Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right.
This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.
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Fighting housing insecurity, homelessness, and poverty in Metro-Detroit. University of Michigan MSW. π³οΈβπ Good Vision, Bad Eyes. Personal, not professional account and my views only.
Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right.
This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.
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11.08.2025 21:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More than that, it risks advancements to vaccinations for certain types of cancers, HIV/AIDS, and even more.
06.08.2025 21:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How messed up do you have to be to say that stripping health coverage from up to 16 million people, removing food from kids, and raising taxes on some low-income people is βimmaterialβ?
01.07.2025 11:08 β π 6949 π 2450 π¬ 810 π 286Something that's overrated but most people would probably disagree with you on?
17.06.2025 03:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π¨ Thereβs a lot of horrific news out of Washington right nowβbut you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down whatβs in the bill and why itβs a full-scale land grab. π§΅
Best image of the day:
15.06.2025 02:30 β π 35533 π 9264 π¬ 599 π 490they're having a hard time hiding their boredom
14.06.2025 22:53 β π 29676 π 5545 π¬ 2064 π 724A woman with gray hair holding a sign that says: βWell, we wonβt back downβ¦ No, we wonβt back down! You can stand us up at the gates of hellβ¦ But we wonβt back down!!!β Based on a song by Tom Petty
Three women dressed in Handmaids Tale dresses with the middle one holding a sign that states, βall the jokers dressing up as kingsβ
Man with a beret holding to fingers in the air as a peace sign.
As seen at the Ferndale, MI #NoKings protest today:
14.06.2025 19:58 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
14.06.2025 14:02 β π 16362 π 4074 π¬ 175 π 171Breaking News Pentagon sending hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles to backstop National Guard as Trump escalates feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom noW
I feel like maybe the framing of Trump sending the military to put down protests as a "feud" between Trump and Newsom is a little weird?
09.06.2025 21:32 β π 2853 π 383 π¬ 52 π 70Yes! I fully agree that it minimizes all significance of this unprecedented move by any president
09.06.2025 21:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We need multiple forms of protest, multiple avenues of resistance, many ways to be pushing against these horrors at once.
There are going to start to be more protests, and thatβs good, but we need strikes, slowdowns, document leaks, boycotts. We need loud public voices and refusals to comply.
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03.06.2025 11:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Job Corps has helped countless Michiganders find a career and build a better life. The Trump administration's decision to pause this program will hurt Michigan families and our economy.
As a longtime supporter of Job Corps, I'll keep fighting to protect it.
Expanding HUDβs βMoving to Workβ authority would let agencies raise rents & cut off aid, putting seniors, people with disabilities, and families with kids at greater risk of losing housing. Voucher programs would face eroding funding due to block granting. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
02.06.2025 15:55 β π 9 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0Baldwin to RFK Jr: "Is funding for Alzheimer's research centers DEI? Because you're holding up $65m for 14 of those centers in 9 states, including UW Madison. Is funding for cancer centers DEI? Because you're holding up $47m in cancer center support grants at 9 cancer centers in 8 states."
20.05.2025 14:44 β π 12875 π 3978 π¬ 680 π 237The GOP plan kicks 8.6 million off of Medicaid. Rural hospitals will suffer, kids will lose care & people will get sick, all to give billionaires tax breaks. Medicaid is a promise to take care of each other. Trump wants to break it. Families lose, billionaires win. Iβm a Hell NO!
19.05.2025 17:32 β π 151 π 34 π¬ 15 π 1This budget bill is stealing healthcare, housing, and retirement from seniors and low-income folks to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
19.05.2025 13:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Please do not talk about debt or deficit with the GOP bill. Talk about killing healthcare and billionaire tax cuts.
19.05.2025 13:11 β π 278 π 59 π¬ 7 π 4CFPB employees can't own stocks in companies that the agency regulates. A DOGE employee was warned by ethics lawyers that he held nearly $700K in stock in such companies.
He then carried out mass firings at the agency β including those ethics lawyers.
The corruption couldnβt be any more blatant.
My mom was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in 2013 and after going through a stem cell transplant, she was prescribed Revlimid. She wouldn't have been able to afford the drug if it weren't for a research study and then a patient assistance program. Luckily, 15 years later she is still with us!
08.05.2025 16:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@katieporteroc.bsky.social was doing good work in Congress investigating the HUGE price difference between oral and IV chemotherapy drugs. The prices charged for this are criminal and lead to thousands of unnecessary deaths each year. Limits life expectancy to those who are lucky or have $$$
08.05.2025 16:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My mom was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in 2013 and after going through a stem cell transplant, she was prescribed Revlimid. She wouldn't have been able to afford the drug if it weren't for a research study and then a patient assistance program. 15 years later she is still with us luckily!
08.05.2025 16:05 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day.
Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations.
"Conflict of interest" is an understatement.
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
07.04.2025 15:41 β π 39324 π 6023 π¬ 540 π 248Breaking: Stellantis announces they are immediately laying off 900 American workers at five auto plants across the US because of Trumpβs tariffs.
03.04.2025 15:16 β π 3664 π 1300 π¬ 259 π 163Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A π§΅ to explain his plan and how we fight back.