April

April

@acoxinthewild.bsky.social

🌵🍄🌱🍂🌻🏕🎨🎙🎸💜🌈🔥 Naturalist, Plant Lover, Goofball, Artist. I make stuff...and perform with Slow Alchemy

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This is absolutely horrible! A nonverbal student with special needs was walking to Santa Maria High School when ICE agents tackled him, restrained him, and left him with a broken wrist requiring surgery, according to witnesses and school officials.

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Lesson's Motmot. This is a colorful near-passerine bird found in forests and woodlands of southern Mexico to western Panama. The central crown is black and surrounded by a blue band. There is a black eyemask. The call is a low owl-like ooo-doot. 📸: @rgfoto_cr

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The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

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A gang of suspected federal immigration goons rip a man from a work van and pile on top of him while taking him into custody. No location provided

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Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Congratulations to @1199seiu.org and the nearly 70,000 CDPAP care workers who filed for the largest union election in American history. These workers make it possible for New Yorkers to live safely and independently at home. I’m proud to stand with them in the fight for a union.

1199SEIU💫@1199seiu.org

History is in the making! Caregivers like Ingeri dedicate their lives to caring for others. Now, CDPAP caregivers across NYS are voting to join the 1199 family, gaining the support, advocacy, and collective power that make the union difference. @nytimes.com article: digital.1199seiu.org/nytcdpap

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Trump's stock-trading is out of control. A president is supposed to govern for the benefit of the entire country — not for his own financial benefit.

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A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?

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🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comHomeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower allegesThe searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.

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The House voted to condemn “socialism” earlier this week. Listen, I’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I grew up during McCarthyism and the “red Scare” of the 1950s. I’ve seen all of this fear-mongering before. Here’s what’s really going on.

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So... quick reminder.... executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec...

guides.library.umass.eduLibGuides: Government Information: Executive orders and proclamationsA Guide to Government Information Sources

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Flock cameras have no place in Texas. They can piece together an exact map of your behavior — the places you went and how long you were there. Flock calls this “pattern-of-life” mapping. Texans call it something else: government overreach.

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Deregulation in the US will harm the most vulnerable first Disabled people who are extra dependent on the supply chain Those with food & med allergies who can’t easily switch brands. Those with food insecurity relying on food banks who can’t know if the food has been recalled. This is by design.

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💥 The people of Venezuela have taken to the streets to protest the theft of their oil: “We are protesting against the theft of our oil and interference in our sovereignty by the United States.” 8/30/26

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A government spokesperson, to NPR in July, on the gutting of bicycle/road safety programs. “This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." www.npr.org/2026/07/23/n...

npr.orgDOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websitesTransportation officials have removed a growing list of safety materials that mention bike lanes from federal websites. Safety advocates warn that's undermining proven measures for reducing crashes.

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My name is Captain Dylan Blaha. Last year, I made several videos reminding US service members to disobey unlawful orders. The military suspended my security clearance and launched a full investigation. Nearly a year later, I now know the outcome.

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Which man do you think is going to work harder for Texans?

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

This week: James Talarico: Introduces plan to break up Big Medicine and lower Texans’ health care prices. Ken Paxton: Flaunts a $41,000 gold watch in his Four Seasons Orlando polo.

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Whoa! Pentagon officials are warning of Navy payroll shortfalls after funds meant for service member pay were raided to help cover war costs. 📌 An official says they had to use “imaginative” workarounds to avoid the shortfall.

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Surveillance is not safety, and safety is not surveillance. When one officer can allegedly search his ex-girlfriend’s license plate more than 10,000 times, the danger of unchecked surveillance is clear. Texans shouldn’t have to surrender our privacy and freedom just to feel safe.