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Katie LaBossiere

@kames12.bsky.social

Contracts professional by day, hockey mom the rest of the time. Also a bit of a book worm!

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Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

18.04.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 123958    πŸ” 25877    πŸ’¬ 8178    πŸ“Œ 6024
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your repβ€”this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

09.04.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 34673    πŸ” 17074    πŸ’¬ 1465    πŸ“Œ 1226

Tonight, we forced Republicans to take a simple vote:

Can we all agree that billionaire corporations like Amazon and Tesla - who take home over $1 billion in sheer profit a year - shouldn't get another tax handout?

Republicans said no.

05.04.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5378    πŸ” 1356    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 61
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This is a United States Senator

MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities

BANKS: You probably deserved it

MACK: Why did I deserve it?

BANKS: Because you look like a clown

02.04.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 19149    πŸ” 9326    πŸ’¬ 3855    πŸ“Œ 2071

Give that man all the flowers. Now let’s give to work so his efforts are not wasted πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

01.04.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 295    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

28.03.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 19593    πŸ” 5663    πŸ’¬ 352    πŸ“Œ 312

Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire.

Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would.

They're not fraudsters. They earned it.

How out of touch are you not to realize that?

21.03.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8925    πŸ” 2167    πŸ’¬ 690    πŸ“Œ 164
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πŸ”₯BREAKING: A FEDERAL JUDGE JUST CLARIFIED THAT ELON MUSK, DOGE AND ACTING SOCIAL SECURITY COMMISSIONER LELAND DUDEK ARE SPREADING MISINFORMATION ABOUT HER RULING ON OUR PRIVATE INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY! AMAZING!

21.03.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4046    πŸ” 1639    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 86
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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...

March 19, 2025

20.03.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1674    πŸ” 432    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 55
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...),  posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

17.03.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 60759    πŸ” 17150    πŸ’¬ 1005    πŸ“Œ 484
The Court has read news reports that, in at least one agency, probationary employees are
being rehired but then placed on administrative leave en masse. This is not allowed by the
preliminary injunction, for it would not restore the services the preliminary injunction intends
to restore. Defendants shall state the extent to which any rehired probationary employees are
being placed on administrative leave by MARCH 18, 2025, AT NOON.

The Court has read news reports that, in at least one agency, probationary employees are being rehired but then placed on administrative leave en masse. This is not allowed by the preliminary injunction, for it would not restore the services the preliminary injunction intends to restore. Defendants shall state the extent to which any rehired probationary employees are being placed on administrative leave by MARCH 18, 2025, AT NOON.

Judge Alsup is not amused by reports that people he ordered reinstated were put on admin leave.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

18.03.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12038    πŸ” 3435    πŸ’¬ 292    πŸ“Œ 132

Follow them here @dropkickmurphys.com

18.03.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 301    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2

*this should be all over the news. In every congressional members’ mouth. This should be a call for mass protest.
It is a blatant disregard for a court order, of a blatantly improper & unconstitutional use of power.

So, why isn’t it?

17.03.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.

They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451

14.03.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 31172    πŸ” 7934    πŸ’¬ 1022    πŸ“Œ 453

I know people are concerned about Feds going without paychecks for a while, but this is not our first shutdown, and we have ways to keep our bills paid during a shutdown so we will be ok. But we will not be ok if this CR passes! Please call your senators and ask for no on cloture!! #ShitShowShutDown

13.03.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

Any rep who votes for the CR that Republicans are pushing is not working for you. Just remember that.

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When you hear Elon Musk tell Joe Rogan "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy" you might think, huh, that sounds just like the Nazis. And you'd be right. Warnings that Germans are too sympathetic to others run throughout Nazi propaganda.

06.03.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

07.03.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3909    πŸ” 1528    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 91

"The idiom "jumping the shark" [...] means that a creative work or entity has evolved and reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with or an extreme exaggeration (caricature) of its original theme or purpose." (from Wikipedia)

07.03.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 370    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 3

Please listen and shareβ€”this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.

06.03.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8818    πŸ” 3036    πŸ’¬ 194    πŸ“Œ 124
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Trump administration pauses U.S. military aid to Ukraine The U.S. has been a key supplier of weapons for Ukraine as it continues to fend off the invasion launched by Russia three years ago.

First, Donald Trump blamed Zelenskyy for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Then, he says he β€œtrusts” Putin.

Now, he’s frozen bipartisan military aid.

It’s clear that Donald Trump is putting his fragile ego before our national security β€” siding with Putin over U.S. allies in Europe.

04.03.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4364    πŸ” 808    πŸ’¬ 459    πŸ“Œ 62
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Support Ukraine β­‘ 5 Calls UPDATE (02/28/25): In an Oval Office meeting with President Zelenskyy intended to coordinate a peace plan, Trump and Vance threatened to abandon …

The midterm elections are in 610 days.

πŸ“’ Democracy doesn’t run on vibes. Do something that matters.

☎️ Call your rep and demand they pressure the Trump administration to re-engage with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and commit to security guarantees for our ally.

04.03.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This MF’er just brought Andrew Tate, a rapist and human trafficker, to Florida! 🀬
The hypocrisy is astounding!

03.03.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 27096    πŸ” 6741    πŸ’¬ 1819    πŸ“Œ 412
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The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...

BIG NEW STORY: The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy

01.03.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 436    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 8
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This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

27.02.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 57643    πŸ” 12030    πŸ’¬ 4240    πŸ“Œ 1331
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February 26, 2025 This morning, Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought and Office of Personnel Management acting director Charles Ezell sent a memo to the heads of departments and agencies.

February 26, 2025

27.02.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2492    πŸ” 624    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 66
Graphic with all three campaigns mentioned
The links are in the copy in the post.

Graphic with all three campaigns mentioned The links are in the copy in the post.

Get the word out on these special elections
We win these three and we take the house
No more trifecta
No more BS from Trump
We need people in these districts to step up and fight for it
Contact your friends and neighbors and raise hell
gayforcongress.com
joshweil.us
blakegendebienforcongress.com

27.02.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2020    πŸ” 859    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 41

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

26.02.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6801    πŸ” 3519    πŸ’¬ 420    πŸ“Œ 1221

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