Kirstin Richards
@kirstinrichards.bsky.social
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With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.
www.nbcnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.
July 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.
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First votes of the day underway in the House. This is an attendance test - weather in DC cancelled a lot of flights, many members haven't been able to get back to town.
Johnson admits they don't have the votes for the rule on the MAGA murder budget yet. Fox reporting at least 12 GOP nos right now.
Johnson admits they don't have the votes for the rule on the MAGA murder budget yet. Fox reporting at least 12 GOP nos right now.
- Up to 30 House Republicans making angry noises (see list from Haley Talbot). Republicans lose a maximum of 3 if everyone votes. It is of course worth remembering that literally all these folks made angry noises the first time they passed the budget, too, and all but two quietly voted yes.
THE BIG MAD INDEX
docs.google.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
First votes of the day underway in the House. This is an attendance test - weather in DC cancelled a lot of flights, many members haven't been able to get back to town.
Johnson admits they don't have the votes for the rule on the MAGA murder budget yet. Fox reporting at least 12 GOP nos right now.
Johnson admits they don't have the votes for the rule on the MAGA murder budget yet. Fox reporting at least 12 GOP nos right now.
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They don’t care about their own MAGA base. They just want more money for their donor class.
July 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
They don’t care about their own MAGA base. They just want more money for their donor class.
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Let’s 🐝 fierce
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Let’s 🐝 fierce
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Trump and Musk just got punched in the face in Wisconsin! (Plus in Florida and the US Senate!) Tuesday was a great day for those who want to see us take the fight to Trump and Musk. These wins are all part of us taking our nation back! My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
Trump and Musk just got punched in the face in Wisconsin! (Plus in Florida and the US Senate!)
This is how we fight!
deanobeidallah.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Trump and Musk just got punched in the face in Wisconsin! (Plus in Florida and the US Senate!) Tuesday was a great day for those who want to see us take the fight to Trump and Musk. These wins are all part of us taking our nation back! My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
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@booker.senate.gov didn’t just “talk” for a record setting amount of time. He made speeches, taught lessons, he inspired and informed. This is just incredibly impressive work from the senator, his staff, and the colleagues who helped.
The bar’s been raised Democrats. Keep it going.
The bar’s been raised Democrats. Keep it going.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
@booker.senate.gov didn’t just “talk” for a record setting amount of time. He made speeches, taught lessons, he inspired and informed. This is just incredibly impressive work from the senator, his staff, and the colleagues who helped.
The bar’s been raised Democrats. Keep it going.
The bar’s been raised Democrats. Keep it going.
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They tell you to “tighten your belt” while $21 trillion has gone “missing” from the Pentagon’s budget since 1998.
Imagine if welfare recipients lost even $21—they’d be called criminals.
“Poverty gets audited, war profiteers get bonuses.”
Imagine if welfare recipients lost even $21—they’d be called criminals.
“Poverty gets audited, war profiteers get bonuses.”
March 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
They tell you to “tighten your belt” while $21 trillion has gone “missing” from the Pentagon’s budget since 1998.
Imagine if welfare recipients lost even $21—they’d be called criminals.
“Poverty gets audited, war profiteers get bonuses.”
Imagine if welfare recipients lost even $21—they’d be called criminals.
“Poverty gets audited, war profiteers get bonuses.”
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Chuck Schumer Book Tour....... Cancelled.
Keep up the pressure
Keep up the pressure
March 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Chuck Schumer Book Tour....... Cancelled.
Keep up the pressure
Keep up the pressure
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What would be on your list that you would trust more than trump???😂😂😂😂
March 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
What would be on your list that you would trust more than trump???😂😂😂😂
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This strikes me as rhetorically and analytically useful - the constitutional crisis built over decades (from backlash to civil rights through Iran Contra, 2000 election, Trump 1, etc) but now it’s happened and the constitution is close to a dead letter, flatlining as @vermontgmg.bsky.social says.
We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
America's "Constitutional Crash"
This isn't "just" a crisis.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This strikes me as rhetorically and analytically useful - the constitutional crisis built over decades (from backlash to civil rights through Iran Contra, 2000 election, Trump 1, etc) but now it’s happened and the constitution is close to a dead letter, flatlining as @vermontgmg.bsky.social says.
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When Donald Trump lawlessly went after ordinary Americans, Chief Justice John Roberts didn't care.
But now that Trump is taking aim at Roberts' fellow judges, Roberts suddenly cares.
It's always the same with conservatives, they don't care until something affects them.
But now that Trump is taking aim at Roberts' fellow judges, Roberts suddenly cares.
It's always the same with conservatives, they don't care until something affects them.
March 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
When Donald Trump lawlessly went after ordinary Americans, Chief Justice John Roberts didn't care.
But now that Trump is taking aim at Roberts' fellow judges, Roberts suddenly cares.
