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Traci Degerman 🇺🇲🌎🇺🇦
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Ecologist; artist; activist; empath; democracy defender; pluralist; globalist; public servant; antifascist; NAFO fella; Gaianist; Lyme fighter; Mother of Cats; gray Jedi; Moriquendi. I voted for the prosecutor, not the felon. Apathy = complicity.
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Traci Degerman 🇺🇲🌎🇺🇦 @tracidegerman.bsky.social · Sep 13
This is the best explanation I've seen for what is happening in the world now, particularly in the US. Kilmeade's comments align with the pattern described here.

(HT @vivhenry.bsky.social )

youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M?...
MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
YouTube video by After Skool
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h
2/ Watch reporter @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social as he retraces the tracking of 23&Me Founder Anne Wojcicki (then maried to Google's Serge Brin) through SF's Union Square, just like in The Conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h
1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
one of my bigger pet peeves. liberals love to "turn the page" on things like bush and reagan, meanwhile conservatives still invoke things like jimmy carter and borking *decades* later
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11h
I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11h
Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 10h
The fascists war against the states is accelerating
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h
Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.
Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d
With the National Guard poised to descend on Portland, city councilors are using their limited power to take a stand against federal intervention.
City councilors look to administrative tweaks to ‘protect Portland’ from federal actions
Several council members are working on the “Protect Portland Initiative,” a resolution urging the city’s administrative offices to take action against federal agents.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 11h
i am hanging out here with the lovely people from portland immigrant rights coalition, they talk to people who have appointments, remind them of their rights, keep track of who goes in and out. they say every once in a while someone goes in that doesn’t come out

pircoregon.org/donate
a photo of the portland ICE facility in the morning Signs posted outside the facility displaying people who have been taken
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h
Mike Johnson's plan to keep the House closed is backfiring

In recent months, the House speaker has kept the chamber closed to an unprecedented degree.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Opinion | Mike Johnson's plan to keep the House away from D.C. is backfiring
In recent months, the House speaker has kept the chamber closed to an unprecedented degree.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 1d
This was an incredible report to watch from the frontline city of Kherson by friend of the channel Caolan Robertson! I highly recommend checking it out!

youtu.be/Hu4p4aeex4I
I’m in a frontline city where Russians are across the river
YouTube video by Caolan Robertson
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 12h
WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 11h
President Trump is abusing emergency powers to evade legal constraints on his actions, but he doesn’t actually have many of the powers he claims to have. My take in @gtownnatsec.bsky.social’s special edition on national security issues in the second Trump administration: tinyurl.com/3434ss8e
The Dangers and Limits of Government by Emergency Rule - Georgetown Law - Center on National Security
By Elizabeth Goitein
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15h
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12h
Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 11h
The Hawaii Supreme Court has assailed SCOTUS in recent rulings.

"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," the court wrote.
Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS
The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 6d
My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com
How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games
If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h
Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

membership.theonion.com
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 12h
I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago. The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h
Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
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Traci Degerman 🇺🇲🌎🇺🇦 @tracidegerman.bsky.social · 11h
Consumers of right-wing media, are the rubes that this state-approved propaganda is intended to influence. Their willingness to believe falsehoods (e.g., #warravagedportland), simply because they appear to validate their personal prejudices, is getting people hurt.

www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It
The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
How many scripts are floating around Hollywood right now with "criminals posing as ICE" as the basic premise?
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 1d
Who is Russell Vought cutting at our health agencies? The data people. The scientists. The comms people.

Project 2025 is a war on truth.
We are fighting an information war.

Sources of reliable truth are who they are after.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d
More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 23h
War torn Portland.
I am
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d
There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.”

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
The Irredeemable DOJ
Why James has an even stronger case of selective prosecution than Comey.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22h
Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”
‘It’s Never Been This Bad’
Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d
How fashy do you have to be for the Washington Post to refuse to sign your pre-clearance policy? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
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