Michelle
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Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care by her doctor because she is "unwed."
Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family.
If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.
Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family.
If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.
Doctor Denies Woman Prenatal Care Because She’s Unmarried
A Tennessee woman was forced to flee her state to seek treatment for her pregnancy.
newrepublic.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care by her doctor because she is "unwed."
Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family.
If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.
Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family.
If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.
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Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS.
How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.
I’ve got a bill to get it done.
How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.
I’ve got a bill to get it done.
Social Security's insolvency date is now a year earlier. Here's how it could impact your benefits.
Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll taxes.
www.cbsnews.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS.
How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.
I’ve got a bill to get it done.
How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.
I’ve got a bill to get it done.
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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
June 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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Not for nothing but if Biden had done this it would be a 2 week story.
Q: Your intelligence community says they have no evidence that Iran is building a nuke
TRUMP: Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?
Q: You director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
TRUMP: She's wrong
TRUMP: Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?
Q: You director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
TRUMP: She's wrong
June 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Not for nothing but if Biden had done this it would be a 2 week story.
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Sen. Mark Kelly: "What happened today to Sen. Padilla was outrageous. It was violent. It's a scary thing to see happen in the United States of America...The Trump administration has arrested a mayor, a member of congress, and a labor leader...That is not who we are as a country."
June 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly: "What happened today to Sen. Padilla was outrageous. It was violent. It's a scary thing to see happen in the United States of America...The Trump administration has arrested a mayor, a member of congress, and a labor leader...That is not who we are as a country."
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Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
June 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
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Our answer is, YES! YA lit is definitely aging up. It’s hard to find any books with 13-15 year main characters.
#youngteenlit
#itstimeforyoungteenlit
#youngteenlit
#itstimeforyoungteenlit
Sessions to note include the posters:
• 10,000 Storytimes: Building Bridges Between Academic, School, and Public Libraries with Read Aloud Picture Books
• Are They Older Than You Think They Are?: Is Popular Young Adult Literature Aging Up?
#alaac25
• 10,000 Storytimes: Building Bridges Between Academic, School, and Public Libraries with Read Aloud Picture Books
• Are They Older Than You Think They Are?: Is Popular Young Adult Literature Aging Up?
#alaac25
Strength in Community: Librarians and Authors Head to ALA Annual in Philadelphia
In difficult times for librarians, authors, and educators across the country, the library and publishing worlds will once again come together to learn from each other and deepen their resolve.
www.slj.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Our answer is, YES! YA lit is definitely aging up. It’s hard to find any books with 13-15 year main characters.
#youngteenlit
#itstimeforyoungteenlit
#youngteenlit
#itstimeforyoungteenlit
Courage in the face of unlawfulness.
Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me.
Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️
Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️
Gov. Evers Releases Message to Wisconsinites Regarding Apparent Trump Administration Arrest Threats
YouTube video by Governor Tony Evers
youtu.be
May 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Courage in the face of unlawfulness.
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social big thanks to you & Kaveh Akbar & @kdlibrary.bsky.social for letting us listen in on your fascinating & entertaining conversation. At last year’s event, Anne Patchett and Kevin Wilson told us their friendship origin story. Hoping you’ll share yours!
May 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social big thanks to you & Kaveh Akbar & @kdlibrary.bsky.social for letting us listen in on your fascinating & entertaining conversation. At last year’s event, Anne Patchett and Kevin Wilson told us their friendship origin story. Hoping you’ll share yours!
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This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.
A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe
Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.
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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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This is the truth. Republicans could put an immediate end to this insanity. They own this.
Republicans in Congress can repeal every tariff tomorrow and take Trump’s tariff authority away from him. But they choose not to. So every Republican in Congress owns EVERY SINGLE BIT of this. You can’t hide from the voters forever.
April 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is the truth. Republicans could put an immediate end to this insanity. They own this.
Yes!
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Yes!
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And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
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Wisconsin State Code §12.11 makes it a crime to offer “anything of value” greater than $1 to induce anyone to vote or refrain from voting. docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/sta...
March 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Wisconsin State Code §12.11 makes it a crime to offer “anything of value” greater than $1 to induce anyone to vote or refrain from voting. docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/sta...
This.
🔥 PETE ON HEGSETH-GATE: “An epic fuck-up… these are not serious people… if there are no consequences, all the bluster from Trump about merit was bullshit… we deserve so much better…”
March 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This.
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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
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The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
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Worth a listen to what Al Green says after he was removed from the chamber.
Thank you, Rep. Al Green!
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
youtu.be
March 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Worth a listen to what Al Green says after he was removed from the chamber.
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Oh, now we're dragging people out of the SOTU.
Democrats, your job is not to be quieter because Al Green got dragged out. It's your job to get LOUDER.
Democrats, your job is not to be quieter because Al Green got dragged out. It's your job to get LOUDER.
March 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Oh, now we're dragging people out of the SOTU.
Democrats, your job is not to be quieter because Al Green got dragged out. It's your job to get LOUDER.
Democrats, your job is not to be quieter because Al Green got dragged out. It's your job to get LOUDER.
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former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
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My biggest piece of advice: share your stories. We are not powerless. We saw how quickly the Trump admin pulled back their initial federal funding freeze order on programs like Head Start and the veterans suicide prevention hotline because YOU spoke out.
Share publicly, share with your officials.
Share publicly, share with your officials.
March 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My biggest piece of advice: share your stories. We are not powerless. We saw how quickly the Trump admin pulled back their initial federal funding freeze order on programs like Head Start and the veterans suicide prevention hotline because YOU spoke out.
Share publicly, share with your officials.
Share publicly, share with your officials.