tkwhitaker.bsky.social

tkwhitaker.bsky.social

@tkwhitaker.bsky.social

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NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.comHe Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

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Replying to @rbreich.bsky.social

Bessent’s actual argument: deport 1.8M workers, then when the economy loses 23,000 jobs, shrug and say “we don’t need to produce as many jobs” anyway. That’s not a recovery plan. That’s admitting the economy is shrinking and calling it a win. 📉 #RepublicanStarveUS

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If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.

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School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy!

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This should be getting FAR more attention. An American oil company with ties to Trump’s orbit is moving forward with plans to drill for oil in Greenland. Some drilling-related equipment has already been brought ashore even though Greenland says the necessary approvals have NOT been granted.

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What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.

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On this day in 1922, a Jewish woman was born in the Sudetenland. A clerk, on the 3 Nov 1941 she was deported from Prague to the Łódź Ghetto with her parents. They all perished in the Shoah. Her name was Ruth Adlerová

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The Trump/Miller Doctrine is to do something awful so many times over and over that it eventually stops being covered as news. Bombing boats in the Caribbean, bombing other countries, threatening allies, ICE murders, etc. The first few times? Big news. Now? Barely even mentioned.

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Frango ❌️👑@frangoandfriends.bsky.social

@maddow.msnbc.com My dad is 98, WWII USNavy Veteran. Showed up for democracy in San Diego today. "I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again!" 💙🇺🇸💙 THIS is what democracy looks like!!!!

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“I don’t know why the President of the US behaves like this toward his allies. It’s not the first time. It is disappointing that he does not show the same determination with the enemies of the West and the US, whose leaders he instead treats with far greater indulgence.” - Italy PM Giorgia Meloni

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"Leo" shared this photo from where he's harvesting onions in Lamont CA. The onions are unearthed and placed in burlap sacks for them to dry off for a time. Then they are dumped back out in rows for a machine to collect. #WeFeedYou

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Trump just froze home health and hospice enrollments with zero warning. Seniors and the disabled are being cut off from essential care. They claim it is about fraud, but it is actually a death sentence. #TrumpMakesUsSick