@helenspiro.bsky.social
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“It was not unanimous. I was muted and not allowed to speak.” 🤔
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“It was not unanimous. I was muted and not allowed to speak.” 🤔
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They control all three branches of government, yet all Trump could do in his annual accomplishments speech was yell at Americans.
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
They control all three branches of government, yet all Trump could do in his annual accomplishments speech was yell at Americans.
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There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
RFK Jr. blames pills—not guns—for school shootings
There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
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A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.
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More than half of the immigrants arrested in high-profile ICE operations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and across Massachusetts, had no criminal record, compared with a third of immigrants arrested nationwide.
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
More than half of the immigrants arrested in high-profile ICE operations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and across Massachusetts, had no criminal record, compared with a third of immigrants arrested nationwide.
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The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
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None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
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HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, @ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes.
Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand
Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.
www.newyorker.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, @ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes.
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Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.
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That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
October 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
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Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
They make sure we have clean water.
They protect us from financial fraud.
They provide healthcare to our communities.
They make our government actually work for people.
Do not forget this.
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Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
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A Democratic effort to pass a bill paying active-duty military members during the shutdown was blocked on the House floor by the GOP.
Democratic troop pay bill blocked in House amid shutdown
GOP leaders are seeking to keep pressure on Democrats to reopen the whole government.
www.politico.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A Democratic effort to pass a bill paying active-duty military members during the shutdown was blocked on the House floor by the GOP.
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72% of Americans say they want an enhanced premium tax credit extension.
So let's do our jobs. Let's quickly act to extend the ACA tax credits.
Let's make a bipartisan effort to show the American people that we hear them.
So let's do our jobs. Let's quickly act to extend the ACA tax credits.
Let's make a bipartisan effort to show the American people that we hear them.
Democrats are fighting to preserve an Obamacare tax credit. Without it, a 55-year-old couple making $85K would see their premiums more than triple to $24,535.
October 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
72% of Americans say they want an enhanced premium tax credit extension.
So let's do our jobs. Let's quickly act to extend the ACA tax credits.
Let's make a bipartisan effort to show the American people that we hear them.
So let's do our jobs. Let's quickly act to extend the ACA tax credits.
Let's make a bipartisan effort to show the American people that we hear them.
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Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
October 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate
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So the womens World Cup starts today in India
But someone has decided that while a World Cup is taking place in the country, let’s put a Men’s Test series on at the same time!!
If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about certain boards views to the womens game that does right there
But someone has decided that while a World Cup is taking place in the country, let’s put a Men’s Test series on at the same time!!
If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about certain boards views to the womens game that does right there
September 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
So the womens World Cup starts today in India
But someone has decided that while a World Cup is taking place in the country, let’s put a Men’s Test series on at the same time!!
If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about certain boards views to the womens game that does right there
But someone has decided that while a World Cup is taking place in the country, let’s put a Men’s Test series on at the same time!!
If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about certain boards views to the womens game that does right there
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Humans live in a totally fu** ed up world.
The wealthy have managed to convince everyone that paying zero tax is ok.
The wealthy convince the people because they purchased all of the media. Then the media tells people it’s immigrants fault, or some other dividing distraction.
Humans just nod.
The wealthy have managed to convince everyone that paying zero tax is ok.
The wealthy convince the people because they purchased all of the media. Then the media tells people it’s immigrants fault, or some other dividing distraction.
Humans just nod.
September 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Humans live in a totally fu** ed up world.
The wealthy have managed to convince everyone that paying zero tax is ok.
The wealthy convince the people because they purchased all of the media. Then the media tells people it’s immigrants fault, or some other dividing distraction.
Humans just nod.
The wealthy have managed to convince everyone that paying zero tax is ok.
The wealthy convince the people because they purchased all of the media. Then the media tells people it’s immigrants fault, or some other dividing distraction.
Humans just nod.
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Breaking: Comey charged, as part of Trump's Hitleresque retribution plot
America is now a failed democracy. We live in a dictatorship headed by a broken-brained imbecile www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
America is now a failed democracy. We live in a dictatorship headed by a broken-brained imbecile www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Federal prosecutors charge James Comey with obstruction, following pressure from Trump to act
The charges come just days after President Donald Trump publicly implored his Justice Department to quickly seek indictments of his perceived foes and ousted a U.S. attorney who resisted.
www.politico.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Breaking: Comey charged, as part of Trump's Hitleresque retribution plot
America is now a failed democracy. We live in a dictatorship headed by a broken-brained imbecile www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
America is now a failed democracy. We live in a dictatorship headed by a broken-brained imbecile www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Of course the POS isn't a "Leftist" - the miscreant shot innocent immigrants, you know, the immigrants that all the MAGAts hate. www.thedailybeast.com/family-says-...
Family Says Dallas ICE Shooter Was Not A Radical Leftist
A relative has commented on the suspect’s political views.
www.thedailybeast.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Of course the POS isn't a "Leftist" - the miscreant shot innocent immigrants, you know, the immigrants that all the MAGAts hate. www.thedailybeast.com/family-says-...