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Sara Jane La Liberté

@sarajanemaki.bsky.social

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Ace I complain a lot.

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Sara Jane La Liberté @sarajanemaki.bsky.social · Nov 19

AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · Nov 12

Help me out here:

1. Looking to connect with my Massachusetts people.

2. What kind of posts do you want to see from the AGO? Know your rights? Videos? News? Infographics? More information about some of our lawsuits? Particular policy issues? Consumer protection? I’m all ears.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 6h

Again we see multiple vehicles racing through chicago neighborhoods. this time chasing kids on bikes, demanding their IDs (do 15 yr olds even have ids?) Come on.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

ICE GOONS are harassing two 15-year-old boys on bicycles in Chicago.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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NeuroFellaMD 📚⚖️🗽 @melissaf.bsky.social · 6h

Our “war-torn city” (a horrible insult to people who are suffering in wars)

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

“This Week in Democracy – Week 38: Bombing Boats, Deploying Troops, Targeting Democrats”

Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

This Week in Democracy – Week 38: Bombing Boats, Deploying Troops, Targeting Democrats

Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

zeteo.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 17h

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 6h

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 6h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sara Jane La Liberté @sarajanemaki.bsky.social · 6h

Easthampton MA
"Easthampton tenants call on City Council to back solutions to rent increase crisis."

And, the huge development being constructed next to the worst monstrosity to be built recently, Starbucks- which ruins the view of the mountain, is NOT the answer to this situation. At all!

Sara Jane La Liberté @sarajanemaki.bsky.social · 6h

www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

Easthampton tenants call on City Council to back solutions to rent increase ‘crisis’

"If I can’t afford my rent, where do I go?”

www.masslive.com

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 10h

The idea of special education services being a left-of-center perk is, of course, noxious and ghoulish. When this (*gestures around*) is all over, though, we need to find a government service that disproportionately benefits right-wing elites — and completely wreck its ability to function.

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 13h

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

bit.ly

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Sara Jane La Liberté @sarajanemaki.bsky.social · 6h

www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

Easthampton tenants call on City Council to back solutions to rent increase ‘crisis’

"If I can’t afford my rent, where do I go?”

www.masslive.com

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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 8h

They'd do exactly what they're doing now. The fact we have a feckless media unwilling to call it out is yet another atrocity

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 8h

I was a student teacher when Columbine happened.

One never knows until the moment comes. But yes, the vast majority of educators would definitely save your children. Yes. In schools. In colleges. We would. Without question.

It hurts that a third of this country refuses to see the actual monsters.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival’s lawsuit alleges.

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport"

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

www.motherjones.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

We tell people if they work hard and play by the (entirely arbitrary white supremacist) rules, they'll have healthcare and a house with a white picket fence. Instead we have the world's largest prison population, jails used as mental health facilities,

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 9h

📽️VIDEO: SCOTUS’ new term will decide critical voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy, the Voting Rights Act and election law nationwide. Watch our latest episode of Defending Democracy to know which cases to watch this term👇
https://youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Heavy machinery in the driveway now doing something with the barricades, unsure what.

"Hey, that's my freedom zone!" someone shouts.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

“They obviously have Chinese investors,” major SpaceX investor Iqbaljit Kahlon said in newly unsealed testimony, adding that some are “directly on the cap table,” referring to the company’s capitalization table, which lists its shareholders.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 10h

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 10h

Just want to point out that trump only got his Covid shot Friday. Takes two weeks to kick in.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h

Donald Trump and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to chair Gaza peace summit on Monday

Meeting will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh and include ‘leaders from more than 20 countries’ says Egyptian presidency Donald Trump and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, are due to chair a Gaza peace summit with several world leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday. The meeting will take place on Monday afternoon in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh“with the participation of leaders from more than 20 countries”, the Egyptian presidency said. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10h

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 9h

it’s a standoff now.

the vast majority of protesters have cleared out now. a small contingent of folks is playing music in the street.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 9h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

More violent arrests for seemingly no reason. Seeing at least two, sorry don't have exact total.

The crowd here has kept moving backward/everyone is following orders. This is absurd.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 9h

After ordering people out of the street, ISP cleared the entire “free speech” zone into the street before “curfew.”

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Sara Jane La Liberté @sarajanemaki.bsky.social · 20h

Womp womp

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tech megacaps lose $770 billion in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April

Nvidia dropped almost 5%, pacing a steep decline in tech stocks, after President Trump threatened more tariffs on China.