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Renate Rapp
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Jersey girl now living in southwestern Virginia!
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Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!
October 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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*Many more neighbors were affected, but you won't get tallies on those numbers from the media because they don't get free ambulance rides and a PR team to issue statements on their behalf
27 police officers were among those injured by tear gas during a weekend protest, Chicago’s top cop says. blockclubchi.co/4nGOb0m
October 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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🖋️ “No Budget Without Healthcare Protection, Epstein Files, and Fiscal Control” hit 1,000 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PFPWUB to 50409
No Budget Without Healthcare Protection, Epstein Files, and Fiscal Control
Text SIGN PFPWUB to 50409 — As you negotiate the federal budget, I urge you to make three non-negotiable demands. First, protect the health and financial stability of millions of Americans by extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. If these expire, families across the country will face devastating premium hikes, higher copays, and impossible deductibles. Healthcare should not be a political bargaining chip — it is a lifeline for hard-working Americans who play by the rules. Second, Congress must insist on transparency and justice by releasing the full, unredacted Epstein files. For too long, powerful people have been shielded from scrutiny while ordinary citizens are held accountable. The American people — left, right, and center — are tired of double standards that protect elites. The victims of Epstein’s crimes deserve justice, and the nation deserves the truth. Third, Congress must address President Trump’s ongoing violation of the Constitution. For every day of his second term, he has impounded funds that Congress lawfully appropriated — refusing to spend money as required under Article II’s command to “faithfully execute the laws.” This is not politics; it is a breach of constitutional duty that alone warrants impeachment. Passing any budget without confronting this lawlessness only rewards defiance of the Framers’ design. We cannot allow the media’s “blame game” to obscure the real stakes. This shutdown is not simply about political points — it is about whether families can afford healthcare, whether victims of abuse get justice, whether Congress will defend its constitutional role, and whether federal workers can keep food on their tables. These are bread-and-butter issues for millions of Americans who don’t care about spin, only results. Finally, the president’s decision to post a racist AI-generated deepfake video mocking Schumer and Jeffries is beneath the dignity of the office. It was not just an attack on two lawmakers; it was an insult to the American people, especially Latino and Black Americans. Our leaders must not tolerate this toxic distraction from the urgent work of governing. Congress has a simple choice: side with American families and the Constitution, or side with secrecy, corruption, and billionaire donors. A budget that ignores healthcare, truth, and constitutional duty fails the nation. No budget should pass without these commitments.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Truly proud of our top military leaders for holding steady and keeping an apolitical face, even when the pressure couldn’t be greater.
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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What's happening with ICE in Chicagoland today:

Federal agents continue terrorizing Back of the Yards, Broadview mayor and police chief held a presser, and neighbors in South Shore late night were startled awake by a raid on an apartment with stun grenades.
Feds in moving vans raid South Shore apartment overnight; Broadview officials condemn ICE assaults • The TRiiBE
Here's a roundup of federal agent sightings for Sept. 30
thetriibe.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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We should be looking for the missing Alligator Auschwitz detainees at Fort Bliss in Montana.

Why is not one allowed to do an audit of who is actually there?
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Federal employees should never be used as political pawns in shutdown negotiations.
September 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Lol ok
September 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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ICE has threatened a “sh*t show” in Broadview today, per a village statement.

“ICE is seeking to intimidate the Village of Broadview because we dared exercise our 1st Amendment constitutional rights calling for an end to their war on Broadview. We will not be intimidated. We are Broadview strong.”
September 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Our aerial teams are always on call – not just for wildlife emergencies, but for wildfires too.

It’s also fire season in Tsavo. Wildfires can devastate entire ecosystems, destroying habitats for both animals and people. That’s why, whenever we can, we help stop the flames in their tracks.
September 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🔥 Top Campaigns, Last 24 Hours:

1️⃣ “ICE Brutality and Deaths Demand Oversight” (+4,058)
2️⃣ “Pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act — End the Distractions” (+334)
3️⃣ “Hold Hearings on DOJ’s Closure of the Tom Homan $50,000 Cash Bag Case” (+289)
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September 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Anlässlich des #safeabortionday wurde beim Spiel gegen Bayer 04 Haltung gezeigt. Das Bündnis für sexuelle Selbstbestimmung Hamburg​ hat Transparente gemeinsam mit dem AK Awareness organisiert - gegen die Kriminalisierung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen und für die Streichung von §218 StGB.

#fcsp
September 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Covered Bridge #Photography
September 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It’s #SerotoninSunday!

🍾The trial against Kansas’s absurd abortion restrictions has begun! We have high hopes that any judge will see from a mile away that forcing doctors to peddle lies like “abortion causes cancer” is twisted as hell, and more importantly: UNCONSTITUTIONAL. bit.ly/4nsoDUM
September 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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FUN FACT: the time for a shutdown was back in January when Schumer and the Dems caved to allow the Big Beautiful Betrayal to happen.

Those 10 Senate Dems betrayed every one of us because they didn’t have the nerve to weather political backlash.

So they are going to try it now, which is whatever.
September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.
September 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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He’s going to blow up the entire country to prevent the release of the Epstein files, isn’t he
September 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Boss v Leader

#Inequality
#Hierarchy
#Econsky

Be a leader.
September 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100
George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100
Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.
www.nbcnews.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.
September 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Finally, a mustache that screams both “bar fight“ and ”war crime.”
September 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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It’s clear that neither Congress nor the Supreme Court will stop Trump from illegally using the military against his own people. Many warn this obsession is already weakening the country, while real foreign threats grow,
September 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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"It's absurd to think that … the government of the United States that [the people] pay for, that they vote for, is really in service of one man. ... He is using every arm of the government to create pleasure for himself … and also to seek vengeance upon his enemies."
September 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
September 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM