Colleen Barry

Colleen Barry

@cbeary16.bsky.social

Proud Wisconsinite in the Twin Cities. Have a Rare Blood Disorder. She/Her/Hers. #BLM #M4A #Resist #SaveTheACA #ImmuneSuppressed #HighRiskCovid19 #ProtectOurCare #BucksIn6 #Brewers #GoPackGo #Badgers

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Little bit about me, was diagnosed w/a rare blood disorder over 12 years ago, and the Affordable Care Act save my life. I didn’t have insurance, & was hospitalized while they ran every test imaginable.

PLEASE SHARE MINNEAPOLIS PEOPLE!!

taylr@taylordahlin.com

there is a search going on right now at minnehaha falls for missing 12 year old child victoria alexandria jackson and they need more people helping if anyone can go join, please share this flyer!!!

MINNEAPOLIS FOLKS!! Be on the lookout for! She was last seen near Minnehaha Falls.

MPR News@mprnews.org

Authorities in Minneapolis are asking for the public’s help in locating a 12-year-old girl who’s been missing since Saturday. There’s added urgency for finding Victoria Jackson because she has Type 1 diabetes and uses an automatic insulin pump, which likely needed a refill by Monday.

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This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

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The Trump regime is segregationist.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week The rapid relocation of the Afrikaners stands in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of all other refugee admissions. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and John Eligon nyti.ms/3F4uT3V

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The GOP’s obsession with women having babies looks a lot like the past. The pro-natalist movement, created to raise declining birth rates, has historically been co-opted by fascist & authoritarian regimes. Today's growing pro-natalist movement has found a leader in Trump.

huffpost.comThe GOP’s Obsession With Women Having Babies Looks A Lot Like The PastThe Trump administration's policy ideas to incentivize women to have more kids resemble those pushed by authoritarian regimes throughout history.

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Members of an immigrant family in Worcester, Massachusetts were targeted, terrorized, and seized by ICE agents this week. The father was taken into custody by ICE on Wednesday, and agents returned to the family’s home Thursday to execute an arrest of the mother — without a warrant. Worcester…

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Shortly after coming to power, the regime orders a massive military parade in the nation’s capital, to be held on the regime leader’s birthday - symbolizing the regime’s claim that the leader embodies the nation. This should be anathema in a democratic republic. It’s insulting and dangerous.

Walter Olson@walterolson.bsky.social

Constitution Avenue has been selected as the main route for Trump’s Jun. 14 military parade, so for once “trampling on Constitution” will be more than a metaphor for him.

jenn m. jackson@jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social

It's hella valid to note that Pope Leo selected a chosen name and the entire world responded by respecting it. Nobody asked why he has to use a new name. Nobody suggested that he was delusional. We just all collectively said, "Cool. It's Leo now." But let a trans person select a new name...

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National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health researchers work to protect miners from black lung disease, firefighters from cancer, and workers everywhere from dangerous workplace hazards. Trump is planning to fire 85% of them. Make no mistake: this will cost workers their lives.

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A woman called an autistic boy at the park a racial slur & was called out by @tizzyent. Since then, she started a @givesendgo to raise $$$ to “protect her family” from the consequences of her actions. She has raised more than $92,000. The comments attached to the donations are disgusting. 🧵

threads.comHeather Ashley (@theheatherashley) on ThreadsA woman called an autistic boy at the park, a racial slur, and was called out by @tizzyent. Since then, she started a @givesendgo to raise money to “protect her family” from the consequences of her ac...

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New fundraising method: 1. Say something disgracefully racist 2. Start a GiveSendGo begging for donations. 3. Get Rich. 4. Destroy the fabric of civilised society 5. Repeat.

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Carrie N Baker@carrienbaker.bsky.social

A new community-based tracker reveals how quickly the Trump administration is advancing policies that erode civil rights, healthcare access and worker protections. @msmagazine.com #Project2025 msmagazine.com/2025/04/28/t...

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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

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I would add that trump said he was going to make things cheaper and now…..

Rebecca Fishbein@bfishbfish.bsky.social

I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea

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I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea

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apnews.com/article/stud... Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says. Trump has no interest in balancing the budget. He wants to cause financial collapse for as many families as possible. This, by a man who has been saved by bankruptcy multiple times.

apnews.comStudent loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department saysThe Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.

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The people of St. Paul, Minnesota have seriously showed up. Thousands at the anti-Trump, anti-deportation protest.👏 #50501movement #HandsOff (🎥 Wedge Live)

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SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

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"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org

Backing the truck holding all Americans' private info up to the dock for pillaging... bsky.app/profile/josh...

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There's always been reason to believe DOGE was hacking govt systems. Now a whistleblower has substantiated it at NLRB, precisely the kind of data compromise labor unions worried about when they sued re DOL.

NPR@npr.org

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

Phillip Anderson@phillipanderson.bsky.social

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

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Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

1. The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a national "snitch form" to report gender affirming care providers. The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance. Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.

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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

This is some scary shit—and everyone needs to pay attention because it could affect any one of us. Rachel Maddow & NPR just blew the lid off Musk’s DOGE team. A whistleblower at the NLRB says they accessed data without authorization and breached security. The potential motive is pretty shocking. 🧵

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I posted this earlier, but Rachel Maddow just had this whistleblower on her show. This has the potential to be a very big story, imo.

Gady Epstein@gadyepstein.bsky.social

Highly disturbing story about DOGE but this detail is particularly chilling www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Molly Jong-Fast: “I'm going to respectfully push back on this. This is thought policing 101. This is not okay. They are using anti-antisemitism as a cloak. This is about targeting speech. It has nothing to do with anti-antisemitism and everything to do with authoritarianism.” #HarvardUniversity