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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · Oct 10

If you happen to know any local store/restaurant owners, school officials, or other retail merchants, please feel free to share this easy-print door sign template with them.

Printable door sign for local store owners designed to let ICE agents that they are not welcome

It reads:

NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IMMIGRATION AGENTS

[🛑STOP] NO ICE ENTRY

Private Property - Entry Restricted by Law In this Business Without a Judicial Warrant Signed by a Judge

This is a private business -
You are not permitted to enter non-public areas.

You may not search the premises or question employees without proper legal authorization.

Any persons on this property have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

An ICE administration warrant - Form I-200 or I-205 - does not authorize entry into private areas.
In compliance with The Constitution of the United States of America, 4th amendment

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Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 10

No surprise.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

Please start a GoFundMe so you have food. And peace of mind.

Lots of people here on this platform are able to help you. I am on programs, and I understand.

I also live in California so it's really different here for those in crisis. It's better. Much better.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

Agreed. But someone, some organizations have to get food to places like the Mississippi Delta, where so many WIC beneficiaries live. Also West Virginia.

They are human beings! Please do what you can, if you can, to get food there swiftly!!!

Also, school lunches & breakfasts will be affected.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

Please don't panic. Community resources are usually available and if not, there's GoFundMe for food.

SNAP is funded for a good while. And social security is usually unaffected.

The people most in jeopardy are pregnant & nursing women on the WIC program as well as schoolchildren.

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Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

It will affect WIC beneficiaries, school lunch & breakfast programs, food at senior centers, as well as food banks and pantries.

This will harm very vulnerable people but the Republicans are in charge. They did this. It happened 7 years ago, also under Trump.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

Those most likely to be swiftly affected by the shutdown are WIC program beneficiaries, children on school lunch & breakfast programs & seniors in need of food at senior centers & adult daycare centers. Also food banks.

Please check on people who may need food that could stop very soon.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

He's a governor. It's his duty to protect the vulnerable people of his state. Both in the future and right now.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · Oct 1

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

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Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

They just did.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

I'm looking on YouTube for the two shows: where you're his guest, and he's yours.

Doesn't seem uploaded yet.

Hope to see them tonight. Saw the monologs.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

😂

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

It was wrong.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

My dad disapproved, but he let me watch it. I was too young to understand, anyway. But he'd angrily say "funny Nazis? No." He fought them in Europe.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

I'm very sorry for your loss. ❤️

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

And the most important reason is that it really, really annoys 'Dear Leader.'

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

Please, folks, if you can, give generously!!!

Many people on this platform are able to do so.

Thanks Andy. You have a heart of gold.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

And my goodness, his WHOLE STAFF! They are suddenly, in the blink of an eye, out of a job!

Where are they going to go? Colbert? Nope. Comedy Central is very fragile currently; a South Park rerun was pulled because of a Kirk reference. A RERUN! And Matt and Trey are not exactly liberals. #Kimmel

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

#IStandWithJimmyKimmel

putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · Sep 18

#AmericsnStandsWithJimnyKimmel

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 11

No. Speech doesn't cause violence.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 11

The entire world has lost it's mind.

And by the way, it is now 9/11. This century started out bonkers.

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Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 11

I don't want to hear that voice!

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 3

We know how to fix it. Tax the rich. Big time. But they are now so powerful. Musk could actually become a trillionaire!

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 3

True. But the affordability crisis in American cities is quite desperate. People are living in often terrible circumstances.

Robin Markowitz 🇺🇦🌻🍁🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 @rjmrobin.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's just not in the American psyche to be self-reflective.

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