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monicaperry.bsky.social
I like animals, reading/audiobooks, playing word games and watching documentaries, detective/true crime tv, baking shows, and Golden Girls. Democrat in a red state trying to navigate and learn and do what I can to make it better. @ jaffobsession on xitter
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NEW YORK: “Please detail what your red line is, and at what point you’ll actually stand up for the constitution you swore an oath to defend.” An older woman is carried out by law enforcement for asking questions @repmikelawler (R) doesn’t like.

Conservative school board candidates across Texas suffered an array of defeats in Saturday’s local elections, marking a setback for the GOP-aligned movement to shape how grade school curriculums and library books confront issues of race, sex and gender.

OK who is that in the background and where is their top? I don't always give a lot of attention to the #MetGala but I am loving the theme and what I'm seeing!

That bathroom looks like someone spray painted an interstate rest area toilet. At least paint the TP dispenser too! And you know it's 1-ply. #tackyAF

Something very special to launch my new book. A competition… ✈️ 2 flights to Thailand 🏝️ Hotel for 7 nights 🐕 Help me with the dogs in person It’s a money can’t buy prize I think. You can enter here… happydoggo.typeform.com/to/dAZ41n8s

This man, wearing a MAGA hat is chanting for me to be deported, locked up, and KILLED, for demanding my elected congressional representative answer the question I asked him.

Of course it wasx www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

Every. single. woman. I know in real life. has experienced multiple instances of sexual assault/sexual harassment from men. Including myself. Miss me with the “it’s so hard being a young man right now because people don’t like men” shit.

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

The woman will be given the choice of whether she wants to take her newborn, a US citizen born Wednesday, with her when she is deported, CBP says.

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit Court of Appeals DENIES Pennsylvania’s motion that would allow counties to reject undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots in the state's May primary elections. A victory for our clients and the voters of Pennsylvania www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

This is one of my mostest favoritest accounts 🤗

Breaking news... #USDemocracy

Important story from the NYT this morning: The President running a crypto operation with largely anonymous offshore investors at a time when he regulates the industry is a huge red flag that you can’t imagine being tolerated by Washington or the public in any other era.

Calling it "illegal DEI," Trump issues EO to shut down a program redirecting human waste away from a rural Alabama area regularly flooded with sewage during climate-change-amplified storms. The area's population is over 72% Black. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

This makes me sad; that so many parents and kids think of reading as just more homework instead of getting absorbed and transported into a story. Doubly sad that there's such a big gender disparity (44% girls v 29% boys aged 0 to 2 being read to regularly). www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

It's comforting to know that if I ever get busted leaving the National Security gates open I'll have a job at the United Nations to fall back on.

I said if anyone's gonna be the fall guy for Signalgate it'd be him. wyff4.com/article/mike...

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

MAY DAY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS * NATIONAL MALL, DC Beginning May 1, 2025, the movement will establish a 24/7, non-violent demonstration on the National Mall, calling for impeachment and removal of the President. #ImpeachConvictRemove #ImpeachConvictRemove maydaymovementusa.org/schedule

🚨BREAKING: Full Fourth Circuit DENIES Trump admin motion to stay order blocking Musk/DOGE access to personal data at Social Security Admin. Data will remain out of Musk/ DOGE’s hands. A BIG win for @democracyforward.org and its clients! Follow Democracy Docket for details. www.democracydocket.com

Of course

💰🏈 SURPRISE: After the legislature (mostly Republicans, but some Dems) handed the Titans $500,000,000 in Tennessee taxpayer funds for a new stadium, blue-collar fans are getting priced out with $10,000 (!!) PSL’s Who could’ve seen it coming? (Everyone) www.thecentersquare.com/tennessee/ar...

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from cutting off funds for "direct legal representation services to unaccompanied children." Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, a Biden appointee, issues the injunction, addressing congressionally-funded Office of Refugee Resettlement programs.

Today a right wing “think” tank released what they are calling a study that allegedly shows a higher rate of medication abortion complications than previous peer-reviewed studies. Let us dig into this mess.

Daulton Varsho is back. #BlueJays

NEWS: Another loss for Kari Lake, as Judge Royce Lamberth orders the U.S. Agency for Global Media to stop avoiding paying Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty obligated funds for April. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: In a major civil rights victory, a federal court today issued a preliminary injunction barring Border Patrol from using stop-and-arrest practices that violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution. They can’t target people just because they’re Brown, or day laborers, or farm workers.

The International Pride Orchestra has rescheduled a Pride concert at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland after it was canceled by the Kennedy Center. The concert will also feature the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/04/28/s...

A well-oiled machine 🫠

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

Whatever level of fucked he is, it will never be enough.

🚨NEW: Wisconsin judge threatens to go on strike in support of Judge Hannah Dugan, arrested by the FBI. Monica Isham: “I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE & sent to a concentration camp without the due process the constitutions we swore to support require.”👏

He has the best Criminals on his side...