Frances Maus
@fcmaus.bsky.social
📍 Iowa
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small business owner
avid local supporter
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small business owner
avid local supporter
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After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.
This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
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July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
“GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Documentary Viewing” - sign up! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...
GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Documentary Viewing · John Lewis Actions
Join us for a powerful evening of education, reflection, and civic engagement in honor of the late Congressman **John Lewis** and his enduring legacy of **Good Trouble**.
As part of the national **Go...
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July 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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🚨🚨 The Senate is **about to VOTE** on the largest cut to the social safety net in US history, explode our deficit, create an energy crisis, and ramp up masked kidnappings... all to transfer an unprecedented amount wealth from the poor to the rich.
CALL YOUR SENATORS
🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
CALL YOUR SENATORS
🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
June 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🚨🚨 The Senate is **about to VOTE** on the largest cut to the social safety net in US history, explode our deficit, create an energy crisis, and ramp up masked kidnappings... all to transfer an unprecedented amount wealth from the poor to the rich.
CALL YOUR SENATORS
🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
CALL YOUR SENATORS
🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
The best advice 😆
𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻
June 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The best advice 😆
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The U.S. Constitution and longstanding federal law strictly limit the use of the military to police civilians. Under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, active-duty military forces are prohibited from engaging in domestic law enforcement unless explicitly authorized by Congress or the Constitution.
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The U.S. Constitution and longstanding federal law strictly limit the use of the military to police civilians. Under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, active-duty military forces are prohibited from engaging in domestic law enforcement unless explicitly authorized by Congress or the Constitution.
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The Congressional Budget Office said the sweeping Republican bill to cut taxes and slash federal programs would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. Fewer services for the American people, but yet more debt.
June 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Congressional Budget Office said the sweeping Republican bill to cut taxes and slash federal programs would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. Fewer services for the American people, but yet more debt.
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“Democracy is not a noun – democracy is a verb,” says historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social. If you think democracy is something outside of you, it’s already lost, says Snyder. “The crucial thing is to do something.” And remember—we’re all in this together. #Velshi
‘Democracy is a verb’: Timothy Snyder on why the fight begins with you
Historian Timothy Snyder reminds us that the fight for democracy has always begun with ordinary Americans—through civil disobedience, economic pressure, and creative acts of resistance. “Democracy is not a noun; democracy is a verb,” he says. If you think democracy is something outside of yourself, it’s already been defeated. Snyder stresses that resistance isn’t one-size-fits-all. It ranges from small, everyday actions to bigger, riskier actions. “The crucial thing is to do something,” he says. “We also have to recognize that it’s not on any one of us to solve the whole thing. Each of us does a little bit—and together, that changes the whole landscape.”
www.msnbc.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Democracy is not a noun – democracy is a verb,” says historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social. If you think democracy is something outside of you, it’s already lost, says Snyder. “The crucial thing is to do something.” And remember—we’re all in this together. #Velshi
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The GOP’s health care plan just dropped
Audience member, referencing Medicaid and SNAP cuts: People will die
Republican Senator: Well, we all are going to die
Republican Senator: Well, we all are going to die
May 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The GOP’s health care plan just dropped
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Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.
May 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.
Federal Courts Matter rally in Rock Island, IL 💙
May 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Federal Courts Matter rally in Rock Island, IL 💙
Call ‘em!!!
When we say the Republican Budget Reconciliation bill has a LOT of terrible stuff snuck into it, we mean stuff like this: a 10-year ban on state AI regulations. A dangerous giveaway for Big Tech that will endanger our privacy and security.
🔥📞🔥 Demand your reps vote NO --> 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...
🔥📞🔥 Demand your reps vote NO --> 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...
Stop the State AI Regulation Ban in the Budget Reconciliation Bill ⭑ 5 Calls
On May 11th, Republicans in the House Energy & Commerce committee added language to their portion of the partisan budget reconciliation bill that …
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May 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Call ‘em!!!
Quad Cities @50501movement.bsky.social protest in Moline, IL
April 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Quad Cities @50501movement.bsky.social protest in Moline, IL
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
In Chicago for the weekend so joined the @50501movement.bsky.social protest there - an incredible crowd! 💙
April 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In Chicago for the weekend so joined the @50501movement.bsky.social protest there - an incredible crowd! 💙
Veterans Still Matter rally in Davenport, IA yesterday! @indivisible.org
March 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Veterans Still Matter rally in Davenport, IA yesterday! @indivisible.org
Made it to two @50501movement.bsky.social protests in Iowa today! 🥶
February 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Made it to two @50501movement.bsky.social protests in Iowa today! 🥶
Something positive! 💙
Congratulations to Mike Zimmer for Iowa on winning the special election for Iowa Senate District 35.
He flipped a district that Trump won by 21 points.
I commend him on running an excellent campaign that focused on the issues and serving the people of Iowa.
www.ourquadcities.com/your-local-e...
He flipped a district that Trump won by 21 points.
I commend him on running an excellent campaign that focused on the issues and serving the people of Iowa.
www.ourquadcities.com/your-local-e...
January 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Something positive! 💙