@cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
@cmerfy.bsky.social
🌊Lefty in Texas🌊
US/Cdn citizen w/ views shaped by living in London🇬🇧, Munich🇩🇪,& Toronto🍁
DemCast & ONEV1 member; BLM LGTBQ Ally, gun control & public education supporter, X refugee
US/Cdn citizen w/ views shaped by living in London🇬🇧, Munich🇩🇪,& Toronto🍁
DemCast & ONEV1 member; BLM LGTBQ Ally, gun control & public education supporter, X refugee
Pinned
Lone Star Left Endorses Chris Turner For Texas House District 101
Experience in an unstable legislature.
open.substack.com
📢💙‼️
#LoneStarLeft on Thurs nite, Feb12, 2026 with an important endorsement 👇
Please READ 🎁
Please share‼️
Thank you!!!
#OV1
open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
#LoneStarLeft on Thurs nite, Feb12, 2026 with an important endorsement 👇
Please READ 🎁
Please share‼️
Thank you!!!
#OV1
open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
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February 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
If only we could eat Trump's denials, or pay our healthcare bill with Trump's lies.
#TrumpAffordabilityDisaster
#TrumpAffordabilityDisaster
February 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Milwaukee will not hold a primary election next week, but voters will head to the polls in April for local races that are set to appear on the spring ballot.
Read the full reporting from Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service:
milwaukeenns.org/2026/02/12/n...
By Meredith Melland
Milwaukee NNS
Read the full reporting from Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service:
milwaukeenns.org/2026/02/12/n...
By Meredith Melland
Milwaukee NNS
February 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Milwaukee will not hold a primary election next week, but voters will head to the polls in April for local races that are set to appear on the spring ballot.
Read the full reporting from Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service:
milwaukeenns.org/2026/02/12/n...
By Meredith Melland
Milwaukee NNS
Read the full reporting from Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service:
milwaukeenns.org/2026/02/12/n...
By Meredith Melland
Milwaukee NNS
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I'm grateful she's there & was so well received. She'll be back in a smaller session with Governor Gretchen Whitmire later 😊
For the record:
We Americans are NOT ready to depart from a rules-based order or to give up on Democracy
#OV1
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I'm grateful she's there & was so well received. She'll be back in a smaller session with Governor Gretchen Whitmire later 😊
For the record:
We Americans are NOT ready to depart from a rules-based order or to give up on Democracy
#OV1
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Trump is ‘tearing apart’ transatlantic partnership, warns Ocasio-Cortez – Munich Security Conference live
The congresswomen was speaking at a panel on populism in her first appearance at the conference
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:51 PM
📢💯‼️
I'm grateful she's there & was so well received. She'll be back in a smaller session with Governor Gretchen Whitmire later 😊
For the record:
We Americans are NOT ready to depart from a rules-based order or to give up on Democracy
#OV1
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I'm grateful she's there & was so well received. She'll be back in a smaller session with Governor Gretchen Whitmire later 😊
For the record:
We Americans are NOT ready to depart from a rules-based order or to give up on Democracy
#OV1
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
I hope they spend it fast!
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I hope they spend it fast!
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Judge temporarily blocks Trump from cutting public health funds intended for 4 blue states.
The judge ruled that withholding $600 million looks like an act of retaliation for push back against immigration and ICE in their states.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/AYcpLwPljRnK...
The judge ruled that withholding $600 million looks like an act of retaliation for push back against immigration and ICE in their states.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/AYcpLwPljRnK...
Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting $600 million in public health funds — Reuters
A federal judge in Chicago temporarily blocked on Thursday the Trump administration from moving ahead with $600 million in cuts to public health grants in four states led by Democrats.
apple.news
February 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Judge temporarily blocks Trump from cutting public health funds intended for 4 blue states.
The judge ruled that withholding $600 million looks like an act of retaliation for push back against immigration and ICE in their states.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/AYcpLwPljRnK...
The judge ruled that withholding $600 million looks like an act of retaliation for push back against immigration and ICE in their states.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/AYcpLwPljRnK...
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Issues/Priorities:
🔹️Affordability
Colorado Made: A National & Economic 🔹️Strategy
🔹️Rural Security is National Security
🔹️Dignity of Work in the AI Era
🔹️Care and Dignity
🔹️Reforming Congress
Read paragraphs under issues trisha4colorado.com
🔹️Affordability
Colorado Made: A National & Economic 🔹️Strategy
🔹️Rural Security is National Security
🔹️Dignity of Work in the AI Era
🔹️Care and Dignity
🔹️Reforming Congress
Read paragraphs under issues trisha4colorado.com
Trisha 4 Colorado
Hometown candidate to beat Lauren Boebert
trisha4colorado.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Issues/Priorities:
🔹️Affordability
Colorado Made: A National & Economic 🔹️Strategy
🔹️Rural Security is National Security
🔹️Dignity of Work in the AI Era
🔹️Care and Dignity
🔹️Reforming Congress
Read paragraphs under issues trisha4colorado.com
🔹️Affordability
Colorado Made: A National & Economic 🔹️Strategy
🔹️Rural Security is National Security
🔹️Dignity of Work in the AI Era
🔹️Care and Dignity
🔹️Reforming Congress
Read paragraphs under issues trisha4colorado.com
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Democrats care for working families and legislate to help them thrive
@trisha4co.bsky.social also cares and will work to restore abortion rights, defend Social Security and Medicare and will untiringly fight for these issues
#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
@trisha4co.bsky.social also cares and will work to restore abortion rights, defend Social Security and Medicare and will untiringly fight for these issues
#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
February 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Democrats care for working families and legislate to help them thrive
@trisha4co.bsky.social also cares and will work to restore abortion rights, defend Social Security and Medicare and will untiringly fight for these issues
#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
@trisha4co.bsky.social also cares and will work to restore abortion rights, defend Social Security and Medicare and will untiringly fight for these issues
#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
ICE is also an affront to Christianity, in spite of what some supporters of ICE want to believe.
February 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
ICE is also an affront to Christianity, in spite of what some supporters of ICE want to believe.
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Simply states what ICE really is
An affront to God
Evangelicals are worshipping a felon instead and they don't care!
Simply states what ICE really is
An affront to God
Evangelicals are worshipping a felon instead and they don't care!
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Simply states what ICE really is
An affront to God
Evangelicals are worshipping a felon instead and they don't care!
Simply states what ICE really is
An affront to God
Evangelicals are worshipping a felon instead and they don't care!
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Talk about wasting time & money, this is utterly absurd‼️
All the millions of dollars spent so far, but we can't afford healthcare?
Vote the greedy Republicans out of office in every single election, no matter how small the job‼️
Stop #IceLawlessness
#StopTrump
#OneV1
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
All the millions of dollars spent so far, but we can't afford healthcare?
Vote the greedy Republicans out of office in every single election, no matter how small the job‼️
Stop #IceLawlessness
#StopTrump
#OneV1
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
Trump administration deported some migrants at a cost of $1 million each, Democratic report says | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has spent more than $30 million to send migrants to far-flung countries that are not their own, including, in a few instances, paying over $1 million a person, a new report fr...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Talk about wasting time & money, this is utterly absurd‼️
All the millions of dollars spent so far, but we can't afford healthcare?
Vote the greedy Republicans out of office in every single election, no matter how small the job‼️
Stop #IceLawlessness
#StopTrump
#OneV1
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
All the millions of dollars spent so far, but we can't afford healthcare?
Vote the greedy Republicans out of office in every single election, no matter how small the job‼️
Stop #IceLawlessness
#StopTrump
#OneV1
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
The Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, at rest after a hard day of Lying, Covering Up, Wrongfully Redacting, Allowing Criminality, Trampling on all the Rights of Americans, BS-ing Congress and Shredding the US Constitution.
February 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, at rest after a hard day of Lying, Covering Up, Wrongfully Redacting, Allowing Criminality, Trampling on all the Rights of Americans, BS-ing Congress and Shredding the US Constitution.
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
While Trump & MAGA try to tear at the fabric of our POC communities, I’d like to point out that they are powerful & resilient. With every utterance of racism, POC answers with grace & dignity. I celebrate my POC friends & neighbors. Love crushes hate.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1
#BlackHistoryMonth
#Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 13, 2026 at 12:17 PM
While Trump & MAGA try to tear at the fabric of our POC communities, I’d like to point out that they are powerful & resilient. With every utterance of racism, POC answers with grace & dignity. I celebrate my POC friends & neighbors. Love crushes hate.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1
#BlackHistoryMonth
#Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1
#BlackHistoryMonth
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Sweden is willing to do what NATO is expected to do
Protect a country in need from a powerful unhinged person in charge
Protect a country in need from a powerful unhinged person in charge
Sweden to send fighter jets, rangers to patrol Greenland in NATO mission reut.rs/4kGBMJe
Sweden to send fighter jets, rangers to patrol Greenland in NATO mission
Sweden will patrol Arctic skies with fighter jets and send rangers to exercise on Greenland as part of NATO's Arctic Sentry mission, it said on Thursday, the latest European military contribution in response to Donald Trump's designs on Greenland.
reut.rs
February 13, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Sweden is willing to do what NATO is expected to do
Protect a country in need from a powerful unhinged person in charge
Protect a country in need from a powerful unhinged person in charge
📢💙‼️
#LoneStarLeft on Thurs nite, Feb12, 2026 with an important endorsement 👇
Please READ 🎁
Please share‼️
Thank you!!!
#OV1
open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
#LoneStarLeft on Thurs nite, Feb12, 2026 with an important endorsement 👇
Please READ 🎁
Please share‼️
Thank you!!!
