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Christ-follower, Reader, Wife, Mother of 6, Thrifter, Politically homeless since 2016
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A reminder.
Presidents often get too much credit - and blame - for what happens in the economy.
This one really is all Trump
Presidents often get too much credit - and blame - for what happens in the economy.
This one really is all Trump
April 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A reminder.
Presidents often get too much credit - and blame - for what happens in the economy.
This one really is all Trump
Presidents often get too much credit - and blame - for what happens in the economy.
This one really is all Trump
This is the depravity of this administration. This had nothing to do with drugs, gangs, or violence but everything to do with cruelty, malice, and incompetence.
Her husband is a US citizen and her 1 year old daughter was still breastfeeding. But she was put on a plane to Cuba with her daughter still in Tampa.
Donald Trump’s America - cruel, ruthless, anti-family. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Donald Trump’s America - cruel, ruthless, anti-family. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Tampa woman deported to Cuba gets separated from one-year-old and U.S. citizen husband
“The girl is distressed and doesn´t want to eat,” her father said.
www.miamiherald.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is the depravity of this administration. This had nothing to do with drugs, gangs, or violence but everything to do with cruelty, malice, and incompetence.
It's only a matter of time before this trampling of the 4th amendment by the Trump administration is going to run right into some citizen who is also WELL AWARE of their 2nd amendment rights and then the $#*% is really going to hit the fan.
The Justice Department quietly invoked the Alien Enemies Act last month, granting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the power to conduct warrantless searches of people’s homes based solely on suspicion that they are “alien enemies.”
April 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It's only a matter of time before this trampling of the 4th amendment by the Trump administration is going to run right into some citizen who is also WELL AWARE of their 2nd amendment rights and then the $#*% is really going to hit the fan.
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So many remarkable exchanges in the Time transcript. A less remarked upon bit is that Trump appears to learn information that has been driving markets *from the interviewer*. time.com/7280114/dona...
April 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So many remarkable exchanges in the Time transcript. A less remarked upon bit is that Trump appears to learn information that has been driving markets *from the interviewer*. time.com/7280114/dona...
Really getting a crash course on the constitution these days, but this just in: THE FOURTH ammendment STILL EXISTS.
OUTRAGEOUS. The Trump administration says it can point a finger at anyone they say is "Tren de Aragua" and then toss aside the Fourth Amendment!
There is no "Alien Enemies Act" exception to the right against unreasonable searches and seizures our ancestors fought and died for!
There is no "Alien Enemies Act" exception to the right against unreasonable searches and seizures our ancestors fought and died for!
The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy"
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
April 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Really getting a crash course on the constitution these days, but this just in: THE FOURTH ammendment STILL EXISTS.
Some of you didn't grow up reading pioneer accounts of dying or being permanently disabled from now preventable diseases and wow, does it show.
I'm thankful for the work these researchers are doing. As for me and my house, we hope never to hear the word diphtheria outside of a Little House book.
I'm thankful for the work these researchers are doing. As for me and my house, we hope never to hear the word diphtheria outside of a Little House book.
🧵1/N New study published in @jama.com on re-emergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. We model long-term risk and conditions for return to endemicity for measles, rubella, polio, & diphtheria. Collab w/ @Mathewkiang.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
April 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Some of you didn't grow up reading pioneer accounts of dying or being permanently disabled from now preventable diseases and wow, does it show.
I'm thankful for the work these researchers are doing. As for me and my house, we hope never to hear the word diphtheria outside of a Little House book.
I'm thankful for the work these researchers are doing. As for me and my house, we hope never to hear the word diphtheria outside of a Little House book.
My family has benefitted from the EITC several times and I do not begrudge it to anyone, nor do I hate the idea of a "baby bonus" or whatever. Great! Let's help families! It's hard out here.
What I DO hate is the sheer hypocrisy of those on the MAGA Right.
What I DO hate is the sheer hypocrisy of those on the MAGA Right.
The $5000 “baby bonus” is functionally very similar to the Earned Income Tax Credit except it doesn’t have the work requirement the GOP has insisted on for decades.
April 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My family has benefitted from the EITC several times and I do not begrudge it to anyone, nor do I hate the idea of a "baby bonus" or whatever. Great! Let's help families! It's hard out here.
What I DO hate is the sheer hypocrisy of those on the MAGA Right.
What I DO hate is the sheer hypocrisy of those on the MAGA Right.
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Offered as a gift article. If you care about democracy please read. Please share with others who support democracy. This is the time to stand up and be counted friends.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
www.theatlantic.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Offered as a gift article. If you care about democracy please read. Please share with others who support democracy. This is the time to stand up and be counted friends.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Me, in a nutshell.
BEING INVITED TO NOTHING: I'm ever so lonely and nobody cares about me at all
BEING INVITED TO ONE THING: omg it never ends with these people
BEING INVITED TO ONE THING: omg it never ends with these people
April 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Me, in a nutshell.
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Hot take here, but the President tweeting out "we cannot give everyone a trial" should by itself be impeachable.
April 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Hot take here, but the President tweeting out "we cannot give everyone a trial" should by itself be impeachable.
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Gee I wonder which post was formulated by staff, and which one he wrote.
Appalling.
Appalling.
April 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Gee I wonder which post was formulated by staff, and which one he wrote.
Appalling.
Appalling.
Have read so many law briefs, opinions, rulings, etc. lately that I'm starting to wonder if I should pursue a law degree once I get my children raised.
(No, I will not actually be going back to school for a law degree. But I sure admire logical, insightful writing!)
(No, I will not actually be going back to school for a law degree. But I sure admire logical, insightful writing!)
April 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Have read so many law briefs, opinions, rulings, etc. lately that I'm starting to wonder if I should pursue a law degree once I get my children raised.
(No, I will not actually be going back to school for a law degree. But I sure admire logical, insightful writing!)
(No, I will not actually be going back to school for a law degree. But I sure admire logical, insightful writing!)
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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Did you know that the founders wrote a list of 27 things we should revolt about?
Let's talk about them! 🧵
Let's talk about them! 🧵
April 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Did you know that the founders wrote a list of 27 things we should revolt about?
Let's talk about them! 🧵
Let's talk about them! 🧵
If Trump's strategy is to flood the zone, then we have to walk and chew gum at the same time. That is: we talk about all of it, as often as we can, as loudly as we can, and for as long as we can. This goes for tariffs, due process, prison camps, DOGE, SignalGate, National Parks, and ALL OF IT.
I see people arguing about “should we talk about people being disappeared to foreign labor camps, or about the effort to destroy the world’s economy bringing severe hardship to millions”, and may I humbly observe that we can talk about more than one thing
April 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If Trump's strategy is to flood the zone, then we have to walk and chew gum at the same time. That is: we talk about all of it, as often as we can, as loudly as we can, and for as long as we can. This goes for tariffs, due process, prison camps, DOGE, SignalGate, National Parks, and ALL OF IT.
More of this, everyone. Do not comply in advance. Use whatever voice and resources you have. Take pictures. Get loud. Action will look different depending on the situation but be inspired by these stories and be ready.
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
More of this, everyone. Do not comply in advance. Use whatever voice and resources you have. Take pictures. Get loud. Action will look different depending on the situation but be inspired by these stories and be ready.
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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As many of you know the Declaration of Independence contains a list of charges laid against King George by the colonists. What is old is new again. Do any of these sound familiar:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
April 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
As many of you know the Declaration of Independence contains a list of charges laid against King George by the colonists. What is old is new again. Do any of these sound familiar:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Hay-on-Wye is one of the best places on earth and that's not hyperbole. Wish I could go back.
April 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hay-on-Wye is one of the best places on earth and that's not hyperbole. Wish I could go back.
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The stages in a Donald Trump deal:
1. Lie about something being a problem
2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem
3. Say you won't reverse what you've done
4. Reverse what you've done
5. Say "Art of the deal"
1. Lie about something being a problem
2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem
3. Say you won't reverse what you've done
4. Reverse what you've done
5. Say "Art of the deal"
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The stages in a Donald Trump deal:
1. Lie about something being a problem
2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem
3. Say you won't reverse what you've done
4. Reverse what you've done
5. Say "Art of the deal"
1. Lie about something being a problem
2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem
3. Say you won't reverse what you've done
4. Reverse what you've done
5. Say "Art of the deal"
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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
—Declaration of Independence.
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
—Declaration of Independence.
April 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
…
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
—Declaration of Independence.
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
—Declaration of Independence.
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It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how utterly stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 334 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus, no trade deficit) with every country in the world.
I want to note again how completely insane you have to be for your goal to be a “bilateral trade balance of zero” with every country. Just nutso.
April 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how utterly stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 334 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus, no trade deficit) with every country in the world.
Call your congress members now. They must exercise their authority.
Trump just opened up a procedural avenue for Dems to force votes on the tariffs he announced yesterday. A quick explainer-
April 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Call your congress members now. They must exercise their authority.
This. It's exhausting.
The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.
April 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This. It's exhausting.
What opened my eyes about abortion law in the US (even as I remain pro-life)? Stories like this one. I WAS this woman, except Roe hadn't been overturned & my doctor didn't have to worry about being prosecuted for doing what was necessary before I went septic.
We can do better than this.
We can do better than this.
I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion
South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*
jessica.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What opened my eyes about abortion law in the US (even as I remain pro-life)? Stories like this one. I WAS this woman, except Roe hadn't been overturned & my doctor didn't have to worry about being prosecuted for doing what was necessary before I went septic.
We can do better than this.
We can do better than this.