Christine M
@christine-lcsw.bsky.social
Licensed Clinical Social Worker focusing on integrative somatic psychotherapy, wellness, meditation, qigong and tai chi.
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Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
May 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
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Casar: What we discovered last night, which is really breaking news, is that they’re not just robbing Medicaid—it turns out they’re also planning to rob Medicare of nearly half a billion dollars if they pass this bill.
May 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Casar: What we discovered last night, which is really breaking news, is that they’re not just robbing Medicaid—it turns out they’re also planning to rob Medicare of nearly half a billion dollars if they pass this bill.
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Ansari: I sit on the Natural Resources Committee, where we witnessed the most anti-environment legislation go through. It includes massive giveaways to the oil and gas industry. I discovered that the chairman had purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of oil and gas stocks.
May 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Ansari: I sit on the Natural Resources Committee, where we witnessed the most anti-environment legislation go through. It includes massive giveaways to the oil and gas industry. I discovered that the chairman had purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of oil and gas stocks.
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Tokuda: When you take a look at where the need is, it’s across the country—but especially in red states and red districts, we see a disproportionately high percentage of folks who rely on SNAP to put food on the table, and who rely on Medicaid to make sure their families have access to healthcare.
May 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Tokuda: When you take a look at where the need is, it’s across the country—but especially in red states and red districts, we see a disproportionately high percentage of folks who rely on SNAP to put food on the table, and who rely on Medicaid to make sure their families have access to healthcare.
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Dingell: They are going to rip healthcare away from almost 14 million people. When I was at home, a mother had her child in a wheelchair and started crying on the elevator—she wanted me to promise her that her child would still be able to go to the doctor. Children’s Hospital in Detroit—
May 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Dingell: They are going to rip healthcare away from almost 14 million people. When I was at home, a mother had her child in a wheelchair and started crying on the elevator—she wanted me to promise her that her child would still be able to go to the doctor. Children’s Hospital in Detroit—
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Schneider: Many of the areas they represent have the highest need for support from Medicaid, and many families in those districts rely on SNAP.. But what we’re seeing is Republicans in Congress aren’t representing their districts—they’re kowtowing to Trump.
May 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Schneider: Many of the areas they represent have the highest need for support from Medicaid, and many families in those districts rely on SNAP.. But what we’re seeing is Republicans in Congress aren’t representing their districts—they’re kowtowing to Trump.
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Scanlon: You don’t schedule a meeting for 1 a.m. unless you’re trying to hide something. This bill is terrible. Republicans have been very reluctant to defend what’s in it.
May 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Scanlon: You don’t schedule a meeting for 1 a.m. unless you’re trying to hide something. This bill is terrible. Republicans have been very reluctant to defend what’s in it.
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Clarke: This is a fight over what is right and what is wrong. It is wrong to use this moment to drastically cut the services that the American people need—on top of tariffs, on top of gutting the federal workforce—while people are facing challenges, and then to dismantle healthcare as we know it.
May 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Clarke: This is a fight over what is right and what is wrong. It is wrong to use this moment to drastically cut the services that the American people need—on top of tariffs, on top of gutting the federal workforce—while people are facing challenges, and then to dismantle healthcare as we know it.
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Underwood: This represents the largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history. The largest cut to food assistance in U.S. history. Literally, they are stealing food out of the mouths of hungry kids to pay for a tax cut for billionaires. It is cruel. It is anti-American. And it is just plain wrong.
May 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Underwood: This represents the largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history. The largest cut to food assistance in U.S. history. Literally, they are stealing food out of the mouths of hungry kids to pay for a tax cut for billionaires. It is cruel. It is anti-American. And it is just plain wrong.
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Takano: This bill will hurt veterans. 1.5 million veterans get their healthcare through Medicaid. They are slashing programs to try to pay for these tax cuts—except they’re not actually paying for them. It’s going to create additional deficits, which means all of the cuts are only a partial payment.
May 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Takano: This bill will hurt veterans. 1.5 million veterans get their healthcare through Medicaid. They are slashing programs to try to pay for these tax cuts—except they’re not actually paying for them. It’s going to create additional deficits, which means all of the cuts are only a partial payment.
Another FU to the people by DJT.
Disparate impact liability holds employers and other entities accountable for policies or practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on a protected group, even if the intent of the policy is not discriminatory.
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Disparate impact liability holds employers and other entities accountable for policies or practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on a protected group, even if the intent of the policy is not discriminatory.
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Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. A
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April 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Another FU to the people by DJT.
Disparate impact liability holds employers and other entities accountable for policies or practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on a protected group, even if the intent of the policy is not discriminatory.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Disparate impact liability holds employers and other entities accountable for policies or practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on a protected group, even if the intent of the policy is not discriminatory.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The only President who's rating was worse in the first quarter post WWII was DJT himself.
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April 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The only President who's rating was worse in the first quarter post WWII was DJT himself.
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Keep calling. Keep showing up everywhere they go. Keep shouting at protests.
Be relentless. Don't let them sleep at night. Don't let them walk out a door without us being there. Protest protest protest by every means available to you.
IT'S WORKING KEEP IT UP!!!! #april19 #protests #medicaid
Be relentless. Don't let them sleep at night. Don't let them walk out a door without us being there. Protest protest protest by every means available to you.
IT'S WORKING KEEP IT UP!!!! #april19 #protests #medicaid
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House Republicans are cracking.
12 told leadership they won’t back Trump’s MAGA Medicaid cuts. Why?
Because WE made it politically toxic.
They’re feeling the heat—so turn it up.
Flood their phones.
Blow up their inboxes.
Make them regret coming for our care.
tinyurl.com/Punch-Medicaid
House Republicans are cracking.
12 told leadership they won’t back Trump’s MAGA Medicaid cuts. Why?
Because WE made it politically toxic.
They’re feeling the heat—so turn it up.
Flood their phones.
Blow up their inboxes.
Make them regret coming for our care.
tinyurl.com/Punch-Medicaid
The red lines begin: A dozen House Republicans say no to big Medicaid cuts
A dozen House Republicans are warning GOP leaders that they won’t back a reconciliation package that includes massive cuts to Medicaid.
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April 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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A Reagan-appointed judge just issued a scathing rebuke of the government’s actions in the Abrego Garcia case, warning of a constitutional crisis and executive overreach. This ruling is stunning—because it had to be.
#WilkinsonDecision #RuleOfLaw #AbregoGarcia #FourthCircuit #LegalNews
#WilkinsonDecision #RuleOfLaw #AbregoGarcia #FourthCircuit #LegalNews
Breaking: The Wilkinson Decision: Summoning “The Best That Is Within Us While There Is Still Time."
YouTube video by Andrew Weissmann
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April 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A Reagan-appointed judge just issued a scathing rebuke of the government’s actions in the Abrego Garcia case, warning of a constitutional crisis and executive overreach. This ruling is stunning—because it had to be.
#WilkinsonDecision #RuleOfLaw #AbregoGarcia #FourthCircuit #LegalNews
#WilkinsonDecision #RuleOfLaw #AbregoGarcia #FourthCircuit #LegalNews
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he spoke with the American embassy in El Salvador today and they said that they’d never been told to in any way facilitate the court ordered return of Mr Abrego.
That sure sounds like evidence of criminal contempt to me.
That sure sounds like evidence of criminal contempt to me.
The White House’s blatant disregard of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's order is “sufficient to conclude” that there is probable cause for criminal contempt, Boasberg wrote.
He added that none of the government’s explanations to date have been satisfactory.
He added that none of the government’s explanations to date have been satisfactory.
Judge to Launch Criminal Contempt Proceedings Into Trump Officials
A federal judge says there’s probable cause to hold Trump in contempt for ignoring his order on those immigrants deported to El Salvador.
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April 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he spoke with the American embassy in El Salvador today and they said that they’d never been told to in any way facilitate the court ordered return of Mr Abrego.
That sure sounds like evidence of criminal contempt to me.
That sure sounds like evidence of criminal contempt to me.
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Dem Sen. Chris Van Hollen: El Salvador Government Just Refused To Let Me Visit Wrongly Deported Man
"...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws..."
"...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws..."
April 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Dem Sen. Chris Van Hollen: El Salvador Government Just Refused To Let Me Visit Wrongly Deported Man
"...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws..."
"...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws..."
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Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, tried and failed on Wednesday to secure a meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant and Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and remains imprisoned. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, tried and failed on Wednesday to secure a meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant and Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and remains imprisoned. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
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Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
April 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
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April 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This form will send your opposition to the SAVE ACT to your US senators. Please take time to complete this and let your US senators know that many communities of eligible voters would be unnecessarily burdened by the requirements of the SAVE ACT.
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