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nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 5d

Are those real sailors behind him clapping?!

nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 5d

#CD17 BREWSTER NO KINGS DAY

nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 15d

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18d

Listening to @kamalaharris.com talking with @maddow.msnbc.com makes me realize how much I've missed her voice.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18d

The Pentagon Papers case gives us important insight into why having a free press matters so much. This week has taught us that we have a role to play in protecting the 1st Amendment, & (to quote a woman who would have made a great president), when we fight, we win. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Pentagon's Attack on Free Speech Doesn't Have To Work

When it comes to things the government can’t do without violating the First Amendment, imposing prior restraints on what the media can report is near the top of the list, absent a compelling rationale...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Feb 15

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

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nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 18d

MAGA FEAR
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nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 18d

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Dr. Earhart Sampson, PhD🌎 @earhart.bsky.social · 18d

This. Autism and pesticides.

Have Bobby and Donald started the autism lies to protect pesticide corporations?

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr. Is Neglecting a Legitimate Autism Concern

If the federal government were to invest in finding autism’s causes, it would consider the effects of pesticides.

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nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 18d

#EpsteinFiles

@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 18d

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19d

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social: "the U.S. Dept of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security." An expert who explains that this is troubling because inflation is up & the job market is unstable, both of which increase food insecurity. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

September 21, 2025

On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation.

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nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 19d

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 20d

The President of the United States PUBLICLY pressuring the Attorney General go after his political enemies. And an entire political party, and half the country, will yawn & look the other way. Sure, blame Trump for democracy & the rule of law slipping away. But so, so many others deserve blame too.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19d

Now this is peak projection. Utterly unhinged.

Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 20d

“What do YOU HAVE? You have NOTHING, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred, YOU ARE NOTHING. You can build nothing, produce nothing, create nothing."

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 19d

beneath the bravado of evil there’s *always* a shrill, panicked undertone. the louder evil boasts about its dominance, the more weak and frightened it sounds. because evil knows it has already lost and is doomed to vanish.

all that shrieking at the podium today? the cry of the Eternally Defeated.

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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 20d

I love whenever I come across judges that actually uphold the law and their oath to the constitution.

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 21d

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court.

He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Justice Eddins went even further in a concurrence joined by two other justices. He flamed the U.S. Supreme Court for choosing to
"steamroll" the First Amendment's separation of church and state by mandating government support of religion. He wrote:
The federal wall cracks. The Supreme Court's recent religious clause cases wreck the relationship between free exercise and non-establishment.... The Roberts Court casually dismisses the lessons of American and world history, the warnings of prominent early Americans, and the judiciary's storied legal minds. Bad things happen unless government and religion are completely separated.
Justice Eddins also wrote about something you and I have been talking about for a long time, which is the conservative supermajority making up facts. He called out Kennedy v.
Bremerton, the notorious "praying coach" case, writing: "As it often does, the Court repackaged and whitewashed facts to achieve a desired outcome." This is the same point that Sherrilyn Ifill has made on the show about how the record in that case, and so many others, is ignored.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19d

September 21, 2025

On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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nonijoni3.bsky.social @nonijoni3.bsky.social · 19d

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20d

The last three events I’ve spoken at have been completely sold out. And it’s not because of my speaking skills.

It’s because people are pissed. That energy is palpable everywhere I go.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

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SusanB💜🌏🌍🌎 @verbostratis.bsky.social · 22d

13 powerful minutes. Dr. Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social shows how 1798 echoes today: Hamilton’s camp tried to control who belongs + what we can say. Jefferson’s pushed back. Now it’s our turn—diverse, united. Vote. Connect. Act. ❤️ ncheteach.org/history-matt...

History Matters (…and so does coffee!)

History Matters (…and so does Coffee!) Live Fridays at 10 a.m. EST Conversations About History For Everyone with Dr. Joanne Freeman History Matters (…and so […]

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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 21d

Wonderful, true, factual, inspiring history!
#WeAreAmericans
#MaryMcLeodBethune
Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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#MakeTheCircleWider
#OrdinaryPeopleExtraordinaryGood
#WomenInHistory
#ThisIsOurMoment
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Mary McLeod Bethune | Episode 7, The Declaration in Action

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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