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Diedre Cox @diedrecox.bsky.social · 15h

I dropped my ballot off on Wednesday. I'm anxiously awaiting the BallotTrax confirmation that it's been received and counted.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18h

The museums are being shutdown.
Are we great yet?
Everyone’s being fired.
Are we great yet?
Food is rotting in our fields.
Are we great yet?
The market’s crashing greatly.
Diseases are now running rampant.
At what point aren’t we great?
Our military’s in line at food banks.
So super great.

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Diedre Cox @diedrecox.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not in your state so I can't vote for you, but I really hope they elect you. I used to live in Myrtle Beach and I traveled often to Charleston and Columbia for work. It's a great state! Good luck!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 18h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 1d

Starting to think there is an energy emergency in the United States. Electric demand is soaring and the government is trying to kill the cheapest, fastest-available energy sources.

Feel free to run with that, people with PR budgets.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

A new report reveals that an upcoming Supreme Court case could eliminate:

❌ 27 blue congressional districts
❌ 30% of Congressional Black Caucus seats
❌ 11% of Hispanic Caucus seats

And the effects could ripple for over a generation.

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

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Diedre Cox @diedrecox.bsky.social · 2d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Diedre Cox @diedrecox.bsky.social · 2d

This is not a criticism of you or your posts. Sometimes it's hard to summarize everything in a short-form post, or I might be seeing 1 post of a thread. His post is a succinct summary of our current situation.

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Diedre Cox @diedrecox.bsky.social · 2d

I think because it's written in plain language that us non-attorneys can understand? I see a lot of posts where I either don't get the full context or the implications of what they're saying. His post was very easy to understand.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 8d

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

defector.com

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 8d

Well said Dr Kummer

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 9d

Speaking of things we should be fuming about, how about the 15 bomb threats targeting college and university libraries this week alone?

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A Rash of Bomb Threats Hit College and University Libraries

At least 15 US colleges and universities received bomb threats targeting the library since Sunday as part of a nationwide swatting event.

bookriot.com

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 10d

Don't miss out this A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS x COVERSNOB Collab! 🎄♥️
Order by October 15 and get:
Illustrated hardcover edition, illustrated endpapers, three-sided digital sprayed edge, new interior formatting, signed bookplate and a bookmark!
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Coversnob collab with rebekah Weatherspoon hardcover of a man for Mrs Claus with a new illustrated cover and sprayed edges reflecting the whimsy of the north pole.

Interior of book jack with illustrations of the my fictional north pole

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Diedre Cox @diedrecox.bsky.social · 12d

My teen told me that after homecoming, all the kids at In N Out were waiting for order SIX SEVEN to be called, but she thinks the server found that party and brought them their food as they never called it out. The crowd was disappointed. 😆

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 12d

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass:

all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff

stop burning stuff for heat

stop burning stuff for make car go

stop burning stuff for power

we have the tools

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14d

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin
Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference
September 16, 2025
Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation.
Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time.
Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost.
Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..."
And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma.
First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or
"irregardless.
"

But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I.
The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny.
The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us?
The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed."
That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed.
A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme.

Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%).
The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration.
But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.

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Daniel Weiner @djweiner.bsky.social · Sep 6

I am in awe of that. For those that haven’t seen it …

youtu.be/Iry_QLgThtU?...

Criss Angel Directs "We're Not Gonna Take It" with Dee Snider

YouTube video by Dee Snider

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Diedre Cox @diedrecox.bsky.social · 18d

I love this idea! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

‘They’re Small but They’re Mighty.’ Meet the Wisconsin Sisters Healing the Land.

www.nytimes.com

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Diedre Cox @diedrecox.bsky.social · 19d

Happy Anniversary!🍾

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20d

These days traditional Republican values mean wanting bribes the old fashioned way in brown bags stuffed with cash, versus offshore accounts or crypto.

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