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micheleorgel.bsky.social
Progressive, human & civil rights advocate. Family first devoted mom & wife. Cat & all animal adorer. Need water, trees & mountains near. Vegetarian, enjoy cooking & baking. Homebody, former extrovert. Progressive rock & musical theater are my faves.
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Big news: We're thrilled to welcome industry powerhouses Susan Patterson Plank and @mattdpearce.com to our senior team. They’ll help turn growing momentum for local news legislation into meaningful support for newsrooms, communities nationwide. Learn more: www.rebuildlocalnews.org/rebuild-loca...

Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

Who else AGREES with Pedro?! 🤚

💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Today, all of you helped shift the narrative. You can see it clearly in the wave of MAGA comments trying to drown us out, they’re rattled. Small towns across the Heartland drawing record-breaking crowds? That’s not something we’ve seen before.

“It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising…. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

We’re winning in Court every day because the Constitution is on the side of Due Process. Of course Thomas and Alito continue to act like mob judges, so keep fighting for the Constitution everyone. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

FLASH: @ACLU asks #SCOTUS to halt what appear to be imminent 2nd wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations. Emergency injunction request goes to 5th Circuit Justice Samuel Alito. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

“There isn't a single part of the entire thing that stands up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. The whole thing, the entire enterprise is just sheer lawlessness,” says Chris Hayes.

no criminal record no gang ties no tattoos active pending asylum case **19 years old** sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

Got a new one today when the press secretary accused him of being a "human trafficker" just absolutely out of thin air!

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Don't think PBS international travel legend Rick Steves is on here, but he has been posting absolute fire on FB. He is not afraid to call fascism, fascism, and with eloquence. All while recovering from cancer. An icon.

You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

More ebullient cursing than my normal interviews, but @timdickinson.bsky.social called on Sunday and I was feeling good. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Call Your Governor today, until April 20th, to ask they activate the National Guard. Then Trump won’t be able to activate it again after April 20th if the Insurrection Act is invoked. It’s based on the technicality that the National Guard cannot be activated twice.

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

Someone help me find the rest of the infinity stones maybe Thanos was on to something... I got some snapping i wanna do

THE song of 2025, courtesy of Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com, @indivisible515.bsky.social, Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke!

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This is accurate. Millions globally and across every single state. 1,300 community protests. From hundreds to hundreds of thousands. We want MAGAs to gets their grubby hands off our democracy. And we want Dems to find their spines. And we're just getting started (again).

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We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday. Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab. Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.

@aliciamenendez.bsky.social

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

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@aliciamenendez.bsky.social I never miss your show but I may stop watching. How dare you do such a poor job of covering our nations largest protest March. There were FIVE POINT TWO MILLION peaceful, angry, terrified souls out there yesterday. You and your partners did a massive disservice to them.

Sammelthread der "Hands Off" Proteste in den USA. Gerne ergänzen... Louisville, Kentucky

This thread!!

This!

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures. He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him. Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.