Lori Hein
@lorihein.bsky.social
Southern Minnesotan. Former Floridian. Catholic Christian. May share photography, write about faith & grief. Looking for rays of hope for our country amidst the gathering storm clouds of authoritarianism.
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We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.
We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
June 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.
We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
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Official CBO analysis confirms the obvious: House Republican tax and budget bill isn't shared sacrifice.
It makes poor people poorer and rich people richer. It does this by cutting health care & nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the wealthy.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
It makes poor people poorer and rich people richer. It does this by cutting health care & nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the wealthy.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
May 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Official CBO analysis confirms the obvious: House Republican tax and budget bill isn't shared sacrifice.
It makes poor people poorer and rich people richer. It does this by cutting health care & nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the wealthy.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
It makes poor people poorer and rich people richer. It does this by cutting health care & nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the wealthy.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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In an era that looked as if it might be defined by an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption & shame, what a magnificent thing the Catholic Church has done. The elevation of an American man of goodness, grace, humility, mercy & faith to the Throne of St. Peter is moving & momentous for us all.
May 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In an era that looked as if it might be defined by an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption & shame, what a magnificent thing the Catholic Church has done. The elevation of an American man of goodness, grace, humility, mercy & faith to the Throne of St. Peter is moving & momentous for us all.
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Wow, wow, wow
Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum:
"The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States."
Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!
Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum:
"The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States."
Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!
May 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Wow, wow, wow
Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum:
"The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States."
Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!
Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum:
"The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States."
Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!
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"Pertussis, or whooping cough, is now spreading at a rate the U.S. hasn’t seen since vaccines were introduced in 1948."
It's No Coincidence. Public health funding is being slashed. Vaccine misinformation is spreading. Fewer people are getting vaccinated.
This is the result.
It's No Coincidence. Public health funding is being slashed. Vaccine misinformation is spreading. Fewer people are getting vaccinated.
This is the result.
It's not just measles. Major leadership failure by RFK Jr and pertussis is raging!
Op Ed nurses @donnagaffney.bsky.social and @nurseteria.bsky.social published today in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
@justin-gill.bsky.social
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/add-...
Op Ed nurses @donnagaffney.bsky.social and @nurseteria.bsky.social published today in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
@justin-gill.bsky.social
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/add-...
Leadership and vaccination are needed as whooping cough cases surge | Op-Ed
Unlike his predecessors, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has yet to launch a national immunization campaign as the threat of preventable diseases grows.
www.seattletimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"Pertussis, or whooping cough, is now spreading at a rate the U.S. hasn’t seen since vaccines were introduced in 1948."
It's No Coincidence. Public health funding is being slashed. Vaccine misinformation is spreading. Fewer people are getting vaccinated.
This is the result.
It's No Coincidence. Public health funding is being slashed. Vaccine misinformation is spreading. Fewer people are getting vaccinated.
This is the result.
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“It is often the privileged, the safest people on earth, who are least capable of courage. They fear, as Brecht put it, that ‘to displease the possessors means to become one of the dispossessed.’”
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
The Politics of Courage
The young and vulnerable are risking their futures. Why aren’t their elders?
nymag.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“It is often the privileged, the safest people on earth, who are least capable of courage. They fear, as Brecht put it, that ‘to displease the possessors means to become one of the dispossessed.’”
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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"The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule (EG 56).” #PopeFrancis
May 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule (EG 56).” #PopeFrancis
Just the very suggestion is so deeply repugnant on soooo many levels.
April 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Just the very suggestion is so deeply repugnant on soooo many levels.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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ActBlue is basically Venmo for political donations. It’s a payment processor that:
~ securely moves $
~ doesn’t decide where the $ goes (the user does)
~ processes the transaction, like Venmo helps move $ to friends
Trump isn’t fighting fraud. Just your ability to participate.
~ securely moves $
~ doesn’t decide where the $ goes (the user does)
~ processes the transaction, like Venmo helps move $ to friends
Trump isn’t fighting fraud. Just your ability to participate.
April 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
ActBlue is basically Venmo for political donations. It’s a payment processor that:
~ securely moves $
~ doesn’t decide where the $ goes (the user does)
~ processes the transaction, like Venmo helps move $ to friends
Trump isn’t fighting fraud. Just your ability to participate.
~ securely moves $
~ doesn’t decide where the $ goes (the user does)
~ processes the transaction, like Venmo helps move $ to friends
Trump isn’t fighting fraud. Just your ability to participate.
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Trump is doing bad things. On the economy, on foreign policy, and the Rule of Law. With nowhere near majority support. Too many people on the right fear the left more. Now is the time the left and the right must rally for the best of America and reject this binary.
April 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Trump is doing bad things. On the economy, on foreign policy, and the Rule of Law. With nowhere near majority support. Too many people on the right fear the left more. Now is the time the left and the right must rally for the best of America and reject this binary.
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"Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself; and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other, no matter how hard it is." #PopeFrancis
April 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself; and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other, no matter how hard it is." #PopeFrancis
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After meeting with Khalil today, his story reminds us that this betrayal and experience should have never happened. We have a moral obligation to stand with and unequivocally call out the injustices Mahmoud Khalil and too many others are suffering from at the hand of this administration.
April 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
After meeting with Khalil today, his story reminds us that this betrayal and experience should have never happened. We have a moral obligation to stand with and unequivocally call out the injustices Mahmoud Khalil and too many others are suffering from at the hand of this administration.
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
April 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
April 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
April 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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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 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.