Kat B
@katburns.bsky.social
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The
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starter pack. Verified
#AltGov
accounts. Stay informed with all the illegality occurring in the Exec branch
go.bsky.app/QEZBRUh
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RogueNOAA
about 13 hours ago
Johnson is destroying the US to protect pedofiles. “He knows that if Trump turns against him, he would likely lose the speakership. Hiding the Epstein files appears to be Johnson’s first priority, even above reopening the government so federal employees can be paid.”
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The Last Mile with USAID
about 13 hours ago
corruption *noun | cor·rup·tion | \ kə-ˈrəp-shən * 1. The act of using public office as a personal rewards program. Example: See Trump, Donald J., who in his second term requested $230 million from the Department of Justice for the inconvenience of being investigated.
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Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html
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AltSSA
4 days ago
#NoKings
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Louis 〓〓
3 days ago
We can't trust the American government anymore
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Lynn Stahl
5 days ago
The Trump admin has come to bluesky. These new accounts for gov agencies are not run by anyone we know in the agencies and have all started off with Hatch Act violations. In true bsky fashion, I'll be blocking the lot of them rather than giving them any engagement.
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Governor JB Pritzker
9 days ago
Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
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AltTaxPro
8 days ago
I support
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
🫡
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RebelFema
10 days ago
From our friends at
@fedsworkforyou.bsky.social
Join in Solidarity. Members of Congress & illegally RIFed federal workers will speak. For extra points, meet at the Hart atrium at 9:30 as usual (see slide in comment) and do a couple office visits. Federal workers & Allies welcome.
#IllegalRIFs
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Alt CDC (they/them)
10 days ago
⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️ HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk. Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.
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Feds Work For You
10 days ago
Crowdsource request
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Veterans Against Trump
10 days ago
Urban Institute predicts that 267,000 veterans will lose health coverage if the ACA healthcare tax credits expire. Don't ever let any Republican tell you that they "support the troops".
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Tom Joscelyn
10 days ago
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-citizen-and-a-veteran-ice?utm_campaign=post
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RebelFema
11 days ago
#FEMA
folks are organizing a rally. It’s a ways off but let’s save the date. Share this shamelessly & let everyone know whether it’s your fellow FEMA employees or allies in the DMV area. 1/2
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Alt CDC (they/them)
12 days ago
1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed. 💯 you do NOT deserve this. Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice: ❌ Do not send a read receipt ❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response ✅ Forward notice to your personal email
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Robert Reich
12 days ago
Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They make sure we have clean water. They protect us from financial fraud. They provide healthcare to our communities. They make our government actually work for people. Do not forget this.
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Rep. Sean Casten
11 days ago
The Trump-led shutdown does not require the administration to fire anyone. But illegally firing federal employees for political reasons and without concern for the impact on the American people is how President Trump has treated dedicated civil servants since day 1.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump administration begins laying off more than 4,000 federal workers amid government shutdown, court filing shows
Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy and Health and Human Services, among others, according to a Justice Department filing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trumps-budget-director-says-layoffs-begun-government-shutdown-rcna236923
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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance
11 days ago
How are they notifying furloughed employees who do not have access to email? Anyone in this situation yet?
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Don Moynihan
12 days ago
Re-upping this piece on news that Vought is firing federal employees: *Vought lying that shutdowns compel layoffs, never have before. *Layoffs are a choice, the shutdown is an excuse. *Comes on top of existing RIFs, will make restoring govt services harder post-shutdown.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Shutdown hostage taking
Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment
https://substack.com/home/post/p-174613067
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The Tennessee Holler
12 days ago
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
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Alt US Forest Service
12 days ago
Here’s the true cost of Donald Trump’s “unconditional donation” of a $400 M luxury aircraft gifted to him by Qatar. cc:
@altspaceforce.altgov.info
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Jawbreaker
13 days ago
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS In case you were wondering what new ways the GOP are planning on cheating, an ultra right-wing GOP election official, Scott Leiendecker, has bought Dominion Voting Systems- a year before the mid-term elections.
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HOLD. THE. LINE.
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🚨🚨🚨 FED FOLKS! All DOL union members (and federal union members in general) please check
NCFLL.org
for shutdown resources and updates.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲
14 days ago
"We took the freedom of speech away..." needs to be blasted across the nation.
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Greg Sargent
14 days ago
This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:
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Alt-IRS
14 days ago
Federal employee resources: If you know of businesses who are helping
#Feds
. Post it here.
#altgov
and
#altfam
are compiling helpful resources.
#shutdown
#GOPShutdown
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
15 days ago
It's so ridiculous that MAGAs believe the GOP line that "Democrats want to give free healthcare to immigrants." My dudes immigrants aren't getting free healthcare in the United States. American citizens aren't even getting free healthcare. You know who is? The people lying to you about immigrants.
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damned316 🎃
15 days ago
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
- any progress on charging these men with assault? I’m a fan but like it’s time for some action beyond the lectern.
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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service
15 days ago
Anyone else been studying up on “Plenary Authority?” I know, I know— they are threatening to not pay us and many are worried. The law is clear and most I know believe strongly we will get paid. I will address this tomorrow. In the meantime, Stephen (freaking) Miller said the quiet part out loud.
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Does Trump have plenary authority? Stephen Miller freezes before camera in ‘awkward’ live TV moment
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller caused outrage after claiming in a CNN interview that Trump has “plenary authority” and then freezing.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/does-trump-have-plenary-authority-stephen-miller-freezes-before-camera-in-awkward-live-tv-moment-101759876791525.html
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Jack Jenkins
15 days ago
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
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Daniel Knowles
15 days ago
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
https://southsideweekly.com/federal-agents-storm-south-shore-building-detaining-families-and-children/
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404 Media
15 days ago
NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety. Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime:
www.404media.co/police-said-...
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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveilled-woman-who-had-an-abortion-for-her-safety-court-records-show-they-considered-charging-her-with-a-crime/
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
15 days ago
🚨 PSA: Are you a current or former federal employee and have information that you'd like to share with the press? You can share it while protecting your anonymity using
@securedrop.org
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RogueNOAA
15 days ago
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Resources for Federal Workers - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet
https://www.bennet.senate.gov/resources-for-federal-workers/
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The Tennessee Holler
15 days ago
Wow — Trump & Russell Vought are trying to stiff furloughed federal workers and not give them back pay for the shutdown… but Speaker Johnson’s own website says they are legally entitled to back pay when the government reopens. 🤔
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
16 days ago
If "states' rights" mean anything, they must include the right to not get invaded by another state in peacetime. Americans everywhere: Speak up and stand against Trump's outrageous assaults on Illinois and Oregon.
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Gov. Pritzker Statement on the Texas National Guard Being Deployed to Illinois
CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker released the following statement after the Illinois National Guard was informed that the Texas National...
https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker-statement-on-the-texas-national-guard-being-deployed-to-illinois
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George Takei
16 days ago
This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.
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Steve Mullis
16 days ago
"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
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Invictus Ghost
17 days ago
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Molly Jong-Fast
17 days ago
Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.
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Originally posted on the Chicago Indivisible 50501 facebook page. Please stand with Federal Workers on Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, at noon. Federal Plaza, 230 S Dearborn, Chicago
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The New Republic
20 days ago
President Trump and his party's sadistic little game is going to hurt real, live human beings. And some of them are likely to turn out to be GOP and Trump voters.
trib.al/oZ1qC44
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GOPer Quietly Admits Trump Cuts to Blue States Will Hurt MAGA Voters
Trump and his lieutenants are taking sadistic glee in slashing projects in blue states. Guess they’ve forgotten that their supporters live in them too.
https://trib.al/oZ1qC44
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AltStateGov
17 days ago
Amazing statement by Rep Malcolm Kenyatta. This is the energy we need. Of course this would be who called him boy and to be careful. Anything to protect their fragile egos while bending the knee to a fascist.
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AltStateGov
18 days ago
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
@mayorofchicago.bsky.social
Your officers are being impacted. How will you help them? Otherwise they are merely warm bodies on the street for what purpose? Why are they not prepared for chemical agents to be used? DHS does not respect your city. Prepare & act like it
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Alt National Archives
17 days ago
I learned this weekend the value of de-escalation when our weekly protest was involved in an incident. This is valuable info that could literally save your life. And everyone can use a brush-up on what their rights are, especially since no one else will protect you except YOU.
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Andrew Weinstein
17 days ago
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸
17 days ago
It really says something when we can no longer believe what is coming from the government.
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Timothy Snyder
17 days ago
One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.
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AltStateGov
18 days ago
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
What will you be doing to protect citizens who are peacefully protesting and facing assault?
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Dave Byrnes
18 days ago
On scene on 40th and Kedzie in Chicago, where locals are facing down militarized federal agents over a possible federal immigration enforcement- related shooting. Details still scarce and developing. Locals chanting "ICE go home"
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