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Democrat from St Louis Pk, MN Hello! Glad to be here, still on TwitterX, shifting solely to Bluesky. Puffball profile pic - Alaskan Mnts - Nature lover - Politics - Liberal and Proud - Urban dweller Married 34 yrs Two kids 23 and 19 Vote Blue!
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When private equity owns your doctor, you pay MORE for WORSE care. Their priority is profit. Governor Kotek just signed into law the strongest protections against corporate profiteering in health care. Congress should follow and get private equity out of health care nationwide.

I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

Land of the free.

2,000 National Guardsmen in L.A.? Trump isn’t sending aid...he’s sending a message: compliance at gunpoint. Deploying soldiers to our own streets like enemies of the state? This isn’t leadership. It’s authoritarian theater. And we should be furious.

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

Butler County, Ohio local12.com/news/local/p...

I think it’s notable that ICE isn’t conducting raids in red states, but is instead targeting deep blue states with big migrant communities that will fight back. They want violence to justify more violence. This is fascism 101. We should laugh at them and treat them like the cowards they are.

As the LAPD is reporting, the protestors in LA are being peaceful. This is not a rebellion or an invasion. There is no legal basis, including under 10 U.S. Code § 12406, for Trump to take over California's National Guard. Trump is trying to cross the Rubicon and take this country into tyranny.

Fascists want to provoke violence so they can justify crackdowns and get some good footage to distort for state propaganda outlets

Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies.

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

The reward you get for cozying up to Trump is him threatening to pardon the terrorists who plotted to kidnap and murder you. These criminals are a threat to public safety and law enforcement. Releasing them is no laughing matter. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MAQ1kH/

UPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody. His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice." Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.

In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.

This guy is so amazing. Barefoot? Great job. Keep up the amazing work. #USDemocracy

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.

Why isn’t western media covering the massive uprisings in Serbia? 62 of 80 Serbian universities have been SHUT DOWN by students. Hundreds of thousands are in the streets protesting their corrupt government and demanding reform. Their government is cracking down on student & faculty protestors.1/2

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under scrutiny for a $50M Gulfstream jet request, funded by the Coast Guard's budget. It's a misuse of taxpayer money and prioritizes luxury over essential services.#AdminOfGrift

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

apnews.com/article/trum... Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them. Great minds who would flock to American universities are now being recruited to Institutions of Higher Learning elsewhere. Trump is destroying academia and research in America.

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Hidden in the GOP Tax scam is a provision to take away the tax on..... gun silencers. #StopTheBillionaireBailout

Jeffries on the $5m payout to Ashli Babbitt's family: "This settlement is just an extension of what they've previously done, which is to pardon violent felons who violently attacked the Capitol on January 6, including police officers."

UNBELIEVABLE! Trump permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns. Since the forced reset trigger devices will not be considered firearms, they can be purchased anonymously, w/o a background or age check. PASS IT ON, OFF BSKY, TOO! www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

93% of all Earth's tornados occur in North America. And the vast, vast majority of these occur in states that currently vote Republican. Trump voters need to disengage from their cult – and develop some critical thinking skills.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is trying to shut down congressionally mandated offices that ensure the agency follows the law and provides critical immigration services.   I'm leading a group of AGs to urge a court to stop these dangerous closures and keep these offices open.

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin, Jayapal, Crockett, Scanlon, Nadler, Johnson, and McBath release a joint statement on the Department of Justice’s unfounded targeting of Rep. LaMonica.

*Open bribery *Masked armed officials arresting residents without warrants, citizens who try to intervene *Arrests for engaging in non-violent speech *Destruction of government capacities *Massive economic uncertainty and damage *Unprecedented targeting of government power against political enemies

A big win for democracy in Europe.

Target foot traffic down for 11th straight week after caving on DEI Costco, which defied calls to end DEI, notches 16th straight week of foot-traffic gains. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

Republicans don’t want to win your vote they want to erase it. The SAVE Act is a Trojan horse for voter suppression, and it’s targeting people just like you. Read why it’s more dangerous than you think: www.tealandorangereport.com/p/the-republ...

NEW: The Trump Administration want's you to believe it's the most transparent in history, when nothing could be further from the truth. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/transparen...

Hell yeah! Put this on loop—this wise man speaks for me. 🔥

🧵 Erika gave birth in a Tucson hospital. Now she’s in CBP custody—separated from her newborn, isolated, & denied access to her lawyer. DHS agents are blocking Luis Campos from even speaking to her, despite him having all required paperwork. This is cruel. This is fascism. @aaronparnas.bsky.social