Kati Hovey Rangel
@katirangel.bsky.social
Retired teacher. Granny. Baseball enthusiast. No DMs please.
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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Sadly, the Biden Administration officials who initiated this partnership under the Inflation Reduction Act couldn’t be present. 😏
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President Trump announces that the world's two largest pharmaceutical companies will sell the "fat drug" (GLP-1 agonists) in the US "at drastic discounts."
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Sadly, the Biden Administration officials who initiated this partnership under the Inflation Reduction Act couldn’t be present. 😏
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Archdiocese of Chicago condemns Trump's immigration crackdown:
"Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear—the church stands with migrants."
"Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear—the church stands with migrants."
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Archdiocese of Chicago condemns Trump's immigration crackdown:
"Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear—the church stands with migrants."
"Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear—the church stands with migrants."
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NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
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Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
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“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”
If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
October 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”
If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
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On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters."
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
August 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters."
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
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A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
Opinion | ‘The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems’
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Just remembering how Joe Biden forgiving some student loans was taking the power of the presidency too far.
April 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Just remembering how Joe Biden forgiving some student loans was taking the power of the presidency too far.
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This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
www.wunc.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state
www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
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You should read this in ALL CAPS JVL voice. Because that's how I wrote it. www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-tran...
Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant
“Trans sports” isn’t an actual problem in the real world. The problem is that life is hard. Don’t make it harder.
www.thebulwark.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
You should read this in ALL CAPS JVL voice. Because that's how I wrote it. www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-tran...
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Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.
A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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"The Trump administration is trying to hide plans to hand off $400 million in taxpayer funds to Tesla, the electric car company owned by the world’s richest man—Trump supporter Elon Musk." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
State Department buries massive payout to Tesla after public outcry
The Trump administration is trying to hide plans to hand off $400 million in taxpayer funds to Tesla, the electric car company owned by the world’s richest man—Trump supporter Elon Musk.
On ...
www.dailykos.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"The Trump administration is trying to hide plans to hand off $400 million in taxpayer funds to Tesla, the electric car company owned by the world’s richest man—Trump supporter Elon Musk." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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“it’s probably a black person’s fault this bad thing happened” as a reflexive explanation is just a racist statement, there’s not a level of substantiation that makes it not racist bsky.app/profile/pgou...
more like: his remarks followed his reflex to seize on occasions of public distress and fear as opportunities to deny accountability through escalating racist and partisan demagoguery
January 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“it’s probably a black person’s fault this bad thing happened” as a reflexive explanation is just a racist statement, there’s not a level of substantiation that makes it not racist bsky.app/profile/pgou...
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Man, is Chuck Schumer not ready for this moment.
January 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Man, is Chuck Schumer not ready for this moment.
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Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.
January 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.
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Everything is so damn stupid.
January 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Everything is so damn stupid.
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Weird watching inauguration coverage focused so much on the pomp, treating much of this as normal, versus pointing out the next POTUS is an insurrection-inciting, twice-impeached, convicted felon taking office after waging a massive disinfo campaign on country w/help of billionaires like Elon Musk.
January 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Weird watching inauguration coverage focused so much on the pomp, treating much of this as normal, versus pointing out the next POTUS is an insurrection-inciting, twice-impeached, convicted felon taking office after waging a massive disinfo campaign on country w/help of billionaires like Elon Musk.