Jill Flaherty

Jill Flaherty

@flasts1960.bsky.social

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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

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Today, young people are BLOCKADING Apollo Global Management, a reported billionaire donor to Governor Hochul, over its financing of the massive STAMP AI data center threatening the land and livelihoods of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

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Before the 2008 crash, Wall Street hid massive financial risks using accounting tricks. Now Big Tech appears to be following the same playbook. Americans and our entire economy are at risk because Trump’s regulators are choosing to look the other way.

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NEW: Plaintiffs suing to halt Trump closure & renaming of Kennedy Center submit court filing arguing Team Trump is shielding 100s of records showing "Trump’s ongoing, direct management of the Kennedy Center", including Kennedy Ctr staff messages to Natalie Harp & Howard Lutnick

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In August 2026, the U.S. Forest Service proposed to end the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Overturning this policy would open these protected public lands to commercial logging, new road construction, and industrial mining. *The regime says it's for routine maintenance 🙄

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Lula beat Bolsonaro in Brazil! This is a huge win for the rainforest, for indigenous people, for the Brazilian people, and for the whole world since their rainforests are the lungs of the Earth! This is GREAT NEWS!!!

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thegrio.com/2026/10/23/p... Voters deserve to know the facts.Rick Jackson’s son, Shane Jackson, sits on the board of the Foundation for Government Accountability,which served on Project 2025’s advisory board.That connection matters.Voters deserve transparency to make informed decisions. #VOTEBLUE

thegrio.comProject 2025 ties put new scrutiny on Georgia GOP nominee Rick Jackson’s familyRick Jackson’s son faces scrutiny over ties to a group that advised Project 2025 as Georgia’s governor race enters its final stretch.

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In 1864, in the middle of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed a law protecting Yosemite for public use. Trump’s regime has been quietly weighing a plan to hand a strip of it to a private developer. Lincoln saved it. Trump’s Republican Party wants to list it on Zillow.

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Heads up. A Senate bill being sold as “permitting reform” could seriously weaken protections for our public lands, clean water, historic places, and sacred Tribal sites. S. 5653, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, would narrow environmental reviews and

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Today, I’m honored to share that President Obama is supporting our campaign for the U.S. Senate. President @barackobama.bsky.social & I both started as organizers in our communities, because we immediately understood that real changes come from regular folks joining the fight. #AngieForFlorida

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Remember when the tech bros told us that AI was going to help us solve the problem global warming? (‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre | Environment | The Guardian) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

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Took a quick look around and… it’s not looking good. Tbh, not sure I can totally trust the vote reporting on Election Day, as it appears on webpages.

Michael McLean@michaelmclean.me

So uh, how many state and local election websites use PHP?

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Reports from Burlington’s ICE facility are deeply troubling. A pregnant woman banged on her cell door for help after days in pain. Another woman was denied medication. The facility was meant to hold them for hours, not days or weeks. We need an independent investigation.

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SpaceX got almost $6 BILLION in taxpayer-funded defense contracts last fiscal year. Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has spent over $360 MILLION in our elections this cycle. This should be illegal — but it isn't. I'll be introducing a bill to close the loophole that allows it.

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Meta gave $1M to Trump's inauguration fund — and Mark Zuckerberg himsef has helped bankroll Trump's ballroom. Now Trump's DOJ has halted a years-long criminal investigation into allegedly enabling and profiting from illegal drug sales on its platforms. Funny how that works, huh?

commondreams.org'What Meta's Money Is Buying': DOJ Halts Probe of Facebook Owner That Has Given Trump Millions | Common DreamsBillionaire Mark Zuckerberg's company was facing a criminal investigation for allegedly enabling and profiting from the