Karen
@karsimp.bsky.social
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
Some days I have hope this nightmare will be over soon. Other days I do not.
May 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Some days I have hope this nightmare will be over soon. Other days I do not.
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Make this go viral!
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
March 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Make this go viral!
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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Elon Musk has fired thousands of USDA workers, which could cause grocery prices to rise and invasive species to spread.
DOGE fired food experts, inspectors, entomologists, and more.
Now food could rot in ports or be riddled with invasive pests.
www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
DOGE fired food experts, inspectors, entomologists, and more.
Now food could rot in ports or be riddled with invasive pests.
www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
www.wired.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Elon Musk has fired thousands of USDA workers, which could cause grocery prices to rise and invasive species to spread.
DOGE fired food experts, inspectors, entomologists, and more.
Now food could rot in ports or be riddled with invasive pests.
www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
DOGE fired food experts, inspectors, entomologists, and more.
Now food could rot in ports or be riddled with invasive pests.
www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?! 👇
March 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?! 👇
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I am organizing a resource fair to support federal workers and contractors on March 8th from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Wakefield High School with information on federal workers’ rights, unemployment assistance, mental health support, housing information, and more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8c...
Don Beyer Announces Rising to Meet The Challenge: Resource Fair for Federal Workers and Contractors
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
www.youtube.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I am organizing a resource fair to support federal workers and contractors on March 8th from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Wakefield High School with information on federal workers’ rights, unemployment assistance, mental health support, housing information, and more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8c...
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When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
February 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.
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Even once we have removed this orange turd from the White House, how will our government ever attract talent again? Who will take important jobs knowing a wrecking ball can come through and tear the government apart with some EOs? We need guardrails after we purge the loyalists he's about to place.
February 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Even once we have removed this orange turd from the White House, how will our government ever attract talent again? Who will take important jobs knowing a wrecking ball can come through and tear the government apart with some EOs? We need guardrails after we purge the loyalists he's about to place.
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📌Just talked to a former colleague of mine who now works inside the government helping to keep people fed (re: Farm Bill), who is describing working conditions there as: "Horrid."
📌Where the fuck is the reporting on this? Because A LOT of people are getting hurt. And more WILL BE hurt.
📌Where the fuck is the reporting on this? Because A LOT of people are getting hurt. And more WILL BE hurt.
January 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM
📌Just talked to a former colleague of mine who now works inside the government helping to keep people fed (re: Farm Bill), who is describing working conditions there as: "Horrid."
📌Where the fuck is the reporting on this? Because A LOT of people are getting hurt. And more WILL BE hurt.
📌Where the fuck is the reporting on this? Because A LOT of people are getting hurt. And more WILL BE hurt.
I choose to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King today. Not the other thing!
January 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I choose to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King today. Not the other thing!
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Growing up studying Hitler’s Nazis, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich, never, ever could I have imagined those historic horrors would foreshadow America’s future.
Surrogates advised to stop saying migrants will be placed in camps.
“…avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes,” says one close Trump ally. “Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“…avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes,” says one close Trump ally. “Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps'
Trump’s plan to expel millions of migrants would require massive new camps. His advisers are pressing allies not to call them “camps”
www.rollingstone.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Growing up studying Hitler’s Nazis, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich, never, ever could I have imagined those historic horrors would foreshadow America’s future.
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This is the best description of DOGE - what it is likely to be (an oligarchic project) and what it is unlikely to be (an actual government department) that I have yet read
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
Fake Jobs and Fake Facts
By Misrepresenting Constitutional Law, Muskawamy Prove Brandolini's Law
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is the best description of DOGE - what it is likely to be (an oligarchic project) and what it is unlikely to be (an actual government department) that I have yet read
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...
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Here are the 10 parts of the Federal Budget that Republicans will try to use to pay for new tax cuts...
10 policies Republicans could use to pay for new tax cuts
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have begun floating proposals to boost federal revenue and slash spending so their plans for major tax cuts and new security…
buff.ly
January 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Here are the 10 parts of the Federal Budget that Republicans will try to use to pay for new tax cuts...
Happy New Year! Bring it on!
January 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happy New Year! Bring it on!
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! 🎄 🕎
Our wishlist?
🕰️ Four-day workweek
🏥 Universal healthcare
💰 Paid leave
📝 Free education
🎨 Funding for the arts
🗳️ Fairer elections
🚄High-speed rail
🌳 Climate crisis prevention
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ equality
🌐 Humane immigration
🏢 Cheaper housing costs
And so much more!
Our wishlist?
🕰️ Four-day workweek
🏥 Universal healthcare
💰 Paid leave
📝 Free education
🎨 Funding for the arts
🗳️ Fairer elections
🚄High-speed rail
🌳 Climate crisis prevention
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ equality
🌐 Humane immigration
🏢 Cheaper housing costs
And so much more!
December 25, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! 🎄 🕎
Our wishlist?
🕰️ Four-day workweek
🏥 Universal healthcare
💰 Paid leave
📝 Free education
🎨 Funding for the arts
🗳️ Fairer elections
🚄High-speed rail
🌳 Climate crisis prevention
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ equality
🌐 Humane immigration
🏢 Cheaper housing costs
And so much more!
Our wishlist?
🕰️ Four-day workweek
🏥 Universal healthcare
💰 Paid leave
📝 Free education
🎨 Funding for the arts
🗳️ Fairer elections
🚄High-speed rail
🌳 Climate crisis prevention
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ equality
🌐 Humane immigration
🏢 Cheaper housing costs
And so much more!
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Under Trump’s new tax plan, 95% of Americans will pay more in taxes.
That means 73 million+ people who voted for Donald Trump expecting to get a tax cut will see a tax increase instead.
Inevitably, they will find a way to blame Biden.
That means 73 million+ people who voted for Donald Trump expecting to get a tax cut will see a tax increase instead.
Inevitably, they will find a way to blame Biden.
December 19, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Under Trump’s new tax plan, 95% of Americans will pay more in taxes.
That means 73 million+ people who voted for Donald Trump expecting to get a tax cut will see a tax increase instead.
Inevitably, they will find a way to blame Biden.
That means 73 million+ people who voted for Donald Trump expecting to get a tax cut will see a tax increase instead.
Inevitably, they will find a way to blame Biden.
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Millionaires and billionaires would be perfectly FINE not getting salary for 33 days, or even 333 days.
The average American, folks like you and me working paycheck to paycheck, would not. Do NOT let billionaires make decisions for US.
PASS IT ON.
The average American, folks like you and me working paycheck to paycheck, would not. Do NOT let billionaires make decisions for US.
PASS IT ON.
December 19, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Millionaires and billionaires would be perfectly FINE not getting salary for 33 days, or even 333 days.
The average American, folks like you and me working paycheck to paycheck, would not. Do NOT let billionaires make decisions for US.
PASS IT ON.
The average American, folks like you and me working paycheck to paycheck, would not. Do NOT let billionaires make decisions for US.
PASS IT ON.
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for once Dems should hold firm. let Rs close govt at Xmas. GO ahead, make my day. It's time he is responsible for his own messes.
December 18, 2024 at 11:07 PM
for once Dems should hold firm. let Rs close govt at Xmas. GO ahead, make my day. It's time he is responsible for his own messes.
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This last election showed that not enough people know how tariffs work.
Share around so Americans know they will be the ones paying higher costs. Not China, Mexico or Canada.
Share around so Americans know they will be the ones paying higher costs. Not China, Mexico or Canada.
December 11, 2024 at 8:16 PM
This last election showed that not enough people know how tariffs work.
Share around so Americans know they will be the ones paying higher costs. Not China, Mexico or Canada.
Share around so Americans know they will be the ones paying higher costs. Not China, Mexico or Canada.
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DOGE is nothing more than two billionaires cosplaying as government officials. I’m all for making government for efficient, but these guys just want to slash resources for agencies that help working people.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Democrat Frost slams DOGE: Billionaires ‘cosplaying as government officials’
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized President-elect Trump’s choices to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying it’s “two billionaires who are co…
thehill.com
December 7, 2024 at 4:43 AM
DOGE is nothing more than two billionaires cosplaying as government officials. I’m all for making government for efficient, but these guys just want to slash resources for agencies that help working people.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Agriculture Department orders testing of the nation's milk supply for bird flu.
December 6, 2024 at 8:19 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Agriculture Department orders testing of the nation's milk supply for bird flu.
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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 PM
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
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2 million people work in Florida’s agriculture, at least 1 million are undocumented. It won’t just be the cost of milk and eggs that will go up, it will be the entire food supply chain.
November 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
2 million people work in Florida’s agriculture, at least 1 million are undocumented. It won’t just be the cost of milk and eggs that will go up, it will be the entire food supply chain.
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope"
- Dr. MLK Jr.
- Dr. MLK Jr.
November 15, 2024 at 11:53 PM
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope"
- Dr. MLK Jr.
- Dr. MLK Jr.