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kaylyn kvochak

@kaylynkvochak.bsky.social
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raising $$ at national domestic workers alliance / care in action, formerly at fund for global human rights. opinions my own, y’all. she/her.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Dani Welch 🎃 @daniwelch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The immigration system in the United States is fucking monstrous.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. lack mericans have fought to make them true. --essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I think there's actually a useful difference we can draw here. Namely: there is incrementalism that comes from pushing wherever possible (and with whatever levels possible) to make progress toward a maximalist demand, versus incrementalism that's positioned as an excuse for setting minor goals
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That’s my mayor
Janeese Lewis-George on stage looking and sounding amazing, smiling in a white suit in front of cheering supporters
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
section 2 of the VRA? nullified? the 15th amendment? only applies to intentional discrimination. intentional discrimination? impossible to prove given an unbreakable assumption of good faith for a state legislature. 14th amendment? equal protection clause means the constitution can't even see race.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Big reason for anyone to drop connections with Fidelity if they are able.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What Kilpatrick wanted, and what the Roberts Court is making possible, is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white. The anticaste provisions of the Reconstruction amendments, intended by their authors to reverse the “horrid blasphemy” that America was a white man’s country, are being inverted to defend that dominance. This is not the color-blindness of Martin Luther King Jr., but what the scholar Ian Haney López has called “reactionary colorblindness,” the purpose of which is to maintain racial hierarchy through superficially neutral means. It takes the view that the Constitution’s “color-blindness” renders any attempt to remedy anti-Black racism unconstitutional, because by definition that would involve making racial distinctions. Similarly, the ruling in this case does not explicitly overturn the VRA’s ban on racial discrimination in voting so much as rewrite it to allow such discrimination.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 07/04/2026
I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/04/2026
We should never be forgiven for unleashing this maniac upon the world.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 03/04/2026
It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 02/04/2026
Today, SEIU members are joined with our partners in Dilley, TX where children & families are being held indefinitely. We’re launching the #ReadThemHome campaign—reading children’s books aloud for kids in Dilley and across the country who aren’t allowed to just be kids. Tune in: www.readthemhome.org
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Kids should be kids. Close Dilley ❤️‍🩹 Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. readthemhome.org 📖🏡
TUNE IN
NATIONAL VIGIL TO END FAMILY DETENTION DILLEY, TEXAS WATCH THE LIVESTREAM READ THEM HOME END FAMILY DETENTION
www.ReadThemHome.org
HANDS HOLDING BOOK
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/02/2026
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Michael Luciano 🇨🇦 @michaelluciano.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Either whip your caucus to block the DHS/ICE/CBP funding bill in the Senate or step the fuck down.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
There are thousands of images of the ICE assault on America. This is one of many that should haunt every person who did anything along the way to get the country to this nightmarish point. We are killing moms, grabbing grandfathers, pepper spraying clergy & kidnapping children. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Liam Ramos abducted by ICE
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The Democratic approach to building back power is: 1. Avoid contentious issues; 2. Pivot all discourse to unobjectionable appeals like costs; 3. Leave moral opposition to citizens of conscience, who have lost all trust in the party, but hope they vote Democrat anyhow. Wrong top to bottom.
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The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
On expecting a different result.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE’s public violence should be a reminder that they commit brutal acts in private facilities too. Every report has been horrific and we only have the smallest glimpse into the horrors.
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2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
OUT: Helping you pay for health care. IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I can’t stop thinking about how terrified this little boy must be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
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Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Honestly love to see it and want to see it 49 more times (Source for the screenshot within a screenshot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
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NY Governor Weighs Corporate Tax Hike to Help Fund Mamdani Plans
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering raising corporate taxes as part of broader efforts to close a potential budget shortfall and help fund some of Zohran Mamdani’s agenda as New York City ma...
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
If Trump has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society, among people who have been put in positions of power and leadership. Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure. In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/11/2025
We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities, terrorizing our communities, and corruptly self-enriching at the expense of the rest of us.

We want to celebrate a Democratic Party that fights back. But after this latest surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Zach Wahls @zachwahls.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/11/2025
even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2025
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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