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That Cookie Lady

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I bake cookies Lots of cookies Economic austerity creates misery & death. Governing with progressive policies, using MMT lens, creates a vibrant, just society where all can realize their full potential. Stop the lies Life’s better with a cookie too

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That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 6h

Abuse of women and children is really serious except to Republicans

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dinerlee.bsky.social @dinerlee.bsky.social · 1d

The unmitigated race hate in the GOP chat is revolting. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Bobby Walker, former vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans, has apparently deleted his Twitter account.

Politico’s story reported that Walker referred to rape as “epic,” used slurs, and participated in a thread about sending opponents to the gas chamber.

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That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 23h

Hatch Act

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 1d

Why aren’t the Republicans working?

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Full of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 1d

This is the nation that we are now. This nation is unbelievably sick.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 1d

It is alarming that the Trump Admin & rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child from Everett, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away & reportedly subject him to harrowing conditions.

They must stop violating our constitutional rights.

My full statement:

A graphic that reads:

“It is absolutely alarming that the Trump Administration and its rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away without his family, lawyer or a court knowing, and reportedly subject him to harrowing, inhumane conditions, including inadequate nutrition and sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket while still healing from a broken foot.

“He is a 7th-grader who should have been met with compassion and care, not criminalized and sent to an adult prison.

“The Trump Administration must stop violating the constitutional rights of our constituents. I join the chorus of community voices demanding basic adherence to due process, preservation of this child’s constitutional rights, and his immediate return to his family.”

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That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 1d

Pig

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, color me shocked.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s not forget blowing up Venezuelan fishermen!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Man escapes ICE while handcuffed, bystanders use pliers to free him.
Salt Lake City, UT

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 1d

Just do it. Sue. It’s the only thing Repubs understand.

That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 1d

Oh it’s totally partisan…Repubs don’t want her sworn in.

That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 1d

Read this book. We can afford healthcare for all, funding important services to society.

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 1d

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 1d

Kitty. Says “Good job, mom!”

That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 1d

He needs to fire the Illinois State Trooper who denied a member of Congress access to the ICE facility.

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That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 1d

Gov. Pritzker, Congressman Krishnamoorthi was denied access to an ICE facility by an Illinois State Trooper in Broadview today.
Should he not be fired for breaking the law which allows congressional reps to visit ICE facilities at any time?

krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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That Cookie Lady @cookiebkr.bsky.social · 2d

Didn’t he just make $88 million on a crypto trade last week ahead of daddy’s peace announcement?