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Do NOT put Donald Trump on any U.S. currency!

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 2d

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/u-...

Rarely in U.S. history have living presidents minted their image on U.S. currency. Trump wants to change that.  In October, it was reported that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled plans f...

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 3d

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement
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Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy
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Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Nice little TV network you got there www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

It's true: The internet skews the reality of women (and men) in the workforce

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

It's true: The internet skews the reality of women (and men) in the workforce www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

Age and gender biases are baked into what we see online, a large new study confirms.

Scientists suspect fracking contaminated this Pennsylvania town’s wells

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Scientists suspect fracking contaminated this Pennsylvania town’s wells www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New Freeport's water looked and smelled strange—even pets wouldn't touch it.

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

American Gulag www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

American Gulag

Send a Postcard to Oppose Book Bans!

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Tweets disappear.

Emails get buried.

But a postcard on a desk?

That gets noticed.

action.everylibrary.org/send_a_postc... via @everylibrary.bsky.social & @civicmail.bsky.social

Tweets disappear. Emails get buried. But a postcard on a desk? That gets noticed.

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

The Greatest Threat
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The Greatest Threat

Sam Altman’s latest warning that superintelligence could cause human extinction.

Kennedy’s MAHA Ally Rips Trump’s Toxic Herbicide Ruling

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

“One can only imagine what the chemical companies hold over our policy makers to compel them to make this tragic decision,” Moms Across America said.
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“One can only imagine what the chemical companies hold over our policy makers to compel them to make this tragic decision,” Moms Across America said.

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Black People Knew This Would Happen
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Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future
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This is not the time for supporters of Palestinian self-determination to be quiet. It’s the moment for us to demand more.

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act
theintercept.com/2025/10/07/t...

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies
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Trump’s approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road Project through Gates of the Arctic National Park hinges on winning an “AI arms race.”

These Horrific Numbers Show the Scale of Israel's Genocide in Gaza Two Years On

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

These Horrific Numbers Show the Scale of Israel's Genocide in Gaza Two Years On
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The figures speak for themselves.

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote
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The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

No Kings, No Emperors, No Demented Dictators: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=r...

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Gaza Journalist Plestia on the Importance of Recording a Genocide in Real Time
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Key Witness: A Young Palestinian Journalist on the Importance of Recording a Genocide

Plestia Alaqad, who became a global name in the wake of Oct. 7, talks to Mehdi about her experience reporting on the Gaza genocide which she details in her new book, ‘The Eyes of Gaza.’

Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown
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The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official.

Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas
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Hamas says it wants to make a deal and sees Trump as the key, but will not “raise the white flag.”

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws"

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.

SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy

kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.

How Netanyahu Saved Himself by Destroying Gaza

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kerrsutherland1.bsky.social @kerrsutherland1.bsky.social · 4d

How Netanyahu Saved Himself by Destroying Gaza
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Two years ago today, the Israeli prime minister was a dead man walking, writes former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy.