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bethshipp.bsky.social
Queer, democracy loving, feminist, political nerd, reader. Order of importance subject to change. 🏳️‍🌈🗳️🙋🏻‍♀️📚
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@bennet.senate.gov — is this true? As a constituent, I’m asking you to vote NO on the CR. Giving Republicans the talking point of bipartisanship while cutting billions from Medicaid to give tax breaks to billionaires isn’t a Colorado value.

@senatorhick.bsky.social — is this true? As one of your constituents, I’m asking you to do the right thing and vote NO on the CR that sets the stage for cutting Medicaid for literally thousands of Colorado citizens.

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BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...

How it started/How it's going

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

...check up on yo strong friends...

Heartless. Cruel.

"Masculine Energy"

We’ve lost a giant today. Sending prayers of peace to Cecile’s family, friends, and all who loved her. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

I just spit out my tea.

All of this.

Oh, to be the cis heteronormative white man who knows exactly why Kamala lost. Let’s hear it for mediocre men. They do make the world go round.