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Retired grandma, medical laboratory scientist and ski instructor.
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🚨IT HAPPENED, MY PERSONAL NIGHTMARE & EVERYONE ON SOCIAL SECURITY'S NIGHTMARE: 4M+ people marked as "dead" in Social Security database thanks to DOGE tampering. www.thedailybeast.com/doges-social...

The homeless working poor are are growing minority in the IS, and very overlooked www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/r...

Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult

“I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees” - Emilio Zapata #BeLikeHarvard #Veritas 👀

I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.

ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February. If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine. Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.

In 2015 Miami-Dade passed a bill for Sir Lancelot Jones Day bc he sold his Florida Keys land to the NPS not developers. Now Biscayne National Park is the largest marine park in the NPS & home to 3rd largest coral reef system in the world. His mom was Bahamian, his dad was formerly enslaved in NC.

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

“The people who are going to be hurt most are the people who can’t just pull out a credit card and pay full cost for a service, or pay a $50 co-pay or an $80 co-pay.”

Federal rollbacks have hit four key areas of election security. Here’s what has been cut and why it matters:

The Golden Age Of Corruption www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

Americans succeeded at creating a social material environment of (relative) safety but failed to produce a learning environment that would successfully communicate the reasons to maintain an environment of safety after the normal harms of the world passed out of common memory

www.thefarce.org/why-is-no-on...

If this sounds alarmist, forgive me for not caring. 20 yrs ago I helped Russia resist Putin’s budding dictatorship. People were slow to grasp what was happening there too. Saying Putin will surely stop... He destroyed Russia’s fragile democracy & civil society. What Trump is doing in America today.

Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social & Rebecca Robbins Gift link: nyti.ms/4ipOhGf

This Is What The Agreement States And We Should Honor It!

Here's the alleged Florida State University school shooter, Phoenix Ikner, wearing a MAGA hat. Why does MAGA keep trying to gaslight everyone?

We are nearing the end.

Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.

This is something we can all do.👇🏼 File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.

🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

This is a pretty extraordinary thing -- not sure I've seen or heard of anything like this before. It's tomorrow/Tuesday morning -- noon eastern, 9am pacific: speakupforjustice.law

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Did we really ship $350 Billion to Ukraine without any oversight?! Of course not. And it isn’t anywhere near that number. Here’s the truth: youtu.be/ZROD0LjN3HU?...

WHO AGREES?! 🤚

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates