Alicia Barnes
@aliciabarnes.bsky.social
US Navy Veteran OEF/OIF. My sixth great-grandfather wrote the Connecticut Compromise. Member of DSDI. Health care is a human right.
WTF.
NEW: The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
WTF.
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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
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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
Joined about 400 other folks from my community tonight to hear from @grahamformaine.bsky.social!
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Joined about 400 other folks from my community tonight to hear from @grahamformaine.bsky.social!
If you only call out people you don’t like, you are indeed, a hypocrite.
September 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you only call out people you don’t like, you are indeed, a hypocrite.
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Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit
“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
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August 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
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Trump is basically making VA employees miserable so he can get rid of them that way!! It took me SIX MONTHS to get an appointment with my PCP at the VA!! #DefendVeteransBenefits
New and expecting parents who work at VA are getting maternity leave canceled after their union contract was terminated. Those affected include people giving birth this week??? Over 25% of VA employees are veterans themselves....
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#DefendVeteransBenefits social.demcast.com/s/TH1NmrDX
VA rescinds weeks of parental leave — even for some giving birth this week
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August 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trump is basically making VA employees miserable so he can get rid of them that way!! It took me SIX MONTHS to get an appointment with my PCP at the VA!! #DefendVeteransBenefits
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Trump and Republicans are gutting the VA. Thousands of doctors and caregivers fired. 7 million Veterans left hanging. The people who served this country are now paying the price for his cruelty.
#DefendVeteransBenefits
#DefendVeteransBenefits
August 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump and Republicans are gutting the VA. Thousands of doctors and caregivers fired. 7 million Veterans left hanging. The people who served this country are now paying the price for his cruelty.
#DefendVeteransBenefits
#DefendVeteransBenefits
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🤑 HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS to be SPENT on a GAUDY BALLROOM at the White House…
…BUT NO MONEY 💸 for CHILDREN DYING of CANCER. 🤯
…BUT NO MONEY 💸 for CHILDREN DYING of CANCER. 🤯
August 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🤑 HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS to be SPENT on a GAUDY BALLROOM at the White House…
…BUT NO MONEY 💸 for CHILDREN DYING of CANCER. 🤯
…BUT NO MONEY 💸 for CHILDREN DYING of CANCER. 🤯
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UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year.
Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.
This is why we need Medicare for All.
Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.
This is why we need Medicare for All.
Health Insurers Are Hiking Premiums as Their Profits Balloon
The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and divid
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July 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year.
Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.
This is why we need Medicare for All.
Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.
This is why we need Medicare for All.
He absolutely is hiding something!!
"As far as I can tell, no sitting president has ever sued a reporter or media outlet or media executive for allegedly defaming him," First Amendment attorney Ted Boutrous told me. "When you have the presidential bully pulpit, you simply don’t need to sue to get to the truth."
Trump files libel lawsuit over Wall Street Journal report on Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday letters | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump filed a libel lawsuit against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and reporters who wrote a story about a collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birth...
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July 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
He absolutely is hiding something!!
Let me guess, next they will pass a law that medical debt can’t be discharged through bankruptcy…they just want us all dead. thehill.com/homenews/adm... Judge reverses CFPB rule erasing medical debt from credit reports
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July 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Let me guess, next they will pass a law that medical debt can’t be discharged through bankruptcy…they just want us all dead. thehill.com/homenews/adm... Judge reverses CFPB rule erasing medical debt from credit reports
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Senate Budget Bill passes 50/50 with VP Vance the tie vote.
We are now getting a count of who voted yes to rip away our healthcare social net and environmental protections.
We’ll have it for the 2026 midterms.
So it goes back to the House at 9am tomorrow. Call 📞 your Representatives.
#Pinks
We are now getting a count of who voted yes to rip away our healthcare social net and environmental protections.
We’ll have it for the 2026 midterms.
So it goes back to the House at 9am tomorrow. Call 📞 your Representatives.
#Pinks
July 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Senate Budget Bill passes 50/50 with VP Vance the tie vote.
We are now getting a count of who voted yes to rip away our healthcare social net and environmental protections.
We’ll have it for the 2026 midterms.
So it goes back to the House at 9am tomorrow. Call 📞 your Representatives.
#Pinks
We are now getting a count of who voted yes to rip away our healthcare social net and environmental protections.
We’ll have it for the 2026 midterms.
So it goes back to the House at 9am tomorrow. Call 📞 your Representatives.
#Pinks
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This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
June 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
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June 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Two Senators walk into a bar…and get birddogged.
There happened to be some lobbying event at the hotel we’re staying at in DC…and Senators Graham and Tuberville walked right into our group.
There happened to be some lobbying event at the hotel we’re staying at in DC…and Senators Graham and Tuberville walked right into our group.
June 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Two Senators walk into a bar…and get birddogged.
There happened to be some lobbying event at the hotel we’re staying at in DC…and Senators Graham and Tuberville walked right into our group.
There happened to be some lobbying event at the hotel we’re staying at in DC…and Senators Graham and Tuberville walked right into our group.
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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
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Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
June 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
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Padilla warned Sunday that if he, as a US Senator, could be forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference, "don't just imagine what they're capable of, but what they are doing when the cameras are not there" to others.
Padilla warned Sunday that if he, as a US Senator, could be forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference, "don't just imagine what they're capable of, but what they are doing when the cameras are not there" to others.
Padilla warns about what happens "when cameras are not there" after removal from Noem event
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California was briefly detained last week after being forcibly removed from a news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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June 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Padilla warned Sunday that if he, as a US Senator, could be forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference, "don't just imagine what they're capable of, but what they are doing when the cameras are not there" to others.
Padilla warned Sunday that if he, as a US Senator, could be forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference, "don't just imagine what they're capable of, but what they are doing when the cameras are not there" to others.
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June 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but scheduled protests are not an emergency.
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June 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but scheduled protests are not an emergency.
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge issued a sweeping order blocking President Donald Trump’s unprecedented seizure of California’s National Guard, calling the move illegal and a “dangerous precedent. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of California National Guard
Read more here.
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June 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge issued a sweeping order blocking President Donald Trump’s unprecedented seizure of California’s National Guard, calling the move illegal and a “dangerous precedent. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."
June 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."
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CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..
June 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..
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Mayor Bass is on fire 🔥 as she lays out the facts of Trump creating chaos on purpose.
ICE Protests
#Pinks 💖
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ICE Protests
#Pinks 💖
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says LA was peaceful before ICE raids
YouTube video by Associated Press
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June 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Mayor Bass is on fire 🔥 as she lays out the facts of Trump creating chaos on purpose.
ICE Protests
#Pinks 💖
youtube.com/watch?v=Gx39...
ICE Protests
#Pinks 💖
youtube.com/watch?v=Gx39...
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Gift 🎁 article
ICE Protests
#Pinks 💖
“The military said the Marines were being added to the National Guard troops already mobilized in Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom said those troops had been given little to do and there was no need for Marines.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
ICE Protests
#Pinks 💖
“The military said the Marines were being added to the National Guard troops already mobilized in Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom said those troops had been given little to do and there was no need for Marines.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Live Updates: 700 Marines Sent to L.A. to Quell Immigration Protests
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June 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Gift 🎁 article
ICE Protests
#Pinks 💖
“The military said the Marines were being added to the National Guard troops already mobilized in Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom said those troops had been given little to do and there was no need for Marines.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
ICE Protests
#Pinks 💖
“The military said the Marines were being added to the National Guard troops already mobilized in Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom said those troops had been given little to do and there was no need for Marines.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...