Alicia Sourwood
@sourwood.bsky.social
A liberal southerner. Love boiled peanuts and catfish. I miss the good old days… before autocrats and Elon Musk.
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This weekend, I hope you will consider shopping anywhere but Target, Amazon & Home Depot.
We must send a message about stopping #ICELawlessness to Home Depot that cooperates with #ICE as they abduct & brutalize their own customers!
We must send a message about stopping #ICELawlessness to Home Depot that cooperates with #ICE as they abduct & brutalize their own customers!
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This weekend, I hope you will consider shopping anywhere but Target, Amazon & Home Depot.
We must send a message about stopping #ICELawlessness to Home Depot that cooperates with #ICE as they abduct & brutalize their own customers!
We must send a message about stopping #ICELawlessness to Home Depot that cooperates with #ICE as they abduct & brutalize their own customers!
Former Tenn. House Speaker Glen Casada, Cothren pardoned by Trump after fraud conviction
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Former Tenn. House Speaker Glen Casada, Cothren pardoned by Trump after fraud conviction
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🚨Stamford, CT: ICE and “FBI” agents use grossly excessive force to brutalize someone in a parking garage. The woman who spoke up was 1) ALONE and 2) brave. When are men going to step up? Just gonna watch the beatdowns like free PPV at the expense of innocents? 1/2
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
🚨Stamford, CT: ICE and “FBI” agents use grossly excessive force to brutalize someone in a parking garage. The woman who spoke up was 1) ALONE and 2) brave. When are men going to step up? Just gonna watch the beatdowns like free PPV at the expense of innocents? 1/2
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Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
www.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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"ICE spends millions on ads to recruit police for mass deportation efforts" — PBS News
ICE spends millions on ads to recruit police for mass deportation efforts
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement.
www.pbs.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"ICE spends millions on ads to recruit police for mass deportation efforts" — PBS News
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"Border czar Tom Homan's security detail costs around $1 million a month" — CBS News
Border czar Tom Homan's security detail costs around $1 million a month
By the end of the year, taxpayers may have paid around $12 million for Tom Homan's security.
www.cbsnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"Border czar Tom Homan's security detail costs around $1 million a month" — CBS News
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Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Chattanooga” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Chattanooga · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
www.mobilize.us
October 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Chattanooga” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
October 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
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Trump’s presidency has been defined by the decay of public information sources and dismantling of public health institutions.
So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.
So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.
Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase
Another bad day at the CDC
www.motherjones.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump’s presidency has been defined by the decay of public information sources and dismantling of public health institutions.
So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.
So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Dalton Ga” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Dalton Ga · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
www.mobilize.us
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Dalton Ga” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Pray for Dolly Parton🙏❤️
October 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Pray for Dolly Parton🙏❤️
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This is even more immoral and outrageous when you know the details: www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This is even more immoral and outrageous when you know the details: www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
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We are watching it in real time!
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We are watching it in real time!
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Incompetent gop lawmakers, like Nancy Mace, care so little for the lives & health of Americans that they'll eagerly peddle dangerous medical misinformation in the hopes of getting a pat on the head from the orange.
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Incompetent gop lawmakers, like Nancy Mace, care so little for the lives & health of Americans that they'll eagerly peddle dangerous medical misinformation in the hopes of getting a pat on the head from the orange.
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For you in Missouri…Sinclair who is trying to slant the news for Trump and refusing to accept Jimmy Kimmel’s show…owns ABC Channel 30 KDNL in St Louis.
September 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
For you in Missouri…Sinclair who is trying to slant the news for Trump and refusing to accept Jimmy Kimmel’s show…owns ABC Channel 30 KDNL in St Louis.
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Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one.
trib.al/RdNHhC6
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Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?
The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.
trib.al
September 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one.
trib.al/RdNHhC6
trib.al/RdNHhC6
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The Congressional Review Act is BACK, baby!
Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections
Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.
grist.org
September 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The Congressional Review Act is BACK, baby!
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Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
September 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
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🧵 An open letter to the US Open and USTA:
Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today.
I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.
Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today.
I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.
September 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
September 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
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I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
August 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
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No lies told here.
August 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
No lies told here.
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Even in war zones in some of the most violent conflicts in the world, they honor press passes. I did not know it has gotten so bad here in the land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
Patriot fighting for freedom of press at LAPD commission meeting. 🔥
August 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Even in war zones in some of the most violent conflicts in the world, they honor press passes. I did not know it has gotten so bad here in the land of the Free and Home of the Brave.