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Lisa Maatz

@lisamaatz.bsky.social

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Recovering #DC pol. #ChildlessDogLady #Feminist strategist. Looking for #GoodTrouble. #Advocacy #grassroots #GenderEquity expert. #VotingRights advocate. #DogMom #momsky #Ohio #LakeErie #GoBucks Consultant & speaker. My opinions only, RP≠endorsement.

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Lisa Maatz @lisamaatz.bsky.social · May 15

Only 40% of U.S. households make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.

www.cbsnews.com

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 12h

Tim Miller: People Will Be ASHAMED for Being Involved in This

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Tim Miller: People Will Be ASHAMED for Being Involved in This

twp.ai

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National Organization for Women @nationalnow.bsky.social · 12h

Latinas are one of the fastest-growing demographic groups of people in the U.S. yet they only earn 54 cents for every $1 paid to white, non-Hispanic men. We must do better!

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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 14h

Miller’s goal is to supplant the rule of law with the “rule of Trump,” a personalist form of rule that answers to Trump & no one else.

Pritzker & Newsom see that Trump is a dangerous threat to our way of life & are meeting this moment.

Via @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 15h

Our healthcare system already has too much room for improvement - RFK, Jr. is just the opposite - he's a wrecking ball making it even worse. #MomSky

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Gov. JB Pritzker on Trump: "He likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come and get me."

"What kind of a country are we living in where the President of the United States is targeting his political opponents?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Lisa Maatz @lisamaatz.bsky.social · 17h

From six #surgeonGeneral: "It’s our duty to #warn the nation about #RFKjr.
We took an #oath to declare #dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today." #momsky #Healthcare #vaccines #VaccinesSaveLives www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lisa Maatz @lisamaatz.bsky.social · 17h

Good for them! Sense. Kelly and Gallego got in a confrontation Weds with Speaker Mike Johnson after they staged a surprise press gaggle outside his office to highlight their health care demands and his delay in swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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Lisa Maatz @lisamaatz.bsky.social · 1d

This

Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

If you're the praying sort, throw one up for Dolly Parton. Word is she's not doing well, and fuck, this world needs her goodness in it for a while longer.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

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Lisa Maatz @lisamaatz.bsky.social · 1d

He's such a cowardly hypocrite

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

Lisa Maatz @lisamaatz.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has kept most offices open during the govt shutdown — but not the one inspecting conditions at detention centers www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

ICE closes detention oversight group in shutdown despite surge in detainees

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.

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Some Mother's Torture @somemotherstorture.bsky.social · 1d

These clowns putting on a show for Trump and to deflect from the Epstein files. Josh Hawley. Pam Bondi. Lindsey Graham. All so you stop demanding to know who the child sex trafficking predators are running America! Not working! Keep demanding the release of the Epstein files. For your children!

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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not miserable like Lindsey Graham-I’m Happy-18mths. My owner told the shelter 2kill me so they will if no foster in NY NJ NH NE MA ME DE DC MD PA RI VT PA SAVES ME. I do need training. Rescues can help. Don’t let them kill me! I’m a baby! Pls repost! #dogsofbluesky #fucktrump

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Josh Hawley just lied during Bondi’s hearing today.
He claimed that the Biden Administration “tapped” his phone.
What they actually did was request phone records for the time period around the J6 insurrection. Hardly the same thing.

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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 1d

We can give permanent tax breaks to billionaires but want ordinary people to have "skin in the game"??? This country is broken. #healthcare

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Leavitt: "The government is not receiving any cash"

(Somebody check the tariff shelf!)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

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