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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · 19h

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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · 19h

Steve Ahlquist also covered this in September.
steveahlquist.substack.com/p/israel-pai...

Israel paid for six Rhode Island state legislators to visit with Netanyahu

According to the Times of Israel, 250 United States state legislators, at least five from every state, traveled to Israel a few days ago.

steveahlquist.substack.com

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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · 1d

I too achieve far-reaching success with this system.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13d

Since Sept. 9, Roberts has been letting Trump run out the clock on congressionally-required spending through an "administrative" stay blocking a district court injunction on the shadow docket while Roberts and SCOTUS are considering DOJ's (extremely weak) "pocket rescission" arguments.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 16d

Our national parks are not billboards for propaganda.

I’m calling on Secretary Burgum to reverse this order immediately and restore what’s been erased.

The National Park System does not belong to any administration. It belongs to the American people.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 17d

In 1983, 90% of U.S. media was owned by 50 companies. By 2012, that number was 6. Today, it's just 5.

Decades of media consolidation made it "a lot easier for authoritarian government to exercise control," consumer advocate Gigi Sohn says.

Much more in my new piece: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

At the same time, mergers among media companies exploded in frequency. Disney purchased ABC and ESPN. Westinghouse merged with Viacom, combining CBS with UPN, MTV and Nickelodeon. Comcast merged with NBCUniversal (MSNBC’s parent company). In 1983, 90% of American media was owned by 50 media companies. By 2012, that number was 6. Today, after the Paramount-Viacom merger in 2019, that number is just 5. Consolidation in the technology sector means that most of the major digital media platforms are also in the hands of a few major corporations, from Youtube (owned by Google) to Twitch (Amazon) to X (Elon Musk).

“When the government has allowed for decades of consolidation of media and technology companies,” says Gigi Sohn, former nominee to the FCC during the Biden administration, “it becomes a lot easier for authoritarian government to exercise control because there are just fewer entities to pressure.”

This consolidation is only getting worse. Earlier this year, Paramount, the owner of CBS, was purchased by Skydance Media, whose founder and CEO David Ellison is the son of pro-Trump billionaire Larry Ellison. Now, CNBC reports, the younger Ellison is planning a bid for one of the other four remaining media titans, Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns CNN and HBO Max. And the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter,” reports that the elder Ellison, through his company Oracle, would be a lead investor in a consortium that will receive an 80% share in TikTok’s new U.S. business.

If these moves come to fruition, pro-Trump (or at least Trump-friendly) billionaires will control TikTok, X, Facebook, CBS, CNN, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20d

People need to understand that, more than any coherent ideology, what we have is a mafia state.

Want a job? You have to pay the ruling party. Need a passport processed on time? Pay up. Need government funding for that road? Help Eric Trump buy that yacht he wants.

Ruling party gets a cut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

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404 Media @404media.co · 22d

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Peter Neronha @peterfneronha.bsky.social · 22d

These increases are awarded by the Health Commissioner in a vacuum - without any appreciation of the overall healthcare crisis in RI - and where he has offered little.

Rhode Islanders have every right to be upset with the Gov for ignoring the crisis that we have been speaking about for so long.

WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 22d

Commercial insurance premiums for nearly 175,000 people in Rhode Island are set to increase next year. Find out how much your premium will go up: ⤵️

RI health insurance premiums to increase by up to 21% in 2026

Commercial insurance premiums for nearly 175,000 people in Rhode Island are officially set to increase next year.

www.wpri.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23d

Few parents have hours a week to spend reading about and using AI, the way the article recommends.

But the engineers and profiteers of AI (and our DIY society) will push that message anyway, because that way they don't have to pay to keep AI safe, and they can blame parents when things go wrong. 3/

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 24d

A mostly dead ocean by 2050
UC Santa Barbara researchers project that human impacts on oceans will double by 2050, with warming seas and fisheries collapse leading the charge

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Oceans could reach a dangerous tipping point by 2050

UC Santa Barbara researchers project that human impacts on oceans will double by 2050, with warming seas and fisheries collapse leading the charge. The tropics and poles face the fastest changes, and ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 24d

The entire federal leadership in public health & in science now lacks expertise—and that's an enormous problem, says Dr. Wendy Armstrong, vice president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, referring to the number of political appointees at the CDC www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · 28d

Wishing everyone well there.

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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · 28d

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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 29d

Fossil-fuel firms receive US subsidies worth $31bn each year, study finds:
Figure calculated by Oil Change International has more than doubled since 2017 but is likely a vast understatement
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fossil-fuel firms receive US subsidies worth $31bn each year, study finds

Figure calculated by Oil Change International has more than doubled since 2017 but is likely a vast understatement

www.theguardian.com

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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · Sep 8

One and the same! : )

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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s more often than not the older white women who are organizing and protesting. I get that it’s because we’re privileged to be able to do so but also, where are the older white men? Where are the young people? It’s an all hands on deck situation rn. (Also, hi Jon! 👋 😊)

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Jessica Allen @jessicaallen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now do JP Morgan and fossil fuels.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tim Walz: "Where are the don't tread on me people? You are being tread on every single day. These folks are enriching themselves. The most successful thing he's done is grift off the American people."

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · Sep 4

Any Senators here?

I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.

RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.

He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.

He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 30

We could have a modern parliamentary democracy, universal healthcare, human rights in the constitution, bullet trains, proper infrastructure etc. It would be so great.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · Aug 29

The way you know this is culture war bullshit pushed by the fossil fuel industry is that buildings kill up to a billion birds per year and you can be sure our real estate developer president never cared one whit about it.

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