Karen Chapman
@karenchapman.bsky.social
Retired Public Health Physician 🩺 and
Vaccine Advocate
Believe in Science 🧬 , the Rule of Law, our Constitutional Republic
Dogs 🐕 are the best!
Blue all the way! Ready for the fight!
🚫DMs. I block DMs. 🚫
Vaccine Advocate
Believe in Science 🧬 , the Rule of Law, our Constitutional Republic
Dogs 🐕 are the best!
Blue all the way! Ready for the fight!
🚫DMs. I block DMs. 🚫
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Don't worry, Donald Trump, all those middle fingers were simply signaling that it was first down
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Don't worry, Donald Trump, all those middle fingers were simply signaling that it was first down
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There's one central rule in working against autocrats - if they see you as weak, if you attempt to appease, you are creating a permission structure for them to escalate, to take more.
Ds are strong right now, and he is weak. We need to use our strength to get more for the American people, not less
Ds are strong right now, and he is weak. We need to use our strength to get more for the American people, not less
With our big election win last week, and Trump's clear political and physical decline, Dems should be more ambitious now, and fight even harder, for the country and the American people. Voters saw us fighting for them & we were rewarded across the country 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...
Trump's Government Has Failed, His Powers Are Ebbing And For The Good Of The Country Democrats Must Become More Ambitious Now
People are pissed and we need to keep fighting
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There's one central rule in working against autocrats - if they see you as weak, if you attempt to appease, you are creating a permission structure for them to escalate, to take more.
Ds are strong right now, and he is weak. We need to use our strength to get more for the American people, not less
Ds are strong right now, and he is weak. We need to use our strength to get more for the American people, not less
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Some Sunday reflections on a very consequential week in our politics 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hop...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hop...
Sunday Hopium - Recapping A Very Important Week In Our Politics
People are pissed, and we need to keep fighting
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Some Sunday reflections on a very consequential week in our politics 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hop...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Supreme Court gives Trump green light to withhold billions in food aid — for now
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Supreme Court gives Trump green light to withhold billions in food aid — for now
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to temporarily withhold roughly $4 billion in payments for the federal SNAP food assistance program, despite an earlier court order requiri...
www.rawstory.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Supreme Court gives Trump green light to withhold billions in food aid — for now
www.rawstory.com/snap-benefit...
www.rawstory.com/snap-benefit...
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The trump administration is a regime of bratty adolescents.
We must and can do better.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
We must and can do better.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The trump administration is a regime of bratty adolescents.
We must and can do better.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
We must and can do better.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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This is what a lame duck looks like. The entire country knows it, even the GOP. If they don’t separate themselves from him - they’ll go down on the Trumptanic. 👇
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is what a lame duck looks like. The entire country knows it, even the GOP. If they don’t separate themselves from him - they’ll go down on the Trumptanic. 👇
James Talarico - heard about him two years ago. He is impressive. So well spoken and nails the message.
James Talarico (D-TX) is going to make one hell of a US Senator. He just gets it, the system is rigged for the wealthy and well connected but we the people have the power to take it back. Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined. Watch👇💥🔥
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
James Talarico - heard about him two years ago. He is impressive. So well spoken and nails the message.
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Good morning everyone
Coffee and this
In all my years
Never thought I'd ever see
letting children go hungry and families lose their healthcare
What have we become ?
Coffee and this
In all my years
Never thought I'd ever see
letting children go hungry and families lose their healthcare
What have we become ?
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Good morning everyone
Coffee and this
In all my years
Never thought I'd ever see
letting children go hungry and families lose their healthcare
What have we become ?
Coffee and this
In all my years
Never thought I'd ever see
letting children go hungry and families lose their healthcare
What have we become ?
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Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
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In most of the issues that matter Trump is now regularly polling in the 30s not the 40s. The latest example is this nugget from the new Washington Post poll:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In most of the issues that matter Trump is now regularly polling in the 30s not the 40s. The latest example is this nugget from the new Washington Post poll:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Wow!
No NatSec hawk can justify this.
“Without them, construction of modernized“This is a decision our enemies will welcome. It also demonstrates that President Trump will go to any lengths — including jeopardizing our national security — to achieve his political ends.”
“Without them, construction of modernized“This is a decision our enemies will welcome. It also demonstrates that President Trump will go to any lengths — including jeopardizing our national security — to achieve his political ends.”
‘This has never happened before’: NNSA furloughs 1,400 staff
About 400 NNSA staff will continue working to maintain minimum safe operating conditions at the nuclear security agency.
federalnewsnetwork.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Wow!
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REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford on Trump bombing boats and killing people with no due process or real evidence they’re drug-related: “The administration needs to give Congress insight on this. If this was happening under Biden with this level of insight I’d be apoplectic.”
October 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford on Trump bombing boats and killing people with no due process or real evidence they’re drug-related: “The administration needs to give Congress insight on this. If this was happening under Biden with this level of insight I’d be apoplectic.”
“With Republicans refusing to negotiate with Democrats….with House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) keeping the House out of session, Trump leaving for Asia for a week, Republicans are making the calculation Democrats will cave when America falls into a hunger crisis.
What are we doing here, folks?”
What are we doing here, folks?”
October 25, 2025
Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“With Republicans refusing to negotiate with Democrats….with House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) keeping the House out of session, Trump leaving for Asia for a week, Republicans are making the calculation Democrats will cave when America falls into a hunger crisis.
What are we doing here, folks?”
