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Eric J Morey
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Democratic Candidate for Cape May County Commissioner

Born and raised in NJ

This has become my primary outlet for keeping informed about the political troubles in the USA.
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premthakker.bsky.social
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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austinkocher.com
"DACA recipients are being arrested despite deportation protection," writes Valerie Gonzalez for the @ap.

apnews.com/article/daca...
DACA recipients are being arrested despite deportation protection
An organization is tracking the growing number of arrests among people with temporary deportation protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
President Trump is pardoning US Rep. Henry Cuellar, who is a Texas Democrat, and his wife, ending the congressman’s multi-year federal legal battle in which he faced a dozen charges of bribery, money laundering and conspiracy. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/03/h...
Donald Trump pardons Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar
Cuellar had faced a dozen charges of bribery, money laundering and conspiracy. On Wednesday, he filed for reelection as a Democrat, quieting speculation that he might switch parties.
www.texastribune.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ericjmorey.com
This 🧵, while I don't know how common the experience is across the US, is concerning to say the least. I have lots of questions about the details, but I can't imagine any answers that would make me less concerned.
jesbattis.bsky.social Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 5d
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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theswprincess.bsky.social
ICE and DHS are separating young children from their parents and disappearing them.

6 year old Yuanxin was separated from his father after a routine immigration check in on Nov. 26th.

Yuanxin's father was not told where his son was being sent.

Yuanxin'swhereabouts are still unknown.
The 6-year-old is part of a growing number of children arrested and detained by ICE, according to newly released data obtained by the Deportation Data Project through a Freedom of Information Act request. One hundred and fifty one children under the age of 18 have been arrested between January and October, with a steep increase beginning in May. Another volunteer named John, who declined to give his full name fearing retaliation, had accompanied the family to their 7 a.m. check-in at 26 Federal Plaza. John said he waited for several hours at a cafe nearby, but the father and son never re-emerged. The father’s name appeared in the ICE detainee locator later that day. John said that for the past several months he has accompanied many families to check-ins at 26 Federal Plaza and witnessed many kids being taken by ICE. “They just don’t come out,” he said. “Entire families have gone in and not gone out.”
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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reuters.com
Costco sues US to preserve tariff refunds if Trump loses appeal reut.rs/48J2koC
Costco sues US to preserve tariff refunds if Trump loses appeal
Costco has sued the U.S. government to ensure it will receive refunds if the Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump's bid for sweeping authority to impose tariffs.
reut.rs
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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jkuznicki.bsky.social
A horrifying read about chaos and dysfunction at the CDC, and how it’s leaving Americans sicker. Well done, @kerryhowley.bsky.social

nymag.com/intelligence...
Screenshot of text: “What, after all, are two dead kids? In 2023 in the U.S., some 2,500 children died from guns, 700 from drowning, 1,000 from cars. To the antivaxxer, the focus on Kayley and Daisy was hysterical overreaction, but the difference was this: No one had died of measles in this country since 2015. We had not solved guns or drowning or cars; we had solved measles.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Terrorists are trying to subvert Democracy.
macfarlanenews.bsky.social Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d
ANOTHER threat against an Indiana Republican who opposes redistricting

Sen. Mike Bohacek says his family received "threats of a bomb placed at our home"
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
ericjmorey.com
More terrorist activity in Indiana against legislators who are standing up for democracy.
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
ericjmorey.com
This is what terrorists do. This is right wing extremism. It needs to be prosecuted.
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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stephenwolf.bsky.social
It’s far from clear whether Republicans have gained enough support to pass this new gerrymander in Indiana’s Senate, where many Republicans previously expressed their opposition.

Trump recently called for primaries against the holdouts, and several were targeted with swatting attempts within days
Indiana’s governor and at least 8 lawmakers have been swatted or threatened as state Republicans face redistricting pressure | CNN Politics
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said he and his family are among the Republicans targeted in a wave of threats against state officeholders this week as President Donald Trump pressures Hoosier State lawmakers...
www.cnn.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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stephenwolf.bsky.social
Indiana Republicans have unveiled their proposal to re-gerrymander the congressional map & expand their current 7-2 majority to 9-0.

