KAJ
@kaj77.bsky.social
Midcoast resident, pet owner, lover of animals, Packers, music, books, art, and travel. Deep blue Dem.
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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This Memorial Day, we should contemplate what we’re doing with the nation our heroes fought and died to deliver. Their legacy is in our hands, and we’re not handling it with care.
May 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This Memorial Day, we should contemplate what we’re doing with the nation our heroes fought and died to deliver. Their legacy is in our hands, and we’re not handling it with care.
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Medicaid has helped my mom remain in her home and her community rather than a nursing facility.
The jurassic Medicaid cuts in the Republican budget are heartless, and terrifying for families like mine. - Arielle Bernard-Jacobs @momsrising.org
The jurassic Medicaid cuts in the Republican budget are heartless, and terrifying for families like mine. - Arielle Bernard-Jacobs @momsrising.org
May 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Medicaid has helped my mom remain in her home and her community rather than a nursing facility.
The jurassic Medicaid cuts in the Republican budget are heartless, and terrifying for families like mine. - Arielle Bernard-Jacobs @momsrising.org
The jurassic Medicaid cuts in the Republican budget are heartless, and terrifying for families like mine. - Arielle Bernard-Jacobs @momsrising.org
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Boyle: "Out from CBO, just tonight, are the distributional effects of this bill. And what does it show? The bottom 10 percent of Americans will actually be poorer as a result of this bill with the biggest benefit going to the top 1 percent."
May 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Boyle: "Out from CBO, just tonight, are the distributional effects of this bill. And what does it show? The bottom 10 percent of Americans will actually be poorer as a result of this bill with the biggest benefit going to the top 1 percent."
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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
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Jasmine Crockett: "That's why they hired everybody from Fox because all they're trying to do is put on a show. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody."
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Jasmine Crockett: "That's why they hired everybody from Fox because all they're trying to do is put on a show. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody."
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It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
wrd.cm
May 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.
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Wrote this on Friday about the dynamics that pushed the vote to this weekend. The core theory holds: the more cruel the bill gets to appease the maximum-cruelty Rs, the more public outcry can squeeze the this-could-cost-me-my-job Rs.
So, call. Protest. Make this the biggest story.
So, call. Protest. Make this the biggest story.
The attack on Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the rich is on the ropes… for the wrong reason
Ron Johnson says the health care cuts just aren’t brutal enough
www.benwikler.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Wrote this on Friday about the dynamics that pushed the vote to this weekend. The core theory holds: the more cruel the bill gets to appease the maximum-cruelty Rs, the more public outcry can squeeze the this-could-cost-me-my-job Rs.
So, call. Protest. Make this the biggest story.
So, call. Protest. Make this the biggest story.
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The GOP’s big bill—under consideration this week—would be an accelerator of inequality: It would reduce after-tax income for the poorest 20% of households by 10%, increase incomes for the wealthiest, and impose senseless work requirements for Medicaid, all while increasing the debt by $3 trillion.
May 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The GOP’s big bill—under consideration this week—would be an accelerator of inequality: It would reduce after-tax income for the poorest 20% of households by 10%, increase incomes for the wealthiest, and impose senseless work requirements for Medicaid, all while increasing the debt by $3 trillion.
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It would be unimaginable political malpractice if any Democrat with any kind of political aspirations vote to advance a shady crypto bill to help Trump - especially when the media is so saturated w Trumps crypto corruption stories that it’s even grossing out the - checks notes - the right wing.
When right-wing papers like NYPost and R House Ethics Committee members are calling Trump's crypto deals a 'Hunter Biden-Style Scandal'....
So why would Schumer, Gillibrand, Alsobrooks, Gallego, Warner, and other Dems support a bill making Trump's crypto businesses even more lucrative?
So why would Schumer, Gillibrand, Alsobrooks, Gallego, Warner, and other Dems support a bill making Trump's crypto businesses even more lucrative?
May 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It would be unimaginable political malpractice if any Democrat with any kind of political aspirations vote to advance a shady crypto bill to help Trump - especially when the media is so saturated w Trumps crypto corruption stories that it’s even grossing out the - checks notes - the right wing.
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ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
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And burned 130+alive
April 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
And burned 130+alive
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We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly.
Let’s start today.
Let’s start today.
Announcing Project 2029
The Progressive Blueprint for a Fairer, Stronger Future.
www.thegodpodcast.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly.
Let’s start today.
Let’s start today.
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apnews.com/article/musk... Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade. This…is fighting back.
Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade
Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or r...
apnews.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
apnews.com/article/musk... Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade. This…is fighting back.
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Do this. Say this. 👇🏻
February 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Do this. Say this. 👇🏻
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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
February 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
February 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
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Oh my God if this is true
February 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Oh my God if this is true
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Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.
February 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.
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From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.
February 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.
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People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!
February 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!
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An important read, which lists the kind of actions we need to be pressuring our senators and representatives to be taking in this full on five alarm fire fight.
Fighting the Putsch
Democrats need to throw every possible wrench into the plans of Trump, Musk, and their GOP cultists in Congress
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
An important read, which lists the kind of actions we need to be pressuring our senators and representatives to be taking in this full on five alarm fire fight.