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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Well, the rules committee Republicans are scared shitless of Donald Trump, to put it bluntly. They don’t want to do anything to offend him, and so they’re part of the cover-up." HOW DO WE HOLD THESE REPUBLICANS ACCOUNTABLE?!

Transcript: Epstein Survivor Nukes Trump in Moving Speech as WH Panics

As pressure mounts on Trump and the GOP to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, a senior House Democrat explains why Republicans will have a very hard time maintaining the cover-up for much longer.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 7

"'I'd respect you more if you told me you actually believe in this crap and that's why you were supporting the bill. But to tell me you don't believe in this stuff, you think it's going to hurt your own constituents, and vote for it anyway, that's cowardice.'"

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is a damning anecdote from Rep Jim McGovern. He tells me that during debate over Trump's big budget bill, House Rs privately admitted to him that it would screw over their own constituents, yet they had to vote for it anyway.

Read all of it. He wrecks them:

newrepublic.com/article/1999...

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Sep 7

I AM GOING TO BE ON ABC NEWS LIVE AT 11:20 AM EST TODAY! IF YOU SEE ME ON TV, PLEASE TAKE A PICTURE BECAUSE I CAN'T TAKE PHOTOS ON MY END. THANK YOU AND WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! #blacksky #TheDoubleTax

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Sep 7

HI EVERYONE. IM GOING TO BE ON ABC NEWS LIVE TOMORROW MORNING WITH JANAI NORMAN TALKING ABOUT THE DOUBLE TAX AT 11 AM EST.

THIS IS MY FIRST TV APPEARANCE SO PLEASE TUNE ALSO: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! #blacksky #somuchforvacation #ineveresperredit
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a person wearing a white t-shirt that says ' i love you ' on the front

Alt: a person wearing a white t-shirt that says ' i love you ' on the front

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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Great question

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

Massie: "I don't know if the Speaker misspoke when he said Donald Trump was an informant ... the Speaker needs to clarify that. And if it's a hoax, why was Donald Trump an informant to a hoax?"

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Tapper asks Ladapo if he vaccinated his kids.

Ladapo dodges the question altogether.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

LADAPO: This whole 'Florida hasn't done any analysis' -- that's nonsense

TAPPER: You said you hadn't done any projections!

LADAPO: We don't need to do any projections

Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Sep 7

"For nearly a century, Democratic and Republican presidents alike have sought to amass more power. What's different now is the degree of disdain Mr. Trump has shown for Congress and the willingness of G.O.P. leaders to defer to him even when it means undercutting their coequal branch of government."

Trump Tramples Congress’s Power, With Little Challenge From G.O.P.

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here's some good news... I've never heard of this. What a genius idea! “We’re meeting community needs in a globally responsible way,” Ms. Onsrud said. #LibraryofThings

Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost)

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Why do companies' shareholders and C.E.O.s get to make more money with the spread of viral content at the expense of our privacy and reputations? And why are there no consequences for the people who actually make the unauthorized deepfakes and spread the lies?" #AmyKlobuchar #AI #DeepFake

Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: What I Didn’t Say About Sydney Sweeney

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 20

"The clumsiness, the hollowness, the occasional silliness of the president’s actions should not distract you from the reality that even as he’s putting on a show, he’s also doing everything he can to reach his ultimate aim." #EndofDemocracy #ResistTrump #Authoritarianism

Opinion | What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · Aug 17

2025

A cartoon shows a man hooked up to a heart monitor, talking to a doctor holding a clip board. She gestures to the monitor and says “your anxiety levels are through the roof! Any idea what might be causing this?” The graph on the monitor is the jagged black scribble of Trump’s signature

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 17

Soldiers in MRAPs rolling around Union Station—blocks from the Capitol—seems silly, performative, and useless.

