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Connie VM

@uccelli7.bsky.social

Birder. Boomer. Navy veteran. RN. Ally. Progressive. #Opposition

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Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."

12.01.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1026    πŸ” 315    πŸ’¬ 524    πŸ“Œ 407
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'A Disgrace': Feds to Slash the Number of Recommended Vaccines, Reports Say Plan for childhood immunization schedule may mirror Denmark's, with announcement expected in 2026

'A Disgrace': Feds to Slash the Number of Recommended Vaccines, Reports Say www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

20.12.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Promises $1,776 β€˜Warrior Dividend’ for Troopsβ€”Here’s What Service Members Need to Know President Donald Trump's one-time $1,776 payment promise for U.S. service members offers questions about which troops actually qualify and how it would impact existing pay and benefits.

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19.12.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Phang: If Maxwell is so worried about the grand jury records coming out, can you imagine the treasure trove of information against Maxwell, Epstein, and others that’s being held in the total Epstein files?

19.12.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10155    πŸ” 2637    πŸ’¬ 150    πŸ“Œ 68
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Amid Uproar, Lawmakers Push to Add Nursing to 'Professional' Programs List Lawmakers argue that a $100k cap on nursing graduate programs would make it harder for students

Amid Uproar, Lawmakers Push to Add Nursing to 'Professional' Programs List www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nurs...

19.12.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Habba booted by Senate and judges who did their damn jobs See! It is possible.

"Congress is finally showing signs of life. Not allowing Trump to ONE WEIRD TRICK his way around the Constitution proves the legislative and judicial branches can stop some of his excesses. We can only hope they continue to stand up as this napping duck gets lamer and lamer." β€” @lizdye.bsky.social

10.12.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1209    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 10
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NEW: DOJ Responded to Our Epstein Training Materials Motion, Arguing There's No Public Interest They also argue that the existence of the training videos doesn't raise any questions about government integrity!

BREAKING: The DOJ has filed its opposition to my motion for expedited processing of the EPSTEIN TRAINING VIDEOS. They're arguing that there's NO WIDESPREAD PUBLIC INTEREST. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-doj-re...

10.12.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 12946    πŸ” 5118    πŸ’¬ 797    πŸ“Œ 389
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Duffy: As people travel through our skies, we want to have the most enjoyable experience for them. Someone might want to come through and do a couple of pull-ups.

10.12.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
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Three-time Trump voter on his failure to fix the economy:

"My kids' daycare went up. I can't afford the cost of food. Using credit cards for everyday expenses. No money left after their bills are paid. Just a whole bunch of financial mess... I'm very let down. I feel like it's only gotten worse."

10.12.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 33
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Pentagon Watchdog Finds Hegseth’s Use of Signal Posed Risk to US Personnel The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military stri...

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04.12.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Many Times Will the Morbidly Rich Crash America Before We Learn? Why every era ruled by the morbidly rich ends the same way: corruption, collapse, and ordinary people paying the bill....

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02.12.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."

02.12.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 939    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 994    πŸ“Œ 688
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Why are we so polarized (II)? Why We’re So Polarized (II)

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02.12.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases Read here.

Two months ago I wrote about why my law firm is litigating 63 voting and election cases. Today it is 65 cases covering more than half the country. Eleven of them involve redistricting.

Where are the big law firms? Why isn't legacy media covering this? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

01.12.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5862    πŸ” 1894    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 63
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

01.12.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 46103    πŸ” 12419    πŸ’¬ 1310    πŸ“Œ 793
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Monday Afternoon News Updates - 12/1/25 By Ben Meiselas

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"The American people deserve a government focused on their lives, not on manufacturing foreign wars, abusing law enforcement powers, or installing unqualified loyalists... They deserve transparency, accountability, and leaders who tell the truth."

01.12.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Appeals court upholds ruling that disqualified Alina Habba from serving as New Jersey's top prosecutor The decision stems from a motion by a defendant who moved to dismiss his case on the grounds that Habba, a former personal lawyer to Trump, was unlawfully appointed.

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01.12.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Great Secession of the Morbidly Rich Marks a Breaking Point for Democracy’s Survival What elite isolation reveals about the fragility of modern democracy and the cost of unchecked billionaire power…

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"When the richest Americans want nothing to do with public spaces, those spaces begin to deteriorate. Public airports, public hospitals. Public lines. Public restaurants. Public parks and neighborhoods. Public transportation. Public institutions of any kind."

01.12.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results

Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.


Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?

Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.

30.11.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5380    πŸ” 1232    πŸ’¬ 1220    πŸ“Œ 698
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Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award For standing up to tyranny. In honor of attorney Joseph Welch, who represented the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of June 1954.

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01.12.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Hidden Costs of Denying Paid Sick Leave
Robert Reich The Hidden Costs of Denying Paid Sick Leave

96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days.

Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them β€” including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.

Only in America do we call working people β€˜essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.

01.12.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6420    πŸ” 2034    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 60
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There is no such thing as a war crime to Donald Trump Tomorrow, two of Donald Trump’s loyal underlings, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, will get on an airplane owned by the U.S.

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"That is one of the problems with condoning the commission of war crimes. Other countries are inclined to employ war crimes such as murder and assassination if war crimes are committed against them."

01.12.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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RFK Jr. Says He's Following 'Gold Standard' Science. Here's What to Know. Scientists say they are often doing just the opposite

RFK Jr. Says He's Following 'Gold Standard' Science. Here's What to Know. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

01.12.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

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BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.

She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.

11.11.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 31118    πŸ” 7008    πŸ’¬ 2017    πŸ“Œ 712
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Steve Kornacki: Republicans took a political hit in the shutdown. How long will it last? Since government funding lapsed, the GOP has fallen in the polls and lost at the ballot box. But shutdown history shows the party can turn it around before the midterms.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

12.11.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration asks for emergency pause on judge's order to fully fund SNAP The administration has said it cannot draw from money set aside for child nutrition programs, known as Section 32 funding, to pay for SNAP during the government shutdown.

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07.11.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UPDATE: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care – a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars per square inch – donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., Presid...

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"The agency found that Extremity Care products lack scientific backing. One of Extremity Care’s products, Coll-e-Derm, costs $11,051.10 per square inch. Another Extremity Care product, CompleteFT, costs $7,812.38 per square inch."

04.11.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand.

There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, β€œSwear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.

Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.

04.11.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 23168    πŸ” 6496    πŸ’¬ 278    πŸ“Œ 198
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Opinion | A Journal Promised to Retract a Flawed Autism Study. It's Still Online. Junk science leaves an indelible mark

A Journal Promised to Retract a Flawed Autism Study. It's Still Online. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

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