Connie Colvin
connieb5er.bsky.social
Connie Colvin
@connieb5er.bsky.social
73 childless cat lady, Mets fan, Beatles fan, Harry Potterfan, NYC er, zRadical Socialist, never married, no kids.
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Russell Vought is not only Pres. Trump’s budget director but also an author of Project 2025, and he’s seizing this government shutdown moment to pursue his ideological drive to gut federal agencies and programs that benefit Americans. #Velshi
The Vought Doctrine: Make it hurt
It’s day five and counting of a budget impasse in Washington, but critics say characterizing this moment as a government “shutdown” is misleading. For months, Donald Trump and his budget director Russell Vought have taken a sledgehammer to the federal bureaucracy and are now using this moment to gut agencies and programs that benefit working and middle-class Americans, while conveniently keeping in place everything that benefits the wealthy. 
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October 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"What we are seeing is a clear escalation of ICE agents choosing to abuse individuals physically and abuse their constitutional rights," says Chicago Alderperson @jessiefuentes.bsky.social after being detained by ICE herself for defending the rights of a detained, injured constituent. #Velshi
Chicago Alderperson handcuffed by federal agents speaks out as ICE escalates tactics
Since returning to office, President Trump has sought to reshape Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fit his mass deportation agenda. ICE insists agents use a “minimal amount of force” when making arrests, but video footage shows otherwise. Now with Trump ordering federal deployments into Chicago against the wishes of local officials, Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes says, “This is not about safety or security. This is about sowing division. This is about control.”
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October 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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"Perhaps if more Democratic leaders could meet the people where they are and emulate what millions of people are doing, by protesting across the country, that would feel authentic,” says Ali Velshi. “Right now Americans are angry and they want change.” youtu.be/g_NOgxtWnZo
‘Americans are angry’: Democrats rally across the country
YouTube video by MSNBC
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August 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.

ENOUGH.

I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:
Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve
Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.
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July 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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😭 As the world mourns the loss of Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Blythe shared a deeply personal message reflecting on Osbourne's impact — not just as a musical icon, but as a human being. metalinjection.net/news/randy-b...
RANDY BLYTHE: "Thank You OZZY. We Love You" - Metal Injection
"Ozzy got to say goodbye, & he got to do it on HIS terms, with HIS band."
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July 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs."
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The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Service Journalism - News you can use.

The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!
July 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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We’re one more revelation away from MAGA telling us that sexually abusing teenage girls is good, actually.
July 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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“May every day be another wonderful secret.”
July 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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More than a hundred people died because of devastating flash floods in Texas earlier this month. It’s important to understand how floods happen, and what we can do to keep ourselves safe.
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‘These are danger zones:’ Understanding flood risk after disaster in Texas
More than a hundred people died because of devastating flash floods in Texas earlier this month. It’s important to understand how floods happen, and what we can do to keep ourselves safe. Ali Velshi s...
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July 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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And yet overall approval basically unchanged. Once you get down to the low 40’s people’s approval isn’t really being driven by issues.
Trump's Net Approval on...

🟤 Immigration: -16 (was +3 in March)
🟤 The Economy: -20
🟤 Foreign affairs: -20
🟤 Tariffs: -22
🟤 Health care: -24
🟤 The federal budget: -26
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Big Beautiful Bill
Support: 39%
Oppose: 61%
CNN/SRSS poll July 10-13

President Trump
Approve: 42% (+1)
Disapprove: 58% (-1)

(Shift since April)
July 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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@juliaioffe.bsky.social's new reporting for Puck News reveals what State Dept. employees really think of Sec. Marco Rubio: nothing more than ‘a mute accessory to Trump.’ But that may be the Trump Admin’s ultimate goal. #Velshi
Why State Department employees say Rubio is a ‘mute accessory to Trump’
Important new reporting from Puck’s Julia Ioffe reveals what America's bruised diplomats really think of their boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio. With the Trump administration’s cuts hitting the State Department, employees at Foggy Bottom say Rubio has become “the disappearing Secretary of State” and “a mute accessory to Trump.” Ioffe discusses who is being promoted up the ranks, including one “MAGA toddler” now leading HR at State.
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July 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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This week marks 249 years since colonists decided to form a new nation founded upon liberty, equality and democracy. Today, the government isn't just failing to protect the vulnerable, it's persecuting them. At 12p ET, I will tell you why Americans have a constitutional duty to fight back. #Velshi
July 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Almost every "right, privilege & liberty” Americans have cherished for 250 years is under attack, warns fmr. federal Judge J. Michael Luttig.

“We have no leader and we have no leadership.” Just electeds who “have followed like lemmings those who would walk this country off a cliff toward tyranny.”
Judge Luttig: ‘No leadership' --‘Lemmings..who would walk the country off the cliff towards tyranny'
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig joins Ali to discuss his powerful new piece, “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom— and of Tyranny,” a reflection on the Declaration of Independence and its 27 “self-evident truths” about freedom and tyranny that apply today more than ever. Luttig warns that “almost every single right, privilege, and liberty,” Americans have cherished for almost 250 years is now “under attack,” and that power has dangerously “drifted away from the people to the government” itself. “The main problem and the main issue for America today is that we have no leader and we have no leadership,” he warns. “Our elected politicians…have followed like lemmings those who would walk this country off a cliff toward tyranny.
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July 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now
July 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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It is unconscionable that American taxpayers are paying for these killings. Shame, shame on Donald Trump and the complicity of everyone who continues to look the other way. apnews.com/article/pale...
July 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Love that he’s doing “direct to voter” communication in the “post-election takes” space.
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Zohran Mamdani captured voters promising to address the cost of living. @brookings.edu’s Andre Perry argues the housing crisis has a shocking consequence, "you literally lose years of life." There are “more empty homes in America than there are homeless people,” says @hartmannreport.com#VELSHI
‘More empty homes in America than there are homeless people’: Affordability agenda drives NY primary
Critics debate whether the primary win of Zohran Mamdani is a referendum on the future of the Democratic party. One thing is certain – he clearly struck a nerve with voters, and it’s that Americans can barely afford to live in this country. Author and economics professor Andre Perry argues that nothing will be affordable if wages can’t keep pace with rising costs. He notes that New York City has “lost 75,000 middle income jobs” just in the last year. According to radio show host and NYT best-selling author, Thom Hartmann, the housing crisis has been driven in part by giant corporations buying up properties and driving up costs, stating when prices “you start to see homelessness explode in these communities.”
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June 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Everyone loves a good zombie book, & @maxbrooks.bsky.social author of ‘World War Z’, knows why. “It is human nature for us to tune out [real danger] to save our psyche. But if you give it a veneer of something fictional, like zombies, you can explore all the real factors.” #VelshiBannedBookClub
Velshi Banned Book Club: “World War Z” by Max Brooks
Max Brooks’ seminal zombie thriller, “World War Z”, is set in an alternate 21st century world after a zombie apocalypse -- a pandemic that began in a small Chinese village -- infected and subsequently killed millions. Told through a series of interviews, all conducted by a fictional version of Brooks, there is very intentionally no hero. Each interview subject is a survivor of the apocalypse, each with a different role to play. While “World War Z” grapples with human shortsightedness, the power of fear, the fragility of modern life, the necessity of humanity in the face of chaos, at its core, it is a book about survival.
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June 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I love listening to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on #WITHPOD when he talks about The State of the Internet because he's inevitably going to say the letters I-R-L and completely date himself (and me) with such archaic language because kids these days have no distinction between on and offline.
June 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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WATCH: Sen. Chris Murphy on the intel report showing the U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear program were not as effective as Trump claimed: "We were supposed to get a briefing today. It got canceled. I think it got canceled because they are trying to figure out how to lie their way out of this mess."
June 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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There was a contested primary in my city council district (39) that I thought was going to be close that looks like it will not be close.
June 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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It’s hard to overstate how angry rank and file Dems are at the Dem establishment right now. And if I were a self-preservationist incumbent I would take note.
June 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM