Sharon Ringel
@sharonringel.bsky.social
Proud Mom. Retired systems engineer+program manager worked in telecom. Pro-democracy. Democrat. Flowers, Cooking/Baking, Travel and Dogs.
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Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning
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I'd like to write a history of how this became an actual question
May 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I'd like to write a history of how this became an actual question
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🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
Save Medicaid
Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.
OcasioCortez.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.
MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.
Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
www.wired.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat.
“If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
“If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat.
“If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
“If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
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RFK Jr.’s HHS cuts could hit our region hard—cutting NIH staffing, stalling biotech innovation, hurting our local hospitals, and slashing CDC support for public health. This puts jobs, care, and lives at risk. I’m all for efficiency — but this is destruction.
RFK Jr. announces big cuts to Department of Health and Human Services
In all, the agency will cut 20,000 positions, half of them through layoffs.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
RFK Jr.’s HHS cuts could hit our region hard—cutting NIH staffing, stalling biotech innovation, hurting our local hospitals, and slashing CDC support for public health. This puts jobs, care, and lives at risk. I’m all for efficiency — but this is destruction.
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This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.
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Cried wolf about what? 15 years ago, the Republican Party was indulging the notion that the president was a secret Muslim and that lines had to be drawn between Real Americans and decadent, subversive elites. There was a wolf, there has always been a wolf, and it's eating the republic alive.
Amazing how many intelligent people read the story of the boy who cried wolf and still think that the moral is that the boy should have cried wolf more often
March 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Cried wolf about what? 15 years ago, the Republican Party was indulging the notion that the president was a secret Muslim and that lines had to be drawn between Real Americans and decadent, subversive elites. There was a wolf, there has always been a wolf, and it's eating the republic alive.
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Remember when the Brooks Brother riot shut down the FL recount and installed Bush and then there was torture and the Patriot Act and then John Roberts and Alito and Citizens United. That was cool.
March 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Remember when the Brooks Brother riot shut down the FL recount and installed Bush and then there was torture and the Patriot Act and then John Roberts and Alito and Citizens United. That was cool.
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NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
![I am the immigration attorney for Jerce Reyes Barrios, born in January 16, 1989 in Venezuela. 2. In February and March 2024, Mr. Reyes Barrios marched in two demonstrations in Venezuela protesting the authoritarian rule of Maduro. At the second demonstration, he was detained and taken to a clandestine building where he was tortured (electric shocks and suffocation) along with other demonstrators. 3. Shortly after his release, he fled Venezuela for the United States. He registered with CBP One in Mexico, then presented himself to CBP officials on the day of his appointment. He was taken into custody and detained at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in September 2024. 4. We applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT protection in December 2024. His final individual hearing is set for April 17, 2025 before Judge Robinson at the Otay Mesa Immigration Court. 5. On March 15, 2025, Mr. Reyes Barrios was deported to El Salvador with no notice to counsel or family. It was not until March 18, 2025 that counsel was able to reach an ICE official and learn that he had in fact been deported. 6. Mr. Reyes Barrios was/is a professional soccer player in Venezuela. He has never been arrested or charged with a crime. He has a steady employment record as a soccer player, as well as a soccer coach for children and youth. 7. Initially, Mr. Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa and accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on two things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary and the word "Dies." OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo and the pictures of the logo]. 8. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts and found a photo of Mr. Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifncv2sfxob3h7ozdkoymku3wfpbknlroa6bric46v5y7asbrzrim@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
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This is wild (and also against the law)
So this is the director of the OMB telling Congress very explicitly "it doesn't matter what dumbass appropriations bill you pass, we're gonna do what we want."
March 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is wild (and also against the law)
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Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?
March 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?
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As we watch this, it's important for people NOT to understate the normal Kafkaesque US immigration system. There's a great deal of arbitrariness, and has been for decades.
This is far worse, but check what happens a lot and what does not.
This is far worse, but check what happens a lot and what does not.
While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.
Rubio says the US will now start revoking green cards
March 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As we watch this, it's important for people NOT to understate the normal Kafkaesque US immigration system. There's a great deal of arbitrariness, and has been for decades.
This is far worse, but check what happens a lot and what does not.
This is far worse, but check what happens a lot and what does not.
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Trump humiliates himself globally and our corporate media sanewashes it........again. youtube.com/shorts/pjlxC...
Trump humiliates himself globally and our corporate media sanewashes it........again.
YouTube video by Texas Paul
youtube.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Trump humiliates himself globally and our corporate media sanewashes it........again. youtube.com/shorts/pjlxC...
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.
March 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.
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Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a house with a right-wing preacher, owned by a right-wing car dealer magnate who made his fourth wife watch films of him having sex with prostitutes to "train her."
But Johnson avers he never talks policy with Pastor Berger, who has not registered as a lobbyist.
But Johnson avers he never talks policy with Pastor Berger, who has not registered as a lobbyist.
March 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a house with a right-wing preacher, owned by a right-wing car dealer magnate who made his fourth wife watch films of him having sex with prostitutes to "train her."
But Johnson avers he never talks policy with Pastor Berger, who has not registered as a lobbyist.
But Johnson avers he never talks policy with Pastor Berger, who has not registered as a lobbyist.
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“I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire asshole bosses,” she added.
“.. Musk responded to her, saying: ‘What did you get done last week?’ to which Smith responded: ‘I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.”
@theguardian.com #MNsen
“.. Musk responded to her, saying: ‘What did you get done last week?’ to which Smith responded: ‘I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.”
@theguardian.com #MNsen
‘I’m on the side of the workers’: the Minnesota senator calling out Trump and Musk
Tina Smith is leaving at the end of her term, and says she would call Musk a dick even if she had to face re-election
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire asshole bosses,” she added.
“.. Musk responded to her, saying: ‘What did you get done last week?’ to which Smith responded: ‘I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.”
@theguardian.com #MNsen
“.. Musk responded to her, saying: ‘What did you get done last week?’ to which Smith responded: ‘I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota.”
@theguardian.com #MNsen
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This Repub CR, that they claim will keep the government open, is a perfect example of why you must read bills.
Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.
Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.
Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
March 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This Repub CR, that they claim will keep the government open, is a perfect example of why you must read bills.
Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.
Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.
Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
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Facts
This Repub CR, that they claim will keep the government open, is a perfect example of why you must read bills.
Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.
Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds.
Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️
March 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Facts
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1. This is illegal. The President merely cites Article II of the Constitution to remove civil servants.
2. It is part of a pattern of building a personalist legal infrastructure by making sure key lawyers are loyalists who will say yes to further illegal acts.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
2. It is part of a pattern of building a personalist legal infrastructure by making sure key lawyers are loyalists who will say yes to further illegal acts.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Several top career officials ousted at Justice Department
The terminations are the latest upheavals at an agency where the administration has removed several high-ranking officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
1. This is illegal. The President merely cites Article II of the Constitution to remove civil servants.
2. It is part of a pattern of building a personalist legal infrastructure by making sure key lawyers are loyalists who will say yes to further illegal acts.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
2. It is part of a pattern of building a personalist legal infrastructure by making sure key lawyers are loyalists who will say yes to further illegal acts.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Public health is under attack in America.
Maternal and child health is under attack in America.
Health research is under attack in America.
Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.
Maternal and child health is under attack in America.
Health research is under attack in America.
Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.
Trump’s funding cuts are hitting early-career researchers the hardest
Doctoral students at the University of Illinois Chicago say vital work on maternal health is threatened by Trump’s research funding cuts.
www.wbez.org
March 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Public health is under attack in America.
Maternal and child health is under attack in America.
Health research is under attack in America.
Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.
Maternal and child health is under attack in America.
Health research is under attack in America.
Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.
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I think we will find that the creepy billionaires actually picked Trump’s justices, via their agents the Court-fixer Leonard Leo, his buddy Mark Paoletta, and Koch-backed White House counsel Don McGahn — the price to buy peace between Koch and Trump.
March 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I think we will find that the creepy billionaires actually picked Trump’s justices, via their agents the Court-fixer Leonard Leo, his buddy Mark Paoletta, and Koch-backed White House counsel Don McGahn — the price to buy peace between Koch and Trump.
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This week’s 5-4 win for federal funding was less notable for the 5 than for the 4.
This was payment for contracts the government had agreed to where the work contracted for had been properly performed. How was that not 9-0?
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This was payment for contracts the government had agreed to where the work contracted for had been properly performed. How was that not 9-0?
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March 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This week’s 5-4 win for federal funding was less notable for the 5 than for the 4.
This was payment for contracts the government had agreed to where the work contracted for had been properly performed. How was that not 9-0?
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This was payment for contracts the government had agreed to where the work contracted for had been properly performed. How was that not 9-0?
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