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Martha S
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9th generation North Carolinian who has the gall to want democracy restored in her state & country
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This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

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Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference September 16, 2025 Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation. Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time. Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost. Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..." And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma. First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or "irregardless. " But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I. The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny. The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us? The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed." That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed. A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme. Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%). The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration. But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.
September 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
When you take a vacation while your constituents are drowning that’s called a Ted Cruise.
July 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Here’s a great way to financially support Ukraine. Is legit. I’ve given. Check it out!
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March 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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One-way
Overwhelming Support for Sending Elon Musk to Mars
The proposed mission received worldwide praise.
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January 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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cantwinvictoryfund.bsky.social
Training an army of losers? Guilty as charged. 💁‍♀️
Thanks @charlotteobserver.bsky.social for highlighting our mission to recruit ‘cant-idates’—brave folks running in unwinnable districts to fight gerrymandering and give voters a choice.
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A new NC group takes on an unusual job: training an army of election losers | Opinion
The group’s goal is to recruit and support what they call “cant-idates” in unwinnable districts.
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January 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Work for Democracy on Instagram: "So much respect for @katebarrcantwin and her new org @cantwinvictoryfund - thanks to Kate’s efforts, citizens like @martha_shafer are currently reading the names of 6...
9 likes, 0 comments - workfordemocracy on January 14, 2025: "So much respect for @katebarrcantwin and her new org @cantwinvictoryfund - thanks to Kate’s efforts, citizens like @martha_shafer are curre...
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January 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Join us Tuesday, Jan 14th. We’re reading the name of every challenged voter in the NC State Supreme Court Race. It will take approximately 17 hours.
January 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Reject RFK Jr. & Dr. Oz for Secretary of HHS and Medicare Overseer
Text SIGN PTGUET to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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November 22, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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raleighreporter.bsky.social
#ncga press conference starting shortly on power shift/Helene bill. Only five seats for reporters, we're not allowed in the other seats you see #ncpol
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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quickfornc.bsky.social
Veto override of HB10 has passed along Party lines with Dems Cunningham, Willingham and Wray voting with Republicans.
November 19, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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carolinaforward.bsky.social
🚨🚨Here we go🚨🚨

Tucked into a "recovery" bill for Western NC, Republicans in the state legislature are using the last days of their lame-duck supermajority to try passing some pretty crazy stuff that has nothing at all to do with Helene recovery.

Let's dive in. 🧵👇
November 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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➡️ National Action Item ⬅️
kindofnerdy.bsky.social Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · Nov 17
"We have 66 days to make the ERA part of the Constitution...Let’s take a stand—call the White House and make gender equality a constitutional right for all. (202) 456-1111 #ERANow" - ERA Coalition
November 19, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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If you call Rep. Carla Cunningham to ask her to reconsider her vote for HB10, you’ll get this vm - “We’re working remotely due to the pandemic, so please send an email rather than leaving a vm. Stay safe, and practice the 3 W’s: wash your hands…” Guess she's on top of things. 🙄
November 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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quickfornc.bsky.social
🧵”Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a ProPublica analysis found.”
#HB10
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
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November 18, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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maryltrump.bsky.social
To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it's not just spinelessness, it's complicity.
November 16, 2024 at 2:46 AM
marthashafer.bsky.social
My grand cats
November 17, 2024 at 3:04 AM