Reposted by PamRakMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026happy bday the iconic Eleanor Roosevelt, b.1884, NYC. “Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared,... 515538
PamRak @pamrak.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yes! I had the opportunity of meeting Sister Helen Prejean many years ago (she was a hoot btw!). She convinced me that the death penalty should be abolished. It didn’t take any convincing because I always thought it was barbaric. Accountability can be achieved without more killing. 000
PamRak @pamrak.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I am upset that you were let go. You did not blame Kirk for his own death. Your point was that hateful words can tragically trigger hateful actions, and that’s the truth. You weren’t saying or implying that he deserved to be killed over his views. I’m sorry this happened, all the way around. 0150
Reposted by PamRakAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved. 11736861655
Reposted by PamRakZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Trump and Republicans in Congress are trying to pull off one of the biggest heists in U.S. history. The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is robbery, plain and simple. And it’s being committed by the billionaire class and the politicians they put into office. 11259141196
Reposted by PamRakJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025House and Senate Ds fought like hell. There was nothing else to do. They left it all on the field. They need more #'s. Sweep the R's who perpetrated this horror on America out in 2026. Nothing else in politics matters. 1942530687
Reposted by PamRakAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this. 34849981121741
Reposted by PamRakAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43709649837478
Reposted by PamRakAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2025Jeffries: "You got some people in the town who go to church and pray on Sunday, and then they come to Congress and prey on the American people. I'm not down with that kind of faith. That's not the faith that comes out of the Gospel." 313122192878
Reposted by PamRakMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/07/2025Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you. The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. They just lie. 1346326858915
Reposted by PamRakAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2025Jeffries says he "still has a lot to say" (it's pretty clear he's going for the record for longest Magic Minute speech) 25982511420
Reposted by PamRakRep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 03/07/2025Mr. President, you love playing the schoolyard bully but, at age 79, it’s time to cut it out. It’s one thing to steal one kid’s lunch money, but your bill STEALS LUNCH MONEY FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS. Now, that’s real ugly. 1356188475098
Reposted by PamRakMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Also, follow my daughter on bluesky as she steps out in the world. @josephinemdowd.bsky.social 148113
Reposted by PamRakSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025This decision that just came out explains in part why I said that the recent SCOTUS ruling ending lower-court nationwide injunctions would hurt many but might not achieve the ends Trump wants. That we already have a court issuing a sweeping class protection shows that this issue is not over at all. 7611127
Reposted by PamRakAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!" 15263212090
Reposted by PamRakGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/07/2025@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social 15854365514902
Reposted by PamRakAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA." 7534325213462
Reposted by PamRakRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better. 964314337131
Reposted by PamRakZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/07/2025My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability. 813314139180
Reposted by PamRakAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet." If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill? 1240227216483
PamRak @pamrak.bsky.social · 01/07/2025What has happened to our country? We are in deep trouble. 🥺 010
Reposted by PamRakMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025US Senators sacrificing the health benefits and freedoms and wellness for millions around the fifty states in return for help for a few thousand in your own state is the height of corrupt leadership. no integrity. 2232669
Reposted by PamRakJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Says the awful senator who didn’t need to inflict pain on millions of Americans. At least have the decency to resign. Hoping the House undoes your own vote is the most pathetic, demented defense I have ever heard www.axios.com/2025/07/01/l...axios.comSen. Murkowski on big beautiful bill: "This has been an awful process"The Alaska Republican isn't exactly thrilled with the current version of President Trump's "big, beautiful bill." 1541186297
PamRak @pamrak.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Disgusting greed. No empathy. They are beyond cruel. How did people vote for this? We never learn. 130
Reposted by PamRakJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Senate Ds did fight every step of way, made the bill toxic, forced Tillis to retire, made them vote in broad daylight as bill got worse, nixed some truly awful parts. They need more members. In 2026, vote out every R. That is what the lesson is here. 44096232632
Reposted by PamRakSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 01/07/2025The votes are slowing down. They don’t have a bill. Still issues with Parl. Still disagreeing in caucus. Still fighting with House. Still no final language. 557115352078
Reposted by PamRakJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human. 9283575211013
Reposted by PamRakSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/06/2025🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill. 381106633084
Reposted by PamRakGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/06/2025If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that? 789100964397
Reposted by PamRakSocial Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 30/06/2025If the Big Ugly Bill becomes law, over half of nursing homes say they will have to reduce staff, and a quarter say they will close. Hospitals will close, too. Unless you’re a billionaire who can hop in a helicopter to see your private doctor, this bill will make your health care worse.commondreams.orgThe Republican Nursing Home Apocalypse | Common DreamsIf the Big Ugly Bill becomes law, over half of nursing homes say they will have to reduce staff, and a quarter say they will close. 10202123
Reposted by PamRakJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025F**K him. Just quit already. "John Fetterman Complains About Missing Family Beach Trip to Vote on Trump Bill: ‘Oh My God, I Just Want to Go Home!’" 82984121
Reposted by PamRakAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2025Merkley: "We're slipping into a strongman state where POTUS has such an acquiescent Republican caucus that they're doing this crazy policy, hurting America, hurting the next generation, bc Trump wants it. You saw the billionaires lined up behind him at the inauguration. That's who he's working for" 11038761210
Reposted by PamRakRabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org · 29/06/2025Senator Murkowski cut a backroom deal to exempt Alaska from Medicaid cuts, but the Senate parliamentarian shut it down. Protecting your own state while harming millions elsewhere is selfishness and disgusting. 30294382279
Reposted by PamRakAmee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The Trump administration has built a searchable national citizenship data system that they claim will be used for voting, but it was developed rapidly without a public process, and officials worry about what it will be used for next. www.npr.org/2025/06/29/n...npr.orgThe Trump administration is building a national citizenship data systemThe Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans. 189864
