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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. #BlueCrew Transplanted Virginian to the Foothills of western NC. 💙🇺🇸 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦

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Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · Mar 7

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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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 7h

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL71559895

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 7h

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants’
declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants’ declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
(N.D. Ill.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
into question their ability to accurately assess the facts. Similar declarations were provided by
these same individuals in Chicago Headline Club et. al. v. Noem, 25-cv-12173, Doc. 35-1, Doc.
35-9 (N.D. Ill.), a case which challenged the Constitutionality of ICE’s response to protestors at
the Broadview ICE Processing Center. In issuing its TRO against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
the court in that case found that the plaintiffs would likely be able to show that ICE’s actions
have violated protestors’ First Amendment right to be free from retaliation while engaged in
newsgathering, religious exercise, and protest, and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from
excessive force. Id. at Doc. 43. Although this Court was not asked to make any such finding, it
does note a troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of
appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning,

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

Reading this now. It’s the opinion explaining the reason for granting a TRO (the order came out yesterday) against the National Guard deployment in Illinois. It begins with a quote from Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers against the idea.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 7h

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL71559895

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Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone has a video camera on their phone. Take video of your protests. Your town and especially if you live in one of the "hell scape cities overrun by (the nonexistent) Antifa"
Show the world the lies coming from this corrupt Administration.

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 13h

The #GOPHypocrisy is deep in the 🦇💩🤪 zone.
#GOPDoYourJob
#ProtectHealthcare

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 13h

If true, great.
But who knows if this is actively true.
"More than 19k children from Ukraine have been deported to Russia. Only 1,236 children have been returned to Ukraine. The actual number of children remaining in Russia is likely higher."
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Fact Sheet: Russia’s Kidnapping and Re-education of Ukraine’s Children

Overview of Yale HRL investigations into Russia’s deportation, re-education, and placement of Ukraine’s children.

medicine.yale.edu

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 14h

My heart first goes out to the families & survivors of Israelis who lost loved ones attending a music festival on 10.7.2023.
But also all the Palestinians who have lost families, homes & everything because of Hamas.
At some point Palestine must learn to govern themselves in peace, not hate.

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 14h

#LiarsLie

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

Read what I actually wrote in my post. I said they're hoping you die or give up.

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

Than f'ing Do It!

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

I don't care much about what it says as who signed it?

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent
Well done Fairbanks.

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

..."hoping you'll die"...

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

How can anyone trust the #GOP? They've made promises before and backed out of deals They've made.
No one can trust them.
#VoteBlue
#Resist
The #GOPShutdown is on their hands as they try to kill off Americans with no Healthcare.

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

This is repulsive.
#VoteBlue Virginia.

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1d

NEW AD: Winsome Earle-Sears Makes Disturbing Comments on Reproductive Rights ("Talking about the murder of those who support abortion rights? If Sears said this, what else is out there?") bluevirginia.us/2025/10/live...

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

So who's going to make them leave?

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

Birds of a feather...

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

Just said this to someone else tonight..
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What a crock.
This isn't Hungary.
We have an advantage that most authoritarian countries don't have. 250 yrs of a free democracy. It's amusing to me that this administration thinks they're just going to roll over that with ease.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Thanks, Congress.

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

www.motherjones.com

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Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

Insurance companies just keep denying hoping you'll die or go away and give up.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Seems like the IRS is trying to dirty delete the email saying all employees would receive backpay once the shutdown was over.

You want a fight? You've found it.

We're not backing down, and we know the attempts to deny furloughed feds backpay is illegal.

federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

IRS backtracks on back pay guarantee for furloughed employees

An IRS employee told Federal News Network that earlier guidance emailed to employees on Wednesday was automatically deleted from their inboxes by Thursday.

federalnewsnetwork.com

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Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

Part of.
Hmm

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

He already did. So who's going to tell them to go back to Texas?

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

This
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d

President Trump is using the Justice Department as a weapon against his political enemies. Today NY Attorney General Letitia James was indicted after the president demanded her prosecution. Yesterday James Comey pled not guilty to charges brought against him at the president's request. 1/2

Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d

LOL
What a crock.
This isn't Hungary.
We have an advantage that most authoritarian countries don't have. 250 yrs of a free democracy. It's amusing to me that this administration thinks they're just going to roll over that with ease.