Pamela Bates

No Kings DC
#NoKings
#NoKingsDC

You lose healthcare. They gain yachts. Keep spreading the word.

Now in Franklin Park in DC. #MayDay
#freeKilmarAbregoGarcia

Abrego Garcia’s wife issues statement on domestic violence protective order The wife of a Maryland man who the United States government mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador stood in defense of her husband while acknowledging that she filed for a civil protec…

Yes he’s imperfect. I know it doesn’t matter, but his wife’s statement doesn’t seem to indicate an ongoing domestic violence problem. thehill.com/regulation/c...

Abrego Garcia’s wife issues statement on domestic violence protective order The wife of a Maryland man who the United States government mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador stood in defense of her husband while acknowledging that she filed for a civil protec…

Yes he’s imperfect. But he’s not close to being a wife beater.
#AbregoGarcia
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Your papers please! This is a scene out of a WWII movie.
#ICE
#StopICE
#Amtrak

April 17, 2025 Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...

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Is the tide turning?

Trump Administration Updates: Deportations, Tariffs and the Latest on Meloni

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Van Hollen has met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia!
#Kilmar #kilmarGarcia
#vanhollen

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

April 16, 2025 In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p...

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Trump’s willful disregard for the truth and due process are chilling.

Senator Chris Van Hollen Heads to El Salvador to Check on Deported Immigrant Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, said he had not yet been allowed to see Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and imprisone...

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…Mr. Van Hollen told reporters that the explanation the vice president provided for continuing to keep Mr. Abrego Garcia in detention in the absence of a criminal charge against him was that the Trump administration was paying El Salvador to do so.
#AbregoGarcia

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

Bravo Harvard
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Yes. It is fabulous

#protests

#HandsOff from atop Mt Vesuvius. We cannot join the rally in DC today, but we’re there in spirit.
#april5
#DCRally

March 19, 2025 On the Fox News Channel’s The Five yesterday, the panel of Fox personalities expressed outrage that federal judge James Boasberg had ordered the Trump administration to stop its deportation of migrant...

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#epa
#EpaLayoffs

Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the EPA, …wants to eliminate 65 percent of the agency’s budget. That would be a drastic reduction…that experts said could hamper clean water &wastewater improvements, air quality monitoring, cleanup of toxic industrial sites &other parts of the agency’s mission.

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Because we all need a laugh…https://www.facebook.com/share/1BDfqFXd3F/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

‘Ted Lasso’ Will Return for Season 4 on Apple TV+ Apple TV+ announced on Friday that the Emmy-winning comedy will return for a fourth season. Jason Sudeikis will be back to reprise the title role.

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Scenes from today’s 3.14 Veteran’s Rally in DC. #rally #Veteran #stopthecoup

These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

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Let's Create "Town Hall Night in America" | Washington Monthly It’s time for Democrats to institutionalize our oldest form of democracy. Regular town halls would give the resistance tone and heft.

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A great turnout in front of NIH this morning in Bethesda to protest firings and cuts at NIH. Jamie Raskin did a great job firing up the crowd. #saveNIH #NIH #JamieRaskin

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

These 10 Democrats voted with Republicans to censure Al Green.

Reps. Ami Bera (Calif.), Ed Case (Hawaii), Jim Costa (Calif.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Jim Himes (Conn.), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Jared Moskowitz (Fla.) and Tom Suozzi (N.Y.).

#AlGreen