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marmelrom.bsky.social
@marmelrom.bsky.social
Loving nature, art, all the animals (including humankind). Working moment by moment to see the goodness. Do what small things I can to push back on those that would do harm.
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Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are planning to write a $15 BILLION check to Meta simply for existing — paid for by cutting health care for millions of Americans.

They care more about helping billionaire corporations than helping you.
Republicans in Congress are planning to write a $15 BILLION check to Meta simply for existing.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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June 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The level of bald-faced, open racism that we are now seeing is simply gobsmacking.

Far worse than anything I can remember in the US in my lifetime.
June 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Amen. This is what any moral society would do. 👇
Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book? 

The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
June 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.
June 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.

But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?
newrepublic.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.

Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
June 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way.

Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
June 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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It is obscene to give tax breaks to the top 1% by throwing more than 16 million people off health care, cutting nutrition for hungry kids and making it harder for working class young people to go to college.

That is exactly what Trump's budget reconciliation bill does.
June 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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All the UN members walked out during #Netanyahu’s speech! 👏
June 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Exclusive: Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García.
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Bounty. Hunters.
Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
June 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”

🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.

Brilliant timing.
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Well, this we can agree on, even Senator Thom Tillis is calling out his own colleagues: “Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who don’t really give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail,” the North Carolina Republican wrote.
June 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Whenever in my lifetime, a lawmaker, a public servant had been assassinated, every siting president, regardless of party, would have attended their funeral, expressed condolences to the family, tried to comfort them, their community and the country.
I really miss that grace, that compassion
June 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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June 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Mark Warner: "It will move us as a nation aback to the same percentage of uninsured we had before Obamacare. It's not like these people are not gonna get sick. They're gonna show up at the emergency room. Rural hospitals are gonna shut down ... it's cruel"
June 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend
After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
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June 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Our country already faces massive wealth inequality.

Trump’s bill makes it even worse.
June 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Another notch in the great @abreezeclayton.bsky.social’s belt. Great news all around.
Shock announcement: NC Senator Thom Tillis just announced he is retiring, less than 24 hours after he opposed starting debate on his party’s mega bill.

His seat is up in 2026, and having it be an open seat sure changes the calculus and Democratic chances of flipping it.
June 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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JUST NOW: Sheldon Whitehouse speaks on the Bill Ugly Bill: “This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is a rotten racket. This place feels to me today like a crime scene. The midnight transfer of wealth in this bill is disgusting”
June 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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June 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Rounding people up and shoving them into vans without due process is wrong.

Period.
June 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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If Medicaid is cut my brother will lose access to the medicine keeping him alive.
So will others
How is this not a conspiracy to commit murder?
'G.O.P. BILL HAS $1.1 TRILLION IN HEALTH CUTS AND 11.8 MILLION LOSING CARE'

That's our headline for the day.

Make sure everyone sees it, hears it, and knows it.

GIFT ARTICLE to share far and wide.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Meanwhile, the same folks who want to put the Ten Commandments in schools are building a concentration camp surrounded by alligators.
It’s notable that the Venn Diagram of a) people who think America is a Christian nation and b) people who are excited about violently expelling auslanders and creating tens of millions of stateless people, is close to a circle.
June 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM