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Rebekah West

@rebequewest.bsky.social

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Multi-disciplinary artist, designer, writer. Born 🇺🇸 Lived 🇫🇷 🇦🇺 * Make something & pour your 💔 in Seeking effective action to help us weather this coup & then recoup 🇺🇸 * Project 2025 vid & doc pin * You can file complaint w state AG * Civil rights: ALL

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Rebekah West @rebequewest.bsky.social · Jan 21

Also, here it is:

static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 5h

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 5h

Trump says he will not give NYC federal funds if Mamdani wins while promising to give $20B to Argentina.

How is this America First?

This is election interference. Blue states should stop sending tax $$ to the federal government.

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 8h

Fresh vegetables are back on the menu in Gaza!
WCK’s Shadi is at our Salam Kitchen, where the team is cooking fresh cauliflower & eggplant. 20+ tons of fresh produce have arrived at our Field Kitchens across Gaza, bringing more nourishment, flavor, and variety to every meal we serve. #ChefsForGaza

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Rebekah West @rebequewest.bsky.social · 7h

Yellow is for cowards too, though. Red, white and blue!

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 7h

Jesus.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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State of the People @stateofpeople.bsky.social · 17h

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#politics #government #tariffs #farmers #farm #agriculture

American Soybean Farmers Face Perfect Storm

Trump Tariffs, Chinese Retaliation, and Argentine Competition

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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 10h

Read the full article: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Supreme Court reopens debate on key part of Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court is considering a Louisiana redistricting case that could determine whether states are required to draw majority Black and Latino districts.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 10h

🚨📰Front Page Alert! LDF is back at the Supreme Court tomorrow at 10AM. The fight? Saving the Voting Rights Act from being gutted. The stakes? Black political power for generations.

Screenshot of The Washington Post website featuring a news article titled 'Supreme Court reopens debate on key part of Voting Rights Act' with a photo of a diverse group of people holding protest signs, including one that reads 'Black political power.'

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 7h

"Terrorists" everywhere

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Groceries are up

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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 7h

I love this!
I have campaigned for Dr. Pan twice. Looks like I'm going to do it AGAIN!!

www.kcra.com/article/rich...

Former State Senator behind CA vaccine laws to challenge Rep. Kevin Kiley for House District 3

Former Sacramento area State Sen. Richard Pan announced Tuesday he's running to unseat Rep. Kevin Kiley in California's 3rd Congressional District.

www.kcra.com

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Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin.bsky.social · 9h

Elections aren’t every 4 years or every 2 years, they’re every year. In California we have a special election for prop 50 and it’s a YES. If Texas can gerrymander then we should be able to. I know my comments will be filled with bots, but I won’t be intimidated. Our democracy is vanishing❤️

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

Brian Allen

🚨 Ty Cobb — Trump’s own former White House attorney — isn’t holding back:

“We have a president ordering his AG to indict his enemies… and the AG says: ‘Yes, sir. How fast can I get that done?’”

That’s not justice. That’s regime revenge in broad daylight. Let it sink in.

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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 9h

Keep being amazing & showing everyone up, Germany. 🇩🇪 👊💥👌🥰

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 7h

Have Trump, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, and the entirety of the GOP and right-wing media own and embrace these vile and bigoted Telegram messages written by Young Republicans.

They will because they see apology as "weakness."

Tie it around them.

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 9h

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

The current ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, which the Trump administration helped broker, has major shortcomings, experts warn.

"There’s no actual plan for getting any further," says Daniel Levy, the president of the US/Middle East Project. "Israel is still occupying about 50% of Gaza.”

“No actual plan”: Why the ceasefire does not mean peace

"It is also being claimed that we have a historic peace deal. That is absolutely fictitious.”

www.motherjones.com

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 8h

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙💙 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 10h

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Government shutdown delays Social Security's cost-of-living announcement. Here's what to know.

Citing the shutdown, the Social Security Administration postponed its announcement of the annual payment bump beneficiaries will receive in 2026.

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 10h

Just landed back in Washington D.C.

Republicans have been on paid vacation for the last 4 weeks, and the government has been shut down for 14 days — yet they refuse to come back to work.

My offices will remain open in Colorado & DC — because we work for YOU!

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 13h

www.denverpost.com/2025/10/14/c...

More than 50 ‘No Kings’ protests planned across Colorado

Organizers estimated 20,000 people attended the first “No Kings” protest in Denver last June and anticipate at least 12,000 to join Saturday.

www.denverpost.com

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · Aug 16

Studying the Earth is literally in the authorizing charter of NASA and always been part of their mission…

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

arstechnica.com

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 14h

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16h

Senate Republicans have tried over and over to cajole Democratic holdouts to vote for a stopgap bill to reopen the government, but Democrats have refused as they hold out for a firm commitment to extend health care benefits.

White House Fires Federal Workers to Pressure Dems on Shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have begun as the government shutdown continues.

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