Lara
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This is important for all the advocates who have been calling, texting, rallying to #ProtectMedicaid
@RonWyden and @HawleyMO introduce BI-PARTISAN amendment to the #BudgetResolution to STRIKE the budget instruction for the $880 billion cut to #Medicaid
KEEP UP THE PRESSURE We can #SaveMedicaid
@RonWyden and @HawleyMO introduce BI-PARTISAN amendment to the #BudgetResolution to STRIKE the budget instruction for the $880 billion cut to #Medicaid
KEEP UP THE PRESSURE We can #SaveMedicaid
April 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is important for all the advocates who have been calling, texting, rallying to #ProtectMedicaid
@RonWyden and @HawleyMO introduce BI-PARTISAN amendment to the #BudgetResolution to STRIKE the budget instruction for the $880 billion cut to #Medicaid
KEEP UP THE PRESSURE We can #SaveMedicaid
@RonWyden and @HawleyMO introduce BI-PARTISAN amendment to the #BudgetResolution to STRIKE the budget instruction for the $880 billion cut to #Medicaid
KEEP UP THE PRESSURE We can #SaveMedicaid
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turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness
April 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness
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This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in "these are times that try men's souls" and everyone's principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered?
People Have the Power: Week Whatever of the Stupid Coup and the Pushback
I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk's estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in "these are times that try men's souls" and everyone's principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered?
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Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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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...
There are lots more important things in this world, but hoo, baby, these Minnesota Love is Blind people are boooooooooringgggg.
March 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There are lots more important things in this world, but hoo, baby, these Minnesota Love is Blind people are boooooooooringgggg.
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Mahmoud Khalil's rights should be defended for their own sake, and for his unborn child's sake, but they should also be defended on principle and for all of our sakes. The slope is slippery; the rights are crucial.
if you as an American Jew do not want to be used as the excuse for Trump's destruction of civil liberties and basic democratic protections, the time to speak out is right now
March 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Mahmoud Khalil's rights should be defended for their own sake, and for his unborn child's sake, but they should also be defended on principle and for all of our sakes. The slope is slippery; the rights are crucial.
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The job of the government isn’t to “produce federal revenue” the job is meeting the needs of the people. Refuse to engage in a debate about the profitability of providing people’s needs through public resources.
Greene: Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paycheck
February 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The job of the government isn’t to “produce federal revenue” the job is meeting the needs of the people. Refuse to engage in a debate about the profitability of providing people’s needs through public resources.
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BREAKING: Acting Social Security administrator Dudek has just abolished SSA’s CREO department and put all employees on leave. That’s SSA’s statutory civil rights and equal opportunity division.
Developing story.
Developing story.
February 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
BREAKING: Acting Social Security administrator Dudek has just abolished SSA’s CREO department and put all employees on leave. That’s SSA’s statutory civil rights and equal opportunity division.
Developing story.
Developing story.
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I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.
February 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.
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No fights are the wrong fight to pick. Pick every fight. Fight these fascist fuckers every time about everything. Fight them even when they aren't fighting. If they run away, chase them and keep fighting them until they beg to stop and then fight even harder.
February 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
No fights are the wrong fight to pick. Pick every fight. Fight these fascist fuckers every time about everything. Fight them even when they aren't fighting. If they run away, chase them and keep fighting them until they beg to stop and then fight even harder.
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With this piece, @andrewperez.bsky.social / i wanted to get across just how stupid the Elon/Trump constitutional crisis is
The power grab is enforced by a “little nerd army” that uses as their main weapon a threat to call Musk—not Trump;not anyone elected. Elon: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The power grab is enforced by a “little nerd army” that uses as their main weapon a threat to call Musk—not Trump;not anyone elected. Elon: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
DOGE's 'Nerd Army' Is Breaking the Government by Threatening to Snitch to Elon
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s power grab — and burgeoning constitutional crisis — has been built on threats by the DOGE team to call the Tesla CEO.
www.rollingstone.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
With this piece, @andrewperez.bsky.social / i wanted to get across just how stupid the Elon/Trump constitutional crisis is
The power grab is enforced by a “little nerd army” that uses as their main weapon a threat to call Musk—not Trump;not anyone elected. Elon: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The power grab is enforced by a “little nerd army” that uses as their main weapon a threat to call Musk—not Trump;not anyone elected. Elon: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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“The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is stealing money from you to put in his pocket” has to be the easiest political argument ever www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is stealing money from you to put in his pocket” has to be the easiest political argument ever www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.
February 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.
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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist
Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance
Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance
February 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist
Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance
Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance
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Until Democrats correctly label Republicans as the source of the problem, there will not be sufficient pressure for them to change. And while Musk is the despotic supervillain at the heart of this coup, elected Republicans in Congress are the handmaids of his tyranny.
February 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Until Democrats correctly label Republicans as the source of the problem, there will not be sufficient pressure for them to change. And while Musk is the despotic supervillain at the heart of this coup, elected Republicans in Congress are the handmaids of his tyranny.
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alt headline: enemy of constitutional government installed in white house www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead White House budget office
The fiscal conservative returns to the post he held in President Donald Trump’s first administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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When a kid with ties to Russian and Nazi hackers dumps data from our most sensitive systems, we should demand the New York Times screams about it.
NYT knows how to make computer server security an issue. They did that to get Trump elected in 2016. They choose not to now.
NYT knows how to make computer server security an issue. They did that to get Trump elected in 2016. They choose not to now.
I suppose we're supposed to assume that when guys like BigBalls Coristine (who, according to Wired's reporting, has links to Russian and Nazi hackers) get access to the servers at the Dept of Energy (responsible for our nuclear program) that we should just trust they'll handle that info responsibly.
February 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
When a kid with ties to Russian and Nazi hackers dumps data from our most sensitive systems, we should demand the New York Times screams about it.
NYT knows how to make computer server security an issue. They did that to get Trump elected in 2016. They choose not to now.
NYT knows how to make computer server security an issue. They did that to get Trump elected in 2016. They choose not to now.