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Cortney McKee

@cortneymckee.bsky.social

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From the Arkansas Delta. Lifelong activist. Vegetarian. Serial candidate. public policy & nonprofit. Working class advocate. Lots of cussing. mom; wife; daughter; sister; ally. It isn't about one election, it's a movement. Join me at: McKeeforArkansas.com

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Cortney McKee @cortneymckee.bsky.social · Jan 18

go.bsky.app/8E2xhtY
#arpx starter pack.

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Cortney McKee @cortneymckee.bsky.social · 17m

The bottle did! And pretty fkn dumb.

Cortney McKee @cortneymckee.bsky.social · 40m

#YSLbeauty #arpx #perfume #iceraids #arpx #arbluedots re-skeet for attention please. #Arkansas #Opium

Photograph of an article about a man who was arrested by police for a bottle of Opium perfume they mistook as an actual hard drug, in a nice labeled bottle. He was then taken into custody by ICE.

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SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 3h

This guy thinks the girls ‘with blue hair and five nose rings’ are unattractive. I know they’ll be crushed.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #KidRock

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2h

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

I’m old enough to remember the $21M Trump Seven Springs Estates conservation easement tax crime.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Cortney McKee @cortneymckee.bsky.social · 2h

Who is ready??? #NoKings2.0

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4h

No Kings,
For the love of America.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

nokings.org

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Cortney McKee @cortneymckee.bsky.social · 2h

#ARpx #ARBluedots #NoKings @50501arkansas.bsky.social @indivisible.org No Crowns. No Thrones. No Ballrooms. #NOKINGS
See you in the streets!!

Event graphic for No Kings Hot Springs. Protest takes place from 2 pm to 4 pm on October 18th in downtown Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. Event is hosted by Indivisble and Hot Springs Rising. A link is included for optional registration.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

$47. And that’s if the government isn’t lying about the interest rate. Plus, they will have to prove she intentionally schemed to swindle $47 from the bank - as opposed to just not knowing the difference between a second home and an investment property. Good luck, Lindsay.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

www.nbcnews.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 18h

We took the freedom of speech away

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

I genuinely think that many people don't fully understand the situation in the USA.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h

Finally! Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland has signaled she is inclined to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported and later brought back by the Trump administration.

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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 1d

She faces threats, intimidation, and relentless attacks—but has never given up. Fearless in the face of tyranny, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her courage and fight for democracy in Venezuela. What an inspiration!

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 1d

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 1d

“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever see this book in a bookstore and you have a kid age 6-10 you should buy a copy. My daughter gets obsessed with it during spooky season. She won't even put it down to eat

The cover of a book called a world full of spooky stories, fifty tales to make your spine tingle. The cover is orange and has little drawings of all sorts of spooky things like skeletons, ghosts, snakes, bones et cetera

A page from the book. Asia: a story from China - The Old Ogre

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 19h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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