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Promoting democracy, literacy, education, science, & facts. Read your local 📰 . Do NOT send me DM if I don’t know you. Immediate block will be my only response. No crypto, porn/no “only fans.” No “go-fund-me.”

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jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · Dec 17

Hold onto this.

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · Dec 17

What would you have done when Nazis were putting Jewish people in ovens?

Would you have stood up? Would you at least have spoken up?

Do you care about the fate of our immigrant community?
If you do, please share this:
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Lives are at stake! Stand up!

Five Things to Do If ICE Tries to Enter Your House or Vehicle - The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

If ICE comes to your home, do NOT open your door, whether it be to your house or apartment or car. Ask the agents for a warrant either on the window or under the door. Regardless of what they say or g...

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jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 1m

We’re paying for their vacation, btw. #GOPShutdown

Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 2h

House Republicans have been on vacation for 21 days.

The government is shut down and health care costs are exploding.

Cancel the vacation, and let’s get back to Washington. We have work to do.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 1m

OUR government has is closed b/c there’s NOT ONE GOP member who will stand up for us. They are afraid of the wrath of the adjudicated rapist/convicted felon THEY failed to legally remove. #RepublicanShutdown

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 2h

It’s Day 10 of the Trump Shutdown.

The government is closed because Republicans don’t want to provide healthcare to working-class Americans.

Extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits NOW.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 3m

Republicans don’t care about our national security, they are silent while it’s dismantled. They don’t care if ppl can get access to healthcare. Ernst said it aloud. They don’t care if kids starve.

Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11h

Real security is funding for hospitals and health centers.

Real security is making sure that Americans can see a doctor when they’re sick without worrying whether they can make rent.

Real security is paying our military AND protecting health care.

This isn’t real security.

Screenshot of headline reading: Senate passes mammoth annual defense policy bill

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 5m

More money to bomb little boats in the ocean without evidence of a crime, killing ppl.

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 12h

In the middle of a government shutdown—while millions of Americans face down dramatic increases in their health care premiums—the Senate just voted to send another $900 BILLION to our already bloated pentagon budget. Disgusting.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 8m

They are DELIBERATELY, w malicious intent, making it worse, if not impossible.

Congresswoman Susie Lee @susielee.house.gov · 12h

For Nevadans like Corina, health care is already too expensive. But instead of working across the aisle to lower costs, Republicans in Washington want to make the situation worse. (1/3)

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 9m

Share your story.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 12h

Were you recently furloughed? Have you gotten notice that your health insurance premiums are going up? Tell me how you’ve been impacted by this Republican shutdown.

I want to hear your story, so I can better fight for you! Thank you for sharing.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 9m

He doesn’t care..

Congresswoman Nanette Barragán @repbarragan.bsky.social · 12h

Speaker Johnson and Republicans continue to ignore the concerns of military families — like the brave service-member’s wife who told the Speaker this morning that their refusal to act will have devastating impacts on her family.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 10m

Be difficult to be a member of something that doesn’t actually exist. “Turning Point” is apparently another RW terrorist group.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 15h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 12m

This “Christian” has broken every oath, each “commandment,” & creates as much fiction as the most prolific writer. If “no kings” is “hate America,” our Founding Fathers have some choice TRUTHS to share w the little hypocritical “Speaker.”

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson renamed the Oct. 18 No Kings Day - the “Hate America Day” on Fox News. In his poor attempt to discredit the anti-Trump movement, he fails to mention that the protests will be nationwide and not just in DC. Anyway, thank you for the free advertisement.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 18m

The adjudicated rapist/convicted felon sitting in our WH is lying & whining, ad nauseum, of course. As only a malignant narcissist can, he believes the world should revolve around him.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 55m

There is no semblance of cognitive thought with him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 57m

That isn’t new. Remember WP used to count his lies & stopped somewhere during his first assault on our nation at > 30K? Now, if he runs out of lies, he has J D Vance.. who admits if he can’t find something hateful, he’ll create it.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 1h

Making our energy bills more expensive b/c of trump’s continued incompetence, ignorance, & misguided allegiance to lies of oil companies… and, of course, their money.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1h

The US is canceling a huge solar project in Nevada, the latest effort by President Donald Trump to limit renewable energy development

US Cancels Major Solar Project in Nevada Biden Had Championed

The US is canceling a huge solar project in Nevada, the latest effort by President Donald Trump to limit renewable energy development.

bloom.bg

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 8h

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 14h

“Satire is the most powerful weapon in a democracy because it forces people to laugh at their leaders, and once you make people laugh at authority, you’ve won.” - Lenny Bruce and others @diaperdiplomacy-m.bsky.social

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 8h

The Republican Shutdown. They are responsible.

Debs Kaye @debskay2298.bsky.social · 8h

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Americans Are About to Feel the Government Shutdown

Airport delays and IRS closures are just the beginning.

www.yahoo.com

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 8h

I love it.

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 9h

I hereby nominate the Portland Frog for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 1d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 8h

TY, Senator. We know the Republicans don’t care how many ppl r w/o medical care, or even have a facility in which to receive it. Ppl r already dying b/c of the ignorance of GOP, including some of the senators who r doctors.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 8h

The sexual predators are too numerous to count in this corrupt DOJ/regime.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10h

What? The former lawyer for Andrew Tate who also would tweet out glowing praise for Andrew Tate... is reported to have done an extremely creepy thing regarding a woman?

How surprising.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t trust the “Dirty Half-dozen.” They are each liars. They lied to the senate & they are lying to us. They swore an oath to uphold the law & our Constitution. They failed.

justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 9h

The Supreme Court begins a term that will examine Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power www.kfyrtv.com/2025/10/08/s...

The Supreme Court begins a term that will examine Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power

The Supreme Court on Monday began a new term that will have a sharp focus on President Donald Trump's robust assertion of executive power.

www.kfyrtv.com

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 10h

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Randy Bryce @ironstache.bsky.social · 1d

Does the camera person get his student loans forgiven the same as ICE officers do?

We’re at the “show me your papers” stage.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 10h

They’re going to cave in 3 minutes.

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 13h

Several Republicans - including current and former governors - have spoken out with concern about the president's deployments.

List of Republicans Sounding Alarm on Trump’s National Guard Moves

www.newsweek.com

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 10h

The guy is going to go home & hug his partner, kiss his kids, after this abuse of humanity?

🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 16h

This is so hard to watch 😢

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 10h

ATTENTION

Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 10h

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jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 10h

So we don’t need “adenochrome,” as we liberals now have “medbeds” which we’ve hidden? Then it’s conspiracy theorists who have addictions to “deep state” drugs? This is what the adjudicated rapist is planning to sell on “trump rx?” It’s tough to keep up w the felon-in-chief’s delusions & grift. 😜😱🤷🏼‍♀️

jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 11h

They’re ALL corrupt. Every member of the adjudicated rapist’s/convicted felon’s “cabinet,” a REAL cabal.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...