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I want the smartest people running our country, not the richest people! 🌎 Ret Librarian, Mom & Noni. Amateur chicken-keeper, knitter & avid reader. 60 yrs of watching sports, I still like hometown baseball best. Typos aplenty! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 🌈

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · Apr 4

This is a terrible time to be old, or sick, or disabled, or retired, or a veteran, or in debt, or just graduating, or an intellectual, or a scientist, or a teacher, or a Librarian, or poor, or living in a red state, or LGBTQ+, or not white, or pregnant, or small business owner, or an immigrant etc

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 11m

If Johnson had any integrity, he would've censured the abusive Mills and removed him from the House. He's so scared of losing power that he ignores the abuse and crimes of his party. Including trump's crimes against his oath.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 2h

Congress should not be paid for not doing their job. Most of trump's admin doesn't need the salary for their position because they're already million/billionaires. Meanwhile, the economy has gone to pot.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

Boom! Who’s winning the shutdown debate? THE ACA.

More Republicans than Democrats use the ACA marketplace. So the GOP’s base is relying on the same program their party is causing premiums to skyrocket.

45% of ACA marketplace enrollees are Republicans, and most live in GOP-held districts.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3h

It's been 22 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in. At what point will political reporters start calling this a constitutional crisis?

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12h

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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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 9h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 5h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 13h

People who support trump WANT to believe him.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 15h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 14h

He learned lying from his father.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 14h

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21h

I sense a pardon on its way.

A tweet by Jacob Shamsian reads: “The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she’s getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.”

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 21h

Gorgeous!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22h

Holy shit.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 21h

2 clowns with different colored wigs?

laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 22h

I just can't! He is so patronizing and rude to Stephanopoulos!
Vance is a professional liar like everyone else who willingly works for trump. And they do work for trump, not the American people.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

JD Vance claims Trump is deploying the National Guard because crime in Chicago and Portland has gotten "out of control."

But crime rates were already falling in both cities.

This is all a power grab — and a pretext for something much worse. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/31X8vrfgHqs

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

Robert Reich

www.youtube.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 23h

Ticketing a lawful permanent resident for not carrying their papers is unnecessary and doesn't make our cities safer.

We will continue to push back against the Trump administration's cruel attempts to stoke fear in immigrant communities.

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

www.chicagotribune.com

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 22h

They're not reducing crime.
They're creating it by their illegal assaults on legal demonstrations.

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Colleen Paige @colleenpaige.bsky.social · 1d

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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 1d

I live next door in Spokane. We've been picking up the slack in Idaho for years. Taxes & medical facilities lately. We could hear helicopters nightly during covid when the unvaxxed overwhelmed your hospitals. Idaho is such a beautiful state & deserves so much more than Republicans will ever deliver!

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks a bunch, you anti-vaxxer dipshit fucks.

www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

www.npr.org

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