Judith Welles
judywelles.bsky.social
Judith Welles
@judywelles.bsky.social
Writer, dog lover, hopeful
Protests in Bethesda MD and DC today. No stopping here! This will and must continue to make ourselves heard.
August 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Protests in Bethesda MD and DC today. No stopping here! This will and must continue to make ourselves heard.
August 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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July 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
May 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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So do they call it the hunger games?
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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This
May 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Abusers get satisfaction from abusing. He gets pleasure seeing people in pain, whether it’s a sexual assault or publicly bulling a member of Congress. Think about the joy he’s getting from hurting the entire world. This is unfortunately how psychopathology works, unless it’s treated.
April 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
April 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Just a reminder:
April 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
One approach to the chaos is to chill out at the National zoo, still open, still free, and China still lets us keep the pandas…for now.
March 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Follow the money and see where it goes. Nothing like buying our Congress. Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges who are impeding actions taken by Trump.
March 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired as Elon Musk’s government-cutting project targets the Veterans Affairs Department. “Lots of people don’t understand how important these roles are,” a hospital administrator said.
Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency
Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Stand up; fight back! This is what democracy looks like. At NIH!
March 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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February 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My list of 5 things:
1. donated to non-profit Associated Press (it is Gulf of Mexico)
2. Followed and read The Atlantic monthly.
3. Attended and cheered at town hall of my Sen. Van Hollen and Rep.Jamie Raskin.
4. Posted on Bluesky (now)
5. Posted brief standup thoughts on Facebook(ugh)
February 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#Emails2DOGE
cc: HR@OPM.gov

1. Mocked Trump & his boss Elon on TV and online

2. Got my kid’s Corgi fixed so she won’t have babies (Elon you should get fixed 2)

3. Looked up why ketamine abusers need 😎 indoors

4. Read court decisions saying Trump & his boss Elon violated laws

5. Made this list
February 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Trump may think he's a great dealmaker, but there's nothing savvy about giving up leverage before negotiations even start.

As I said yesterday, I'm all for negotiating — but you don't start negotiations by playing to Putin's hand and throwing the Ukrainian people under the bus⬇️
Trump calls himself a "dealmaker" — that's not what he's doing with Ukraine
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Another deep wound inflicted against American medicine, science and health by Musk’s juvenile night crew of data thieves following the Project 2025 playbook, which Trump disavowed in the campaign.
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Not exactly birds but how bird seed dropped by birds at the feeder brings others to feast, like these young sisters today.
February 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM