@abstractmom.bsky.social
Retired professional and a Grandmother in a Red State that wants a better world for them. Despises this chaos that threatens their freedom. Voted blue. Always trying to learn.
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The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a 90-year precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies. n.pr/44VrHkJ
Supreme Court to hear case that could vastly expand presidential powers
The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a 90-year precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies.
n.pr
December 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a 90-year precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies. n.pr/44VrHkJ
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The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it
With the immigration crackdown, more pregnant women are being detained. The ACLU alleges a woman was shackled while miscarrying and others were denied prenatal care.
www.latimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
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Can you imagine this magical day??
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Can you imagine this magical day??
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🧵Via Yael Levontin
Amit Mann was killed on October 7 while saving lives taken before she could watch her very first paramedic trainees graduate.
This week, those students made their way to her grave and placed their certification letters beside her.
Amit Mann was killed on October 7 while saving lives taken before she could watch her very first paramedic trainees graduate.
This week, those students made their way to her grave and placed their certification letters beside her.
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🧵Via Yael Levontin
Amit Mann was killed on October 7 while saving lives taken before she could watch her very first paramedic trainees graduate.
This week, those students made their way to her grave and placed their certification letters beside her.
Amit Mann was killed on October 7 while saving lives taken before she could watch her very first paramedic trainees graduate.
This week, those students made their way to her grave and placed their certification letters beside her.
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I’m 7yr old Buster. My human got sick and his family threw me here 2die. I love everything! I drape myself across laps 2play w/my toys yet the Supreme Court of #nycacc added me 2die! NY NH NE DE DC MD ME RI VT PA NJ CT VA- k can be transported 2u! Vet/food provided! Save me! Repost me
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’m 7yr old Buster. My human got sick and his family threw me here 2die. I love everything! I drape myself across laps 2play w/my toys yet the Supreme Court of #nycacc added me 2die! NY NH NE DE DC MD ME RI VT PA NJ CT VA- k can be transported 2u! Vet/food provided! Save me! Repost me
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I’m Princeton - I was adopted but the cat didn’t like me so they threw me back here and now the #nycacc Supreme Court wants me dead. I’m a mellow pup. Love a couch. NY NJ NH NE DE DC MD RI VT PA VA I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u! Food/vet provided. Pls repost me! FUCK TRUMP
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I’m Princeton - I was adopted but the cat didn’t like me so they threw me back here and now the #nycacc Supreme Court wants me dead. I’m a mellow pup. Love a couch. NY NJ NH NE DE DC MD RI VT PA VA I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u! Food/vet provided. Pls repost me! FUCK TRUMP
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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #ONEV1 #DV1
☕The former President’s LGBTQ Forum Speech
“You are Loved.”
A Great leader makes you feel loved and accepted, just for being you.
Let’s restore human decency before it becomes a distant memory.
Full Video x.com/acyn/status/...
☕The former President’s LGBTQ Forum Speech
“You are Loved.”
A Great leader makes you feel loved and accepted, just for being you.
Let’s restore human decency before it becomes a distant memory.
Full Video x.com/acyn/status/...
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #ONEV1 #DV1
☕The former President’s LGBTQ Forum Speech
“You are Loved.”
A Great leader makes you feel loved and accepted, just for being you.
Let’s restore human decency before it becomes a distant memory.
Full Video x.com/acyn/status/...
☕The former President’s LGBTQ Forum Speech
“You are Loved.”
A Great leader makes you feel loved and accepted, just for being you.
Let’s restore human decency before it becomes a distant memory.
Full Video x.com/acyn/status/...
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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This is an American patriot.
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is an American patriot.
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Every paper in America should have a 6 inch headline:
Sitting Member of Congress, Adelita Grivalja, Attacked by Trump's ICE with Chemical Weapons.
The Congresswoman was hit by gas pellet munitions when coming upon an ICE abduction at a restaurant she frequents in her community.
#ICELawlessness
Sitting Member of Congress, Adelita Grivalja, Attacked by Trump's ICE with Chemical Weapons.
The Congresswoman was hit by gas pellet munitions when coming upon an ICE abduction at a restaurant she frequents in her community.
#ICELawlessness
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Every paper in America should have a 6 inch headline:
Sitting Member of Congress, Adelita Grivalja, Attacked by Trump's ICE with Chemical Weapons.
The Congresswoman was hit by gas pellet munitions when coming upon an ICE abduction at a restaurant she frequents in her community.
#ICELawlessness
Sitting Member of Congress, Adelita Grivalja, Attacked by Trump's ICE with Chemical Weapons.
The Congresswoman was hit by gas pellet munitions when coming upon an ICE abduction at a restaurant she frequents in her community.
#ICELawlessness
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
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Early on came the Silk Road reprieve,
The first drug sentence Trump would relieve.
If you’re crypto-adjacent,
He seems more complacent—
No matter how crimes may aggrieve.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The first drug sentence Trump would relieve.
If you’re crypto-adjacent,
He seems more complacent—
No matter how crimes may aggrieve.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht
Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know he had granted her son a full pardon.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Early on came the Silk Road reprieve,
The first drug sentence Trump would relieve.
If you’re crypto-adjacent,
He seems more complacent—
No matter how crimes may aggrieve.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The first drug sentence Trump would relieve.
If you’re crypto-adjacent,
He seems more complacent—
No matter how crimes may aggrieve.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts from the abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida. You know.
The one when Pam Bondi was Attorney General for Florida? The one that Alexander Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary over? That one. 🍿
The one when Pam Bondi was Attorney General for Florida? The one that Alexander Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary over? That one. 🍿
December 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts from the abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida. You know.
The one when Pam Bondi was Attorney General for Florida? The one that Alexander Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary over? That one. 🍿
The one when Pam Bondi was Attorney General for Florida? The one that Alexander Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary over? That one. 🍿
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If caught robbing those first on this land,
Trump is happy to offer his hand.
When these asshole jabronis
Became more Trump cronies,
He saw them as right on his brand.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is happy to offer his hand.
When these asshole jabronis
Became more Trump cronies,
He saw them as right on his brand.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP effort to impeach Biden
Jason Galanis was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for a scheme that defrauded a Native American tribe.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
If caught robbing those first on this land,
Trump is happy to offer his hand.
When these asshole jabronis
Became more Trump cronies,
He saw them as right on his brand.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is happy to offer his hand.
When these asshole jabronis
Became more Trump cronies,
He saw them as right on his brand.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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With complaints about Medicare fraud,
You’d expect an enforcement more broad.
Repub budget support
Based on fraud he would thwart?
Disingenuous, stupid, and flawed.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
You’d expect an enforcement more broad.
Repub budget support
Based on fraud he would thwart?
Disingenuous, stupid, and flawed.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Trump commutes sentence of Miami healthcare exec convicted of Medicare fraud
He and his girlfriend pocketed more than $87 million in the scheme.
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
With complaints about Medicare fraud,
You’d expect an enforcement more broad.
Repub budget support
Based on fraud he would thwart?
Disingenuous, stupid, and flawed.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
You’d expect an enforcement more broad.
Repub budget support
Based on fraud he would thwart?
Disingenuous, stupid, and flawed.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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More directly, he pardoned the con
Who is partnered with Eric and Don.
Zhao helped finance the worst.
Screw “America first”—
And our “justice” looks ever more wan.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
Who is partnered with Eric and Don.
Zhao helped finance the worst.
Screw “America first”—
And our “justice” looks ever more wan.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
Trump pardon of crypto billionaire sparks concerns over his use of the pardon power
President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance. It's raised questions about conflicts of interest and the president's use of the pardon power.
www.cbsnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
More directly, he pardoned the con
Who is partnered with Eric and Don.
Zhao helped finance the worst.
Screw “America first”—
And our “justice” looks ever more wan.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
Who is partnered with Eric and Don.
Zhao helped finance the worst.
Screw “America first”—
And our “justice” looks ever more wan.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
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For the money and power he’s clenched,
Thirst for more cannot ever be quenched.
With the crimes he forgives
In the pardons he gives,
His corruption’s now deeply entrenched.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Thirst for more cannot ever be quenched.
With the crimes he forgives
In the pardons he gives,
His corruption’s now deeply entrenched.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
How Donald Trump’s pardon wave is ‘normalizing corruption’
The president’s historic pardon streak has let wealthy executives and powerful public figures off the hook, writes Alex Woodward
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
For the money and power he’s clenched,
Thirst for more cannot ever be quenched.
With the crimes he forgives
In the pardons he gives,
His corruption’s now deeply entrenched.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Thirst for more cannot ever be quenched.
With the crimes he forgives
In the pardons he gives,
His corruption’s now deeply entrenched.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. Hold him and everyone involved accountable.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
Support survivors, not predators & accomplices.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
Support survivors, not predators & accomplices.
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. Hold him and everyone involved accountable.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
Support survivors, not predators & accomplices.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
Support survivors, not predators & accomplices.
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It’s time for Republicans to pick a side: either Trump’s or the American people.
@menendez.house.gov calls out Republican hypocrisy and their FAILURE to address families’ affordability crisis.
#TrumpsAffordabilityCrisis
@menendez.house.gov calls out Republican hypocrisy and their FAILURE to address families’ affordability crisis.
#TrumpsAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It’s time for Republicans to pick a side: either Trump’s or the American people.
@menendez.house.gov calls out Republican hypocrisy and their FAILURE to address families’ affordability crisis.
#TrumpsAffordabilityCrisis
@menendez.house.gov calls out Republican hypocrisy and their FAILURE to address families’ affordability crisis.
#TrumpsAffordabilityCrisis
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"Kash Patel: 'Our work on violent crimes against children is historic.'"
It's true: No other administration in American history has worked so hard to protect pedophiles. Their work *is* historic.
It's true: No other administration in American history has worked so hard to protect pedophiles. Their work *is* historic.
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Kash Patel: 'Our work on violent crimes against children is historic.'"
It's true: No other administration in American history has worked so hard to protect pedophiles. Their work *is* historic.
It's true: No other administration in American history has worked so hard to protect pedophiles. Their work *is* historic.
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Does violent crimes against children include separating them from their families?
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Does violent crimes against children include separating them from their families?
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Americans want to be able to afford to buy a home, but private equity firms are gobbling up entire neighborhoods, pricing families out, and the GOP and Trump instead blame immigrants for this.
The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Americans want to be able to afford to buy a home, but private equity firms are gobbling up entire neighborhoods, pricing families out, and the GOP and Trump instead blame immigrants for this.
The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
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"It is up to us to continue to shine a light on the depravity of Trump’s hate speech. It will end only when there is a political cost to Trump and MAGA politicians that they cannot abide—which, for them, is losing their jobs. Let’s make that happen, ASAP".
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
We need to talk about Trump’s hate speech.
December 4, 2025
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"It is up to us to continue to shine a light on the depravity of Trump’s hate speech. It will end only when there is a political cost to Trump and MAGA politicians that they cannot abide—which, for them, is losing their jobs. Let’s make that happen, ASAP".
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
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How many more resignations before we see action?
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
How many more resignations before we see action?
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But Zelensky government has "a corruption problem"!!!
Trump has pardoned:
(1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
(2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold
(3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/
(1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
(2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold
(3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
But Zelensky government has "a corruption problem"!!!