Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
@dfortkiewicz.bsky.social
Political nerd fighting for the rights & freedoms of all Americans towards a civil union to protect democracy 🇺🇸 #ProudBlue 💙 #USDemocracy 🦋 #FosterDogMom 🐾🐾
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Reposted by Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE. She wasn’t just killed, she was murdered.
The right was already trying to vilify her before we even knew her name. But I’m just going to say it…
They’re going to have a much harder time doing that this time.
She’s not Brown.
She’s not Black.
She’s white.
The right was already trying to vilify her before we even knew her name. But I’m just going to say it…
They’re going to have a much harder time doing that this time.
She’s not Brown.
She’s not Black.
She’s white.
January 7, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE. She wasn’t just killed, she was murdered.
The right was already trying to vilify her before we even knew her name. But I’m just going to say it…
They’re going to have a much harder time doing that this time.
She’s not Brown.
She’s not Black.
She’s white.
The right was already trying to vilify her before we even knew her name. But I’m just going to say it…
They’re going to have a much harder time doing that this time.
She’s not Brown.
She’s not Black.
She’s white.
Reposted by Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
Trump’s madcap escapades in Venezuela and at Greenland won’t change the increases coming at Americans in health care costs and electric bill costs and grocery costs — for which Republicans are directly responsible.
January 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Trump’s madcap escapades in Venezuela and at Greenland won’t change the increases coming at Americans in health care costs and electric bill costs and grocery costs — for which Republicans are directly responsible.
Reposted by Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
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There’s a lesson there.
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There’s a lesson there.
January 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
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There’s a lesson there.
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Cutting trillions in taxes for 900 billionaires but garnishing wages for 45 million working people with crushing student debt is the modern version of let them eat cake.
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Cutting trillions in taxes for 900 billionaires but garnishing wages for 45 million working people with crushing student debt is the modern version of let them eat cake.
Reposted by Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
Trump’s second term has been so lurid in its corruption that it was genuinely hard to narrow this list down. But the biggest scandal of all is something Trump didn’t create... trib.al/gkfQj9U
December 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Trump’s second term has been so lurid in its corruption that it was genuinely hard to narrow this list down. But the biggest scandal of all is something Trump didn’t create... trib.al/gkfQj9U
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A dangerous pattern of denying federal dollars to blue states (which contribute more than they receive)
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’
President Donald Trump denied two disaster declaration requests from Colorado that would have allowed the state to receive federal assistance — a move the state’s members of Congress plan to …
trib.al
December 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
A dangerous pattern of denying federal dollars to blue states (which contribute more than they receive)
This will become the reality very soon!
It's time for Blue states to keep their federal taxes to pay for their own disasters...
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL
December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This will become the reality very soon!
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Pam, darling, you missed a spot.
December 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Pam, darling, you missed a spot.
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Story Jane shared here:
Koch Network Fuels Republican Push to Kill ACA Subsidies
As millions face higher premiums, Koch‑funded groups are pressuring Republicans to oppose Obamacare subsidy extensions.
readsludge.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Story Jane shared here:
Love this 🥹
I followed this story from their first meeting — I love human kindness so much 😭. I can’t see through tears of joy to type this
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Love this 🥹
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Anyone still serving in the Trump Administration must reckon with the reality that, when the government has previously perpetrated egregious miscarriages of justice, history has not been forgiving to those who’ve gone along, however reluctantly. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along
Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience.
www.newyorker.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Anyone still serving in the Trump Administration must reckon with the reality that, when the government has previously perpetrated egregious miscarriages of justice, history has not been forgiving to those who’ve gone along, however reluctantly. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In a world filled with Trumps, be a Harris 💝
December 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In a world filled with Trumps, be a Harris 💝
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Grace Strobel & her friends have a strong #CupOfJoe for President Trump.
“This is not about politics. It’s about human decency.
When you posted the R-word on your social media for the world to see, you showed no human decency.”
Words DO MATTER. Do better.
“This is not about politics. It’s about human decency.
When you posted the R-word on your social media for the world to see, you showed no human decency.”
Words DO MATTER. Do better.
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Grace Strobel & her friends have a strong #CupOfJoe for President Trump.
“This is not about politics. It’s about human decency.
When you posted the R-word on your social media for the world to see, you showed no human decency.”
Words DO MATTER. Do better.
“This is not about politics. It’s about human decency.
When you posted the R-word on your social media for the world to see, you showed no human decency.”
Words DO MATTER. Do better.
Be patient, while you go poor and he is gold plating the White House 🤡
Lindsey Graham: "I really do appreciate President Trump. He has got a mess on his hand from Obamacare to a broken border to a war in Russia-Ukraine to radical Islam on the rise, and it all goes back to Obama and Biden. He is cleaning up their mess and be patient with this man."
