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Janice Weiner

@janice4iowa.bsky.social
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State Senator Iowa SD45. #TheCommonGood. Pro-democracy. Former city councilor. Former U.S. State Dept FSO. Mother of 2, grandma to 1.

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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
‼️ On today's @msignorile.bsky.social Show ‼️ @joesudbay.bsky.social guest hosts! #CoreyHusak @janice4iowa.bsky.social @charlesgaba.com 🔊Listen Here: siriusxm.us/Signorile Give us your calls at: 866-997-4748
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/04/2025
Any politician or pundit telling us to stop advocating for due process for the men in CECOT because it's not "politically expedient" needs to go,
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Happy 250th Anniversary of Lexington and Concord from the Supreme Court of the United States
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”
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144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Standing up in Iowa City today. #Indivisible
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2025
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Read the thread - time to mobilize.
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Sean Phelan @seanphelan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Break down of what small business owners are facing. #tariffs #EconSky
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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/03/2025
Murphy: "The president is continuing to act unconstitutionally. He shut down some of our most important programs that protect us abroad, like Radio Free Europe, that were funded & authorized in that spending bill. So it doesn't seem like we have restrained any of the president's lawlessness."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
First Portugal now Canada. Threats to America's military industrial complex may wake people up quicker than anything else.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/03/2025
China spends billions on broadcasting around the world. Meanwhile, Trump and Musk have just begun to destroy US broadcasting around the world. www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, other agencies
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies, his administration's latest step to shrink bureaucracy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Republicans claim to care about the debt, but they never want to tax the rich. They only want to take it from the health care and programs for the poor and elderly — while CUTTING taxes on the rich. It’s not about efficiency. And they don’t care about the debt. It’s a con.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Shout it from the rooftops. This is not left vs right, this is a class struggle.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A massive demonstration took place in Budapest today against Viktor Orbán’s pro-Russia regime in Hungary Opposition leader Péter Magyar declared: “The spring is here, the spring of the Hungarians, and we, together, will end Orbán’s winter.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.
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I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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RFE/RL President: Defunding Would be “Massive Gift to America’s Enemies”
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was informed today by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) that its federal grant agreement, which funds RFE/RL’s global operations, has been terminated.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 08/03/2025
Trump is not on the side of the good guys www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...
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US ‘to cease all future military exercises in Europe’
Nato countries could be forced to plan manoeuvres without US as Trump continues pivot away from bloc
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It'd be great if one by one every Democrat walked out during Trump's rant in front of the joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall. Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.” -former USAID official @agawande.bsky.social, to me, in this piece. Lots more like that in here:
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Welcome to the NIH - world renowned repository of scientific research and data. Seriously folks we need to do whatever we need to and get this all fixed.
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/03/2025
Thou shalt not deport hard working, good people whilst importing vile criminals like the Tate brothers and still claim you have morals.
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Not acceptable. Call your reps and senators. Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"...eliminated positions for employees who have played a role in assessing the brain-implant technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink devices." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...
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Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety
Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I have decided to call @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social EVERY DAY to tell him to fight harder. The days of being cautious and timid have led us to fascism. I will remind him he works for us and that he needs to ramp it up. I called and left a message today. Please join me. His number: 202-225-5936
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is why we fund scientific and bio-medical research. This.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/02/2025
I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
more and more stories like this www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...
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Military families rocked by Trump’s federal government cuts | CNN Politics
The Trump administration’s swift, sweeping cuts to the federal workforce is set to derail the livelihoods of potentially thousands of military families.
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin
I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...
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DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up
A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Awful: Numerous scientists and researchers were just fired at NIH's center for treating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They fear Trump-Musk cuts could dramatically set back our ability to treat dementias. New reporting from me here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...
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Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will those Republicans say now?
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Important work for Vets and for Americans. (And my dad was part of the team that developed the concept of the CAT scan that @eliowa.bsky.social references.)
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I met with rural Democrats in Page County, Iowa tonight. Everyone is a little overwhelmed with the shock and awe campaign, but they are calling, writing, and showing up. Red state folks are used to this sort of blitz…we know the drill. Stand up. Talk back.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/02/2025
Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
That tracks.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Dynamic to watch: Republicans who can't bear what Trump is doing to their constituents but who are too scared to speak up against it.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...
Photo of Musk with Trump. Headline: "Bice: Elon Musk group
buys TV ads backing Schimel for Supreme Court"
Building America's Future, an Elon Musk-backed dark money group,
has already purchased more than $670,000 of air time backing Brad
Schimel.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 17/02/2025
I’m not getting on another plane until Pete Buttigieg himself tells me the pilots are woke enough to keep us in the sky
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/02/2025
Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.
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Janice Weiner @janice4iowa.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Get it done.
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