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Amy Ringenbach Dawson

@bleuz00m.bsky.social

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Amy Ringenbach Dawson @bleuz00m.bsky.social · Jul 13

Repost @newyorker.com cover says it all. Will @democracydocket.com and masterful SCOTUS lawyer @nealkatyal.bsky.social help us end this martial law /Project2025 takeover?
Cc @whodat35.bsky.social
Art by Anita Kunz
Ref www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 8h

A foreign country (Egypt) illegally helped the Republican candidate in 2016 with ten million dollars. When the story surfaced, Bill Barr covered it up. Don't forget about treasonous Billy Barr.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h

NYT wrote a 2,400 word story abt Todd Blanche without mentioning that he personally ordered the arrest of Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social, and as such is deeply implicated in @replamonica.bsky.social case.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

The front page of a NYT story, titled, "Part Enabler, Part Buffer: the Bind of the Justice Dept's No. 2"

A picture shows Blanche partly visible behind a journalist's raised hand.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

Fox Propaganda is desperately spinning the "No Kings" events in fearful anticipation of their success.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 22h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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nojustdan.bsky.social @nojustdan.bsky.social · 18h

In Texas we found that out when 165 law enforcement officers stood outside an elementary school while 19 children and 2 teachers were slaughtered.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19h

Respect to those who got here first.

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 18h

When monsoon rains slammed into Pakistan, villages were submerged. The flooding forced people from their homes and cut off road access. In partnership with Rizq, here's how our #ChefsForPakistan teams are showing up for families that are still cut off and dealing with devastation.

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Moriah @moriah1121.bsky.social · 20h

How Very Republican of them. Any woman voting for these monsters is a traitor to her gender.

👇This is *who* they are.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · Aug 19

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Expatina @thelongblonde.bsky.social · 1d

Vance is right. I look forward to Governor Pritzker being nominated for the Nobel peace prize next year, along with all the other governors who are fighting against fascism!

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Who was president then?

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4d

@warnock.senate.gov: "As a man of faith, here's something that I have noticed about evil... Evil always gets a little bit too impressed with itself. It's filled up with hubris. Evil always goes too far, and because it goes too far, it contains within itself the seed of its own destruction."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 1d

VP was upset about people eating pets. So the pets are rebelling in Portland. #WarRavagedPortland

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Marion @mawinon.bsky.social · 2d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the new George Orwell documentary last night. It’s called 2+2=5. I have been a little bit squeamish about applying the word totalitarian to Trump and the Republicans. Not anymore. We are experiencing a totalitarian movement. There’s no question.

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