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#AltGov State Government Worker (not state dept) Covering all the ways the actions of the Regime are impacting the work of state governments. DMs open to reporting impacts you're seeing relating to program funding cuts. Be an #AltCitizen.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · Apr 11
🧵Hi! I'm AltStateGov and yes I am a current state worker.

Why am I here? Because at my level of work, I interact regularly with amazing federal workers who care deeply about what they do just as I do. We work together to ensure federal rules are applied and followed at the state and local level.
a man in a white shirt is standing in front of a brick house with the words hi there above him .
Alt: a man in a white shirt Napoleon Dynamite is standing in front of a brick house with the words hi there above him .
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 1h
Wow, he's really milking the cash cow for all it's worth this time around.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 2h
NEW: We obtained Secret Service records showing that the agency spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money at Trump properties in the first months of President Trump's second term.
Secret Service has spent nearly $100k at Trump properties - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The Secret Service spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money at Trump properties in the first months of his second term.
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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 1h
The brilliance of the oligarchs.
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 18h
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 1h
He’s a Speaker, not a thinker.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Mike Johnson: "I don't have any strategy"
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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 1h
Johnson is the problem.

#GOPShutdown
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 2h
a man is waving from a boat in the ocean and says `` hi jeff ! ''
Alt: a man is waving from a boat in the ocean and says `` hi jeff ! ''
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Orlando Sentinel @orlandosentinel.com · 4h
Judge declines to stop Miami Dade College land transfer for Trump library — for now trib.al/aU2ENuj
Judge declines to stop Miami Dade College land transfer for Trump library — for now
The lawsuit alleges the college violated Florida’s Sunshine Law last month when trustees voted to transfer the land to the state, without specifying in advance the specific parcel or the purpose of…
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
I wonder if the video of Tom Homan accepting a $50K payoff from the FBI is in the same lockbox as the Epstein files and the cocktail napkin that Trump used to write out his health care plan.
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Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · 3h
‘Wanted’ posters of Black Durham leaders spark debate over race and politics. Under the photos are the words “For Social Murder,” and “social and political and economic oppression and capitalist exploitation.” (Via Kristen Johnson) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c... #ncpol
‘Wanted’ posters of Black Durham leaders spark debate over race and politics
“If they want to get all upset about the poster, good. Hopefully it’ll facilitate some self-awareness and some self-reflection,” said the creator of the posters.
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Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 3h
Memphis task force using TN “buffer law,” preventing up-close observation & recording of police activity, as 100s of state and federal law enforcement, including ICE and the National Guard, descend on the city.
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Memphis task force using TN “buffer law,” preventing up-close recording of police activity • Tennessee Lookout
Hunter Demster pulled out his phone at a gas station in Memphis to record over half a dozen men in bulletproof vests gathered around the flashing blue lights of a Tennessee Highway Patrol car.  Then o...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
MAGA Mike Johnson has kept the House out of session for weeks now (but collecting their pay) to help Trump cover up the Epstein files.
Tell your pro-Trump family and friends, if you have any. They won't hear it from Fox, so tell them.
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Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 3h
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton wants to double the number of students who receive private-school vouchers when legislature reconvenes in January
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Debate over private-school voucher expansion looms in Tennessee • Tennessee Lookout
Key Tennessee lawmakers are taking different views toward Gov. Bill Lee’s desire to expand the state’s new private-school voucher program.  House Speaker Cameron Sexton is gung-ho about an increase, s...
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 3h
Disgustingly consistent actions in every state these victims' stories come from.

The depravity and aggression is a conscious choice by each person in ICE committing kidnappings, and each federal agent who stands by watching on video.
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Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 3h
‘Bring her back’: Delaware abuse victim, who holds a visa to live legally in the U.S., rescued from ICE deportation after state attorney general intervention
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‘Bring her back': Delaware abuse victim rescued from ICE deportation
ICE detained a Delaware victim of domestic violence, despite her living with protected legal status. Then the Attorney General stepped in.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 3h
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Alt: King Cake Baby Thumbs Up GIF
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 3h
The guy who is upset about the No Kings protest is also mad that his fake crown wasn't big enough.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 3h
a cartoon of archer holding a camera with the words something something danger zone written below him
Alt: a cartoon of archer holding a camera with the words something something danger zone written below him
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 3h
#GOPShitdown day 14, it’s a short week, blessedly. What’s keeping us going today, y’all???? Drop some cuteness or good news below to boost morale!!!!!! Gimme puppies and kittens and babies and love winning and all the things bringing you joy today!!!! ✊✊✊✊
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 6h
I am a public servant from a family of service. I look at these people and I do not relate. I do not find in me anything that would compel or allow this behavior. It is 100% incompatible with public service in America.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7h
This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h
You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 5h
No, Republicans aren’t keeping the government closed out of respect for the rules. Know how I know that? The President they still support wiped his ass with the budget Congress passed and they got down on their knees to thank him for it. They don’t want to kill the filibuster bc it’s their lifeline.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4h
Good morning,

We start today with a message from the frog resistance. Stay weird Portland 💚
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 13h
A message from the frog resistance
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A Message From The Frog Resistance
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 3h
The Supreme Court will hear a case TOMORROW that could gut a central voting rights protection that safeguards against racial gerrymandering.

We’ll be covering it live at 10 AM ET. Follow us on Bluesky @democracydocket.com for real-time updates.
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GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns
Read more here.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3h
💉Reminder! Don't forget to get your yearly Flu and COVID vaccine. Cases of both will start increasing soon 📈

Check with your medical providers, local pharmacies, and/or local health departments for COVID vaccine availability.

#wildtomild
Influenza vaccine campaign poster. There's a magenta background with words in white: "A flu vaccine can take flu from WILD (over a picture of a rhinoceros) to mild (over a picture of a pink plastic toy unicorn). In the bottom right is an orange box with white text saying "#Fight Flu" and below that the blue CDC logo with "CDC" and the HHS logo in white.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 3h
Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
‘Hot mic’ catches Indonesian president asking Trump for a meeting with son Eric
The American president was overheard arranging a meeting between Prabowo Subianto and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h
Attend "No Kings" to protest the pro-kings.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h
If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5h
Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
It is a disgrace that Fox continues to put them on constantly day after day to spew their propaganda to their friends when Hegseth & Wilson are afraid to face real press and are obviously in the process of covering a lot up that they don’t want the American people to know.
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