Jeanne Raines
@jeanneraines.bsky.social
Mental Health Counselor, artist, Human, learner, mother, inclined towards the Mystery
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If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more.
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Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA) - Public Service Alliance
Today, we’re announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening America by supporting the people who serve it. PSA is founded on a simple yet profound...
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February 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more.
thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...
thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...
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Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act.
She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
ICYMI: The head of Trump's Justice Department says she would "love to work with" a Louisiana district attorney lobbying for tougher federal punishment for people who mail medication abortion to states with abortion bans. #lalege #lagov
In New Orleans, Trump AG Pam Bondi supports tougher abortion pill rules after viral LA case
Days after Louisiana prosecutors indicted a New York doctor for mailing abortion pills, Trump's Attorney General said she would "love to work with" a district attorney pushing for tougher federal pena...
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February 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act.
She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
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every trump person is just that one extra level of deranged. you may think you know someone like them, and then you find out they said something that is so completely unhinged that you’re like ok nvm i’ve never met that flavor of crazy before.
January 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
every trump person is just that one extra level of deranged. you may think you know someone like them, and then you find out they said something that is so completely unhinged that you’re like ok nvm i’ve never met that flavor of crazy before.
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The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening?
In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.
Call it what it is.
In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.
Call it what it is.
January 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening?
In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.
Call it what it is.
In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.
Call it what it is.
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Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
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January 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
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zero legal authority exists to do this. wapo.st/3PXucLH
White House tells federal workers they can quit now, get paid through September
The email is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
zero legal authority exists to do this. wapo.st/3PXucLH
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Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
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Trump is blowing up the Constitution and dismantling democracy before our eyes.
Freezing all federal grants is a radical transformation of the relationship between the President & Congress.
It’s illegal & dictatorial & Americans will die as a result.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Freezing all federal grants is a radical transformation of the relationship between the President & Congress.
It’s illegal & dictatorial & Americans will die as a result.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid
In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Trump is blowing up the Constitution and dismantling democracy before our eyes.
Freezing all federal grants is a radical transformation of the relationship between the President & Congress.
It’s illegal & dictatorial & Americans will die as a result.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Freezing all federal grants is a radical transformation of the relationship between the President & Congress.
It’s illegal & dictatorial & Americans will die as a result.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Very interesting view from autocracy expert @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on why picking a morally flawed man with no management experience to run the world’s biggest bureaucracy has logic for a strongman like Trump
January 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Very interesting view from autocracy expert @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on why picking a morally flawed man with no management experience to run the world’s biggest bureaucracy has logic for a strongman like Trump
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It takes until a Palestinian politician quoted in the 20th paragraph of this story before this "remarkable proposal" is accurately described as ethnic cleansing
President Donald Trump indicated that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about potentially building housing and moving more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries, a remarkable proposal from a sitting US president: cnn.it/3WACxIK
Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about potentially building housing and moving more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries, ...
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January 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It takes until a Palestinian politician quoted in the 20th paragraph of this story before this "remarkable proposal" is accurately described as ethnic cleansing
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Feels like a good time to remind everyone that if you are a public servant wishing to report retaliation, acts of corruption or abuse of government power, I have a page for that on my website: www.wyden.senate.gov/whistleblowe...
January 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Feels like a good time to remind everyone that if you are a public servant wishing to report retaliation, acts of corruption or abuse of government power, I have a page for that on my website: www.wyden.senate.gov/whistleblowe...
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very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman
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No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.
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Publishing essays like this moving one from @oliviajulianna.bsky.social is why we founded @contrariannews.bsky.social
Standing up for democracy isn’t just about calling out autocrats
It’s also about appreciating what is beautiful about our country
contrarian.substack.com/p/from-the-t...
Standing up for democracy isn’t just about calling out autocrats
It’s also about appreciating what is beautiful about our country
contrarian.substack.com/p/from-the-t...
From the Trailer House to the White House
An American Story
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January 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Publishing essays like this moving one from @oliviajulianna.bsky.social is why we founded @contrariannews.bsky.social
Standing up for democracy isn’t just about calling out autocrats
It’s also about appreciating what is beautiful about our country
contrarian.substack.com/p/from-the-t...
Standing up for democracy isn’t just about calling out autocrats
It’s also about appreciating what is beautiful about our country
contrarian.substack.com/p/from-the-t...
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It would be a tragedy if President Biden dIdn’t pardon Leonard Peltier, who deserves clemency if anyone does and who is emblematic of our nation’s grotesque mistreatment of Native Americans.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Joe Biden is Leonard Peltier’s last hope | Rose Styron and Alex Matthiessen
The imprisoned Native American is long overdue for clemency. Joe Biden is probably the last president who can give it to him
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It would be a tragedy if President Biden dIdn’t pardon Leonard Peltier, who deserves clemency if anyone does and who is emblematic of our nation’s grotesque mistreatment of Native Americans.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Probably should be a bigger deal that Musk, the richest man on Earth who is essentially acting as the leader of the GOP, endorsed the pro-Nazi AfD Party in Germany in a tweet the same a day a supporter of that party killed people in an act of terrorism.
The VP Vance just supported Musk's tweet.
The VP Vance just supported Musk's tweet.
December 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Probably should be a bigger deal that Musk, the richest man on Earth who is essentially acting as the leader of the GOP, endorsed the pro-Nazi AfD Party in Germany in a tweet the same a day a supporter of that party killed people in an act of terrorism.
The VP Vance just supported Musk's tweet.
The VP Vance just supported Musk's tweet.
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Sednaya prison, Assad's human slaughter house and rape centre is being liberated. Regime is withdrawing. The images, evidence & information that will be extracted from this prison alone will likely shake the region and Syrian society. Thousands are waiting for news about their loved ones. #freeSyria
December 8, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Sednaya prison, Assad's human slaughter house and rape centre is being liberated. Regime is withdrawing. The images, evidence & information that will be extracted from this prison alone will likely shake the region and Syrian society. Thousands are waiting for news about their loved ones. #freeSyria
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DAMASCUS:
1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment.
For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost.
Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.
1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment.
For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost.
Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.
December 8, 2024 at 1:54 AM
DAMASCUS:
1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment.
For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost.
Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.
1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment.
For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost.
Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.
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A video showing the liberation of political prisoners from Sednaya Prison in the Damascus countryside, after the guards fled and left them in their cells last night. These are historic days for Syria, as tens of thousands of Syrian families are awaiting the return of their loved ones.
#Sednaya
#Sednaya
December 8, 2024 at 8:23 AM
A video showing the liberation of political prisoners from Sednaya Prison in the Damascus countryside, after the guards fled and left them in their cells last night. These are historic days for Syria, as tens of thousands of Syrian families are awaiting the return of their loved ones.
#Sednaya
#Sednaya
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New thread: Opposition forces are closing in on Sednaya Military Prison, also known as the Human Slaughterhouse, where Assad detained people opposed to his regime. 30,000 have been killed there.
December 7, 2024 at 3:19 PM
New thread: Opposition forces are closing in on Sednaya Military Prison, also known as the Human Slaughterhouse, where Assad detained people opposed to his regime. 30,000 have been killed there.
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My god. My god. Sednaya. My god.
Regime forces have withdrawn from Sednaya Prison, leaving only the revolutionaries to enter.
December 8, 2024 at 12:31 AM
My god. My god. Sednaya. My god.