Michelle Pepper

Michelle Pepper

@shellwe.bsky.social

Wife, Mother, Individual Nurodivergent Advocate Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Advocate

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Michelle Pepper reposted

Very telling to watch where the for-profit companies running America's brutal system for detaining and purging undocumented residents see it as useful to donate

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social

Campaign spending from GEO Group and CoreCivic, the 2 main private prison/ICE detention companies, suggest they've mostly given up on the House and are trying to save the Senate for the GOP. Major recipients: Susan Collins, Ashley Moody, Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers, Jon Husted, Ashley Hinson

Truth!

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social

if you vote for any Republican on the ballot this year, then you just don't get the moment we are in. Splitting your ticket at this point only serves to empower the attacks on our democracy and constitution.

Michelle Pepper reposted

Ricardo Gonzalez, a 40-year-old U.S. citizen, was riding his e-bike in Long Beach, California, when ICE agents struck him with an unmarked vehicle and tased him twice. ICE thought he was someone else.

Michelle Pepper reposted

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Michelle Pepper reposted

Collins’ corruption is why Mainers are going to pay 60 percent more for home heating oil this winter.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

Michelle Pepper reposted

The republicans have become lawless. There's no turning back now. They're all in! Rules and ethics be damned 🖕🏼 They know that if one goes down they all go down. Because unlike the real mob, where if they get caught they never rat, these fuckers would sell their mom to avoid consequences! 🐔

Michelle Pepper reposted

STAY WITH ME. There is an ethical obligation to vote for the lesser of two evils in a general election. AND "Vote blue no matter who" is not a valid sentiment during the primaries. It is our JOB to put the best candidate forward. If you DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THAT you are PERPETUATING THE PROBLEM.

Michelle Pepper reposted

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Michelle Pepper reposted

Don't forget that nearly all Republicans stood by and supported Trump's... -Big Ugly Bill -Iran War -ICE abductions & National Guard deployments -Inflationary tariffs -Blatant corruption His unpopularity is theirs too — and the midterms are right around the corner.

Michelle Pepper reposted

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

Michelle Pepper reposted

Americans need to come out and vote in numbers never seen before. They need to document all obstructions to voting. They need to rise up in rebellion if the elections are stolen.

Michelle Pepper reposted

Must be nice to rewarded with a super yacht after defrauding Medicare.

Peter Morley ♿️@petermorley.bsky.social

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

Michelle Pepper reposted

The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.

Michelle Pepper reposted

After 30+ years working in America, Ester gave up a third of her life savings to self-deport to Mexico — terrified of being incarcerated by ICE. She's now separated from her daughter. Her story is the focus of Episode 2 of Fractured, a docuseries on the human toll of ICE enforcement.

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