Frances

Frances

@francesa.bsky.social

Fighting for democracy, truth, women and the planet. Atheist. Survivor. Artist. Love music especially the blues. Gardening, cooking and interior design. #Resistance #EndCitizensUnited #Democracy

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The Maah Daah Hey Trail in North Dakota’s Badlands is one of the most celebrated hiking and biking routes in America. 144 miles of singletrack winding through some of the most remote and stunning landscape in the country. The Trump administration is putting it on the chopping block.

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When a country allows its meanest, most despicable citizens to run everything.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

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Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation. Complete abdication of duty.

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Absolutely insane. We were literally the leading economy in the world after the pandemic and Trump and this stupid Republican Congress torched it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

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"We haven't received any information as to what the next steps are" -- Rep. Greg Steube on Newsmax makes clear that not only are congressional Republicans not doing oversight of Trump's war in Iran, they have no interest in trying to do any

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Make Christian Nationalism illegal. Oh wait, it already is and is written into the Constitution.

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I will be on the floor with Cory to offer this resolution. There is a growing group of Democratic Senators who refuse to let Republicans keep the Senate silent on this incoherent, illegal, disastrous war.

Sen. Cory Booker@booker.senate.gov

Tonight, on the Senate floor, I will call up my War Powers Resolution to withdraw U.S. forces from this reckless and unauthorized war of choice with Iran. The Senate must do its job and hold this administration accountable.

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LIEU: Did Amalia commit a crime? NOEM: She did not. She's with her family LIEU: The reason she's with her family is because she almost died in ICE detention until folks brought a lawsuit forcing her release

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Americans stranded in the Middle East say the State Department hotline Marco Rubio told them to call plays a recorded message warning: “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.”

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The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. I hope they are shunned by family and friends.

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Sanders: I am very worried that ICE is becoming a domestic army for Trump, and this goes way beyond the issue of immigration. It goes to the movement of this country toward authoritarianism and fear.

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Absolutely right. And I think it's especially true in this case as ICE has been a magnet for thugs who couldn't cut it in the military or normal law enforcement but desperately want to be respected as A Troop. This is why it's particularly effective when actual veterans show up to mock them.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

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Here are videos sent to me of the incident Frey details (1/2)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"

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"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.