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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 2d

My constituents want me to get to work but House Republicans are more concerned about protecting the Epstein files.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d

Trump: we will do project 2025
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 6d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 6d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d

The French have occupied Tesla's HQ in France to protest against the ultra rich and their tax dodging.

Be more French.

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 8d

THIS is how it’s done. Go New Mexico. Go @ambersra.bsky.social

Free Child Care for All Is Impossible? Don’t Tell New Mexico.

The only state with such a program didn’t get there overnight. Years of action at the state Capitol and the ballot box set the stage. It’s a lesson for lawmakers in other states facing the fiscal chal...

www.governing.com

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ITEP @itep.org · 12d

The new Trump tax law could throw state tax systems out of balance.

Our webinar will explore how states can chart their own course.

Learn more on our homepage, or sign up here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Manny Crespín @mannycrespin.bsky.social · 13d

🔃🚨 BREAKING: House Democrats now have the votes to force a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Random Man James @jamesds.bsky.social · 17d

Release the files now

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 16d

obviously they're in the pocket of big advil

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16d

The most important thing to know about Trump’s acetaminophen announcement is that the GOP is still hiding the Epstein files

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16d

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16d

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 17d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 17d

Get. Off. Twitter.

Brett @23brett.bsky.social · 17d

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 20d

Trump take job
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 20d

Steve Moore (!): Trump aims to bolster U.S. manufacturing—in part through steel and aluminum tariffs. But ...Trump’s order to raise the tax on imported aluminum to 50% will almost certainly cost far more manufacturing jobs than it will save. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Opinion | Trump’s Tariffs on Aluminum Kill U.S. Factory Jobs

They’re costly for companies that use the metal to make things—including recyclers.

www.wsj.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Mar 20

Tariff take job.
www.startribune.com/iron-range-l...

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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 20d

Btw, this was JD Vance just a few months ago back in February of this year🙃

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JoAnn @allbluegma.bsky.social · 19d

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 20d

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

They All Signed the “Harper’s” Letter. Where Are They Now?

Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech.

www.thenation.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 20d

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Get back to Epstein files don't be distracted

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.

We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 23d

A vacation town is nothing without the town. And a town requires tax revenue.

Making the Wealthy Pay their Fair Share is the Way to Preserve Vacation Towns

Rhode Island lawmakers created a new surcharge on second homes worth more than $1 million as part of the budget enacted this spring.

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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 23d

Cisco Systems gets a $720 million bonanza from US taxpayers because Trump’s 2017 tax law had a drafting error. Don’t get me wrong, whole point of both Trump tax laws was tax cuts to rich ppl & corporations, but this particular one was just an error. Whoops.

Who Can Make a Billion Dollar Mistake and Not Lose Their Jobs? Congressional Tax Writers

A drafting error in the 2017 tax law will cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 billion in unintended tax cuts for big multinationals.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27d

No one lowered the flag for an actual American hero

Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 27d

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?

David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.

apnews.com/article/deka...

Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta

Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...

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