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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴

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#Celiac 💌 erika@essenceoferika.com 🎥 Former local broadcast journalist 👩‍⚖️ I Dissent. 💙 🐶 mom to @PoppygirlThePup 💕 📕 Writing 1st novel

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
SUMMARY OF H-1B EXECUTIVE ORDER

- ENTRY BAN: No H-1B visa holder may enter the United States beginning Sunday September 21st, including current visa holders, unles they pay $100K to enter.

- VISA FEE: New H-1B and H-1B extensions must pay 100K to be processed and 100K per year every year thereafter to maintain them.

This will effectively end the H-1B program completely. No one, even the highest paid at 500K will be paying an extra 100K a year to the government.

It will destroy the health care, higher education, and technology sectors as we know them if this isn't struck down in court.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/06/2025
Operation Stormy Daniels. Haha
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Why aren’t Dems on everything talking about the Joni Ernst “you can die” bill?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Imagine what this woman and her family went through. All for what?
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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Are we great yet?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/05/2025
but seashells!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Hypocrisy…
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Why is he so obsessed with Taylor Swift? Honestly, dude. Move on. She’s just not into you.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
RFK Jr: "I would say my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant." WTF? The HEAD of science & health in U.S. won't comment on vaccines? Dark Age 2.0 'Unbelievable': Questions heat up as RFK Jr. defends HHS cuts before House www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday
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Live updates: 'Unbelievable': Questions heat up as RFK Jr. defends HHS cuts before House
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying before the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I feel like this is a huge waste of our donor funds to @democrats.org Can we actually DO something? This feels way to performative and not action-oriented.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14/05/2025
Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This guy isn’t sick from swimming in sewage all weekend yet? C’mon universe.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Priorities.
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I’d like to review his browsing history. Actually, I probably wouldn’t.
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Yesssss, Omaha!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2025
this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Quick reminder - After Duffy reportedly changed his wife's flight to avoid Newark - he also spent the week blaming @petebuttigieg.bsky.social.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
WTH man? Real World bro also serving as Transportation Sec Sean Duffy reportedly changed his wife's flight to avoid Newark and then went on TV to broadcast it's safe to fly in and out of Newark. @paleofuture.bsky.social w the details. ↘️
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife's Flight to Avoid Newark Airport
Would you let your family fly out of Newark?
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Good morning to everyone except Gavin Newsom. That man is pissing me off.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Do your job, Sean.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“Do not mock us.”
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m sorry, if you claim to be religious in any sense, there has to be a line in the sand. Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
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CNN @cnn.com · 01/05/2025
Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
LMAO. No one is scared of you, Nancy. People hate you because you’re a horrible person.
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Explain it like I’m in kindergarten.
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 01/05/2025
I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Wild.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
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RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims
Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If You Were Wondering How Out Of Touch They Really Are….
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Wtaf.
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A better copy!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Which group of MAGA voters will be the first to fold when sh*t actually hits the fan? I’m trying to figure out when the continually devoted cult members are going to actually wake tf up. Is it the ranchers when all their export orders are canceled? Is it the billionaires when Wall St. gets worse?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We saw the storm brewing a mile away.
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Bezos really needs to grow a f*cking spine. While we all continue to line his pockets, he just bends his knee to anything his King tells him to do.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Listen, I know we don’t need anymore middle aged or elderly white men in positions of power, but I’d vote for Pritzker. Hell, I’d want to work for his admin. And I didn’t even know who he was 100 days ago.
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Erika B. | Tampa Lifestyle Content Creator 🌴 @essenceoferika.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I really hope it’s not 1362 more days. I don’t know how much longer I can take this.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst... #BookstoreDay
This essay traces the long and turbulent history of American booksellers who have faced censorship, harassment, and even violence for defending the freedom to read. Through vivid anecdotes and historical cases-from undercover stings in the early 1900s and legal battles over “obscene” literature, to FBI surveillance of Black bookstores and bomb threats against feminist and LGBTQ+ shops-the author illustrates how bookstores have repeatedly become battlegrounds in the fight for civil liberties and free expression. Despite intimidation from both government and private groups, booksellers have pushed back, shaping legal precedents and rallying communities to defend First Amendment rights. The essay ultimately calls on readers to recognize bookstores as “arsenals of democracy” and to support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...
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Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books
A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Here comes the arrests of journalists now.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.
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PUBLIUS - Scientia potentia est @wearemadashell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
They are locking up judges. They are locking up judges! They are locking up judges!?! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Wisconsin judge arrested by FBI, charged with obstructing immigrant arrest
Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest is the first known instance of the Trump administration charging a local official with interfering with immigration enforcement.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
When they start arresting judges we’re all in a lot of trouble
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He’s weakening our country. He’s weakening our economy. He’s weakening our alliances. He’s weakening the free world. He’s weakening our influence around the world. And Putin keeps smiling every single day.
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