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6 Former Surgeons General Say RFK Jr. Is Endangering the Health of the Nation The bipartisan group of surgeons general included Democratic and Republican appointees dating back to the early 1990s.

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🌟 And they’re all real, actual doctors!

“... we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation.” #RFK_Jr. #DHHS

We Must Fight for Our National Parks The national park system includes crucial spaces that hold our shared history and biodiversity and the promise of a livable future.

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📌 We Must Fight for Our National Parks

The National Park System represents more than historic buildings, forests, mountains, & rivers. It includes spaces that hold our shared #history, #biodiversity, & the promise of a livable future. These spaces belong to all of us. #NationalParks #PublicLands

TAKE ACTION: Reject BP’s proposed Kaskida ultra-deepwater drilling project Avoid a Deepwater Horizon-like disaster

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell the Interior Dept., “BP’s Kaskida project will operate in more extreme conditions and could exceed Deepwater Horizon’s devastation were it to fail.” Not limited to U.S. citizens.

Click below for more info and to submit a comment. #environment #DeepwaterHorizon#drilling

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies Trump’s approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road Project through Gates of the Arctic National Park hinges on winning an “AI arms race.”

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🎯 The impact on fish #habitat, water & air quality, disruption of #groundwater flow, hazardous materials from spills, & the negative impact on the Western #Arctic caribou herd, which has been steadily declining since 2017, are reasons the permit should have been denied. #environment #Alaska #AI

Adelita Grijalva

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❓ QUESTION: Can anyone other than Speaker Johnson swear in Ms. Grijalva? Who, and under what circumstances? @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Eisenhower: Don't be afraid to go into your library and read every book.

🎯 Banned Books Week, October 5 – 11, 2025.

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🇺🇸 Portland has a sense of humor. It'll be interesting to see how the Guard deals with the naked bike ride!

Jack Daniel's Cuts Off Free Cattle Feed To Tennessee Farmers "That's gonna destroy us," said one cattle farmer in Moore County.

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📌 Did the Trump tariffs take a bite out of Jack Daniel's profits?

They're scrapping the Cow Feeder Program. Instead of providing the slop to local farmers, the company has contracted with an energy plant that converts the byproduct into renewable gas and fertilizer. #tariffs

Legendary Actor/Author/Activist George Takei Named Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week 2025 

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📌 This is the American Library Association's Banned Books Week. Legendary Actor/Author/Activist George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social is the Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week 2025. Congratulations!  #bannedbooks #AmericanLibraryAssociation

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🎯 Read all the way to the end, including the attribution.

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🎯 We challenge you to try to prove Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social wrong.

Even if he's not 💯 percent wrong, his statement is right so often that his remedy is still appropriate.

Dear White People It takes a lot of white privilege balls to stand on this stolen and occupied continent and complain about immigration.

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🇺🇸 It's the very definition of chutzpah to demand we believe that the United States, stolen from Native Americans through lying and #genocide, "belongs" only to European immigrants while denouncing all other immigrants. #NativeAmerican #immigrants

Climate NOAA experts provide data, tools and information to help people understand, prepare for and adapt to our changing climate.

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🇺🇸 Good for them!

A group of scientists and other experts who formerly worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently launched Climate.us, where they eventually hope to replicate much of the public-oriented #climate content from Climate.gov. #NOAA

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📌 First we agreed with her about the #Epstein-#Maxwell survivors, and the #files.

Now we agree with her on the #shutdown, who can stop it, and the fact that the #Senate #Republicans haven't ended it means they **want** the government shut down.

Who'd have thought?! #MTG

'I cannot abide': Biting dissent blasts Supreme Court for 'plainly misjudging' case Reactions rolled in Friday after liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a scathing dissent of the majority conservative U.S. Supreme Court's latest decision, with some saying it told lower co...

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📌 It appears that Justice Brown Jackson has had just about enough.

