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🇺🇦Kathryn Sievers she/her🇺🇦

@easternbluebirds.bsky.social

740 followers 420 following 970 posts

Democrat, fervent but terrible gardener, occasional baker, apparent klutz, professional viola player. I read Michelle Obama's Becoming and took from it that hope is a moral imperative. I grapple daily to maintain hope for our world--don't give up!

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1h

People are using GoFundMe for groceries.

GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition.

Americans are fundraising for basic necessities, while the top 1% increased their wealth to $52 trillion.

This is what a rigged system designed by the wealthy looks like.

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🇺🇦Kathryn Sievers she/her🇺🇦 @easternbluebirds.bsky.social · 23m

not just violence, but genocide.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 37m

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that House Republicans are on paid vacation instead of in Washington doing their jobs.

Government shutdown? Health care costs going up? Speaker Johnson isn’t interested in solving any of that.

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 33m

Today is Day 21 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:

1. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House.

2. GOP making deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and ACA.

3. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 17h

The American people are not stupid.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1h

In February, Rep. Raskin and I called on DHS to explain why ICE was detaining US citizens.

Their response was unserious. Today, we are once again asking Secretary Noem: Why do you continue unlawfully detaining U.S. citizens?
thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 49m

Elizabeth Warren: "Genuinely, I don't know what's happened to the Republicans in the Senate. It's as if they have all had their spines surgically removed. They only do what Donald Trump tells them to do. So if Donald Trump tells them to sit down and negotiate, then they will sit down and negotiate."

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14h

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h

My Vogon lawyers are informing me if I do not post my bi-weekly campaign donation link, they are going to start declaiming Microsoft’s EULA at me in the form of a Norse saga, so please.

I’m begging you. There’s only so much a man can suffer.

(also I promise not to dump poop on people from a plane)

Donate to Chris Kluwe

Show your support with a contribution.

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Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 21h

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 17h

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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🇺🇦Kathryn Sievers she/her🇺🇦 @easternbluebirds.bsky.social · 14h

I wish it were a mausoleum...☠️

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 22h

Bless Mayor Johnson for calling for a general strike!

Bless The Chicago Mayor’s Call For A General Strike

Can God get an amen?

www.thegodpodcast.com

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NPR @npr.org · 23h

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Democrats @democrats-veterans.house.gov · 23h

"We have an active duty servicemember swept up in an ICE raid who hasn't been allowed to talk to his family since September 3rd."

During last week's roundtable, Col. Saenz called for immediate Congressional oversight to protect veterans and servicemembers from ICE agents.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 1d

For New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, it felt personal watching more than 120 jobs tied to special education disappear during the government shutdown. Hassan's son Ben was born with cerebral palsy, a neurological condition that affects movement and posture. bit.ly/3Wf98DC

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 1d

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Everything absurd starts as a joke until the consequences aren’t funny anymore.

Dehumanization always starts small — a laugh, a meme, a mock of someone you don’t agree with or like the looks of. But that’s how empathy erodes. We can do better than this.

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🇺🇦Kathryn Sievers she/her🇺🇦 @easternbluebirds.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 1d

No need to comply
substack.com/@howtoresist...

📌 45 Acts of Non-Compliance for Ordinary People

Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

substack.com

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🇺🇦Kathryn Sievers she/her🇺🇦 @easternbluebirds.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, the halcyon days of the threat of rates merely doubling...

🇺🇦Kathryn Sievers she/her🇺🇦 @easternbluebirds.bsky.social · 1d

I'm planning to keep showing up until I get paid.

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