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@emtherese.bsky.social

NC mountains. Dogs and cats. LGBTQ+, antiracist, pro democracy. no DMs

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I’ve seen burritos more supreme than this court

06.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

07.10.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 11972    πŸ” 3116    πŸ’¬ 414    πŸ“Œ 104

BREAKING: We just won in court β€” again.

A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND.

06.10.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7378    πŸ” 1552    πŸ’¬ 231    πŸ“Œ 72
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Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forcesβ€”from any state or DCβ€”to Oregon.

The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

06.10.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3954    πŸ” 1229    πŸ’¬ 113    πŸ“Œ 56
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UNC Professor Accused of Advocating Political Violence Reinstated Dwayne Dixon, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was reinstated Friday after the university performed a β€œthorough threat assessment,” Dean Stoyer, vice chancellor for comm...

www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

06.10.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

06.10.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: β€œA standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

05.10.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4111    πŸ” 1440    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 50
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Opinion | Republicans Are Making Health Care Unaffordable for Young Americans

For all Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

05.10.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you wonder how bad the Epstein Files are for Donald, he had the federal government shut down so you wouldn't find out.

04.10.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4985    πŸ” 1472    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 55

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation.

This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

04.10.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 14217    πŸ” 4364    πŸ’¬ 489    πŸ“Œ 126
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Tells you everything you need to know about who is fighting for you.

04.10.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2396    πŸ” 1135    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 64

This morning, theΒ Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

04.10.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 23937    πŸ” 7418    πŸ’¬ 1460    πŸ“Œ 581

Similar in NC. State Employee heath Plan (managed by Aetna) premiums are tripling. Also, there is a billion dollar budget surplus in NC. But no budget has yet been decided by the do-nothing but bring back firing squads legislature.

04.10.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New KFF poll: Americans want Congress to extend the expiring, enhanced Obamacare credits by a whopping margin of 78% to 22% β€” a remarkable political entrenchment for subsidies that were a heavy political lift for DemocratsΒ just a few years ago, per Politico.

04.10.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1516    πŸ” 516    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 24
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From her lifetime of pioneering work with chimpanzees to her
tireless advocacy for the environment...

Jane Goodall was a one-of-a-kind treasure to the world!

I was lucky enough to be able to thank her personally when our paths crossed not long ago.

Thanks again, Ms. Goodall. You will be missed. β™₯️

02.10.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 22084    πŸ” 2742    πŸ’¬ 354    πŸ“Œ 67
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πŸ‘‡

04.10.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

04.10.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4479    πŸ” 1087    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 33

Yay Fancy!

04.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Harming people by making healthcare unaffordable β€”with particularly dire impacts on rural folksβ€”is not good governance.

04.10.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Guess where Comer, a wealthy man, gets his healthcare? From the government.

04.10.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1383    πŸ” 282    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 5
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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

04.10.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1809    πŸ” 638    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 14
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Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

According to the NYT, the law prohibits images of living people on US currency. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

04.10.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Adelita Grijalva won her special election on September 23rd.

Speaker Mike Johnson still hasn’t sworn her in.

She’s being prevented from governing.

Why? Because she’s the deciding vote to release the Epstein files.

Learn her name.

Call your reps and demand she be sworn in.

04.10.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1101    πŸ” 431    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 20

Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?

04.10.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4840    πŸ” 1698    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 47

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

02.10.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 32274    πŸ” 15542    πŸ’¬ 653    πŸ“Œ 736
A screenshot of two X posts and a news broadcast image. The first post by @GavinNe
... (6h ago) reads: "Translation: 'We're desperately trying to rig the midterms. Our policies are so unpopular, it's our only option left.'" The second post by @Acyn
 (7h ago) reads: "Johnson: We're going win the midterms. Imagine if Democrats took over the house, they'd impeach him," with an attached image of a news broadcast from "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News, featuring a man in a suit speaking, with the text "IT'S ALWAYS UP UNTIL THEN GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN" and a timestamp of 6:27 CT.

A screenshot of two X posts and a news broadcast image. The first post by @GavinNe ... (6h ago) reads: "Translation: 'We're desperately trying to rig the midterms. Our policies are so unpopular, it's our only option left.'" The second post by @Acyn (7h ago) reads: "Johnson: We're going win the midterms. Imagine if Democrats took over the house, they'd impeach him," with an attached image of a news broadcast from "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News, featuring a man in a suit speaking, with the text "IT'S ALWAYS UP UNTIL THEN GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN" and a timestamp of 6:27 CT.

The people will boot you from your office, Mike β€œMoses” Johnson. May your party wander in a political desert long after.

01.10.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2807    πŸ” 519    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 23

ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation

01.10.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 784    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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I listened to Jane Goodall speak at my university in 1988/89.

She leaves quite the legacy. RIP.

01.10.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

01.10.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9490    πŸ” 3515    πŸ’¬ 498    πŸ“Œ 225

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