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Sandra 🗽 is not going back.

@gobuxgal.bsky.social

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Sandra 🗽 is not going back. @gobuxgal.bsky.social · Nov 16

👋 I’m an organizer & advocate who led volunteers to Protect Repro Freedom & to End Gerrymandering. I whip voters in a Red cty we flipped in 2023.
This space has grown a lot since I joined last yr! I built a following on the bird app for 15 yrs & it’ll take a minute to find everyone. LFG Blue Sky!

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 5h

I dedicate this post to the formidable @annabower.bsky.social

Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme but about everything being off the record

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haveyouanywool.bsky.social @haveyouanywool.bsky.social · 6h

If you delete substantive texts, you never have to preserve them in compliance with the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act. Her official communications belong to the people of the United States, and we demand to see them.

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Sandra 🗽 is not going back. @gobuxgal.bsky.social · 16m

Jim Jordan did too! (Didn’t pass the Bar though👆)

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

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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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

seems like you could be minimally fit, join ICE for the signing bonus, and then just not do the job

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 7h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12d

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Axios @axios.com · 18h

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: President Trump and the federal government are policing speech, morality, and punishment of individual citizens at a level of micromanagement rarely, if ever, witnessed in America.

Behind the Curtain: It won't stop with Trump

Trump and future presidents hold the power, backed by precedent, to wield their vast authority to harm critics, help allies and chill free speech.

www.axios.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Rubio betrayed confidential informants to get the CECOT deal.
“Who would ever trust the word of U.S. law enforcement or prosecutors again?”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sandra 🗽 is not going back. @gobuxgal.bsky.social · 27m

Awesome & more of this! There were >200 folks who showed up in very red Marysville, OH! That’s a big increase from the first No Kings. Friends sent these photos.
In Marysville, there are no Dem elected officials. Jim Jordan is the Congressman and republicans applaud him.

More than 200 peaceful protestors lined the streets in “Uptown” Marysville, OH for No Kings 10/18/25

Peaceful protestors after No Kings in Marysville, OH 10/18/25.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4h

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 54m

Removing it from broader story:

the WH spox admits she believes this fact of history —

which can be verified by historical documents, records, presidential archives, and countless other living & print sources —

is “disingenuous, biased, bullshit” “Democratic talking points”

America is in danger

Is the president aware of the significance of Budapest? In 1994, Russia promised, in Budapest, not to invade Ukraine if it gave up the nuclear weapons it inherited when the Soviet Union dissolved.
Does he not see why Ukraine might object to that site?
Who suggested Budapest?
Thanks.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1h

“When I saw [an internal document on the strikes],” a senior US national security official said, “I immediately thought, ‘This isn’t about terrorists. This is about Venezuela and regime change.’ But there was no information about what it was really about.”

Trump’s drug policy excuses don’t add up.

Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 14h

Trump says the boats that U.S. forces are blowing up and the people they’re killing are carrying deadly fentanyl here.

The administration has provided no evidence.

U.S. and other officials say the route they’re attacking actually carries marijuana and cocaine to Europe and Africa

wapo.st/47i1gX6

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats

Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

wapo.st

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 4d

South Park: 🎶 Peter Thiel knows about the Antichrist 😂

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 48m

Yes just a reminder. It’s all illegal.

I L L E G A L

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 2h

No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.

Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.

www.nytimes.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 2h

@michaelsteele.bsky.social on Trump amid efforts to rewrite the election & impact outcomes: “He is a walking id”

The Trump administration moves to rewrite the history of the 2020 election and future results in the process, by hiring a “Stop the Steal” lawyer to investigate baseless fraud claims.

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11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social · 2h

"Personal and partisan use of the U.S. military." - @sbg1.bsky.social

The attorney general of Washington, D.C. filed evidence showing that the National Guard would likely be in the city "indefinitely."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 9h

Americans have a clear message for Republicans who shut down our government:
CANCEL THE CUTS.
LOWER THE COSTS.
SAVE HEALTH CARE.

A photo from a rally to save Medicaid in Iowa with three senior women holding signs and American flags.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Danielle Veith @danielleveith.bsky.social · 2h

Love @ezralevin.bsky.social: "This is not the Trump Era. This is the #NoKings Era. Trump just happens to be living in it."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

OAK RIDGE, TN: “A former director of nuclear energy programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was arrested after an investigation into allegations he solicited explicit messages and images from underage girls.” www.wbir.com/article/news...

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