But it raises a much darker question:

What would Trump have done on Jan. 6, 2021 if he had possessed then the kind of control over local law enforcement that he seeks to acquire today?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 17

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Washington on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops. nyti.ms/3HyVbN1

A large group of protesters in front of the White House. They are carrying signs that say things like "No Human Is Illegal" and "DC Says No To Facism!" Photo by Eric Lee for The New York Times

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 17

How hateful do you have to be to prevent CHILDREN from receiving life saving medical care? #LauraLoomer #HEALPalenstine #resistTrump

U.S. Pauses Visitor Visas for Gazans After Right-Wing Outcry

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 17

"...crews were breathing in a mix of carcinogens and other harmful chemicals. The C.D.C. said the Forest Service should equip crews with respirator masks. The agency rejected that advice and commissioned more studies." #ForestService

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 13

Is everyone's teenage daughter this intense? Because I'm beginning to suspect they are. #teens #moms #sendhelp

How to Avoid Your Daughter

In five easy steps.

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 13

Girls... if we weren't worried before, we should be worried now. Yes, Doug Wilson is an asshat, but he's a major threat to our democracy. "Wilson’s Executive Pastor would go so far as to say that the 19th Amendment should be repealed because our current voting system is not “good for humans”."

An Open Letter to Pastors in America

Shame on you for cowering before the Mad Orange King.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · Aug 12

No testing, no COVID. No counting jobs, no unemployment. No reporting, no human rights violations. America is back!!!!

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · Aug 12

New weird trick to “reduce” human rights abuses

/sarcasm

State Department slashes its annual reports on human rights

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 13

So... Welcome to Gilead? Wow.

Cynthia Hope Laub @bloomlove.bsky.social · Aug 13

“A hotel could be legally liable for sex trafficking because it failed to intervene against a guest who wore "sexually explicit clothing" and had condoms in her room, according to a recent ruling from Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas”

Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · Aug 13

The same Texas judge who tried to ban abortion pills thinks hotels that don't intervene when they see a woman with "sexually explicit clothing" and condoms in her room can be legally liable for sex trafficking reason.com/2025/08/11/h...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 13

Yet another private prison closed under Biden that’s now being reopened as an ICE detention center (note that some of those happened under Biden as well, as his order restricting use of private prisons applied only to Bureau of Prisons facilities).

Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · Aug 13

Follow the money - Tennessee town approves deals to turn closed prison into immigration detention facility
The town's mayor said he wanted to reopen the shuttered prison to bring jobs and economic development to the town www.bostonherald.com/2025/08/13/t...

Tennessee town approves deals to turn closed prison into immigration detention facility

Officials in a rural Tennessee town approved turning a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 13

Took a picture yesterday of dirty, crime-ridden DC.

A beautiful field of wildflowers in the foreground. In the background sits a high school built in a Greek Revival style, made of brick and stone. On a flagpole a DC flag and an American flag fly. The sky is blue; it’s nearing golden hour.

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 13

"The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital." What? NO. He would NEVER! 🤦 #TrumpTakeover #DC

Trump Misstates Washington Crime Data to Justify Takeover

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Aug 11

This political party has already high-jacked your church, your belief system, and your God. And every time you refuse to engage, you are complicit in what they are accomplishing. #shame #Christianity #resist #Nationalism

An Open Letter to Pastors in America

Shame on you for cowering before the Mad Orange King.

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Jul 26

This is tragic. We are truly living in 1930s Nazi Germany. #ICE

11-Year-Old U.S. Girl Treated for Brain Cancer Now Living in Rural Mexico After Her Parents Were Deported

Born in Texas, Sara Hernández García is a U.S. citizen, but her parents entered the country illegally — and for a while the family had no issue traveling to support Sara while she was being treated fo...

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Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · Jul 26

I'm Alaa from Ga** and this is a story about my suffering.
We are not scammers, spammers, or fraud .
We are simply who we are living through gen@cide, starvation, oppression, and humiliation.
I hope u all quote it.
This thread describes our story:
🔗 tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jul 25

Alaa sent me this video and asked me to share it. she is a really brave and kind person who is trying to do anything she can for her kids. please donate if you can, and share/repost if you’re not able.

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Annie Evans @annieevanswriter.bsky.social · Jul 26

"...he shares with his uncle the belief that Democrats are increasingly captive to an urban elite. “I think the Democratic Party has lost touch with this reality,” he said,". #Democrats

A Kennedy Toils in Mississippi, Tracing His Grandfather’s Path

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