"Because, respectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent," she wrote. #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket #KetanjiBrownJackson

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Pass H.R. 2550, the “Protect America’s Workforce Act” and Discharge Petition No. 6 Stop Tromp from destroying the federal workforce.

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress, “Don’t let Trump destroy the federal workforce. Support the “Protect America’s Workforce Act.”

Click below for more information and to email your House member. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #WorkersRights #Unions

What criminals say when they're blackmailing you I don’t know who is going to win the fight over the shutdown of the US government. I do know that it’s wrong for Donald Trump and the Republicans to do nothing while 24 million Americans enrolled in s...

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🎯 Sounds like a mob boss to us

From the article: The press secretary said yesterday that if the Democrats “don't want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It's very simple.” #blackmail #shutdown

Gov. Pritzker calls on Trump to be removed via the 25th amendment.

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🇺🇸 Someone had to say it and Governor Pritzker stepped up. The 25th seems tailor-made for this president. #Trump #25thAmendment #Pritzker

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🇺🇸 Remembering this historical event.

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📌 He was given a 10-year suspended sentence and as a condition, will spend 6 months in the county jail, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution.

This was apparently approved by the woman he molested when she was a 12-year-old girl.

'Naked violation': Trump accused of brazen law-breaking with new GOP 'propaganda' attacks A high-ranking Democrat is pointing to GOP "propaganda" attacks, saying it could be a "naked violation of the Hatch Act" that he said has "outraged" his constituents. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) announce...

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🇺🇸 Hatch Act violations have the potential for prison. Will anyone be held accountable? Probably not.

Rep. #Raskin said that the #Trump administration is using government #websites and civil servant emails "to promote blatantly partisan #propaganda about the government shutdown." #HatchAct

Fiercely anti-abortion judge has bowed out of blockbuster mifepristone case But the threat isn't over.

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♦️ Kacsmaryk's notorious anti-choice views mean that he shouldn't be deciding any reproductive rights cases ... but the new judges may not be any better.

#Kacsmaryk’s hand was forced after SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that the plaintiffs who first brought the lawsuit didn’t have standing. #mifepristone

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

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From Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social quoting P. J. O'Rourke #Republicans #government #shutdown

What the government shutdown means for public lands - High Country News Many parks will stay open, and oil and gas permitting will continue — even as tens of thousands of staff are furloughed at NPS, BLM and USFS.

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‼ Oil & gas permitting will move forward, as will inspections at oil & gas & logging operations. BLM staff responsible for processing oil & gas permits, coal mining leases & “other energy & mineral resources necessary for energy production” will stay at work. #Public_Lands #fossil_fuels #mining

Shutting down the government allows Republicans to avoid swearing in Adelita Grijalva who will be the last needed vote on the Epstein files discharge petition.

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From @briantylercohen.bsky.social quoting @raskin.house.gov

♦ Our question: did they shut down the government to avoid the last needed signature on the Trump/Epstein files #discharge #petition, or is that just a perk for #pedophile-protecting Republicans? #Epstein #Trump #Grijalva

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to fund election administration and security Restore election security grants to 2020 levels,

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress, “Ensure our elections are fair for everyone.”

Click below for more information and to email your Congressional representatives. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #VotingRights #ElectionSecurity

Why the military had to be in the same room as Hegseth.

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From Brian Tyler Cohen quoting David Frum. Follow BTC here: @briantylercohen.bsky.social and DF here: @davidfrum.bsky.social

Team Trump will spend $625 million and open public lands to revive a dying industry Coal is the world's most expensive and polluting fossil fuel.

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🇺🇸 We've said that Clinton should have made the "Road to the 21st Century" a one-way street. Trump's returning us to the 19th!

"The White House will open 13.1 million acres of public land to #coal mining while providing $625 million for #coal-fired power plants." #fossil_fuel #pollution

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♦ He bankrupted casinos. That should have been a clue as to his business acumen.