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Debi RN

@debirnmsn.bsky.social
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RN, Nursing Professor, Proud Democrat & Cat Lady, Proud American & democracy supporter.

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NPR @npr.org · 20/01/2026
The three most-senior cardinals leading U.S. archdioceses issued the rebuke in a joint statement on Monday, saying recent policies have thrown America's "morale role in confronting evil" into question. n.pr/4bNfjrc
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Top U.S. archbishops denounce American foreign policy
The three most-senior cardinals leading U.S. archdioceses issued the rebuke in a joint statement on Monday, saying recent policies have thrown America's "morale role in confronting evil" into question.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 19/01/2026
NEWS: Survivor Lisa Phillips backs request by Reps. Khanna and Massie for judge to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. "I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late in complying with the Act with no end in sight."
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We can either sit here and let Kristi Noem repeatedly lie to our faces or we can fight back every single day until she and this entire regime are removed from office. If you choose to fight, click below to demand your representatives impeach Noem!
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Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
How big is Greenland? Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I recently heard historian Robert Kagan say: “What's at risk right now is literally our democracy in the sense that I don't think Trump is going to allow free and fair elections in 2026.” My job is to fight in court to prove him wrong even while I fear he may be right.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Yep. We have to shine an even brighter light on the lunacy.
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Debi RN @debirnmsn.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
You are invited to Oktoberfest on Friday, October 10, 2025, from 6:00 – 10:00 PM at Christ the Servant in Woodridge, IL. 🎉 Join us for: 🥨 A catered German-style dinner 🍺 Cash bar 🎶 Dancing 🍻 Stein-hoisting contests 🎁 Premium raffle baskets Tickets on sale now!
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
💯 THIS 👇
A fake aftershave advert.
Black and white photo of Putin horse riding top less with Trump sitting behind him. 

BREAKING HEARTS BREAKING LAWS

A bottle of aftershave saying TREASON
ASCENTRE DONALD J. TRUMP


TREASON
A SCENT BY DONALD J. TRUMP
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Moskowitz: He tariffed the penguins. He tariffed Vietnam. Madagascar. I don’t know what the plan is. Is the plan to get people who live in Vietnam to move to Greenland to make the shirts there? Nobody really knows.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
To all who participated in the #HandsOff protests Thank you Your voices gave hope to frightened people everywhere But-ask yourselves What will you do Today Tomorrow The next day To protect America from Donald Trump Because democracy requires constant tending And we all must be its stewards
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
He could suspend all his tariffs tonight and the markets would still puke tomorrow. Economists think he’s certifiably crazy. Investors are freaked out. The markets have decided they’re dealing with a madman…they’re less likely to react positively to his bullshit deal-making.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Note to MAGA: This is how it's done (when you have respect for our Democracy and aren't violent thugs.) #HandsOff
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Conor 📎❤️ #LaraCroft ❤️ #TombRaider ️❤️ #TombRaider30 ❤️ #gaming ❤️ @conormcl2026.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
@blueresister.bsky.social @jhgurf.bsky.social @putmygamefaceon.bsky.social @authorsmiller.bsky.social @lakerpatrick.bsky.social @erosen1.bsky.social @danbenbow.bsky.social @jbminatra.bsky.social @janeylou.bsky.social @garythoren.bsky.social @beccakittybear.bsky.social @anacostia71.bsky.social 🔄💙🌊🇺🇦
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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Repost if you agree! #ProudBlue #DemVoice1
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
An adverse case decision is not a basis for removing a judge for bias.
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Trump Administration Sees Bias in a Judge and Tries to Push Her Off a Case
“This court has not kept its disdain for President Trump secret,” the Justice Department said in a motion in a case filed by a law firm suing the administration.
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Social Security and You Social Security is the government retirement program you and your employer contribute to with each paycheck. It pays you back monthly upon retirement. Currently, around 69 million Americans receive Social Security payments.
Social Security and You

Social Security is the government retirement program you and your employer contribute to with each paycheck. It pays you back monthly upon retirement. Currently, around 69 million Americans receive Social Security payments. 
Facts, Myths, and Threats

Social Security is an “entitlement” program, meaning everyone eligible is entitled to Social Security payments.  

It’s a “mandatory” item in the federal budget, which means the government is required to make those payments.  

Social Security makes up about 21% of the federal budget.
  
Myths and Misinformation

Social Security wasn’t supposed to be taxed:  False. 
    The Social Security Act allowed the taxation of payments. In 1983, Congress taxed 50% of benefits for high earners, increasing to 85% in 1993.      

The Social Security trust fund is part of the general fund: False.  
    Social Security appears in the federal budget for accounting purposes, but those funds are not part of the general fund and cannot be used for other needs.  

Undocumented immigrants receive Social Security: False.  
    Undocumented immigrants cannot obtain a Social Security number and so cannot receive payments. Yet they contribute to Social Security through the FICA tax deducted from their paychecks—over $25 billion every year that they will never get back as benefits.Social Security pays people who are 150 years old or dead: False. 
    By law, Social Security cannot pay anyone over 115 years old. If no date of death is available, the system assigns an age of 150 to prevent accidental payments.     

Threats to Our Social Security
    Social Security Funding: Social Security has enough funds to cover benefits at current levels until 2035. Then, unless funding is increased, benefits will decrease to about 83%, backed by a tax on earnings up to $176,100. Congress considered raising the income cap to $400,000 but hasn't approved it. Alternatives include increasing the eligibility age or reducing benefits.  

    Staffing and Offices: The current Congressional budget bill calls for Social Security to reduce costs by firing about 7,000 employees this year and closing regional offices. In addition, DOGE has proposed shutting down phone services at Social Security offices.

    Elon Musk and DOGE: Musk and his unauthorized DOGE team can now access Social Security computers to acquire your personal information, including your Social Security number, lifetime earnings, payment history, and direct deposit bank details. They can also alter computer programs, such as payment schedules and amounts. The DOGE team is undermining Social Security from within.  

What Can You Do?

Contact your senators and representatives at (202) 224-3121 to oppose cuts to Social Security and prevent DOGE from continuing to access your private information.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🤔👇🏽
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 21/03/2025
Look, vandalism is not the answer and it shouldn’t be tolerated but there’s something very wrong with an administration that cares far more about protecting a car than it does about protecting children from being shot in their classrooms.
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Heather the 🇨🇦 Nurse @nurseheatherns.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is something the "republicans" refuse to understand.
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David @verdad-justicia.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The founding fathers were bright but also flawed. Initially rights were only secured for white, male, wealthy landowners. But the people have fought to expand these rights to all. WE THE PEOPLE will not go back to a time when rights only apply to the white, male, and wealthy again.
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Sarge @oldsarge.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
#ProudBlueVets Recently, the Trump admin suspended the use of military aircraft for all deportations. These costly military planes weren’t filled with immigrants, the numbers deported were extremely low. Optically, this is an epic failure for Trump. #BlueSkyVets #DemsUnited #DemVoice1
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Clara Barton provided relief, comfort & peace to countless people during/after the Civil War. She cared for wounded, took medical supplies to front lines, searched for missing POWs-identifying over 22,000 men, organized the US Red Cross, & helped found the Nat’l First Aid Association. (More in ALT)
Picture of Clara Barton in the mid-1800s. Besides her many achievements in providing comfort and healing during the war, she was a teacher/principal (a man’s job at the time) before the war who resigned when the man who took her place as principal got paid twice as much as her. She said, “I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.” She also helped causes for prison reform, public education, suffrage and civil rights. Clara Barton was ahead of her time!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ
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Exclusive | Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department
Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "This is not America. This is a terrible nightmare. Somebody slap me and wake me the f*ck up because I'm ready to get on with it." Jasmine is all of us.
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Political Bill SC @politicalbillsc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In a better world, our local lawmakers would be tripping all over themselves to condemn this. But sadly, this is not the world we live in. #SouthCarolina
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is a good idea
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Hell yes, the iconic Broadway production of ‘Hamilton’ has canceled its 2026 run at the Kennedy Center as a result of the orange convicted felon’s hostile trashy tyrannical takeover as chairman. This follows actor Issa Rae canceling her sold out show. Much more of this. 💙👊
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
No one likes bureaucracy + everyone’s in favor of more efficiency. Let’s find ways to accomplish that. But don’t use a ‘war on woke’ to dismantle the Ed Dept & attack kids living in poverty & kids with disabilities, to pay for vouchers and tax cuts for billionaires. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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AFT’s Weingarten on Trump’s Order to Dismantle the Education Department
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement responding to media reports revealing the draft of Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to eliminate the U.S. Department o...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/03/2025
Thousands of Agriculture Department employees who were fired last month must be reinstated in their old positions for at least 45 days, a board that handles federal worker disputes ordered on Wednesday.
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Trump Administration Told to Reinstate Nearly 6,000 USDA Workers
The fired employees were on probationary status, swept up in the administration’s push to rapidly reduce the size of the federal work force in part by targeting those types of workers.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Debi RN @debirnmsn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
So sadly true!
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Socially Conscious 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @enough-already.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
To steal a hint of musical hx Bye Bye Miss American bye The day Democracy died 💔
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Debi RN @debirnmsn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Has the orange felon and his co-President Elon heard Incubus’ Megalomaniac? They need to take a listen as describes them well! Trump says workers are lazy and committing fraud and incompetent. Hmm describing himself?
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So interesting…
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My latest @npr.org story: Concern is growing over threats to public trust in the Census Bureau after the public lost access for days to many data tables and research reports following an executive order by President Trump targeting gender identity
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The public lost access to Census Bureau data for days after a Trump order
After Trump put out an executive order targeting gender identity, the public lost access to many Census Bureau data tables and research reports for days, raising concerns about the data's integrity.
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Just Me Marney @maestramarney.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
♥️🍃
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"I’ve been on the bench for over four decades," Senior U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, said. "I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Federal district court judge temporarily blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order
A federal district court hearing in Seattle was the first skirmish in what promises to be a protracted and wide-ranging battle over the new administration's agenda.
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Debi RN @debirnmsn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Day1 almost over-inflation the same, Ukraine still suffering from the unjust war, grocery & gas prices the same so broken promises & took us out of WHO & the Paris Agreement which are just terrible! God help us & our country!
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"the Fourteenth Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth..including all children here born of resident aliens..Every..subject of another country, while domiciled here, is..subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States" US v Wong Kim Ark, 169 US 649 (1898)
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Good morning. 🌨️ No words. No, wait. I feel like there was a declaration of war yesterday. Within our own borders. He pardoned his own militia. House/Senate Dems - STOP bowing to these GOP monsters: ❌Marco Rubio 99-0 ❌40 Dems vote for the Laken Riley Act YOU WORK FOR US for fucks sake.
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Kathy Fulkerson @beachybumforever.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Keep your lovelight on, protect the marginalized, and never stay silent in times of adversity. Silence is complacency. It's going to be a tough road ahead for so many people.
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zensoul.bsky.social @zensoul.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"President Trump’s executive order to strip birthright citizenship from people born in this country is unconstitutional. Here in Illinois, we follow the law.” JB Pritzjer www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzke...
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Pritzker responds to Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship: 'Unconstitutional'
Gov. JB Pritzker criticized President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday, which aims to end birthright citizenship, a policy long protected by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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