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pcaraoh.bsky.social
Retired scientist • Pro-Voting Rights • Pro-Reproductive Rights • Pro-Democracy • 🚫DMs. We’re not going back.
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

Can you relate?

MTG dabbling in insider trading now too

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

Thin-skinned Trump now targets Susman Godfrey, the law firm that represented Dominion Voting against Fox News. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Isn’t it weird how quiet all those “weaponization of government” yahoos get when Donald Trump personally orders his DOJ to go after people who criticized him?

I am absolutely not a fan of this man, that said, he’s completely correct and the messaging here is 💯

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced — a move that immigration law and free-speech experts condemn as an alarming federal overstep.

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

But what is their crime? www.axios.com/2025/04/09/k...

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

What about immigrants who give Nazi salutes in public?

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

Elections have consequences

Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

So, is the mainstream media really just done talking about that time our Secretary of Defense drunk texted war plans to a journalist?

Moskowitz: When President Zelenskyy came to the White House, we heard a lot about what he was wearing. Oh my God, the precious Oval Office—he didn’t wear a suit! I mean, here’s a picture of Kid Rock in the Oval Office—he looks like he’s about to jump over 10 buses on the White House lawn.

Democracy dies in dumb

i know it’s a fraught word but these are degenerate people

“I choose courage.” Thank you @cohen489.bsky.social

China tariffs are now 104%. Forget inflation for a moment—American owned companies are going to go out of business. This is bonkers!!!

I will quit my job and work for any candidate who promises to put the leadership of this administration in the same overseas gulag they've been shipping people to

Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

🚨 BREAKING: S&P 500, NASDAQ, AND DOW JONES ALL TURN NEGATIVE, ERASING ALL EARLIER GAINS

Numbers don't lie!!

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

NEW: The Venezuelan military says it has raised its alert level following the discovery of an alleged U.S. plot to fabricate an incident at an ExxonMobil offshore platform in the contested waters between Venezuela and Guyana to justify an armed conflict.

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

my offer to america: we bring woke back

"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."

Republicans and Elon Musk decisively lost their bid to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But three days later, the GOP came closer than ever to overturning the election of a Democratic justice to the North Carolina Supreme Court. @ariberman.bsky.social reports:

In theory this nightmare could end today:

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!