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cassandrasp3aks.bsky.social
Born & raised in NYC but don’t live there now; tail-end Boomer; got a kid at college and a spouse and two rescue pups from the dog meat trade. Diehard moderate democrat. No bullshit please.
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"That is why this moment is a test of our ability to step up and protect our national greatness from our national leader."

Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

Senator Warnock at the CDC today… "We are tied in a single garment of destiny..." (quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr) "If people can be pulled off the street and be kidnapped without due process, NONE of us are safe!" "Are you ready to stand together?"

🚨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.

Thank you for going to El Salvador @vanhollen.senate.gov.

I put a hold on Ed Martin’s nomination. He’s denied elections. Fired quality public servants. Attempted to chill free speech. Turns out he’s also carrying water for the Kremlin. So wholly unfit to be a U.S. Attorney.

This is brave This is good Thank you

🔥 Texas State Rep. Lauren Ashley Simmons just shut down an anti-LGBTQ+ amendment on the House floor, and we couldn’t be prouder.

The SAVE Act is headed to the Senate. If it's signed into law, millions will feel the impact—especially women. Jennifer Weiss-Wolf says: enough with the gaslighting. This is voter suppression in democracy’s clothing.

Let’s be perfectly clear… When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is ‘the role of Congress’ to remove him from office… Full stop. Any Questions?!

CDC autism report disputes RFK Jr’s claims about why the condition is on the rise

Appraiser who undervalued a Black and Latino couple’s Oakland home must pay them $75K - San Francisco Chronicle apple.news/AqWVym7g2Qcq...

China—and, by extension, American consumers—faces 245% Trump tariff. Fun fact: 45% of MAGAts can't count up to 245—while the other 45% can't to 45.

David Hogg … absolute truth!

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

Does MAGA have any idea what due process is? Do they care? Even conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in a 1993 SCOTUS ruling that “it is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings.”

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

Someone with a Russian IP address used a DOGE account to attempt to login to the NLRB computer system.

All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

NEWS: Hong Kong has suspended postal service for all goods being sent to the United States, saying the U.S is "unreasonable, bullying, and imposing tariffs abusively."

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

So they named their kid after a historical figure who murdered his brother.

Without due process, this could be you. It could be me. It could be any or all of us. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. Or the color of your skin. You must understand what is truly at stake here. All tyranny needs to thrive is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Holy shit this is illegal as hell

We must break the unholy alliance between corporate greed and corrupt government.

It's pretty unconscionable that when Pam Bondi was asked to show proof against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, she said they have court transcripts. The Attorney General of the United States thinks that their allegations in court are EVIDENCE?! Vile.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Accurate And Very Well Done….

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

"We have instances now in western countries where people are being arrested [...] the cop comes knocking on their door, you're going to go to jail for 60 days for posting something online. You know, this is crazy stuff that's happening all over." Marco Rubio on April 16, 2025, if you can believe it

How long before the Supreme Court finds that criminal contempt is an "official act" of the presidency and, therefore, shielded from legal reprisals?

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

So Abrego Garcia wanted expedited discovery to learn whether the government is in violation of a court order. The government wanted to appeal that motion to SCOTUS. The court said no, we’re gonna do discovery, and FAST. She’ll decide contempt after that.

worth reiterating that in literally any other context a 10% tariff on Japan alone would be getting wall to wall financial news coverage, would be considered the largest trade war escalation in modern American history and the dumbest economic policy move by a President in decades

Communities are organizing ICE patrols using radios and megaphones—but what we really need is an ICE alert website where people can share details of ICE activity in real time to help protect and inform one another.

So Trump wants to start shipping “homegrown criminals” to El Salvador? This is fine—if the first person sent is Donald Trump. See the newest cartoon from @deadder.bsky.social: