Ryan Bartholomew
@ryanbartholomew.bsky.social
Progressive from Ann Arbor 🌱 | Working to make Michigan a more equitable and just place 🏛️ | Coffee-fueled, policy-driven, and a fan of all things nerdy 🎮 | Views are my own
The already high cost of healthcare is about to skyrocket for millions of Americans, all while health insurance CEOs give themselves another bonus. Healthcare is a human right. Michiganders deserve better and @reprheingans.bsky.social has a plan
Join our office on the MiCare #HealthcareForAll tour!
Join our office on the MiCare #HealthcareForAll tour!
📣 #Yoopers! We're bringing our #HealthcareForAll town hall tour to the UP next week! 👇🏻
✨️ Mon. 10/13, Sault Ste. Marie 6pm
✨️ Tues. 10/14, Marquette, 6pm
✨️ Wed. 10/15, Houghton/Hancock, 7pm
See you there 😎
#MiCare #M4A #MedicareForAll #UniversalHealthcare #SBUHCA
✨️ Mon. 10/13, Sault Ste. Marie 6pm
✨️ Tues. 10/14, Marquette, 6pm
✨️ Wed. 10/15, Houghton/Hancock, 7pm
See you there 😎
#MiCare #M4A #MedicareForAll #UniversalHealthcare #SBUHCA
October 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The already high cost of healthcare is about to skyrocket for millions of Americans, all while health insurance CEOs give themselves another bonus. Healthcare is a human right. Michiganders deserve better and @reprheingans.bsky.social has a plan
Join our office on the MiCare #HealthcareForAll tour!
Join our office on the MiCare #HealthcareForAll tour!
You don’t have to like Kimmel to see what happened was a dangerous assault on the 1st Amendment. The FCC threatening companies to remove comedians for speech the admin doesn’t like is as unAmerican as it gets. If you claim to love free speech, but are celebrating Kimmel’s cancellation, you do not.
September 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
You don’t have to like Kimmel to see what happened was a dangerous assault on the 1st Amendment. The FCC threatening companies to remove comedians for speech the admin doesn’t like is as unAmerican as it gets. If you claim to love free speech, but are celebrating Kimmel’s cancellation, you do not.
If you live in Ann Arbor and haven’t voted yet, please get out there today and vote “YES” on Proposals A and B!
Voting “YES” will expand the downtown library and increase the housing supply in our city, all without raising taxes!
Voting “YES” will expand the downtown library and increase the housing supply in our city, all without raising taxes!
From The Daily: Vote yes on Ann Arbor proposals A and B
This Editorial Board endorses these proposals and believes that the development of this new, multi-use structure would offer many new opportunities to the Ann Arbor District Library and the greater lo...
www.michigandaily.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you live in Ann Arbor and haven’t voted yet, please get out there today and vote “YES” on Proposals A and B!
Voting “YES” will expand the downtown library and increase the housing supply in our city, all without raising taxes!
Voting “YES” will expand the downtown library and increase the housing supply in our city, all without raising taxes!
Don’t let them tell you that you aren’t patriotic if you push back on their hateful agenda. 🧵
July 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Don’t let them tell you that you aren’t patriotic if you push back on their hateful agenda. 🧵
If you haven’t been paying attention, wake the fuck up. Trump is close to invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring martial law to turn our country into a police state. If he can send marines to LA, he can send them to ur community too
Know your rights. They can’t take those away without our consent
Know your rights. They can’t take those away without our consent
June 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you haven’t been paying attention, wake the fuck up. Trump is close to invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring martial law to turn our country into a police state. If he can send marines to LA, he can send them to ur community too
Know your rights. They can’t take those away without our consent
Know your rights. They can’t take those away without our consent
The government is going to collect PRIVATE medical records of people withh autism, including prescriptions, genomics information and smart watch data, and then put people on a LIST.
This is Nazi shit, full stop.
This is Nazi shit, full stop.
RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People
And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.
newrepublic.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The government is going to collect PRIVATE medical records of people withh autism, including prescriptions, genomics information and smart watch data, and then put people on a LIST.
This is Nazi shit, full stop.
This is Nazi shit, full stop.
🚨This should concern everyone, regardless of your politics🚨
If they can disappear innocent people off the street to a concentration camp in a foreign country without due process, they can do it to you too
If they can disappear innocent people off the street to a concentration camp in a foreign country without due process, they can do it to you too
The Emergency Is Here | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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April 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🚨This should concern everyone, regardless of your politics🚨
If they can disappear innocent people off the street to a concentration camp in a foreign country without due process, they can do it to you too
If they can disappear innocent people off the street to a concentration camp in a foreign country without due process, they can do it to you too
The people of Michigan have a message for Trump and Musk - #handsoff We will not give up our country, our democracy, our freedoms, and our future without a fight #fiftyfiftyone
April 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The people of Michigan have a message for Trump and Musk - #handsoff We will not give up our country, our democracy, our freedoms, and our future without a fight #fiftyfiftyone
It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they WON’T. The Trump administration is blatantly sending innocent people to a gulag in another country without due process. This is morally reprehensible and should anger everyone. If they can do this to this man, what’s to stop them from doing it to you?
Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back
Government argues it no longer has control over Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s fate
www.independent.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they WON’T. The Trump administration is blatantly sending innocent people to a gulag in another country without due process. This is morally reprehensible and should anger everyone. If they can do this to this man, what’s to stop them from doing it to you?
Anyone else find it hilarious that Trump and the Republicans cannot comprehend just how unpopular their agenda is? They literally think that the only reason people would show up to protest them is because a billionaire paid them to do it 😂 (never mind Elon actually doing that) 🧵1/2
March 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Anyone else find it hilarious that Trump and the Republicans cannot comprehend just how unpopular their agenda is? They literally think that the only reason people would show up to protest them is because a billionaire paid them to do it 😂 (never mind Elon actually doing that) 🧵1/2
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When Republicans had the majority in MI they spent decades slashing away at public schools and treating Michigan educators like adversaries. Now that they have control of the MI House, they're at it again, this time following the lead of the heinous anti-public education Trump administration.
. @RepMattHall & Michigan House Republicans just endorsed a $7 BILLION gut punch to our kids’ education.
Because that is how much they and the Trump administration gutted just this month from MI Public schools.
MAGA doesn’t want to fix public schools—they want to burn them down.
Because that is how much they and the Trump administration gutted just this month from MI Public schools.
MAGA doesn’t want to fix public schools—they want to burn them down.
March 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
When Republicans had the majority in MI they spent decades slashing away at public schools and treating Michigan educators like adversaries. Now that they have control of the MI House, they're at it again, this time following the lead of the heinous anti-public education Trump administration.
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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
Today, all Michigan House Republicans and 8 House Democrats decided that amidst the rising cost of living, removal of checks and balances, and the detaining of legal permanent residents without due process, we needed to focus on preventing trans girls from playing sports 1/2
March 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Today, all Michigan House Republicans and 8 House Democrats decided that amidst the rising cost of living, removal of checks and balances, and the detaining of legal permanent residents without due process, we needed to focus on preventing trans girls from playing sports 1/2
I cannot stress how dangerous this is. In the United States of America, we do NOT have kings. You could say it’s kind of our whole thing.
You cannot both support Trump’s attempts to consolidate power and consider yourself a patriot. You either believe in the Constitution or you don’t. Period.
You cannot both support Trump’s attempts to consolidate power and consider yourself a patriot. You either believe in the Constitution or you don’t. Period.
February 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I cannot stress how dangerous this is. In the United States of America, we do NOT have kings. You could say it’s kind of our whole thing.
You cannot both support Trump’s attempts to consolidate power and consider yourself a patriot. You either believe in the Constitution or you don’t. Period.
You cannot both support Trump’s attempts to consolidate power and consider yourself a patriot. You either believe in the Constitution or you don’t. Period.
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Every day, more and more Jewish leaders break from decades of silence to reject ethnic cleansing. Thank you to these 350 rabbis using your voices in this moment to oppose Trump’s plans in Gaza and #SayNoToEthnicCleansing.
#GazaIsNotForSale
#GazaIsNotForSale
Today in the New York Times --communal leadership at its most powerful – prominent figures & trusted voices refusing Trump-Netanyahu with clarity and unusual unity in a loving show of solidarity with Palestinians. #saynotoethniccleansing www.saynotoethniccleansing.org
February 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Every day, more and more Jewish leaders break from decades of silence to reject ethnic cleansing. Thank you to these 350 rabbis using your voices in this moment to oppose Trump’s plans in Gaza and #SayNoToEthnicCleansing.
#GazaIsNotForSale
#GazaIsNotForSale
We will not sit idly by while Trump and Musk dismantle our democracy and rob the American people to enrich themselves and their billionaire buddies #BuildtheResistance #50501Michigan #RejectFascism #DefendOurDemocracy
February 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We will not sit idly by while Trump and Musk dismantle our democracy and rob the American people to enrich themselves and their billionaire buddies #BuildtheResistance #50501Michigan #RejectFascism #DefendOurDemocracy
A couple of things:
1. We pay more for 💊 than other countries because we treat healthcare as a business, not as a human right.
2. The cost of tariffs are ALWAYS passed on to consumers. And it is going to hurt
3. Starting unnecessary trade wars with our friends does make us the “stupid country”
1. We pay more for 💊 than other countries because we treat healthcare as a business, not as a human right.
2. The cost of tariffs are ALWAYS passed on to consumers. And it is going to hurt
3. Starting unnecessary trade wars with our friends does make us the “stupid country”
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A couple of things:
1. We pay more for 💊 than other countries because we treat healthcare as a business, not as a human right.
2. The cost of tariffs are ALWAYS passed on to consumers. And it is going to hurt
3. Starting unnecessary trade wars with our friends does make us the “stupid country”
1. We pay more for 💊 than other countries because we treat healthcare as a business, not as a human right.
2. The cost of tariffs are ALWAYS passed on to consumers. And it is going to hurt
3. Starting unnecessary trade wars with our friends does make us the “stupid country”
Remember back to high school civics. There are 4 branches of govt: executive, legislative, judiciary, and the president’s unelected billionaire buddy who gets to control the Treasury Department’s payment systems w/ our $ and most sensitive data because he gave the campaign $250 million. Civics 101
February 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Remember back to high school civics. There are 4 branches of govt: executive, legislative, judiciary, and the president’s unelected billionaire buddy who gets to control the Treasury Department’s payment systems w/ our $ and most sensitive data because he gave the campaign $250 million. Civics 101
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Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
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MAGA yesterday: You LIBS are SICK! How dare you so soon after a crash mention Dear Leader Trump's shakeup at the FAA and how he gutted an aviation safety committee.
MAGA today: THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF BIDEN AND DIVERSITY!
MAGA today: THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF BIDEN AND DIVERSITY!
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
MAGA yesterday: You LIBS are SICK! How dare you so soon after a crash mention Dear Leader Trump's shakeup at the FAA and how he gutted an aviation safety committee.
MAGA today: THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF BIDEN AND DIVERSITY!
MAGA today: THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF BIDEN AND DIVERSITY!
So are we expecting repealing an executive order that lowered the cost of prescriptions for seniors, pardoning people who violently attacked police officers, ending birthright citizenship, and giving nazi salutes behind the Presidential seal to lower the cost of eggs today or is that tomorrow? 🤔
January 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
So are we expecting repealing an executive order that lowered the cost of prescriptions for seniors, pardoning people who violently attacked police officers, ending birthright citizenship, and giving nazi salutes behind the Presidential seal to lower the cost of eggs today or is that tomorrow? 🤔
Amidst a teacher shortage, Michigan House Republicans say teachers should pay MORE for their healthcare as they try to stop the bill lowering their costs from being sent to Governor Whitmer’s desk #MiLeg
January 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Amidst a teacher shortage, Michigan House Republicans say teachers should pay MORE for their healthcare as they try to stop the bill lowering their costs from being sent to Governor Whitmer’s desk #MiLeg
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We introduced our first bill today, HB 4009, to repeal Michigan's preemption on local governments establishing rent stabilization policies. Cities across the state are asking for this because #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh ! #Rent #RentIsTooDamnHigh #A2Renters #MILeg #Michigan
January 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We introduced our first bill today, HB 4009, to repeal Michigan's preemption on local governments establishing rent stabilization policies. Cities across the state are asking for this because #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh ! #Rent #RentIsTooDamnHigh #A2Renters #MILeg #Michigan
So excited to continue working on impactful legislation with this incredible team!
💙🇺🇸✋🏻 Today was the official start of the 103rd Legislature, and I was sworn in by Justice Bolden, accompanied by my Legislative Director, Ryan Bartholomew, and Constituent Services Director, Sean Rositano. We're already working on bills ... 1/2
January 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
So excited to continue working on impactful legislation with this incredible team!
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Big congratulations to Republicans on their first big victory of the Trump era: empowering President Musk to strip funding for childhood cancer research out of the budget.
December 20, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Big congratulations to Republicans on their first big victory of the Trump era: empowering President Musk to strip funding for childhood cancer research out of the budget.