@gerkel.bsky.social
Crafter, dog lover, and avid reader. I am too old to stay quiet about these current events.
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Can I get a witness brothers and sisters.
Anyone on American soil has a right to due process, It's guaranteed by the Fifth & Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, guaranteeing fair treatment under the law regardless of citizenship status.
Can you feel it
Come on down
Anyone on American soil has a right to due process, It's guaranteed by the Fifth & Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, guaranteeing fair treatment under the law regardless of citizenship status.
Can you feel it
Come on down
August 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Can I get a witness brothers and sisters.
Anyone on American soil has a right to due process, It's guaranteed by the Fifth & Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, guaranteeing fair treatment under the law regardless of citizenship status.
Can you feel it
Come on down
Anyone on American soil has a right to due process, It's guaranteed by the Fifth & Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, guaranteeing fair treatment under the law regardless of citizenship status.
Can you feel it
Come on down
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Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
August 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
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No… that is hideous. There has to be a way to stop this. It will completely ruin the appearance of the White House…
maybe we can do something with like a hospital or something.... smh
August 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
No… that is hideous. There has to be a way to stop this. It will completely ruin the appearance of the White House…
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I promise you librarians were busily, though not busily enough, rethinking some of our critical analysis tools and tips in 2016
I think the president just plainly stating that he's firing the person who produces economic data because he doesn't like the numbers officially pushes us into a new era where you just can't believe government data anymore.
August 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I promise you librarians were busily, though not busily enough, rethinking some of our critical analysis tools and tips in 2016
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NEW: For the first time in 5 years, the VA has recorded a net loss of THOUSANDS of health care positions, including 688 doctors, 1,882 nurses, and 201 psychologists.
Trump is the most anti-Veteran president in history. And his administration is LYING to try to cover it up.
Trump is the most anti-Veteran president in history. And his administration is LYING to try to cover it up.
July 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
NEW: For the first time in 5 years, the VA has recorded a net loss of THOUSANDS of health care positions, including 688 doctors, 1,882 nurses, and 201 psychologists.
Trump is the most anti-Veteran president in history. And his administration is LYING to try to cover it up.
Trump is the most anti-Veteran president in history. And his administration is LYING to try to cover it up.
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Today we celebrate 60 years of Medicare and Medicaid, two great programmatic achievements of democracy in America. MAGA just cut millions of people off Medicaid to give billionaires tax cuts, but we’ll work to repeal their dreadful bill and restore the health of our people.
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Today we celebrate 60 years of Medicare and Medicaid, two great programmatic achievements of democracy in America. MAGA just cut millions of people off Medicaid to give billionaires tax cuts, but we’ll work to repeal their dreadful bill and restore the health of our people.
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When you start to excuse abusive treatment of people groups you dislike
It's a very slippery slope to completely dehumanizing anyone for any reason
Your hate of a country's government CANNOT be used as a reason to terrorize people
If you're thinking
"Yeah, but-"
STOP
No excuses
It's a very slippery slope to completely dehumanizing anyone for any reason
Your hate of a country's government CANNOT be used as a reason to terrorize people
If you're thinking
"Yeah, but-"
STOP
No excuses
July 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
When you start to excuse abusive treatment of people groups you dislike
It's a very slippery slope to completely dehumanizing anyone for any reason
Your hate of a country's government CANNOT be used as a reason to terrorize people
If you're thinking
"Yeah, but-"
STOP
No excuses
It's a very slippery slope to completely dehumanizing anyone for any reason
Your hate of a country's government CANNOT be used as a reason to terrorize people
If you're thinking
"Yeah, but-"
STOP
No excuses
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Trump's attacking Josh Hawley for standing up to him.
MAGA, ask yourself why Trump's attacking one of his own just because they want to ban congressional stock trading?
Trump isn't better than the swamp, Trump IS the swamp, and Josh Hawley knows it.
MAGA, ask yourself why Trump's attacking one of his own just because they want to ban congressional stock trading?
Trump isn't better than the swamp, Trump IS the swamp, and Josh Hawley knows it.
July 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Trump's attacking Josh Hawley for standing up to him.
MAGA, ask yourself why Trump's attacking one of his own just because they want to ban congressional stock trading?
Trump isn't better than the swamp, Trump IS the swamp, and Josh Hawley knows it.
MAGA, ask yourself why Trump's attacking one of his own just because they want to ban congressional stock trading?
Trump isn't better than the swamp, Trump IS the swamp, and Josh Hawley knows it.
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Not destroying food meant for starving people is woke, y'all.
"The Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire tomorrow."
Yep. The pro-life party of evangelical Christians.
Yep. The pro-life party of evangelical Christians.
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.yahoo.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Not destroying food meant for starving people is woke, y'all.
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More good advice from @jesscraven101.bsky.social here. The whole rep office uses the same call tracking system, and junior staff or interns in the district offices can take down your input too. Just be sure they know you’re a constituent, ask who you’re talking to, and (politely) request a response.
Hell YES! Y’all are flooding the Capitol Switchboard so hard it’s overwhelmed—this is people power in action! 💥
Here’s what to do next: Call your reps’ district offices instead. It’s easy—just Google their name + “district office number.”
Pass it on. Keep that pressure blazing.
#VoteHellNo
Here’s what to do next: Call your reps’ district offices instead. It’s easy—just Google their name + “district office number.”
Pass it on. Keep that pressure blazing.
#VoteHellNo
July 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
More good advice from @jesscraven101.bsky.social here. The whole rep office uses the same call tracking system, and junior staff or interns in the district offices can take down your input too. Just be sure they know you’re a constituent, ask who you’re talking to, and (politely) request a response.
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"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..."
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..."
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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Another malicious list.
If anyone thinks this account is "bluemaga" or blueanon" they're clearly not paying attention.
Since we're blocked maybe we can enlist a few of our followers to try and talk reason into these people, if not please do report them. This is nuts.
If anyone thinks this account is "bluemaga" or blueanon" they're clearly not paying attention.
Since we're blocked maybe we can enlist a few of our followers to try and talk reason into these people, if not please do report them. This is nuts.
June 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Another malicious list.
If anyone thinks this account is "bluemaga" or blueanon" they're clearly not paying attention.
Since we're blocked maybe we can enlist a few of our followers to try and talk reason into these people, if not please do report them. This is nuts.
If anyone thinks this account is "bluemaga" or blueanon" they're clearly not paying attention.
Since we're blocked maybe we can enlist a few of our followers to try and talk reason into these people, if not please do report them. This is nuts.
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Looks like the right wing is very upset over the success of the No Kings
Protests
There's a lot of fluctuation in followers on a number of the larger Alt accounts.
You can help out by
Following and retweeting
Our message of peace, kindness and wildlife advocacy.
Thank you x3
Protests
There's a lot of fluctuation in followers on a number of the larger Alt accounts.
You can help out by
Following and retweeting
Our message of peace, kindness and wildlife advocacy.
Thank you x3
June 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Looks like the right wing is very upset over the success of the No Kings
Protests
There's a lot of fluctuation in followers on a number of the larger Alt accounts.
You can help out by
Following and retweeting
Our message of peace, kindness and wildlife advocacy.
Thank you x3
Protests
There's a lot of fluctuation in followers on a number of the larger Alt accounts.
You can help out by
Following and retweeting
Our message of peace, kindness and wildlife advocacy.
Thank you x3
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Ask what the federal government can do to help and show leadership. Instead, Trump calls the governor “whacked out” and says “Why would I call him?” This isn’t strength. It’s cruelty! And it sends a loud message: If you’re not loyal to Trump, you don’t matter. America deserves better.
June 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ask what the federal government can do to help and show leadership. Instead, Trump calls the governor “whacked out” and says “Why would I call him?” This isn’t strength. It’s cruelty! And it sends a loud message: If you’re not loyal to Trump, you don’t matter. America deserves better.
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Senate Republicans released their tax and health plans for Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
This new Senate bill means MORE people lose health care to fund even BIGGER corporate tax breaks.
This new Senate bill means MORE people lose health care to fund even BIGGER corporate tax breaks.
June 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Senate Republicans released their tax and health plans for Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
This new Senate bill means MORE people lose health care to fund even BIGGER corporate tax breaks.
This new Senate bill means MORE people lose health care to fund even BIGGER corporate tax breaks.
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I stand strong with the civil servants at NIH who are not only doing science but defending science by demanding that the administration not abandon lifesaving research mandated by law. Putting NIH research on hold puts people’s lives at risk.
N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I stand strong with the civil servants at NIH who are not only doing science but defending science by demanding that the administration not abandon lifesaving research mandated by law. Putting NIH research on hold puts people’s lives at risk.
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Instead of listening to their constituents who are resoundingly opposed to slashing Medicaid, members of the Senate are moving forward with deep cuts that will leave millions without access to health coverage.
We have to stop this bill in its tracks.
We have to stop this bill in its tracks.
Senate Bill Would Make Deep Cuts to Medicaid, Setting Up Fight With House
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Instead of listening to their constituents who are resoundingly opposed to slashing Medicaid, members of the Senate are moving forward with deep cuts that will leave millions without access to health coverage.
We have to stop this bill in its tracks.
We have to stop this bill in its tracks.
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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
June 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.
This is a major win for public health.
This is a major win for public health.
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No Kings Day Augusta Maine
June 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
No Kings Day Augusta Maine
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America is now aWOKE!!!
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June 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
America is now aWOKE!!!
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Same here.
Let's be absolutely clear: physically assaulting a US Senator for simply asking a question is disgraceful. We stand with Senator Padilla and all those peacefully defending working people against this administration's attacks.
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Same here.
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Read these words from Senator Murray, who has said it so well tonight. We’re in danger of losing democracy. Don’t ignore what’s happening. joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-a-d...
"We are a democracy. But we can lose that democracy."
This afternoon, Washington Senator Patty Murray, who has been in the Senate for more than 32 years, rose to condemn the treatment of California Senator Alex Padilla, who was manhandled out of a press ...
joycevance.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Read these words from Senator Murray, who has said it so well tonight. We’re in danger of losing democracy. Don’t ignore what’s happening. joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-a-d...