It's always the same with conservatives, they don't care until something affects them.
But now that Trump is taking aim at Roberts' fellow judges, Roberts suddenly cares.
It's always the same with conservatives, they don't care until something affects them.
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#goodnews sprinkles for this shitty week:
🦬 11 bison transported from Yellowstone to Saskatchewan under Buffalo Treaty
🐈⬛ Cece the cat roams & watches over the Egypt’s Dendera temple
🧑🌾 Argentine farmer finds 20,000yo giant armadillo family
💫 Italian scientists turn light into a super solid
🦬 11 bison transported from Yellowstone to Saskatchewan under Buffalo Treaty
🐈⬛ Cece the cat roams & watches over the Egypt’s Dendera temple
🧑🌾 Argentine farmer finds 20,000yo giant armadillo family
💫 Italian scientists turn light into a super solid
March 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#goodnews sprinkles for this shitty week:
🦬 11 bison transported from Yellowstone to Saskatchewan under Buffalo Treaty
🐈⬛ Cece the cat roams & watches over the Egypt’s Dendera temple
🧑🌾 Argentine farmer finds 20,000yo giant armadillo family
💫 Italian scientists turn light into a super solid
🦬 11 bison transported from Yellowstone to Saskatchewan under Buffalo Treaty
🐈⬛ Cece the cat roams & watches over the Egypt’s Dendera temple
🧑🌾 Argentine farmer finds 20,000yo giant armadillo family
💫 Italian scientists turn light into a super solid
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A US president abusing state power to pressure a sovereign democracy to lift travel restrictions on two people facing rape and human tracking charges - simply because they're political supporters.
The White House is fast becoming the global epicentre of moral corruption.
www.ft.com/content/3f95...
The White House is fast becoming the global epicentre of moral corruption.
www.ft.com/content/3f95...
Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate
Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime and money laundering
www.ft.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A US president abusing state power to pressure a sovereign democracy to lift travel restrictions on two people facing rape and human tracking charges - simply because they're political supporters.
The White House is fast becoming the global epicentre of moral corruption.
www.ft.com/content/3f95...
The White House is fast becoming the global epicentre of moral corruption.
www.ft.com/content/3f95...
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The last 2 weeks have been so surreal I now believe that David Lynch may have taken over for God.
February 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The last 2 weeks have been so surreal I now believe that David Lynch may have taken over for God.
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Everyone was warned about this, and it’s happening just as we feared.
January 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Everyone was warned about this, and it’s happening just as we feared.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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"A democracy cannot function properly under threats of violence, where any dissent comes with the risk of physical retaliation. That describes Russia, and not America as we have known it." But with another Trump presidency looming, it seems as though we are slipping closer to authoritarianism.
Lessons in Fascism
Prof. Ben-Ghiat has been laying out brutal truths on why Trump is a fascist
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 31, 2024 at 8:00 PM
"A democracy cannot function properly under threats of violence, where any dissent comes with the risk of physical retaliation. That describes Russia, and not America as we have known it." But with another Trump presidency looming, it seems as though we are slipping closer to authoritarianism.
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Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024
Analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heatwaves, leaving millions prone to deadly temperatures
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is it in a nut shell 🦋
December 27, 2024 at 12:11 PM
This is it in a nut shell 🦋
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RESISTANCE NEWS
NBC is reporting that anti-Trump advocates are building a resource network with free legal and financial help for people who could be targeted by the incoming Trump administration.
NBC is reporting that anti-Trump advocates are building a resource network with free legal and financial help for people who could be targeted by the incoming Trump administration.
December 25, 2024 at 6:52 PM
RESISTANCE NEWS
NBC is reporting that anti-Trump advocates are building a resource network with free legal and financial help for people who could be targeted by the incoming Trump administration.
NBC is reporting that anti-Trump advocates are building a resource network with free legal and financial help for people who could be targeted by the incoming Trump administration.
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Since 2010, profits of top health insurers have hit a collective $371 billion.
$120 billion was funneled shareholders.
Meanwhile, half of US adults say they can’t afford an unexpected $500 medical expense.
We do not have to keep living like this.
$120 billion was funneled shareholders.
Meanwhile, half of US adults say they can’t afford an unexpected $500 medical expense.
We do not have to keep living like this.
Health Insurers’ $371 Billion Windfall
Since the Affordable Care Act’s passage, the top five health insurers’ annual profits have jumped 230 percent, with much of that going to UnitedHealthcare.
www.levernews.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Since 2010, profits of top health insurers have hit a collective $371 billion.
$120 billion was funneled shareholders.
Meanwhile, half of US adults say they can’t afford an unexpected $500 medical expense.
We do not have to keep living like this.
$120 billion was funneled shareholders.
Meanwhile, half of US adults say they can’t afford an unexpected $500 medical expense.
We do not have to keep living like this.