Joy Persists🐈⬛
Cat lady. BLUE voter.
Interested in all things financial & feline. Stage 4a Colon Cancer..Now NED.
With my beloved cats OTRB🌈, I am learning to foster cats. Um..adopted first foster...
Retired Analyst.
🔵 Dot in Red FL
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛After Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban and enshrine abortion rights into their constitution, abortion providers still had to challenge a slew of restrictions. More than a year later, they're still in court. It's not the only state with this same problem.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Minnesota needs to know the number of children in federal detention, who they are, and where they’re being held.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Former Comms Director for Nancy Mace responds to her claim today that she isn’t able to drink any alcohol because of a medical condition.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Good time to reup this post from last month.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Illinois is joining the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. I refuse to sit by as Donald Trump undermines science and weakens our nation's ability to detect and respond to global health threats.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛A fanatical child rapist supporter decided to hurl racists insults and attack a teenage girl after she insulted his dear leader Donald Trump, he was then immediately beaten by a crowd of children and teens.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Conway: If you want your lives to be better and you want this country to persevere for your kids, we need to impeach and remove this fascist fucker now, as soon as possible. And I know that language is tough, but that’s where we are.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Parents are afraid to send their kids to school, classrooms sit half-empty, children are being taken to detention facilities. We’ve crossed a line. I stood with education leaders to discuss the growing harm federal actions are causing to children, families, and our schools.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Q: Do you agree with Trump saying we should 'nationalize' elections? THUNE: I think the president has clarified what he meant by that, and that is that he supports the SAVE Act (That is not what he meant)
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- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛This was a remarkably crazy response by Mike Johnson's standards. He's going full "stop the steal" and clearly would line up behind any effort Trump makes to rig the midterms and 2028 elections
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛A reminder of who Mike Johnson is. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-bi...
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- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Donald Trump's Fed Governor Stephen Miran is finally resigning from his White House job. 141 days too late. Once a Donald Trump sock puppet, always a Donald Trump sock puppet.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Watch closely: Donald Trump is plotting to rig the midterms. In just the past 2 weeks, his AG demanded that Minnesota turn over voter rolls, his DNI raided 2020 election ballots in Georgia, & he called to 'nationalize' our elections. We must mobilize to protect our democracy.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛You don’t get to call this “law and order” while ICE raids occur near schools and houses of worship, violates court orders, and scares parents into guarding school doors. Even Republicans are saying it’s unacceptable. Enforce the law—but due process matters, and chaos doesn’t make us safer.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Trump, who extorted Ukraine for dirt on Biden, sabotaged the post office to disrupt voting by mail, asked SCOTUS to overturn some state's election results, and demanded red states declare he won anyway, is concerned there was voter fraud in Georgia. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛"Imagine if we actually followed the Constitution."
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛$1.5T military budget $170B for ICE and Border Patrol (over 4 years) $100B on tax cuts for the 1% (per year) $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $496M to send National Guard into cities $200M for Kennedy Center renovations $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $100M for Trump's golf outings Priorities.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Kayleigh McEnany: "My mom went to see Melania. She said the theater was packed, standing room only. People were cheering through it, they were excited. It was interactive and was just electric." I wonder what meds her mom takes. 😅 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Of course the Trumps’ massive payday from the UAE — prior to the White House easing chip restrictions on the UAE — is a huge national security risk and financial conflict of interest. And a GOP-led Congress won’t do anything about it: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Putin just disrespected Trump by unleashing one of the most relentless attacks on Ukraine in this entire war, right after Trump publicly claimed he got Putin to agree not to attack. And she has the guts to call Biden weak? Seriously?
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛I've heard from people in other cities "I'd like to see them try that in __!" No. No, you wouldn't. We have guns pointed in our faces in MN. I think you'd change your tune if this was happening to you, your family & your neighbors. Nobody knows EXACTLY how to do this. This is NEW to all of US.
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- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Close the ICE detention centers.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Doesn’t look like ICE is drawing back.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it
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- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Rep Lieu on Kristi Noem: “Under her leadership, the Department of Homeland Security has killed a number of Americans. She needs to resign, or she needs to be fired. And if not, impeachment proceedings need to proceed.”
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛FBI agents don’t wear masks, your local and state PD doesn’t wear masks. Border patrol don’t wear masks. None of them seemed to be concerned with doxxing, and they deal with total scum. Why do ICE believe they’re doing something so uniquely terrible that they’ll be doxxed and threatened? 🤔🫠
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- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Rep. Aguilar: “Kristi Noem is the head of this agency that is seemingly lawless and doesn't care about the First, Second, Fourth, or Tenth Amendment. And she's got to go…The American people are fed up with this.”
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Rep. Lieu demands Deputy AG Todd Blanche be fired: "Yesterday, he said essentially that it is not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein. If Jeffrey Epstein was human trafficking minors for these sex parties, and you show up and patronize the establishment at that party, yes, you're guilty.”
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Don’t let this story disappear. www.koco.com/article/ice-...
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛“Imagine if we had to follow the law”
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- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Hitler made Göring president of the Reichstag, so at least there is some precedent for this
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛I strongly disagree with my friend Steve here. I think a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility—the most modern and secure one, because our president deserves the best—should be named after Trump. If elected to Congress, I pledge to do my best to enact this into law.
- “There will be no buildings named for Trump, no rest stops, not even a plastic urinal in a national park latrine. Nothing. All that will linger is disgrace and shame.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-most-i...
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛It was so cold yesterday I saw a Republican congressman put his hand in his own pocket.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛A federal judge in Washington, D.C. (Judge Jia M. Cobb) issued a new order blocking DHS from enforcing a policy that required Members of Congress to give seven days’ advance notice before visiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities.
- Reposted by Joy Persists🐈⬛Nazis in glass houses…
