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Akemi

@akemerz

Designer and pickleball player. I love corgis, football ⚽, and reading esp. science fiction & fantasy. Here for science, policy, and legal expertise. Pro abortion, women's rights, LGBTQ, and public education. Ok with punching fascists πŸ‘Š

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Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is. Β And we know what causes it, too."

25.11.2025 16:25 πŸ‘ 10194 πŸ” 2813 πŸ’¬ 169 πŸ“Œ 95
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WATCH β€” @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : β€œMy amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.”

Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

12.11.2025 05:17 πŸ‘ 21513 πŸ” 7932 πŸ’¬ 508 πŸ“Œ 423

Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.

Please.

06.11.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 29666 πŸ” 5247 πŸ’¬ 2665 πŸ“Œ 618

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 39543 πŸ” 14912 πŸ’¬ 570 πŸ“Œ 665
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 55910 πŸ” 22623 πŸ’¬ 1874 πŸ“Œ 2155
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

05.10.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 44017 πŸ” 15621 πŸ’¬ 3414 πŸ“Œ 2976
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

01.10.2025 14:19 πŸ‘ 30873 πŸ” 9710 πŸ’¬ 671 πŸ“Œ 514
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Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

01.10.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 23503 πŸ” 7995 πŸ’¬ 1707 πŸ“Œ 580

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

30.09.2025 02:47 πŸ‘ 39832 πŸ” 12411 πŸ’¬ 798 πŸ“Œ 445

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

29.09.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 14468 πŸ” 4457 πŸ’¬ 783 πŸ“Œ 301
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Our mainstream media is pathetically feckless.

28.09.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 7163 πŸ” 2444 πŸ’¬ 437 πŸ“Œ 127

BREAKING: Per MSNBC, Nexstar has ALSO CAVED and will stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! Way to go, everyone!

26.09.2025 21:02 πŸ‘ 26700 πŸ” 4927 πŸ’¬ 771 πŸ“Œ 310

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

24.09.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 57350 πŸ” 19375 πŸ’¬ 1825 πŸ“Œ 1010

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

22.09.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 25817 πŸ” 6093 πŸ’¬ 2022 πŸ“Œ 487
Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

18.09.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 29447 πŸ” 7476 πŸ’¬ 366 πŸ“Œ 141
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

i have said this before but when β€œgetting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means β€œyou can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

15.09.2025 12:16 πŸ‘ 10511 πŸ” 3004 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 74

As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds

Dangerous times

13.09.2025 13:08 πŸ‘ 21517 πŸ” 5197 πŸ’¬ 1096 πŸ“Œ 206
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Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."

07.09.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 28987 πŸ” 8490 πŸ’¬ 917 πŸ“Œ 418

The β€œproblem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

04.09.2025 19:44 πŸ‘ 26702 πŸ” 7803 πŸ’¬ 577 πŸ“Œ 457
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RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

04.09.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 40271 πŸ” 12007 πŸ’¬ 1112 πŸ“Œ 647

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.

Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

28.08.2025 14:04 πŸ‘ 17506 πŸ” 4515 πŸ’¬ 815 πŸ“Œ 350
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Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.

A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.

19.08.2025 23:17 πŸ‘ 7597 πŸ” 4275 πŸ’¬ 920 πŸ“Œ 396
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Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a β€œslumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.

19.08.2025 22:50 πŸ‘ 16159 πŸ” 4859 πŸ’¬ 759 πŸ“Œ 535

Democratic Governors, you have to play hardball.

Red states can't function without your economies.

They clearly want to F around.

It's find out time.

17.08.2025 02:36 πŸ‘ 16887 πŸ” 4190 πŸ’¬ 327 πŸ“Œ 178
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Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…

12.08.2025 03:23 πŸ‘ 7955 πŸ” 2622 πŸ’¬ 167 πŸ“Œ 117

School vouchers are a scam to send taxpayer money to private religious schools. Vouchers are also a violation of church and state.

08.08.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 10220 πŸ” 2846 πŸ’¬ 345 πŸ“Œ 129
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This is bullshit.

Not only do ICE bounty hunters refuse to identify themselves, they won’t say where they’re taking the people they’re kidnapping.

Deliberately shuffling detainees from facility to facility so families can’t find them & they miss their chance at legal counsel.
(Anaheim, CA)

04.07.2025 23:27 πŸ‘ 15942 πŸ” 7062 πŸ’¬ 1643 πŸ“Œ 570

I 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.

03.07.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 100555 πŸ” 21931 πŸ’¬ 3544 πŸ“Œ 931
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64 percent.

03.07.2025 14:44 πŸ‘ 15422 πŸ” 6533 πŸ’¬ 1368 πŸ“Œ 474