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drdebra.bsky.social
Immigrant, Sociologist, Disco Lover, Traveler, True Blue. Soon to retire (yay!). Living in Florida (boo!). It’s all gone horribly wrong.
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

It is impossible to get people to believe that Trump is a walking constitutional crisis when you, one of 47 Democratic senators, can barely be bothered to show up to oppose his judicial nominees. Completely unserious people.

Please listen to the UN General Secretary.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

#OnThisDay in 1921, the Tulsa race massacre killed up to 300 & left 10,000 homeless. “They tried to kill all the Black folks they could see,” recalled George Monroe, who was 5 at the time. A 7,000-square-foot museum, Greenwood Rising, now honors that community. mississippitoday.org/2025/05/31/o...

"I’ve been struggling mightily over the past two days with the question of what is and isn’t appropriate to say on an occasion that’s meant to be dedicated to remembering the women and men in uniform who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/feeling-na...

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

I hope legacy media covers the connection between last night's memecoin dinner and this morning's social media tariff threats. He's manipulating the stock market.

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face. Totally dystopian.

Apologies in advance for what might look like a rambling diatribe going nowhere. But the one thing I know really well - better than almost anyone else - is boxing. And there’s a really valuable lesson from boxing that the Democratic Party needs to learn in a hurry. Let’s start with the boxing bit.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Louder for the voters in the back!

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

Do you think Lutnick wants *his* kids and grandkids spending their lives in a manufacturing plant, or are these just aspirations for "other people"?

In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda

Please join if you're able in person, or please join by watching this livestream. Our leaders are acting and we need to support them and join them, however we can. Absolutely love seeing this @booker.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social !! www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

QUESTION: What kind of government fights this hard to take healthcare that saves lives away from Americans? ANSWER: A government run by Republicans, who want to give tax cuts to billionaires on our backs. Medicaid Cuts Kill!

Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

When they start arresting judges we’re all in a lot of trouble

“I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation. from now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour” Trump? Pam Bondi? nope, Hitler bit.ly/44akopT

Democratic members of Congress should probably be made to understand that unless they throw everything they have at this, they are next.

Trump on the huge drop in international tourism: "It's not a big deal." Are you in the tourism industry? Do you agree?

Once again, the government is not a business, but even if it were, the model is Costco & not Silicon Valley, so you would never let someone like Elon Musk anywhere near it: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

A hands off protest, organized by @brevarddems.bsky.social at the Social Security office, Melbourne, Florida. A crowd of about 75 energized and ready!

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

Tesla’s profits collapse, and Musk finally backs away from his government fantasy project “DOGE.” This isn’t leadership—it’s damage control from a billionaire clown who thought memes, politics, and ego could outrun economics. The market just called his bluff.

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Congrats to TurboTax, which has worked for two decades to stop Americans from being able to file taxes for free. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

#Easter is an important day for many and sharing a meal is a traditional part of this celebration. People like Betty who harvests carrots in CA’s Central Coast, make these sacred meals possible. #WeFeedYou