AndreaLCSW
Union Strong, Social Worker, loyal friend and fearsome opponent. Kindness is always right. Francophone.
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- Reposted by AndreaLCSWDo y'all see why I have no faith in this Democratic leadership? Is anyone surprised? If so, why?
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWI don't know when I last read something like the transcript out of Minnesota, so I spent the evening putting this together. www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnes...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWtoday's report: our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWTop Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWour government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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- Reposted by AndreaLCSWOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWnormal guy of the week alert
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWIf you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos. American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWI prefer Texas Republicans personally attacking each other over Texas Democrats personally attacking each other. Much less stressful and far more likely to produce a positive result.
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- Reposted by AndreaLCSWSpanberger is a moderate Democrat who used to work for the C.I.-fucking-A. It should put the actions of Schumer and Jeffries into perspective for everyone. Are they Republicans? Because they sure act like it. They need to get the fuck out.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWTrump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWRhetoric didn’t kill Renee Good or Alex Pretti. An unaccountable federal police force did.
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- Reposted by AndreaLCSWGreat work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWlittle item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWIf you need to scramble an F-35 to hit a drone you are going to have problems down the line.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWThe big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
- NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWThis should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.
- "For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- It’s a war crime
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWAnother batch of Trump's judicial nominees refused in their confirmation hearings today to publicly acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, which annoyed Sen. Richard Blumenthal enough for him to call them "monkeys" and "puppets"
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- Reposted by AndreaLCSWwhat I’m about to say isn’t a new insight but—this use of force is incredibly dumb on every conceivable level. It is the sort of thing that losing armies do as they retreat, not because they have any hope of victory but because they are demoralized and enraged.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWIf you want to see what abject moral cowardice in the service of ambition looks like, here you go
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- Reposted by AndreaLCSWStriking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)
- Vast camps are central to Trumpism. Stephen Miller has long been very excited about them. Backlash is another sign that opposition to Trump/Miller runs deeper than revulsion at ICE. There's real resistance to the whole ideological project of mass deportations. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWBREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWNormal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWI don’t believe Tom Homan. I think this is a ploy to get @democrats.senate.gov to fund DHS. They lied about deescalation last week and I don’t believe a word the Cava Czar says.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWPlease listen to this from an eyewitness to what is happening in our country, and in Minnesota specifically.
- I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWJudge Incredulous as Trump Lawyer Asks Him to Create New Law for Mark Kelly Retribution Crusade talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-m...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWAlabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births. But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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- Reposted by AndreaLCSWTrump promised to lower costs. Instead, thanks to his chaotic economic policies, families paid an extra $2,120 in 2025. Trump’s broken promises have consequences that show up in Americans’ bills.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWfinally doing a little of my own perusing of the Epstein Files, and I'll be darned if Elon Musk's personal elite influence monger Juleana Glover wasn't keeping ol' Jeff E apprised of all the latest developments in Tesla's stock pump narrative
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWBREAKING: The Supreme Court will not stop the use of California's new congressional maps in this year's midterm elections. The court rejected California Republicans' effort to stop the use of the new maps. There were no noted dissents and no opinion.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWJUST IN: SCOTUS declines to take up challenge to Gov. Newsom's redistricting effort in California.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWWashington Post publisher Will Lewis, "who has already earned a reputation for showing up late to work when he showed up at all, did not join the Zoom" about the staggering cuts.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by AndreaLCSW“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWThis statement from our government is deeply disturbing. Homan said 158 people were arrested during the protests and added, “I said if the hateful rhetoric did not stop, there would be bloodshed and there was.”
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- Reposted by AndreaLCSWAfter paying $40M for the Melania movie, Bezos is firing hundreds of Washington Post reporters who tell us actual facts. All while turning the editorial board into a billionaire-defense operation. Too often, the billionaires who control our biggest media outlets are selling out our country.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWThe cover up begins.
- Reposted by AndreaLCSWAlmost 80% of ICE's invasion force in Minnesota remains today. It is still operating outside the law and against the wishes of state and local authorities. This is still going on. Nothing has changed. bsky.app/profile/simo...
