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hanovervadems.bsky.social @hanovervadems.bsky.social · 10h

Republican Rep. Rob Wittman is trying to double our monthly health care costs to fund a billionaire tax cut.

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hanovervadems.bsky.social @hanovervadems.bsky.social · 10h

Healthcare premiums are going to double for hundreds of thousands of Virginians at the hands of Trump, Wittman, McGuire, and the Republicans.

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hanovervadems.bsky.social @hanovervadems.bsky.social · 10h

Republican Rep. Rob Wittman is trying to jack up our health care premiums by 114% to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

Democrats won't let it happen.

#VoteDemocratic

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 11h

Good news.

"M.I.T. became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment."

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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804ThePeople @804thepeople.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Democrats in the 804! Hanover County needs us 👇🏼👇🏼

hanovervadems.bsky.social @hanovervadems.bsky.social · 5d

Looking to get involved with electing Democrats in Hanover?

Here are opportunities:
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2025 Events & Volunteer Opportunities with the HDC

Important 2025 Election and Other Events & Volunteer Opportunities with the HDC and beyond PO Box 22 Ashland VA 23005 https://www.hvadems.com/ Hello Hanover Dems and Supporters! Let’s SAVE OUR COU...

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Ray Glennon OFS @rayglennon.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping after the GOP lies that the No Kings Protests on Oct 18th are by anti-American, Antifa terrorists.
Cc: @radiofreetom.bsky.social @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @thebulwark.com @adamkeiper.com

Ray Glennon OFS @rayglennon.bsky.social · 2d

Sobering and insightful must watch by @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Trump’s anti-fascist roundtable: “When they say they are going after Antifa what they mean is they are going after the broad center. They’re going after civil society… (and) individuals. snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-...

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)

Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

snyder.substack.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

Frustration toward SCOTUS building even among Republican judges. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Four dead, 12 injured after a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, following a homecoming football game. (NYP)

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 2d

I really don't get Earle-Sears' pearl clutching here.

Hers and the MAGA Republican platform is ENTIRELY focused on making it legal again to discriminate with impunity against everyone who isn't white rich male healthy Republican straight Christian.

They've been very open about this.

Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 3d

Winsome Earle-Sears — that is, in fact, discrimination.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

Trump wants you to worry about Antifa, which is about as real as Bigfoot

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is our gestapo.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 2d

So brutal and so cruel.

ICE is our gestapo.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 2d

In the case of sports, VHSL had a very thorough, fair, evidence-driven process in place.

And the previous VDOE guidance was the same and tied very specifically to legislation.

Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed that attacks on the rights of transgender kids, and other minority groups should be acknowledged as such, but is the solution really to leave it to the localities to decide if they want to take away certain people's rights & discriminate locally or not? That won't end well for many people.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 3d

I wish this were not true, but, unfortunately, most Republicans no longer care about polls or public opinion.

Why would they when they are destroying democratic processes and processes that facilitate accountability?

Majorities disapprove of RFK Jr. performance, doubt autism-Tylenol claims, KFF poll finds • Virginia Mercury

WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans disapprove of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s job performance and the federal government’s evolving vaccine policy, according to a poll...

virginiamercury.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 3d

I felt this had to be said.

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Rachel Levy @rachellevy.bsky.social · 3d

This shows all the more that we all must vote Democratic up and down the ballot.

Our rights & freedoms depend upon it.

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