@cherinc.bsky.social
Blue warrior! Former training developer, now retired olβ hippie & political junkie. From CO, landed in the NC Piedmont (blue pontoon in a βred seaβ). Gardening, fishing, music, creating art. Endlessly curious about people & the world. π« DMs
BREAKING: Louisiana Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez defeated her Republican opponent by double digits in the special election Saturday night for a state House seat in a district Trump won by 13 points in 2024.
Martinez won 62% of the vote compared to 38% for her Republican opponent.
I felt like that was himself as a child?
09.02.2026 03:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes but they have to first get control of the House
06.02.2026 02:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Name them
shame them
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
I'm attending No Kings's event, βEyes on ICE: Document and Recordβ - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
04.02.2026 16:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A young prosecutor tells a judge whatβs really going on joycevance.substack.com/p/today-in-c...
04.02.2026 01:27 β π 835 π 248 π¬ 27 π 12Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"
03.02.2026 20:47 β π 24655 π 7087 π¬ 439 π 263AOC on ICE: Itβs our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
03.02.2026 01:26 β π 24368 π 7441 π¬ 480 π 303The king of law firm capitulators was also apparently an Epstein fanboy. www.ft.com/content/e12a...
02.02.2026 01:21 β π 11987 π 5206 π¬ 670 π 322Between seizing ballots in Georgia, trying to leverage Minnesota to turn over its sensitive voter data, and political prosecutions, the DOJ is laying the groundwork to subvert the 2026 elections. I created Democracy Docket for times like this. Help it grow by supporting it now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
30.01.2026 00:30 β π 9022 π 3188 π¬ 161 π 74Maybe DOJ should focus on the law itβs violating, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, instead of speculating a crime might have been committed (despite multiple ballot recounts) in Fulton County or declining to investigate two homicides in Minneapolis?
30.01.2026 00:42 β π 7685 π 2447 π¬ 203 π 84Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino.
They must all resign and be held accountable.
This five year old is still in jail
27.01.2026 13:38 β π 10764 π 5117 π¬ 386 π 247Imagine the reaction on the right if federal agents had killed someone under precisely these circumstances and any non-Trump Administration justified it because the person was carrying a concealed licensed handgun.
As every single βconservativeβ apologist should be asked to address.
Holy shit.
25.01.2026 03:48 β π 32334 π 11086 π¬ 734 π 523Embarrassment
20.01.2026 03:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I recently heard historian Robert Kagan say: βWhat's at risk right now is literally our democracy in the sense that I don't think Trump is going to allow free and fair elections in 2026.β
My job is to fight in court to prove him wrong even while I fear he may be right.
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"6 years old... walking by herself on the street, crying, crying out for her dad, asking, 'Where's Papi? Where's Papi?'..."
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
12.01.2026 01:44 β π 11816 π 4674 π¬ 241 π 285That orange Mussolini thinks WEβRE the dumb ones
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12.01.2026 04:11 β π 13303 π 3297 π¬ 222 π 89I donβt see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?
12.01.2026 04:39 β π 13787 π 2781 π¬ 673 π 198The βprosecute the former regime at every levelβ candidate has my vote in 2028.
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