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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻

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Liberal in WA and Trekkie, human rights advocate. 7of9 fan✨🖖 #KeeperOfTheFlame 🗽Don’t blame me, I voted for #HarrisWalz ticket 🇺🇸✨Twitter refugee. ✨ News Junkie.

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · Nov 12

Why I joined #TheResistance? Because I am a patriot and I want to save our Democracy, American values, respect for diversity and human rights, a clean environment, a peaceful world. Trump is undermining everything we stand for including the Rule of Law and Separation of Power.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 10h

Good discussion with @gregsargent.bsky.social on No Kings and the right to protest: "They’re trying to turn it into something really evil. But that’s because they’re scared of it, and they know it turns public opinion... I think they should be worried, because nothing they’re doing is popular."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

LendingTree CEO and founder Doug Lebda died in an all-terrain vehicle accident over the weekend, the online loaning platform said. He was 55. https://cnn.it/3JcpSIB

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

If Congress doesn't act, costs will rise on premiums for health care plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. Here's what to know about the politics and real-world impact of this issue.

5 things to know about the health care fight behind the shutdown

If Congress doesn't act, costs will rise on premiums for health care plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. Here's what to know about the politics and real-world impact of this issue.

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 20h

That’s how they will start losing their population.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

A severe drought has Corpus Christi, Texas, scrambling to meet growing demand from companies like Exxon and Tesla on.wsj.com/439vzhc

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 20h

Young men are drawn to misogyny, as usual if they didn’t have a good upbringing, they fall prey to conservative propaganda.

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 20h

It is coming. Just wait!

alternet.org @alternet.org · 23h

'Welcome to reality': Ex-GOP strategist warns of harsh wake-up call for Trump’s MAGA

Political commentator and former GOP strategist Tim Miller said Monday more right-wing Americans, from Joe Rogan to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), are being jolted into "reality" by President Donald Trump's policies.“I’m just living in reality from here on out," Greene recently told a podcaste...

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 23h

Another reminder that this administration is willing to abuse its executive power to get its way.

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Vance hints at expansion of Trump’s police state

Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that President Donald Trump is “looking at all of his options” to deploy the National Guard in major cities—including invoking the Insurrection Act. In an ...

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CBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 22h

Remembering Diane Keaton and her legacy on and off-screen

Few actors had the range of Diane Keaton -- not just in the types of roles, but the span of her decades-long career. Vladimir Duthiers remembers her legacy on and off-screen.

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 20h

Then they will blame mass shooting on mental health they are defunding and disasters lack of preparation on previous administrations. They don’t care about disease outbreaks, they welcome it.

NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 23h

Hundreds of federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration's mass firings over the weekend.

Federal employees in mental health and disease control were among targets in weekend firings

Hundreds of federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration's mass firings over the weekend.

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 21h

If people keep allowing the rich to abuse them, yes.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

World falling far behind deforestation goals with farms and fires driving loss, report says reut.rs/4oD0oU3

World falling far behind deforestation goals with farms and fires driving loss, report says

The world is falling far behind a global goal to reverse deforestation by 2030, with losses being largely driven by agricultural expansion and forest fires, according to the 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 23h

Unending and unbelievable shitshow.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: More than half of the roughly 1,300 layoffs notices at @CDCgov have been rescinded. But analysts with top-secret clearance working on biodefense preparedness at another health agency have lost their jobs, per sources. Our story 1/4
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Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 21h

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 23h

Former President Biden on the ceasefire deal:

“The road to this deal was not easy. My Admin. worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line”

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 22h

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe voters finally stop voting for them and they lose more than one seat.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22h

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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alternet.org @alternet.org · 22h

'Mealy-mouthed lies': House Speaker decimated over health care claims

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is under fire over claims he made about Obamacare allegedly failing Americans, and his desire to repeal the Affordable Care Act.Asked if he supported repealing ObamaCare, Johnson told reporters that he believed the health care program “was created to implode upon it...

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 22h

"I stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend, I will not capitulate, I will not give in, I will not give up."

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks out after being indicted by the Trump DOJ.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22h

Nothing stops authoritarians in their tracks like organized people power — and we're organizing it in communities throughout the country. #NoKings

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 22h

Unlike in Missouri and other states, if North Carolina Republicans redistrict, there is nothing Democrats can do about it. The only hope of stopping this is through protests and phone calls…and then if it passes, organizing in such a way that we overcome the new maps.

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 1d

Look sharp, North Carolina.

You’ve got some protesting to do, some phone calls to make, and some voters to register.

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 1d

GOP legislative leaders in NC just announced that they'll vote on a new congressional map in a session set to begin next week. NC already has one of the most extreme gerrymanders in the nation. A new plan is likely to target #NC01 and perhaps more.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h

Jordy: Republicans control every branch of government. Every day that passes with the gov shut down is another reminder that Trump and the GOP would rather protect pedos than ensure people have health care. Because once the government reopens, you know what’s coming—a vote on the Epstein files.

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Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻 @arriadna.bsky.social · 22h

They must sue the heck out of them, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.