December 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Be patient, while you go poor and he is gold plating the White House 🤡
Reposted by Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
Another mass shooting, this time at Brown. 2 dead, 8 injured. MAGA & Corporate media waiting to ID the shooter but we know the drill
•Immigrant—> Expand ICE
•Muslim—> Expand Muslim ban
•Black—> Expand prisons & police
•White—> Troubled lone wolf with rough childhood
And still 0 action on gun safety
•Immigrant—> Expand ICE
•Muslim—> Expand Muslim ban
•Black—> Expand prisons & police
•White—> Troubled lone wolf with rough childhood
And still 0 action on gun safety
December 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Another mass shooting, this time at Brown. 2 dead, 8 injured. MAGA & Corporate media waiting to ID the shooter but we know the drill
•Immigrant—> Expand ICE
•Muslim—> Expand Muslim ban
•Black—> Expand prisons & police
•White—> Troubled lone wolf with rough childhood
And still 0 action on gun safety
•Immigrant—> Expand ICE
•Muslim—> Expand Muslim ban
•Black—> Expand prisons & police
•White—> Troubled lone wolf with rough childhood
And still 0 action on gun safety
Reposted by Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
When Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
When Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
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The AI industry and its billionaires already have $100 million to buy the midterms for candidates who will push for harmful deregulations that will kill more jobs and our planet.
Just another reason to overturn Citizens United.
Just another reason to overturn Citizens United.
The AI industry’s $100 million play to influence the 2026 elections
As the 2026 midterms approach, President Trump is facing headwinds.
popular.info
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The AI industry and its billionaires already have $100 million to buy the midterms for candidates who will push for harmful deregulations that will kill more jobs and our planet.
Just another reason to overturn Citizens United.
Just another reason to overturn Citizens United.
Reposted by Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
This "arrest them all and sort out the innocent ones later" sloppy police work shows an unconscionable lack of consideration for the civil rights of all Americans and violates everything the US Constitution stands for. No one should have their liberty taken away just because they don't look white.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This "arrest them all and sort out the innocent ones later" sloppy police work shows an unconscionable lack of consideration for the civil rights of all Americans and violates everything the US Constitution stands for. No one should have their liberty taken away just because they don't look white.
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It's not socialism if it's covering up your own ridiculous incompetence.
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It's not socialism if it's covering up your own ridiculous incompetence.
They are getting rid of the best of America and making the worst more powerful
How bad does this have to get before the public does more?
How bad does this have to get before the public does more?
Firing over 100 immigration judges.
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
They are getting rid of the best of America and making the worst more powerful
How bad does this have to get before the public does more?
How bad does this have to get before the public does more?
In 2026 the USA will change for 3/4 of the country. The famous quote “elections have consequences” will be front & center.
We have to go thru it so the dumbest of Americans can finally learn the tv has 1000 channels for a reason.
We have to go broke while they learn their lesson.
We have to go thru it so the dumbest of Americans can finally learn the tv has 1000 channels for a reason.
We have to go broke while they learn their lesson.
December 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In 2026 the USA will change for 3/4 of the country. The famous quote “elections have consequences” will be front & center.
We have to go thru it so the dumbest of Americans can finally learn the tv has 1000 channels for a reason.
We have to go broke while they learn their lesson.
We have to go thru it so the dumbest of Americans can finally learn the tv has 1000 channels for a reason.
We have to go broke while they learn their lesson.
Reposted by Deborah Fortkiewicz 🦋
American families didn’t suddenly start “overspending.”
Food prices are exploding while wages stay frozen.
This isn’t bad luck.
It’s policy.
It’s corruption.
It’s a system designed to fail the people who do the work.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
Food prices are exploding while wages stay frozen.
This isn’t bad luck.
It’s policy.
It’s corruption.
It’s a system designed to fail the people who do the work.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
American families didn’t suddenly start “overspending.”
Food prices are exploding while wages stay frozen.
This isn’t bad luck.
It’s policy.
It’s corruption.
It’s a system designed to fail the people who do the work.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
Food prices are exploding while wages stay frozen.
This isn’t bad luck.
It’s policy.
It’s corruption.
It’s a system designed to fail the people who do the work.
#TrumpInflationCrisis
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Are we feeling more safe or less safe under republican leadership?
Russia was planning to "attack flights to the US, and cause more disruption to the airline industry than any act of terror since the World Trade Center attacks."
www.ft.com/content/2084...
www.ft.com/content/2084...
Russia’s hybrid warfare puts Europe to the test
Officials suspect a campaign of sabotage that once looked opportunistic may be a strategic escalation
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Are we feeling more safe or less safe under republican leadership?