Michelle Steffes
@michellesteffes.bsky.social
Director of FOR WHEN YOU GET LOST. Mom of kids. Proud Angeleno. Fan of not dismantling the Department of Education.
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This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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everybody, Little Lobbyists is in DC working directly on the politicians to save Medicaid — if you’re looking for a place to donate that makes an impact, this is the one
this is the work that Little Lobbyists does: they go to DC, whole families w/ their disabled kids, and force senators and reps to look their kids in the face. & the better politicians have used this to protect medicaid before. they're there right now.
they need donations:
they need donations:
Little Lobbyists
Little Lobbyists is a 501(c)(4) family-led organization advocating for children with complex medical needs and disabilities
littlelobbyists.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
everybody, Little Lobbyists is in DC working directly on the politicians to save Medicaid — if you’re looking for a place to donate that makes an impact, this is the one
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maybe it's a weakness in my character but I'll never be able to forgive my fellow Americans for any of this
it's just never going to happen
it's just never going to happen
Trump in front of the migrant cages at DeSantis's camp: "Biden wanted me in here, that son of a bitch."
July 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
maybe it's a weakness in my character but I'll never be able to forgive my fellow Americans for any of this
it's just never going to happen
it's just never going to happen
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Immigrants founded some of the city’s longest-running and most influential restaurants.These are 18 immigrant-founded restaurants in L.A. from our Hall of Fame list. https://www.latimes.com/food/list/support-immigrant-founded-restaurants-hall-of-fame-guide?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
18 immigrant-founded restaurants in L.A. from our Hall of Fame list
Immigrant cuisines form the backbone of L.A.'s food scenes. Here are 18 spots to support from the Hall of Fame guide.
www.latimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Immigrants founded some of the city’s longest-running and most influential restaurants.These are 18 immigrant-founded restaurants in L.A. from our Hall of Fame list. https://www.latimes.com/food/list/support-immigrant-founded-restaurants-hall-of-fame-guide?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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Melissa Hortman was only 55 years old. She had a lot more to do. It is so bitter and so sad that her life was taken - assassinated for fighting for what she believed in.
It will now be up to us to carry on these fights.
It will now be up to us to carry on these fights.
June 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Melissa Hortman was only 55 years old. She had a lot more to do. It is so bitter and so sad that her life was taken - assassinated for fighting for what she believed in.
It will now be up to us to carry on these fights.
It will now be up to us to carry on these fights.
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
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🚨I’m here with @RepLuzRivas, @RepNormaTorres & @RepLouCorrea at the Roybal Federal Building exercising our Congressional authority to investigate ICE’s inhumane detention of immigrant families—including moms & kids held after routine check-ins. No beds. No food. No water.
We are demanding answers.
We are demanding answers.
June 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🚨I’m here with @RepLuzRivas, @RepNormaTorres & @RepLouCorrea at the Roybal Federal Building exercising our Congressional authority to investigate ICE’s inhumane detention of immigrant families—including moms & kids held after routine check-ins. No beds. No food. No water.
We are demanding answers.
We are demanding answers.
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Let me be clear: unannounced DHS visits to our elementary schools is NOT how we protect kids — it’s how you terrorize families and destroy public trust.
Outraged senators urge DHS to end ‘welfare checks’ following unannounced L.A. school visits
Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) demand Homeland Security Investigations provide more answers after meeting with officials over the LAUSD incident.
www.latimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Let me be clear: unannounced DHS visits to our elementary schools is NOT how we protect kids — it’s how you terrorize families and destroy public trust.
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Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
June 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
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So FUN to see the miniature effects for ‘Bullet Train Explosion’ -->
Watch this behind the scenes featurette from Netflix, plus other VFX and LED wall breakdowns, at befores & afters.
beforesandafters.com/2025/05/17/s...
Watch this behind the scenes featurette from Netflix, plus other VFX and LED wall breakdowns, at befores & afters.
beforesandafters.com/2025/05/17/s...
May 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
So FUN to see the miniature effects for ‘Bullet Train Explosion’ -->
Watch this behind the scenes featurette from Netflix, plus other VFX and LED wall breakdowns, at befores & afters.
beforesandafters.com/2025/05/17/s...
Watch this behind the scenes featurette from Netflix, plus other VFX and LED wall breakdowns, at befores & afters.
beforesandafters.com/2025/05/17/s...
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Given the likely economic + political landscape of the 2026 midterms, we could flip state leg seats (& possibly chambers) all across the country IF we run great candidates, even in places that might seem like longshots. @runforsomething.net would love to help you run. runforwhat.net to get started.
May 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Given the likely economic + political landscape of the 2026 midterms, we could flip state leg seats (& possibly chambers) all across the country IF we run great candidates, even in places that might seem like longshots. @runforsomething.net would love to help you run. runforwhat.net to get started.
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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the book "Administrative Burdens" and it's just objectively untrue that no one will face "unnecessary burdens" b/c
*non-citizens almost never vote!
*About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents
SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.
*non-citizens almost never vote!
*About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents
SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.
Maine's voting culture is the best in the nation. I am confident that under the SAVE Act, our state can both ensure that only citizens can cast ballots and that no one faces unnecessary barriers to registering to vote.
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the book "Administrative Burdens" and it's just objectively untrue that no one will face "unnecessary burdens" b/c
*non-citizens almost never vote!
*About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents
SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.
*non-citizens almost never vote!
*About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents
SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.
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Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For some disabled protestors, “Hands Off” went virtual
"We know we have to teach everyone how to include us."
www.motherjones.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This is what democracy looks like! AMAZING turnout today as THOUSANDS of North Carolinians unite in downtown Raleigh as part of the nationwide Hands Off rallies, speaking up for the freedoms of all people and protesting against the attacks on our democracy by Trump and Musk.
April 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is what democracy looks like! AMAZING turnout today as THOUSANDS of North Carolinians unite in downtown Raleigh as part of the nationwide Hands Off rallies, speaking up for the freedoms of all people and protesting against the attacks on our democracy by Trump and Musk.
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“The work now is to try to name the whole apparatus of the trap—not just the bait but the springs behind it, the metal jaws above and below, the cage we see in this video and the one that awaits.”— @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait
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March 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“The work now is to try to name the whole apparatus of the trap—not just the bait but the springs behind it, the metal jaws above and below, the cage we see in this video and the one that awaits.”— @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait
slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait
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"'The Postal Service is the only entity that delivers to every address in the country, no matter how remote. If we privatize it, those rural customers will be left behind,' warns Tony McKinnon, president of the NC Council of the APWU."
Fayetteville postal workers set to protest threats to dismantle postal service
Postal workers are rallying Thursday in Fayetteville against the postmaster's restructuring plan and a controversial agreement with DOGE.
www.yahoo.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"'The Postal Service is the only entity that delivers to every address in the country, no matter how remote. If we privatize it, those rural customers will be left behind,' warns Tony McKinnon, president of the NC Council of the APWU."
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Me, sitting in a boat with my enemy, who is currently drilling holes in the bottom: "Never interrupt your enemy while he is making [gurgling sounds as we sink beneath the waves]"
March 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Me, sitting in a boat with my enemy, who is currently drilling holes in the bottom: "Never interrupt your enemy while he is making [gurgling sounds as we sink beneath the waves]"
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Warnock on whether he’s no on the bill AND cloture, says “If I weren’t a preacher, I’d tell you what kind of ‘no.’”
March 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Warnock on whether he’s no on the bill AND cloture, says “If I weren’t a preacher, I’d tell you what kind of ‘no.’”
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a thing about this list is that it passes the CR with the votes of safe seat and retiring Democrats, in an attempt to protect frontliners not from general-election threats but rather their own primary electorates.
schumer's protecting them from you, not the general election.
schumer's protecting them from you, not the general election.
Don't take this as gospel. It's not official. It's a very knowledgable source's best understanding of the situation. This persons likely Yeses on cloture are. Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand.
March 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
a thing about this list is that it passes the CR with the votes of safe seat and retiring Democrats, in an attempt to protect frontliners not from general-election threats but rather their own primary electorates.
schumer's protecting them from you, not the general election.
schumer's protecting them from you, not the general election.
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I am on my way home from Uganda.
The end of US-AID stopped IRS spray teams (for malaria) in the middle of their work.
There’s a mad scramble to figure out how to get the job finished.
This was extremely wasteful, and it’s an utterly ridiculous way to run anything. Efficiency my ass.
The end of US-AID stopped IRS spray teams (for malaria) in the middle of their work.
There’s a mad scramble to figure out how to get the job finished.
This was extremely wasteful, and it’s an utterly ridiculous way to run anything. Efficiency my ass.
March 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I am on my way home from Uganda.
The end of US-AID stopped IRS spray teams (for malaria) in the middle of their work.
There’s a mad scramble to figure out how to get the job finished.
This was extremely wasteful, and it’s an utterly ridiculous way to run anything. Efficiency my ass.
The end of US-AID stopped IRS spray teams (for malaria) in the middle of their work.
There’s a mad scramble to figure out how to get the job finished.
This was extremely wasteful, and it’s an utterly ridiculous way to run anything. Efficiency my ass.
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📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally.
The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally.
The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.