Katie Taylor
@ktpotatey.bsky.social
Someone who is taking it one day at a time and trying to do the next right thing. Northern VA.
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Katie Taylor
@ktpotatey.bsky.social
· Feb 17
#Resist
YouTube video by Mathew Barr
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Take a minute to watch and share this amazing speech by Callie Barr at a Michigan protest today. More of this from national leaders now!!
youtu.be/EglCHE8btcw
youtu.be/EglCHE8btcw
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We shouldn't be having to make decisions like these. We need representation that is grounded in reality, not aligned with gilded incompetence.
Comment #callieforcongress below if you agree!
#MI01 #governmentshutdown #shutdownstories
Comment #callieforcongress below if you agree!
#MI01 #governmentshutdown #shutdownstories
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
We shouldn't be having to make decisions like these. We need representation that is grounded in reality, not aligned with gilded incompetence.
Comment #callieforcongress below if you agree!
#MI01 #governmentshutdown #shutdownstories
Comment #callieforcongress below if you agree!
#MI01 #governmentshutdown #shutdownstories
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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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.
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
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.
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.
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Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
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Halloween Gatsby party at #MaraLago with #Trump amid #governmentshutdown
…with complimenting headlines.
…with complimenting headlines.
November 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Halloween Gatsby party at #MaraLago with #Trump amid #governmentshutdown
…with complimenting headlines.
…with complimenting headlines.
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BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done?
Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.
Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done?
Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.
Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.
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Where’s he been as this came to a head? Why shut down before negotiating? Why believe he will negotiate now, when he hasn’t until now? He’s the Senate President and the Trump shutdown plan was no secret.
Vance says he’ll talk Obamacare premiums with Schumer — but only with government open
The federal government shut down in the early morning Wednesday, with furloughs coming for up to 750,000 federal employees, per the Congressional Budget Office.
www.politico.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Where’s he been as this came to a head? Why shut down before negotiating? Why believe he will negotiate now, when he hasn’t until now? He’s the Senate President and the Trump shutdown plan was no secret.
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Capitulation isn’t going to win them over. Stop doing it.
October 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Capitulation isn’t going to win them over. Stop doing it.
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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.
He said this out loud.
He said this out loud.
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.
He said this out loud.
He said this out loud.
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Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from NY if NYC elects Mamdani. An impeachable offense for any other president in any other era. In this one it’s just another Monday.
September 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from NY if NYC elects Mamdani. An impeachable offense for any other president in any other era. In this one it’s just another Monday.
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Hakeem Jeffries, standing in front of a wall: “These so-called ‘military death squads’ and ‘Trump Tribunals’ are just a distraction from <BANG BANG BANG>
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hakeem Jeffries, standing in front of a wall: “These so-called ‘military death squads’ and ‘Trump Tribunals’ are just a distraction from <BANG BANG BANG>
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The Trump Regime is REALLY desperately trying to provoke a violent reaction to distract from the 200 million dollar Epstein Ballroom addition on the White House.
NBC News confirms: Pete Hegseth has authorized the approximately 2,000 National Guard troops in D.C. to be armed. @msnbc.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The Trump Regime is REALLY desperately trying to provoke a violent reaction to distract from the 200 million dollar Epstein Ballroom addition on the White House.
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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I just witnessed a man dragged onto this bus after a judge did not let him explain how deportation could be a death sentence for him.
And it's happening here.
What I saw today in San Antonio immigration courts was horrifying. Everyone's right to due process is under attack.
Congressman Greg Casar
And it's happening here.
What I saw today in San Antonio immigration courts was horrifying. Everyone's right to due process is under attack.
Congressman Greg Casar
July 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I just witnessed a man dragged onto this bus after a judge did not let him explain how deportation could be a death sentence for him.
And it's happening here.
What I saw today in San Antonio immigration courts was horrifying. Everyone's right to due process is under attack.
Congressman Greg Casar
And it's happening here.
What I saw today in San Antonio immigration courts was horrifying. Everyone's right to due process is under attack.
Congressman Greg Casar
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It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.
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4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family.
Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
July 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family.
Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
#MI-01 #CallieforCongress
@calliebarr.bsky.social Yes!! It's time to send Jack Bergman back home to Louisiana!!
@calliebarr.bsky.social Yes!! It's time to send Jack Bergman back home to Louisiana!!
I’m Callie Barr. I’m running for Congress because MI-01 deserves a representative who shows up and listens, someone rooted here, who works hard and puts people first. Let’s have real conversations to plan for a future we can actually afford.
Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/calli...
Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/calli...
July 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
#MI-01 #CallieforCongress
@calliebarr.bsky.social Yes!! It's time to send Jack Bergman back home to Louisiana!!
@calliebarr.bsky.social Yes!! It's time to send Jack Bergman back home to Louisiana!!
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I’m Callie Barr. I’m running for Congress because MI-01 deserves a representative who shows up and listens, someone rooted here, who works hard and puts people first. Let’s have real conversations to plan for a future we can actually afford.
Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/calli...
Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/calli...
July 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m Callie Barr. I’m running for Congress because MI-01 deserves a representative who shows up and listens, someone rooted here, who works hard and puts people first. Let’s have real conversations to plan for a future we can actually afford.
Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/calli...
Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/calli...