Fred Wellman
@FPWellman
π¨ I am getting a flood of messages from panicked
@DeptVetAffairs
employees that there is a bloodbath unfolding as
@SecVetAffairs
has quietly issued personnel guidance cutting THOUSANDS of jobs. Heavily hit is mental health and suicide prevention providers! They are gutting the VA and veterans healthcare while we aren't looking! Word is they are even gutting the brand new clinic in Fredericksburg, VA that Collins has been claiming credit for building. This is the privatization they've always dreamed of and veterans are going to pay for it!
@RepVindman
#veterans
JFC. The weakening of America continues.
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Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration βcourtβ than the common sight of children βrepresenting themselves.β Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who donβt know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agentsβ orders
βThis is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.β
βTraumatized, humiliated, degraded.β
The nurse, a US citizen, 4β11β, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ‡οΈ
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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TOP & REASONS WHY ICE IS SPOTIFY'S #1 FAN
1) Spotify is running ICE ads in between your favorite songs
2) Spotify claims that ICE recruitment ads DID NOT violate it's ad policies
3) While ICE terrorizes communities, Spotify is helping boost their recruitment efforts
4) Spotify would rather be wrapped in complicity to ICE's terror than refuse ICE ad money
indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they donβt need (or deserve) free advertising for Spotify Wrapped: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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Rancid
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Owner of Whole Foods says food prices are a bargain.
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I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
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Trumpβs USDA is threatening to withhold food stamp funding for 20 Democrat-controlled states if they donβt share recipientsβ sensitive personal data.
Yes: Trump is weaponizing hunger against millions of Americans, including children, to score cheap political points.
The cruelty is endless.
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No, Rep. Jeffries, you really don't have to hand it to Trump.
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This normalizes corruption, feeding the sentiment that both sides suck and so politics is pointless. A Dem party focused on rehabilitating its broken brand would be criticizing Trump and booting out Cuellar. Let the corrupt guys become corporate lobbyists - theyβre dragging our party down.
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Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Thereβs no question mark because I know the answer.
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State governance matters. Let's pay attention.
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Trump used drugs as pretext for illegal killings in the Caribbean, and as pretext for illegal, inflation-spiking tariffs.
But he just pardoned a man who "flooded America with cocaine" and boasted that he'd βstuff the drugs up the gringosβ noses.β
Trump's corruption is endless.
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"donβt fall for the nonsense that Dems do not know what they are for. What we are for is very clear. Democracy. The rule of law. Affordability. Opportunity. Decency. Economic growth that benefits all of us. Real security. The things we have always been for. The things they are attacking every day."
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Join the fight against Trump's GOP redistricting. Blue states like MD can counter Red states' gerrymandering. MD can gain a new Dem seat if the State Senate acts quickly. Maryland Indivisible Consortium (50 grassroots groups) drafted a letter you can send to your state senator.
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Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
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Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.
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(next to a crossed out Home Depot logo) βHome Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump's campaigns.β
(next to a crossed out Target logo) βTarget, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEl goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.β
(next to a crossed out Amazon logo) βAmazon didn't just shower Trump's inauguration with cash -- Jeff Bezos' company pitched facial-recognition tools to
ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime's deportation machine.β
Friends donβt let friends buy from corporations that enable Trumpβs fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
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Something totally different... There is an opportunity to make solar more accessible on a state-by-state basis. Exciting!!
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Tomorrow to Monday - WE AIN'T BUYING IT!
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"Senate Dems revolt against Schumer, form βFight Clubβ for new playbook." thehill.com/opinion/lind...
Keep it up, Sen. Van Hollen!
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Check out mobilize for phone banks. Polling indicates the race is now very close.
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Text reads: House Democrats want you to document and report ICE abuses
bit.ly/tellonice
Visuals show screenshots of the dashboard and an image of a pastor being attacked by ICE in the background
ABOUT DAMN TIME!!! πππ
Dems on the Oversight Committee launched a tracking system βto hold the Trump Administration accountableβ for ICE/DHS fed abuses and misconduct.
View whatβs been documented so far or submit a new report: bit.ly/tellonice
#TellOnICE #StopICE #ICEwatch #ICEraid #50501Movement
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Reminder:
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Join the fight against Trump's GOP redistricting. Blue states like MD can counter Red states' gerrymandering. MD can gain a new Dem seat if the State Senate acts quickly. Maryland Indivisible Consortium (50 grassroots groups) drafted a letter you can send to your state senator.
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Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement
#NoKings 10/18 Made History!!
#BoycottSpotify #BoycottHomeDepot
Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
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