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Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸
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Political Junkie, Retired ITGeek, & Pagan. Science & Facts Matter. Pay attention to what they Do, not what they say. Actions speak louder than words.
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Transplanted Virginian to the Foothills of western NC.
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My New PSA - 03/25
I just want to warn folks if you followed me today, Thank you.
However, there's no guarantee you'll be following me tomorrow. I review all my follows.
If you're selling or scamming, hateful or just an ass, only repost & never put skin in the game, your blocked. Bye.
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Well, it's official. My son's ACA insurance will Triple in premium costs. For a health 23yo, that's a whole lot of money. 😡
December 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This says a lot about politics vs compassion.
Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
December 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The government is very deliberately NOT trying to deport Mr. Abrego Garcia. Since August, he has been asking them to deport him to Costa Rica, yet the Trump admin keeps refusing to do it (and lying about why) because they want to send him to Africa to punish him. Here's how Judge Xinis summed it up.
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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This is what he says when doesn’t care about the people who died
December 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Over 7.5 million women in the U.S. have used mifepristone for medication abortion since its 2000 FDA approval.
It's 4x safer than penicillin and ten times safer than Viagra.
www.cnn.com/health/abort...
December 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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There is nothing illegal about valuing an inclusive culture. No single group has a monopoly on “merit.”
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
Stephen Miller-Backed Group Files Federal Complaint Against NFL 49ers Over DEI -
Reporting by Nancy Levine Stearns, December 14, 2025 A legal group co-founded by Stephen Miller filed a federal complaint on Tuesday against the National Football League (NFL)'s San Francisco 49ers ov...
www.impactivize.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Everyone have a good Sunday. Time for Football!!
#GoCommanders 💙🏈
#GoPanthers 💙
#GoWhoeverPlaysDallas 😃👍
December 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Murphy: Trump on ‘deliberate campaign to make violence’
Murphy: Trump on ‘deliberate campaign to make violence’
On the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, Sen. Chris Murphy accused President Donald Trump of being “in the pocket” of gun lobbyists.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The contrast between News and Propaganda is stunning.
What Democracy Docket and CBS News are focused most closely on.

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December 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you don't like the tRump Police State gathering ALL your Private Data from Fed & State Gov't resources, or using Traffic cams & Surveillance Cams to use Face Recognition on everyone out in public to monitor what you do or who you talk to, than you might want to read this. 😡
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Bears repeating. Lessons from Dr Snyder’s book On Tyranny.
December 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm told by FedEx that all the proper pre-authorized docs were provided to U.S. Customs on Dec. 4th. They even have a confirm. receipt. So, I'm going to assume tRump's DOGE Bros gutted customs to the point of chaos & gutted staffing to near nothing. I've never waited this long for a package. 😡
December 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The government is using face-scanning apps to check if random people on the street are citizens. And they say you cannot refuse.

Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:
Lessons from Trump’s “war” on Chicago
ICE and Border Patrol agents terrorized the city, and locals fought back.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is a big issue here in NC. If you don't want tRump having your personal & voting data, tell your State Reps to block this attempt to invade your privacy. 😡
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🖋️ “State Legislators: Stop Federal Seizure of Voter Data” hit 250 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PWBGRC to 50409
State Legislators: Stop Federal Seizure of Voter Data
Text SIGN PWBGRC to 50409 — I am writing to urge you, as a state legislator, to speak out publicly and take concrete action against the Trump Department of Justice’s expanding lawsuits seeking unredacted voter registration data from the states. The DOJ has now sued at least eighteen states—including Massachusetts and Nevada—for refusing to turn over voter rolls containing highly sensitive personal information. These demands go far beyond what is publicly available and include home addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers. This effort represents an unprecedented federal intrusion into state-run elections and a serious threat to voter privacy. The Constitution assigns primary responsibility for administering elections to the states. That authority carries with it a duty to protect voters from unnecessary exposure of their personal data. By attempting to centralize state voter information through litigation, the DOJ is asserting a level of federal control over elections that states of both parties have rightly rejected. Independent reporting confirms that this is not an isolated action. The DOJ has pursued voter data from dozens of states and local jurisdictions, escalating to lawsuits when states refuse. This pattern suggests a coordinated attempt to compile a nationwide store of sensitive voter information—something without modern precedent. The privacy risks are severe. Collecting driver’s license numbers and Social Security digits at scale dramatically increases the risk of data breaches, identity theft, harassment, and politically motivated targeting. Once this information leaves state control, voters lose meaningful protection over how their data is used or misused. No federal assurance can undo the harm of exposure. Beyond privacy, this effort risks undermining free and fair elections themselves. Access to unredacted voter data would enable mass voter challenges, fuel false claims of fraud, and facilitate new barriers to voting, including proof-of-citizenship schemes that disproportionately burden working-class voters, students, and communities of color. State officials across the country—Democrats and Republicans alike—have stated plainly that the DOJ lacks legal authority to demand this information. Their resistance reflects a shared understanding that protecting elections means protecting voters, not surrendering their data under threat of litigation. State legislators must not remain silent. I urge you to: • Publicly oppose these DOJ lawsuits • Affirm your state’s constitutional authority over elections • Support legislation strengthening voter data privacy protections • Stand behind state election officials defending voters in court This is a defining moment for federalism, privacy, and democratic self-government. Please be outspoken and decisive in defending the voters you serve.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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6 House Democrats joined House Republicans to vote to make it easier for corporations to dump toxic sewage in drinking water:

