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judybaldwin.bsky.social
Tired but engaged decades-long Dem volunteer. Book lover. Iowa Hawkeye fan. Proud grad of Coe College. Former broadcasting biz marketer, now freelancer. My motto: "Always leave the place better than it was when you found it."
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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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What will be left of Alaska?

There is an entire generation that doesn't know what a competent and working government looks like because they were too young to be aware when normal presidents were in charge.

Literally the Russian flag in the post. Two of them

While the National Guard and Marines are just standing around doing nothing in California, maybe they could pick up some trash or hand out food at a food bank.

Too bad there is no organized opposition party that could in one clear voice support the protesters.

A marvelous rendition of Brian Wilson's "God Only Knows" performed 10 years ago by various USA and British musical stars, including Brian himself. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLT...

Are you scared yet? I am.

@tobymorton.bsky.social is brilliant. See the clever site he wrote for JoniErnst26.com. This site should be required reading for every Iowa voter.

@tobymorton.bsky.social Are you the Toby Martin that established this website? If so, you are brilliant. This should be required reading for every Iowa. www.joniernst26.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Joni Ernst is an embarrassment to Iowa.

Watch the Orange One try to pay for these fines and debts in his meme crypto.

As Budget Chair I got constant Republican lectures to ignore looming climate disaster because of the debt. “The debt, the debt, the DEBT!!” Now they’re in charge and they’re hiking debt limit $4 trillion for tax breaks, mostly to the richest. What a sham.

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.

Time to think differently, #DNC

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The last 24 hours have been mentally and emotionally exhausting.

We are seeing the decline in Iowa's economy in real time. Sad. Pathetic.

And, the goofballs in the administration want to open up public lands to more logging. Poor trees. They get no respect.

Oh, come on! Where does the administration find these goobers?!

Remember why we in the United States have Memorial Day. Honor and remember the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Think of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service. #MemorialDay

My mom is still sad her vaccine fear kept me from the HPV vaccine @ 9 bc it was “too new” and didn’t “do enough” Now Ireland has all but erased cervical cancer. 80% of women get HPV in this country. It is ACQUIRED BY the 90% of MEN who are CARRIERS. Please get your sons and daughters vaccinated.

Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.

tens of thousands of active duty service members and their families rely on SNAP. "We love the military" #BlameTrump

3/3 I asked Senators Grassley and Ernst: "Please, please, please vote NO on the budget bill to save Iowa's nursing homes." This bill has a lot of bad stuff in it, but this subject might get the senators' attention.

2/3esidents will have no where to go. People are in nursing homes because their families don't have the skill or money to care for them at home. Healthcare workers will lose jobs. Iowa already has a healthcare crisis. This bill will make it worse.

1/3 I just emailed and called Iowa's Senators Grassley and Ernst to say this: "Vote NO on the budget bill. It's bad for Iowa. 50% of Iowa nursing home residents are on Medicaid. The budget bill will cause rural nursing homes and hospitals to close.

Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

I keep getting asked if it’s legal to spend our campaign funds on food drives or our high school public service grants and the answer is YES. It is. Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.

I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.