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Pamela Van Halsema
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July 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Save Medicaid NOW - Final Push Phonebanks to Republican Congressmembers champ.ly/L9x3wuVf
Save Medicaid NOW - Final Push Phonebanks to Republican Congressmembers · Together for CA Health
The Republican controlled Congress and Senate are voting on budgets that will decimate Medicaid and millions of Californians will lose their healthcare - just so they can give more tax breaks to their wealthy and well-connected donors and supporters. Even people who have private insurance will feel...
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July 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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indysoco.bsky.social
🎬 Rialto's Indivisible Film Series presents
To Have and Have Not starring Bogart and Bacall
📆 July 2, 1 pm & 7 pm
Panel Discussion follows 7 pm show.
🎟️ Tickets: champ.ly/0_ACH0hP
July 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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indysoco.bsky.social
Make Your Voice Heard! "What does democracy mean to me?"
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July 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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🎬 Rialto's Indivisible Film Series presents
To Have and Have Not starring Bogart and Bacall
📆 July 2, 1 pm & 7 pm
Panel Discussion follows 7 pm show.
🎟️ Tickets: champ.ly/0_ACH0hP
June 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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indysoco.bsky.social
Join us July 8 at 7 pm for an evening with three local Sonoma County legal experts in Constitutional and Immigration law as they do a deep dive into the Trump administration’s dismantling of our legal system and ramifications on immigration and deportation. @ Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa
June 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
pjvh.bsky.social
Propose an Amendment To Delay and Disrupt the Reconciliation Bill act.indivisible.org/letter/amend...
Propose an Amendment To Delay and Disrupt the Reconciliation Bill
Senate Republicans want to vote on their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching reconciliation bill this weekend, and that means a “vote-a-rama,” when senators can propose endless changes that their...
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June 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...
Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out r...
act.indivisible.org
June 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Spreading falsehoods - www.bbc.com/news/article...
US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say
Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.
www.bbc.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Day 3 of 5 Days of Action
Saturday, May 3! 4 Marches to converge with one rally at Julliard Park, Santa Rosa
March for medical care in US &Gaza
March for Immigrants & Palestine
March for education, justice & democracy
March for DEI
Learn more: pjcsoco.org
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May 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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MAY DAY March for Worker and Immigrant Rights! 5 Days of Protest May 1-5! Organized by Community United to Resist Fascism @indivisible.org @indysoco.bsky.social pjcsoco.org #sonomacounty #mayday #santarosa #resistance
April 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Sonoma County! 5 Days of Protest May 1-5! Organized by Community United to Resist Fascism! @indivisible.org @indysoco.bsky.social pjcsoco.org
April 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Stop the deportation profit machine! Boycott Avelo Airlines!
April 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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1/2: We have reason to believe that events on 4/19 and/or the 50501 Movement may be misrepresented by the Trump admin in an attempt to justify the use of military force.

Let us be clear: our movement is pro-democracy and firmly grounded in non-violence.
April 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION.

Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students.

bit.ly/CampusLettersTally
1. Condemn the attacks on higher education, even if your own institution has not yet been singled out. 2. Legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands from the federal government. 3. Work with other universities to mount a coordinated opposition of administrators, faculty, and alumni to combat these anti-democratic attacks. Harvard University - link to sign - 840 signatures so far Stanford University - link to sign 1096 signatures so far Yale University - link to sign - 970 signatures so far Cornell University - link to sign - 505 signatures so far Boston University - link to sign - 502 signatures so far Northwestern University - link to sign - 329 signatures so far Emory - link to sign - 276 signatures so far Tufts - link to sign - 179 signatures so far Brandeis - link to sign - 110 signatures so far Suffolk University - link to sign - 91 signatures so far UW Madison - link to sign - 84 signatures so far University of North Carolina - link to sign - 70 signatures so far Washington University in Saint Louis - link to sign - 33 signatures so far SUNY Albany - link to sign - just started collecting
April 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
pjvh.bsky.social
“we officially become a dictatorship is if the Trump regime can accuse any American citizen of being so dangerous as to justify being sent to a foreign prison, without any independent court review of the regime’s evidence.
If the answer is yes, none of us is safe from the Trump regime. Robert Reich
April 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🔔 NEW! We've built a timeline tracking DOGE actions since inception—accessing sensitive data, unjustified staff removals, and reckless "efficiency" moves.

Transparency matters. See how a scalpel beats a sledgehammer every time:
https://wethebuilders.org/timeline
April 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
pjvh.bsky.social
Bible verse for the day, 1 Timothy 6:9-10. I added the last line “resist evil oligarchs” but I’m pretty sure it was implied in the original version -look it up and let me know what you think
April 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Ronan Farrow doing some remedial tutoring for JD Vance.
Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow · 11h JD Vance holds a JD from Yale Law (and so do I). Presumably, he knows that he is disregarding the law here, and being deceptive about the protections it affords. Non-citizens physically present in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It is not relevant whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is sympathetic, or how much you believe an (apparently shaky) claim from an informant that he had gang connections. The disposition of this case, based on a judge’s review of the facts, was to grant Abrego Garcia protected legal status, preventing his deportation. Abrego Garcia‘s due process rights, under the law, required the government to go back to immigration court and make the case, if they wanted to terminate that protected status. There is no good faith legal reading in which his right to due process was respected; indeed, the government has conceded that it erred, and is essentially arguing that it doesn’t matter enough to address it. This is because they assume people will not care. But everyone in the United States should care—we all depend on these basic legal rights being predictably upheld. JD Vance @JDVance Kyle Cheney, a "legal affairs reporter" is apparently unable or unwilling to look at the facts here. In 2019, an Immigration Judge (under the first Trump administration) determined that the deported man was, in fact, a member of the MS-13 gang. He also apparently had multiple traffic violations for which he failed to appear in court. A real winner. It is telling that the entire American media is going to run a propaganda operation today making you think an innocent "father of 3" was apprehended by a gulag. Here are the relevant facts: 1) The man is an illegal immigrant with no right to be in our country. 2) An immigration judge determined he was a member of the MS-13 gang. 3) Because he is not a citizen, he does not get a full jury trial by peers. In other words, whatever "due process" he was entitled to, he received.
April 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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March 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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www.tpr.org/public-healt...
West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak
Medical disinformation connected to the West Texas measles outbreak has created a new problem. Children are being treated for toxic levels of vitamin A.
www.tpr.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Is "unusual" really the best the New York Times can do?
March 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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dataagainstfascism.bsky.social
This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard.
DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
A screencap of the Tableau Dashboard "USA Disappeared Tracker" which monitors persons "disappeared" in the USA by ICE.
March 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM