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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

Heres a fact sheet to use if youre calling your GOP reps office staffer who argues with you all morning about the government shutdown, calling it Dems fault. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE CRISIS MYTH VS Fact

REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE CRISIS ● Myth: Action can wait because the health care tax credits don’t expire until Dec. 31. ○ Fact: Notices will go out in the next few days that premiums have more than do...

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

I'm attending Healthcare Not Authoritarianism's event, “MASS CALL- Healthcare Not Authoritarianism: Shutdown Showdown” - sign up www.mobilize.us/healthcareno...

MASS CALL- Healthcare Not Authoritarianism: Shutdown Showdown · Healthcare Not Authoritarianism

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have spent the past nine months selling out working families in order to give tax breaks to their billionaire friends. Now they’re taking us into a governmen...

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

I’m just floored. This is what we’re up against with the GOP.

Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

And then proceeded to tell me that if he attacked Fort Riley, he could be shot. I told him that no one is attacking the military, the military is being deployed against Americans on US soil.

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

When I expressed concern to Rep Manns staffer that Trump called for using the military to fight the “enemy within,” he said, “what’s wrong with that?”

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

Is calling our representatives even worth it? Does it do anything?

Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

He was just parroting the extreme right-wing online rhetoric coming from the radical right.

Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

He said that saying that Medicaid was being used to pay for medical care for "illegal aliens" and that it is acceptable for the military to "defend" itself if it is being attacked. What alternate reality is he in? Why are staffers who work for people who are supposed to represent us arguing?

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 10d

Called Rep Tracey Mann's Manhattan office (KS-1) to express my deep concerns about Trump threatening to use the military to attack the "enemy within" and the government shutdown and the staffer kept arguing with me,

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 12d

I am here for all of this.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 13d

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · 18d

To all my friends in the #CentralValley, please check out the platform that @villegas4congress.bsky.social is running on. I love this campaign video he put out.

Randy Villegas @villegas4congress.bsky.social · 23d

My parents risked everything for a better life. I learned what it means to work hard, to sacrifice, and to push forward even when it meant going without. I’m running for Congress to make sure the families who feed the nation never go without food on our own tables.

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · Jul 28

There’s been a 24% increase in the price of my family’s sunscreen in the last 18 months (after adjusting for size). I wonder what it could be due to? 🧐 #Trump #tariff disasters

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · Jul 28

Love this so much!!

Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · Jul 13

What if #California stopped paying taxes to the federal government? (A question that may not be answerable). Is this legal? California’s economy is enormous and the effects would be immediate if they withheld that money. @governor.ca.gov

Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · Jul 11

Seen at my local Library’s book sale. Says it all.

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · Jun 30

I'm on the Capitol steps with ‪Senator Klobuchar‬ and families who are speaking out against the bill that Republicans are trying to jam through that would take away health care from 17 million Americans.

We are not giving up in this fight.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · Jun 25

The biggest dividing line based on this map is that Cuomo did best in neighborhoods with the most people who have cars while Mamdani won among people who take the subway.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · Jun 25

For a REAL detailed map of how NYC voted, check our map out 😎

www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 25

i gasped on the subway and read this out loud and everyone around me is very happy!!!!

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · Jun 25

JUST IN:

"Tonight was not our night," Cuomo says before adding that he has called Mamdani to congratulate him.

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · Jun 18

I’m not familiar with these bikes. Are they good for kid hauling?

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Hilary @hilarycarter.bsky.social · Jun 18

A cargo bike library sounds SO COOL!

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Federal Workers Against DOGE @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social · Jun 16

#FederalWorkersAgainstDOGE has an official website now! 🎉

We will post all updates and information about events, campaigns, supportive resources and any calls-to-action on our website.

Take a look around and send some words of support to a fed worker while there!

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Home - federalworkersagainstdoge.com

Public Servants. Not Political Pawns.Our government is being hijacked to hurt the very people it’s meant to serve. But there's a secret...If enough federal workers refuse to obey illegal orders, we ca...

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jun 17

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 17

Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

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