Dr. Yamit Lavi
@yamitlavi.bsky.social
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It’s almost like who you vote for matters…
The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
It’s almost like who you vote for matters…
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Dominion's offshore wind project, which the Trump administration has frozen, would deliver two and a half gigawatts of capacity to a regional grid (PJM) in which prices are currently out of control. This administration is making your electricity more expensive. Period, full stop.
Prices hit new highs in PJM electricity auction
Escalating costs across mid-Atlantic states are fueling concerns about the artificial intelligence boom's effect on energy affordability.
www.eenews.net
December 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Dominion's offshore wind project, which the Trump administration has frozen, would deliver two and a half gigawatts of capacity to a regional grid (PJM) in which prices are currently out of control. This administration is making your electricity more expensive. Period, full stop.
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For speed and efficacy, @resist.bot has set up a text option to encourage your representative to sign the discharge petition: Text SIGN PBWMIZ to 50409
September 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
For speed and efficacy, @resist.bot has set up a text option to encourage your representative to sign the discharge petition: Text SIGN PBWMIZ to 50409
You can use 5calls.org for a script to call your reps!!
Despite D.C. crime at a 30-year low, Trump is abusing emergency powers to deploy the National Guard
August 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
You can use 5calls.org for a script to call your reps!!
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Donald Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill would be a disaster for American health care. People will get sicker, people will go into medical debt, and people will die.
I will be voting NO.
I will be voting NO.
July 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Donald Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill would be a disaster for American health care. People will get sicker, people will go into medical debt, and people will die.
I will be voting NO.
I will be voting NO.
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Senate Republicans just passed the Big Ugly Bill, which contains
- Massive tax cuts for billionaires
- Tax hikes for working Americans
- 17 million lose health care
- The biggest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP ever
- Higher energy costs
- Trillions in debt
It comes to the House now. We will fight this.
- Massive tax cuts for billionaires
- Tax hikes for working Americans
- 17 million lose health care
- The biggest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP ever
- Higher energy costs
- Trillions in debt
It comes to the House now. We will fight this.
July 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Senate Republicans just passed the Big Ugly Bill, which contains
- Massive tax cuts for billionaires
- Tax hikes for working Americans
- 17 million lose health care
- The biggest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP ever
- Higher energy costs
- Trillions in debt
It comes to the House now. We will fight this.
- Massive tax cuts for billionaires
- Tax hikes for working Americans
- 17 million lose health care
- The biggest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP ever
- Higher energy costs
- Trillions in debt
It comes to the House now. We will fight this.
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🚨Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 🚨
Some real talk:
We still have a small shot TOMORROW. Republicans are going to do everything they possibly can to get the Senate bill passed tomorrow. They expect it to pass.
There is still a chance to stop them. Go to social media;call your Reps. Do whatever you can to stop the bill. We have 24hrs.
We still have a small shot TOMORROW. Republicans are going to do everything they possibly can to get the Senate bill passed tomorrow. They expect it to pass.
There is still a chance to stop them. Go to social media;call your Reps. Do whatever you can to stop the bill. We have 24hrs.
really does feel like if we can cyberbully the House into passing changes on the shit they openly hate and get it kicked back upstairs again there’s a chance it might not survive the Senate a second time
if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life
if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life
July 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🚨Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 🚨
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If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.
Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
June 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.
Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
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The Senate Republicans’ tax plan would add nearly $3.3 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. It was never about “saving money”.
June 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Senate Republicans’ tax plan would add nearly $3.3 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. It was never about “saving money”.
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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
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"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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DOGE’s expenses have now ballooned to around $175 million in just 12 weeks.
April 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
DOGE’s expenses have now ballooned to around $175 million in just 12 weeks.
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NEW from @johnphudson.bsky.social: No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
April 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
NEW from @johnphudson.bsky.social: No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The U.S. Department of Energy could be losing nearly *one-fifth* of its staff in the coming days.
Read @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the upcoming bloodbath.
Read @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the upcoming bloodbath.
The Coming Bloodbath at the Department of Energy
More than 2,500 employees have applied for a buyout program. The departures, if approved, could gut the agency’s in-house bank and manufacturing office.
heatmap.news
April 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The U.S. Department of Energy could be losing nearly *one-fifth* of its staff in the coming days.
Read @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the upcoming bloodbath.
Read @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the upcoming bloodbath.
EO's are not laws! While they are significant, the president cannot just tell states what to do!
This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
Protecting American Energy From State Overreach
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
April 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
EO's are not laws! While they are significant, the president cannot just tell states what to do!
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A sad day for America—Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist, has been arrested by ICE, not for any crime, but for his political activism. The Trump administration claims he was involved in “pro-terrorist” activities, yet no formal charges have been filed.
March 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A sad day for America—Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist, has been arrested by ICE, not for any crime, but for his political activism. The Trump administration claims he was involved in “pro-terrorist” activities, yet no formal charges have been filed.
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Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient: "Work has ground down to a stunning degree and management is spending a significant amount of time responding & preparing to respond to the chaos incited by the never ending barrage of EOs & accompanying memos"
Many make no sense🧵
Many make no sense🧵
March 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient: "Work has ground down to a stunning degree and management is spending a significant amount of time responding & preparing to respond to the chaos incited by the never ending barrage of EOs & accompanying memos"
Many make no sense🧵
Many make no sense🧵
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when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
www.wired.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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I 💗 NPR so no shade, but I am glad that the media has *finally* 👏👏👏👏 picked up what we’ve been laying down for at least a week (?? Hell if I know - all I know is that it feels like day #9999 of this regime but it’s only actually like day 29 or something)
www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...
DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up
A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.
www.npr.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I 💗 NPR so no shade, but I am glad that the media has *finally* 👏👏👏👏 picked up what we’ve been laying down for at least a week (?? Hell if I know - all I know is that it feels like day #9999 of this regime but it’s only actually like day 29 or something)
www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...
This was not a "mistake" @washingtonpost.com - this was all part of the Trump admin's intentional plan to "traumatize federal workers" and create chaos to break the federal government. Stop lying to your readers.
The Trump administration is racing to fix mistakes after some agencies fired probationary employees who had accepted the deferred resignation offer for federal workers.
These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired — creating a government ‘mess.’
The Trump administration is racing to fix mistakes after some agencies fired probationary employees who had accepted the deferred resignation offer.
wapo.st
February 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This was not a "mistake" @washingtonpost.com - this was all part of the Trump admin's intentional plan to "traumatize federal workers" and create chaos to break the federal government. Stop lying to your readers.
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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...