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Renee Ross Pratta
@reneepratta.bsky.social
Married for 53 years, a Mom of six, grandmom of 13.
Have lived NYC-NJ-CA-MD-TX-SC and 8 more! Now AZ!
I “used” to be proud that I had worked at WAPO until Bezos!
Down after the election, but scraping myself up to RESIST again!
🚫DM’s!
🚫MAGA
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Democrats look to expand on their record number of female governors next year. With Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger's electoral wins in New Jersey and Virginia, 10 Democratic women will be leading states in 2026. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Democrats look to expand on their record number of female governors next year
With Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger's electoral wins in New Jersey and Virginia, 10 Democratic women will be leading states in 2026.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#CasaGrandeAZ NO KINGS!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Your tax dollars and mine are being used to thank President Trump. That’s right, the biggest political ad spender of 2025 is DHS using your money.
www.axios.com/2025/10/15/t...
U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign
The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.
www.axios.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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"That's not what the vast majority of the country wants when they talk about the fact that they want stronger borders," says @radleybalko.bsky.social of ICE's aggressive tactics caught on videos online. They are "an extremely powerful tool." #Velshi
Caught on camera: ICE tactics intensify despite disturbing videos surfacing across the U.S.
What does “minimum force” really look like? New videos surface showing ICE agents making arrests in broad daylight, near schools, in front of children, and on busy streets. The videos show federal agents intensifying their aggressive tactics in America’s big cities. Writer Radley Balko says, "The fact that we all have a camera in our pockets, and we have instant access to share these videos with the world, is an extremely powerful tool… These videos are having an effect."
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October 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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September 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Racial profiling, court-approved. The Supreme Court just made your 4th Amendment rights depend on what you look like.

Trump’s police state is here, courtesy of SCOTUS. #Velshi
Supreme Court greenlights racial profiling, shreds the Fourth Amendment
This week, the Supreme Court gave ICE the green light to racially profile people during immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, undermining the Fourth Amendment’s core protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Using the shadow docket—without hearings or explanation—the Court effectively declared that constitutional rights sometimes depend on what you look like.
www.msnbc.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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It's getting harder to shock America, but Trump managed this weekend with a crude, fiery threat to wage war on Chicago

But a massive street protest Saturday, backed by a strong governor, shows Chicago isn't having it

Did Trump pick the wrong fight? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Trump wants to make war on Chicago. He picked the wrong fight
President Trump's stunning online threat against America's third-largest city will test the power of the resistance.
www.inquirer.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Cleta will get even madder if you read and share this article. So, please, don't do that...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Cleta Mitchell Thinks Trump Will Use Emergency Powers to Take Control of Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Trump's fears about getting into Heaven didn't stop him from playing God himself and summarily executing 11 people on a boat who may have been drug dealers or might have been innocent migrants

The president wants you to know he can murder with impunity. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Trump won’t get to heaven if he keeps murdering people on boats | Will Bunch
There was no legal or moral justification for the Trump-ordered boat bombing that killed 11 Venezuelans. It could be just the start.
www.inquirer.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Quiz: Choose the Real Headline... and mock the "real one" open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Quiz: Choose the Real Headline
In which The Wall Street Journal manages to sell out
open.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Veterans begin 24-7 “sit-in” in Washington DC at Union Station over deployment of National Guard Soldiers to fight “crime emergency.” They call on all Veterans to join them and vow to remain for the duration despite several arrests on questionable offenses.
dcmediagroup.us/2025/09/02/v...
Veterans Stand Ground At Union Station; Tell President Take National Guard Out Of DC - DCMediaGroup
Washington, DC—”Not on Our Watch” is the message Veterans’ are sending the President. The two beige Humvees parked on the bricks looked like they belonged at a military base instead of outside Union S...
dcmediagroup.us
September 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
September 3, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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It’s time for Democratic leaders to fight or step aside for those who will.
In the face of a would-be strongman, and incredible energy from rank-and-file voters, senior leaders of the Democratic Party in Washington still cannot seem to find the front of the battle line www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Ali Velshi: It's time for Democratic leaders to fight — or step aside for those who will
In the face of a would-be strongman, the leadership of the Democratic Party cannot seem to find the front of the battle line.
www.msnbc.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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For decades, we’ve been told that prosperity trickles down. But it hasn’t, it’s been sucked upward. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Ali Velshi: The dwindling of America's middle class wasn't inevitable; it was a policy choice.
An economy that works for everyone isn’t a fantasy; it’s a choice. We’ve just been making the wrong one. Now it’s time for America to choose better.
www.msnbc.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Budget cuts made it “challenging to do my work,” says Dr. Jennifer Layden, a fmr. CDC official who resigned this week. “The work of public health often goes unnoticed until there is a major outbreak,” says Layden, which makes Trump and RFK Jr’s undermining of the CDC so risky. #Velshi
'Public health should be bipartisan:' Fmr. CDC official on resignation as RFK Jr. pressures agency
Dr. Jennifer Layden was the Director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for five years until this week, when she became one of four senior CDC officials to resign amid budget cuts and increased political pressure from President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Public health should be bipartisan,” Layden tells Ali Velshi, explaining that budget cuts made it “challenging to do my work.” Many don’t realize how dangerous this undermining of our public health agencies could be since Layden notes that “the work of public health often goes unnoticed until there is a major outbreak.” 
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August 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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If you're worried about the world or frightened for the future, here’s my message for you:

Don’t just sit idly by and wring your hands.

Roll up your sleeves, channel that anxiety into productivity, and join us at this year's @clintonglobal.bsky.social.
NEW: President Bill Clinton shares a message with the global development community about this year's agenda for action at #CGI2025.

www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-glob...
August 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Please pay attention.👇

We cannot afford to leave our democracy in the hands of a process that requires this DOJ to act in good faith. We must act now to harden our election systems. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
What the DOJ Is Doing Behind the Scenes
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Total insanity!
🚨WATCH: “THIS PROJECT & AIRPORT ARE IN MY DISTRICT.”

Lee has Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social BLOCKED from entering an event announcing a state-sanctioned private Tesla Tunnel from Nashville airport - Elon Musk will control. (Republicans were allowed in)

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DMsqzpJ...
July 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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It wasn't just the canning of Stephen Colbert. We now know the CBS-Trump capitulation is even worse than we thought, with a "bias monitor" to slant the news and the growing likelihood the new owners may also take over TikTok

A bleak media landscape is my new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Trump-CBS deal is even worse than you thought | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Josh Shapiro’s muddled message on antisemtism.
www.inquirer.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.

Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
July 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
July 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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NEW: If you want to track DOJ's sharp pivot to attacking voting rights, this is an essential resource. It's quite jarring to see in one place. www.democracydocket.com/timeline-tra...
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has long worked to protect voting rights. But since President Donald Trump returned to office, the DOJ’s voting section has done a dramatic 180. Today, rather than...
www.democracydocket.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM