Reposted by Cathy SantiagoElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/07/2025Kristi Noem must resign now. 704171334916 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/07/2025Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit" 1746209689724 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this. 18174464416526 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 13/07/2025ICE detained a disabled vet and won’t tell his family where he is. Let that sink in… 901773950 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoHonest and Unfiltered @momazonrises.bsky.social · 15/06/2025#ProudBlue Way to go Fort Worth, TX. This is powerful Link to video: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rLg2mD/ 181078244 0
Cathy Santiago @cathysantiago.bsky.social · 15/06/2025No riots, no burning down a city…hmmm. It’s like Fox is giving false narratives again. 010 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoJaValle @handle.invalid · 14/06/2025Ariel view of thousands of protesters marching against Donald Trump in Downtown Los Angeles #NoKingsProtest 373031673 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoPolitical Junkie @ghostriders.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The Obama administration deported over 3.16 million people. Biden’s passed 4.44 million. Not once did either need troops in the streets. If the Trump administration worked half as hard on real immigration reform, we wouldn’t need the National Guard to distract from who’s in the Epstein files 48524 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/03/2025America taking over Greenland is a foolish idea. America destroying its relationship with Canada is utter idiocy. America applying tariffs and engaging in trade wars with neighbors is economic nonsense. A lunatic is holding America hostage and his enablers are making fools of themselves. 1043281986993 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoTristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Bank overdraft fees were capped at $5 the last few years -- saving American families over $6 BILLION. Until now. Because Republicans are lifting the Biden-era cap, letting banks charge whatever they want again. Taking $6 BILLION of your money and giving it to the big banks. 951995770 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/02/2025The Justice Department said in a letter to Congress that legal barriers making it harder for a president to remove administrative law judges are unconstitutional and the DOJ will no longer defend them in court.democracydocket.comTrump DOJ Claims Barriers to Removing Administrative Law Judges are UnconstitutionalRead more here. 47474186 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoMother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/02/2025According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.motherjones.comReport: Sepsis, maternal deaths surged in Texas following abortion bansA new ProPublica analysis finds a 50 percent increase in life-threatening infections since SB8 took effect in 2021. 27453202740 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2025It appears that “administration officials are paying lip service to complying with the letter of the court orders while violating their spirit.” The impoundment machinations are elaborate, but courts should be able to see through them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...nytimes.comTrump Team Finds Loophole to Effectively Maintain Spending FreezesOfficials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money. 37808265 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement. 11456270222451 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/02/2025CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.democracydocket.comCISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative LeaveRead more here. 37442792542 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoMatt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.nih.govDirect Economic ContributionsNIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation. 7244152089 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoAidan Milliff @aidanmilliff.com · 08/02/2025Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste” 27794295 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoScott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science 310105193158 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoKrutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 08/02/2025NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more. Thanks to NIH, we have: 💉 Cancer immunotherapy ❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins 🩸 Insulin for diabetes Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries. 227101072551 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoEric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Help spot the pattern… ❌Banned clubs at West Point: Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and Native American heritage clubs ✅Not banned at West Point Military Academy: German, French, and Polish clubs Can’t quite put my finger on it… 25886042970 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoLesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Trump’s pick of neo Nazi Gorka met with outrage: he’s ‘as dangerous as he is unqualified’ #TurdReichRedux www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...theguardian.comTrump’s Gorka pick met with outrage: he’s ‘as dangerous as he is unqualified’Even among a host of TV personalities and alleged sex traffickers, far-right commentator is a step too far for some 02011 0
Cathy Santiago @cathysantiago.bsky.social · 02/12/2024All these subpar nominees…it’s getting harder to keep up. We need more info released on Tulsi and Gorka. Can’t let up on how bad they are! 010 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Undocumented workers pay nearly $100B year in state and federal taxes, including: "$25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022." Amount of services received for the payroll taxes paid? 0 itep.org/undocumented...itep.orgTax Payments by Undocumented ImmigrantsUndocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be... 19040141967 0
Cathy Santiago @cathysantiago.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Well, look at this…this Texas medical review committee that was years behind is now skipping years-worth of reviews. Who are they serving? Let’s hide the deadly truth about #abortionbans #Texas 🧐 032 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Not that anyone’s going to do anything about it, but it might be good to remember that, as an adjudicated oath-breaking insurrectionist, Mr.Trump is constitutionally disqualified under Sec. 3 of 14th Am from taking the oath as president on 1/20/25 unless 2/3 of both houses lift the disqualification 50572332644 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I might be alone on this, but I’m fairly certain cabinet officials shouldn’t continue to be CEOS of large companies; Supreme Court justices shouldn’t be accepting lavish gifts from billionaires, and former presidents accused of stealing government secrets shouldn’t have access to them again. 20647231112 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Hegseth, according to his books, could be counted upon to ignore threats to America from abroad, and to use a purged and politicized military against “enemies within.” Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction" snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...snyder.substack.comPete Hegseth: The Short Course13 Steps to National Destruction 681873706 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Important set of resources here wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...wagingnonviolence.orgHow we can meet the challenges of authoritarianismThis is not our first rodeo with authoritarianism. Americans have collectively risen to seemingly impossible challenges in the past, and we can again. 521831682 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoTim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 20/11/2024"The proposed scheme would profoundly undermine the system of checks and balances that is the very essence of constitutional democracy. It would violate the spirit of the Constitution, as well as its letter." - @noahfeldman.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comTrump’s Recess Appointment Gambit Is UnconstitutionalRather than working with senators in his own party, the president-elect wants to see how quickly he can sideline them. 715052 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/11/2024"He runs the table on the seven deadly sins and demonstrates not a trace of any of the four cardinal virtues. He possesses not a single character trait that you would want your child to fully emulate." Yep, still true. Tim Miller from the archives:thebulwark.comActually, the Orange Man Is BadAnd that's kind of the point. 1263496 0
Cathy Santiago @cathysantiago.bsky.social · 18/11/2024New here! Seeking #bluedots especially #bluedotsredstates Help a girl out please! #redstates 121 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoBeing Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky 3000567368509 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...open.substack.com'Viruses Are Our Friend'— 10 Off the Wall Video Clips from RFK Jr. Resurface on BlueskyPast comments include denying AIDS and calling vaccinated children "damaged" 21185239310874 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoRick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024If the House Ethics report exonerated Matt Gaetz, it would be running 24/7 on Fox. 269109531748 0
Reposted by Cathy SantiagoColumbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 14/11/2024An analysis of election viewing habits shows the rise of a fragmented new media and the fall of a unified old one, by Feven Merid. www.cjr.org/covering_the...cjr.orgAmericans All Watched Different ElectionsAn analysis of viewing habits shows the rise of a fragmented new media and the fall of a unified old one. 064 0