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Alexandra Colacito

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Gen X Berkeley CA transplant to MA, non-practicing lawyer, environmentalist, peaceful parenter, autism advocate, finding escape in modern art and indy/alt music.

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One thing was tossed.

02.09.2025 02:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Backyard slaughter, small local family butchers -- there is no humane way to kill someone who doesn't want to die, and not justifiable reason when no human needs animal products to survive

27.05.2025 11:44 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Spread this far and wide! fb.watch/zRniOOyG6p/ www.facebook.com/reel/1277178...

27.05.2025 11:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.04.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock tradingβ€”and I've got a bill for that.

10.04.2025 14:47 πŸ‘ 60500 πŸ” 12698 πŸ’¬ 1892 πŸ“Œ 624
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09.04.2025 23:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

09.04.2025 13:12 πŸ‘ 55995 πŸ” 19781 πŸ’¬ 2171 πŸ“Œ 1214
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09.04.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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08.04.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, some strategy.

08.04.2025 10:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How about: Grandma and Grandpa are going to die because they can't afford any groceries.

08.04.2025 10:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Local news outlets show the New York Times how to cover the growing pro-democracy movement. The NYTimes leadership is still indifferent to democracy. Just look at its front page.

Big Journalism (esp. @nytimes.com) failed to adequately & accurately cover the #handsoff pro-democracy demonstrations.

Local outlets did *much* better.

Newsroom leaders need to defend democracy from autocracy.

Read our latest blog post.
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mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/local-news...

07.04.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 948 πŸ” 279 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 30
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07.04.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That sign has been at every demo I've attended since January, but it's good.

05.04.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What an absolutely insane take

04.04.2025 12:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This was….five months ago

02.04.2025 23:49 πŸ‘ 50595 πŸ” 13243 πŸ’¬ 1608 πŸ“Œ 1122
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Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security will result in people dying.

Cutting medical research and funding will result in people dying.

Cutting foreign aid, FEMA and NOAA will result in people dying.

A few cars on fire is considered violence, but somehow the rest isn’t.

19.03.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 9521 πŸ” 3262 πŸ’¬ 652 πŸ“Œ 211

I'm so ashamed of my alma mater Columbia U for caving in to Trump's demands

19.03.2025 22:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Philosopher Peter Singer: β€˜There’s no reason to say humans have more worth or moral status than animals’ The controversial philosopher on the importance of updating his landmark book on animal liberation, being β€˜flexibly vegan’ and the ethical dangers of artificial intelligence for the non-human world

Are you against racism? Sexism? What about speciesism? Speciesism is by far the most prevalent, accepted, violent and dangerous form of bigotry on earth. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/m...

19.03.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shutting down the government is how you bring the GOP back to the bargaining table. Schumer is so completely wrong and I'm not even a senator.

19.03.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He called Americans parasites. I hate him so much.

19.03.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The fist shake -- really old. You look like a puppet pretending to be a leader.

19.03.2025 00:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE detained Julio Noriega, a 54 year-old US citizen who was born in Chicago, for over 10 hours on January 31st.

He was walking around "Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses."

They didn't show him a warrant.

They didn't give him paperwork.

And he's now suing.

18.03.2025 20:49 πŸ‘ 39555 πŸ” 9263 πŸ’¬ 1363 πŸ“Œ 562
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
	β€’	Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
	β€’	Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
	β€’	A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
	β€’	The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). β€’ Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. β€’ Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. β€’ A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. β€’ The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

1/🧡 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trumpβ€”it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

18.03.2025 21:32 πŸ‘ 11577 πŸ” 3842 πŸ’¬ 190 πŸ“Œ 296

Trump and DOGE don't care what courts order. They're going to plow ahead anyway.

19.03.2025 00:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NEBRASKA CROWD: β€œTAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: β€œSo your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

18.03.2025 23:01 πŸ‘ 75872 πŸ” 18764 πŸ’¬ 2519 πŸ“Œ 2052

Perfect quote. You're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away.

19.03.2025 00:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I think Epstein is one of those people who truly knew Donald Trump, knew many secrets about Donald Trump, and was threatening to Donald Trump."

16.03.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 5813 πŸ” 1545 πŸ’¬ 306 πŸ“Œ 51

Didn’t the Trump Admin want to order some of these to use as government vehicles … have at it

16.03.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 5

What court order is this post in reference to?

16.03.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0