Kathi McAvena
@kmac18.bsky.social
Brooklyn Boomer, Warren Democrat 🗽
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting.
The president lacks the authority to take either step.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The president lacks the authority to take either step.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Says He Plans to Issue Unconstitutional Order Requiring Voter ID and Banning Mail Ballots
Trump Says He Plans to Issue Unconstitutional Order Requiring Voter ID and Banning Mail Ballots
www.democracydocket.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting.
The president lacks the authority to take either step.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The president lacks the authority to take either step.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel
[from our @climatedesk.org partners, @grist.org]
[from our @climatedesk.org partners, @grist.org]
Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel
The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.
www.motherjones.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel
[from our @climatedesk.org partners, @grist.org]
[from our @climatedesk.org partners, @grist.org]
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REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package?
MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet
REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
July 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package?
MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet
REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
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Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."
May 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
May 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
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New in PN: "Elbows up," explained by a Canadian
"There’s now a sense that this kind of big brother who was benevolent and benign and often protective is now a predator, an abuser. That’s shaken Canadians."
"There’s now a sense that this kind of big brother who was benevolent and benign and often protective is now a predator, an abuser. That’s shaken Canadians."
"Elbows up," explained by a Canadian
"Take off the gloves and get ready for a fight. It’s a defensive posture. You protect your territory."
www.publicnotice.co
April 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New in PN: "Elbows up," explained by a Canadian
"There’s now a sense that this kind of big brother who was benevolent and benign and often protective is now a predator, an abuser. That’s shaken Canadians."
"There’s now a sense that this kind of big brother who was benevolent and benign and often protective is now a predator, an abuser. That’s shaken Canadians."
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You can’t resist the resistance.
The survey found that among Democratic likely voters in the 2028 New York primary:
• 55% leaned AOC
• 36% leaned Schumer
• 9% were undecided
This is just the latest sign that Schumer’s standing among the Democratic base has taken a hit: politi.co/43FMOI6
📷 Francis Chung / POLITICO
• 55% leaned AOC
• 36% leaned Schumer
• 9% were undecided
This is just the latest sign that Schumer’s standing among the Democratic base has taken a hit: politi.co/43FMOI6
📷 Francis Chung / POLITICO
April 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
You can’t resist the resistance.
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RAND PAUL: “.. When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [the GOP] lost 50 percent of their seats in the next election. When [Smoot and Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years.”
@washingtonpost.com
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April 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
RAND PAUL: “.. When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [the GOP] lost 50 percent of their seats in the next election. When [Smoot and Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years.”
@washingtonpost.com
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@washingtonpost.com
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Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."
March 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."
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You know, I watched Sen. Schumer on Chris Hayes and really tried to hear him defend his actions in good faith, but by the end of their discussion, it just felt impossible for me to avoid this very deep sense of dangerous foreboding. Big "tempting fate" energy in the worse way. Honestly scary.
March 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
You know, I watched Sen. Schumer on Chris Hayes and really tried to hear him defend his actions in good faith, but by the end of their discussion, it just felt impossible for me to avoid this very deep sense of dangerous foreboding. Big "tempting fate" energy in the worse way. Honestly scary.
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Schumer is positively humiliating himself on Chris Hayes.
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Schumer is positively humiliating himself on Chris Hayes.
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Chuck Schumer on Chris Hayes is proving as much as ever that he needs to go. His plan is to wait until Trump’s approval rating goes down and then… ?
March 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Chuck Schumer on Chris Hayes is proving as much as ever that he needs to go. His plan is to wait until Trump’s approval rating goes down and then… ?
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHAT THE FUCK, CHUCK?
March 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHAT THE FUCK, CHUCK?
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Merkley: "The best time to take on a tyrant is as early as possible. And this is the moment."
March 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Merkley: "The best time to take on a tyrant is as early as possible. And this is the moment."
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NOW: Almost 100 people are outside the home of @schumer.senate.gov calling on him to vote NO on cloture and NO on the disastrous Trump-Musk budget
March 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
NOW: Almost 100 people are outside the home of @schumer.senate.gov calling on him to vote NO on cloture and NO on the disastrous Trump-Musk budget
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I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
March 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
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i know this is a lil ~controversial in some circles but I love a protest at a powerful public figure's home
it's givin I DIDN'T GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF Y'ALL. Y'ALL NOT GON GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF ME
it's givin I DIDN'T GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF Y'ALL. Y'ALL NOT GON GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF ME
March 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
i know this is a lil ~controversial in some circles but I love a protest at a powerful public figure's home
it's givin I DIDN'T GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF Y'ALL. Y'ALL NOT GON GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF ME
it's givin I DIDN'T GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF Y'ALL. Y'ALL NOT GON GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF ME
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