout after making major bets on Argentine assets. If true, this amounts to a taxpayer-financed rescue for private investors. At the same time, the Trump regime is eliminating humanitarian and development aid across Africa and Asia — aid that literally keeps millions of children alive. Congress must ask why a government unwilling to fund vaccines and food aid would send billions to underwrite a doomed financial experiment in Buenos Aires. This “Argentina rescue” is not foreign policy; it’s cronyism. Congress should demand full disclosure of who benefits from these ESF transfers, halt further disbursements, and strengthen oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars serve America’s interests — not Wall Street’s losses.
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qasimrashid.com
Meanwhile, Trump is normalizing propaganda to increase his vice grip on working people. This is what autocrats do.

Do not trust DHS, ICE, Border Patrol, or any of Trump's sycophant personal armies. Stand united as working people against these horrific violations of our basic civil rights.

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qasimrashid.com
I'm old enough to remember while filing false police reports was a felony. Yet the Trump regime continues to lie about threats that don't exist to strip our rights in broad daylight.

A shame that corporate media has done nothing to demand answers from the Trump regime for these abject lies.

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qasimrashid.com
Short Thread...

It's been a full week since DHS issued a press release claiming TEN CARS ambushed them—and have since:
•charged ZERO of those alleged 10 drivers
•arrested ZERO of those alleged 10 people
•filed ZERO reports of alleged property damage, &
•offered ZERO evidence of their claim

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nytimes.com
In Opinion | If President Trump wanted to help Portland, “there are many ways he could do so with the $10 million that was the estimated cost of his deployment of the Oregon National Guard,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
Opinion | Our Beautiful Portland Hellscape
With the millions being used to deploy troops to Portland, Trump could help with treatment for substance use, with emergency housing, with education.
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andrewqmr.bsky.social
“A former female detective lieutenant with the #Massachusetts State Police took the witness stand Friday to describe a boys-club culture within the agency’s command as she made sweeping claims of race and gender discrimination within the agency’s promotional structure.”

#mapoli
Lawsuit alleging discrimination in State Police’s promotional structural starts trial - The Boston Globe
The lawsuit involves allegations that the overwhelmingly male and white Mass. State Police brass routinely pass over female and minority troopers for promotion.
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romancingnope.bsky.social
If they're picking up someone for a serious crime, they should have a warrant.

And they almost never do.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A trend I’ve noticed after having watched too many of these despicable ICE arrest videos is when bystanders demand they let detainee go, an officer suggests they’re being picked up for a serious crime to try and deter help. But we know that’s not true of a vast majority of people and the jig is up.
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grudgie.bsky.social
Complete tyranny.

The kind we’ve always professed to oppose
marisakabas.bsky.social
New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”
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doomscroling.bsky.social
Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks
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whstancil.bsky.social
The reason the ICE videos aren’t producing a backlash of that scale (yet) is that our institutional elites are deeply committed to ignoring them, which both reduces their spread and reduces the sense that this is something important we SHOULD be freaking out about.
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dorilliams.bsky.social
Begging for less community policing more universal basic income and healthcare