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mimiknitsalot.bsky.social
Retired Montessori teacher. Pacific Northwest urban dweller with rural roots. Happily married for 50 years to @hazygardener. Australian shepherd human. Tea drinker. No DMs please.
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Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up. Powerful video…

WTF….

My hot take on Jeff Bezos' wedding: That $50 million price tag is double what the US government was spending annually on food and medicine for 5 million AIDS orphans before the Trump administration canceled it. We are literally letting orphans die rather than make this guy pay taxes.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

They’re calling it Trump’s “One #BigBeautifulBill,” but it’s a $4T disaster. Senate Republicans are using popcorn accounting to hide brutal #Medicaid cuts, kill clean energy, and funnel cash to billionaires while telling you it “only costs $5.” open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.

ICE agent pulling the lady's arm like she was a doll.. aggressive The guy in the beard pulling the lady around has been seen in other videos acting aggressively

Don’t give up. That’s the trick. Even when the news is all bad, even when it feels rigged and empty. Hopelessness is a product too,don’t buy it. Keep going. That’s the rebellion.

A corrupt system is when you need 60 Senate votes to protect voting rights, universal healthcare, reproductive rights, climate justice, lgbtq rights, immigration justice, and a living wage—but only 51 votes to strip them all away. #BigScamBill 1/3

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Stunning how media has turned passage of the Abominable Bill into a will they-or-won't they romcom with a July 4th deadline for Cinderella to kiss the prince, rather than a situation in which multiple members of Congress say they're terrified they or their families will be killed if they cross Trump

In the opening, 15-minute-long segment of CNN’s “Inside Politics” on Trump’s big ugly deficit-enlarging bill, there was not one mention of how the tax cut provisions heavily favor the wealthy and even screw some low-income voters. Why leave that out?

Take your masks off ICE, show us how proud you are adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them

Democracy Docket's YouTube Channel is stuck at 449k. subscribers. How about you sign-up for free and give them a push to 450k. www.youtube.com/democracydoc...

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.

Orban banned it, so even more people turned out

Absolutely.

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

People freaking out about having a socialist in the NYC mayoral residence but OK with having a fascist in the White House.

REP. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social: “THIS IS AN EVIL BILL. It’s going to rip away health care from 15 million Americans, and food assistance from millions — to give tax breaks to the richest, and mega corporations.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Bernie to Dems:

These crosses they wear are the severe thunderstorm warnings of pure bullshit

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Sometimes the bad thing is exactly as bad as the thing seems and trying to tell people "it's not that bad" isn't being *postive,* it's just normalizing the incredibly bad thing.

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Eager to soothe Trump’s wounded ego, the Supreme Court ended nationwide injunctions today. Trump is crowing, but this just means we’ll take our smashing wins in 4 district courts and turn them into wins in 94 district courts. People born here are citizens, period.

Bondi just said DHS is helping rid us of criminals from the Sinaloa Cartel, but she failed to mention the asylum she gave to family members of the Sinaloa Cartel. She also said we're ridding the country of MS-13, but failed to mention the asylum she's giving to MS-13 leaders in the Abrego case.

Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

This Christian theocratic project—of which SCOTUS is a crucial part—depends on kids growing up to be bigots. Kids aren’t born to hate. They learn it. We can’t have kids learning to respect differences because that’s how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

oh no! don't do it!

Gutting Medicaid will gut rural communities. For rural hospitals, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Closures will come. We’ve seen it before in states that blocked Medicaid expansion. Hospitals shut down & never come back. Listen to Jon Tester. He’s not guessing. He’s warning‼️ #MedicaidSavesOurLives

Corporate profits have hit record highs. CEOs are paid 290x as much as a typical worker. We're subsidizing huge corporations that pay lousy wages through food stamps and Medicaid. But instead of cracking down on corporate greed, Republicans want to punish the working poor.

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

MAGAs: Why won’t Muslims just assimilate to our country!?! Muslims: [Get elected to office] MAGAs: …Wait not like that

People who believe not voting 2024 makes them morally superior because they're not "murdering children" should be constantly reminded that they helped elect Trump, who destroyed USAID - an act that's now murdering children around the world. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Republicans like to claim they’re all for legal immigration and doing things “the right way.” But Trump is sending ICE after immigrants who are literally showing up to ICE check-ins and court hearings, throwing them in detention for just trying to follow the process.

I truly will never not think of this whenever I hear Pam Bondi speak (as she desperately ruffles the papers in her binder)

As usual, @asharangappa.bsky.social sees through the media fog to the actual rogue elephant in the room bsky.app/profile/asha...

BREAKING: Tomorrow — Friday — will be the final SCOTUS decision day of the term, Chief Justice Roberts announces. The following cases — www.lawdork.com/i/166479240/... — remain: