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JoseyRider

@joseyrider.bsky.social

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Lifetime Democrat. Retired. Women's rights, civil rights, environment/climate change, permaculture. Politics matter. Pay attention. TX to Rosebud Rez, SD to Ecuador. Equine specialist for Equine Assisted Therapy.

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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · Nov 9

For anyone else wanting to stop your Medicare coverage (& the payment coming out of your Social Security check),
I'll save you some hours on hold.
This is the form you need to complete. Return it by hand, mail or fax to your closest SS office.

FORM: CMS-1763
www.cms.gov/Medicare/CMS...

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting phrasing here. Subsidies did not magically “become more generous.” The American Rescue Plan of 2021, which every Republican in Congress voted against, expanded these subsidies thanks to Congressional Democrats and President Biden, who signed it into law.

Since subsidies became more generous in 2021, overall enrollment has more than tripled in six red states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

The loss of Keaton is a blow to any fan of 1970s cinema. So iconic.

“It made my career,” she said of “Annie Hall.” “It was everything. It’s the reason we’re sitting here having this nice conversation. Everything always goes back to that.”

#RIP

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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 6h

Shocking, I know.

www.rawstory.com/trump-stephe...

Admin insiders 'privately worrying' Stephen Miller is turning voters against Trump: report

Trump administration officials are worried that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is turning voters against the president, according to a new report.CNN on Saturday published a report a...

www.rawstory.com

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 6h

If you join any Facebook group for parents of kids with disabilities the first thing that hits you is how geographically and politically diverse our population is, and how protective we are of our kids. This is a moral fuckup but also just a massive political one.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 6h

At least 6 cars

About 8-9 ICE agents

All to abuse and arrest a 15 year old girl; even forcing a knee onto her neck

America-under Donald Trump-has become an authoritarian state

Repressing dissent

Eroding-then ignoring-the rule of law

And terrorizing children

As lady liberty wept

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨🚨A 15 year old opens the door to the vehicle, but ICE monsters proceed to throw her around like a rag doll — because they can. Notice the police drive away, just out of view of the camera. Uploaded ~ 2 hours ago. 1/2

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

"This passive framing conflicts with the accounts of Ukrainian officials and rights groups, who have extensively documented Ukrainian children being forcibly deported to Russia."

How Kyiv is reporting on Melania's statement about Putin returning ≈8 of the ≈35,000 children stolen from Ukraine.

Melania Trump Says She Helped Broker Return of Ukrainian Children Seized by Russia

Melania Trump revealed that eight children had been returned to Ukraine over the past 24 hours, and said that efforts are “ongoing” to reunite others with their families.

www.kyivpost.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

There's no end to his lies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

“Apathy is a greater danger to the country than actual oppression in this moment.”

Andrea Pitzer gathered the most important bits so far from the debut year of her newsletter and NEXT COMES WHAT.

The State of The Degenerate Union

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer

youtu.be

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5h

“ICE wants you to give up.”

TikTok video by Michael_Foote

www.tiktok.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

Here's me talking about media (and The Post) on teevee last night (and re-airing at 11).

MAGA media: Bari Weiss takes over at CBS News

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 5h

On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h

With roughly a third reporting, Helena Moreno and Michelle Woodfork are above the 50% threshold they’ll need to win without heading to a runoff. (Both are Dems, as is most everyone else in race.) More later!

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually Election Day tomorrow… in Louisiana!

I’m watching: the New Orleans sheriff race, and the New Orleans mayor’s race.

Both in my cheat sheet of elections to watch this fall!

boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

I want a president who cares more about Chicago and Portland than about Qatar and Argentina. Trump’s “America First” slogan is a sick joke.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9h

Spoke in Carroll, Iowa today. I met up with Catelyn Drey who recently flipped a red senate seat blue.

Rural Democrats are here...we’ve always been here.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 7h

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

Kai, I’m gonna be honest, I think he shares a special bond with most girls your age.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 8h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 6h

“The Heritage Foundation [which spearheaded Project 2025] says it will ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors over alleged bias.“ 9/18/25 … 1/ www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?

www.wbur.org

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 7h

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
trib.al/KhKsfSb

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

The social aspect of Congressional GOP forfeiting Congress’ power is underestimated.

Standing for the Constitution against the cult won’t just lose them primaries. They’ll become objects of collective hate, shunned by many they know, get death threats, etc.

I have no sympathy. But it’s a factor.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 9h

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 8h

The scoop: Trump refuses to do anything to reduce health insurance premiums; House Republicans refuse to come back to Washington due to Epstein files; and now they send layoff notices to CDC researchers dealing with burgeoning measles cases?

MAHA=Measles Are Here Again

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 7h

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If you go to some federal websites right now, this is what you see.

I also heard they are playing something similar at airports.

So illegal bc of the Hatch Act but also CRZY

But don't call it fascism. 👇

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 7h

When we win next November, it will be thanks to a whole lot of rooms like this one in Monroe County (shoutout Dems of Monroe and UA Pipe Trades 671).

Let's do this 💪

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