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Tracy Kneisler
@2much2soon.bsky.social
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Partner, friend, sister, aunt, dog mom, veteran 🏳️‍🌈 | Former national security 🇺🇸🕵🏻‍♀️ | PhD, neurophysiology 🧠 | Defender of democracy 🗽 | UNC & Wake Forest grad👩🏻‍🎓| Moved to 🇨🇦
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theatlantic.com
Trump has approved a 28-point plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. “The deeply troubling details now circulating show what Trump wants: to help the Russian president,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues, “and to weaken Ukraine, perhaps fatally.”
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine
The White House is giving Putin permission to try again.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
This is a blatant lie. The U.S. intelligence community concluded that MBS “approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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oversightdemocrats.house.gov
Trump has the power to RELEASE THE FILES today. Ranking Member @robertgarcia.house.gov's full statement ⬇️
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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katejackson.bsky.social
Someone remind me… did Trump need a congressional statute to release the Amelia Earhart files?
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
“FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members, exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information…”

www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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propublica.org
NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Sheesh
zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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patti3333.bsky.social
Governor Gavin Newsom on Twitter a few moments ago
Regarding Democrat Senators who caved
Agree with you Governor 💯
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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thepwhl.com
Introducing the Seattle Torrent and the Vancouver Goldeneyes!

Our two new team identities are here! Get to know them at the links below:
Torrent ➡️ thepwhl.com/en/teams/seattle-torrent
Goldeneyes ➡️ thepwhl.com/en/teams/vancouver-goldeneyes
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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pbump.com
I've been writing about it!
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
www.pbump.net/o/in-less-th...
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”
November 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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washingtonpost.com
Exclusive: The Trump administration has used misleading footage to promote its immigration agenda in at least six videos in the last three months.

Some videos that purported to show chaos in Trump-targeted cities had footage from completely different states.
Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
Chicago attorney Ashley Keller of the firm Keller Postman is leading Ken Paxton's lawsuit against Tylenol.

Here's a reminder that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports the use of Tylenol during pregnancy.

Take the Tylenol if you need it.
ACOG supports the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy when taken as needed, in moderation, and after consultation with a doctor. Acetaminophen has long been established as a safe pain reliever and fever reducer for use during pregnancy.
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
This photo.

@sfstandard.com #SFO
sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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brianklaas.bsky.social
The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
2much2soon.bsky.social
Frisco, CO showing out today for No Kings.
Crowd with signs from No King protest
October 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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jctheresistance.demcast.com
THIS is a headline! And accurate.

#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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americanbar.org
Independence and evidence-based decision-making must drive federal prosecutorial actions.
The American Bar Association is deeply concerned about the increasing use of federal prosecutorial power for apparent partisan political ends. A recent pattern of indictments against elected and appointed officials appears to represent a disturbing shift away from independent evidence-based decision-making and toward politically motivated retribution. Such actions constitute an affront to the rule of law and have the potential to degrade the credibility of the Department of Justice in the eyes of the American public. The American justice system is founded on the principle that prosecutorial decisions must be made independently, without regard to political fear or favor. Since post-Watergate reforms, DOJ leadership across administrations has adhered to this norm. When the department's independence is undermined— especially by purging career prosecutors or fast-tracking cases lacking sufficient evidence — the public loses trust in the fairness and impartiality of the legal system. It is antithetical to the rule of law for a government to begin with the intent to indict an individual and then search for a purported crime to justify that outcome. Such an approach subverts the foundational legal principle that investigations should be guided by evidence of wrongdoing, not by personal animus. The government must have credible evidence of a specific crime before launching an investigation. To reverse the process by targeting a person first and then combing through their life in search of a potential charge runs counter to bedrock rule-of-law principles. Laws and the justice system should not be wielded as weapons against enemies but should stand as protection for all. The ABA has long maintained that political interference in the prosecutorial process is corrosive. As stated in ABA policy adopted more than a decade ago, decisions by DOJ attorneys must be based on facts and the law, not ideology or any president’s preferences.
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
As of today, more than 50% of all US federal government shut down days in history have happened during Trump presidencies
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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thenation.com
Once ranked last in child wellbeing, New Mexico is now leading the nation in early childhood care.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/childcare-for-all-progressivism-new-mexico/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It's Time for Others to Do the Same
The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US.
www.thenation.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Truly excellent new piece by Lincoln Caplan in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social on John Roberts, seen in full.

Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
Quote: Their outcomes, along with the Court’s actions in the last few years, carry the seeds of American tragedy. Roberts, often described as an institutionalist, has enabled the most hostile anti-institutionalist ever elected president. The leader of the nation’s judicial system has empowered the president who is the most disdainful in history of the decrees of judges, the provisos of the Constitution, and the workings of American democracy. The chief justice, attempting to thread the needle between principle and practicality, has opened the door to the possibility of the ultimate constitutional crisis: a president’s outright defiance of the Supreme Court.
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM