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Democracy Takes Work. Worth It For My Kids. 🗽Vote blue to save it. 💙🗳️ 🇺🇸 Blue dot in TX. End Citizens United / Bring back Fairness Doctrine. Also Cats, Dogs, Comedy. LWCC 👋 #Resist 🚫DMs unless we know each other Threads: kivett.l

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · Mar 13

Someone needs to tell me why the (unqualified) Cabinet Secretaries
hired to gut/eliminate the Departments they now head
get a TAXPAYER-PAID salary for doing it?
WHY ARE WE TOLERATING THIS? 😠

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 10h

The government would reopen tomorrow if Trump would agree to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that millions of AMERICANS (mostly in Republican-led states) rely on for health care.

A one-year extension would cost less than he just gave Argentina.

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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 10h

This is sad Where's her family... I don't care if she's Democrat or Republican shouldn't happen to anyone
Congressional delegate scammed out of thousands as police flag possible dementia signs.
www.rawstory.com/eleanor-holm...

Congressional delegate scammed out of thousands as police flag possible dementia signs

Longtime District of Columbia congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton was scammed out of $4,000 at her home, NBC4 Washington reported on Friday — and a police report on the incident indicated tha...

www.rawstory.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 1d

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

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www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In Surprise Move, Virginia Dems to Announce Redistricting to Counter GOP Gerrymanders

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

It’s become too predictable.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The top federal prosecutor in Maryland has reportedly notified Pam Bondi that she sees no basis for Indicting Adam Schiff on mortgage fraud.

Who wants to bet that the prosecutor will be fired within days, and a new prosecutor will seek to indict Schiff regardless?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 2d

I hate doing this… but unbelievably politicians are still taking about a statue of him

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. 😒

God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t want to give the answer away, but his initials are DJT.

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

The creation of state-run media.

Stop the madness before we no longer are able to.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

A middle finger to erasure.

More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 1d

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like watching a tornado coming at you with no way to stop it.

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

And yet the tax-free political preaching continues.

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

No caption needed.

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 1d

Yep 😒

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

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The Sanders Institute @sandersinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

5 words.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.

This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

The Constitution is not self-enforcing.

The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms.

And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People.

No one is coming to save us.

It's entirely up to us.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

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