Deb Garfield Weitzen
@dweitzen.bsky.social
Rabid Dem, believer in equality and justice for all, repro rights, and the rule of law. Recovering attorney. Mom. Local Dem Cttee District Leader
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Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
February 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
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They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
February 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
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1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it.
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Corewell, Largest Michigan Provider, Resumes Trans Youth Care Despite Illegal Trump EO
On Wednesday, the hospital system announced that it was resuming gender affirming care after a brief pause due to Trump's executive order attempting to ban it for those under 19.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Elections have consequences 🤡
A trump voter may be out of nearly $300k they invested into their farm, thinking the government was going to repay him. Now he might lose his farm because Trump and President Musk cut the funding to the program he was relying on.
These are the stories our reps need to be amplifying.
These are the stories our reps need to be amplifying.
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Elections have consequences 🤡
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Less than 9 hours left until polls close, and every vote matters. This election will decide whether we continue making Westchester affordable, keeping property taxes low, investing in affordable housing, and strengthening our economy — or risk moving backward.
February 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Less than 9 hours left until polls close, and every vote matters. This election will decide whether we continue making Westchester affordable, keeping property taxes low, investing in affordable housing, and strengthening our economy — or risk moving backward.
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🔥 AMAZING.
Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.
It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.
It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
February 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🔥 AMAZING.
Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.
It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia.
It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
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Listen, they can keep lying about USAID, but gutting the program is hurting the American Ag sector.
That is the point though. Destroy American Ag to make way for other authoritarian countries to take over the market.
That is the point though. Destroy American Ag to make way for other authoritarian countries to take over the market.
February 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Listen, they can keep lying about USAID, but gutting the program is hurting the American Ag sector.
That is the point though. Destroy American Ag to make way for other authoritarian countries to take over the market.
That is the point though. Destroy American Ag to make way for other authoritarian countries to take over the market.
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ALERT TO FEDERAL WORKERS: The Thursday “deadline” set by Musk isn’t a thing. Congress hasn’t appropriated the funds to pay you what he promised should you resign by today — nor has Congress authorized anyone to threaten you with losing anything for staying on.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems
Associates of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fanned out across the federal government in recent days, alarming some career employees.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
ALERT TO FEDERAL WORKERS: The Thursday “deadline” set by Musk isn’t a thing. Congress hasn’t appropriated the funds to pay you what he promised should you resign by today — nor has Congress authorized anyone to threaten you with losing anything for staying on.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Doubling down on the insanity
February 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Doubling down on the insanity
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Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses…
Both sides were never the same.
Both sides were never the same.
February 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses…
Both sides were never the same.
Both sides were never the same.
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The US AI Safety Institute's inaugural director, Elizabeth Kelly, is departing her role, she said in a LinkedIn post, a move that leaves open the nascent government body's direction under President Donald Trump reut.rs/4hnhSAw
U.S. AI Safety Institute director leaves role
The U.S. AI Safety Institute's inaugural director, Elizabeth Kelly, is departing her role on Wednesday, she said in a LinkedIn post, a move that leaves open the nascent government body's direction under President Donald Trump.
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February 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The US AI Safety Institute's inaugural director, Elizabeth Kelly, is departing her role, she said in a LinkedIn post, a move that leaves open the nascent government body's direction under President Donald Trump reut.rs/4hnhSAw
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
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NEW: According to a source, the DoJ has sent out 14 memos in the last half hour including:
Reviving the death penalty
Sanctuary jurisdiction directives
Rescinding environmental justice directives
And restoring the integrity and credibility of the DoJ:
Reviving the death penalty
Sanctuary jurisdiction directives
Rescinding environmental justice directives
And restoring the integrity and credibility of the DoJ:
February 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
NEW: According to a source, the DoJ has sent out 14 memos in the last half hour including:
Reviving the death penalty
Sanctuary jurisdiction directives
Rescinding environmental justice directives
And restoring the integrity and credibility of the DoJ:
Reviving the death penalty
Sanctuary jurisdiction directives
Rescinding environmental justice directives
And restoring the integrity and credibility of the DoJ:
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Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove says of the purge at FBI that the “only individuals who should be concerned … are those who acted with corrupt or partisan intent…”
A perfect description of the actions of Trump's own DOJ leadership.
A perfect description of the actions of Trump's own DOJ leadership.
February 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove says of the purge at FBI that the “only individuals who should be concerned … are those who acted with corrupt or partisan intent…”
A perfect description of the actions of Trump's own DOJ leadership.
A perfect description of the actions of Trump's own DOJ leadership.
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
February 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
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Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.
Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
February 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.
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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
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Donald Trump:
Comply with my demands or I will hurt my own people!
Canada:
Ok, we will keep doing a thing we’ve been doing.
Mexico:
Ok, we will do a thing we did under the last guy.
Trump:
I WIN!!!!
Fucking idiot.
Comply with my demands or I will hurt my own people!
Canada:
Ok, we will keep doing a thing we’ve been doing.
Mexico:
Ok, we will do a thing we did under the last guy.
Trump:
I WIN!!!!
Fucking idiot.
February 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Donald Trump:
Comply with my demands or I will hurt my own people!
Canada:
Ok, we will keep doing a thing we’ve been doing.
Mexico:
Ok, we will do a thing we did under the last guy.
Trump:
I WIN!!!!
Fucking idiot.
Comply with my demands or I will hurt my own people!
Canada:
Ok, we will keep doing a thing we’ve been doing.
Mexico:
Ok, we will do a thing we did under the last guy.
Trump:
I WIN!!!!
Fucking idiot.
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Proud to be 100% Pro-Choice as rated by Choice Matters Inc. and endorsed by WCLA PAC, a leading voice in the fight for reproductive freedom. With anti-choice extremists working to roll back rights, we need strong leadership at every level of government to protect our reproductive freedoms.
February 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Proud to be 100% Pro-Choice as rated by Choice Matters Inc. and endorsed by WCLA PAC, a leading voice in the fight for reproductive freedom. With anti-choice extremists working to roll back rights, we need strong leadership at every level of government to protect our reproductive freedoms.
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Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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BREAKING: I’m hearing from several VA employees that they have been locked out of VATAS - thats how employees request leave - like administrative leave to file EEO complaints. It also shows your work schedule and OT. If this has happened to you, please reach out using the contact info in my bio.
February 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
BREAKING: I’m hearing from several VA employees that they have been locked out of VATAS - thats how employees request leave - like administrative leave to file EEO complaints. It also shows your work schedule and OT. If this has happened to you, please reach out using the contact info in my bio.
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Yep, this is entirely real.
February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yep, this is entirely real.