Janice Weiner

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.

1,395 Followers 153 Following 50 Posts Joined Nov 2024
6 months ago
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10 months ago

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,

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10 months ago
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Happy 250th Anniversary of Lexington and Concord from the Supreme Court of the United States

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10 months ago
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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 litigation—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:

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

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Standing up in Iowa City today. #Indivisible

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10 months ago
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.

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10 months ago

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

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11 months ago

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?

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11 months ago

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 ?

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11 months ago

Read the thread - time to mobilize.

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11 months ago

Break down of what small business owners are facing.

#tariffs #EconSky

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11 months ago
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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11 months ago
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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."

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11 months ago

First Portugal now Canada.

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

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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...

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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 — while CUTTING taxes on the rich.

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

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11 months ago

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

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11 months ago
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Shout it from the rooftops. This is not left vs right, this is a class struggle.

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11 months ago
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A massive demonstration took place in Budapest today against Viktor Orbán’s pro-Russia regime in Hungary

Opposition leader Péter Magyar declared: “The spring is here, the spring of the Hungarians, and we, together, will end Orbán’s winter.”

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11 months ago

Same for Iowa.

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11 months ago
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I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle “Dead” 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.

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11 months ago
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RFE/RL President: Defunding Would be “Massive 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-...

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1 year ago
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US ‘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/...

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1 year ago

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

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1 year ago

We state senate Dems will come.

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

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1 year ago

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

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1 year ago

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.

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1 year ago

“This 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:

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