Barbara Venkataraman
@BarbaraVenkat
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Loves a good laugh and people who play nice in the sandbox together
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@ReproRights @LqLana We have an inalienable right to body autonomy-no one can force you to donate blood, bone marrow, or a kidney. Even after you die you have it. Except now women don’t. 1/2 the country lost that right, reduced to livestock. Forced pregnancy =a crime against humanity.
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Krysten Sinema forcing Democrats to delay these Medicare price cuts into the Trump administration is one of the most evil things she’s done
Medicare announces price cuts for 15 prescription drugs, including Ozempic “The lower prices stem from the Medicare negotiation program created under the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act,” @BerkeleyJr reports. https://t.co/QzSsf7iPtS
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Trump is set to double his golfing taxpayer expenses from $151.5M in his 1st term, to exceed $300M in his 2nd term. In only the past 10 months Trump has spent $71M while you worry about keeping food on the table.
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Listen, this administration isn’t “making America great.” It’s targeting our neighbors, tearing families apart, and putting lives on the line. Democrats on Oversight are standing up because this fight isn’t about left or right. It’s about right and wrong. Period.
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Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war https://t.co/gUXQbfjUjS
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Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
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Context matters. @aftynfortn Behn was protesting a child sex abuser who had admitted it. Now Republicans are attempting to shame her for it. We were there. Covering the activism of the Byrd survivors, Aftyn, and others is how the Holler was born. More: https://t.co/ELZt8HXN2z
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Canceling 350K people’s status and work permits with no change in country conditions and no way to remove them quickly is a plan to intentionally sabotage the United States, creating more problems to justify a draconian response
Story: Legal status of 350,000 Haitian migrants to expire in early February, U.S. officials announce https://t.co/4NguqzEtA4
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RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.
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Plastic is everywhere—including in us.
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I will never forgive the people who voted this administration in. Evil.
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🚨🇩🇪 Germany Warns: The World Is Changing And MAGA America No Longer Understands Any Of It Germany issued a stark warning this week, saying alliances are shifting so fast that Europe must rethink its entire security strategy. Behind the scenes, officials say the biggest worry is
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Is there anyone among who does NOT think the Trump White House is secretly coordinating with the Kremlin, for the purposes of weakening democracy and the safety and well being of the citizens of the United States of America?
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Let me use MAGA logic & agree with them for a thought experiment. The National Guard shooter is an Afghan national, so we must deport all Afghans & Muslims & stop immigration. OK. Trump's failed assassins were 2 white men. White men are the #1 domestic shooters in America.
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A pro-worker, anti-corporate power message is the only thing that can compete with the modern right. People feel exploited and think their way of life is being stolen from them. If your message doesn’t acknowledge that and provide enemies, then it’s a dead end.
More Perfect Union is the 5th fastest growing news/politics channel on YouTube - just behind a few of the biggest right-wing channels.
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Menin's plan has always been to block progress and set the city on fire as much as possible (thankfully the mayor also has checks on her), blame Mamdani, then run for mayor in 2029 promising to fix the mess she created. The Cuomo playbook.
@selfattnlayer24 The next City Council is in 2029 and I don’t think Menin will be able to run for reelection anyway (due to term limits), so not sure what a primary challenge would accomplish.
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A full year after making a public pledge to do so, President Trump has disclosed a list of donors who paid $14 million for his transition to power. The list includes billionaires, future Trump appointees and apparent lobbyists.
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A 46-person list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to positions of power.
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🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration is suddenly blaming Biden for the D.C. shooter’s asylum approval… …but CNN just confirmed the shooter applied for asylum in December 2024 and was approved in April of THIS YEAR, under Trump.
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90% of the responses: "It's not about our public safety lies. It's just the fact they're here illegally." But that's a lie too! They're canceling millions of people's status. Every other week, it's 100K more stripped of status. FFS they're even trying to deport US-born children!
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
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🚨NEWS: A tech giant has filed a lawsuit asking federal courts to create a new First Amendment right for artificial intelligence systems to help landlords raise rent prices. What stage of capitalism is this?
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