Cherie F.

Cherie F.

@cheriefoster.bsky.social

Doer, community, family, friends, cats, good causes, recovering editor. My son is an immigrant, my pastor's gay, and for sure I'm not an enemy of the people. #Democracy 🫠⚾🏊‍♂️🇬🇹🇬🇹 #resist

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(202)224-3871 This is the number of the Senate Armed Forces Committee. Call them. Hegseth is a bad cartoon character. He has decapitated the leadership ranks. depleted strategic stockpiles, squandered billions & targeted civilians & infrastructure while failing to take care our people. #Hegseth

JD Simkins@jdsimkins.bsky.social

Families of sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln spoke to Military Times about multiple incidents in which sailors have attempted to go overboard amid the ship's extended deployment in support of combat operations in the Middle East

Why does baseball hate loyal fans who live in rural areas with dubious internet? Why? Especially, when we already pay for a satellite baseball package. Really. screw these guys. #homerunderby

#orchids #caturday #gardening Even Bobby is enjoying these bigbox salvaged orchids from last year. In a Florida winter when not even heaters could save some fancy orchids, celebrate the survivors. (or think about taking a big bite out of them.)

It's going to be the best year ever for the North-Central Florida peach-eating squirrels. They can have the fruit, but ah, the blossoms, they're mine. #gardening

#orchids, doing their thing (indoors so I may enjoy the beauty) despite Florida's Jekyll and Hyde winter. I wish my cats didn't love oncedium leaves as much as I love this plant's pretty color.

The most worthless three words in the US vernacular are now any variation of, US officials say...

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Who are the “two US officials” and why would CBS give them anonymity when they are just putting something out there that DHS and ICE obviously wants put out. Who are these “US officials” and why are they granted anonymity???

I sincerely hope her family can reap enough in a defamation settlement from these shameless ghouls that her kids are able to pay full freight at the universities of their choice.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

There's an editing error here. Should read "Trump has made bigotry a centerpiece of his administration." instead of: Trump has made eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts a centerpiece of his administration

The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, but visitors will receive free admission on President Trump’s birthday. Trump has made eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts a centerpiece of his administration. cnn.it/4pWGZ0W

How horrible are you if you are excluded from the memorial for one of history's truly horrible people?

🌽 Tales from the Cornfield 🌽@childrenofthecorn.bsky.social

No one with a brain wants to deal with the Trump - Vance circus at a funeral. Bush, Biden and former vice presidents honor Dick Cheney, while Trump, Vance snubbed for funeral invitation www.cbs58.com/news/trump-a...

Regardless of the inside baseball negotiations, and equivocating, Schumer got owned by his OWN WHIP. How can you lead the party when you can't keep your second in command in line? The time for change was last week.

tokimeow.bsky.social@tokimeow.bsky.social

It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people. sign.moveon.org/petitions/sc...

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It all sounds good to him until he figures out that if the money sucking insurance companies can't suck money from us, they won't have any big, beautiful money to give him. (When they're done choking on their martinis, II'm sure the insurance lobbyists will remind him of this.)

Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

His "concept" of a Healthcare Plan is finally revealed. It involves eliminating the Insurance Industry & people purchasing their OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE. Unrelated, note his obsessive envy of Obama, historically rated 1 of our finest presidents, who he still believes was born in Kenya. #sad 🤣

Victory comes in a big tent that has room for democratic-socialists, where that's the right model, progressives, centrists and even blue dogs, if that's what wins. It's not one or the other, it's all of the above.

Florida Chris@chrislongview.bsky.social

Today should be a day where all Democrats celebrate our big tent. Moderate Dems won big in statewide races across the country, while Progressive Dems racked up huge victories in cities. All parts of the party won. That's our superpower and we should remember that when we all vote, we all win.

Get on this #DNC

Daniel Abraham@abraham.bsky.social

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Until Democrats effectively break through the right wing media bubble, this is life.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

“How DARE Cracker Barrel change their logo 😡🤬😡🤬 I’ll never eat there again!” “Destroy the White House harder, daddy 🥵🤤”

You didn't want to see it, #rogan. It was there all along, the dehumanizing racism, lies, open bigotry. Millions of us saw and heard; you chose not to. Now you need to work to make it right with the same energy you used to support these bastards

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

The con worked, until it didn’t? ROGAN: “I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals… I really thought there was enough gang members.” ME: He still doesn’t get it. That’s what Trump wanted everyone to believe. They’re not even trying to go after “the criminals”.

Indeed. The scariest part? Hunting in the vacuum for inspiring leadership to lead us in to battle, we have landed on an inflatable frog. All that's left is to hop to it #resist #demleadership #DNC

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Church lady analysis: Plastic appetizer cups from the Dollar Tree for individual servings, 6 to a pack, went from $1 to $1.25 under Biden. Today, for yogurt parfaits, $2 a pack @ DT. Church lady math says Drump's economy is at least three times worse than Biden's. Paper cups it is. #trumpeconomy

#Chicago Watching the division playoff game with the Brewers. Gotta give it to Chicagoans, putting on a sold-out ballgame amid the horrors of war. Here's to those stalwart fans dodging, well, whatever, to support their guys.

#Florida Attn: Walmart & Big Boxes: It's Fummer here; Still hot. but JUST enough cooler that we can pull 5 months of weeds, plant things we've been nursing in shaded pots, & get things in order for Winterish. We can't do this stuff if ALL the garden supplies are replaced with Christmas decor. STOP!

Nothing will change until we stop sane washing this regime-- Noem defeating the NFL, Miller battling Antifa, and pieces like this from AP about the unserious, uninformed, inattentive, juvenile Trump.There's no strategy; just a crazy naked emperor. #Trump #sanewashing apnews.com/article/gove...

apnews.comThe Oval Office meeting didn't stop a shutdown, but the Trump 2028 hats and a sombrero set a toneHalfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership, the red "Trump 2028" hats appeared on the president’s desk.

#dnc @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social Grab the narrative. 24-7. all platforms; all the time. ALL hands on deck. Not press conferences, not stern letters, not fundraising letters. Precise, engaging, direct engagement. Break through the algorithms. DO IT!

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social

Democrats need to build narrative dominance—fast—or we’re going to lose the shutdown fight. We’re holding the line to stop brutal budget cuts, reverse Trump’s tariffs, and protect your health care. Say it over and over again. My latest for Endless Urgency 👇 endlessurgency.com/p/narrative-...

Dems need to be 24-7-house-on-fire- everywhere, anywhere all the time relentlessly assaulting the stupidity that got us here. AND, standing tall at the gates of Democracy to protect the system of checks & balances and the workforce that keeps us running from idealogues Voght & Miller.

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#usaid In the daily chaos and misery over the media's shortcomings, I believe that the #NYT has not taken its eyes off the politics and impact of cuts to USAID. The opinion work from Nicholas Kristoff from impact communities is wrenching and infuriating.

I wish elected #Democrats loved their voters the way the GOP loves a podcaster. #DNC you don't have our backs. You have truth buried in your briefcases but you don't have a narrative, and you don't have any fight. Yet, you'll want our votes, our work, and money. #senatedemocrats #hluserepublucans

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

The right have launched an all-out attack on liberals and the left, in the wake of the Kirk killing, pushing narratives about left-wing violence and the need to investigate liberal nonprofits and Schumer and Jeffries are totally AWOL. The Dems are leaderless. Shocking.

Trump has told the world he is only president of some people; he is the enemy of the rest. It's the time for the shadow government to speak truth, clearly, loudly and without ceasing. #DNC,#senatedemocrats,#housedemocrats ask for our support, yet who among them has our backs?

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social

As @shannonrwatts.bsky.social pointed out, where's the Democrats Leadership's response to JD Vance and the Trump Administration essentially declaring war on the majority of America? Debunking all his lies? Calling out right-wing terror? Anything? Anything at all? Bueller...Bueller?

You know how you fight crime in communities: by funding local police, mental health, intervention and fully staffed courts. Restore funding, remove troops from communities &:support local police. DOJ Funding Update: A Deeper Look at the Cuts - Council on Criminal Justice share.google/epoK5EwyaMEL...

share.googleDOJ Funding Update: A Deeper Look at the Cuts - Council on Criminal JusticeThis report from CCJ Senior Fellow Amy Solomon examines April 2025 funding cuts from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and their implications for public safety, trust ...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump announces he's sending the National Guard into Memphis and says "we're gonna be doing Chicago probably next"

This business-as-usual needs to stop. A government headed by a feckless lunatic that would go to "war" with its own citizenry should NOT be funded. He wants an apocalypse; give him a legislative one. #senatedemocrats #DNC #apocalypse

TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com

There’s an elephant in the room as negotiations get underway: how do you do the work of legislating when the executive branch refuses to spend federal funds in the way that Congress allocates them? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dems-ar...

Still we do nothing. Count me among the #dosomethingdemocrats , The blue lifers who can barely stomach the tepid emails, "concern," "stern" rebukes. You are not hearing us & you are not making the case to independent & sane red voters. This battle needs ALL of us; blue dogs to progressives. Be bold.

PINO FOTUS@pino-fotus.bsky.social

This cannot be repeated often enough. Continuous, disciplined, factual, engaging communication that is ahead of the new cycle rather than reactive. There is no time and no place for dilettante and dabbler #Democrats

NorthByNW@northbynw.bsky.social

'Blue States Bloc' would counter Trump charisma: assign issues to top voices i.e. Warren on economy, Whitmer on healthcare, Newsom on climate etc. as a TEAM. Press would know who to call & Americans would see not a muddle but a disciplined gov-in-waiting hartmannreport.com/p/from-silen...

This is all true. But, we're not going to end it with pop-up boutique Democrats, showing up to throw out a post, opine at a symposium, write an oped here and there. This takes all-hands on deck, all the time with a clear message: Where is it, who's picking up the baton? #democrats

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

This level of corruption is not normal or acceptable. Even if we are exhausted by each report of it going further and further, we can never grow numb to it.

-- Stop.acting like there aren't armed military troops headed for our cities. --we are speeding toward serfdom in Trumfuckestan. --In short order we won't need to explain the economy; it will be clear to all. But, we will need to explain why we weren't louder & fiercer apnews.com/article/demo...

apnews.com'No magic fixes' for Democrats as party confronts internal and fundraising strugglesKen Martin, the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, says he's bringing a bazooka to the fight against President Donald Trump and his Republican allies.

They are the 19% we hate. That said, there is no singular candidate; only the candidate that can win that community because to escape the tiny minded, iron box of facism, we have to abandon purity tests, condemnation of "moderates" and rebuild the big tent. What's needed most now is leadership.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are still promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections. And imperiling Democrats’ chances in 2026. trib.al/sjP8Yrm

Who is the captain, the person to run the anchor leg, who takes the baton after our grassroots efforts? The void; the 19 percent, that's the real enemy; not progressives or moderates, but the progressives AND the moderates; those who won't come together to restore Democracy. #Democrats #leadership

#Democrats #schumer #Jeffries You are battling a five-alarm fire with a warm cup of spit.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@democrats.senate.gov is there a war room, an organized strategy, a media campaign to defeat the poison pills? P25 sells off federal land.turns the federal workforce into a fielty goon squad, unconstitutionally siezes power. Beyond economic impact, this is a lethal reordering of US governance.