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Hello, Bluesky! We're Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic foundation with a mission to reduce polarization by:

🗳️ strengthening our democracy
📚 promoting education
🌍 building a more peaceful world

Give us a follow for fact-based information and ideas that bring people together.
January 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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What in the actual hell
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Did you attend one of our anti-ICE trainings in Brooklyn or the Bronx this past Saturday?

If so, @maddow.bsky.social gave a shout out to you on her show!
December 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT - Raising student achievement and school performances to close the gap between poor and rich children. A POSITIVE IMPACT ON AMERICA IN EVERY PART OF SOCIETY. R.I.P Dr. Rod Paige, 92, nation's first BLACK Secretary of Education. #Education #Students #Society #Children
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
TOURISTS BEWARE. Travelers from around the world will have 5 years of their social media reviewed upon entering U.S. #Tourism #Vacation #Travel #BigBrother #Privacy #SocialMedia #TravelWarning #Tourist
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
TRUMP INSIDERS MAKING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY -- Stephen Miller, one of President Trump’s top advisers, sold shares in the mining company MP Materials following a lucrative deal between the company and the government.
YOU, YOUR FAMILY, NEIGHBOURS: Living pay check to pay check.
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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American foreign policy is now an open threat to democracies everywhere.
They are determined to undermine western democracies by promoting racist extremism.
They want to crush Canada and sell out Ukraine.
We have to hold the line.
I break it all down here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPI...
THE TRUMP DOCTRINE - THIS IS NOT A DRILL !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.

Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.

When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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SCOOP: President Trump's political team privately told big GOP donors that the Supreme Court will soon issue rulings on voting rights and contribution limits that could tilt future elections their way.
Scoop: Trump aides bullish on Supreme Court boosting GOP in midterms
Rulings on political contribution limits and congressional redistricting could be transformational for Republicans — if they go the GOP's way.
www.axios.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
CAN YOU INDICT A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE?

Tearing apart America.
Bought and paid for.
Follow the money.
Lobbying.
American values lost forever.
How can America recover?
The destruction of democracy.
Ripping up the Constitution.
#SupremeCourt #Justice #Democracy #America #RuleofLaw
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
Opinion | Banning Abortion a Hallmark of Authoritarian Regimes
Seda Saluk writes about how U.S. policy on abortion rights has started to mirror patterns seen in authoritarian regimes around the world.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The United States gives far too much power, money, and influence to silly people with heads full of nonsense.
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
JARED KUSHNER -- WELL, OF COURSE HE'S INVOLVED IN THE BIG MEDIA MEGA MERGER. DUH!!!!!!!
#Kushner #Trump #Crooks #Fraud #Money #Merger #Entertainment #WarnerBrothers #Netflix Yet more proof that Trump Family needs full financial and political ties investigation.
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
PENNSYLVANIA: TODAY'S THE DAY TO SEND A MESSAGE TO TRUMP THAT YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT BACK. President Donald Trump will take his economic message on the road Tuesday to a swing district in eastern Pennsylvania.
#Pennsylvania #Protest #FightBack #RebukeTrump #SwingDistrict #StopTrump
December 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
AMERICA OR NIGERIA: School children abducted.
BOTH. ICE GRABBING KIDS FROM SCHOOLS, DAYCARE, OUT OF BED, FROM CARS - FROM THEIR FAMILIES.
#ICE #Trump #Children #Immigration #Kidnapping #WhiteHouse #Republicans #DetentionFacilities #ChicagoICERaids
December 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”

“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”

5 days apart 😬

(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
AMERICA OR TANZANIA: Police and army deployed to prevent protests. BOTH. THIS IS WHAT AMERICA HAS BECOME UNDER TRUMP, REPUBLICANS. #Police #ICE #NationalGuard #Protesting #Trump #WhiteHouse
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Solar energy is having a moment. It’s now the cheapest form of electricity generation in human history, and experts predict it will be the dominant source by 2050. (MaRSDiscovery, Toronto)
December 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS 6 YEAR OLD BOY? Queen's (NY) father and 6 year old son separated by ICE. Father doesn't know where son is?
#Children #Kids #ICE #Immigration #IllegalDetention
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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A throng of supporters and family members cheered the release of home-health aide Aissatou Diallo, who was set free by a federal judge after a charged habeas corpus hearing Friday morning.
Packed Crowd Cheers as Judge Releases Advocate’s Aunt in High-Stakes Immigration Hearing
Aissatou Diallo, the aunt of Adama Bah, was released Friday after a judge ripped into the Trump administration’s dubious account of her arrest and efforts to deport a woman who’d lived peacefully in…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I turned off the news for 1 day to give myself a break, and came back to this. wtf is going on now?
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM