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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 8h

Keys to the office? Check! ✅
Sworn in as Congresswoman? Not quite 🙅🏻‍♂️

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 7h

Translation: We have too many uppity women. We must keep them barefoot and pregnant.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 15h

Good questions.

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15h

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 15h

Yet so many people told us we were over-reacting when he was reelected…

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 15h

Yet another day for our neighbors in AZ CD-7 to go without representation in Congress.

Seat Adelita Grijalva.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 2d

This.

Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 2d

For those who are NOT Feds, make sure you check on your Fed friends. Either we are working for nothing or we are struggling with being on a forced vacation. While there may be advantages, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

The fact there’s a man in our White House who constantly expresses his hatred for half of the country and makes clear his desire to strip away programs supported by Democrats should tell millions & millions why they need to be a part of the No Kings protest if they still believe in America.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s everlasting peace in the Middle East held for 24 hours, so now he has to defend Hamas killing people to keep his Nobel Prize hopes alive.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 2d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 2d

Go, Kris. Sue him out of his unknowing, unseeing mind.

AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 2d

On behalf of Arizona, I am demanding Speaker Johnson seat Congresswoman Grijlva without delay. We are keeping every option open to us, including litigation, to make sure that Adelita is able to begin her work as Arizona's newest member of Congress.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 2d

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I remember when Joe Biden traveled to 8 cities for 14 appearances in 9 days after the June debate and then did a 90 minute UN brief but the media still relentlessly hounded him. Where's that media? At a Jake Tapper book talk?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump had a lot of travel the last two days and he looked it today (Getty)

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, Colin, finally made it to Glasgow yesterday after all these years and wandered around Sauchiehall St (parts I and II) this morning with your book in hand. (Well, actually on my phone.) City-and book-are marvelous.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

And another day.

Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 5d

Another day for our neighbors in AZ-CD7 to go without representation in Congress.

Seat Adelita Grijalva.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 2d

Ain’t that the truth?

Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

This.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 3d

When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Joy. Sorrow. Fury. Disgust. And Hope. All at Once.

Reacting to this disorienting, misrepresented, misperceived moment in the Middle East.

open.substack.com

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

The ultimate Know Nothing. This guy is such a loser.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, Bessent, we had a government, but you and your buddies are in the process of dismantling it, and getting rid of the people who served it-and us-well and faithfully. I can’t imagine you working without a paycheck. Ever.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

Sadly predictable. Still, got to hold his feet to the fire.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

So it begins.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

These are the public servants this administration fired when it destroyed USAID. Don’t know about you but I think they’re pretty special to do this.

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 3d

A day of joy and hope. But unless the international community moves very fast in getting a security presence on the ground in Gaza, the situation could descend into gangland violence: the last thing the people of Gaza need. Welcome that the summit in Egypt happens today as well x.com/skynews/stat...

Sky News on X: ""The second phase starts today." Former National Security Adviser Lord Peter Ricketts tells @SkyYaldaHakim while it's a day to celebrate the release of hostages, there's also a narrow window to ensure the ceasefire lasts. Follow live 🔗 https://t.co/C301Bd67jE 📺 Sky 501 https://t.co/gCDMDXyAR6" / X

"The second phase starts today." Former National Security Adviser Lord Peter Ricketts tells @SkyYaldaHakim while it's a day to celebrate the release of hostages, there's also a narrow window to ensure the ceasefire lasts. Follow live 🔗 https://t.co/C301Bd67jE 📺 Sky 501 https://t.co/gCDMDXyAR6

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Ambassador Luis G. Moreno (ret) @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social · 9d

I personally witnessed this while I was stationed in places like Nicaragua, Haiti, Peru. My colleagues in @steadystatevets.bsky.social have seen it in many other places. Now it is here, and it’s all hands on deck time. The danger is now.

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 9d

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorites! Lovely pic.

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