Bert Ballard-Myer

Bert Ballard-Myer

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60 Minutes
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A new form of intimidation targets federal judges: hundreds of unsolicited pizzas sent to judges and their children across the country. It’s an innocuous delivery with an ominous message: “We know where you live.” cbsn.ws/4l4PoOC

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Al Jazeera English
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A group of Hindu students were seen forming a human chain to protect Muslim students praying at India’s Lucknow University after authorities locked the campus mosque.

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Mother Jones
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Once again we are asking: Why was Kash Patel paid $25,000 by a company linked to the Russian government? When a payment from a production company for $25,000 showed up on Kash Patel's disclosures during his confirmation hearing, we did some digging. And soon, the story began to unravel.

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John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

White friends, feeling other people’s suffering is going to hurt. It should. Those people are worth it. They are worth the relative inconvenience of reading, of watching, of knowing, of feeling, of responding... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comThe White Privilege of Avoiding Bad NewsYesterday, an old friend of mine and I were catching up on each other's lives after not having spoken for a while.

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John Pavlovitz
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White friends, feeling other people’s suffering is going to hurt. It should. Those people are worth it. They are worth the relative inconvenience of reading, of watching, of knowing, of feeling, of responding... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comThe White Privilege of Avoiding Bad NewsYesterday, an old friend of mine and I were catching up on each other's lives after not having spoken for a while.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama.bsky.social

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

pbs.orgWATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate changeThe Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

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Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social

Epstein survivor Haley Robson: I’m so tired of having this administration just completely dismiss us. They’re supposed to be the party of, you know, family values and protecting children. And I just feel like if that’s the party you are, it seems like Thomas Massie is the only one showing up for it.

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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

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Brian Cardone
@cardonebrian.bsky.social

Sen Ossoff (D-GA) nails it‼️This administration is of, by and for the Epstein Class. The middle class is getting absolutely crushed by this economy. The #TrumpAffordabilityChaos is wreaking havoc on working citizens, everything costs more and prices will only continue to rise.

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ProPublica
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)

propublica.orgTexas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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MPR News
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Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

mprnews.orgFBI will not provide the BCA access to evidence gathered from Pretti shooting, BCA saysMinnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

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Aaron Rupar
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

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Indivisible Georgia District 10
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On Sunday, Feb. 22 from 6-7:30pm the Interfaith Sanctuary Coalition and the Interfaith Clergy Partnership of Greater Athens is sponsoring a candlelight vigil at the US Courthouse 115 E. Hancock Ave. Athens. Please bring your own candles.

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Mark Lemley
@marklemley.bsky.social

In the least shocking news ever, the DOJ illegally redacted Trump's name from manyEpstein files. [And of course that doesn't count the ones they just didn't release because they are about Trump] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comJamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein filesRanking member of House judiciary panel said ‘mysterious redactions’ in files obscured names of abusers

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Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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Minnesota Reformer
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When thousands of immigration agents flooded Minneapolis late last year, Garrett Guntly had an idea: a network of neighbor-owned security cameras that they could use to monitor ICE activity in the area. The system has helped neighbors interrupt around a dozen immigrant arrests, Guntly says.

minnesotareformer.comHow one Minneapolis man is helping neighbors surveil ICE back • Minnesota ReformerWhen thousands of immigration agents flooded Minneapolis late last year, Garrett Guntly had an idea: a network of neighbor-owned security cameras, pointed towards public areas, that they could use to ...

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Norah 🤗
@thenoraheffect.bsky.social

This made me ugly cry 😭 I will never claim that he was perfect…every president in my lifetime has pissed me off for one reason or another. But…dammit, I’m so tired of the constant feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty 😔

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Robert Reich
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The so-called "pro-life," "pro-family" party is perfectly fine with an 18-month-old child almost dying because of the deplorable conditions at this detention center. Hello? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-hospitalized-dilley-ice-detention-rcna257912

nbcnews.comToddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit saysThe 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress,

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John Pavlovitz
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

Right now, as millions of pages filled with the most despicable, depraved atrocities human beings are capable of, cover every square inch of America’s collective consciousness, the pro-life Christians are nowhere to be found... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-pro-lif...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comTo "Pro-Life" Christians, The Epstein Victims Were Sacred in the Womb, But Worthless Outside of It.You hear it, don’t you?