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Akemi

@akemerz.bsky.social

Designer and pickleball player. I love corgis, football ⚽, and reading esp. science fiction & fantasy. Here for science, policy, and legal expertise. Pro abortion, women's rights, LGBTQ, and public education. Ok with punching fascists πŸ‘Š

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WATCH β€” @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : β€œMy amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”

Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

12.11.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 21547    πŸ” 7941    πŸ’¬ 515    πŸ“Œ 427

Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.

Please.

06.11.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 29885    πŸ” 5288    πŸ’¬ 2696    πŸ“Œ 622

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 39392    πŸ” 14876    πŸ’¬ 565    πŸ“Œ 658
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 56217    πŸ” 22817    πŸ’¬ 1898    πŸ“Œ 2184
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

05.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 44307    πŸ” 15746    πŸ’¬ 3454    πŸ“Œ 3025
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

01.10.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 31010    πŸ” 9778    πŸ’¬ 686    πŸ“Œ 517
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Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

01.10.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 23650    πŸ” 8050    πŸ’¬ 1736    πŸ“Œ 597

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

30.09.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 40105    πŸ” 12508    πŸ’¬ 812    πŸ“Œ 450

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

29.09.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 14562    πŸ” 4491    πŸ’¬ 791    πŸ“Œ 304
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Our mainstream media is pathetically feckless.

28.09.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7208    πŸ” 2462    πŸ’¬ 444    πŸ“Œ 130

BREAKING: Per MSNBC, Nexstar has ALSO CAVED and will stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! Way to go, everyone!

26.09.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 26850    πŸ” 4956    πŸ’¬ 781    πŸ“Œ 313

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

24.09.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 57659    πŸ” 19501    πŸ’¬ 1853    πŸ“Œ 1009

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

22.09.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 25951    πŸ” 6121    πŸ’¬ 2042    πŸ“Œ 491
Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

18.09.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 29600    πŸ” 7519    πŸ’¬ 372    πŸ“Œ 144
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

i have said this before but when β€œgetting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means β€œyou can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

15.09.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10581    πŸ” 3023    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 75

As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds

Dangerous times

13.09.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 21647    πŸ” 5232    πŸ’¬ 1109    πŸ“Œ 207
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Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."

07.09.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 29124    πŸ” 8539    πŸ’¬ 928    πŸ“Œ 420

The β€œproblem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

04.09.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 26817    πŸ” 7838    πŸ’¬ 581    πŸ“Œ 460
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RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

04.09.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 40490    πŸ” 12072    πŸ’¬ 1121    πŸ“Œ 652

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.

Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

28.08.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 17585    πŸ” 4542    πŸ’¬ 828    πŸ“Œ 351
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Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.

A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.

19.08.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7634    πŸ” 4298    πŸ’¬ 935    πŸ“Œ 399
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Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a β€œslumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.

19.08.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 16266    πŸ” 4893    πŸ’¬ 762    πŸ“Œ 540

Democratic Governors, you have to play hardball.

Red states can't function without your economies.

They clearly want to F around.

It's find out time.

17.08.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 16999    πŸ” 4223    πŸ’¬ 329    πŸ“Œ 178
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Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…

12.08.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7994    πŸ” 2634    πŸ’¬ 170    πŸ“Œ 119

School vouchers are a scam to send taxpayer money to private religious schools. Vouchers are also a violation of church and state.

08.08.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10261    πŸ” 2860    πŸ’¬ 348    πŸ“Œ 129
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

11.07.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6517    πŸ” 3108    πŸ’¬ 386    πŸ“Œ 324
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This is bullshit.

Not only do ICE bounty hunters refuse to identify themselves, they won’t say where they’re taking the people they’re kidnapping.

Deliberately shuffling detainees from facility to facility so families can’t find them & they miss their chance at legal counsel.
(Anaheim, CA)

04.07.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 16016    πŸ” 7096    πŸ’¬ 1657    πŸ“Œ 572

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

03.07.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 101117    πŸ” 22046    πŸ’¬ 3579    πŸ“Œ 935
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64 percent.

03.07.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 15502    πŸ” 6557    πŸ’¬ 1378    πŸ“Œ 477

Republicans pulled an all-nighter to:

-strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans
-take food assistance away from 3 million Americans
-eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids
-send energy costs soaring
-add $3.3 trillion to national debt
-raise health care premiums for seniors

01.07.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5982    πŸ” 2399    πŸ’¬ 306    πŸ“Œ 149

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