Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/04/2026 5383027810729
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 21/04/2026It’s national library week and I love my @mymcpl.bsky.social!! My husband knows when I am going to “just return a book real quick” that I’m coming back with 3-4 more books. I couldn’t afford to buy all these all the time at the bookstore, so I’m extremely grateful for our library system! 000
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Hope in Liberty, MO… great turnout of a few hundred! This was a fraction of it. No kings! 010
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026 43385053632
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialThe Beacon @thebeacon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026“Your job isn’t keeping up with your housing, which is the biggest issue,” said Kansas City Houseless Prevention Coordinator Josh Henges. “We’ve seen over the last five years that wages are not even coming close to matching the cost of housing.” In Kansas City, that math is stark. buff.ly/KlsZlRXthebeaconnews.orgWorking homelessness: When 'getting a job' isn't enough in KCIncreasing numbers of sheltered families have jobs while a growing population is caught in the gap between the wages they earn and the cost of housing. It’s a formula for rising homelessness. 172
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 11/12/2025www.kmbc.com/article/kans... motel residents, not counted in homeless numbers.kmbc.comResidents at Kansas City motel scrambling to find places to stay after city orders shutdownMany residents of a Kansas City motel are struggling to find somewhere to go after the city ordered families to leave by Friday due to unsafe living conditions. 010
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 12/11/2025The skyrocketing price comes as the president threatens to deploy additional troops to more American cities to quell dissent and turn America into a full-blown police state. interc.pt/43qaEH1 916275
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 13/11/2025“By cutting aid for permanent housing by 2/3 next year, the plan risks a sudden end of support… beginning as soon as January. All are disabled — a condition of the aid — and many are 50 or older. The document does not explain how they would find housing.” 213154
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Devoured this book in 3 days. Excellent narrative storytelling following several families, with data and stats interwoven. Extremely timely with current SNAP events and talk of affordability. 415836
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Asylum seekers don’t come from "insane asylums.” 36220
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” It’s very sad that Gov. Stitt can say this obviously true thing but @GovBillLee wouldn’t in a million years. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u... 411714470
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 09/10/2025As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang... 12324861138
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialZach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward. 7038941270
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Looking forward to a great local event tonight! 020
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/10/2025“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh 9722971002
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialPeter Sterne @petersterne.com · 30/09/2025It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within" 601411596
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2025“This meeting could have been an email” energy. 010
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025"The number of Americans missing work for National Guard deployments or other military or civic duty is at a 19-year high, adding disruption to a labor market that’s already under strain." Pretty remarkable when we're not at war—except against our own people. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 492145996
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Watch what they do, not what they say 34942434
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 20/08/2025A little fiction break, and now back to some non-fiction. I read and enjoyed Icebound by @andreapitzer.bsky.social … I’m not sure “enjoy” will be the right word for this book about such a dark topic, but I believe I’ll learn plenty. 010
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialJapanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation. 5969832922
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Grieving for the America I love. 200
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Quite the contrast. Feb 28, 2025. Aug 15, 2025. @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social 42349701852
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialBen Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Immigration thugs drew their guns on a disabled kid & dragged him from a car outside a school. Then they somehow left a bunch of bullets on school grounds. When agents were contacted to pick up the ammunition, they told the school to use it for target practice. www.huffpost.com/entry/la-boy...huffpost.comImmigration Agents Detain Boy With Disabilities Outside LA SchoolAfter the school principal intervened, the agents left live bullets behind in a case of what the district superintendent called "mistaken identity." 51602306
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 12/08/2025That wouldn’t have deep reaching impacts at all, across multiple industries 000
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 11/08/2025The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting. 541120793766
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/08/2025🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do! MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference. The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures. 1002505834
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialAltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 19/07/2025I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead. 351373457
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I really do love my city. Never thought I’d end up staying here as long as I have, but it has a lot of beauty and greatness… if one knows where to look. 000
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 15/07/2025When I saw this book by @maklelan.bsky.social I knew I had to read it. So excited to dive in! 0192
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Finished @leahlitman.bsky.social book Lawless last night. Chapter 5 really illuminated and gave context to what we are seeing with the dismantling and debilitation of our government agencies. Great book. I’ve already ordered a copy for a gift! 413926
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialreality check 🤔😕😢 @realitycheck.bsky.social · 13/07/2025"the Justice Department’s decision to spare Hernandez shows that officials are also willing to keep serious offenders in the United States to meet their particular goals. Abrego has no prior criminal arrests or convictions" Violent felon offers to lie about Abrego to save his own ass. DOJ accepts.washingtonpost.comStar witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García. 311339
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/07/2025An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.newrepublic.comAre We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately. 10136091766
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 29/06/2025As good of a time as any to start this read. 000
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialVox @vox.com · 26/06/2025Republicans want to convince more moms to stay home. Here’s how. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/E25lVOvoxdotcom.visitlink.meThe MAGA dream family would cost all of usRepublicans want to convince more moms to stay home. Here’s how. 62114
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 21/06/2025ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him. 1147123225069
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/06/2025CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop... 40282204476
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialTulsa Teresa @tulsateresa.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Trump repost on Truth Social: “There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference.” The US President is full blown crazy and Congress refuses to act. God help us. 052
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Massive turnout #nokings in Kansas City, great energy and bubbles! 137457
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Kc, Mo #nokings 1 Hour before the protest 012
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I listen to podcasts slightly sped up, so it’s always funny when I see a clip posted from one of my frequents and I’m like, “Are they drinking? Why are they talking so weird?” But it’s just their normal voice and speed. 000
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/06/2025No funds to rebuild after devastating storms and fires, but troops if you demand basic human rights. Got it. 13060321678
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/06/2025You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight. 716294309500
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says deploying Marines and National Guard to protests in Los Angeles will cost $134 million. 1421365493
Reposted by @candasaurusrex.bsky.social@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025The only president I’ve ever seen that feels the need to use the military for his anti-immigration actions after manufacturing the crises to begin with. There were no protests, ICE raids started this whole debacle! There’s serious dark agendas at work here… www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...usatoday.comTrump wants 20,000 troops to hunt, transport immigrants. Cost estimate: $3.6 billionThe moves would shift the military from its mission of defending the nation against foreign adversaries toward policing its streets. 1317962
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Authoritarians like to punish the power to protest, which is enshrined in our constitution. 000
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Get ready for more masquerading like this. But don’t fight back against your attackers/kidnappers bc they COULD be federal agents… 000
candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 07/06/2025When I’m broke like USA supposedly, I tell the kids no dinner (snap), no healthcare (Medicaid), no future investment (grants), we need to cut back (fire fed servants) and then I throw myself a big, expensive, wasteful party and destroy infrastructure in the process. 000