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CGC- Cheryl

@clgc.bsky.social

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#Resister 💙 Sad, mad, worried about the bully takeover. Here for comfort & to discover ways to protect democracy. Left of Sharpton. Wannabe writer: Looking past profit (for the 1%) to invest in opportunity, resilience & survival for all.

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CGC- Cheryl @clgc.bsky.social · 29d

Starter Pack II--filled with independent & pro-democracy writers, journalists, media outlets, creators, and scientists.

Please consider vetting, sharing, and supporting them!

(And check out Starter Pack I at: go.bsky.app/TFBJ8Di.)

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Derik the Selfish Man @deriktheselfishman.bsky.social · 17h

My daughter was talking to my wife and I about lockdown drills at her school, and at one point she said

"It's like a game of hide and seek, but you can only play once if you die."

This broke my heart. We live in a sick society, and I dont know if their is a cure.

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Travis Nelson @travisnelson.bsky.social · 1d

Big thanks to Governor Kotek for signing SB 1098! I’m proud to be a chief sponsor of this bill.

School districts in Oregon will no longer be able to ban books due to a character or author’s race, sexual orientation or other protected class. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/M...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 13h

holy shit

I sold a story.

After (how old am I?) two plus decades of trying, I finally sold a short story.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 22h

🐀 Mike Johnson caught lying using the receipts he directed us to use. Jen Psaki for the 🎯

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

we need to abolish this shit

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

Imagine that

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Guys and ladies and everyone else: I revived the newsletter. I hope you’ll take a look. It is free.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 1d

The first edition of the new newsletter is out! Check it out IF YOU DARE (halloween)
www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...

The glorious return of How To Read This Chart

Chapter 1 So, uh, what have you been up to? The last time anyone received an issue of "How To Read This Chart," President Trump hadn't yet deployed the military to D.C., the Mets were only a game-and...

www.howtoreadthisch.art

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CGC- Cheryl @clgc.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Philip--

Looks great. FYI- you are in the starter pack below.

Thanks for all the charts, charts, charts...

go.bsky.app/8ATqS4U

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EleanorRigbyATX @eleanorrigbyatx.bsky.social · Jun 20

EXCELLENT report by Phillip Bump. MUST READ. Kristi Noem and the ICE guys are liars deluxe. The "413% increase in assaults" that supposedly caused ICE agents to wear masks is the biggest lie they've told to date.
Oh my god. Can't believe this is where we find ourselves!

Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jun 19

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument.
Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

Opinion | Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims

ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify officers masking their identities.

wapo.st

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · Sep 5

Phillip Bump on the racist/anti-immigrant Eric Schmitt speech and lots of good graphs.

America 201: We are a nation of immigrants from places besides Europe, too

It is likely that you have by now heard about Sen. Eric Schmitt's (R-Mo.) speech at a right-wing conference on Tuesday. In it, he rejected the idea that America was "an abstract and vaguely-defined pr...

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

🚨 Do ICE have MRE provisions? Oh, no. That’s a damn shame. All that income and no place to buy a meal. Hey, I know what they can eat… 1/2

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

It's been 200 days since masked government goons abducted Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed they didn't like.

She's no longer behind bars, but they're still trying to deport her, and they still don't want the public to know why.

The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting

If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder as it is clear most of the population doesn't understand this.

BNEF: Renewables Are Becoming Cheaper than Natural Gas in Southeast Asia

Despite the large number of benefits, many countries in Southeast Asia are planning to expand their use of natural gas.

energytracker.asia

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1d

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Dudley Saunders @dudleys.bsky.social · Feb 26

Each time I wonder if I should resubscribe, Bezos does something like this, and I realize I should have cancelled even sooner.

Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · Feb 26

SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 2d

Don't be fooled. The only reason the USDA is barring Chinese nationals from buying U.S. farmland is that they want to be sure it is available for U.S. oligarchs to purchase on the cheap as the farms go into bankruptcy.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 1d

Judges order more immigrants freed from #ICE clutches, including 13-year-old boy now locked up with men at ICE's office prison in Burlington
www.universalhub.com/2025/judges-...

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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