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makkie5.bsky.social
Originally from PA. In CA for over 30 years. Two wonderful grown daughters. Democrat and very disappointed and scared.
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Scientists are already eyeing the exits; the hostility to international students could dry up a critical pipeline for a generation; and the balance of intellectual power could shift as other countries rush to fill the vacuum created by Trump’s nihilistic nativism. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 3 hours ago • 21 comments

Immigration court arrests are likely going to continue this week, with dozens of people around the country each day who were doing exactly what the government asked being arrested and thrown in detention and stripped of their right to a hearing because ICE wants to juice the numbers.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Important lawsuit for people who care about free speech & the free press. NPR sues Trump admin over a basic constitutional principle: Congress, not POTUS controls the power of the purse & their fed’l funding www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 70 comments

Because you definitely won't hear anything this sincere today from Trump, here's a quote from Biden's 2024 Memorial Day speech 👇 Also, don’t forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Republican admits to taking $70 MILLION from Medicaid for anti-abortion centers. When asked which programs will lose funding, ‘I don’t have them in front of me’ is his response. Then they snicker when called shameful. This is how republicans treat their constituents in Texas.

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

"It's interesting. We are too strong for sports but too weak for the military." youtu.be/MVNoefJgPxk?...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

ELON MUSK ON HIS WAY OUT! Even by their own measure, DOGE is a disaster—and Elon Musk’s name is toxic. 🔘 Trump’s administration is spending more daily than Biden’s—so much for “government efficiency” 🔘 Trump made a fool of himself misreading Social Security data on live TV 1.

submitted 41 days ago • 101 comments

April 14, 2025

submitted 48 days ago • 50 comments

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 52 days ago • 133 comments

THIS is what we want from our Democratic leaders FIGHT MAGA has NOTHING on the Democrats Our ideas are better Our policies are better Our leaders are better And the country is ALWAYS demonstrably better after a Democrat is president @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will prove it The Reformers

submitted 54 days ago • 41 comments

WE HAVE POWER This was a hell of a moment to witness. You could see the shift—the moment this constituent realized her voice had power. She spoke louder, stood taller, and owned that room. 🔥 Republican Rep Victoria Spartz’s SignalGate response did not land well with the crowd.

submitted 65 days ago • 418 comments

“Michael Waltz set disappearing message time to 4 weeks”

submitted 68 days ago • 40 comments

Oh wow, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social did it

submitted 68 days ago • 554 comments

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna stops in Norco, California, for a rally as the district’s Republican Congressman Ken Calvert hides from his own constituents.

submitted 70 days ago • 152 comments

Accurate.

submitted 70 days ago • 25 comments

Wait…this portrait was unveiled in 2019. Trump is just dialing up division politics as per usual, trying to blame “radical leftist” for a portrait hung 6 years ago. Old news. Don’t give him any attention 🥱

submitted 70 days ago • 34 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 71 days ago • 4455 comments

Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.

submitted 72 days ago • 780 comments

@msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @nycjayjay.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DHY7IRp...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

NEW - Tim Walz to me, backstage to in Eau Claire on Tuesday: “It’s going to get very dark,” he said, running through speculation that ranged from Trump soon ordering the arrest of a political opponent to trying to anoint a son as his successor. www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/p...

submitted 74 days ago • 44 comments

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

submitted 74 days ago • 426 comments

a really difficult thing that explains a very large part of the reason we're in the situation we're in is that the average person has a monumentally difficult time accepting and internalizing that these people are doing awful and destructive things *because they like being awful and destructive*

submitted 74 days ago • 55 comments