#OV1
open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
Lone Star Left Endorses Chris Turner For Texas House District 101
Experience in an unstable legislature.
open.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 AM
📢💙‼️
#LoneStarLeft on Thurs nite, Feb12, 2026 with an important endorsement 👇
Please READ 🎁
Please share‼️
Thank you!!!
#OV1
open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
#LoneStarLeft on Thurs nite, Feb12, 2026 with an important endorsement 👇
Please READ 🎁
Please share‼️
Thank you!!!
#OV1
open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Kansas City Mo
Is not going to have a migrant prison camp
The Mayor won't let it happen anywhere in KC!
Is not going to have a migrant prison camp
The Mayor won't let it happen anywhere in KC!
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas confirms Trump prison camp purchase called off, and vows to ensure that no other site in Kansas City gets one either.
KCUR story about "Platform Ventures" no sale:
www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...
Mayor's confirmation from instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DUqpKhwkUJb/
KCUR story about "Platform Ventures" no sale:
www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...
Mayor's confirmation from instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DUqpKhwkUJb/
February 13, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Kansas City Mo
Is not going to have a migrant prison camp
The Mayor won't let it happen anywhere in KC!
Is not going to have a migrant prison camp
The Mayor won't let it happen anywhere in KC!
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
Minnesota!
Vote for Peggy Flanagan for US Senate!
✔️End Special Interest Influence in Gov
✔️Protect Farming
✔️Affordable Housing
✔️Immigration Reform
✔️Reproductive Rights
✔️ Community Safety
Visit Peggyflanagan.com to learn more & donate!
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
Vote for Peggy Flanagan for US Senate!
✔️End Special Interest Influence in Gov
✔️Protect Farming
✔️Affordable Housing
✔️Immigration Reform
✔️Reproductive Rights
✔️ Community Safety
Visit Peggyflanagan.com to learn more & donate!
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
February 13, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Minnesota!
Vote for Peggy Flanagan for US Senate!
✔️End Special Interest Influence in Gov
✔️Protect Farming
✔️Affordable Housing
✔️Immigration Reform
✔️Reproductive Rights
✔️ Community Safety
Visit Peggyflanagan.com to learn more & donate!
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
Vote for Peggy Flanagan for US Senate!
✔️End Special Interest Influence in Gov
✔️Protect Farming
✔️Affordable Housing
✔️Immigration Reform
✔️Reproductive Rights
✔️ Community Safety
Visit Peggyflanagan.com to learn more & donate!
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
📢💔‼️
I didn't realize before that BC was my 'safe place'
I'm drawn to these updates 🥹 & I keep watching Canadian Olympic events
#OV1
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
I didn't realize before that BC was my 'safe place'
I'm drawn to these updates 🥹 & I keep watching Canadian Olympic events
#OV1
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Tumbler Ridge school shooting live: RCMP confirm victim identities; questions mount over how shooter obtained guns
An educator, five students between 12 and 13, and the suspect were found dead at school. The suspect’s mother and step-brother were killed at a home.
www.thestar.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:43 PM
📢💔‼️
I didn't realize before that BC was my 'safe place'
I'm drawn to these updates 🥹 & I keep watching Canadian Olympic events
#OV1
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
I didn't realize before that BC was my 'safe place'
I'm drawn to these updates 🥹 & I keep watching Canadian Olympic events
#OV1
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
The USA would be fortunate to have this patriot as a Senator.
Vote for Alex Vindman
Vote for Alex Vindman
February 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The USA would be fortunate to have this patriot as a Senator.
Vote for Alex Vindman
Vote for Alex Vindman
Reposted by @cmerfy Lifelong Democrat
This regime believes that if you deny things you don't like and erase other things you don't want that nobody will know the truth
That's ridiculous and harmful
That's ridiculous and harmful
This is the "stop testing for COVID and there will be no COVID" of catastrophic environmental collapse
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
This regime believes that if you deny things you don't like and erase other things you don't want that nobody will know the truth
That's ridiculous and harmful
That's ridiculous and harmful
📢😡🙄‼️
It's not surprising he did this...
When has he ever cared about the long term?
How frustrating to do it at the beginning of a long weekend!!!
Definitely a SCOTUS goal 🤬🤬🤬
Creeps!!!
#OV1
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
It's not surprising he did this...
When has he ever cared about the long term?
How frustrating to do it at the beginning of a long weekend!!!
Definitely a SCOTUS goal 🤬🤬🤬
Creeps!!!
#OV1
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump repeals landmark legal policy underpinning key climate rules
The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
📢😡🙄‼️
It's not surprising he did this...
When has he ever cared about the long term?
How frustrating to do it at the beginning of a long weekend!!!
Definitely a SCOTUS goal 🤬🤬🤬
Creeps!!!
#OV1
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
It's not surprising he did this...
When has he ever cared about the long term?
How frustrating to do it at the beginning of a long weekend!!!
Definitely a SCOTUS goal 🤬🤬🤬
Creeps!!!
#OV1
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...