Susan Goodwin
@susannaspeaks5.bsky.social
Mom, wife, progressive clergy, writer. Lover of water, democracy, nature, kindness, dogs, books, libraries and yoga. Ally. Friend. No MAGA. No DMs. Bucks County, Pa /Mid-coast Maine. 💙 📚
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A grand jury, for a second time, has declined to bring a new indictment against Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated President Donald Trump and his company in court, according to multiple sources. https://cnn.it/4ab2N4j
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A grand jury, for a second time, has declined to bring a new indictment against Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated President Donald Trump and his company in court, according to multiple sources. https://cnn.it/4ab2N4j
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🚨 More Epstein documents are officially on their way. trib.al/iRl4ICQ
Federal Judge Orders Release of Epstein Grand Jury Documents
More Epstein documents are on their way.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🚨 More Epstein documents are officially on their way. trib.al/iRl4ICQ
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A growing body of research reveals that America’s obsession with corn has a steep price: The fertilizer used to grow it is warming the planet and contaminating water. @amesalex.bsky.social reports via @floodlightnews.org:
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Corn’s Clean-Energy Promise Is Clashing With Its Climate Footprint
Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A growing body of research reveals that America’s obsession with corn has a steep price: The fertilizer used to grow it is warming the planet and contaminating water. @amesalex.bsky.social reports via @floodlightnews.org:
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‘Why are we letting this guy go?’ Trump’s pardons upend US justice system on.ft.com/4pmmA5u #FTEdit
‘Why are we letting this guy go?’ Trump’s pardons upend US justice system
Releases of drug traffickers and fraudsters puzzle allies and send shockwaves through legal circles
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December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
‘Why are we letting this guy go?’ Trump’s pardons upend US justice system on.ft.com/4pmmA5u #FTEdit
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🚨 BREAKING: Trump is moving to privatize legal aid for migrant children and hand it to a for-profit ICE contractor. Yes, the same agency trying to deport them would help control their “legal support.” Advocates say it breaches confidentiality, strips protections and pushes kids toward faster removal
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Trump is moving to privatize legal aid for migrant children and hand it to a for-profit ICE contractor. Yes, the same agency trying to deport them would help control their “legal support.” Advocates say it breaches confidentiality, strips protections and pushes kids toward faster removal
Holy Smokey the Bear!
A California man found the underside of his house in disarray. It turned out that a 550-pound black bear had moved into the crawl space. trib.al/y7jyZmk
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Holy Smokey the Bear!
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Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
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Jimmy Kimmel has mocked a recent claim from Donald Trump, describing the president as a "kid running for student council".
Kimmel blasts Trump as 'kid running for student council' after income tax pledge
Jimmy Kimmel has mocked a recent claim from Donald Trump, describing the president as a "kid running for student council".Trump has made several outlandish claims which were quietly walked back or deconstructed by analysts who said it was simply not possible to legislate said order, and the "no inco...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Jimmy Kimmel has mocked a recent claim from Donald Trump, describing the president as a "kid running for student council".
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Column: Tuesday’s surprisingly competitive special election in Tennessee, after President Trump won the district by 22 percentage points last year, shows that Republicans may be in trouble with their base for midterm elections.
Column | Surprisingly tough Tennessee election reveals House GOP has base problem
A hard-fought victory in once-safe Republican territory came as polls show conservative support on the wane for GOP congressional majorities.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Column: Tuesday’s surprisingly competitive special election in Tennessee, after President Trump won the district by 22 percentage points last year, shows that Republicans may be in trouble with their base for midterm elections.
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Is the Forest Service falling behind on wildfire prevention during President Donald Trump's second term in the White House?
Is the Forest Service falling behind on wildfire prevention?
Is the Forest Service falling behind on wildfire prevention during President Donald Trump's second term in the White House?
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December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Is the Forest Service falling behind on wildfire prevention during President Donald Trump's second term in the White House?
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Tennessee's 7th congressional district has become competitive after polling tightened between Republican Matt Van Epps and Democrat Aftyn Behn.
Who’s running in the Tennessee special election? Meet the candidates
Tennessee's 7th congressional district has become competitive after polling tightened between Republican Matt Van Epps and Democrat Aftyn Behn.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Tennessee's 7th congressional district has become competitive after polling tightened between Republican Matt Van Epps and Democrat Aftyn Behn.
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“It is happening right here in your own backyard. This is where you have to pay attention.”
Our top story: A broad coalition has come together in North Texas to resist GOP attacks on their courts and their communities.
Our top story: A broad coalition has come together in North Texas to resist GOP attacks on their courts and their communities.
In Tarrant County, a Grassroots Coalition Pushes Back on Christian Nationalists
The recent redistricting of the county commissioners court has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.
www.texasobserver.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“It is happening right here in your own backyard. This is where you have to pay attention.”