Jim Costa
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Adam Gray
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power in democracy-eroding ways. Our latest guide for litigators equips lawyers with the strategies, arguments, and citations they need to push back. bit.ly/48MyFJV 
Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
www.brennancenter.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Everyone needs to be aware of these efforts.
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Over the last 11 months, one crisis has been ongoing. I have repeatedly warned that the Republican voter suppression and election-subversion machine continues to grind on. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The Greatest Threat to Democracy
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Birthright citizenship has been part of our constitution for over 150 years. The Trump administration wants to change that. Here are the facts: bit.ly/44Tm6Mn
Birthright Citizenship Under the U.S. Constitution
The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
www.brennancenter.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It just takes a minute to write your representatives in Congress and demand they fund the ACA.
I did.
✍️ Signed! You're #1,259!

You should too.
🖋️ “Vote Today: Support a Clean ACA Extension, Oppose Harmful Riders” hit 1,000 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PELAKZ to 50409
Vote Today: Support a Clean ACA Extension, Oppose Harmful Riders
Text SIGN PELAKZ to 50409 — With enhanced ACA premium tax credits set to expire at the end of this year, millions of Americans are facing catastrophic premium spikes—thousands of dollars per month for many families. The Senate is now preparing to vote on extending these credits, a vote forced as part of the agreement to reopen the government. This extension is essential, and I urge you to support a clean renewal of the ACA premium tax credits without delay. Unfortunately, Senate Republicans have now introduced the Crapo-Cassidy bill as their counterproposal. While marketed as a plan to address premium spikes, the bill is filled with provisions that would dramatically restrict access to both abortion and gender-affirming care, and would destabilize health coverage nationwide. These provisions must not become bargaining chips in any negotiation. The Crapo-Cassidy plan: • Replaces ACA premium subsidies with small HSA deposits that do nothing to offset real premium increases. • Bans HSAs from covering gender-affirming care for people of any age. • Strips gender-affirming care from the ACA’s Essential Health Benefits, allowing insurers to drop coverage entirely. • Bans Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care, cutting off the only affordable option for many low-income trans Americans. • Includes new abortion-related restrictions, embedding an ideological agenda inside what is supposed to be a health-care affordability bill. These provisions have no place in must-pass health legislation. They are not about solving premium spikes—they are part of a long pattern of attempts to weaponize health policy against transgender people and those seeking reproductive care. Similar riders appeared in earlier GOP proposals, in shutdown negotiations, in defense bills, and even in the so-called “big beautiful bill.” Each time, these attacks have been rejected. They must be rejected again. We should not allow Republicans to hold affordable health care hostage in exchange for stripping medically necessary care from entire groups of Americans. Gender-affirming care is life-saving and recognized as medically necessary by every major U.S. medical association. Abortion care is essential health care. No extension of ACA subsidies should be conditioned on denying people the care they need. Congress must act now to prevent a nationwide premium crisis and protect millions of families from financial devastation. A clean extension of the enhanced ACA tax credits is the only responsible path forward. I urge you to: 1. Support a clean, immediate renewal of ACA premium tax credits. 2. Oppose the Crapo-Cassidy bill and any health-care proposal that includes restrictions on abortion or gender-affirming care. 3. Reject all attempts to use transgender health care or reproductive rights as bargaining chips in essential health-care negotiations. Affordable health care should not be a battlefield for ideological attacks. Protect the ACA. Protect families. Protect medically necessary care for every American.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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We try to keep our fundraising asks to a minimum, but we have about $450,000 to raise before the end of the year to prepare for the midterms and support our groups on the front lines of the fight against the regime. Pitch in if you can to help fuel our nationwide organizing against authoritarianism.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Wagner: He’s an Afghan aid worker who spent 20 years supporting U.S. projects. When Kabul fell, he had to flee because the Taliban never looked kindly on that work. They’ve lived here peacefully, contributing to their community… and then Trump decides to exploit a national tragedy.
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I signed this one.
You should too.
✍️ Signed! You're #1,334!
December 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM