Christina Ballard
@cballard.bsky.social
Advocate, Educator, Organizer, Speaker. MA Rhetorical Studies. Former transportation equity lobbyist. Administrator at Museum of Mental Health (she/her) 💙💜🫂🌎🏳️🌈☮️✌️🌊⚖️♎️
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you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
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“This is what corruption looks like. They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.” - Representative Jasmine Crockett
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“This is what corruption looks like. They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.” - Representative Jasmine Crockett
What is even happening here? The regime is completely unserious about their actual jobs.
#resist
#resist
Trump's Transportation Secretary posts new video on his plans to improve air travel:
'Let's bring civility and manners back. Are you dressing with respect? Are you saying please and thank you in general? The golden age of travel begins with you.'
'Let's bring civility and manners back. Are you dressing with respect? Are you saying please and thank you in general? The golden age of travel begins with you.'
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
What is even happening here? The regime is completely unserious about their actual jobs.
#resist
#resist
Please pass on this message.
#resist
#resist
An Open Letter to the MAGA Voter
MAGA is a billion dollar product, and it made you the commodity. Now the question is, will you stay one?
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Please pass on this message.
#resist
#resist
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ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
Why?
Trump administration halts naturalization ceremonies in upstate NY
wnyt.com/top-stories/... wtf?! lawless, vile, heartbreaking & dumbly harmful to all of us.
attending naturalization ceremonies is the best of this country:( so embarrassed & ashamed.
wnyt.com/top-stories/... wtf?! lawless, vile, heartbreaking & dumbly harmful to all of us.
attending naturalization ceremonies is the best of this country:( so embarrassed & ashamed.
Trump administration halts naturalization ceremonies in upstate NY
According to several county clerks contacted by NewsChannel 13, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) informed them that naturalization ceremonies are canceled indefinitely. This has left ...
wnyt.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Why?
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When a sitting president calls for death to lawmakers, it’s not a warning sign, it’s the emergency siren. He is talking like a dictator and telling you exactly how he plans to use his power.
This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.
This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
When a sitting president calls for death to lawmakers, it’s not a warning sign, it’s the emergency siren. He is talking like a dictator and telling you exactly how he plans to use his power.
This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.
This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
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Maybe, and I'm spitballing here, women don't like waiting in hospital parking lots until they are near death to have life-saving abortions. Maybe they enjoy having a bank account and jobs and voting rights. Maybe they don't want a court judge to decide if they deserve a divorce. Wow, what a mystery.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Maybe, and I'm spitballing here, women don't like waiting in hospital parking lots until they are near death to have life-saving abortions. Maybe they enjoy having a bank account and jobs and voting rights. Maybe they don't want a court judge to decide if they deserve a divorce. Wow, what a mystery.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
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⚡️ JUST NOW — Speaker Johnson will NOT guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies even if it passes the senate (after the Schumer-orchestrated cave)👇🏽
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
⚡️ JUST NOW — Speaker Johnson will NOT guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies even if it passes the senate (after the Schumer-orchestrated cave)👇🏽
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The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
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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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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?
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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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@baldwin.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov
Do not cave because of airplanes and the holidays. We can survive with fewer flights and less traveling for the holidays this year if it means more Americans will be able to afford insurance next year.
- A constituent in Wisconsin
Do not cave because of airplanes and the holidays. We can survive with fewer flights and less traveling for the holidays this year if it means more Americans will be able to afford insurance next year.
- A constituent in Wisconsin
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
@baldwin.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov
Do not cave because of airplanes and the holidays. We can survive with fewer flights and less traveling for the holidays this year if it means more Americans will be able to afford insurance next year.
- A constituent in Wisconsin
Do not cave because of airplanes and the holidays. We can survive with fewer flights and less traveling for the holidays this year if it means more Americans will be able to afford insurance next year.
- A constituent in Wisconsin
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YOU FUCKING COWARDS!
YOU WILL ALL LOSE YOUR FUCKING JOBS!
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis)
Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev)
John Fetterman (D-Pa)
Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
Angus King (I-Maine)
Jon Ossoff (D-Ga)
Gary Peters (D-Mich)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich)
Peter Welch (D-Vt)
YOU WILL ALL LOSE YOUR FUCKING JOBS!
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis)
Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev)
John Fetterman (D-Pa)
Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
Angus King (I-Maine)
Jon Ossoff (D-Ga)
Gary Peters (D-Mich)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich)
Peter Welch (D-Vt)
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
YOU FUCKING COWARDS!
YOU WILL ALL LOSE YOUR FUCKING JOBS!
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis)
Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev)
John Fetterman (D-Pa)
Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
Angus King (I-Maine)
Jon Ossoff (D-Ga)
Gary Peters (D-Mich)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich)
Peter Welch (D-Vt)
YOU WILL ALL LOSE YOUR FUCKING JOBS!
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis)
Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev)
John Fetterman (D-Pa)
Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
Angus King (I-Maine)
Jon Ossoff (D-Ga)
Gary Peters (D-Mich)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich)
Peter Welch (D-Vt)
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Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.