Rob Duffey
@robduffey.bsky.social
National Comms Director, Working Families Party. Texas expat & Brooklyn dad. https://bsky.app/profile/workingfamilies.org
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Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
June 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.
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Democrats rallied around New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, condemning his arrest by ICE officers after the mayoral candidate attempted to walk a migrant out of a federal building.
www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
Democrats defend another candidate handcuffed for ICE protest
Democrats are calling Brad Lander’s arrest in New York City “tyranny.” Republicans are mocking it as self-promotion.
www.semafor.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Democrats rallied around New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, condemning his arrest by ICE officers after the mayoral candidate attempted to walk a migrant out of a federal building.
www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
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Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.
May 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.
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“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
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This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.
April 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.
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"Senior described Schmidt being 'violently interrogated' at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair. She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card" www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Senior described Schmidt being 'violently interrogated' at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair. She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card" www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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If Democrats won't act like an opposition party, we will.
March 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If Democrats won't act like an opposition party, we will.
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From the Civil War era to the civil rights era to the Black Power movement...whenever things have hit a chord for us as Black people, we’ve been able to mobilize and organize the conscience of the entire country.
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com
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Opinion | No one knows what will finally stop Trump. So Black leaders are trying everything.
Resistance to the president should include lawsuits, boycotts, marches — and not forgetting history.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
From the Civil War era to the civil rights era to the Black Power movement...whenever things have hit a chord for us as Black people, we’ve been able to mobilize and organize the conscience of the entire country.
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
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Whew! NY Post editorial board calls Cuomo “a conniving colossus of canards, a freak of fabrication, a behemoth of balderdash.” nypost.com/2025/03/01/o...
Behold! Biggest Liar in New York wants to be mayor
Hailing from the wilds of Albany, this is a conniving colossus of canards, a freak of fabrication, a behemoth of balderdash. We call it Andrew Cuomo.
nypost.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Whew! NY Post editorial board calls Cuomo “a conniving colossus of canards, a freak of fabrication, a behemoth of balderdash.” nypost.com/2025/03/01/o...
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💥It’s @replsimon.bsky.social's moment.
Honored to announce my friend and working class champion, Rep. Lateefah Simon will deliver @workingfamilies.org's official SOTU response address on March 4.
Sign up to watch: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
Honored to announce my friend and working class champion, Rep. Lateefah Simon will deliver @workingfamilies.org's official SOTU response address on March 4.
Sign up to watch: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
While Trump and Musk cut our healthcare, social security, and veteran's benefits — We fight. We're hosting our annual response to the president's joint address to Congress.
Given by Congresswoman Lateefah Simon and co-streamed by @underthedesknews.bsky.social
Sign up: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
Given by Congresswoman Lateefah Simon and co-streamed by @underthedesknews.bsky.social
Sign up: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
February 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
💥It’s @replsimon.bsky.social's moment.
Honored to announce my friend and working class champion, Rep. Lateefah Simon will deliver @workingfamilies.org's official SOTU response address on March 4.
Sign up to watch: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
Honored to announce my friend and working class champion, Rep. Lateefah Simon will deliver @workingfamilies.org's official SOTU response address on March 4.
Sign up to watch: wfpus.org/WFPSOTU
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“I’m not going to tell you I will never touch Social Security:” Rep. Pete Sessions, a longtime GOP member of Congress from Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
February 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“I’m not going to tell you I will never touch Social Security:” Rep. Pete Sessions, a longtime GOP member of Congress from Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
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"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices
February 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices
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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
February 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
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Pretty damn good framing for Dems
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pretty damn good framing for Dems
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Translation: The richest men in the world are going to give themselves giant tax cuts, and they are coming for your social security & healthcare to pay for it.
February 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Translation: The richest men in the world are going to give themselves giant tax cuts, and they are coming for your social security & healthcare to pay for it.
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Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.
February 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.
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Not coincidentally a strategy often deployed by abusers
Authoritarian playbook: When you receive any pushback, pretend to be the victim.
February 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Not coincidentally a strategy often deployed by abusers
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This is a full-throated attack on American consumers on behalf of monied corporate interests. It’s wildly illegal and directly in Elon Musk’s personal interests.
New acting CFPB director Russell Vought sends a directive to Bureau staff telling them to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and "cease all stakeholder engagement," per a source familiar
February 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This is a full-throated attack on American consumers on behalf of monied corporate interests. It’s wildly illegal and directly in Elon Musk’s personal interests.
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We spent all of Dec and Jan telling every Dem who would listen that their "we'll work with Trump" posture was badly out of touch with folks on the ground, that they were burning trust, and that there would be a reaction.
Now it's here! Maybe next time listen earlier! www.axios.com/2025/02/06/d...
Now it's here! Maybe next time listen earlier! www.axios.com/2025/02/06/d...
Furious anti-Trump callers bombard Democrats' phones with demands to "fight harder"
"I can't recall ever receiving this many calls," said one senior lawmaker who has been in Congress since 1997.
www.axios.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We spent all of Dec and Jan telling every Dem who would listen that their "we'll work with Trump" posture was badly out of touch with folks on the ground, that they were burning trust, and that there would be a reaction.
Now it's here! Maybe next time listen earlier! www.axios.com/2025/02/06/d...
Now it's here! Maybe next time listen earlier! www.axios.com/2025/02/06/d...
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It's a beautiful day to organize the working class, and there's nothing the oligarchs and their allies can do to stop us ❤️
February 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's a beautiful day to organize the working class, and there's nothing the oligarchs and their allies can do to stop us ❤️
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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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This is a takeover of the federal government by an unelected billionaire.
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is a takeover of the federal government by an unelected billionaire.
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Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
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NEW with: @boldprogressives.org PCI:
Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
January 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW with: @boldprogressives.org PCI:
Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...