Monikita
@monik222.bsky.social
I'd rather have a bleeding heart than a stone cold dead one.
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"The arguments are not so different from those used by the Bush administration during the War on Terror. At least then, though, there truly had been a foreign attack, and we were later fighting multiple real wars." www.thebulwark.com/p/military-a...
“Military” and “Foreign Policy” Are Not Magic Words to Give the Government Unrestrained Power
And the courts should make that clear.
www.thebulwark.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"The arguments are not so different from those used by the Bush administration during the War on Terror. At least then, though, there truly had been a foreign attack, and we were later fighting multiple real wars." www.thebulwark.com/p/military-a...
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NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
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After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
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It goes without saying, but this should never happen in this country. A stark example of the increasingly extreme wage discrepancy and corporate greed that’s ruining our country.
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It goes without saying, but this should never happen in this country. A stark example of the increasingly extreme wage discrepancy and corporate greed that’s ruining our country.
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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
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#PamelasFeedYourHead with we Democrats are the REAL pro-life party. We're awakened to the needs of others, well informed, thoughtful, compassionate, helpful, kind, and eager to make the world a better place for all people and animals.
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#PamelasFeedYourHead with we Democrats are the REAL pro-life party. We're awakened to the needs of others, well informed, thoughtful, compassionate, helpful, kind, and eager to make the world a better place for all people and animals.
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November 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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#PamelasFeedYourHead with we Democrats are the REAL pro-life party. We're awakened to the needs of others, well informed, thoughtful, compassionate, helpful, kind, and eager to make the world a better place for all people and animals.
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#PamelasFeedYourHead with we Democrats are the REAL pro-life party. We're awakened to the needs of others, well informed, thoughtful, compassionate, helpful, kind, and eager to make the world a better place for all people and animals.
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasTruth
I want to watch the deep dive into the practices of insurance companies and where their profits are distributed. I want to watch a special on why it's ok for our kids to be shot at in a school but there's a circus uproar when a millionaire is killed.
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasTruth
I want to watch the deep dive into the practices of insurance companies and where their profits are distributed. I want to watch a special on why it's ok for our kids to be shot at in a school but there's a circus uproar when a millionaire is killed.
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December 27, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasTruth
I want to watch the deep dive into the practices of insurance companies and where their profits are distributed. I want to watch a special on why it's ok for our kids to be shot at in a school but there's a circus uproar when a millionaire is killed.
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🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasTruth
I want to watch the deep dive into the practices of insurance companies and where their profits are distributed. I want to watch a special on why it's ok for our kids to be shot at in a school but there's a circus uproar when a millionaire is killed.
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Rape. Sex is consensual. This was adults with children.
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Rape. Sex is consensual. This was adults with children.
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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Remember when Ruben Gallego preened around over his support for the Laken Riley Act, and pundits treated him as having the magic key to Dems' working class woes?
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Remember when Ruben Gallego preened around over his support for the Laken Riley Act, and pundits treated him as having the magic key to Dems' working class woes?
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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"Literally every single word the President said was wrong... We have enormous anxiety among voters. The cost of living is rising, and people are understandably upset. I just want to be crystal clear there's not a word coming out of the man's mouth that is correct."
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Literally every single word the President said was wrong... We have enormous anxiety among voters. The cost of living is rising, and people are understandably upset. I just want to be crystal clear there's not a word coming out of the man's mouth that is correct."
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Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.
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Partnerships with ICE have been a flashpoint in sheriff’s races since the first Trump administration. A Democrat flipped a sheriff’s office in suburban Pennsylvania last week after promising to end a contract with ICE.
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Partnerships with ICE have been a flashpoint in sheriff’s races since the first Trump administration. A Democrat flipped a sheriff’s office in suburban Pennsylvania last week after promising to end a contract with ICE.
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I wrote peer-reviewed research papers about the consequences of vaccine refusal.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4...
Implications of philosophical and personal belief exemptions on re-emergence of vaccine-preventable disease: The role of spatial clustering in under-vaccination
Vaccine exemption policies vary by state, and it has been demonstrated that easier protocols for personal/ philosophical belief exemptions are associated with lower vaccine coverage at the state le...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I wrote peer-reviewed research papers about the consequences of vaccine refusal.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4...
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I was very vocal in the press about the harms of groups like the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a well known source of vaccine disinformation.
I called Clear Channel and demanded they remove this billboard.
I called Clear Channel and demanded they remove this billboard.
Vaccine billboard in Tucson misleads, health officials say
A billboard along Interstate 10 is disingenuous and misleading parents about childhood vaccinations, some local public health officials say.
tucson.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I was very vocal in the press about the harms of groups like the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a well known source of vaccine disinformation.
I called Clear Channel and demanded they remove this billboard.
I called Clear Channel and demanded they remove this billboard.
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The people STILL have power!
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The people STILL have power!
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NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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Only Donald Trump could assert, in all seriousness, that the most important factor in a superpower's military might is ... branding.
Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Only Donald Trump could assert, in all seriousness, that the most important factor in a superpower's military might is ... branding.
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This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
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