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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Guest appearance from Measels? I’m so there!

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 3d

#PortlandFrogHalloweenCostume

OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Why don’t they just look him up and throw the key away?

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 4d

Every accusation is a confession

OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 6d

She looks just as ugly from the back. Or maybe it’s just her aura.

OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Leonard Leo, the conservative operative who built Donald Trump’s radical right-wing supermajority on the Supreme Court, is spending big money to make it harder to vote in Maine, ahead of Susan Collins’s crucial reelection fight next year.

Please get the word out! #Maine #SaveDemocracy

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sure he did.

OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Get out the vote #Maine and get rid of your spineless corrupt Senator.

Axios Hill Leaders - 🥊 Shutdown messaging ground zero

www.axios.com

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 7d

“We” didn’t.

OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 7d

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t. I want out.

OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Marineland in Niagara Falls threatened to euthanize 30 beluga whales unless Canada provides funding or reverses its block on exporting them to a Chinese theme park, after the fisheries minister halted the transfer to prevent further captivity. #SavetheWhales #WhaleSky🐳

Animal rights advocates urge Ontario to seize belugas, fearing Marineland may euthanize them | CBC News

Animal rights advocates are condemning Marineland’s threat to euthanize the 30 remaining belugas at the defunct amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont., if the federal government doesn't provide funding...

www.cbc.ca

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 8d

That's next.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8d

They still haven’t found all the missing children from the floods. Why are they more worried about Illinois than about the children in Texas?

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Amen 🙏

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Created. The creating part is done.

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 9d

One hundred members of the California National Guard have reportedly arrived already, with more to follow.

Frustrated by Court Loss, Trump Sends 300 California National Guard Troops to Portland

After a federal judge on Saturday batted down the Trump administration's attempt to deploy 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland, this morning (Sunday, October 5) California Governor Gavin New...

www.portlandmercury.com

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Red Lori Bright Eyes Pissed Off American @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · 9d

Gestapo

Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 10d

“… on October 6, 2025, the USCIS director is authorized to create new law enforcement positions which may …

Carry firearms, conduct vehicular pursuits, and use force, up to and including lethal force, when appropriate.”

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/uscis-s...

New USCIS ‘Special Agents’ Will Be Given the Power to Arrest, Use Deadly Force Against Immigrants - American Immigration Council

USCIS, the agency tasked with issuing green cards, will have “special agents" authorized to carry firearms and arrest immigrants.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 10d

Not that President Miller gives two fucks.

Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying troops in Portland

A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland.

www.seattletimes.com

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 10d

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. #FuckICE #TrumpGestapo

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 10d

The week before Trump’s new memo went out, the Department of Justice removed a report from its website that showed “the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”

The Terrifying New Memo Trump Could Use to Go After His Opposition

Donald Trump is upping his rhetoric about cracking down on anyone who opposes him, and his new NPSM-7 memo is a terrifying look at how he could do it.

www.rollingstone.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓 @iamleahanderson.bsky.social · 10d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10d

In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.

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