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Michelle Leopold 💙🦋🔵🩵

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North of SF 🌉 Fired-up member of #MomSky Proud Mom to Parker 🎓 and F18 Trevor 😇. Mom in our 6 Mom & Pop Ace Hardware Stores. 🛠️🪚🪛 Married 30 years Dog mom 🐾🐾 Proudly wear my #OneToughMother tattoo & I #KFG #JustSayKNOW Former Tweeting Activist

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Michelle Leopold 💙🦋🔵🩵 @michelle94904.bsky.social · 21d

Now more than ever, we need to use our rights guaranteed to us by the First Amendment (freedom of religion, speech, press & the rights to petition and to assemble).

SPEAK OUT & ACT UP FOR YOUR 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS

#MomSky

Thank you #mvnews for this 2017 illustration, more timely today than ever!

Everyone has inalienable rights. Use them.
First amendment freedom of speech, religion, press, petition, assembly.

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Newtown Action Alliance @newtownaction.org · 13h

@publixofficial.bsky.social: Ban Open Carry in Your Stores — Keep Families and Employees Safe

Tell Publix: Ban open carry in all stores and keep customers and employees safe.

🔗 bit.ly/PublixSafety

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 10h

🗓️ October 18
📍 Everywhere

No thrones.
No crowns.
No kings.

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JFA @jabbott28.bsky.social · 9h

Samaritan’s Purse, the humanitarian disaster relief organization based in Boone, N.C., posted net assets of $1.4 billion in a publicly available audit last year.
Maybe Franklin doesn't want anyone overseeing him and implementing behavior standards. 🫤

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 21h

Christian nationalist grifter Franklin Graham quits financial accountability group after it institutes standards for behavior.
baptiststandard.com/news/faith-c...

Franklin Graham quits financial accountability group

Franklin Graham, the president and CEO of two of the largest Christian ministries in the country, has quit his organizations’ membership in a financial accountability group that sets standards for eva...

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ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 9h

100%

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13h

In his own words: the President is responsible for the shutdown.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 13h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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JFA @jabbott28.bsky.social · 9h

MTG is really messing with my mind. Thought I knew her but here we are. 🤷‍♀️

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session...there is a new Democrat that's been elected that deserves to be sworn in...if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? It's going to have 218 signatures"

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Reagan Gomez @reagangomez.bsky.social · 9h

My Congress person just called me (a constituent) to join a live call with reps from Covered California Health, to explain why our insurance is about to go up and why. They’re taking questions. This is very good. Lots of information.

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indiegals.bsky.social @indiegals.bsky.social · 10h

VOTE YES ON 50 CALIFORNIA!!

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 9h

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 10h

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 9 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

🚨PROP 50 IS SO IMPORTANT 🚨

BALLOTS HAVE BEEN MAILED

Dear Californians please help tell your friends and neighbors to VOTE YES ON PROP 50

Many of us are phonebanking to California Voters & we need your help !
Tell them YES

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 11h

Statement from Letitia James
"I'm fearless"

Once again, Trump and the DOJ shames our country
Listen to her powerful Statement

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11h

A grand jury in Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday. James was charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution.

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Michelle Leopold 💙🦋🔵🩵 @michelle94904.bsky.social · 11h

📕📚📗📖📘📔📙📚
#ReadBannedBooks
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#MomSky

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Mary Wood @maryrosewood.bsky.social · 12h

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. #readbannedbooks

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Mary Wood @maryrosewood.bsky.social · 12h

🧵The implicit beauty of reading was instilled in me from the womb. I know my mother, who read to me constantly before I could for myself, whispered words to me through her belly. When I was old enough, my grandmother, gifted me ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and Helen Keller’s ‘The Story of My Life.’

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 15h

I booked a photo session tonight bc I have very few pictures of my family together, but while I’m smiling & holding my children, I know I will hear this mother’s screams.

I don’t want my tax dollars supporting ICE agents dragging parents away from car line. And most moms in the US agree with me.

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Michelle Leopold 💙🦋🔵🩵 @michelle94904.bsky.social · 20h

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Michelle Leopold 💙🦋🔵🩵 @michelle94904.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you Po. 💔

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 22h

🧵 Before Project 2025 became the name of Trump & MAGA Republicans' fascist agenda, it was a name of a program for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's collaboration with the National Shooting Sports Foundation, an extreme gun lobby group that used to be headquartered in Newtown, Connecticut.

A Program Backed by the Gun Industry Failed to Reduce Suicide — and Was Secretly Shut Down Early

The country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry. The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never met its goal, and internal records show why.

www.thetrace.org

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

Fear of deportation is keeping pregnant immigrants from accessing health care. The same fear is keeping immigrant domestic violence victims from calling for help.

Given that homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant people, this is all terrible.

And it’s certainly not public safety.

Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 2d

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

19thnews.org

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 1d

My friend f/ NY received this 😔 message today.

NY's Essential Plan was established under an optional ACA provision that allows states to create a Basic Health Program for low-income residents who don't qualify for Medicaid. The Essential Plan used ACA premium tax credits, to finance the program.

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 2d

Here's the short definition of Plenary Authority.

Plenary authority means complete, absolute, and unqualified power to act on a particular issue without significant limitations.

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 2d

No Miller didn't stroke out like Mitch.

He just told everyone what their next plan is. This falls right in line with the rest of the regime's actions since the start of the coup in 2016.

Plenary Authority. Sounds like something a tyrannical fascist regime would invoke for control.

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#SheShed

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi is going to see in the end that her alliance with Trump is going to cost her everything. All of these loyalists never come out on top when it’s all said and done.🤷🏾‍♀️

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