The Dem-held 1st would flip to Trump+12 & the 7th to Trump+19. All 7 GOP seats would be at least Trump+18.

Interactive map:
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...
Image of a gerrymandered congressional map proposed by Indiana Republicans that is intended to expand their seven-to-two majority to nine-to-zero.
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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bbkogan.bsky.social
Elon and DOGE are responsible for ending billions of actually effective foreign assistance.

This has already killed hundred of thousands of people and will kill millions over time.
bbkogan.bsky.social Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d
It’s in fact extremely easy to give away money in a way that helps people.

Stuff like this is just what you say when you don’t actually want to help others.
On Philanthropy NIKHIL KAMATH: So what do you think of philanthropy? ELON MUSK: Yeah, I think we should. Well, I mean, I agree with love of humanity and I think we should try to do things that help our fellow human beings. But it's very hard. If you care about the reality of goodness rather than simply the perception of it, it's very difficult to give away money well. So I have a large foundation, but I don't put my name on it and I don't, in fact, I say I don't want my name on anything. But the biggest challenge I find with my foundation is trying to give money away in a way that is truly beneficial to people. It's very easy to give money away to get the appearance of goodness. It is very difficult to give money away for the reality of goodness. Very difficult.
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
"When Trump is cogent enough to understand what is happening, he commits one grotesque atrocity after the next, and when he is not, a bunch of scheming viziers elbow each other out of the way to commit their own." prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...
The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King - The American Prospect
John Roberts created a monster: Donald Trump compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
prospect.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
NEWS: A unanimous Third Circuit panel rules that Alina Habba is not U.S. Attorney, cannot be Acting U.S. Attorney, and cannot have the powers delegated to her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IV. Habba is not the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey by virtue of her appointment as First Assistant U.S. Attorney because only the first assistant in place at the time the vacancy arises automatically assumes the functions and duties of the office under the F VRA. Additionally, because Habba was nominated for the vacant U.S. Attorney position, the FVRA's nomination bar prevents her from assuming the role of Acting U.S. Attorney. Finally, the Attorney General's delegation of all the powers of a U.S. Attorney to Habba is prohibited by the FVRA's exclusivity provision. Therefore, we will affirm the District Court's disqualification order.
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Hitler was bad.

An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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deanbaker13.bsky.social
Trump's investment boom exists only in his demented brain. New orders for capital goods are below the level of three years ago, and that's before adjusting for inflation
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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erikangner.com
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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amandaweavernovels.com
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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immcouncil.org
A Babson College freshman was detained at Logan Airport and deported without warning.

Our Policy Director, Nayna Gupta, has been working with the family and local attorneys to piece together what went wrong. Like so many others, this young woman had an old removal order she never knew existed. 1/2
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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ruthz.bsky.social
A lot is being said about Karoline Leavitt’s non-response to ICE abducting the mother of her nephew. But I want to talk about her nephew.

He is 11. He lives with both his mom and his dad — until now. Because now he doesn’t know where his mom is. 1/2
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Gerrymandered districts in NC will remain unrepresentative.
mcpli.bsky.social Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: The 3-judge panel in the North Carolina redistricting cases has denied requests to block the new congressional map. Decision was unanimous. #ncpol

drive.google.com/file/d/1OcO7...
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
The Dallas Express, a right wing "news" website that routinely quotes groups that were secretly funded by the website's publisher Monty Bennett, has been given a White House press pass under the "new media" program that also includes folks like Russian-funded podcaster Tim Pool.
The Dallas Express will receive White House press credentials for the first time, marking a major milestone for the nonprofit newsroom as it continues to expand its national presence. CEO Chris Putnam announced Wednesday that the outlet has been invited to participate in the White House's New Media Program. Putnam and The Dallas Express co-founder Sarah Zubiate Bennett, host of the Let's Talk Local podcast, will travel to Washington, D.C., next week to attend the outlet's first press conference inside the James S. Brady Briefing Room.
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: The prosecutor who took over the Georgia case concluded that he couldn't press forward with it. His decision to drop the charges was quickly approved by Judge McAfee, ending the last remaining criminal case Trump faced.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM