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Tammy Rainey

@tammybeth.bsky.social

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Jays' fan, unashamedly trans, once (and future?) irregular blogger on Medium. Warren Democrat - Sic semper tyrannis

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Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 11h

This implies Gilbert>Kirby>Woo and that's to be taken seriously.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 13h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 12h

feels like a set up for dramatic regression

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 13h

This would be overthrowing the constitution and democracy.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 13h

if so this should provide sufficient motivation

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 13h

what I'm telling myself is that we've seen this offensive disappearance before and it felt like a sea-change and...it wasn't.

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 13h

Don't really need this much suspense my dudes

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 13h

too many balls, not enough strikes

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 13h

elmo from sesame street sitting at a table with a purple cup and straw

ALT: elmo from sesame street sitting at a table with a purple cup and straw

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Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 13h

Alright, down to business time. Comeback Kids activate.

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 14h

how many more pitches can this dude have?

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 14h

they won so many games that evolved like this over the season that I'm oddly not really tense right now. But the clock is ticking

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 14h

Just one of the faces of the untold number, often kids, who will be dead at the hands of Republican voters before these fascists are gone

NPR @npr.org · 18h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 14h

Welp.

Wake up call boys?

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The Lever @levernews.com · 1d

The billionaire takeover of media aims to shield corporations & politicians from accountability.

It's a 50-year master plan detailed in never-before-seen documents that we're about to publish in our new book.

We preview the documents today in The Guardian.

Order the book: LeverNews.com/book

Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermin...

www.theguardian.com

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 14h

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NO BRAKES NO QUIT @lesleynope.bsky.social · 14h

Look guys the Mariners are sleep deprived and burnt out. We need to score more runs.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16h

"Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy"

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV, writes Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social:

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 18h

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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 15h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

I hope reporters will ask all the Republicans in Congress for comment here.

Be sure to have them take the ball gags out of their mouths first.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 20h

Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6

Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 16h

it's a tell that they claim "well we're not sure yet" but in EVERY case they decide "but we're gonna let you do the potentially illegal thing anyway"

Lower court finding of fact irrelevant apparently. "We don't know what's up except Caesar may do as he wills"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com