Christie Woolsey (@boxers4pres) — Bluesky Profile

9 hours ago

NJ!! Bloomfield TODAY
27 Park Place in Bloomfield NJ are under the gun to get out NOW
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More on this Substack on what's happening today.
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9 hours ago

Your friendly reminder from Kevin Walling that every Democrat in the House voted for National Voter ID included in the Freedom to Vote Act. Not one Republican voted for it. The SAVE Act isn’t about Voter ID, it’s a voter suppression bill to help rig the midterms for Republicans.

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10 hours ago

Seriously...is anyone surprised at this move? As I wrote elsewhere IMO this is areason the 🟠💩 started this war in the 1st place. As he said, "high oil prices are good because we make a lot of money". He is not referring to us! We are paying the price-he, his billionaire friends & Putin get the $$$

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11 hours ago

The U.S. is easing its sanctions on Russian oil to try and ease the price of gas. And now, a major lifeline is being given to Russian because of Trump's warmongering. With oil at more that $100 a barrel, instead of ending the war, Trump has decided to do his buddy Vladimir Putin a favor.

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11 hours ago

“Be a hummingbird”

Wangari Maathai told a story about a hummingbird carrying drops of water to show one person can make a difference.

Her movement planted more than 50 mil trees.
Founder of the Green Belt Movement.
First African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
#SheShed #V4V #WomensHistoryMonth

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13 hours ago

How absolutely disgusting and disgraceful to raise money off the backs of our fallen soldiers in a war most never wanted in the first place.

Their lives were not campaign props. It is not Patriotism.
It’s exploitation.

Their sacrifice and coffins are not your fundraising strategy.

#SheShed

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14 hours ago

Gubernatorial hopeful and Trump's lap boy, Aric Nesbitt is stating that he will launch the “largest ICE deployment in Michigan history” if elected governor. Promising to be "the most pro-Second Amendment and pro-law enforcement governor in the history of Michigan."

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14 hours ago

The harsh reality of this Iranian War (#OperationEpsteinFury) is that Donald Trump is sending your sons & daughters off to die to coverup his endless crimes & corruption.
Impeach. Convict. Imprison.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1

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14 hours ago

Trump policies set to increase rates of lung disease and death, study finds Experts warn of ‘attack on Americans’ lungs’ from cuts to health programs, environmental rollbacks and other plans

Study: trump policies are likely to increase lung disease, worsen existing illness, undermine care, threaten children & adults’ pulmonary health. This is “an attack on Americans” that could mean millions “die needlessly in the years ahead”, Harvard Medical School.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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1 day ago

The “we all are going to die” lady-on her way out of Congress-wants to send troops to Iran so they can fight in an illegal war to cover up claims in the Epstein files that Trump is a pedophile

Seven troops have now died and there’s still no evidence showing Iran was an imminent threat to the US

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1 day ago

Signal Gate and the murder of shipwrecked men should’ve ended Pete Hegseth’s term

But incompetently killing hundreds of schoolgirls-which will surely enrage Iranians-is beyond the pale

Whether the war is a cover for Epstein related crimes or not-Trump’s callous disregard of life won’t be forgotten

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8 hours ago

Tye Leung Schulze
First Chinese Woman To
Vote In America
First Chinese Woman To Work For The Federal Government
#WomensHistoryMonth

Tye Leung Schulze was a powerhouse. 🗳️ As a translator & activist, she fought human trafficking & promoted human rights. She was the 1st Chinese American woman to hold a federal role & the 1st to vote in a presidential election! 🇺🇸
#WomensHistoryMonth

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8 hours ago

Sen. Kelly confirms what was obvious from day one: the Iranian girls school strike was American. The President’s ‘maybe it was Iran’ line was never a theory. It was a cover story.
We killed little girls. #IranWar

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9 hours ago

@ossoff.senate.gov is the ONLY Democratic U.S. Senator up for reelection in a state Trump won.
He’s MAGA’s #1 target in the midterms.
There’s no path back from the brink of authoritarianism without defending this seat. Go to electjon.com & support Jon!

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9 hours ago

The founders gave us guardrails in the constitution, to protect from a rogue president.
But they depend on the rest of our elected leaders doing their jobs.
They never imagined an entire corrupt political party that would actually be traitors to the nation.
Now we know.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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10 hours ago

13 US military dead. 2000 dead Iranians, Lebanese. Thousands injured or on the move. Domestic attacks on Jews & Muslims. Billions of our taxes wasted. Munitions, equipment, outposrs gone. Oil 100$ barrel. Cyber attacks on medical devices. More.
Why?

#trumpisunfit
#usDemocracy
#voices4Victory

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10 hours ago

Same story with “codifying Roe.”
If Congress passed a law declaring abortion legal nationwide, this Supreme Court would strike it down immediately. The only way Roe v. Wade could have survived was through a different constitutional interpretation by the Supreme Court itself.
But we were stuck with the current Supreme Court because in 2014, disappointed Democrats — who had been irresponsibly told that Obama could have delivered more but was a failure — stayed home and let the senate go back to the Republicans, costing us two Supreme Court seats.
We lost those seats as the direct result of disappointed Democrats sitting at home because they had been fed a load of bs about how President Obama and the Democrats had failed them.
And the suggestion that Obama could have simply seated a Supreme Court justice without Senate approval is so detached from the actual Constitution that I honestly don’t even know how to respond to it.
This — right here — is the biggest structural problem Democrats face.
Too many voters don’t fully understand the legislative and judicial process. They don’t understand the real limitations on power. They get fed a steady diet of virtue-signaling rhetoric that inflates expectations far beyond what the math of the Senate or the structure of the Constitution allows.
Then when reality fails to deliver the unicorn ride to Utopia that they were promised, they sit out the next election to punish the Democrats who supposedly “failed.”
Meanwhile Republicans understand the assignment. They take their little incremental win, come back the next election, and give their party more power so they can take a bigger step the next time.
Democrats get disappointed because everything didn’t change overnight and then they stay home.
And it is extremely irresponsible for movers and shakers inside the Democratic Party to publicly reinforce those unrealistic expectations by pretending Democrats could have done things they literally did not have the votes to do.
It feeds …

And while I’m ticked off about Democrats unfairly disparaging Obama, I’ll say one more thing...
I’ve about had it with Jesse Jackson Jr. allowing himself to be used by rightwing whitefolk to take shots at Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden all spoke at Jesse Jackson’s funeral.
A politician died and his son invited three politicians to speak at his funeral, and he’s surprised and dismayed that their comments veered into politics?
He’s mad at Obama and Biden because they said the very things his father would have said if his father had been speaking at a funeral for one of the former presidents?
After the funeral Jesse Jackson, Jr. reportedly said he had just listened to three presidents who “didn’t know my father.”
What’s really going on here?
Maybe Jesse Jackson Jr. really is angry. I don’t know.
But there’s some bad blood in the background that nobody’s talking about.
Remember above when I said in 2008, when Obama was elected, there were only 58 Democratic Senate seats? One vacancy was waiting on the Al Franken recount. The other existed because Obama himself had vacated his Illinois Senate seat to become president.
That vacancy created the famous scandal where Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was caught on tape saying the Senate appointment was “fucking golden,” meaning he was going to appoint whoever paid him the most money.
Rumors at the time suggested intermediaries connected to Jesse Jackson Jr. offered to raise $1.5 million for Blagojevich in exchange for the appointment.
Jackson denied involvement and was never charged.
Blagojevich went to prison for trying to sell the seat. In Trump’s first term he commuted Blagojevich’s sentence allowing him to walk out of prison. In his second term, Trump fully pardoned him.

But the feds were now on the trail of Jesse Jackson Jr.
President Obama’s Justice Department, under the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder, prosecuted Jesse Jackson Jr. for misusing $750,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses — everything from home renovations to Rolex watches.
He served 30 months in federal prison after being sent there by Obama’s justice department.
When President Biden was leaving office he issued the most clemency decisions of any president in history, roughly 4,245 actions (80+ pardons and 4,165+ commutations).
But you know who Biden didn’t pardon?
That’s right… Jesse Jackson, Jr, even though JJJ and his father actively sought a pardon from Biden.
In December of 2024, Biden pardoned his own son, Hunter. Rev. Jesse Jackson then formally asked Biden to issue a pardon for JJJ to clear the felony from his record — he had long since served his time.
But Biden didn’t pardon JJJ.
So if JJJ is mad at Obama who sent him to prison or Biden who refused to pardon him, lingering bitterness might not be entirely about funeral speeches.
Anyway.
We all learn things.
Like today, I learned you can’t sit with the cool kids if you point out that they are irresponsibly driving down Democratic participation by falsely claiming Obama and the Democrats had magical powers to work fantastical miracles but just decided not to because they are “failures” or “weak” or “inept.”

If our goal is to inspire people to vote, clinging to narratives that have been disproven by reality and history does the opposite. It discourages engagement instead of motivating it.

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10 hours ago

Well, I won’t be getting invited to sit at the cool kids’ table in the Georgia Democrats’ lunchroom.
One of the movers and shakers in the Georgia Democratic Party posted today that the biggest mistake Obama and the Democrats made when they were “in power” was failing to pass single-payer health insurance. Her Democratic activist friends quickly piled on saying there was a lot of competition for the things Democrats had “failed” to do when they supposedly had all this power.
One commenter said Obama should have “overturned Citizens United.”
Another said he should have appointed a Supreme Court justice without Senate approval.
Another said Democrats should have “codified Roe when they had the chance.”
Every time the post popped back into my feed, someone new had added another alleged Democratic failure.
I kept hoping the original poster would push back a little, since she had started the thread. I kept hoping someone would point out the basic reality that Obama never actually had the kind of power these comments assume he had. I kept hoping someone would point out that the Senate has a thing called a filibuster that requires 60 votes.
Nobody did.
So eventually I did.
Or maybe I mansplained. Whatever I did got me promptly blocked, so apparently I am now banned from the cool table.

The biggest problem Democrats have is not that Democratic leaders don’t do enough. The biggest problem is that Democratic voters are constantly fed wildly unrealistic expectations about what Democrats are capable of doing within the actual structure of our government. When those unrealistic expectations aren’t met, voters get disappointed and sit at home the next election to punish the very people who were trying to do the best they could with the power they actually had.
It takes 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster.
On election night in November 2008, it looked like Democrats might reach that magic number, riding Barack Obama’s coattails. But they were two short — two weeks after election night President Obama resigned his Illinois senate seat and in Minnesota the race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman went to a contested recount.
Obama’s seat was filled fairly quickly on December 30, 2008 when Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed former state Attorney General Roland Burris to fill it.
But the Minnesota seat went through recount after recount and months of litigation before Franken was finally declared the winner and seated on July 7, 2009, more than six months after the session had started.
Democrats had the magic 60 votes.
Seven weeks later, on August 25, 2009, Senator Ted Kennedy died of brain cancer.
Back to 59.
A month later, on September 24, 2009, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appointed Paul Kirk as a temporary placeholder to fill Kenedy’s seat until a special election could be held.
Democrats had 60 again.
But in January 2010, Republicans won the special election when Scott Brown captured Kennedy’s seat, and was sworn in on February 4, 2010, permanently ending the Democratic supermajority.

So the famous “60 Democratic votes” existed only in two fragile windows:
The first was the July 7, 2009 seating of Al Franken to the August 25, 2009 death of Ted Kennedy — about seven weeks.
The second was the September 24, 2009 appointment of Democratic placeholder Paul Kirk to the February 4, 2010 swearing in of Republican Scott Brown — just over four months.
That’s it.
Two brief windows.
Yes, that’s tedious history.
But facts matter.
When it came time to pass the ACA, President Obama simply didn’t have 60 votes.
And many of the other senators who were nominally Democrats, were people President Obama couldn’t count on — they were very conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats that were only able to get elected from their states because they ran as extreme conservatives and they had no interest in sweeping progressive legislation. Joe Lieberman alone threatened to kill the public option and ultimately did. Others like Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln demanded concessions just to get the Affordable Care Act across the finish line.
But sure, keep spreading the falsehood that “Obama and the Democrats” could have passed single payer if they had just wanted to.
He barely got the Affordable Care Act passed as it was.
And the only reason the ACA ultimately survived legislatively is because Democrats were able to use the budget reconciliation process, which only requires 51 votes instead of 60.
Reconciliation is a special procedure designed for budget legislation — taxes and spending — that directly affect the federal budget. Under the Senate’s “Byrd Rule,” provisions that don’t primarily affect spending or revenue can be stripped out.

A sweeping single-payer system would not simply be a tax or spending tweak. It would require a massive restructuring of the entire health insurance system — eliminating private insurance markets, rewriting regulatory frameworks, and creating a nationwide government-run system.
That kind of sweeping legislative overhaul would not qualify for budget reconciliation and would have been subject to the normal Senate rules.
Which means it would have required 60 votes.
And Democrats only had 59.
Democrats didn’t fail to pass single-payer. They failed to possess the magical powers that would have allowed them to ignore basic math.
And the comment that went unchallenged (except by me) claiming the Democrats were a big failure because they didn’t “overturn Citizens United”?
Are they kidding?
Democrats didn’t have the power to do that. The Supreme Court had already ruled that unlimited independent political spending is constitutionally protected speech. Any law Congress passed attempting to overturn that decision would have been immediately struck down as unconstitutional by the same Supreme Court.
The only way to overturn Citizens United is through a constitutional amendment, which requires a two-thirds vote in the senate — that’s 67(!) votes, not just 60.
Where are Democrats going to get 67 senate votes?
Changing the constitution also requires the measure to be ratified by the legislature in 3/4ths of the states — that’s 38(!) states.
Democrats currently control 23 state legislatures.
Not even close.

I’m not a politics expert. But I try to keep learning and updating my views when reality or history challenge them—even when it’s uncomfortable.

When we repeat narratives like "Dems don't do anything", or "both parties are the same", despite evidence to the contrary, we're no better than MAGA.

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10 hours ago

Despite what Trump says, US Elections are damn near exempt from non-citizen voting fraud!

FROM 1999-2023
• 1 billion ballots cast
• 77 non-citizens voted
• 10 cases of undocumented immigrants voting

That represents 0.000000764% of all the ballots cast

𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲: Heritage Fdn

Yes, that Heritage Fdn

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11 hours ago

There are so many children who are being imprisoned in Trump's torture mills where the food & water are foul.

No children should be treated this way, no adults should either.

Make sure your friends & family hear about #ICELawlessness.

Ask them: What if this was your precious child?

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11 hours ago

TRUMP'S STOLEN VALOUR

TO BE CLEAR: Trump was sent to a private military school for boys lacking discipline NOT one of the official US Military Academies

Trump is a 5x draft dodger who is trying to bamboozle Americans about his "service" and steal valour from those who actually served!

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11 hours ago

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has closed the Straits of Hormuz, threatening the 20% of global oil that passes through it. Trump's "Operation Epic Fury" is pushing us toward higher gas and grocery prices.
Elections have consequences.
Organize! Speak out and vote!
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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11 hours ago

The Republican supermajority legislature is adjourning today without addressing the affordability crisis, high property taxes, or passing the budget.

DeSantis’ solution is to call a special session in April to redraw our maps, rather than prioritizing high costs.

We will remember in November.

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11 hours ago

When will they regulate Viagra and vasectomies the same way they regulate all of women's HRT and other meds and procedures for #womenshealthcare? The double standard lives on with uneducated men making the laws.

Vote smarter in 2026!

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8 hours ago

But you may have to take out a loan to buy groceries, even if you grow or raise some of your own. And you're still going to need gas, so good luck to you. I'm wondering how on earth I'll find gas for a cross country trip in a couple of months.

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11 hours ago

Household Debt Balances Grow Modestly; Early Delinquencies Level Out for Non-Housing Debts - FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of NEW YORK

www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/n...

www.frbsf.org/research-and...

www.armscontrol.org/blog/2026-03...

www.military.com/daily-news/2...

www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/e...

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11 hours ago

A long post synthesizing together some economic indicators and recent news. I am adding links from governmental websites and reputable news organizations.
Before Trump and Netanyahu even launched these strikes on Iran, economists were already freaking out about consumer credit. The NY Fed just released data showing delinquency rates hit 4.8% - the highest since 2017. https://www.newyorkfed.org/.../news/research/2026/20260210
At the same time, Americans' personal savings rate is at 3.6%, near 20-year lows. Credit card debt? A record $1.28 trillion.
https://www.frbsf.org/.../pandemic-savings-are-gone.../
So American families were already maxed out before any of this started.
Now let's talk about who was negotiating with Iran. Trump sent his son-in-law Jared Kushner (who gets paid $25 million a year by Saudi Arabia - yes, really) and a real estate developer named Steve Witkoff. Nuclear experts have been scathing about how unprepared these guys were. Arms Control Association documented how they didn't even bring technical experts to nuclear negotiations.
https://www.armscontrol.org/.../us-negotiators-were-ill...
The Iranians actually offered to turn over their enriched uranium. Talks were making "substantial progress" according to Oman's foreign minister. 36 hours later, Trump launched the strikes.
Oil went from the $60s to over $120, now sitting around $90-100. And it's not coming back down anytime soon. Iran's new leader - Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba, who's turning out to be just as hardline - is saying the Strait of Hormuz stays closed. They're laying mines. Even French navy experts are saying that reopening it would take weeks minimum and require dangerous naval escort operations.
https://www.military.com/.../iran-war-has-blocked-strait...

Now let's come back home and think with a little empathy because I know this may not apply to many of my friends who are reading this, but if you can't think and plan outside your immediate experience you will leave your clothes hanging out to dry until the rain actually hits:
Think about what $5-6 gas means for families who were already choosing between credit card payments and groceries. The people already 30 days late on bills are about to become 90+ days delinquent - and that's the point where things spiral fast. Auto repos, utility shutoffs, the whole cascade.
This isn't just hitting poor families either. Middle class families are going to stop all discretionary spending. No restaurants, no vacations, nothing. Goldman Sachs is now estimating recession risk jumped to 25% and climbing.
And here's where it gets really infuriating: guess who's the biggest winner in Trump's war? Putin.
Trump just lifted sanctions on Russian oil to try to calm markets.
https://www.cnn.com/.../us-russia-sanctions-relief-oil...
Higher oil prices = windfall profits for Russia.
So let's get this straight - we're fighting a war that enriches Putin, drains our military resources from Ukraine, and financially breaks American families. Cool cool cool.
I keep thinking about the fact that this is the same guy who bankrupted SIX companies and a group of uneducated hillbilly and single issue voters thought "yeah, at 78 years old, NOW he'll figure it out."
Iran knows exactly what they're doing. They're not trying to beat us militarily. They're weaponizing our consumer economy against us. Every week of $100 oil is another week of Americans drowning in debt they can't pay back. And we walked right into it with negotiators who were getting paid by the Saudis and had zero expertise in what they were negotiating.

Nuclear isn't what's going to do us in. Credit is.

The next couple months are going to be brutal. Watch the earnings reports, watch the delinquency numbers, watch consumer spending crater. The data doesn't lie - we're at the breaking point.

(live links in thread)

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11 hours ago

Bessie Stringfield (1911–1993) was a trailblazing African American motorcyclist who broke racial and gender barriers in the early to mid-20th century. Riding across the United States on her Harley-Davidson during a time of segregation and widespread discrimination, she completed eight solo cross-country trips and became a legendary figure in motorcycling history.
During World War II, she served as a civilian motorcycle courier for the U.S. Army, delivering messages between military bases—an extremely rare role for a Black woman at the time. She often faced hostility, being denied lodging or harassed by police, but continued to ride fearlessly.
Later, she moved to Florida and became known as the “Motorcycle Queen of Miami,” where she founded a motorcycle club and taught riding skills.

Bessie Stringfield (1911–1993) was a trailblazing African American motorcyclist who completed eight solo cross-country trips, and broke racial and gender barriers in the early to mid-20th century.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
#WomensHistoryMonth

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12 hours ago

Christian nationalism is rearing its ugly head again. Pete Hegseth is calling war “necessary” for peace and wrapping it in prayer and Scripture. This is about using extremist religiosity to turn America into a white Christian nation & bless violence from the state. He’s a bible thumping hypocrite.

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12 hours ago

This the #BillionairesWar started to enrich the orange shit and his friends' pocketbooks. Putin is coming out the winner of the as sanctions are lifted and we are buying oil from Russia.

Want to stop this insanity? #VoteBlue in EVERY race. R's are NOT our friends no matter what they tell you.

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