Jennifer
@undertheoak.bsky.social
Fiber Artist. I like nature and animals. #KeepAmericaPartoftheFreeWorld Un-rich the oligarchs.
NEWS: Trump just bragged about gutting endangered species protections so oil drilling, logging, development, and even military training can expand with fewer restrictions.
Trump Announces Rollback of Endangered Species Protections
Trump: ”The United States of America is going to BUILD again.”
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Indiana farmers on data centers: Our livelihood is at stake. It's going to devalue all the property around. They're going to deplete the water. They're going to deplete our ability to grow food for everybody. It’s way bigger than everybody thinks.
The For Our Republic Act is an answer to Trump’s attempts to tighten his authoritarian grip—a roadmap to protecting our democratic institutions and the most vulnerable people in our democratic republic. Let’s save our republic!
Merkley Leads Sweeping Legislation to Counter Trump’s Authoritarian Takeover of U.S. and Defend Our Democracy - Merkley
Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley unveiled the For Our Republic Act, a comprehensive legislative package to fight back against President Trump’s aggressive authoritarian tak...
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North Carolina Republicans have signed a secret deal with Amazon to green light construction of a $10 billion data center.
Taylor Farms, the company linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak, has used prison laborers paid just $4.75/hour.
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”
Okay, that should be illegal.
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 3d agoThey're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
People are skipping heart tests, delaying surgeries, and showing up uninsured in emergency rooms because Republicans decided it was a good idea to make health coverage EVEN MORE UNAFFORDABLE.
Uninsured Patients Rise Sharply, Hospitals Report, Citing Obamacare Cuts
More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.
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Republicans- always controversial (corrupt, racist, abusive, liars..) and always running from self-responsibility. #Georgia!! We do not need to be paying these people. #ElectJonOssoff www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBtr...
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This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
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RFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true
after he got big mad about canadian wildfire smoke he decided to just domesticate it
Trump administration denies emergency funding for 2 Oregon wildfires
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have sent a letter to the federal agency expressing frustration with the decision.
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He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
Trump admin defunds lawyers helping unaccompanied kids @wyden.senate.gov: "The Trump administration is quietly breaking the law and continuing to smother a federal office created and funded by Congress to protect children from trafficking and other dangers." www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
Wyden Sounds Alarm on Trump Administration’s Critical Failure to Fund Legal Representation for Unaccompanied Minors | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Sounds Alarm on Trump Administration’s Critical Failure to Fund Legal Representation for Unaccompanied Minors
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A must watch passionate conversation about @kim.senate.gov MediKids legislation. As always, @hcrichardson.bsky.social keeps us informed of everything that is important. I think Senator Kim's MediKids is brilliant and something we all can agree on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp0A...
Senator Andy Kim | American Conversations
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All Donald J Trump had to do was encourage people to wear masks, don't go out unnecessarily, avoid crowds, but instead, he & his crime family were too busy making money off of the suffering & death. Dr. Fauci is one of the heros that worked with international scientists to develop the vaccine.
Blackbird ✨🐦⬛💙@hometreez.bsky.social · 6d agoRemember this protest? I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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Thank you Dr. Fauci for sharing your knowledge, compassion, and expertise as a public health servant for decades! The only criminals in our current government are Republicans. Senator Rand Paul, where is Mitch McConnell? Have you told your folks back in Kentucky what you are doing to health care?
Jennifer@undertheoak.bsky.social · 7d ago