Steve Zemke
@stevezemke.bsky.social
Democrat, Citizen & Environmental Activist, former Chair King County Democrats WA, Chair TreePAC.org & Friends.UrbanForests.org, WA Citizen Initiative Campaigns - recycling, WPPSS, growth mgt., min. wage, WA State primary, toxic waste, Big Money Elections
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Trump and Republicans are facilitating the largest transfer of wealth from poor and working people to the rich with their budget bill.
How? By kicking 14 million Americans off of their health care to give billionaires a giant tax cut.
How? By kicking 14 million Americans off of their health care to give billionaires a giant tax cut.
May 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump and Republicans are facilitating the largest transfer of wealth from poor and working people to the rich with their budget bill.
How? By kicking 14 million Americans off of their health care to give billionaires a giant tax cut.
How? By kicking 14 million Americans off of their health care to give billionaires a giant tax cut.
This dismantling of key government services developed over the years will have dire consequences for our environment and our health. Our self appointed #Autocrat seems to only see the world from a money and power perspective and he does not even understand that.
The Trump administration is targeting a wildlife science program that’s crucial for public health — even though it costs less than 1% of the Interior budget.
@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/environment/...
@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/environment/...
Trump officials plan to destroy a critical government program they probably know nothing about
You may not know about it either, but the program helps keep people — and animals — in good health.
www.vox.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This dismantling of key government services developed over the years will have dire consequences for our environment and our health. Our self appointed #Autocrat seems to only see the world from a money and power perspective and he does not even understand that.
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Phang: If you have to resort to deceit to get something done, that tells me what you’re doing is wrong.
What’s happening is a dup-and-scoop: people are being duped into going to court, their cases get dismissed, and then they’re scooped up by ICE and deported under expedited removal.
What’s happening is a dup-and-scoop: people are being duped into going to court, their cases get dismissed, and then they’re scooped up by ICE and deported under expedited removal.
May 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Phang: If you have to resort to deceit to get something done, that tells me what you’re doing is wrong.
What’s happening is a dup-and-scoop: people are being duped into going to court, their cases get dismissed, and then they’re scooped up by ICE and deported under expedited removal.
What’s happening is a dup-and-scoop: people are being duped into going to court, their cases get dismissed, and then they’re scooped up by ICE and deported under expedited removal.
True!
May 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
True!
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She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
Veteran's daughter living in US 48 years locked up by ICE
Certain legal provisions allow for extending citizenship to family members of individuals who have served in the U.S. military.
www.newsweek.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
This is fascism, plain and simple.
Small victories against Trumpism can lull us into thinking we are winning.
M Gessen "...just when we most need to act — while there is indeed room for action and some momentum to the resistance — we tend to be lulled into complacency by the sense of relief on the one hand and boredom on the other."
M Gessen "...just when we most need to act — while there is indeed room for action and some momentum to the resistance — we tend to be lulled into complacency by the sense of relief on the one hand and boredom on the other."
In which I have the sinking feeling of boredom. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Small victories against Trumpism can lull us into thinking we are winning.
M Gessen "...just when we most need to act — while there is indeed room for action and some momentum to the resistance — we tend to be lulled into complacency by the sense of relief on the one hand and boredom on the other."
M Gessen "...just when we most need to act — while there is indeed room for action and some momentum to the resistance — we tend to be lulled into complacency by the sense of relief on the one hand and boredom on the other."
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“There does not seem to be either a factual or legal basis for the immigration officer’s actions” in stripping Ms. Petrova of her visa on Feb. 16, Christina Reiss, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Vermont, said in a court hearing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/s...
Judge Finds Government Acted Illegally in Russian Scientist Case
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“There does not seem to be either a factual or legal basis for the immigration officer’s actions” in stripping Ms. Petrova of her visa on Feb. 16, Christina Reiss, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Vermont, said in a court hearing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/s...
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Same folks who complained about wearing masks in 2020?
May 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Same folks who complained about wearing masks in 2020?
"But even as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen." l
May 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"But even as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen." l
What's your priority? Will this affect you or someone you know? More tax cuts for billionaires or healthcare for millions? GOP prioritizes the very wealthy and billionaires getting more tax breaks. #VotingMatters Who you vote for matters. Vote for Democrats if you don't like GOP priorities.
House Republicans’ proposals would lead to 14 million people becoming uninsured, forcing hospitals and other providers to absorb $48B in additional costs over the next decade.
More from @andreaducas.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social's Andrés Arguello:
More from @andreaducas.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social's Andrés Arguello:
The Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill’s Health Care Cuts Would Drive Up Uncompensated Care and Threaten Vulnerable Hospitals
House Republicans’ proposals would lead to 14 million people becoming uninsured, forcing hospitals and other health care providers to foot the bill of $48 billion in additional uncompensated care costs...
www.americanprogress.org
May 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What's your priority? Will this affect you or someone you know? More tax cuts for billionaires or healthcare for millions? GOP prioritizes the very wealthy and billionaires getting more tax breaks. #VotingMatters Who you vote for matters. Vote for Democrats if you don't like GOP priorities.
Going down the shameful path cutting health care. Disgusting cuts to support tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. Taking America back to darker times with more unnecessary deaths for sure. Making America Worse Again. MAWA
House Republicans’ proposals would lead to 14 million people becoming uninsured, forcing hospitals and other providers to absorb $48B in additional costs over the next decade.
More from @andreaducas.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social's Andrés Arguello:
More from @andreaducas.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social's Andrés Arguello:
The Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill’s Health Care Cuts Would Drive Up Uncompensated Care and Threaten Vulnerable Hospitals
House Republicans’ proposals would lead to 14 million people becoming uninsured, forcing hospitals and other health care providers to foot the bill of $48 billion in additional uncompensated care costs...
www.americanprogress.org
May 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Going down the shameful path cutting health care. Disgusting cuts to support tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. Taking America back to darker times with more unnecessary deaths for sure. Making America Worse Again. MAWA
This is the Disaster that is continuing as our self appointed Dictator and his #GOPMAGACCult followers ignore standard accepted medical and scientific practice and increase chances of more measles outbreaks and possible deaths. Sheer stupidity!
The Missouri University School of Medicine was recently forced to end their childhood immunization program after DOGE slashed federal funding earlier this year. This news comes as measles cases have been reported across the state.
MU School of Medicine ends childhood immunization program following federal cuts
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU School of Medicine had to cut its childhood immunization program after a mass grant termination in March after grants allocated for the Department of Health and Senior…
abc17news.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
This is the Disaster that is continuing as our self appointed Dictator and his #GOPMAGACCult followers ignore standard accepted medical and scientific practice and increase chances of more measles outbreaks and possible deaths. Sheer stupidity!
Trump is not a law and order President. He is a pardon President for all his followers no matter what they do. America was warned. Pledge to yourself to do all you can to remove the #GOPMAGACult followers on all levels of government. Donate and vote for Democrats.
Trump pardon attorney taking “hard look” at defendants convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer. The effort to rewrite history and normalize political violence continues.
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
U.S. Justice Department pardon lawyer pledges 'hard look' at plot to kidnap Michigan governor
The U.S. Justice Department’s new pardon attorney says he is going to take a “hard look” at two men who are in prison for leading a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
www.detroitnews.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Trump is not a law and order President. He is a pardon President for all his followers no matter what they do. America was warned. Pledge to yourself to do all you can to remove the #GOPMAGACult followers on all levels of government. Donate and vote for Democrats.
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Also, JD Vance disgustingly lied in saying that the Catholic Church only helps migrants because we're in it for the money. What a disgusting statement from Vance.
The anti-Catholicism of Trump-Vance: mocking our Church by promoting Trump as Pope, misrepresenting Church teaching, defunding our work with refugees & migrants & our work abroad, threatening to arrest migrants at our churches, being antithetical to the social justice teachings of our Church, etc.
May 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Also, JD Vance disgustingly lied in saying that the Catholic Church only helps migrants because we're in it for the money. What a disgusting statement from Vance.
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One of Trump's justifications for his tariffs is that he wants international companies to come to the United States to produce their products here. But he doesn't use the same logic when it's international students coming to the United States to produce knowledge here.
Trump: "Part of the problem w/ Harvard is there are about 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard...but they refuse to tell us who the people are...it shouldn't be 31%. It's too much. Bc we have Americans who want to go there...we want a list of those students...I assume with Harvard many will be bad"
May 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
One of Trump's justifications for his tariffs is that he wants international companies to come to the United States to produce their products here. But he doesn't use the same logic when it's international students coming to the United States to produce knowledge here.
A ranting fool chatters on and on. Why #VotingMatters. Vote and vote for candidates who support #Democracy and the US Constitution, not someone who supports #Autocracy and is a #GOPMAGACult follower.
May 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A ranting fool chatters on and on. Why #VotingMatters. Vote and vote for candidates who support #Democracy and the US Constitution, not someone who supports #Autocracy and is a #GOPMAGACult follower.
Quote - "Pay a trophy wife. It didn't work out too well, but it didn't, and that doesn't work out too well. I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives don't work out, but it made him happy for a little while at least. But he found a new wife. He sold his little boat and got a big yacht. ..."
Trump's Decline Can't Be Hidden At West Point Speech Disaster
The White House can purge transcripts and try to keep Trump on the golf course, but when the president has to give a speech like his commencement address at West Point, his decline is obvious.
www.thedailypoliticususa.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Quote - "Pay a trophy wife. It didn't work out too well, but it didn't, and that doesn't work out too well. I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives don't work out, but it made him happy for a little while at least. But he found a new wife. He sold his little boat and got a big yacht. ..."
Get your kids vaccinated. Don't lose your investment in the life or lives you created. Trust medicine and science, not quackery.
May 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Get your kids vaccinated. Don't lose your investment in the life or lives you created. Trust medicine and science, not quackery.
The only appointment criteria for our self Appointed Dictator is unquestioning obedience to him and of course monetary "donations" are a big plus.
So this is the nominee to run the IRS. A college dropout, who took a tax scam seminar, who promoted and advised his clients to claim non-existent credits. A crime. He's a criminal, who we would have investigated as such. Trump donations is a get out of jail free card.
Trump’s Pick to Lead I.R.S. Promoted a Nonexistent Tax Credit
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The only appointment criteria for our self Appointed Dictator is unquestioning obedience to him and of course monetary "donations" are a big plus.
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Indivisible National · Indivisible on Mobilize
We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.
www.mobilize.us
May 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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What a deal if you're a billionaire!
#jonchait:
“The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power,believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power,believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
www.theatlantic.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
What a deal if you're a billionaire!
That's where we are at. #InformedVotingMatters Urge people to spend the time to research the issues and the candidates before voting. #VotingMatters
The U.S. has—had—one of the top intelligence operations in the world. What a resource to make informed decisions. Yet we have an ignorant WH occupant who relies on fringe conspiracists to spread false information. What a danger. What an embarrassment. What a tragedy.
May 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
That's where we are at. #InformedVotingMatters Urge people to spend the time to research the issues and the candidates before voting. #VotingMatters
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