Carmen Helfenstein
cyh67.bsky.social
Carmen Helfenstein
@cyh67.bsky.social
-Proud Mom/Grandma
-Progressive liberal💙
-Retired salon owner👍🏽
-Justice warrior💪🏽
-Equal rights 4 all🥊
-Woke earthling🌎🌊
-Washington STATE🌲
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May 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump seeks ‘biggest payoff in history’ as he tells kids to expect less for Christmas youtu.be/9dHNHL8adrc?...
May 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Want to join me for this Indivisible event?
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Trump’s 145% tariffs are collapsing — not because China yielded, but because they’re crushing American families. He’s surrendering, spinning, and selling failure as victory. It’s a tantrum dressed up as policy — and we’re paying the price. Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/1AJw...
April 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Virginia Giuffre named the monsters. The world protected them. Now she’s gone Her death isn’t just tragedy it’s indictment. Epstein’s empire thrived on silence We owe her more than grief Honor her Fight like hell to tear down every system that broke her. Full Article www.facebook.com/share/p/15xB...
April 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
April 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
April 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I know others have gone into detail throughout the day, but I just want to make sure I highlight how important Judge Paula Xinis's order from today in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is.

It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate":

"While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..."

www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN
The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...
www.cnn.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a federal court on Friday to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against him, arguing that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recently announced decision to do so was “explicitly and unapologetically political.”
Luigi Mangione Says Bondi’s Death Penalty Bid Is an Instagram Stunt
Lawyers for the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan said the attorney general was trying to create content for Instagram by announcing she would pursue the death penalty.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Milford PA, a one traffic light town (no, really) 4.5.25
April 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Small but mighty @maddow.msnbc.com this is a loud group of blue dots in rural NY-23 CD. Olean, NY.
April 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Athens Ohio showed up for democracy !
April 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Fairbanks, Alaska
April 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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"falling out of bed"

"Weinberg, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics, sees the economy falling out of bed in the second quarter, which has just started, and now predicts the economy will contract at a negative 4.5% rate in the second quarter."

www.marketwatch.com/story/econom...
Economists now say a dire economic slowdown has already begun
“The economy is headed for a sharp downturn. Layoffs will surge,” said Carl Weinberg, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.
www.marketwatch.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Saw this, I have to post it.
Got it from @robjenson.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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March 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM