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Andrea P Straus

@andipete.bsky.social

I’m a daughter, a sister and a mother. Here to bear witness.

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Evergreen.

09.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 375    🔁 55    💬 7    📌 4
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

09.11.2025 21:30 — 👍 1968    🔁 1354    💬 157    📌 202

@baldwin.senate.gov Please hold the line!! Without the ACA tax credits my monthly health insurance premium will jump from $90 to over $1,200!

09.11.2025 22:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A federal judge issued a stark warning about what he called an “existential threat to democracy” in a forceful first-person essay published Sunday. He revealed that he resigned from the bench to freely speak out against Trump,

09.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 1604    🔁 407    💬 20    📌 5
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Adelita Grijalva was elected 9/23 but still not sworn in. Her vote could trigger release of the Epstein files. Mike Johnson is stalling till after the 12/2 TN race. If Van Epps beats Behn, his vote cancels hers & blocks the release.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles 📂
#SwearInAdelita ✋🏽
#StayWoke #Pinks 🌸

09.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 55    🔁 50    💬 6    📌 0
Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions

Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions

But next year, without those subsidies, she says her premium is set to soar to $1,758 a month — far outside her budget.
“I have to face the reality that I am probably going to become a late-stage cancer patient who’s uninsured,” Montgomery said. “I have fought this so hard. I want to live.”
Now on daily oxygen and getting scans every three months, she says she’s at high risk for recurrence. Without insurance, those lifesaving treatments will be out of reach.

But next year, without those subsidies, she says her premium is set to soar to $1,758 a month — far outside her budget. “I have to face the reality that I am probably going to become a late-stage cancer patient who’s uninsured,” Montgomery said. “I have fought this so hard. I want to live.” Now on daily oxygen and getting scans every three months, she says she’s at high risk for recurrence. Without insurance, those lifesaving treatments will be out of reach.

At 63, Montgomery is facing a relentless battle with lung cancer. Since 2022, she’s undergone multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, relying on her ACA marketplace plan to cover the mounting costs. Thanks to enhanced subsidies, her premium this year was $541 a month — just manageable with Social Security Disability and a part-time job.

At 63, Montgomery is facing a relentless battle with lung cancer. Since 2022, she’s undergone multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, relying on her ACA marketplace plan to cover the mounting costs. Thanks to enhanced subsidies, her premium this year was $541 a month — just manageable with Social Security Disability and a part-time job.

“I am probably going to become a late-stage cancer patient who’s uninsured..I have fought this so hard. I want to live”

Sunni Montgomery’s health insurance jumped from $541/mo to $1,758/mo

90% of Americans will see premiums soar

But MAGA Republicans shut down the government instead of fixing it

09.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 142    🔁 75    💬 4    📌 4
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Fredericka Turner (@mambo_fredericka) on Threads Joyce Carol Oates posted this about Elon Musk, but it’s apropos of Trump as well.

www.threads.com/@mambo_frede...

09.11.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pamela Terry (@pamelaandedward) on Threads I adored this book by Helen MacDonald, and cannot wait for the film, especially with these two splendid actors. Something to look forward to. 💙 . . #movie #film

www.threads.com/@pamelaanded...

09.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trump's job growth numbers keep declining in 2025...

Compared to Joe Biden in 2022 to 2023

Trump's job growth numbers keep declining in 2025... Compared to Joe Biden in 2022 to 2023

Trump's failure as a President shows in the job market...

Trump's job growth numbers keep declining in 2025...

Compared to Joe Biden's job growth numbers in 2022 to 2024...

That's why votes this week overwhelmingly rejected Trump's failed economic policies...

08.11.2025 18:09 — 👍 32    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 0
listen up, Republicans: the correct answer to ‘how much Nazi is the right amount of Nazi’ is, of course, ZERO NAZI.

Nazism is repugnant, and everything Nazis stood for should be rejected. I can’t believe I even have to explain this to you shitwits. we fought a whole fucking war about this, remember?

listen up, Republicans: the correct answer to ‘how much Nazi is the right amount of Nazi’ is, of course, ZERO NAZI. Nazism is repugnant, and everything Nazis stood for should be rejected. I can’t believe I even have to explain this to you shitwits. we fought a whole fucking war about this, remember?

WHY THE FUCK ARE REPUBLICAN DUMB-ASSES ARGUING OVER JUST HOW MUCH NAZISM IS AN ACCEPTABLE AMOUNT OF NAZISM WITHIN THEIR OWN PARTY? SPOILER ALERT: IT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS FUCKING SUCK, THAT'S WHY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4otbkDN

09.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 907    🔁 229    💬 20    📌 10

Wisconsin Gov. Evers responded to Trump’s order with one word: NO.

09.11.2025 18:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Witnesses testify to alleged unsanitary, squalid conditions inside Broadview ICE facility The question on Tuesday was, what happens inside the walls of the Broadway immigration detention center where attorneys, politicians and protesters have been turned away? The stories from court are sh...

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"It's very clear that the conditions are horrific, and everyone is experiencing some of the same degradation," said MacArthur Justice Center Lead Attorney Alexa Van Brunt.

Every Republican should be in prison for this! Crimes against Humanity!

09.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 228    🔁 157    💬 8    📌 0
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

09.11.2025 09:23 — 👍 8330    🔁 5648    💬 724    📌 1404
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FEDWATCH: “.. The chaos is escalating, with 3,800 flight cancellations since Thursday, and some states reporting a 40- to 60% increase in visits to food banks. Some of the disruption is evident in private sector weekly economic indicators .. and even the price of electricity.”

09.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 1557    🔁 711    💬 78    📌 55

#SlavaUkraini

09.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s Time We Took Hippie Women Seriously Long before girl bosses and trad wives, these countercultural women embodied female power. Let's give them their due.

Complicated hippie women, have hard-earned wisdom to share. We pretty accurately represent the confusing & contradictory reality of womanhood today.
Don’t dismiss the boomer hippies.

Read, relate, learn.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3c69ruw4

09.11.2025 17:28 — 👍 247    🔁 99    💬 12    📌 5
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'Can of worms opened' as ex-Trump official flags 'Epstein connection you don't know about' There is a "hidden Epstein connection you don't know about" and it's related to the shutdown, according to Donald Trump's previous white house communications chief.Anthony Scaramucci, who previously s...

Timothy Mellon gave Trump 130 million to pat the military during the #TrumpShutDown As Scaramucci says not only is it illegal but it has an Epstein connection as well. It seems Mellon’s father is all over the Epstein flight logs.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
www.rawstory.com/trump-267427...

09.11.2025 02:55 — 👍 410    🔁 264    💬 20    📌 11
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Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:

First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.

Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

08.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 11243    🔁 3857    💬 481    📌 215
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BREAKING: Shots Fired at Federal Agents in Chicago, Supreme Court Blocks SNAP Payments as Flights Halt, Trump Parties at Mar-a-Lago Nov 8 | SNAP funding halted, shots fired in Chicago, Trump hosts party amid shutdown

open.substack.com/pub/centered...

09.11.2025 02:38 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

But Venezuela needs 40 billion

What the actual fuck

08.11.2025 22:43 — 👍 105    🔁 70    💬 6    📌 1
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Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.

Indiana is a state where gun laws have lead it to be a hub for straw purchases and firearm trafficking.

The other consequence is allowing people to own a deadly weapon with no training and no permit.

This needless and senseless death was completely avoidable and awful gun safety practices.

08.11.2025 20:31 — 👍 34    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 1
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NEW: Ignoring Pope Leo’s Warning, Trump-Vance White House Bans Prayer Vigils at ICE Facility Trump-Vance officials told Church leaders “no more prayer” outside a Chicago-area detention center — just days after Pope Leo warned the White House was trampling religious liberty.

open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

08.11.2025 22:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE ARMOR: How to Stay Clear-Headed, Steady, and Unbreakable When Authoritarians Try to Wear You Down Paid Subscriber Edition: What elite operators, resistance movements, and survivors of the unthinkable can teach us about staying strong in a moment designed to wear us out.

open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...

08.11.2025 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@lakemichiganreal on Threads Don’t doubt me humans. I have skills 🌊🌊

www.threads.com/@lakemichiga...

08.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What comes up when you see this line to get into Gavin Newsom’s Houston Texas rally?

08.11.2025 19:24 — 👍 903    🔁 240    💬 59    📌 22
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Unholy Trinity: The Gospel of Power From Washington to Moscow, immunity has become the new oil — traded in secrets, priced in silence.

open.substack.com/pub/joycemst...

08.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent news! 💙

08.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BREAKING: Trump Lets Hungary Buy Russian Oil — Funding Putin’s War on Ukraine Instead of condemning Russia’s invasion and brutal aggression on Ukraine — Trump and Orbán smile and keep the money flowing to Moscow.

open.substack.com/pub/levremem...

08.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was groped in broad daylight in Middle School in 1973… nothing has changed.

08.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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