Zinnia
@zinniawildflower.bsky.social
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Social + Economic Justice.
Would-be World Traveler.
Life-long Humanist.
Social + Economic Justice.
Would-be World Traveler.
Life-long Humanist.
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Whoa. When asked if he's violating a SCOTUS order, Trump claims lawyers, not he, are making the decision to defy it.
First, Trump isn't the decision maker? Second, he's throwing the lawyers under the bus? Third:
They are all full of shit and Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be home.
First, Trump isn't the decision maker? Second, he's throwing the lawyers under the bus? Third:
They are all full of shit and Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be home.
April 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Whoa. When asked if he's violating a SCOTUS order, Trump claims lawyers, not he, are making the decision to defy it.
First, Trump isn't the decision maker? Second, he's throwing the lawyers under the bus? Third:
They are all full of shit and Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be home.
First, Trump isn't the decision maker? Second, he's throwing the lawyers under the bus? Third:
They are all full of shit and Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be home.
Now why would he do that, I wonder? Could it possibly be that he wants to remake Hitler’s reputation, as actually being a good guy, a guy to admire? Hmm.
The Trump administration has begun firing appointees to the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
April 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Now why would he do that, I wonder? Could it possibly be that he wants to remake Hitler’s reputation, as actually being a good guy, a guy to admire? Hmm.
This is a terrifically informative detailing of NC’s legislative process. ncnewsline.com/2025/04/29/i...
It’s silly season at the North Carolina General Assembly • NC Newsline
as the North Carolina legislature approaches crossover week, it will rapidly approve scores of proposed bills with little real vetting
ncnewsline.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is a terrifically informative detailing of NC’s legislative process. ncnewsline.com/2025/04/29/i...
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Many native-born American immigration lawyers have received official letters from the government demanding that they self-deport. Apparently DHS used a list of aliens including many who listed their attorneys’ contact info by way of a care-of address.
The country’s in the very best of hands.
The country’s in the very best of hands.
Mass. attorney says DHS told her to self-deport, despite U.S. citizenship
Anyone can imagine the U.S. born Nicole Macheroni's surprise when she says she received an emailed letter from the Department of Homeland Security, telling her to self-deport within 7 days.
www.wcvb.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Many native-born American immigration lawyers have received official letters from the government demanding that they self-deport. Apparently DHS used a list of aliens including many who listed their attorneys’ contact info by way of a care-of address.
The country’s in the very best of hands.
The country’s in the very best of hands.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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These two posts:
* “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts.
* Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/
* “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts.
* Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/
April 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
These two posts:
* “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts.
* Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/
* “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts.
* Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/
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DOGE abruptly cut a program called Charting My Path for Future Success—a research-based effort that helped teens with disabilities transition from high school into college, work, and independent living. Now it’s gone without explanation.
April 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
DOGE abruptly cut a program called Charting My Path for Future Success—a research-based effort that helped teens with disabilities transition from high school into college, work, and independent living. Now it’s gone without explanation.
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Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.
Call US Rep Valerie Foushee. Tell her you want her to join the Courage Caucus and to vote no on any budget that hands control to Trump and Musk. Encourage her to take strong stands!
February 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Call US Rep Valerie Foushee. Tell her you want her to join the Courage Caucus and to vote no on any budget that hands control to Trump and Musk. Encourage her to take strong stands!
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Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans can’t pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. We’re calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans can’t pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. We’re calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.
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What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.
February 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.
A strong example: "Governor Kate Brown of Oregon granted clemency to all 17 inmates on the state’s death row in 2022, commuting their sentences to life without possibility of parole. She also granted more than 47,000 pardons for minor marijuana offenses during her time in office." #clemency #ncpol
Criminal justice advocates push Gov. Cooper for major #clemency grants in final days in office ncnewsline.com/2024/12/23/c... #ncga #ncpol #ncgov #ncleg #pardons
Criminal justice advocates push Gov. Cooper for major clemency grants in final days in office • NC Newsline
criminal justice advocates are urging Gov. Roy Cooper to make use of his powers to grant clemency for state crimes.
ncnewsline.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Amazon organizing group in Garner, NC filed for a union election today. If successful, the RDU1 warehouse would be the company’s second unionized facility.
The NLRB will now review workers’ signed authorization cards and call an election if 30% of workforce signed them.
The NLRB will now review workers’ signed authorization cards and call an election if 30% of workforce signed them.
December 23, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Amazon organizing group in Garner, NC filed for a union election today. If successful, the RDU1 warehouse would be the company’s second unionized facility.
The NLRB will now review workers’ signed authorization cards and call an election if 30% of workforce signed them.
The NLRB will now review workers’ signed authorization cards and call an election if 30% of workforce signed them.
Here's to their success!
Breaking: Amazon's RDU1 warehouse in Garner has filed for a union election. If successful, it would be the 2nd unionized Amazon warehouse in the country. The first, Staten Island's JFK8, voted to unionize in 2022. @lenarosegeller.bsky.social has followed the effort from the beginning. Thread below.
Amazon workers filed for a union election at RDU1 warehouse in Garner, NC today
December 23, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Here's to their success!
If you're interested in the #law, this is a great discussion of 2024's most notable state-level cases (including separation of powers and legislative overreach): statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
2024’s Most Significant State Constitutional Cases
Legal experts identified the most important cases that advanced state constitutional rights this year.
statecourtreport.org
December 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM
If you're interested in the #law, this is a great discussion of 2024's most notable state-level cases (including separation of powers and legislative overreach): statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
Wanna take action for workers? By going to our local non-unionized #Starbucks stores now thru Christmas Eve, we can talk to an employee, and see if they want to unionize for better pay & working conditions that would be legally protected. Pm me for more info. #labor
December 21, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Wanna take action for workers? By going to our local non-unionized #Starbucks stores now thru Christmas Eve, we can talk to an employee, and see if they want to unionize for better pay & working conditions that would be legally protected. Pm me for more info. #labor
This!
I like to say I respect despair as an emotion but not an analysis. As an analysis it assumes we know what can and can't happen, and the future is both uncertain and at least to some extent what we make of it. Plus why would I give them what they want, as premature surrender? Thanks Senator Schatz.
Be furious be angry but despondency is what they want from us. And be very suspicious of people on the left who say “we are cooked” or whatever. Imagine the civil rights movement, or suffrage, or any movement for change, hitting a roadblock and just “saying well we are well and truly fucked now.”
December 21, 2024 at 7:54 PM
This!
They can’t credibly claim they “didn’t know.”
Elon Musk and JD Vance publicly supporting the neo-Nazis of Germany's AfD, just as an AfD supporter/Elon Musk fan kills 5 and injures 100+ in a terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Germany. Vance's pro-AfD statement came *after* the attack.
It's bad. Not sure what else to say. Dark times ahead.
It's bad. Not sure what else to say. Dark times ahead.
December 21, 2024 at 5:20 PM
They can’t credibly claim they “didn’t know.”
Got family law questions? Get free advice at library events! First 2025 event location? Eva Perry Library in Apex!
Wake County is expanding the "Lawyers in your library" program. Check it out.
www.wunc.org/news/2024-12...
www.wunc.org/news/2024-12...
Wake County expands free 'Lawyers in your Library' pilot program
The “Lawyers in Your Library” Program is available to Wake County residents through a partnership between Wake County Public Libraries and the county's legal support center.
www.wunc.org
December 21, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Got family law questions? Get free advice at library events! First 2025 event location? Eva Perry Library in Apex!
True. Full-fledged fascism doesn’t happen overnight. It results from very specific , strategic ala carte fascist measures, layer after layer after layer. Until it’s fully entrenched. Recognize any (or all) of these measures now?
December 21, 2024 at 5:13 PM
True. Full-fledged fascism doesn’t happen overnight. It results from very specific , strategic ala carte fascist measures, layer after layer after layer. Until it’s fully entrenched. Recognize any (or all) of these measures now?
From the #Women’sMarch: “ABC News just handed $15 million to Donald Trump, agreeing to fund a foundation and museum for him as part of a defamation lawsuit settlement.” Wtf. Cooperative subordination.
December 19, 2024 at 7:57 PM
From the #Women’sMarch: “ABC News just handed $15 million to Donald Trump, agreeing to fund a foundation and museum for him as part of a defamation lawsuit settlement.” Wtf. Cooperative subordination.
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#ApexNC latest in government:
12/10 Town Council Meeting
Final Council meeting of the year. Affordable housing land purchase, employee recognition for Helene efforts, new facade grant tier and more. meetings.municode.co...
Final Council meeting of the year. Affordable housing land purchase, employee recognition for Helene efforts, new facade grant tier and more. meetings.municode.co...
December 16, 2024 at 4:57 PM
#ApexNC latest in government:
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Legislative leaders began expanding their power after taking over the General Assembly in 2010 for the first time since Reconstruction. Over the same time period, they expanded secrecy and reduced the public’s access to government records. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga #ncgov
Timeline: How NC GOP lawmakers expanded their power, increased government secrecy
Republican legislative leaders have made many changes since 2011 to expand their control over state government while expanding secrecy about its operations.
www.newsobserver.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Legislative leaders began expanding their power after taking over the General Assembly in 2010 for the first time since Reconstruction. Over the same time period, they expanded secrecy and reduced the public’s access to government records. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol #ncga #ncgov