What are we doing here, folks?”
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Recommend this new analysis from @gelliottmorris.com - Dems are now more trusted on the economy.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...
Polls show voters now trust Democrats more to handle the economy
The issue that sank Democrats in 2024 now threatens to do the same to Republicans in 2025 and the 2026 midterms
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Recommend this new analysis from @gelliottmorris.com - Dems are now more trusted on the economy.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...
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🧵1/3 During the Friday night RIF massacre, CDC’s ethics department was eliminated.
Yes — the office that makes sure CDC employees don’t abuse their federal privileges.
Yes — the office that makes sure CDC employees don’t abuse their federal privileges.
Site Index
The Ethics and Integrity Office (EIO) provides insight on Ethics policies and procedures at CDC.
www.cdc.gov
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
🧵1/3 During the Friday night RIF massacre, CDC’s ethics department was eliminated.
Yes — the office that makes sure CDC employees don’t abuse their federal privileges.
Yes — the office that makes sure CDC employees don’t abuse their federal privileges.
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You go @jeffmerkley.bsky.social!
The senator has been speaking on the floor since 6:24 last night denouncing Trump's authoritarian attacks on democracy
Let's be loud--the American people are listening. Trump is down to historically Low 37% approval in recent polls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...
The senator has been speaking on the floor since 6:24 last night denouncing Trump's authoritarian attacks on democracy
Let's be loud--the American people are listening. Trump is down to historically Low 37% approval in recent polls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...
Merkley STILL Holding the Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You go @jeffmerkley.bsky.social!
The senator has been speaking on the floor since 6:24 last night denouncing Trump's authoritarian attacks on democracy
Let's be loud--the American people are listening. Trump is down to historically Low 37% approval in recent polls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...
The senator has been speaking on the floor since 6:24 last night denouncing Trump's authoritarian attacks on democracy
Let's be loud--the American people are listening. Trump is down to historically Low 37% approval in recent polls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...
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Beyer: I don’t like to do ad hominem attacks, but I’ve served with four different speakers. This is the fifth one—by far the weakest speaker, I think, in American history.
October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beyer: I don’t like to do ad hominem attacks, but I’ve served with four different speakers. This is the fifth one—by far the weakest speaker, I think, in American history.
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#TrumpIsFailing
The campaign promises have not been kept, we are worse off financially, and we are in danger from our own government.
Dems have been joined by Never Trumpers and buyer’s remorse is bringing in more Americans each day. We the People will overcome once again. ❌👑🇺🇸
The campaign promises have not been kept, we are worse off financially, and we are in danger from our own government.
Dems have been joined by Never Trumpers and buyer’s remorse is bringing in more Americans each day. We the People will overcome once again. ❌👑🇺🇸
“The demonstrations were very small.”
October 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
#TrumpIsFailing
The campaign promises have not been kept, we are worse off financially, and we are in danger from our own government.
Dems have been joined by Never Trumpers and buyer’s remorse is bringing in more Americans each day. We the People will overcome once again. ❌👑🇺🇸
The campaign promises have not been kept, we are worse off financially, and we are in danger from our own government.
Dems have been joined by Never Trumpers and buyer’s remorse is bringing in more Americans each day. We the People will overcome once again. ❌👑🇺🇸
Follow the Epstein money transactions as Congressman Raskin is doing by asking the big banks to step forward and cooperate with Congressional members. It is beyond time to expose all facets of this cruel Epstein world, no matter whose names are implicated.
Follow the Money: Congressman Raskin Targets the Banks Behind Epstein’s $1.5 Billion Trail
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October 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Follow the Epstein money transactions as Congressman Raskin is doing by asking the big banks to step forward and cooperate with Congressional members. It is beyond time to expose all facets of this cruel Epstein world, no matter whose names are implicated.
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Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
Bastards.
“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
August 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
August 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
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Hey, #FattyMcFascist #LoserInChief
We ain’t going away.
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
You want people to stop talking about Epstein. Not gonna happen you treason weasel.
We ain’t going away.
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
You want people to stop talking about Epstein. Not gonna happen you treason weasel.
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hey, #FattyMcFascist #LoserInChief
We ain’t going away.
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
You want people to stop talking about Epstein. Not gonna happen you treason weasel.
We ain’t going away.
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
You want people to stop talking about Epstein. Not gonna happen you treason weasel.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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A legit #Potus. Something psycho #FattyMcFascist will never be.
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A legit #Potus. Something psycho #FattyMcFascist will never be.
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Everything this administration does must be presumed irregular
Bolton charges are driven by revenge & dripping with suspicious DOJ moves
They deserve no credence until blessed by a jury. Good luck with that, DOJ will have to go through Abbe Lowell!
I explain👇
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Bolton charges are driven by revenge & dripping with suspicious DOJ moves
They deserve no credence until blessed by a jury. Good luck with that, DOJ will have to go through Abbe Lowell!
I explain👇
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Everything the Trump Administration Does Must be Presumed Irregular
Publisher's Roundup 40
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October 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Everything this administration does must be presumed irregular
Bolton charges are driven by revenge & dripping with suspicious DOJ moves
They deserve no credence until blessed by a jury. Good luck with that, DOJ will have to go through Abbe Lowell!
I explain👇
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Bolton charges are driven by revenge & dripping with suspicious DOJ moves
They deserve no credence until blessed by a jury. Good luck with that, DOJ will have to go through Abbe Lowell!
I explain👇
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...