Our top story: A broad coalition has come together in North Texas to resist GOP attacks on their courts and their communities.
Our top story: A broad coalition has come together in North Texas to resist GOP attacks on their courts and their communities.
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OPINION: Not everything is horror. I also see and hear beautiful and true things. People are rising up to be good neighbors to one another
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The chaos of Charlotte and the call to radical neighborliness
(RNS) — There is a force even greater than masked men with guns, and that is neighbors remembering we belong to one another.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
OPINION: Not everything is horror. I also see and hear beautiful and true things. People are rising up to be good neighbors to one another
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Letter: Let’s not forget the one person in Congress who could’ve derailed Trump
Letter: Let’s not forget the one person in Congress who could’ve derailed Trump
Letter: Let’s not forget the one person in Congress who could’ve derailed Trump
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November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Letter: Let’s not forget the one person in Congress who could’ve derailed Trump
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The gifts, including a gold bar, were handed over during a meeting about a week before the administration cut Swiss tariffs.
Calls For Bribery Probe Into Lavish Gifts Given To Trump
www.newsweek.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The gifts, including a gold bar, were handed over during a meeting about a week before the administration cut Swiss tariffs.
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Public outrage about corruption should become even greater than it was after the Watergate scandal in 1974.
Four Ways to Fight Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption | Opinion
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November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Public outrage about corruption should become even greater than it was after the Watergate scandal in 1974.
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"These fabricated allegations were blatant acts of political retaliation and a dangerous abuse of power." So said NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez about the dropped charges against Comey and James.
Judge drops James Comey and Letitia James charges, saying prosecutor served 'unlawfully' • Source New Mexico
A senior federal judge dismissed charges Monday against two public officials with long-running public disputes with President Donald Trump, saying the controversial appointment of the president’s…
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November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"These fabricated allegations were blatant acts of political retaliation and a dangerous abuse of power." So said NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez about the dropped charges against Comey and James.
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“If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work,” Kelly wrote. “I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.”
Pentagon investigates Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly after he appears in video blasted by Trump | Arizona Mirror
The Department of Defense is looking into “serious allegations of misconduct” against Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work,” Kelly wrote. “I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.”
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For all the juice Bluesky has, for all the love we are feeling from you today (and every day), make no mistake: This fundraiser is a big, big lift. If you feel able, can you talk to a less-online liberal and let them know this is happening?
We are trying to build something that cannot be ignored.
We are trying to build something that cannot be ignored.
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
For all the juice Bluesky has, for all the love we are feeling from you today (and every day), make no mistake: This fundraiser is a big, big lift. If you feel able, can you talk to a less-online liberal and let them know this is happening?
We are trying to build something that cannot be ignored.
We are trying to build something that cannot be ignored.
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“Given the scale of Epstein’s trafficking operation, it’s clear that many more powerful people were involved. My staff have seen a paper trail with their own eyes. Banks that helped enable him should be investigated." trib.al/ISBFh8N
Top Dem Reveals How JPMorgan Chase Helped Epstein Hide His Crimes
Senator Ron Wyden accused the bank of obstructing law enforcement from examining the financial infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking network.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“Given the scale of Epstein’s trafficking operation, it’s clear that many more powerful people were involved. My staff have seen a paper trail with their own eyes. Banks that helped enable him should be investigated." trib.al/ISBFh8N
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Donald Trump at around midnight had an "outburst" in which he said Democratic military veterans have committed "a crime of serious proportion.
'Crime of serious proportion!' Trump unloads on Dem military vets in midnight 'outburst'
Donald Trump at around midnight had an "outburst" in which he said Democratic military veterans have committed "a crime of serious proportion."Trump took to Truth Social to respond to a video in which several Dem lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds reminded troops about their consti...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Donald Trump at around midnight had an "outburst" in which he said Democratic military veterans have committed "a crime of serious proportion.
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After the friendly White House meeting on Friday between President Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, the prospect of the National Guard being deployed to the city in the coming months seems less likely.
Mamdani and Trump Tamp Down Fears Over National Guard in New York City
In a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press,” Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, said he had made a forceful case to the president that troops were not needed in the city.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
After the friendly White House meeting on Friday between President Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, the prospect of the National Guard being deployed to the city in the coming months seems less likely.
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“I knew that I was black and a woman, but I didn’t know a young black woman wasn’t supposed to be at the New Yorker,” says Jamaica Kincaid.
Jamaica Kincaid: ‘Books saved my life’
The acclaimed author on falling in love with writing—and why she’s not shocked by ‘undemocratic America’
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“I knew that I was black and a woman, but I didn’t know a young black woman wasn’t supposed to be at the New Yorker,” says Jamaica Kincaid.
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NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.