Kim M. Westie
@kimwestie.bsky.social
West Coast Swing dancer, advocate for inclusive spaces and democracy (which go hand in hand), cat fan
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As some Democrats spent the week trying to destroy Mamdani, Republicans are uniting to pass the big beautiful billionaire bill and destroy our Medicaid and add $4.5 trillion in debt to give billionaires the biggest wealth transfer in US history.
Priorities.
Priorities.
June 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
As some Democrats spent the week trying to destroy Mamdani, Republicans are uniting to pass the big beautiful billionaire bill and destroy our Medicaid and add $4.5 trillion in debt to give billionaires the biggest wealth transfer in US history.
Priorities.
Priorities.
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Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
June 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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Every high school student in this country should know this and be able to articulate it!!!!!
What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803
and Why it Matters Today open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
and Why it Matters Today open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803
And Why it Matters Today
open.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Every high school student in this country should know this and be able to articulate it!!!!!
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Phang: If you were scrolling on social media and saw a dog locked up in the middle of the Everglades—in the sun, in the heat, in the humidity—the outrage would be wild, wouldn’t it?
But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?
But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?
June 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Phang: If you were scrolling on social media and saw a dog locked up in the middle of the Everglades—in the sun, in the heat, in the humidity—the outrage would be wild, wouldn’t it?
But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?
But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?
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A breakthrough preventive drug that offers total protection from HIV was to be rolled out across parts of Africa this year. But the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts derailed those plans.
Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support
A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A breakthrough preventive drug that offers total protection from HIV was to be rolled out across parts of Africa this year. But the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts derailed those plans.
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You can't arrest people without warrants, you can't arrest people for asking to see a warrant and you can't bar reporters you don't like from City Hall press conferences
This concludes today's lesson in Civics in The City
This concludes today's lesson in Civics in The City
June 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You can't arrest people without warrants, you can't arrest people for asking to see a warrant and you can't bar reporters you don't like from City Hall press conferences
This concludes today's lesson in Civics in The City
This concludes today's lesson in Civics in The City
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If you’re watching @maddow.msnbc.com’s A Block you understand that people who stand up for other people can change the course of those people’s lives & our history. We have the power to refuse Trump’s path forward. Protesting actually works. Let’s go.
June 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If you’re watching @maddow.msnbc.com’s A Block you understand that people who stand up for other people can change the course of those people’s lives & our history. We have the power to refuse Trump’s path forward. Protesting actually works. Let’s go.
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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles
The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.
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June 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
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The most important story of our time is not what Donald Trump wants to do, but what the people of this country allow him to do.
June 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The most important story of our time is not what Donald Trump wants to do, but what the people of this country allow him to do.
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“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
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June 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
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When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.
June 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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“The Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority in imposing tariffs on all imported goods, calling an immediate halt to his signature trade war policy.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Live updates: Trade court blocks Trump’s tariffs, saying they are illegal
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“The Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority in imposing tariffs on all imported goods, calling an immediate halt to his signature trade war policy.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Why does Trump keep pardoning Americans who are the kind of people he claims he's deporting, while he continues to try to deport students & people facing persecution if they're removed? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
'A railroad job': Trump says he'll look at pardoning convicts in Whitmer kidnapping plot
Nine people were convicted or pleaded guilty to either federal or separate state charges in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
www.usatoday.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Why does Trump keep pardoning Americans who are the kind of people he claims he's deporting, while he continues to try to deport students & people facing persecution if they're removed? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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The administration’s “mass deportations” policy is in conflict with other priorities they claim, especially human trafficking. People suffer if our commitment lags. substack.com/home/post/p-...
May 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The administration’s “mass deportations” policy is in conflict with other priorities they claim, especially human trafficking. People suffer if our commitment lags. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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good thread here. I'll add that the other part of the theory was that if IRA inflated a bunch of green energy business interests in GOP districts then they would come around. alas, nope
The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.
May 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
good thread here. I'll add that the other part of the theory was that if IRA inflated a bunch of green energy business interests in GOP districts then they would come around. alas, nope
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So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!
May 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!
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“It’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency,” @PressSec said, before Trump headed to his golf club to dine with 220 people who bought his memecoin, which generates fees for a Trump business entity.
Winners of Trump’s Memecoin Contest Begin to Gather for Dinner
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May 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“It’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency,” @PressSec said, before Trump headed to his golf club to dine with 220 people who bought his memecoin, which generates fees for a Trump business entity.
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"Covid is over. We have the tools"
First they took away masks
Then they took away tests
They stopped distancing
They stalled on clean air
They stopped tracking data
They stopped research
Now they are limiting vaccines
First they took away masks
Then they took away tests
They stopped distancing
They stalled on clean air
They stopped tracking data
They stopped research
Now they are limiting vaccines
May 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"Covid is over. We have the tools"
First they took away masks
Then they took away tests
They stopped distancing
They stalled on clean air
They stopped tracking data
They stopped research
Now they are limiting vaccines
First they took away masks
Then they took away tests
They stopped distancing
They stalled on clean air
They stopped tracking data
They stopped research
Now they are limiting vaccines
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The Medicaid cuts will devastate every state, but especially the Red ones.
✔️rural hospitals closing
✔️ thousands unenrolled from their healthcare
✔️seniors and the disabled needing nursing care screwed
✔️rural hospitals closing
✔️ thousands unenrolled from their healthcare
✔️seniors and the disabled needing nursing care screwed
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The Medicaid cuts will devastate every state, but especially the Red ones.
✔️rural hospitals closing
✔️ thousands unenrolled from their healthcare
✔️seniors and the disabled needing nursing care screwed
✔️rural hospitals closing
✔️ thousands unenrolled from their healthcare
✔️seniors and the disabled needing nursing care screwed
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and honestly, the obsession over “we should have said more about biden being old” starts to grate when the currently serving president is very obviously impaired by age and cognitive decline, to crickets from the press
May 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
and honestly, the obsession over “we should have said more about biden being old” starts to grate when the currently serving president is very obviously impaired by age and cognitive decline, to crickets from the press
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...
May 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
from @404media.co
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May 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
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My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.