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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
We demand legal representation for ALL immigrants!
Just days ago, three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 canc...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
rungirl219.bsky.social
The pain imposed by the tariffs is less than the fear of retaliation. Thank you @stephruhle.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview. The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams, hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.
April 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
rungirl219.bsky.social
Excellent point @stephruhle.bsky.social The world watches as the U.S. congress fails to take action because the fear of economic ruin is less than the fear of presidential reprisal.
April 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
rungirl219.bsky.social
Good job Wisconsin... I'm proud to be a native!!!
April 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
rungirl219.bsky.social
Thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for speaking up for those of us who feel that we are at that point where democracy is at risk. When Sen. Schumer stated that "we are not yet there," it really helped clarify why we are where we are.
March 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM