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Sandy Lee Spoelstra
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Resister. Retired RN Scientist NIH in aging & cancer. Daughter Mom Grandma who loves golf’s⛳️ pickleball 🏓 runs🏃‍♀️bikes🚲& loves wine 🍷. Advocate for disabled vulnerable disadvantaged humans 🙏😇💙🦋🙌
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 2d
I'm attending Frontline for Freedom's event, “Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed” - sign up now to join m www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed · No Kings
Trump’s new “Compact to All Higher Ed” is a direct attack on students, faculty, and academic freedom. **Join Public Citizen and national partners, for a timely discussion on Trump’s new “Compact to Al...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d
Why did the Marine Corps decide to fire live artillery shells across California’s major interstate freeway on Saturday?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-other-demonstration-on-saturday
The Other Demonstration on Saturday
Friends,
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 6d
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration.

The mishap, during a Marine Corps celebration attended by the Vance and Hesgeth underscores safety concerns that Gov. Newsom voiced before Saturday’s event at Camp Pendleton.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."
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Michigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 7d
Michigan farmers stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in exports to China this year thanks to Donald Trump. And at the same time, his reckless trade war is driving up the costs on everything they need to run their farms. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...
American farmers are hurting. Trump's trade war is making it worse
Farmers are struggling this fall despite a bountiful harvest. Production costs are high, crop prices are low and the trade war has closed off one of their biggest markets.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 7d
The Trump Administration made a deal with El Salvador that threatened years of U.S. law enforcement work to fight MS-13 so they could send people to CECOT—one of the most inhumane prisons in the world.
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 7d
Not the smartest 🤣
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d
Can’t say I’ve seen too many palm trees here in Illinois.

Maybe in the President’s home state of Florida though.
Trump and White House Busted Using Red State Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago
The president posted the deceptive high-octane ICE raid video to his own social media account.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 7d
WTAF 😱
murray.senate.gov Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 7d
The President is disgusting and a disgrace.

And he’s clearly rattled by yesterday’s turnout.

Keep speaking out. The power belongs to the people.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7d
Oh wow
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d
Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d
Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 8d
#nokingsprotest Grand Rapids Michigan. Peaceful exuberant crowd of thousands! Great signs 🪧! Collective action feels good 👍
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 9d
More reason to get the truth on what became of the $50K. Administration stories don’t add up.
CLC Calls for Investigation Into Senior DHS Official Tom Homan’s Financial Disclosures
One of the highest-ranking members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — the Trump administration's so-called border czar — appears to be hiding information from the public.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 9d
Either Mike Johnson doesn't read the news or he's lying.

He should read this story about a 10 year old US citizen with brain cancer who you and Trump deported away from her doctors.

This is what your "mass deportations" are doing.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10d
In the richest city in America, we cannot simply accept that 500,000 kids go to bed hungry every night.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 9d
This report is absolutely shocking.

ICE does not have the authority to detain US citizens during immigration enforcement — full stop. The Trump administration is out of control, violating the rights of American citizens. They must be held accountable.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10d
Federal resources aren’t campaign tools. Secretary Kristi Noem's new TSA video crosses the line, violating the Hatch Act with blatant political messaging.

We’re urging California airports to stand firm against this unlawful federal pressure and refrain from airing the video.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d
The people around Donald Trump are taking advantage of his diminished capacity to break the law.

Whatever they do now, we won’t forget — and we will hold them accountable.
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 10d
Beyond the fact that this energy infrastructure funding has already been appropriated to our state and is owed to Arizonans, protecting solar projects and lower electricity bills is personal to me.

azmirror.com/briefs/arizo...
Arizona challenges EPA decision ending $156 million in solar funding | Arizona Mirror
Arizona EPA lawsuit Solar for All program challenges termination of $156 million in grants for clean energy
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9d
Jeffries: “ And then you got Karoline Leavitt, who's sick. She's out of control. And I'm not sure whether she's just demented, ignorant, a stone-cold liar, or all of the above"
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 10d
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10d
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10d
You understand the assignment, California— VOTE YES ON PROP 50
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10d
Thanks to everyone for always keeping those cameras rolling and sharing the videos online. Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will now be required to wear body cameras, following a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.
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