Deb
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Deb
@deblavoy.bsky.social
Founder @RealityTeam11 field work in inoculation and counter disinfo. Be clear, be excellent, be kind. TEDx Talk http://bit.ly/3AXkdft Most other socials: @deb_lavoy
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Pay close attention: the GOP and Trump are going to go hard against abortion rights. This maneuver on ACA subsidies is just the beginning.
www.upi.com/amp/Top_News...
Senate Republicans tie healthcare subsidies to abortion limits
The government shutdown is on track to end with no resolution for expiring healthcare subsidies, and Democrats say Republicans want an abortion ban.
www.upi.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.

He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
DHS takes credit for crime being down in Chicago. Data shows that was happening before they arrived.
Immigration officials on Tuesday said a drop in crime numbers was thanks to their work. Police data show the decrease was taking place before federal agents arrived in the city.
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
By “participating” he means “attempting to subvert”
Ed Martin: "What this pardon does is help rescue the people who were hunted. The Biden administration hunted the alternate electors who were participating in our constitutional process in 2020 ... they were Trump supporters who believed in the Constitution."
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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These are not “deals.” It’s extortion.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Two minutes silence (1928)
By Charles Spencelayh
November 11, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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Since 2020, I have been fighting for mail-in voting and the GOP has been fighting against it. A critical court case is now going before the U.S. Supreme Court. I can assure you that I will be there fighting hard to ensure every lawful ballot counts.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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I have voted
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor

and which
is probably
caving
to fascism

Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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HBCU grad here! 👋

I had very few Asian classmates. Fewer still were Chinese. They provide negligible aggregate funding.

The President of the United States remains an entire imbecile
Trump says that HBCUs would be "all be out of business" if fewer Chinese students were allowed to go to American universities
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Notably, this pardon comes just days ahead of a Nov. 14 deadline for the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to appoint a replacement prosecutor for Fani Willis, who was disqualified from pursuing the case.
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”

Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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The corruption never ends
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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The Times here, getting my name wrong, but not my thoughts on online information

www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Mike Pence: I don't believe the Constitution affords the President the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on friend and foe, and I hope the Supreme Court turns that around.
Ultimately, American businesses and American consumers pay the tariffs.
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Thirteen babies in 10 states have been hospitalized as a result of the outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. No deaths have been reported.
ByHeart baby formula has recalled 2 batches of one product.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Baby formula recalled after infant botulism outbreak
ByHeart recalled two batches of its baby formula following federal officials’ report of 13 children contracting infant botulism after consuming its product.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Where were the so called moderate gop senators? Murkowski and concerned Collins and friends?
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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POLITICO: “.. Among those who received the ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardons were Rudy Giuliani .. Mark Meadows, .. John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, .. Boris Epshteyn .. and Sidney Powell ..”

@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Israeli soldiers break ranks, revealing unprovoked shootings of Gaza civilians, arbitrary "enemy" labels on men just walking or hanging laundry, and rampant use of human shields. #Gaza
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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DO NOT CAVE does not seem to be resonating with Schumer or Kaine.

Here is a list of EVERY Democrat that has filed to run in 2026, both Senate and House.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2025-26 119th Congress
docs.google.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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FWIW, this deal isn’t finalized yet.

If you want Democrats to keep fighting, call your Senator.

The vote to advance the bill will likely succeed, but all that does is tee up a final up/down vote.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM