Annette Licitra 🚫🧊
@licitra.bsky.social
Writer for the AFT, dragging up the public discourse. Union thug. Radical left lunatic. Democracy defender. Mom. Living on Powhatan land. Stay woke. Vote blue. She/her 🇺🇸
Arrests by ICE are once again on the rise. As we continue to fight for much-needed guardrails and demand accountability and transparency, make sure you know your rights and have a plan for what to do if ICE is in your community. Find resources here ⤵️
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Americans know that our strength has always been built on the simple notion that America is a place where many become one. The AFT, as the representative of those who teach and care for our next gener...
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The problem is, even if there is a process, it relies on people being transparent and the senate enforcing the rules. And that is clearly not going to happen in this regime.
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Newsom has done a lot of shady stuff while in office, but working with utilities to limit liability for fires their equipment caused (usually due to poor maintenance or some other form of negligence) is just a major betrayal to the people he’s supposed to serve. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Utilities threaten action if lawmakers fail to cut their wildfire liability risk
Top executives of California’s two biggest utilities warned they would take action to protect their shareholders if Sacramento lawmakers fail to pass legislation limiting their companies’ liabilities ...
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Rising student loan payments are burying hardworking Americans. @businessinsider.com report details how borrowers are struggling to keep up with payments while managing other everyday expenses. www.businessinsider.com/works-3-jobs...
He works 3 jobs and may have to drain his retirement to afford a $600 student-loan payment surge
Working full-time in IT, along with side jobs for Best Buy and DoorDash, one student-loan borrower is grappling with an anticipated payment surge.
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The Trump admin has thrown student loan borrowers into chaos, confusion and costly new repayment plans. Read school counselor Jessica Newell’s story of how she’s paying hundreds of dollars more a month in student loan bills, and share your own story to show lawmakers the impact of rising costs.
What is your skyrocketing student loan story?
The One Big Bill campaign is an effort supported by the AFT and several other organizations to document the stories of millions of Americans struggling with skyrocketing student loan debt and other ha...
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Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time Original post
Our flight from Seattle to Sacramento was delayed by a few hours last night, but we were rewarded with an epic sunset on Tahoma (Rainier) as it poked through the low stratus layer. The pastel peach backdrop was made possible by the horrific wildfire smoke from all the PNW fires.
The political action committee of a major Washington-based law firm told federal regulators a thief stole paper checks from mailboxes in the upscale Cleveland Park neighborhood.
Major D.C. Law Firm Details Theft From Political Committee
The Arnold & Porter PAC told federal regulators a thief stole paper checks from mailboxes in Washington’s upscale Cleveland Park neighborhood.
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The Washington Post can't print that Trump is lying because his buddy and large donor, billionaire Jeff Bezos, owns the f**king newspaper 🤬 There was a time when this paper broke the truth about what was going on in Washington. ....That was Watergate. .... But that was before Bezos.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 4d agoTrump is lying. WaPo knows he is lying. We all know he is lying. Yet, the Post cannot say it. Support independent prodemocracy media that never backs down from the truth. demdock.com/4w6emld
The coalition of people who vote for Democrats is broader than some people realize. The core of the coalition is an amalgamation of white liberals and black and brown moderates. And, in the last few years, it’s expanded with the addition of a lot of white former Republican voters.
We aren't "slipping" into fascism. The Christian Nationalists and the people behind Project 2025 have been planning this coup for decades. It's a hostile takeover from within, not some kind of slow transition.
The Democrats who crossed over were Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Adam Gray of California, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington. Independent Rep. Kevin Kiley of California.
6 dems just voted for more war money and the SAVE Act.
So they are doing the cult hive mind stuff GOP is using COMMUNISM as their new boogeyman trigger word like they did with They're eating the cats They're eating the dogs They're eating the pets People have forgotten 'McCarthyism' of 75 years ago - it was all bogus too
The trope of socialism being a gateway drug for communism was debunked when I was a kid. Democratic socialism is regulated capitalism with a social safety net. You know, like in Eisenhower's day when the rich actually had to pay taxes.
If you want a big spectacular book-adaptation American movie about a reluctant clever hero on an impossible journey through weird places (which I do), Project Hail Mary is great.
Perimeters, not parameters. An excursion, not an incursion. Six genders, not cisgender. Insane asylums, not asylum. Transgender mice, not transgenic mice. The IQ of a potato.
I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.
If anyone deserves to be compensated, it is the capital police, people who have been brutally beaten/murdered in the streets on US soil, Epstein victims & people who had legitimate lawsuits against him & other scammers that were dismissed.  www.police1.com/Officer-Safe...
Officers injured during Jan. 6 Capitol response reflect on pardons, public perception 5 years later
More than 140 police officers were injured during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, several of whom have since left law enforcement careers behind
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lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
No big deal, the Red Sox just had their best month in 125 years
I just called (202) 224-2315 I welcome all to call Moreno's office &let him know, if he is such a "tough guy", why isn't he defending his daughter against the politician (his son in law) (Rep. Max Miller) who physically harmed her? and his granddaughter. and tell him to clean up his potty mouth.
The man beat his daughter and injured his granddaughter but he's fine with it apparently. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...
Sen. Bernie Moreno Doesn't 'Know' if Embattled Rep. Max Miller Should Stay on Ballot
The senator’s daughter accused Miller of domestic violence. Miller denies the allegations, but they’re making his reelection race tighter.
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