Jacki Romey
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Jacki Romey
@jackiromey.bsky.social
Retired journalism teacher—print, broadcast, film. News junkie. Memphis. Dual citizen 🇺🇸🇦🇺
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Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard.

The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Now: Union Station in Washington, D.C.
August 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I’m going to miss #AltTacoTunesday so here’s my early entry

From 6 years ago but it hits even harder now!

You rock, Colbert 🤘

🎶 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🎶 - The Mountain Goats

@altstategov.altgov.info
@altmomsroar.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_qk...
Stephen Colbert Joins The Mountain Goats To Perform 'This Year'
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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The Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will cost lives. John Oliver isn’t mincing words here.
June 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?
June 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book? 

The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
June 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all.
Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.
June 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...
ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
apnews.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Moises Sotelo was abducted by ICE this week from Newberg, OR. This is one way that you can help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-s...
Donate to Help the Sotelo Family with Expenses After ICE Detainment, organized by Alondra Garcia
Help the Sotelo Family with Expenses After ICE Detainment Ca… Alondra Garcia needs your support for Help the Sotelo Family with Expenses After ICE Detainment
www.gofundme.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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ICE has arrested Moises Sotelo, "owner of Novo Start Vineyard Service, a company that provides pruning, pest control and harvesting services to vineyards in the Willamette Valley."

Colleagues say Sotelo has been here since 1994 and regularly attends church.
Newberg business owner arrested by ICE officials, alarming vineyard workers
A vineyard business owner was arrested by federal immigration officials Thursday. The arrest follows an uptick of enforcement actions by the federal government in Oregon.
www.opb.org
June 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Moises Sotelo-Casas attends St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Newberg, Oregon, and the deacon at that church said, “Normally we would have 40 to 50 people in church on a Sunday for our Spanish service, and today we had 12, and no children, just adult children was all that came. . . .
Oregon vineyard owner arrested by ICE agents outside his church
‘I was crying, I was a mess,’ Moises Sotelo-Casas’s daughter says. ‘He was in chains at his feet’
www.independent.co.uk
June 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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He was detained outside church.

“He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”
Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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🔥 SIERRA WINE GUY: “To the head of ICE: you cuffed Moises Sotelo like a dog. You got the guy who tithes at church and pays his taxes.

Do you sleep better at night? — Let him fucking go… and maybe ask yourself who the real criminals are.”

Full: www.facebook.com/share/1Bv5QQ...
June 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?"

Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.
June 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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This is so important. No pretenses. Speak the truth.

Because it’s time now to start ensuring that record is crystal clear.
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM