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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Speaking up and protesting works!
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Education advocates relieved as Trump administration releases $230 million for Pa. schools
Peter Hall – Pennsylvania Capital-Star Hundreds of school districts across the commonwealth are breathing a sigh of relief this week, after the Trump administration said Friday it had comple…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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Trump administration punishes Pa. schools by withholding promised federal funding
Tony Norman – Pennsylvania Capital-Star Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to eliminate the positions of 1,300 U.S. Department of Education employees …
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
No matter what you think about undocumented workers, deporting them plus the tariff mess will tank this economy.
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Trump’s deportations could cost 115,000 jobs in Pennsylvania, report finds
President Donald Trump’s deportation plans could cost nearly six million jobs nationally, including 115,000 in Pennsylvania, according to an analysis released Thursday. If successful, Trump’s goal …
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Now it's up to us to tell the American public what this bill will do to them.
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House passes Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after stamping out GOP rebellion
Kate Santaliz, Andrew Solender – Axios The House passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” Thursday, clearing the way for Trump to sign it by his July 4 deadline. Why i…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Will Trump’s big tax bill help or hurt you? Wharton analysis shows it will depend on your income
Bailey Schulz – USA Today President Donald Trump’s tax bill could make future generations “worse off,” no matter their income, according to a new report from the Penn Wharton Budg…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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How Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will affect women
Sara Braun – Fortune On Tuesday afternoon, the Senate passed President Trump’s domestic spending bill, branded the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The legislation has been the subject of in-fighting am…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Trump administration withholds $230 million for Pennsylvania schools
Peter Hall – Penn Capital-Star Pennsylvania education leaders are scrambling after the Trump Administration said it would withhold more than $230 million in congressionally approved funding f…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We have only a day or two to stop the Big Ugly Bill in the House. Visit Scott Perry's office now!
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URGENT ACTION: MOBILIZE IN REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS
Indivisible Senate Republicans passed their version of the Big Ugly Bill by a single vote, but now it goes back to the House. This bill is straight up horrible – but we still have an opportun…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
No surprises here...
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Fetterman Is Stuck Between a Rock and a ‘Hard’ GOP Place
Jim Lee – Real Clear SP&R’s latest Pennsylvania poll conducted June 16-21 (with 713 Likely voters) shows U.S. Sen. John Fetterman with a 41% job approval after two and a half years in off…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Call Senators Fetterman and McCormick now! Several Republicans are vacillating on Trump’s bill and we must keep up the pressure! Make sure that Fetterman does not bail on us!
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Senate GOP looks to pass marathon final test on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
HIT Ed: Call Senators Fetterman and McCormick now! Several Republicans are vacillating on Trump’s bill and we must keep up the pressure! Make sure that Fetterman does not bail on us! Al Weave…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Action is needed NOW to stop this! Call Fetterman and McCormick today!
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Trump plans victory lap for Big Beautiful Bill
Axios President Trump’s team huddled yesterday to discuss a victory tour for shortly after July 4, following what they hope will be passage and signing of his Big Beautiful Bill, a White Hous…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Trump is trying to distract us with his Iran bombing. The Big Ugly Bill is moving this week in the Senate. Call Fetterman and McCormack NOW and ask them to vote "no"!
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What to know as the Senate tries to pass Trump’s agenda bill this week
Hit Ed: Call Senators Fetterman and McCormick NOW and ask them to vote “No” on this bill that will hurt Pennsylvania citizens! By Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN It’s go time in the Se…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is why we should be protesting June 14. The totalitarian Trump Regime will not stop at US Senators.
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Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s LA press conference
NPR Washington Desk – NPR Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Homeland Security press conference led by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on Thursday. Noem was in …
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We are witnessing the dismantling of the American free press., ABC, CBS, PBS...
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House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media
The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to claw back two years of federal funding for public media outlets. President Trump, who has attacked the mainstream media more b…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Destruction, just because they can.
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DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches
Sean O’Kane – TechCrunch The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., h…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Taking bets on how many days until Trump activates the Insurrection Act. My money is on or about June 14.
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About 700 Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN More than 700 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, and…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Arresting and neutralizing union leaders are right out of the totalitarian playbook. Judges, reporters, union leaders, opposing politicians... We are seeing it all in play.
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Jonathan Lloyd – NBC 4 Los Angeles A California union leader faces a federal charge following his arrest Friday during an immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles. Service Employees …
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The attack on the free press continues...
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ABC suspends Terry Moran for calling Trump official Stephen Miller a ‘hater’
Brendan Morrow – USA TODAY Terry Moran, a senior national correspondent for ABC News, has been suspended over a controversial social media post about Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump&#8…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We can expect more of this, especially on June 14 as protests sweep the country. This is no longer creeping totalitarianism, it is fully on.
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Trump deploys 2,000 National Guard members after Los Angeles immigration protests
Nadine El-Bawab and Jack Moore ABC News LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration is deploying the California National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement o…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
We are facing a healthcare crisis in this country.
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3 reasons your Obamacare premiums are going up next year
If you happen to be one of the roughly 24 million people in America who buy their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, you’re probably in for some sticker shock next yea…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Feel safer now with a bunch of Musk-led twenty-somethings having access to your SS#, banking information, work history, etc?
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Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data
By Lawrence Hurley and Gary Grumbach NBC News WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access Socia…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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In their budget bill, Republicans show their contempt for courts
Karen Tumulty – Washington Post To find one of the most dangerous efforts by President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress to trample the power of judges who stand in their way, y…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Speaker prayed to throw millions off their health insurance, close nursing homes and hospitals, and take food from poor families' tables. The moral depravity of the the House Speaker and his minions is unbounded.
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House passes sweeping domestic policy package after Trump and Speaker Johnson win over holdouts
The multitrillion-dollar tax cut and spending bill now heads to the Senate, where Republicans have vowed to make changes.
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Call Senators Fetterman and McCormick NOW to let them know what this bill will do to Pennsylvanians! This article is a list of what the bill contains and what it will do.
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US House passes deficit-ballooning, Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP cutting “Big Beautiful” bill that makes low-income families poorer and billionaires richer
HIT Editorial Under the cover of darkness, Trump’s “Big Beautiful” tax bill passed the House 215-214 last night, with all Democrats and two Republicans – Reps. Thomas Massie…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Cuts to Medicare, in addition to the cuts to Medicaid! Brought to you by Trump's "Big Beautiful" tax cut bill. Ya gotta read the small print!
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Trump and GOP’s tax bill would force cuts to Medicare, CBO says
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ mammoth tax and immigration bill would add so much to the national debt that it could force nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare beginning i…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
No surprises here. Rich get richer and poor get poorer under Trump's "Big Beautiful" bill, per Congressional Budget Office.
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CBO: Trump’s tax bill will benefit the richest Americans, hurt poorest
Sudiksha Kochi and Riley Beggin – USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Republicans’ massive bill to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda would help the wealthiest Americans while diminis…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Trump's plan to make America unhealthy...
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful” tax bill would limit med school loans
Maya Goldman – Axios A little-discussed provision on student loan policies in President Trump’s massive budget bill would restrict borrowing for medical school and possibly exacerbate t…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The Center for American progress estimates that in Scott Perry's District 10, 31,600 would lose health insurance and an additional 100 would die each year. All for tax cuts for billionaires.
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Nursing home caregivers, providers warn about billions in Medicaid cuts that would devastate Southeast PA
Capitol Wire Staff Congress is now debating $715 billion in cuts, which would rip health care coverage from over 1 million Pennsylvanians and force nursing homes, home care programs and hospitals t…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The incompetence of the Trump Administration disrupts employee lives and puts us all at risk. The staffing at this lab will have to be completely rebuilt.
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Job cuts reversed at Pittsburgh lab that certifies nation’s respirators
Ian Karbal The Pittsburgh-area lab responsible for certifying virtually all U.S. government-approved respirators in the country was preparing to shutter for good in June. The Capital-Star reported…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hopeful that negotiations result in a bipartisan bill on final passage. Much about Pennsylvania election law that needs to be fixed.
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Pennsylvania Democrats pass sweeping election overhaul through the House, but skip GOP-priority voter ID
Carter Walker and Stephen Caruso, Spotlight PA HARRISBURG — A sweeping bill to overhaul the commonwealth’s election laws has passed the Pennsylvania House. Its changes would include creating in-per…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Call Scott Perry now! Washington: (202) 225-5836; Harrisburg: (717) 603-4980.
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CBO: 7.6 million would go uninsured under GOP Medicaid bill
Ben Leonard – Politico The Medicaid portions of the GOP megabill would lead to 10.3 million people losing coverage under the health safety net program and 7.6 million people going uninsured, …
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Not good.
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Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans
The Associated Press A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang. The ruling Tuesd…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The number I'm hearing is $880 billion cuts to Medicaid. $290 billion in cuts to SNAP. Hunger, sickness and death for tax cuts for billionaires. Call Rep. Perry now!
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House Republicans plow ahead on hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts despite infighting
John Parkinson and Lauren Peller – ABC News House Republicans are plowing ahead Tuesday to advance key components of their bill to fund President Donald Trump’s agenda — including taxes…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Hunger for billionaire tax cuts.
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Anti-hunger advocates slam House Republicans’ proposed budget cut to SNAP as ‘unconscionable’
Elizabeth Chuck – NBC News A House Republican proposal to dramatically reduce federal funding to the nation’s largest anti-hunger program would have a disastrous effect on low-income families…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Key decisions on Medicaid, SNAP and Salt are among major issues not in the current bill.
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House Republicans offer peek at their much-anticipated tax plans, but leave major decisions like Medicaid, SALT and SNAP unresolved
Benjamin Guggenheim and Brian Faler – Politico House Republicans unveiled a piece of their much-anticipated tax package Friday evening, including plans to boost popular tax breaks like the hu…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
An interesting perspective.
