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brentthien.bsky.social

social justice, diversity, former union president, veg head, climate change, human decency, accountability, well-traveled, peace, hope. my life story is like no one you’ve ever met 🫰🏻

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Trump Admin Returns Guatemalan Man After Admitting Deportation Error https://twp.ai/4inEUQ

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

So damn excited! 🤩 Shawn Harris—a husband, father, retired General, and farmer—just announced he is running again to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene. Her hate & conspiracies don’t have a place in Congress. It's time to end her reign of horror🔥 Repost for Shawn! @shawnforgeorgia.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

New research shows what’s at stake if Congress makes cuts to Medicaid : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Applicants for US citizenship have to first pass a US civics test, government officials should really have to pass a basic constitutional law test

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

The letters of the day are F, D, and T... www.axios.com/2025/05/19/n...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

submitted 42 days ago • 249 comments

There's only one person who's allowed to enter someone's home without a warrant, and that is Santa.

submitted 48 days ago • 567 comments

You have two options: fight or flight. We choose to FIGHT! We will protect Medicaid! We will protect our Democracy. We will protect our constitution. #HandsOffOurMedicaid

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

AOC nails it: " We'll rally every corner of the United States of America until we save Medicaid and Medicare for every American until we defend social security. And we tell them who's really in charge in this country." #HandsOffOurMedicaid

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

submitted 52 days ago • 532 comments

Walz: Here in Minnesota, freedom means several things. It means freedom from hunger and poverty. That means freedom to worship or not. It means the freedom to be who you are anyway you choose, and that is a birthright..

submitted 52 days ago • 153 comments

“The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.” - Judge Wilkinson www.muellershewrote.com/p/how-a-judg...

submitted 57 days ago • 128 comments

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

submitted 67 days ago • 970 comments

Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin

submitted 67 days ago • 462 comments

submitted 66 days ago • 137 comments

Enough!! #RiseUp

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Longest Senate filibusters ever: Strom Thurmond - opposing voting rights for black people Ted Cruz - opposing health care for poor people Cory Booker - opposing fascism

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT