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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · 1d

In my constituent email today, Rep. Rob Wittman admits affordable healthcare is a partisan issue meaning Democrats care about you affording healthcare and Republicans do not. @wittmanwatch.bsky.social @henricodems.bsky.social

Text from an email from Rep. Rob Wittman. Main quote says Democrats have opposed a clean CR to ask for “substantial partisan demands” which implies affordable healthcare is a partisan issue meaning only Democrats care about affordable healthcare.

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · 8d

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

alumni.controlshift.app

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

www.thecrimson.com

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 29d

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · Sep 10

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Sep 7

Can we dump Carville yet?!

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m already seeing it in the grocery aisle $$$

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Aug 30

Seems bad

‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling

Consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,” said Raymond Robertson, a labor economist.

fortune.com

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Aug 10

I think he dragged us all into purgatory with him

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Jul 25

That said, I want to offer an important caveat that all of you probably already know: an EO is not a law, even if many authorities are currently treating them as such. So we shouldn't just accept whatever is asserted in them.

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · May 21

Covid vaccine advisory meeting is 5/22. One deadline for public comment says 5/23 and another deadline within text states 5/21; today’s deadline makes more sense since meeting is tomorrow. Comments can be anonymous.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · May 20

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Regulations.gov

www.regulations.gov

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Apr 5

Well, that’s exciting and unexpected news from my old hometown! Thanks for sharing!

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Apr 5

Inspiring moment at Richmond, VA #HandsOff march today

bluejeanjourneys.bsky.social @bluejeanjourneys.bsky.social · Apr 5

Protest Song by Susan Greenbaum at Monroe Park in Richmond, Va. / April5, 2025

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · Mar 13

US Federal Deficit by President

What they inherited and what they did with it

Source: St. Louis Fed

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · Mar 12

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?

We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Feb 26

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · Jan 23

Need your medicine? Sorry. Trump took it.

Kid didn't get into college? No money. Trump took it.

Disaster aid? Sorry. Trump took it.

and get off your mf high horse about whether it is exactly, technically true in each micro-case.

Trump took it. He took everything. Trump took it.

They will vote.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jan 8

Dear Joe,

I know it feels really wrong to order your AG to release a Special Counsel report because that’s been a bad thing to do for so long. But the Supreme Court says it’s okay now. It’s legal. It’s an official act.

So go ahead, Mr. President. It’s normal now.

~ Everyone

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Virginia Democrats @vademocrats.bsky.social · Jan 7

🗳️ TODAY is Election Day for SD-32, SD-10, and HD-26!

Let’s elect Kannan Srinivasan & Jack Trammell to the State Senate and JJ Singh to the House of Delegates to keep our Dem majority and stand up to Republicans.

Go to iwillvote.com/VA to find your polling place.

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Jan 7

This summary was what I heard in Zuckerberg’s message. He also said that FB is about to become a hellscape similar to X.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Jan 7

Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Jan 7

More from Zuck: "We're bringing back civic content. For a while the community asked to see less politics because it was making people stressed, so we stopped recommending these posts. But it feels like we're in a new era now..."

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Dec 30

I remember pretend voting for President Carter in my 6th grade social studies class which I think started my trajectory as a Democrat growing up in a family of Republicans living in a Republican state. What he stood for spoke to me and shaped my early views on politics. Thank you, Jimmy Carter.

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Dec 17

This is ridiculous. And incredibly sad and frustrating.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Dec 17

Tennessee headlines just from today

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Dec 13

#Okami sequel is officially happening

Hideki Kamiya is the game’s director

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Dec 8

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government appears to have fallen in stunning end to 50-year rule of Assad family after lightning rebel offensive.

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Nov 22

Found it. Mace gets even worse.
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11...

Transgender digital rights activist confronts hate-monger Rep. Nancy Mace at Internet summit

WASHINGTON, DC––Activist Evan Greer (she/they), the director of prominent digital rights group Fight for the Future, was ejected from the Project Liberty “Summit on the Future of the Internet” at Geor...

www.fightforthefuture.org

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Katie Morgan @morgankt.bsky.social · Nov 22

He actually did address it and he and Mace had a back and forth until the moderator interrupted saying they were here to talk about tech. Sorry I don’t have the longer clip but I saw it yesterday.

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