Tikka Smith
@itstikka.bsky.social
Hospice Nurse, Almost-a-PhD, Nerd, Ally
Fix Your Hearts or Die
Fix Your Hearts or Die
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I just went on Fox News to tell the truth about the redistricting power grab in Texas.
I asked a simple question: “If Republican policies are so popular, why do they need to redraw these maps; why not run on their policies?”
He refused to answer — and cut the interview early.
I asked a simple question: “If Republican policies are so popular, why do they need to redraw these maps; why not run on their policies?”
He refused to answer — and cut the interview early.
August 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I just went on Fox News to tell the truth about the redistricting power grab in Texas.
I asked a simple question: “If Republican policies are so popular, why do they need to redraw these maps; why not run on their policies?”
He refused to answer — and cut the interview early.
I asked a simple question: “If Republican policies are so popular, why do they need to redraw these maps; why not run on their policies?”
He refused to answer — and cut the interview early.
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U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
August 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
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Republicans stay screaming about law & order…But won’t release the Epstein files.
They sit up here posting conspiracy theories all day…But won’t release the Epstein files.
They’re quick to call a hearing or launch an investigation on some BS…But (say it with me) won’t release the Epstein files.
They sit up here posting conspiracy theories all day…But won’t release the Epstein files.
They’re quick to call a hearing or launch an investigation on some BS…But (say it with me) won’t release the Epstein files.
July 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Republicans stay screaming about law & order…But won’t release the Epstein files.
They sit up here posting conspiracy theories all day…But won’t release the Epstein files.
They’re quick to call a hearing or launch an investigation on some BS…But (say it with me) won’t release the Epstein files.
They sit up here posting conspiracy theories all day…But won’t release the Epstein files.
They’re quick to call a hearing or launch an investigation on some BS…But (say it with me) won’t release the Epstein files.
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- High temperatures inside tents, causing extreme sweating
- Confiscation of religious materials
- Denial of religious freedom or services
- Environmental hazards: heat, flooding, and disease-carrying insects
There urgently needs to be greater oversight and accountability.
- Confiscation of religious materials
- Denial of religious freedom or services
- Environmental hazards: heat, flooding, and disease-carrying insects
There urgently needs to be greater oversight and accountability.
July 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
- High temperatures inside tents, causing extreme sweating
- Confiscation of religious materials
- Denial of religious freedom or services
- Environmental hazards: heat, flooding, and disease-carrying insects
There urgently needs to be greater oversight and accountability.
- Confiscation of religious materials
- Denial of religious freedom or services
- Environmental hazards: heat, flooding, and disease-carrying insects
There urgently needs to be greater oversight and accountability.
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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Somebody tried to invoke Grok (I guess to make a point that the Big Bad Bill won’t harm Okies) but were owned. Even Grok knows this thing is bad, especially to folks in rural areas and in red states like Oklahoma, which are more reliant on federal programs like Medicaid. 👀
July 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Somebody tried to invoke Grok (I guess to make a point that the Big Bad Bill won’t harm Okies) but were owned. Even Grok knows this thing is bad, especially to folks in rural areas and in red states like Oklahoma, which are more reliant on federal programs like Medicaid. 👀
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We've been on the Senate floor for 25 hours fighting this awful bill.
Republicans have blocked us at every step — while rewriting the bill behind closed doors to strong-arm their members into cutting health care for 17 million people to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Shameful.
Republicans have blocked us at every step — while rewriting the bill behind closed doors to strong-arm their members into cutting health care for 17 million people to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Shameful.
July 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We've been on the Senate floor for 25 hours fighting this awful bill.
Republicans have blocked us at every step — while rewriting the bill behind closed doors to strong-arm their members into cutting health care for 17 million people to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Shameful.
Republicans have blocked us at every step — while rewriting the bill behind closed doors to strong-arm their members into cutting health care for 17 million people to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Shameful.
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It’s plain for all to see.
May 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It’s plain for all to see.
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WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism.
Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
May 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism.
Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.
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It keeps making me really mad that the people saying Americans need to sacrifice are the last ones who intend to sacrifice anything themselves. Anyone who hears them say that needs to interrupt and ask them what they personally are sacrificing to the cause. And not let them wiggle out of answering.
May 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
It keeps making me really mad that the people saying Americans need to sacrifice are the last ones who intend to sacrifice anything themselves. Anyone who hears them say that needs to interrupt and ask them what they personally are sacrificing to the cause. And not let them wiggle out of answering.
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Trying to imagine if Trump told America, "Maybe you don't need 30 guns, maybe 2 guns."
May 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trying to imagine if Trump told America, "Maybe you don't need 30 guns, maybe 2 guns."
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Another day, another Trump executive order—this time, it’s a full-blown attack on education:
• Rolling back protections against unfair school punishments for Black & Brown kids • Threatening DEI in higher ed • Targeting foreign funding • Floating vague concepts of a plan for HBCUs
• Rolling back protections against unfair school punishments for Black & Brown kids • Threatening DEI in higher ed • Targeting foreign funding • Floating vague concepts of a plan for HBCUs
Trump signs executive actions on education, including efforts to rein in DEI
The directives include new efforts to curtail DEI programs at colleges, and discipline guidance for public schools.
www.npr.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Another day, another Trump executive order—this time, it’s a full-blown attack on education:
• Rolling back protections against unfair school punishments for Black & Brown kids • Threatening DEI in higher ed • Targeting foreign funding • Floating vague concepts of a plan for HBCUs
• Rolling back protections against unfair school punishments for Black & Brown kids • Threatening DEI in higher ed • Targeting foreign funding • Floating vague concepts of a plan for HBCUs
Our state superintendent is literally trying to force social studies teachers to teach debunked stolen election myths as truth. Things are so fucked up right now.
April 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Our state superintendent is literally trying to force social studies teachers to teach debunked stolen election myths as truth. Things are so fucked up right now.
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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
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This is who we are now?!
April 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is who we are now?!
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Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.
April 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.
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“This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly… a tragedy… what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!”
-Pope Francis
-Pope Francis
April 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly… a tragedy… what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!”
-Pope Francis
-Pope Francis
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States like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and more drew even bigger crowds than on 4/5. We’re in awe of you, America. You know you did something right when even Fox News is covering it. Wow!! We love you!
April 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
States like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and more drew even bigger crowds than on 4/5. We’re in awe of you, America. You know you did something right when even Fox News is covering it. Wow!! We love you!
30 years ago I was 9 years old sitting in Ms. Baxter's 3rd grade classroom when the room shook. A madman had bombed the Murrah building, stealing lives and loved ones from Oklahoma. It changed me, it changed Oklahoma.
April 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
30 years ago I was 9 years old sitting in Ms. Baxter's 3rd grade classroom when the room shook. A madman had bombed the Murrah building, stealing lives and loved ones from Oklahoma. It changed me, it changed Oklahoma.
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A prominent Republican in power finally said it. The party is afraid of Trump.
They all know this is wrong.
Soon they will have to decide where their red line is, because they are complicit in these crimes now. Stand up before it's too late!
www.adn.com/politics/202...
They all know this is wrong.
Soon they will have to decide where their red line is, because they are complicit in these crimes now. Stand up before it's too late!
www.adn.com/politics/202...
April 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A prominent Republican in power finally said it. The party is afraid of Trump.
They all know this is wrong.
Soon they will have to decide where their red line is, because they are complicit in these crimes now. Stand up before it's too late!
www.adn.com/politics/202...
They all know this is wrong.
Soon they will have to decide where their red line is, because they are complicit in these crimes now. Stand up before it's too late!
www.adn.com/politics/202...
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
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Do you know the difference between “$2 trillion” and “$150 billion”? About $2 trillion.
April 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Do you know the difference between “$2 trillion” and “$150 billion”? About $2 trillion.
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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.