EFreeman
@efreemanart.bsky.social
Artist, grandmother, engaged.
It is from within darkness that light emerges.
It is from within darkness that light emerges.
Wall Street Gets A Trump Tax Break To Fire Workers www.levernews.com/wall-street-...
Wall Street Gets A Trump Tax Break To Fire Workers
Lawmakers quietly added a line that effectively subsidizes Wall Street buying up companies, slashing wages, closing factories, and firing workers.
www.levernews.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Wall Street Gets A Trump Tax Break To Fire Workers www.levernews.com/wall-street-...
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OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!
June 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!
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In case you missed it:
The Executive Board of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) condemns the U.S. federal government’s current assault on immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, international students, and international scholars.
iehs.org/iehs-stateme...
iehs.org/iehs-stateme...
IEHS Statement on Immigration
Visit the post for more.
iehs.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In case you missed it:
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JUST IN: US judge blocks State Department's planned overhaul, mass layoffs reut.rs/3G2QYAe
June 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
JUST IN: US judge blocks State Department's planned overhaul, mass layoffs reut.rs/3G2QYAe
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💥 BREAKING: American Airlines shareholders voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal at its annual meeting, tally TBA. Proposal requested AAL end its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, benchmarking LGBTQ+ practices. AAL has had a perfect score for 20 years.
June 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
💥 BREAKING: American Airlines shareholders voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal at its annual meeting, tally TBA. Proposal requested AAL end its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, benchmarking LGBTQ+ practices. AAL has had a perfect score for 20 years.
And yet, Springsteen told the crowd: “The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and, regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people, so will survive this moment.”
May 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
And yet, Springsteen told the crowd: “The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and, regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people, so will survive this moment.”
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Never forget how hard they fought to steal the election. A party deeply committed to ending democracy and ruling against the will of the populace.
"A six-month battle over a North Carolina Supreme Court seat ended when the Republican challenger, who had embarked on an extraordinary effort to throw out thousands of votes, conceded the race." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...
Republican Gives Up Fight to Overturn Defeat in N.C. Judicial Race
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Never forget how hard they fought to steal the election. A party deeply committed to ending democracy and ruling against the will of the populace.
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When famously squaring off with President Donald Trump over education funding, Mills said she would see Trump in court. She did just that, and on Friday she won a settlement for her state, for the kids and for people everywhere who needed to see a certain asshole bully get punched right in the eye.
Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it
Remember the Governor of Maine.
www.thealtmedia.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
When famously squaring off with President Donald Trump over education funding, Mills said she would see Trump in court. She did just that, and on Friday she won a settlement for her state, for the kids and for people everywhere who needed to see a certain asshole bully get punched right in the eye.
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Thank God we have a modicum of sanity left in this country.
Lead ACLU lawyer:
“The Court correctly held that the President lacks authority to simply declare there’s been an invasion of the United States and then invoke a 18th century wartime authority during peacetime,” Gelernt said. “Congress never meant for this law to be used in this manner.”
“The Court correctly held that the President lacks authority to simply declare there’s been an invasion of the United States and then invoke a 18th century wartime authority during peacetime,” Gelernt said. “Congress never meant for this law to be used in this manner.”
NEW: A Trump-appointed federal judge rejects Trump's invocation of 18th century Alien Enemies Act www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
May 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thank God we have a modicum of sanity left in this country.
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one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
April 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
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Last night Judge Xinis ordered Trump Adm to file by 9:30am this morning (Friday) details of their efforts to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return. Responses may be sealed. In person conference at 1pm today.
April 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Last night Judge Xinis ordered Trump Adm to file by 9:30am this morning (Friday) details of their efforts to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return. Responses may be sealed. In person conference at 1pm today.
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Given what Trump is doing to the bond market - our debt is becoming more expensive - the Trump/GOP budget, which explodes the deficit by many tens of trillions, will almost certainly bankrupt the county. This budget needs to become seen now as something as dangerous as the tariffs. More sabotage.
Trump economic plan:
- higher prices, lower growth, more jobless, stock market decline, degradation of US global brand
- Unconstitutional/regressive tariffs, huge tax cuts for wealthy, exploding deficits, slashing health care for 80m
- torching of US scientific/medical research edge
It's sabotage
- higher prices, lower growth, more jobless, stock market decline, degradation of US global brand
- Unconstitutional/regressive tariffs, huge tax cuts for wealthy, exploding deficits, slashing health care for 80m
- torching of US scientific/medical research edge
It's sabotage
April 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Given what Trump is doing to the bond market - our debt is becoming more expensive - the Trump/GOP budget, which explodes the deficit by many tens of trillions, will almost certainly bankrupt the county. This budget needs to become seen now as something as dangerous as the tariffs. More sabotage.
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This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!
why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.
April 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!
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March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
April 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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This.
The moment Cory Booker broke Strom Thurmond's speaking record:
"I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
"I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This.
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🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.
March 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.
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If you're just an ordinary citizen, how are you supposed to react to continuous news demonstrating that the rule of law is dead?
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
www.huffpost.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you're just an ordinary citizen, how are you supposed to react to continuous news demonstrating that the rule of law is dead?
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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
