Meg from WA
meg93.bsky.social
Meg from WA
@meg93.bsky.social
Genealogist, Crafter, Amateur Radio operator, Librarian
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Every Republican member of the Senate & House caused the stock market crash & predicted recession by refusing to use Congress’s constitutional authority over all tariffs to block the illegal Trump tariffs.

Tonight @ Last Word @ msnbc 10pm
April 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Biggest self-own ever to go from that to whatever this is today.
April 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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ICE actions like the Wednesday raid in Bellingham are making our communities less safe. I demand ICE and DHS respect the legal rights of the people they have taken.
April 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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ICE and DHS must immediately answer questions from myself, @jayapal.house.gov, @repdelbene.bsky.social, Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland, @repemilyrandall.bsky.social, @adamsmith.house.gov, and @repkimschrier.bsky.social.
April 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
 
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Thousands of people rallied on Saturday to protest President Trump, including his handling of the war in Ukraine, his stance on reproductive rights and the firing of federal workers. About 300 protests, organized to commemorate International Women’s Day, were scheduled around the U.S.
On International Women’s Day, Thousands Gather to Protest Trump
About 300 demonstrations were scheduled across the United States. Organizers said that Americans eager to protest considered the occasion an appropriate time to rally.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care
Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Netanyahu’s extremist government has halted ALL humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Starving children is a war crime.

UN leaders said: "International humanitarian law is clear: we must be allowed access to deliver vital lifesaving aid. We need to get aid in and the hostages out.”
March 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
February 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent.

SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.
February 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.

Stand tall against right-wing extremism.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.
CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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It is clear that data critical to genealogy (and other disciplines) is being systematically stripped from federal websites. Census Bureau data IS being removed, and census data geeks at IPUMS verify and are taking whatever steps they can to preserve the data for the future. Scary times we live in.
February 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM