Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/03/2025Funding the government is up to republicans. They’re the ruling party. Let them fund the government or shut it down. 17563741025
pattyh4.bsky.social @pattyh4.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Former First Lady Melania Trump started a scholarship program last year called "Fostering the Future." But there's no charity with that name registered in New York or Florida, The New York Times reported. 000
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025... 901127634527
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do? 34518435694278
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Trump and Vance wanted Zelensky to thank them for an aid package that Vance voted against and Trump opposed. 422147043330
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/03/2025 2620371017
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Says it all. 720417429281
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialFred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025In a meeting, staged by and for the Kremlin, Trump today proved he is truly the useful idiot for Russia that we all suspected. He is breaking America for the benefit of Russia. We are under attack terrorist attack and he and Vance are leading it. 1361683425
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialCongresswoman Grace Meng @meng.house.gov · 28/02/2025I'm hosting a telephone town hall on March 5th at 7:00pm EST! Join me, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, AFGE & @democracyforward.org to ask questions & learn more about what we're doing to confront the challenges NYers face under the new administration. Ask a question👇 meng.house.gov/resources/rs... 1205
pattyh4.bsky.social @pattyh4.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's an anti-voting bill that is so strict, it could literally keep tens of millions of Americans from voting. I just signed up for this event to learn how we can fight this MAGA bill. Join me! social.redwine.blue/s/qNrXiMg1social.redwine.blueRegister here. 040
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialCongresswoman Grace Meng @meng.house.gov · 25/02/2025Tonight the House is voting on a GOP budget that cuts Medicaid & Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage, cuts SNAP benefits, & increases ACA health care costs to support tax cuts for the wealthy. Republicans are putting billionaires over babies. I'm voting NO. 53811
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialCongresswoman Grace Meng @meng.house.gov · 25/02/2025In my district, the Medicaid "concern" means that 279,473 people, including 88,005 kids, are at risk of losing Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program coverage. The GOP budget will take away health care coverage from kids & families to support tax cuts for billionaires.politico.comBudget won't be changed to address Medicaid concerns, Johnson saysSwing-district Republicans are concerned about $880 billion Energy and Commerce instruction. 43212
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialCongresswoman Grace Meng @meng.house.gov · 26/02/2025Veterans make up 30% of the federal workforce. The administration has already fired 6,000 of them, with even more fearing that their positions will be cut next. The GOP is betraying the brave men & women who have sacrificed everything to serve our nation. 1193
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialLinda Rawles @lindarawles.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Stood in my red, rural Indiana town again today. Forgot to take a photo this time but this was my sign again. My husband’s sign said “support Ukraine and not Putin “. Reaction was about 50/50 which is great for here! 4342
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/02/20251400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...militarytimes.comVA fires 1,400 more staffers in second round of workforce reductionsAbout 2,500 VA workers have been forced out of their jobs in the last few weeks. 1173177797925
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/02/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w... 836197447208
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/02/2025True. 19495314616938
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act. She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful. 1651416756
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 05/02/2025At least three dozen Democrats plan to take over the Senate floor all night tonight, for 30 hours, to oppose Trump's budget office nominee, Russ Vought. “He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...huffpost.comDemocrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee“He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought. 20771701284
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/02/2025"in bombed-out Sudanese cities, Kenyan clinics and Mauritanian refugee camps, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s most vulnerable people" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...washingtonpost.comFear, pain and hunger: The dire impact of U.S. funding cuts in AfricaAcross Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. 38875324
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialDaniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 05/02/2025There is no way that Trump is approving everything that Musk is doing. Trump has effectively turned over the federal government to an unelected billionaire who spent $250m to get him elected. Make no mistake: Elon Musk owns Donald Trump and is calling the shots. 1351292392
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/02/2025It’s hard to overhype how dangerous this moment is. This a naked attempt to seize government by the right wing billionaire class so they can steal from the American people. 3163298847
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Trump is preparing executive order to close the Education Department -dismantling it from within. As only Congress can shutter the dept he will make agency diminish itself. The work is underway putting scores of employees on leave & pressuring staff to quit. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...washingtonpost.comTrump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes dataClosing the agency would require congressional approval, so the new administration hopes to diminish it in the meantime. 42314115
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/02/2025CBS NEWS: “.. the water released from dams at Lake Kaweah and Lake Success is rushing into a dry lakebed in the Central Valley, where experts say it can't flow to Southern California and will likely go to waste.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...cbsnews.comWhy the water Trump ordered released in California won't help Los Angeles firefightingThe water released from two California reservoirs will likely go to waste, not help Los Angeles with firefighting, experts say. 28539531629
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialGen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order. 918123976666
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Memo suspending programs like SNAP: “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism & green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve” www.politico.com/news/2025/01...politico.comTrump administration orders sweeping freeze of all federal aidIn a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments. 2951323553
Reposted by @pattyh4.bsky.socialEzzy @lokaji.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I am on a mission today to repost this comparison gif. 1717089