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Fetterman’s mom, in York County, defends son amid turmoil, says ‘he’s doing well’
J.D. Prose – PennLive Sen. John Fetterman’s mom is defending her embattled son amid concerns about his mental well-being, as Democratic senators are reportedly discussing ways to help their c…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We are turning our backs on Afghans who helped our soldiers and who face certain persecution by the Taliban if they return, while admitting white Afrikaners, whose ancestors were the architects of apartheid, as refugees. Whites still own 72% of all farmland in South Africa, blacks just 4% (2017).
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Noem revokes temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghans in the U.S.
HIT Ed. – We don’t know exactly how many Afghans resettled in Central Pennsylvania, but they were the focus of efforts by local organizations such as Catholic Charities, Church World Se…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Few things here: 1. Where is the ICE video of the "body slam"? 2. Why the scuffle, then ICE gives them a tour of the facility? 3. Note that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) were involved in the mele, Trump's Gestapo. 4. Purely meant to intimidate.
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DHS spokesperson threatens arrests of House Democrats who were at N.J. ICE facility
Alexandra Marquez – NBC News A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday suggested the Trump administration could pursue arrests of the House Democrats involved in an i…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The most important election for Pennsylvanian's this fall. Let's send Musk packing, just like Wisconsin did!
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Republicans are attempting to boot three Democratic justices from the Pa. Supreme Court – and for the first time, Dems are worried
Gillian McGoldrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer The Tribune Content Agency HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania’s biggest race this election year won’t be on the primary ballot. The candi…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Meanwhile, as Trump distracts us with his outrageous corruption in the Middle East, federal agencies are being slowly dismantled back home.
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The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government
Hannah Natanson and Maxine Joselow – Washington Post At the Environmental Protection Agency, research at 11 laboratories has ground to a halt because the Trump administration has not approved…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Just shows what you can do when the Supreme Court gives you carte blanche.
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Trump Family’s Business Ties to the Middle East Explained
Mandy Taheri – Newsweek As President Donald Trump prepares for his first formal diplomatic trip of his second term to the Middle East on Monday, renewed attention is turning to his family&#82…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, just a few problems here: 1. The corruption of Trump is breath-taking. Clearly a bribe. 2. Air Force One is a flying White House. What bugs has Qatar hidden on this plane? 3. Boeing is working on a new fleet of Air Force Ones. 4. Qatar is a long-time supporter of Hamas.
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Trump administration poised to accept ‘palace in the sky’ as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
Jonathan Karl and Katherine Faulders – ABC News In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government, the Trump administration is preparing to ac…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I naively thought John Fetterman would lead the resistance against Trump. I'm sorry that John's stroke and subsequent struggles have left him incapable of doing that. For his own sake and that of Pennsylvania he should resign and work on getting well.
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‘I’m in good health’: Questions surround Fetterman’s fitness for office after report
Ian Karbal, Peter Hall and John Cole – Pennsylvania Capital-Star New York Magazine’s article airing concerns about Sen. John Fetterman’s alleged health struggles was the kind of story that s…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The slide into totalitarianism continues...
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Massachusetts police hold girl’s face to the ground as ICE arrests her mother, video shows
Matt Lavietes –  NBC News Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, held a young girl’s face to the ground as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained her mother on Thursday, …
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The right to "habeas corpus", the right to be told why you are being arrested and the opportunity to challenge your detention by governmental authorities, is THE fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Suspension of that right will not be easily reclaimed.
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White House ‘actively looking’ at suspending habeas corpus in immigration crackdown
Rebecca Beitsch and Brett Samuels – The Hill White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday that President Trump and his team are “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Good to have a billionaire speaking out against his fellow billionaire.
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Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children by cutting foreign aid
Matt Lavietes – NBC News Bill Gates accused Elon Musk of killing poor children as he announced Thursday that he would donate his remaining fortune to his charity, the Gates Foundation. In a w…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Under the Republican Medicare cuts, central Pennsylvania would lose $9 billion and Pennsylvania as a whole would lose 49,000 jobs.
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Congressional budget agency projects sweeping Medicaid cutbacks in states under GOP plans
Jennifer Shutt – Pennsylvania Capital-Star WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that potential major cuts and changes to Medicaid under consideration by Republicans co…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
While Cleveland-Cliffs says the closing is not due to tariffs, the tariffs will depress rail and other forms of transportation that move goods from ports to the rest of the country. Cleveland Cliffs sees what is coming.
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Cleveland-Cliffs closing Steelton facility, hundreds laid off
Trains Staff STEELTON, Pa. — Steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs has announced plans to temporarily but indefinitely close its Steelton plant near Harrisburg, Pa., one of only three locations in the U.S. m…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is just the beginning...
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Trump asks Congress to cut $163B in non-defense spending, ax dozens of programs
Jennifer Shutt and Ariana Figueroa – Pennsylvania Capital-Star WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump released a budget request Friday that would dramatically slash some federal spending, the i…
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Hershey Indivisible Team @hersheyindivisible.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
For the Senator's sake (and Pennsylvania's), perhaps resignation is a good option.
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Former Fetterman Aide Expressed Concern to Doctor About Senator’s Mental Health
Annie Karni – New York Times The former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, was so alarmed with his ex-boss’s erratic behavior last year that he wrote a length…
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