Retired Principal
@tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social
Educator, Grandma, Volunteer, Democracy Advocate
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“The proposal that is now sitting before the Senate [gives ICE and CBP more funds]. Instead of cutting those agencies another big check from taxpayer money, Congress should use its constitutional power over spending to pull back the funding it gave DHS in July.”
www.justsecurity.org/130972/exper...
www.justsecurity.org/130972/exper...
Expert Survey on DHS, CBP, and ICE Reforms
Experts detail targeted reforms and legislative pathways Congress could enact to improve ICE and CBP accountability.
www.justsecurity.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
“The proposal that is now sitting before the Senate [gives ICE and CBP more funds]. Instead of cutting those agencies another big check from taxpayer money, Congress should use its constitutional power over spending to pull back the funding it gave DHS in July.”
www.justsecurity.org/130972/exper...
www.justsecurity.org/130972/exper...
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
While foreign-born citizens and noncitizens account for just 17 percent of the adult workforce, they make up 28 percent of the total direct care workforce open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma
It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care of our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM
While foreign-born citizens and noncitizens account for just 17 percent of the adult workforce, they make up 28 percent of the total direct care workforce open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
February 2, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.
January 30, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.
The administration is appealing to the MAGA racist and Christian nationalist base by demonstrating that it is willing to violate the Constitution to impose MAGA’s ideology on the nation.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 30, 2026
As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrativ...
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The administration is appealing to the MAGA racist and Christian nationalist base by demonstrating that it is willing to violate the Constitution to impose MAGA’s ideology on the nation.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The most grievous cultural wound has been the loss of a shared moral order.
Time to Say Goodbye www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
Time to Say Goodbye www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
Opinion | Time to Say Goodbye
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The most grievous cultural wound has been the loss of a shared moral order.
Time to Say Goodbye www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
Time to Say Goodbye www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
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Thank you, Mr. President.
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Thank you, Mr. President.
January 25, 2026 at 2:54 PM
January 23, 2026 at 1:39 AM
“Board of Peace”: Trump is the Joker putting together an axis of evil. Where is Batman?
January 21, 2026 at 2:40 AM
“Board of Peace”: Trump is the Joker putting together an axis of evil. Where is Batman?
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
January 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
January 17, 2026 at 5:58 PM
the U.S. has sold $500 million worth of Venezuelan oil and is keeping the money in Qatar rather than in U.S. banks open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 15, 2026
You know what Americans aren’t talking about very much today after Trump’s threat to detonate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) this week and his threat this morning to invoke the Insurrec...
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:51 AM
the U.S. has sold $500 million worth of Venezuelan oil and is keeping the money in Qatar rather than in U.S. banks open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Rather than tampering their bloodlust, the events in Minneapolis last week seem to have strengthened and radicalized the president’s personal military. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Who Will Be ICE’d Next?
Donald Trump’s paramilitary force of losers keeps brutalizing Americans, the latest in Iran, and it’s awfully lucrative to call the president a pedophile protector?
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Rather than tampering their bloodlust, the events in Minneapolis last week seem to have strengthened and radicalized the president’s personal military. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
January 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
The worst thing that Maduro did is just what Trump is beginning to do: killing civilians and blaming them for their own deaths. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The worst thing that Maduro did is just what Trump is beginning to do: killing civilians and blaming them for their own deaths. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
What we’re seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It’s governing by reality TV and today that recklessness cost someone their life. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 7, 2026
This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapoli...
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
What we’re seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It’s governing by reality TV and today that recklessness cost someone their life. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...