Jana DeGrand
@janad.bsky.social
Often snarky, unfiltered Blue dot in Texas, climate, fur babies, cooking, gardening, genealogy, & junk sales. I care deeply about the world I live in and everyone I share it with. Everyone has the right to live their best life. Love is love.
created November 10, 2024
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barbisblue (@barbisblue.bsky.social) reposted
On Thursday, President Trump issued a new executive order stripping additional federal workers of their union rights, including workers at NASA and the National Weather Service. This comes after other agencies, including HHS and the VA, have terminated union contracts.
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Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! (@tjjohnson.bsky.social) reposted
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You Don't Own Me 😹 youtu.be/Y1xfcMG_lbw?...
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He was a human trafficker, preying on innocent children.
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I've been wondering for a while how long it would take for his image to be plastered everywhere. How long before he uses taxpayer money to erect statues of himself?
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Okay, I'm dead now 😂
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State Sen. Brandon Creighton expected to be sole finalist for Texas Tech chancellor www.texastribune.org/2025/08/31/t... via @texastribune.org
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Awesome 🤣🤣🤣
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Trolling at its finest 🤣
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I love this! What a great idea ❤️
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Roast them, don't stop, keep calling them out 🔥🔥🔥
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‘Workin’ For A Livin’’ open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
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How doctors (gradually) discovered that women have heart attacks, too myheartsisters.org/2025/08/31/h...
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Mayor Karen Bass (@mayor.lacity.gov) reposted
This Administration doesn't care about the laws. They don't care about due process. All they care about is power and exerting control over cities they don't like. Los Angeles will not stand for it.
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
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I'm sorry, feel better soon!
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
He’s on another QAnon posting spree tonight.
NetworkforDemocracy (@simple-truth.bsky.social) reposted
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
This is never going away, is it?
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Ken Paxton excels at cheating, he’s never met a law or rule he wouldn’t break.
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If only this was true. We can dream …
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Excellent, now everyone else do the same.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
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Have a glorious weekend #Caturday
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Public Notice www.publicnotice.co?utm_source=n...
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
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Fuck ICE
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly barring states and organizations that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants. This will make it harder for the most vulnerable people to get help in the aftermath of disasters. It was always about cruelty.
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"It would be a shame if this photo of President Obama holding his Nobel Peace Prize went viral."
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Thousands of Mike Johnson's own constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage following the passage of a budget bill he pushed for. And it’s all so he could help bankroll more tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich. Don’t let him forget.
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Awww, we don't deserve them ❤️
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A Dangerous Liaison open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) reposted
Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Revolution Underground (@americanprodigy.bsky.social) reposted
God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how they’ll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament — turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.
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Texas 2025 Constitutional Amendments Ballot Guide And Vote Recommendations open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 (@altspaceforce.altgov.info) reposted reply parent
The United States Federal government belongs to and is staffed by the American people. When an agency or department breaks the law or fails to live up to its mission & mandate, it is incumbent upon those who know to tell the American people of the dangers these failures pose.
Gary R Simonds (@garys79.bsky.social) reposted
What a mess and Covid will kill people still www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
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Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
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Texas bill protecting sex trafficking victims from some criminal charges heads to governor’s desk www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/t... via @texastribune.org
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House Democrats’ frustration with STAAR bill highlights divide over how new test should look www.texastribune.org/2025/08/26/t... via @texastribune.org
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Texas House approves bill making ivermectin an over-the-counter drug www.texastribune.org/2025/08/27/t... via @texastribune.org
Jonathan-FL #HumanRightsForEVERYONE (@amerliberal.bsky.social) reposted
We criticize Iran and other nations for doing this. We must equally hold Trump to account for these assaults on international norms. -- Denmark summons US diplomat over reports three men with ties to Donald Trump attempted to infiltrate Greenlandic society www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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People are so creative 🤣
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I know 💔😡💔
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They’ve sold their souls. I can’t watch the whole clip, it’s sickening 🤢
Reuters (@reuters.com) reposted
Reuters examined more than 500 criminal cases filed since August 11, when Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington. Trump's anti-crime task force was involved in at least 69 local cases of which nearly half were comparatively minor offenses reut.rs/45P8mBp
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Priorities.
Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister (@malcolmnance.bsky.social) reposted
VETERANS, Family & Friends: Want to participate in organizing Veteran led peace patrols to reassure & remind our National Guardsmen that they have sworn an Oath to the Constitution? It’s forming on every city. JOIN HERE : rememberyouroath.org
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Excellent!
Angel Mendez🏳️🌈🦋 (@akm6.bsky.social) reposted
Soapy (@soapy2019.bsky.social) reposted
Chinese artist Leng Jun,I have never seen anything like it. Extraordinary!!!
Gary R Simonds (@garys79.bsky.social) reposted
Have you noticed who is out of the headlines???
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Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) reposted
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
Celebrity chef and D.C. icon José Andrés pushed back on Trump’s propaganda in a post on X, writing: “I understand why you are confused… all your time in D.C. you haven’t eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel.
Axios (@axios.com) reposted
President Trump today responded to criticism of his D.C. crime crackdown after Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called him a "wannabe dictator" over threats to target Chicago and other Democratic-run cities.
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Trump isn't just axing the Constitution. He's axing something we all love. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Shane?
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Still Waiting For Republicans To Lower Your Taxes After Three Decades? open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
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We Win If We Don’t Give Up open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
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Trump Holds Disastrous 4-Hour Cabinet Meeting open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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A National Guard Member Running for Office Is Asking His Colleagues to Disobey Illegal Orders open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Jana DeGrand (@janad.bsky.social)
The Texas redistricting fight has been the backdrop for the Trump administration to test a new legal strategy www.texastribune.org/2025/08/25/t... via @texastribune.org
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Release all the #Epstein files
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Texas’ $7.2 billion loan program for gas power plants has approved two projects in two years www.texastribune.org/2025/08/26/t... via @texastribune.org
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted. A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!
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My kind of swamp 🌈 Really beautiful ❤️
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Same is true when dumping your loved ones ashes …
Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) reposted
“refiling her case as a misdemeanor after they were unable to persuade three grand juries over a month to indict her…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
I don’t know if this qualifies as spilling the 🫖 But release the damn Epstein files already.
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The Taco has turned the US into the pariah of the world
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Release all the #Epstein files
🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 (@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social) reposted
This is why I can’t quit the internet🤣🤣🤣
PBS News (@pbsnews.org) reposted
Clearing encampments is part of a wider push across the country by Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike to take drastic action to reduce homelessness, but experts say it's counterproductive and ineffective. https://to.pbs.org/3JuTUHv
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Culture Crash open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...