Frances Bright
@frbright.bsky.social
Mama, Nana, Pro-Choice Defender, No Person is Illegal, LGBTQ+❣️, Unapologetic Atheist, #VoteBlue like your democracy depends on it! Vaxxed&Masked 🇺🇦 ❣️🇺🇦&Advisor
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Huge news from @status.news. Hoping many others will join in this effort.
Some news: This week, @status.news filed a notice in the New York Supreme Court asking it not to seal a trove of documents set to be filed in Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News.
@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday column: www.status.news/p/fox-news-s...
@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday column: www.status.news/p/fox-news-s...
Opening Up the Fox Files
Status is asking a New York court to ensure key evidence in the $2.7 billion Smartmatic case against Fox News becomes public—so the truth about how election lies spread doesn’t stay sealed.
www.status.news
April 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Huge news from @status.news. Hoping many others will join in this effort.
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Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security.
Every state AG's office could do this. Might help.
www.azag.gov/socialsecurity
Every state AG's office could do this. Might help.
www.azag.gov/socialsecurity
Attention Arizona: Report Social Security Disruptions
Attorney General Kris Mayes continues to hold the federal government accountable for the illegal and unconstitutional actions by President Trump and Elon Musk, including reversing devastating federal ...
www.azag.gov
April 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security.
Every state AG's office could do this. Might help.
www.azag.gov/socialsecurity
Every state AG's office could do this. Might help.
www.azag.gov/socialsecurity
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War hero schools a chickenhawk.
April 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
War hero schools a chickenhawk.
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JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.
April 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.
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•••••••BREAKING•••••••
DC US District Judge Trevor McFadden — nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2017 — has ordered the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the Associated Press over the news agency’s decision to continue to use the term "Gulf of Mexico" in its…
DC US District Judge Trevor McFadden — nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2017 — has ordered the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the Associated Press over the news agency’s decision to continue to use the term "Gulf of Mexico" in its…
April 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
•••••••BREAKING•••••••
DC US District Judge Trevor McFadden — nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2017 — has ordered the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the Associated Press over the news agency’s decision to continue to use the term "Gulf of Mexico" in its…
DC US District Judge Trevor McFadden — nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2017 — has ordered the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the Associated Press over the news agency’s decision to continue to use the term "Gulf of Mexico" in its…
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BREAKING: Speaker Hakeem Jeffries just threw DOWN the gauntlet—challenging Trump’s little Johnson to a one-on-one debate TOMORROW on the GOP’s extremist budget.
Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families.
We. The. People. Are. Watching.
Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families.
We. The. People. Are. Watching.
April 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
BREAKING: Speaker Hakeem Jeffries just threw DOWN the gauntlet—challenging Trump’s little Johnson to a one-on-one debate TOMORROW on the GOP’s extremist budget.
Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families.
We. The. People. Are. Watching.
Let’s see if MAGA’s puppet has the guts to defend cuts to seniors, vets, & working families.
We. The. People. Are. Watching.
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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
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For days, Sen. Rand Paul has been slamming Trump tariffs.
Momentum is building, public outrage is exploding — and Republican spines seem to be growing.
“The whole debate is so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It’s based on a fallacy, and the fallacy is this — that somehow, in a trade,…
Momentum is building, public outrage is exploding — and Republican spines seem to be growing.
“The whole debate is so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It’s based on a fallacy, and the fallacy is this — that somehow, in a trade,…
April 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
For days, Sen. Rand Paul has been slamming Trump tariffs.
Momentum is building, public outrage is exploding — and Republican spines seem to be growing.
“The whole debate is so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It’s based on a fallacy, and the fallacy is this — that somehow, in a trade,…
Momentum is building, public outrage is exploding — and Republican spines seem to be growing.
“The whole debate is so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It’s based on a fallacy, and the fallacy is this — that somehow, in a trade,…
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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
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"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
-Judge L Hand
May we rise in the spirit and do what is necessary to protect our nation.
-Judge L Hand
May we rise in the spirit and do what is necessary to protect our nation.
April 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
-Judge L Hand
May we rise in the spirit and do what is necessary to protect our nation.
-Judge L Hand
May we rise in the spirit and do what is necessary to protect our nation.
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Dear Martha,
Wrapped the cigars you sent in a piece of paper📜, but unfortunately lost it on the battlefield. Send more, post haste.
Wrapped the cigars you sent in a piece of paper📜, but unfortunately lost it on the battlefield. Send more, post haste.
March 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Dear Martha,
Wrapped the cigars you sent in a piece of paper📜, but unfortunately lost it on the battlefield. Send more, post haste.
Wrapped the cigars you sent in a piece of paper📜, but unfortunately lost it on the battlefield. Send more, post haste.
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Thank you very much, bishop Marianne Edgar Budde!
January 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Thank you very much, bishop Marianne Edgar Budde!
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I do think Bluesky should be setting off some off-shore operations REAL fast
If these clowns are as bad as they appear to want to be, It might be sensible for the owners of social media businesses that weren't invited to the inauguration to move their servers off-shore.
January 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I do think Bluesky should be setting off some off-shore operations REAL fast
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A group of more than 100 NGOs has called on private banks and public lending institutions to stop financing a liquefied natural gas facility under construction by French fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies in Mozambique.
100+ NGOs urge banks to pull funding from massacre-linked gas project in Mozambique
Pressure from human rights organizations follows a POLITICO investigation into TotalEnergies plant.
www.politico.eu
January 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A group of more than 100 NGOs has called on private banks and public lending institutions to stop financing a liquefied natural gas facility under construction by French fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies in Mozambique.
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“Even if Pete Hegseth’s personal life were that of a teetotaling and celibate monk, the former Fox News host would still be the most controversial defense secretary nominee in American history.”
@stevebenen.com on new allegations against Pete Hegseth.
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
@stevebenen.com on new allegations against Pete Hegseth.
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Senators confront new allegations against Pete Hegseth ahead of confirmation vote
As senators weigh the Pentagon nominee's fate, the former Fox News host is dealing with yet another personal controversy.
www.msnbc.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“Even if Pete Hegseth’s personal life were that of a teetotaling and celibate monk, the former Fox News host would still be the most controversial defense secretary nominee in American history.”
@stevebenen.com on new allegations against Pete Hegseth.
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
@stevebenen.com on new allegations against Pete Hegseth.
READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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A Dutch court today ruled that Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s government must ramp up efforts to cut nitrogen pollution in protected nature areas, handing Greenpeace Netherlands a significant legal win.
Dutch government ordered to cut nitrogen pollution — or face €10M fine
Greenpeace’s victory means that PM Dick Schoof must achieve emission-reduction targets by 2030 or face the penalty.
www.politico.eu
January 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A Dutch court today ruled that Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s government must ramp up efforts to cut nitrogen pollution in protected nature areas, handing Greenpeace Netherlands a significant legal win.
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I've been wondering about this: The list of countries involved in this arrest was quite long.
1/Trump's pardon of Ross Ulbricht might bring cheers in cryptoland but it could threaten international law enforcement cooperation. For why, check out this piece I did w/Asif Efrat on the role that trust in institutions plays in international information sharing.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Divulging data: Domestic determinants of international information sharing - The Review of International Organizations
Information is a core input of governance that is often disrupted by the processes associated with globalization. To mitigate potential governance failures, states turn to information sharing – the ex...
link.springer.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I've been wondering about this: The list of countries involved in this arrest was quite long.