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Jane Voter

@janevoter2018.bsky.social

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🇺🇸Without democracy, freedom is not guaranteed. 🗳️Every election has consequences! “The power of the people is greater than the people in power.” -Cory Booker 4/1/25 (quoting Wael Ghonim). https://go.bsky.app/QWqyJaZ

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · Feb 8

This was my brother who had DS & Alzheimers. Music brought him so much joy throughout life, but it really helped keep him happy during Alzheimers. He benefitted from DEI & an education-he worked in a salon, washing towels, making coffee & sweeping hair & the customers loved him. Best person I knew!

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MWLogic17🦋💙✨ @mwlogic17.bsky.social · 1d

Nessel joins 22 other state attorney generals backing federal voting rights fight michiganadvance.com/briefs/nesse...

Nessel joins 22 other state attorney generals backing federal voting rights fight • Michigan Advance

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, alongside a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general, are calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case surrounding an individual’s right to sue to ...

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 8h

And he says they are playing politics. Nope. With his record on human rights violations with immigrants and Americans, blowing boats out of the water with people on them, his Department of War, threatening people in order to get their compliance. He is the antithesis of peace. #NobelPeacePrize

A cartoon drawing of symbols of war, including a helicopter, a Department of War flag, Ice with covered faces detaining women and children, a priest getting tear gassed in the face. At the center of the cartoon is Trump asking “Where’s My Nobel??”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h

Network news could put this guy on the air during like Lester Holt or the Sunday shows but they don't because they know stories like this would help stop the administration and then the big bet they made on fascism would be for nothing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 9h

That would be funny, but he might not be petty enough to do that.

I am though, and I just have to share this photo of him receiving his Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".

Picture of President Obama receiving his Nobel Peace Prize. The text reads: “IT’D BE A REAL SHAME IF THIS PHOTO OF PRESIDENT OBAMA RECEIVING HIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WENT VIRAL TODAY, FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON.”

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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 22h

‘I am not fearful, I am fearless’: NY AG Letitia James responds after being indicted by Trump’s DOJ

This Is America I Want To See 🇺🇸💙❤️🤍

Be Like Letitia Ann "Tish" James 🗽

”I’m not leaving my fate up to chance.”

I’m a Mandalorian ✊🏻

#DemocracyDefenders
#FightForFreedom
#Justice

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DMC ❌👑 @dcombes.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly! This was a Dem. win Tuesday in Fairbanks, Alaska mayoral race. It gives momentum for Dem. ground game in Alaska for mid- terms. #GOTV NJ & VA.

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 1d

I endorse this message!

#MomSky

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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@dennis74.bsky.social @dennis74.bsky.social · 1d

DeSantis said slavery benefited the slaves! This picture shows how

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

Right? They always do exactly what then condemn.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

"I never thought that renowned puppy killer Kristi Noem would be so afraid of protesters wearing frog costumes and chicken costumes. But here we are," Morillo said.

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CNN anchor can't help but laugh as Trump Cabinet member brutally mocked by official

A Portland City Council member made a CNN anchor chuckle Thursday after calling Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem a "renowned puppy killer" who is "afraid of protesters wearing frog costumes ...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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🇨🇦marciebp🇲🇽 @marciebp.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller’s big, big flub.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

As a former federal prosecutor of 25 years, who dedicated his career to DOJ, it makes me so sad that neighborhoods are banding together to blow the whistle on federal law enforcement ... but I cannot blame them.

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Chicago Neighbors Are Forming Watches Near Schools To Protect Students, Guardians From ICE

Increased federal immigration activity has prompted whistle-carrying neighbors in Irving Park and Albany Park to organize walking school buses and keep watch over students and guardians during school ...

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 1d

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 3d

Please take a moment to listen and share
These RED STATES are going to find out !!
This should be all over Faux News

Thank you Senator
Without subsidies look at
the premium increases
No one can afford this
People will not have insurance
This is why DEMOCRATS ARE FIGHTING FOR YOU

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3d

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act.

West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%

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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone, keep standing up to the demented bully.

"Trump’s enablers can read polls & election results. [He] may not care, but his enablers & corporate overlords do. Or they will care when [millions of us] take to the streets in peaceful protests, economic boycotts, shutdowns, & walkouts."

The First Law of Resisting Bullies: “Never Back Down.”

October 9, 2025

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

I looked in the thesaurus, and "reformed" is not synonymous with "eviscerated"

#TrumpShutUSDown

SHUTDOWN

THIS IS WHAT GOP CHAOS COSTS

Post from Sen Warnock showing tripling of premium cost from this year to next for the most comparable ACA plans of a Georgia constituent

PREMIUMS TRIPLING WHILE THEY PLAY POLITICS

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 1d

So no plan, really.

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 1d

Including 78% of Republicans polled, 83% of Americans polled believe the military should remain politically neutral. If accurate, that bodes well for America.

DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 1d

tRump's approval rating drops to 40% and 58% disapprove of his deployment of the military to US cities.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

So far he is delivering a higher price

#TrumpShutUSDown

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

🧵
Today's Nobel Prize in Literature goes to

“a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic and often shatteringly beautiful.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

www.nytimes.com

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 1d

I understand that. If they break from him on the Epstein files it won’t be because of morals. It will be because they don’t want the ick of protecting a pedophile blowing back on them.

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