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Janice Weiner

@janice4iowa.bsky.social

State Senator Iowa SD45. #TheCommonGood. Pro-democracy. Former city councilor. Former U.S. State Dept FSO. Mother of 2, grandma to 1.

1,363 Followers  |  153 Following  |  50 Posts  |  Joined: 15.11.2024  |  2.2296

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05.09.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Any politician or pundit telling us to stop advocating for due process for the men in CECOT because it's not "politically expedient" needs to go,

19.04.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 17287    πŸ” 3630    πŸ’¬ 375    πŸ“Œ 132
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Happy 250th Anniversary of Lexington and Concord from the Supreme Court of the United States

19.04.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8511    πŸ” 1879    πŸ’¬ 282    πŸ“Œ 78
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144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigationβ€”in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.

An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning:

β€œJust before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigationβ€”in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

19.04.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 21176    πŸ” 5933    πŸ’¬ 665    πŸ“Œ 285
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Standing up in Iowa City today. #Indivisible

19.04.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

18.04.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 123947    πŸ” 25874    πŸ’¬ 8176    πŸ“Œ 6023

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

18.04.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 53571    πŸ” 13950    πŸ’¬ 886    πŸ“Œ 705

Does observing the religious holidays in a country to which you are posted count? How about observing your own if you are not a Christian?

13.04.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed

Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

12.04.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 29374    πŸ” 5537    πŸ’¬ 1853    πŸ“Œ 257

Read the thread - time to mobilize.

13.04.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Break down of what small business owners are facing.

#tariffs #EconSky

05.04.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1978    πŸ” 728    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 35
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

05.04.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 111019    πŸ” 23909    πŸ’¬ 2084    πŸ“Œ 1558
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Murphy: "The president is continuing to act unconstitutionally. He shut down some of our most important programs that protect us abroad, like Radio Free Europe, that were funded & authorized in that spending bill. So it doesn't seem like we have restrained any of the president's lawlessness."

16.03.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 17769    πŸ” 5279    πŸ’¬ 536    πŸ“Œ 243

First Portugal now Canada.

Threats to America's military industrial complex may wake people up quicker than anything else.

15.03.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1979    πŸ” 409    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 25
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Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, other agencies President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies, his administration's latest step to shrink bureaucracy.

China spends billions on broadcasting around the world. Meanwhile, Trump and Musk have just begun to destroy US broadcasting around the world. www.reuters.com/business/med...

15.03.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1415    πŸ” 464    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 36
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Republicans claim to care about the debt, but they never want to tax the rich.

They only want to take it from the health care and programs for the poor and elderly β€” while CUTTING taxes on the rich.

It’s not about efficiency. And they don’t care about the debt. It’s a con.

16.03.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1673    πŸ” 489    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 26

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

15.03.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 26790    πŸ” 10786    πŸ’¬ 719    πŸ“Œ 808
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Shout it from the rooftops. This is not left vs right, this is a class struggle.

15.03.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 7522    πŸ” 2603    πŸ’¬ 208    πŸ“Œ 107
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A massive demonstration took place in Budapest today against Viktor OrbΓ‘n’s pro-Russia regime in Hungary

Opposition leader PΓ©ter Magyar declared: β€œThe spring is here, the spring of the Hungarians, and we, together, will end OrbΓ‘n’s winter.”

15.03.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 17986    πŸ” 4034    πŸ’¬ 444    πŸ“Œ 283

Same for Iowa.

16.03.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I found a β€˜dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle β€œDead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.

He was not dead.

15.03.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 43405    πŸ” 17383    πŸ’¬ 1437    πŸ“Œ 1268
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RFE/RL President: Defunding Would be β€œMassive Gift to America’s Enemies” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was informed today by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) that its federal grant agreement, which funds RFE/RL’s global operations, has been terminated.

about.rferl.org/article/rfe-...

16.03.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US β€˜to cease all future military exercises in Europe’ Nato countries could be forced to plan manoeuvres without US as Trump continues pivot away from bloc

Trump is not on the side of the good guys

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...

08.03.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10050    πŸ” 2940    πŸ’¬ 843    πŸ“Œ 235

My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

07.03.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15762    πŸ” 3998    πŸ’¬ 247    πŸ“Œ 152

We state senate Dems will come.

08.03.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

07.03.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 49934    πŸ” 7773    πŸ’¬ 806    πŸ“Œ 305

They don’t want to govern - they seek to destroy - which only works to our adversaries’ advantage.

02.03.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It'd be great if one by one every Democrat walked out during Trump's rant in front of the joint session of Congress on Tuesday.

02.03.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2625    πŸ” 463    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 55

β€œThis is going to be a massive loss of life overall. Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.”

-former USAID official @agawande.bsky.social, to me, in this piece. Lots more like that in here:

02.03.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 474    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 7

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